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villa89

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  1. 40 minutes ago, bobzy said:

    Football needs to take a long, hard look at itself instead of enforcing bans for it.

    Because of the obvious chance of corruption and match fixing football needs to hand out heavy fines and bans for anyone involved in betting. It should be clear to all professional footballers that betting on football is something they cannot do, regardless of whether they are involved in the match or not. 

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  2. I'd have huge doubts about attracting NFL to Birmingham, they already have everything they need in London and will be focused on expanding to other countries. They will also make more money from having an NFL game in London than Birmingham. Also I'm not sure that rugby will really be an option, What team is going to play in this new stadium and attract 20K+ fans? Athletics isn't going to generate any money and if you have it then the stadium is rubbish for other sports. 

  3. 13 hours ago, stewiek2 said:

    I can't believe I'm giving their owners credit, but at least they're paying for the new ground themselves unlike those smut peddling parasites.

    I'm off now to fumigate.

    I'd be interested to see what the business plan is. I assume they plan to make a profit from the other developments in the plan rather than the stadium itself.

  4. 16 minutes ago, pas5898 said:

    Genuinely not watched a single race or quali since the Hamilton / Verstappen fix in 2021.

    I'm not really a Hamilton fan, but to have invested so much time (a race weekend is easily 10 hours of tv) to watch it kind of fixed just took away my care for F1, literally overnight.

    It's definitely not that much. Practice is a waste of time to watch and for qualifying you can just watch the last 15 minutes of it. The vast majority of people just watch the race and even then you can usually switch off after half of it as the result will be known by then. 

  5. 1 hour ago, mykeyb said:

    Did it turn people of when Vettel and RB were dominating or when Hamilton and Mercs were at their peak. 

    I did. I dip in and out now but I used to watch every race back in the day when it was much less predictable and only half the field finished a race. Its too big to fail but I imagine a lot of the new viewers they got from Drive to Survive are also switching off now. 

  6. 5 hours ago, Genie said:

    That Red Bull’s dominance is turning a lot of people off the sport and something is urgently needed to make it interesting again.

    Meh, It was the same when Mercedes were winning all the races. F1 is generally not competitive most seasons. The big problem, as I see it, is the minimal impact of in race tactics (perhaps re-fuelling would help this), the reliability of the cars, the lack of punishment for running off track and the overtake the car in front of you button on the steering wheel. 

    The sport has needed surgery for a long time but it still manages, through good marketing, to hold on to a huge worldwide audience. If you want to watch racing watch MotoGP.

  7. 9 hours ago, villa4europe said:

    By tapping ankles and wrapping up

    Tackling in the NFL is terrible 

    It's much much harder to wrap up when you are wearing pads, they reduce how much mobility you have in your shoulders. Tapping ankles means you are already too late and are tackling from behind, it's the tackle of last resort.  NFL teams have had rugby players over to teach tackling but it doesn't work the same in NFL as in rugby. Plus in the NFL you are allowed go for the ball, in rugby you can only strip possession, you can't slap or punch it out. 

  8. On 25/03/2024 at 08:24, Robtaylor200 said:

    I am now 66 and should have retired in January, but I cant afford too, not if I want to carry on eating 

    To be honest for most people under fifty will have to accept working,maybe not full time, until they are 70. There isn't the population of young people to replace older people in the workforce and as people are living much longer now the cost of a pension is huge. If you are forty and you plan to retire at 65 then you need to budget that you will live for another 25 years after that. Yep, a quarter of a century. Assuming you have a reasonable standard of health. 

  9. On 22/03/2024 at 22:16, JPJCB said:

    What’s interesting about this is that he’s sort of right. Or more bluntly, United’s ongoing decline means the type of manager they can attract is such lower quality than it would have been 10 years ago. 

    Like players managers go where they get the most money. United can get any manager they want because they are the biggest club in the world, will pay handsomely and will have a very good transfer budget.

  10. 18 hours ago, PieFacE said:

    Appealing decisions should come with a consequence if the appeal is denied imo

    Although this isn't a court of law in general in Justice systems appeals don't carry any risk and usually reduce the punishment. I find the whole fact you can appeal idiotic, get the decision right in the first place.

  11. 1 hour ago, AVTuco said:

    Another tough tough game. Hate to say it, but a draw isn't the end of the world.

    We need to be winning games like this at home. Our away form is very up and down and we have some tough matches coming up where we would not be expecting any points.

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