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That’s right. As Monchi and Emery have full responsibility for the footballing aspects, it’s “only” the “business” side of things he is in charge of. Commercial revenue he’s done well, and fast, but relationships and communication with “partners” and customers - the council, the Mayor, supporters and so on…need more work and focus.

He looks to have done, in a short period, a really excellent job as a kind of Commercial revenue manager. And maybe that's where all his focus has been. But that's only part of the role of a CEO figure. The owners may have made it his number one priority, and he seems to have been selected for the role based on his talent in that area. But, there are a whole bunch of things that are not being handled well. These things may be (justifiably) low priority in the short term, but they can't be left unattended for a long period, without causing significant problems down the line.

Pretty poor presentation - he spends the whole time talking to the whiteboard, and doesn't face his audience once, or involve them in any way. You have to be really knowledgeable and respected to get away with that. Luckily....

Most have 6, 1 in each corner, plus a steering wheel and a spare wheel.

A wallet with no place to hold money isn’t a wallet, is it?

Adios to adieu as a short lived, pitiful failure of a starting word. I got me a new, new one. Wordle 1,040 3/6*

Tomatoes really don't make good houseplants - they grow too fast

Yep, same here. Lots of baby tom, chilli, broad bean and runner beans waiting to go outside, but it's too cold.

Yep. Trump doesn’t like Zelenski because he declined to be blackmailed by Trump to provide dirt on Hunter Biden. Even if the above happens, Zelenski is under no obligation to give up. He’d try and get more help from Europe, though Europe doesn’t have the capacity to replace US supplies of arms and so on. Even this last US package will only last so long, maybe a year, then it’s back to square one. Russia is gaining ground all the time now, so will just wait it out. The west is fearful of either side losing and thus in this weird position of relative inaction.

Posts removed. Please stay on topic. EMI has his own thread.

No. Can’t see that. The US right sees no role for the US in a far off conflict between two European states.

Gonna bin off this new starting word. Another fail Wordle 1,039 X/6*

Well, yeah, obviously. But it seems, at face value, to make no difference, or not to be the case. The reasons why are what I’d like to understand.

Indeed. The thing is, various leaders of friendly nations acted in response to the claims. So when Israel is unable to present any evidence to validate the claim, what do these leaders think? I suppose another way of asking the question is “how cynical are we?” But either way lying to your buddies should lead to extreme future scepticism.

They attacked a Chinese ship a week or so ago

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The Tory investigation decided that the money he (allegedly?) snaffled wasn’t Tory party money, but some sort of local fund to do Tory things with. So that’s alright then. This place (Fylde) could have its first non Tory MP after the next general election. I’ve lived here 30 odd years now and at no point til recently has that ever seemed remotely likely. It might still do, because y’know cockroaches, nuclear war…but hopefully…

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Wordle 1,036 2/6* new starting word, after yesterday’s answer was my old one.

No. I’m not. What I am assuming is that they wouldn’t have done the 7th October rampage of murdering 1500+ people and kidnapping 250 more if Iran wasn’t onside. If that’s right, then the precise degree of which individuals from Hamas and Iran pushed for it, planned it, supplied the weapons and intel and so on can’t really be known apart from those involved. So I think Iran was, as a minimum “onside” with it and more likely, IMO, approving or indeed encouraging and deeply involved in instigating for their leaders own twisted agenda.

In '93 the club got a CPO and they had to also pay to have the road re-routed. As people have pointed out, CPOs are not easily given, and they're obviously unpopular with the residents and owners of the properties, or most of them, anyway.

I don't see that. "all this" started with the October 7th terror attack by Hamas (at Iran's behest). That was aimed to do 2 things, obviously just engage in a bloodlust, but also to provoke a reaction which would scupper Israel's accord, or whatever the word is - much improved relationship/prospective deal - with Saudi Arabia. It did both those things. The utterly brutal retort from Israel (war crimes, genocide, collective punishment, murdering and destruction..) was probably not what Iran expected, they probably didn't expect such horror, but ultimately they don't care. Sure, Israel attacked the Damascus consulate, where Iranian liaisons with Hamas were holed up, and then we are where we are, with tit for tat attacks. In as much as you can draw a "starting point" or an "at the moment" window around hundreds of years of animosity, the October 7th date is IMO the starting point of the current appalling, bloodthirsty mess. Iran's has kind of let Israel off the hook to an extent, as well, because just as the world, or the democracies who sympathise and support Israel were utterly losing patience, they've re-invigorated that support/sympathy by launching hundreds of rockets and UAVs at Israel. The leaders of Israel, Iran and Hamas are monsters.

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