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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...

There was a report included in the administration stuff that detailed all the manintenace and it was all costed. Came to tens of millions. Even essential stuff like fire alarms and CCTV weren't working properly. You can bet if it had been us and not Wasps running it down like the the SAG would...

its definitely not like that. walking up at the weekend noticed how shabby the roof looked with the outline of Ricoh still up there. Place needs a real good clean. The whole exterior is shabby. Landscaping and paths need a bit of work as well. Sure it must be lined up. Would be odd to spend...

This is me with every DIY job, I'm an absolute disaster zone Always get everyone saying 'just do it yourself', 'its easy', 'watch youtube' etc but everything that can go wrong does go wrong The only thing I've learnt from DIY attempts over the years is its cheaper to get someone in to do it...

Maybe this will teach people not to write off players returning from months out injured when they aren't back to their best the moment they set foot on the pitch.