desensitized43

What kind of **** puts small white lettering on a light blue background?

9 hours ago, Jas10 said:

Yep…

not difficult is it and so much more effective?

but I’d still prefer Aston Villa at the top rather than it be “relegated” to the bottom… 

I’d prefer something more akin to this and the colour scheme:

The biggest source of frustration/annoyance/disappointment is the lack of change and imagination, zero creativity.

It is just, literally, a minor alteration to the 2nd Lerner badge which is more than underwhelming… especially after all the fuss and noise over recent years… seems like a completely unnecessary shortcut that doesn’t make any sense… almost like it’s some sort of cost cutting exercise but it isn’t that either is it?

The worst thing is keeping the blue and yellow colour scheme… it’s disastrous and disappointing…

Again, it all seems pointless so we may aswell just keep the AVFC badge then and sod changing anything and wasting more time n money on this crap…

It was only worth it to bring about something fresh, new and different that would have a lot more appeal to it - this actually has less!

An utter waste.

I really don't hate the new design but I think you're spot on that the colours need to change and some of the designs you've posted are way better than the one suggested. The design itself could be a real grower but as usual the cackhanded way we have gone about this is the thing that bothers everyone the most.

39 minutes ago, Genie said:

There’s been no denial from anyone that it isn’t him

That's not really proof that it is though.

Personally I don't care if it is or isn't. I just know (because I've used them) that it's really easy to fake someones voice these days with a very small extract of audio you can do quite scary (and in this case admittedly funny) things.

He's not wrong though, the players have been shite but there's a lot of blame to go around though.

• The board for sacking a manager doing a decent job, appointing Roonpig, despite him having nothing on his CV to suggest he was capable of doing the job. All so they can parade him round the directors box like some prize peacock.
• Rooney himself for being a shit manager and for doing the dirty on Eustace to take his job.
• The players for being shit and clearly downing tools because they didn't like what was going on.
• The fans for their lack of support from the off.

Found it quite amusing he was having a pop at the goalkeepers weight when that's been te accusation levelled at his dad consistently in his career.

7 hours ago, MaVilla said:

 

I don't really know what Kai Rooney sounds like but I've seen enough AI jobbies to know that you should be instantly suspicious of stuff like this.

Financial punishments won't work. Points deductions and relegations would be nice, but they'd be effective punishing the lower league clubs whose leagues are then distored by these pricks coming down to their level.

My preference would be that whatever they do they need to strip them of the titles they've won while they've been breaking the rules. All of them. It's largely symbolic because you can't strip them of the memories of it, but I'd just like the official record to reflect that they won nothing at all. 

I would bet they end up with Jesse Marsch

Dick van dyke

Joe Biden

Michael Caine

Bob Dylan

my outside bet…Britney Spears
 

…in the correct thread this time

Can’t help but think this window is massive for us. If we can identify and get what we need early enough then we’ve got a real opportunity to do something really special.

The last time we were in this position running up to a January window we ended up with heskey.

Dick van dyke

Joe Biden

Michael Caine

Bob Dylan

my outside bet…Britney Spears

1 hour ago, AXD said:

California is also pretty safe for the democrats. I don’t think Trump expects to win there, even if it holds a lot of electoral votes.

swing states, that would really be interesting to see.

The swing states wouldn’t do this as It’d cause so much uproar that they’d be risking civil unrest. It’s a relatively safe thing to do in Maine but if they tried in Ohio or something it would undoubtedly lead to deaths.

It would be much easier if the republicans could just pick someone who wasn’t openly a fascist.

8 hours ago, maqroll said:

Maine just removed Trump from the ballot...

This will stir up the crazies here.

It’ll create a bit of noise for sure. I’m certain as things stand the Supreme Court are going to overturn both of these decisions. Both Colorado and Maine are pretty safe democrat states with very few electoral college votes…if California followed then things could take a very serious turn.

Just got around to the new Indiana jones. The good: it’s better than kingdom but not by much. It has some of the best de-aging I think I’ve ever seen in the opening. The opening was the best bit of the film. Mads mikkelson does a villain really well.

The bad: what a batshit crazy final 30 minutes. Entertaining, but batshit. Too much CGI (again). Massive plot holes. Phoebe Waller-bridge being super annoying in pretty much every scene she’s in. Needs more Karen Allen to give the film more heart.

1 minute ago, kurtsimonw said:

It's supposedly going to earn clubs a lot of money. The PL is currently the most lucrative, almost entirely because of TV money. If the Super League is going to be free on tv... where does the money come from, exactly?

I don’t entirely get what’s in this for the premier league clubs anyway. The premier league money already gives them (and us tbh) a disgusting advantage over our European competitors. They’re literally bankrupting themselves trying to keep up the pace with us and it’s only getting worse for them.

Whats the sense in levelling the playing field when they’re practically on their knees?

I mean this in a pure Darwinist/capitalist sense. It’s not my philosophy, but if the objective is to dominate our rivals then we’re already drowning them. What’s the sense to the likes of city and Liverpool chucking Barca a life jacket?

Time for us to use those “Brexit freedoms” those throbbers banged on about for ages and break away from EU competition law?

13 hours ago, limpid said:

The relevant section doesn't require a conviction, only an involvement. The originalists Trump but on the Supreme Court will have to turn into pretzels to interpret it any other way. Not to say that they won't though.

Well to be fair, the clause has never been used this way. There's no legal precendent to follow. Like alot of the constitution and the various amendments to it, it/they are a product of their time. The second amendment was written at a time where the U.S. has no standing army (hence the reference to the militia) and rifles could fire at most 2 rounds in a minute. With the 14th, the union had just fought a bloody civil war for it's survival and 1/3 of the country was in ruins materially and economically, populated by a bunch of angry traitors who'd just rebelled against the government, one of whom had just killed the president and it was designed to keep people like Jefferson Davis out of office.

I think it will very much depend on whether the judges consider January 6th to be an "insurrection" or "rebellion" or indeed whether Trump himself can be considered a part of it, since he undoubtedly incited the crowd but he wasn't "there".

Not trying to defend Trump here. Personally I think what he's done in years past he could be executed for treason, let alone holding high office again, but I really don't think this is going to work.

16 hours ago, villan95 said:

 

 

The Tories are going to have to do some kind of grubby deal with Reform to get them to stand aside. It's obvious this is coming.

1 hour ago, nick76 said:

I think this probably helps Trump.  If it gets overturned, imagine how energised this will be to his base that will be viewed as “The Swamp” taking away their vote and you can be sure Trump and co will lean into that for their base.  Democrats have Roe to lean into, now Trump and co can lean into this. Hmmmm….

A lot of people are already deeply entrenched in their camps so I'm not sure how many people it'll swing either way. It's certainly dangerous to take him off the balot, but that amendment exists for a reason. If inciting a mob to storm the US capitol isn't insurrection then I don't know what is. My concern is that they've gone too early. He's not been convicted yet and so they're probably on really shaky ground.

I wonder if this has anything to do with BCC having pulled funding for anything nonessential.

You have to think the nut jobs Trump injected into the US Supreme Court are going to overturn this.

30 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

True but he can do something off the bench if we need it. He is capable enough and can come on in CDM, RB, RCB if we are down to the bones. 

I think that's the key phrase.

I don't want to see him unless it's a dire emergency. He's not and has never been good enough.

14 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

Traore injured and will probably be off to AFCON if he's fit and will return injured. He'll leave end of season when contract expires

Chambers we don't need tbf but again experienced player who can cover lots of positions so might stay until summer

Not a chambers fan at all. I have no confidence in him regardless of the position he plays in.

I think they’ve had to adapt to moving divisions and going from being one of the best footballing sides in the championship to nothing special in the premier league. When that happens you can either stick to your philosophy and get relegated, as Burnley look likely to, or try and be a bit pragmatic, like Everton have been, and try and find different ways to play.

I haven’t got a lot of time for frank, personally. He seems a bit of a whiny baby but he’s got to take some credit for the job he’s been able to do there.

I don’t honestly know what Ben Mee’s problem is. Is he doing this on purpose like vinnie jones because he’s a total thug. Is he just trying to cover his obvious deficiency as a football playing CB by trying to be tougher, more committed and being unintentionally reckless with opponents safety?

34 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Don't Send Santa to Rwanda would have made a great Xmas record if somebody had thought of it in time. 

 There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas Time, the only gift they'll get this year is refugees 

Just doesn't have the same ring to it

14 minutes ago, Xela said:

 

 

I see where you are coming from @desensitized43, but people move around to get better wages. I've been at my company 20 years. I'd be earning more if i'd bounced round various banks, even if I was doing the same role. Companies take advantage of loyalty in staff. Just look at @Stevo985's situation. How much more would his company have to pay to recruit externally for the same role, with no guarantee they would be as good?

i used to look at people who moved companies every 2 years as a bit flighty, but they're just doing what they need to do. Companies generally bring it on themselves by being tight. Hate the game, not the players. 

I agree with you that bad companies take advantage of loyalty. I always try and do the opposite with my staff and pay them more than someone coming in new to reward their loyalty.

It's a huge pain in the ass to recruit, especially now with the shortages we have in skills and labour. Recruitment fees are frankly disgusting. It costs so much to recruit new staff in time, fees and training etc, so I want to do it as infrequently as I possibly can. The prospect of taking someone on, paying a recruiter, investing the time to interview and screen the numpties out, onboarding, training, probation periods etc and then to see them leave before 12 months is just not something I want to deal with so I tend to screen out people who have a history of doing that kind of thing.

Just on recruiters...it's like dealing with a swarm of locust. You put out an advert somewhere and you can guarantee you're going to lose a week fighting off a load of kids trying to call and email going "I've seen your advert and I've got x number of people who might be suitable, here's a bunch of CV's".