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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!

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.