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  2. Just in time for the party at Bolton when Neil Warnock saves them from relegation to League two on the last day. Mate.
  3. I agree but if Kaine Kesler Hayden is having to thumb a lift I worry about cost cutting in other areas!
  4. Ah ok. My train (if I don’t drive) does make a stop at Moor St. I might look into it.
  5. Good to see this. Hopefully reduce the traffic chaos outside the ground on matchdays
  6. He's only been fit enough to start 10 matches this year (9 if you discount the Mostar away trip). We are 6-1-2 when he starts with the only two losses being the United matches we should have won.
  7. New Villa Park to be built alongside an expanded Villa Park until ready, after which time old Villa Park is used for museum tours, hotel, match day fun, womens and youth games. I'm sorry Aston Hall but you're just a posh gaff from yesteryear and you had a good run.
  8. We've spent nearly 18 months under Emery achieving 2ppg by not being light in the determination and 'digging in' department.
  9. Xann

    Getting older

    The old and the young are on the sharp end of the con. Maybe less pointing fingers at each other, in this thread anyway? Spot the blags and who sold them to you? You've got hindsight now, it's much easier. Being in denial only helps them get away with it. Chop chop.
  10. Of course, nationalisation isn't impossible, I agree. What I'm getting at is there isn't a simple solution (not that you claim there is, I'm just speaking generally). It's kind of on these lines. If the ownership is changed tomorrow, or after an election, there's some things. Like you say, the Gov't in nationalising water either pays the current share price for each company, or they hit pension funds, Councils who have ownership of shares, individuals who do in the pocket. Some might just be venture capitalists and hedge funds and elicit little sympathy, but others will be Decent and necessary share owners. Then there's the actual issues - pollution and discharges and leaks and insufficient reservoirs. As the new owner, suddenly the Gov't (or the taxpayer, realistically) has to pay to fix those things. So bills go up. Then there's the actual people working for the water industry - clerks generating bills and answering phones, maintenance people and contractors - they're all going to be exactly the same folks. And maybe you bin off the senior management and directors and execs...and replace them with, who? There would be a leadership vacuum for a while and that would lead to chaos for a period. Is Grant Shapps or Suella or Angela Eagles or Angela Rayner or whoever going to run it any better? and then they get reshuffled and the next politician comes in and has to learn the ropes from scratch. And there's the huge amount of time it would take Parliament to pass a bill to nationalise all the water companies. There's other stuff more urgent. I guess I'm saying there's no magic bullet fix. Now if a water company (privately owned) goes bust, then it's a little different, like with the train companies. At that point the government pretty much has to intervene to keep people's water flowing. And then you'd have one or two nationalised, in all but name, and the others still private. Neither one thing or the other. So, to me it seems like legally binding requirements for infrastructure fettlement, limits on pollution, with severe penalties, enforced, strict monitoring, via properly staffed and resourced environment agency, and OFWAT and so on is a more pragmatic solution.
  11. This isn't a derby game. This isn't a tier a/1 price game. Easy win tho
  12. Is there much need for one? The pick up point is not that far from Moor Street . . .
  13. Oh I forgot about this. Are these the group funding our brand new stadium?
  14. Raising the retirement age would disproportionately affect the areas of society where the age of death hasn't increased. Kick em while their down ay.
  15. Atairos invested in Arcis Golf, who are also backed by Fortress Investment Group Edit: It's old news from 2022, but shows they were already worked together
  16. Anything which reduces pressure on the roads outside the ground and disperses fans into the city centre is good news.
  17. I'd guess it's a stop gap until that happens. No way that's happening overnight, so even if it does go ahead this will help massively in the interim.
  18. Genie

    Formula One - 2024

    I tend to find the hour before the race, and the first 10 laps the best bit of the race weekend. I do enjoy the analysis, pit walk, grid walk, chats with the teams etc really interesting.
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