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1 hour ago, foreveryoung said:

So now  most have had wage rises not far off inflation, the BOE have said interest rates will need to be increased further, unbelievable!!!

Disgusting.

Gutted for the guy. Got to wonder if that's the last time we'll see him in a Villa shirt. I really hope not but given his age a 15 month lay off then the time it takes to get back what you've lost in terms of fitness and match sharpness I have serious doubts. He's been such a presence for the club on and off the field and such a great ambassador for the game with his kids academy I hope the club does right by him.

7 hours ago, useless said:

 

Was that a shot of Bamburgh castle getting exploded at the start!? 

5 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said:

What are they actually asking the women though? 
 

The club either believe he has done the things he was accused of in which case surely it’s an easy sacking or they don’t in which case they keep him employed and don’t ask other employees to decide his fate. 
 

The club have had the opportunity to do something good but are clearly going to hope that their women employees bail them out and support their decision to keep i him. Cowards.

I would guess they’re asking them to share training facilities with him and generally be in the same vicinity as him without speaking out about how uncomfortable/unhappy/unsafe they feel.

I doubt they’ll ask them to speak out in support as that would clearly be a step too far and most likely they’ll want to do it as quietly as possible hoping it goes under the radar.

As with all things sport these days the sponsors will decide this. I can’t believe they’ll want this bastard associated with their brand and I really don’t think they’re prepared for the backlash of this. You’re going to see social media go **** nuts on this and probably a boycott’s of anyone remotely linked to them.

Then you’ve got the backlash on the actual terraces. This guys going to get all sorts of abuse and probably objects lobbed at him. Personally I hope every single one of them finds it’s target.

For them to put the women’s team in that position is grossly unfair and cowardly but it’s very in keeping with everything we’ve seen from the Glazers so far. 

The handful of migrants they managed to get aboard their floating prison are being disembarked due to traces of legionnaires found onboard.

How dare they be ungrateful. If they don't like our harmful bacteria they should **** off back to France.

38 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Thwy wont go for ollie. 100% it will be toney

Even with the ban?

This weakens them signifcantly. Can only be positive, right?

Have to file this in the "massive risk" folder. 2 bad ACL injuries and rumoured disciplinary issues. Not sure this guy has earned the right for us to take that kind of chance on him right now.

12 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Thats the kind of management style i like and i am in favour of and i bet a majority of your team work well becauseof this way.

I couldnt care less if u do work at midnight as long as its done. Our team has worked wonderfully during covid and performance hasnt dropped. Yet they pissing us all off now and morales taking a hit.

Ill never understand why managers do this. Once morale goes performance goes to shit

My philosophy as a manager is that it’s totally outcome driven. As long as the works done and the clients are happy - and yes you do need ways to track both of those things - then if you need to nip out to get the kids from school or run down to the shops for milk then I’m totally fine with that.

I have spoken to managers in my field that track hours and insist people make up time at the end of days and things like that but I think a lot of it is insecurities within the managers themselves that they need to do this to justify themselves to those above them or that if they give an inch staff take a mile. Generally I feel if you have the right kind of people working for you then being flexible and not micromanaging gives better outcomes and happier staff.

I had one guy who insisted people needed to come back to the office “because the place looks so dead and depressing with no one here” and “how do we know people are actually working and not playing call of duty”. I said that in none of his arguments why staff should come back did he ever consider the staff themselves it was all about appearance, lack of trust and general presenteeism. Nothing about what was best for them or any actual data to suggest work wasn’t being done or clients were suffering.

Always fascinated by a bunch of scumbags and lowlifes coming up with some kind of weird twisted hierarchy where if you’ve murdered a bunch of blokes it’s a respectable crime, but if you’re a rapist or a child killer you need to grow eyes in the back of your head.

But yeah, I hope Watkins got shivved good and proper.

Yeah the conspiracy theorists are saying insurance job. Not sure what they mean by that. The new owners bought it and then burned it because they couldn’t get planning permission?

Could equally have been someone really disgruntled that a famous Black Country landmark was sold off to be converted to a private residence and decided to take matters into their own hands?

Timing is definitely really fishy.

On 03/08/2023 at 20:39, foreveryoung said:

Someone needs to tell the boe it's not the f***** 80s

The difference today is you have many many more people of a certain vintage for whom interest rate increases have no effect at all because they no longer have mortgages.

At the opposite end of the spectrum you also have many more people still living with mum and dad again for whom the interest rates don’t have any effect.

58 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Another interest rate rise coming

Stop this **** madness. Keep it at whats currwntly at ffs as inflation has dropped abit so keep it as it is and see if it continues to drop 

 

I really think there’s a danger this is going to rebound in quite a significant way. All the other major economies inflation rates have come down and as you say, ours is coming down now too but if they continue to they’re going to overcorrect and end up totally crashing the economy.

I already know of friends that aren’t paying some of their bills and some that have simply stopped paying mortgages. When this thing goes bad it’s going to happen really quickly.

House backs onto a field so I get them all the time. Hated the **** always ripping up the garden, digging holes abd wrecking stuff. It used to be way worse before I got the dog. Now I just let the Labrador out. He chases them round the garden trying to play but I don't think the badgers feel the same!

Saw Oppenheimer last night.

Really struggled with the opening half hour or so as all the conversations seemed to be happening at a million miles per hour and it was jumping all over the place from scene to scene, time periods etc.

It did settle into itself and particularly when they all get to Los Alamos it was very compelling. Cillian Murphy I would say is pretty nailed on for the Oscar, particularly with the strike I think he might have a pretty open field. Possibly the same with Christopher Nolan. Downey Jr and Damon were both fantastic as well.

When I came out of the cinema the film it most reminded me of was The Social Network with the whole narrative being told from a closed hearing that was and wasn’t a courtroom drama with the largely fast snappy dialogue. The script didn’t feel as well constructed as The Social Network. Definitely elements of The Imitation Game as well.

Overall a solid 8/10 for me.

Probably added an extra point for the fact that Florence Pugh doesn’t seem to have a scene where she’s wearing any clothes.

Sky reporting Spurs interested in Mbappe 

£5m plus Josh Onomah bid incoming?

1 minute ago, Stevo985 said:

It changes things because it's no longer players going for one last payday at the end of their careers. It's (arguably) the world's best player at the peak of his career.

All the previous money leagues from round the world like MLS and China have never managed that. Which means the esteem remains in Europe. That's where the best players in the world play. You can go to China and USA for money but you're not playing with the best of the best anymore.

That's where we currently are with Saudi. But if they start to attract players like Mbappe then the floodgates will open

I think the nextr step for them is to try and buy their way into UEFA so they can compete in the champions league.

6 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said:

Tired of the idea that players who are clearly not good enough need time to find a minimum level of form, especially Olsen. I hope we don’t see him for a single minute in any competitive fixture this season. 

If your backup keeper needs a few games to get up to speed then he's a shit backup. You make that case for outfield players but not goalkeepers. In that position he should be ready immediately. The idea that a goalkeeper needs minutes is just complete bollocks.

2 hours ago, mikeyp102 said:

He’s really not 

Disagree. Steer was a decent backup option in this league. Olsen will always make too many basic errors to be relied on at this level. Ask yourself what team in the league would take him and there's your answer.

We're an injury away from this idiot in goal for a significant wedge of the season. Need a replacement for this guy ASAP. We should have just kept Steer as backup, he's a hundred times better.

21 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

Need a backup keeper. Reality check. Not a glamourous signing — just a reliable PL-level journeyman will do. 

This. We’re an injury away from having oslen as our first team goalkeeper. Not expecting someone on the level of Martinez but I’m confident he’d cost us 8-10 points if he needed to play for a more than half a season.

1 hour ago, bickster said:

Yep, I still think they'll win Uxbridge at the next General Election though.

It’s more of a punch in the face for Sadiq Khan than it is for Starmer

That’s exactly what it is. The Tory candidate was right (I need a shower now) that Khan lost labour that by-election with his idiotic ulez expansion.

8 hours ago, villa89 said:

Except it's not one of the reasons. Poor management and poor ownership was the reason we were underachievers. Our history doesn't impact what happens on the pitch. 

Luton will have the momentum of promotion and the unknown element. It's possible but very unlikely they will stay up. Forest managed it last year but they spent a lot more than Luton will. 

There’s zero chance they stay up and I’m sure that’s not the goal for them this year otherwise they’d have spent more than they have.

They’ll aim to build steadily with a view to becoming a bit of a yo-yo club and financially securing their future.

44 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Tories thinking of scrapping inheritance tax as a pledge on their Manifesto 

Oh it’s a manifesto pledge? I thought it was something they were going to do before the election as a cynical bribe. That’s even worse. Anyone who believes they will actually do that is **** stupid.