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Stereophonics - A thousand Trees

12.5% increase is not too bad.

At the end of the day this has been the best football I have seen since my first season tciket in 91. Happy to pay; especially as we will have euro football next year.

Well. if you have been watching us that long, the best football without question has been under BFR. I'm sure that you will feel in the minority in that

I'll be renewing, but I'm not happy at the shocking increase in price.

I don't mind mine at all at 7%. The 30% is a disgrace for Junior Tickets

Just like to say General that I think the price increases are fair and represent excellent value for money, especially when you consider the ever improving product on display and the cost of our competitors.

General, I expected a rise in mine, and my lads U16 ST this season, even though at the time of renewal, he was only 11 - something to do with the fact that his birthday is late July, but I swallowed that one.

I do think that the 30% increase is however, rather extortionate. There could have possibly been another ST from my family with my daughter wanting to come to games too on a regular basis, but I'm now going to have to give that one a miss.

No Kelly Brook? - pah flawed poll.

Exactly!!

... and fecking Drew Barrymore :shock:

I voted Keely instead

Buy a slow cooker, bloody great! throw everthing in the pot and go to work and by the time im home its cooked.

Last week i put in the beef and veg and threw in a couple of cans of guinness. bloody lush!!!

I brought one of these a couple of months ago for £15. Superb.

Do all my Curries, Casseroles and Chillis in it now. There are 100's of recipes for them when doing stuff from scratch too.

£15 - where?! I can never find ones that cheap!

I saw mine in Netto of all places. I was looking for some cheap salad and fruit, it was just on the side. Not sure that they are there now.

Get one that is 3.5Ltr +. There are a lot of places that sell them. Argos, tesco, Asda, etc.

Well worth it.

Buy a slow cooker, bloody great! throw everthing in the pot and go to work and by the time im home its cooked.

Last week i put in the beef and veg and threw in a couple of cans of guinness. bloody lush!!!

I brought one of these a couple of months ago for £15. Superb.

Do all my Curries, Casseroles and Chillis in it now. There are 100's of recipes for them when doing stuff from scratch too.

Yes I do.

He needs to have a big Summer though.

Tony, I'm not saying that Income Tax is entirely fair. As a someone that regularly pays 40%, maybe that should be addressed. However, I would state that the Tax bands that we have at present, I believe are also better than those that were produced by the previous Tory Government.

I can also point out that if we had the Poll Tax now, I would also be considerably better off.

Those tax bands which change in 11 days time and penalise those income tax payers with income less than c£18k?

I have no idea. Explain

As of next tax year (i.e. from 5th April), the 10% starting rate band of income tax is going and the lower rate of income tax is being reduced from 22% to 20%.

This actually means that those income tax payers on incomes below around £18k will pay more in income tax next year under the revised system than the previous system.

Which I agree sounds a bit shit doesn't it. But the Poll Tax it ain't

Tony, I'm not saying that Income Tax is entirely fair. As a someone that regularly pays 40%, maybe that should be addressed. However, I would state that the Tax bands that we have at present, I believe are also better than those that were produced by the previous Tory Government.

I can also point out that if we had the Poll Tax now, I would also be considerably better off.

Those tax bands which change in 11 days time and penalise those income tax payers with income less than c£18k?

I have no idea. Explain

Tony, I'm not saying that Income Tax is entirely fair. As a someone that regularly pays 40%, maybe that should be addressed. However, I would state that the Tax bands that we have at present, I believe are also better than those that were produced by the previous Tory Government.

I can also point out that if we had the Poll Tax now, I would also be considerably better off.

. the millionaire has already paid tax on his million so he's already contributed around £300,000 in tax (or more) ..where as say a man on £30 k has contributed £ 14k in tax ... tax needs to be fair for sure but how many times should the rich have to pay it ?

Tax should be fair, I agree and by and large, Income Tax is.

So, how is Poll Tax fair. If I have a bigger car, I pay more insurance. If I want to pay less Insurance, I buy a smaller one.

My Dad went from spending £400 Rates, in a typical suburban 3 bedroomed house, to receiving a bill for in excess of £1200

What is he paying now i wonder ? add that to his higher cost of beer ,petrol and cigs and I'll bet any money he's far worse off .... wonder why nobody is protesting on the streets of London ?

I know some don't like it but the size of your house to my mind shouldn't reflect how much tax you have to pay .. the millionaire has already paid tax on his million so he's already contributed around £300,000 in tax (or more) ..where as say a man on £30 k has contributed £ 14k in tax ... tax needs to be fair for sure but how many times should the rich have to pay it ?

that couldn't give a shit about the Working Class.

Which government allowed the working class to buy their council houses on the cheap ..and then make a killing on them a few years later ?

Well, I'd be surprised if he is protesting on the Streets of London, he's dead.

They allowed those "working class" to buy their homes - bully or them.

They also allowed people to get caught in the Poverty trap and negative equity, including Council owned flats that are not worth the paper that they were signed across on. They also kept taxes artificially down, by blowing all the proceeds from assets that the Country already owned as public services under Privatisation and North Sea Oil Revenues.

This lot in now are no saints, but for the love of God, I hope that if we have another Tory Government, they have no fecking Thatcherites.

It had nothing to do with rich, because relatively there weren't that many of them (and still aren't). As always the socialists and so called 'working class' decided to pin it on the rich in order to spread their anarchic bile.

Poll tax was fair to normal people who, rather than spend their money on drinking, smoking and gambling, use their earnings to better their family. Ultimately it was they who lost out, and still do.

Again, what rubbish.

My old man liked a pint, was not a heavy drinker. He smoked, but not a huge amount, however he was the first person in his family and in fact in our street to have a mortgage, even though he had to lie about his income, because he thought that it was the best thing for his family in the long term.

He was placed with an unfair Tax, as this was not set on his ability to pay, or even on the value of the property that he could afford, even though he worked his bollox off, but for a Tory Government that couldn't give a shit about the Working Class.

I'm not a Socialist by any means, I vote for who is best at the time, but the gladly this shit Tax, helped bring down a Government that couldn't give a monkeys about people that were at the lower end of society.

Poll Tax - fair. What a load of Tosh.

My Dad went from spending £400 Rates, in a typical suburban 3 bedroomed house, to receiving a bill for in excess of £1200, because there were 3 people over the age of 18. He couldn't afford it and I had to chip in for my bill. Considering that I was 18 at the time and dropped with a bill for £440, I was not impressed.

My mate's dad paid the same, even though his Dad was a multi millionaie and they lived in a house 3 times bigger.

David Cameron surely? I mean fancy running a red light on a bicycle, absolutely disgusting!

Can someone add that to the Poll please

I was tempted to put Thatcher, but put Stalin. He was a right little bleeder

De Niro by a long chalk.

Taxi Driver, Deerhunter, Once Upon A Time in America,Raging Bull and Goodfellas are all amazing

i'd add to this list his brilliant perfomance in Mean Streets

.... and a Bronx Tale

It's tough, but De Niro for me

General

Could you or the club make a statement on Curtis Davies loan / signing. My understandiing is that he is a Villa player period (signed and agreed) . It was just the terms of a 1 year loan and then a fee would be paid to WBA that is a little unusual. However ever since last summer there has been debate about whether he would join us, be sent back or a host of other options and now he is injured people are again debating the options. If you have a definitive response you will save us time and confussion.

The deal is done - the Statements at the time confirmed this. The "Loan" is basically to keep the Money men at Tesco's happy for some clever accounting.

A real chance of europe gone? Thats really OT

Spurs spent £16M this week.

They spent that on one player in the summer and they're fourteen points behind us.

But they are in a Cup Final - a competition that we were knocked out by the mighty Leicester

Spurs are better than their position suggests

Fair play to them for getting to the Carling Cup final but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. It was only a few years ago that Millwall got to the cup final.

As for being better than their position suggests, with only fifteeen games left they are exactly where they deserve to be. They've got an expensive squad but that alone doesn't make a good team. Otherwise Newcastle wouldn't be in the bottom half of the table.

I would REALLY love us to spend big money but if it's not on the right players then it's meaningless.

We are crying out for some real quality. I don't mean Spurs offcasts, but someone that would galvanise the position of the club, and also prove that we mean business. At the minute we are doing well, I would even say that we are punching above our weight a little.

However, what I do see, is the absence of this quality could severely impact our chances of a European spot, which considering the position that we are in would be shame, if our season just tailed off.

As for a Cup Final. I would swop our position with Spurs anyday. A one off game with the chance to win something again and a trip to Wembley. I'm sure that most others would too.

A real chance of europe gone? Thats really OT

Spurs spent £16M this week.

They spent that on one player in the summer and they're fourteen points behind us.

But they are in a Cup Final - a competition that we were knocked out by the mighty Leicester

Spurs are better than their position suggests

So because they are in a League Cup final, they are in a better position than us?

I'd rather be 5th in the league and doing well, than be in the cup final, out of shape and 14 points below us.

Whatever

A real chance of europe gone? Thats really OT

Spurs spent £16M this week.

They're 14 points behind us and have Everton and Man Utd in their next two games.

What's your point?

read above

Spurs are our peers at the minute. They are actively filling their squad. Again we seem to be dithering looking for the right player

A real chance of europe gone? Thats really OT

Spurs spent £16M this week.

They spent that on one player in the summer and they're fourteen points behind us.

But they are in a Cup Final - a competition that we were knocked out by the mighty Leicester

Spurs are better than their position suggests

A real chance of europe gone? Thats really OT

Spurs spent £16M this week.