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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!

Thomas MOTM for me, he is by far our best defender and the attacking threat he holds is better than anything we have. Directly involved in the 2 scrappy goals we had to take the lead!

A lot of people calling for BTA to play LW will see that on today’s evidence, it won’t work. BTA looks awkward at LW imo. EMC didn’t play particularly well imo, but somehow changed the game! Hes a lot more comfortable receiving the ball out wide and dribbling past defenders than BTA. Idk the...

Before they scored, I said to my mate ‘we’ve got the beating of this lot’ and almost like a jinx, Sheff U battered us and deserved to take the lead.

I thought McCallum was class tonight, for what it is worth!

There is that much money in English football, the top end championship teams can outspend lower to mid table teams in Germany, France, Italy and so on. The ‘English Tax’ isn’t on English players per se, it’s that Prem team just have the muscle to demand ridiculous fees.

That’ll certainly play into it. The crux of the point was that they have a smaller % of ST so they can profiteer off tourist fans. As @Ccfcisparks said, there’s also a lot less money in the league, partly because they have a 50+1 rule for owning clubs. It’s a trade-off, do you want to be at...

There’s a general trend across Europe is that transfer spend of the league and season ticket prices are correlated. At a guess, FFP in the UK has an undue burden on clubs to have strong balance sheets, an extra million or two on ST sales is needed more than it was say, 10-15 years ago. Clubs...

Football fans continue to moan about ticket prices and continue to pay the price of admission. They’re like smokers “I won’t pay ‘x’ for a pack of 20” but continue to do so. The same people crying to hilltop about £45 football tickets were happy to pay hundreds for an Oasis ticket. Unlike...

We’re not and if we were, the pricing would reflect that. Currently, our games are oversubscribed so demand is higher than the supply. If were Blackburn, we’d probably need to do ‘kids for a quid’. Likewise, our STs are probably a lot cheaper than Ipswich’s (without looking). There’s a lot of...

… Is the penny is finally starting to drop? A lot of people on here just assumed productivity would grow if you chucked money at public services. We voted out the Tories and the convenient ‘boogeyman’ of Tory cuts (even though there no actual cuts to the NHS) can’t be blamed.

I’m sure Ipswich fans were backing their prices to Southampton - £43. You’ll see other clubs following suit in the next 2-3 seasons, at least the ones with high demand. There is a cost of living crisis and people also need to account that the costs for businesses to operate has gone up a lot...

It’s the double whammy to employers who have responded by cutting jobs and hours to absorb the costs. The point was that employers could probably absorb one of the costs, but not both and it’s showing in the decline of job vacancies.

The reason for that is that the changes never came into force… whereas the utility bill support actually did immediately.

I don’t think Reeves planned to raise income tax in the end, she has just botched her budgets. Spending has increased more than planned and raising minimum wage in addition to increasing employer’s NI has predictably hit low income workers the most. Borrowing has gone up, gilt yields have...

The same MPs that revolted over £5bn (or whatever it was) in benefits cuts? With the Greens waiting in the wings, it’s a v dangerous time for the Labour Party.

For the future? Look at Healy’s tenure as Chancellor 1974-79 under Wilson/Callaghan. The parallels are there to see.

Unless some unforeseeable circumstances, this Labour government is going the exact same way as the 1970s. It’s pushed up public spending, followed it up with tax rises and at some point will be forced into cutting spending and very much doubt Labour MPs would support that. This government...