Search results

They don’t have to worry or make sacrifices - they choose to. Pretty key difference. A household with two parents each earning £35k and two kids is around the 74th percentile in terms of income but you can do your own working out if you like: Your household's income : Where do you fit in? |...

I mean the average salary is what, £37k, but given that not every household has both parents working then I imagine £70k would be an above-average household income. I think it’s easy to get hung up on trying to define what “rich” means but a household like that which is devoting about a quarter...

They sound like they’re doing alright to me

Private school fees ARE disposable income, aren’t they?

I’m agnostic about how you acquire the wealth - maybe you have one high-paid job, maybe you toil in several low-paid jobs, or maybe you sit on your arse and inherit the lot. Maybe you leverage assets like homes and endowments instead. But if you’re spending that kind of money every year on one...

How many non-rich people are able to do that?

If a family is spending £15k a year on a single discretionary item then I’d say it’s pretty likely they’re rich, whether or not they drive a Mondeo. Hard-working people with ordinary accents and crap cars can still be rich, they don’t have to resemble the Monopoly Man.

They showed they were good enough to finish 9th! People might have reasonably expected us to do better this season if we added to the squad, or if our existing players kicked on, but neither of those things happened.

The cup run was extremely fortunate and ultimately consisted of one win that you wouldn’t have expected us to get. Everyone apparently hates me for pointing it out but you have to take the emotion of a cup run out of the equation when you’re assessing the manager and squad. I can appreciate the...

Yes of course

I agree, but if the £5-6 million transfer fee is accurate then personally I’d be expecting a player of that value to be making his own weather so to speak.

He’s a decent player for sure but he apparently cost a lot of money. I expected more for the price tag.

Not really, no. We finished nine points off, we spent very little time (if any?) in the top six. I expected more if I’m honest.

O’Hare has been replaced by a younger and less impressive #10; Godden has been replaced by two strikers who I wouldn’t expect to score the same number of goals combined; Kelly and Palmer have not been replaced by anyone at all. Our defence is exactly the same bar a young keeper who’s been in and...

You don’t get open top bus parades for being good for “much of the season” The current squad is smaller and weaker than the one that finished last season.

No, I’m saying they had a giant hole in the bottom caused by our aforementioned crap start. Maybe if you can conjure up a historically great run of form every year to compensate then everything ends up fine, but in 22/23 we did, and in 23/24 we didn’t. The owner decided he wanted something more...

Call me old fashioned but how about Gameweek 46? We had two stretches at the beginning and end of the season where we couldn’t buy a win. Most of the time that means you don’t make the playoffs and so it proved.

I haven’t said it’s a bottom six squad - I think that’s ridiculous. “Crap starts don’t stop PO aspirations”? A hundred-odd years of football history would disagree with you there.

Very few teams in this division are going to be handed the kinds of transfer money made available to Robins without challenging for the playoffs being a reasonable expectation. Last season a crap start blew a hole in our playoff aspirations and this year it was the same. Sacking the manager was...

Who cares what Micky Adams did? It was almost 20 years ago. Robins had a brief, he was given funds to achieve it, and he underperformed.