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Certainly does but we're seeing issues now caused by the initial design of the stadium not being suitable for capacity crowds. Is there any other stadium in the country that has a balcony they can't use all the seats in? Generally all things are solvable but its a cash of affordability. You...

Its a thought, although where would the footbridge go to, into the car park? Think there's a problem that Winding House Lane / Hen Lane can't cope with the volume of people and you can only really solve that by widening the pavements but is that even possible. Couple of things I would look to...

will be slightly annoying if he's somehow managed to get a season ending injury on holiday

Given we've just played a trialist in a 1/4 final is there any rule to prevent a team loading up on players for a semi-final or final? As its just a local tournament there's going to be stacks of players who aren't cup tied. What stops, for example, Racing Club Warwick getting 3 or 4 ringers in?

Its widely acknowledged they are. Plenty of American players who have played there talk about their shock about how open steroid use was in locker rooms there.

Will certainly be interesting if its done under international regulations and drug testing takes place 😂

I will happily admit the country is in such a shit state it will take many years to turn things around completely. But equally when pretty much everything had gone to shit there should have been some easy wins ready to go. We're now nearly a year in and I suspect if you polled the 'man on the...

Not sure the fact that there's lots more further consolation planned does much to convince me this wasn't hurriedly thrown together because the economy is in a worse state than they expected and they have self inflicted fiscal rules to stick to. Rather convenient that there's billions in...

Slight problem of Russia being banned from international competition by the IIHF. Not sure many NHL players will be signing up to play if its going to put their chance at a spot on the Olympic team in jeopardy. If it happens, and I would doubt it, will end up being like the rebel England tours...

thats fine but if you're doing that as a matter of principal you need to accept that you will be spending far more than the amount being paid to the small number of people exploiting the system to 'fix' the problem. I think people are under the impression that you just rock up to the doctors...

How many people are exploiting it? How many genuine cases is it acceptable to be collateral damage in stopping that exploitation? How much money should we spend stopping that exploitation?

Surely you look at things like this, things which have been known issues for a while, which have data and evidence to back them up, things which can relatively easily be acted upon. Then you look at the lack of interest in doing anything, in fact in the case of pushing people back to the office...

So let that play out rather than rushing this through. This seems more like a way to plug the gap in the finances they've created for themselves with self imposed fiscal rules. If they're making work more attractive then that will have an impact, if they're cutting waiting lists that will...

Don't hold your breath

Can only speak for myself but the time I was off work furloughed during covid, and I'm sure most people wouldn't class a pandemic as a great year of their lives, on every available metric my health was far better than any time I can remember. Went back to work and all the old issues came...

I'll bite. First off we need to get rid of this idea that British people don't want to work and there's huge numbers of people blagging it. The stats put our employment rate at 5th in the world. Realistically how many more people can be forced into the workforce? If you want to get people off...

We've become a country of small businesses, they aren't going to employ people who may need additional time off for medical reasons. My boss has a fit if I have a doctors appointment and come in a few minutes late! So you're left with big business who, for whatever reason, want to be seen to do...

It's performative nonsense. Unless they're proposing a cull of pensioners it's pissing in the wind. Pensions absolutely dwarf every other DWP payment, and thats before you consider that the fact that the level of other benefits skyrockets in the over 60s. And all of that is before you add in...

Isn't the owner of Wasps involved in Worcester? Would anyone bet against them suddenly becoming Worcester Wasps?

Its going to be incredibly hard to attract stadium shows when there's a viable stadium venue in Birmingham. Why would anyone pick Cov given the difference in population size in the two cities. Even Brum struggles to get many shows as London - Manchester is increasingly the norm. To get shows...