Michael W
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The hole in NI revenue has been plugged by upping a few nuisance indirect taxes and abolishing the present non-dom regime. The latter in particular was one of the eays Labour proposed to generate money for public services.
It basically nothing other than a huge 'f**k you' to Labour, who now appear to have little choice other than reversing the NI cut to pay for any sort of investment in public services. So then the Tories, who have led the UK to a record high tax burden, can screech about Labour being the party of high tax.
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On 01/02/2024 at 13:49, Michael W said:
Weighed in at 16st12 yesterday.
Down 8lbs, a decent start to the year. Half of it was in the first week, which was basically the impact of all the chocolate etc from Christmas being eliminated.
16st9 on Tuesday. Down another 3lbs since the last weigh in.
Very happy with that, as I had a long weekend away and also a couple of social occasions, which meant I didn't stick to the plan particularly well. Hoping to manage down to the low 16s this month, owing to the lack of such things.
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1 hour ago, McGuigan1978 said:
Only Callum Ferrie has made more saves than Kevin Dabrowski in the Championship, and Ferrie has played four fewer games, which tells you everything you need to know about how poor we are at denying teams chances.
Dabrowski has gaffes in him unfortunately, but I’m not sure he’s any more to blame for our shortcomings than anyone in front of him.
Agreed. The goalkeeper is a small part of the reason we have conceded so many goals. Poor game management and/or playing in too open a fashion, as well as the (usually enforced) changes of players in defence are the main drivers. The amount of times we have taken the lead and then lost it this season is infuriating.
I do think the gaffe was the reason that we ended up losing to Arbroath, though. It demoralised the team.
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28 minutes ago, basher brash said:
Notice accounts have been released regarding the club if anyone can break it down who has a clue about accounts
Depends what you want from it, really. There is no profit/loss included in there for example. Although I'm sure I recall the expected loss was about £250k, with the cup tie at Ibrox pretty much preventing a disaster.
Just over £105k was spent on termination payments (this was provisioned in the previous accounts)
We recieved a £144k R&D tax credit. No idea what for!
The football club is still technically insolvent, probably will be for.the foreseeable.
John Sim is no longer the Ultimate Controlling Party (in fact, there isn't one now).
On a happier note, the amount of cash in the bank increased from the previous set of accounts.
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Yes, but they are basically goading Labour to try and get them to commit to reversing it when they win power. In the meantime, try and stymie the backbenchers.
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No point continuing to get wound up we've missed an opportunity - Dundee Utd have done the same today.
That could've been much worse.
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A reminder that Dylan Corr's only senior experience before signing for us was with "Celtic B". I'm not saying we shouldn't give him game time, but there is a reason that he hasn't filled in despite our issues in defence.
Is it really as simple as saying that wouldn't have happened if Kwith Watson didn't go off injured? The defence looked a lot more solid with him back in the picture, but there we are chucking away a two goal lead without him. If he's going to be out for any length of time again, I sincerely hope we wan somehow afford another defender from the slim pickings available.
For me, Dabrowski has to take a lot of the blame for that, for chucking away an entirely avoidable goal for the equaliser. There is no excuse for it.
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I am sorry, but that's twice now we have shat the bed from 2-0 up against the worst team in the league. We've exceeded expectations this season, but that is an absolute disgrace.
I'm livid with the lot of them.
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If you keep shitting the bed against the worst team in the league, then frankly you don't deserve to win the title.
Disgraceful stuff.
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Absolute fucking idiot.
Another bedshitting job against the worst team in the league.
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3 hours ago, PossilYM said:
Rochdale you say.
Wasn't that the seat won election after election by thon big fat bloke who was a political celebrity on TV. A nice cosy Liberal, not too far to the Left or the Right. Really represented Rochdale and it's people. Think he might have originally been in the Labour Party. Sure he was the local Mayor way back in his career. Just a big happy go lucky larger than life type that really seem to care.
Cyril Smith MP
Personal friend of Jimmy Savile.
Turned out he was one the biggest in every sense of the word, nonce, in the UK. Was one of a number found out to be flying to that children's home in the Channel Islands.
Destroyed the political legacy of David Steel ex Liberal Leader when it was outed that Steel knew and never went to the cops.
And Simon Danczuk, who had to resign after he was caught messaging a teenage girl. Obviously he has now washed up at Reform.
This particular constituency really does have a liking for complete reprobates.
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3 minutes ago, Wacky said:
It’s still a shed load of money, but not horrific IMO.
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A good night, albeit not really due to ourselves.
Not really much that can be said about that - a poor game of football and I can't remember either goalkeeper being troubled. The positive is that we got a rare clean sheet and the defence actually looked like a proper defence, which isn't something that has always been true this season.
It just seemed that a bit of confidence and, above all, attacking prowess, was lacking. Too many punts and in particular to Vaughan in the second half; what is he going to do with them, exactly? If we were going to go down that route I'd have left Hamilton on and at least given us two big forwards to aim at.
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A dreadful game of football.
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Maybe try not lumping it at Vaughan, eh?
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2 minutes ago, Michael W said:
Good grief, don't do that on a booking FFS.
Or that.
Mullin on please.
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Good grief, don't do that on a booking FFS.
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Just now, pub car king said:
Ref has a difficult game here to manage
He does, but a challenge like that from Smith is not going to help our case. Need to keep the head.
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Yellow is right, but the very kind of challenge that a ref handing cards out might just decide is a red. Silly.
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At least one player is getting sent off tonight.
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7 minutes ago, Central Belt Caley said:Bring back national service IMO, sort these woke pansies out
National Service is woke virtue signalling.
Start a real war.
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Some of those players are on seven year contracts.
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12 minutes ago, grumswall said:
Hamilton needs to start on Tuesday for his aerial prowess. Will be interesting, if he does, who partners him. Hope euan Murray is fit to play as well as I think we've been alot more solid since Watson came in but we still aren't very dominant defensively in the air. Hopefully a big crowd there with the offer the club have, which as a season ticket holder, I couldn't care less about.
I agree that Hamilton is much better in the air, although dropping Rudden to the bench would be exceptionally harsh given he's scored in our last two matches and assisted Vaughan for the second yesterday.
I viewed his loan as very much the back up or replacement for Hamilton, but I think he starts if fit.
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FA desperately hoping for a Liverpool winner to save yet another apology letter being sent out due to VAR.
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The co-commentator is starting to get on my nerves.