Recent content by Mucca Mad Boys

With respect BSB, how many public sector workers ever had to do any of the following: - manage a budget - be responsible for cost saving initiatives - negotiate a contract/tender for business - fire someone for poor performance - make a business decision of consequences e.g. redundancies...

Do you ever tender for business or just accept the additional costs? One of the reasons I’ve kept operating costs in my area is that my supplier knows that I’ll tender their business if they increase my costs. Likewise, elsewhere in business, operating costs rose 30% post-COVID, so they...

It’s not sneering. If a cabinet was built of venture capitalists, we’d both be calling that out and be sceptical of their ability to manage public services. With that in mind, do you reckon the cabinet considered the impact of the NI hike on employers would play out in the real world? No...

Let’s explore the use of ‘real terms’, this is slippery. Have their budgets grown? Yes or no. In the private sector, if inflation is at ‘5%’ doesn’t mean you increase what you spend by 5%. That’s a terrible way of doing business. Whereas any budget increase below inflation in ‘public sector...

You can’t be serious? How many Labour run councils are bankrupt, or nearing bankruptcy? On the national level, Labour nicked one of Reform’s dumbest policy ideas (increasing NI on foreign workers) and applied it to the whole workforce. On Reform as a party, what are people’s reasonable...

Local councils are full of incompetency and corruption, made up of failed MPs. Irrespective of party allegiance. Our MPs are low grade, our councillors cut from the same cloth. If we’re going off local councils, the biggest shambles is Birmingham Council who is completely bankrupt… Of course...

Is anyone surprised that this has gone badly? Zarah Sultana’s politics is befitting of a uni student union than MP or potential party leader. Low grade politicians across the board.

Define ‘under resourced’. The NHS will get £246.8bn from now until the end of the parliament. The NHS budget has only grown, the question is by how much. No one can actually give a concrete figure of what the NHS ‘needs’. They can’t because it’s a money pit. Even under the last Labour...

Thankfully, Grimes’ durability is elite. He’s been playing 40+ games a season since the season we went down to L2. At a rough guesstimate, he’s missed about 15 games in the last 8 seasons through injury/suspension/wasn’t picked. In the absolute worst case scenario, Lampard will find a way to...

It’s funny because people were actually saying this last preseason.

The games now until Birmingham away are difficult. After this game we have more or less played the entire top half away from home. Only Bristol in the Top 6, no parachute teams away.

Thought it was a different and quality way to open the game to be honest! However, it must be said we’d have received pelters as a club if we didn’t win tonight and rightfully so!!!

BTA didn’t look good at LW imo. Hes much better centrally/RW and right now, Sakamoto is an in form player. We do need out and out wingers because EMC gave us some much more tonight without playing particularly well. He was more direct and that somehow put Sheff U on the back foot.

You know what, I agree. There’s a reason teams all over the division adopt this and can’t quite understand why. My ‘instinct’ is that the egghead analysts have come up with models that support the following: a) 10 defenders = less conceded goals and b) low % of chances created when 1-3...

I don’t buy into this idea that King is in this for the short term. Owning a Prem team must be somewhat lucrative!