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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 07:05 23 Apr 2024
Thankfully laws are in general not based on people's opinion. Just facts. When they are imposed based on opinion rather than fact, as indeed was the case in this scenario, they tend to be terrible laws with more holes in them than Rab C. Nesbitt's vest.
Welsh roads are remarkably safe. There's ample evidence, much of it already provided in this thread to demonstrate that. Removing idiotic speed limits where they have recently been imposed will not change that. [Post edited 23 Apr 7:10]
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 21:02 22 Apr 2024
As has been repeatedly pointed out to you, they're not high. Not even close. |
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Reply | Williams says major rebuild is needed in the summer.
at 14:06 21 Apr 2024
Cooper may well have told them he needed a striker. He got given Gyokeres and two other forwards and refused to use any of them. That's on him, not the club.
Martin isn't really succeeding at Southampton because he's got better players for his system either. He's not playing the same way there as he tried to here. They're benefitting from what he (finally) learned at our expense.
Your last paragraph is perfect and basically the point I'm trying to make. It's extremely rare at our level and with our budget for a manager to get everything he wants. It's down to them to get the best out of what they have. Neither of them even tried to and both have done their level best to lay the blame for that elsewhere. |
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Reply | Cabango
at 14:02 21 Apr 2024
How the defence is organised matters almost as much as who the players are. Wood, Cabango and Darling are all at least as good as Garry Monk was. Probably better in the case of Darling and Wood (although mostly potential in Wood's case).
Organise and drill them properly and they'll be the least of our concern for next season. Midfield and upfront are bigger concerns, as is the continued lack of genuine pace throughout the side. |
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 10:42 21 Apr 2024
Once this has happened, I'd hope to see pressure applied to lift other stupid speed restrictions that are currently in place, like the Heads of the Valleys road, which should be 60-70mph but for reasons that nobody can sensibly explain has been limited to 50mph.
Likewise the 50mph restriction on the M4 through Port Talbot. Even if you accept the reason given, once the blast furnaces shut down then that reason no longer exists. |
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Reply | Williams says major rebuild is needed in the summer.
at 10:33 21 Apr 2024
And these same fans "demanding the best" are the exact same fans who inevitably end up slinging mud at ownerships who bankrupt their clubs trying to deliver it whilst pretending that they bear no responsibility themselves whatsoever. |
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Reply | Cabango
at 08:37 21 Apr 2024
They both look happier alongside Darling, which makes it crackers how often he's been shunted to RB in the past. |
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Reply | Williams says major rebuild is needed in the summer.
at 08:35 21 Apr 2024
Indeed. Running a Championship football club is murderously expensive. Most football supporters understand this about as well as my cat understands particle physics, which is why you can hardly find a team anywhere whose supporters aren't continually screaming for more and more players. More and more spending. |
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Reply | Just another normal school day in the UK
at 22:34 20 Apr 2024
I think we need to distinguish between suitably respecting LGBT families, representation, call it what you will to what goes on in certain "murky" areas.
It is absolutely beneficial to children to be brought up in a loving home, whether or not that home consists of a mum and a dad, two mums or two dads. That's so obvious that anyone arguing against it becomes immediately suspect in my eyes.
Having said that, it's also fairly obvious that there are people out there pushing a far more insidious agenda. The same people who would have us believe that 5 yr olds are even remotely capable of understanding if they're transgender, or that middle aged men dressed in womens clothes should be allowed into schools on demand to read to the kiddies.
Let kids be kids. Offer support and understanding to them when they get older and start developing uncertainties, but people wishing to push certain ideologies on them are absolute scum, and these people certainly do exist. |
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Reply | Williams says major rebuild is needed in the summer.
at 21:10 20 Apr 2024
The club didn't sack Russell Martin despite him presiding over our worst run of form for 20 years even though he had a squad clearly capable of more. If that's not support, I don't know what is. We really need to stop pretending as a club that he wasn't indulged and given every opportunity to do better than he did for two years.
Cooper too was backed. He just wasn't backed with the exact players he wanted. He stropped because we didn't sign enough England u17's for him. A better manager would have just got on with it. |
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Reply | Williams says major rebuild is needed in the summer.
at 20:49 20 Apr 2024
On what planet is a club in our financial position spending £2m+ each on at least three players last Summer peanuts? If we'd bought a £5m striker to suit Duff and then sacked Duff do we think the striker is likely to have done any better than Yates has?
There are absolutely no guarantees that bigger fees = better players. Jason Scotland cost £25000 and was perfect for us. Eder cost £5m and wasn't. |
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Reply | Williams says major rebuild is needed in the summer.
at 19:59 20 Apr 2024
Not sure that you can argue that we're cutting corners whilst simultaneously bemoaning the sell on values of certain players. There is no way on Earth that either Yates or Big Myk can be described as "cheap options", unless you're seriously advocating us spending the total sum for both on one player. Spending £5m+ on one player in our current situation would be bonkers.
We've spent plenty. We've not often spent it wisely. Piroe for £1.5m was a wise purchase. Likewise Downes for £1m. Hell, even Obafemi left for double what we paid. We need to see a lot more of that than an increase in the number of more expensive acquisitions. [Post edited 20 Apr 20:03]
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 10:58 20 Apr 2024
The thing is, a lot of residential roads were already largely 20mph. Most schools will have a 20mph zone outside them. Millions have been spent for absolutely no reason if, as we're expected to believe, safety was the concern.
But clearly, from Day 1, safety wasn't the concern for the people pushing this idiocy through, people like Lee Waters and campaign groups like Twenty's Plenty and the Sustrans mentalists. Making life inconvenient for motorists was. Motorists have fought back and reminded the tiny pressure groups where power actually lies. With the majority.
More of this we need. |
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Reply | Williams says major rebuild is needed in the summer.
at 10:52 20 Apr 2024
Our owners have been stumping up for players since they got here. Just last Summer we easily cleared £8m worth of spending. It's one of the criticisms that I simply can't understand. They're not chucking in eight figures worth of "equity" each season because the club are cutting corners.
They've got plenty of other things wrong, but a lack of "investment" in the playing squad isn't one of them. If anything we're spending way too much and should have been looking for the "diamonds in the rough" far harder than we appear to have been. |
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 10:27 20 Apr 2024
So why are people who just disagree with you frequently accused of ganging up? |
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