pleatout

Maybe its me, but I've been saying for a while that the league have been looking for a way out. Man city and Top et al have deeper pockets than the prem and could keep this going until they bankrupted the prem with legal fees. Add to that it makes for a farcical competition if you start every season with 3 or 4 teams with threats of points deductions. The best league in the world starts to look a bit rubbish. Maybe this is the "deal" that gets them off the hook. Can we expect an announcement in the next few days that proceedings against man city and Everton and others have been shelved and a new set of rules will be in place next season? I know they are doing that anyway but they might get someone with more than a gcse in law to have a read of it this time

There will be rises, but anyone with half a brain knew that. I suspect we'll see changes to tax relief on pensions that seem to favour the well off. For example £250k lump sum tax free isnt something most "ordinary working people" can lay claim to. And on Capital gains tax, again something most folk dont need to bother with. It is paid at 20% for higher rate (40%) tax payers - why?

You gotta be a bit of a Star Wars nerd for this - sorry. Space Centre, Leicester A few years ago, they had a Star Wars themed weekend including the UK Garrison, basically a group that dress up as Star Wars characters. They raise money for charity and all that stuff https://www.ukgarrison.co.uk/501st-uk-garrison.html Anyway, walking across the car park and there are two Storm Troopers, looking mean and menacing (tbh they are quite scary), watching everyone walk by. A woman with two small children walked past them. The kids were dressed as Jawa - small hooded characters. Storm Trooper looks at them and says "Ah - Jawa" Mother without missing a beat waved her arm in a circular motion and said "these are not the Jawa you are looking for" and carried on. I dont think Storm Troopers are supposed to laugh

I have a theory, it's mine, feel free to rip it apart but here goes... Lets say that Melchester Rovers board knows that almost every game is streamable for free. Melchester fans wont pay anyway. They'll pick up a link to stream off MelchesterTalk forums. Meanwhile the owners of Melchester, a worldwide hotel group offer all their guests (whether they want it or not) streaming of the game in their rooms and pay Melchester £10 for every room it is streamed to. Thereby generating a several hundreds of thousands of pounds of revenue that otherwise couldnt be pumped into the club under FFP rules.

has there ever been a "connect".. I had a row with Pierpoint about season ticket holders and the way the club treated us - about 25 years ago Missed a trick. Should have put ST prices up by £25 and offered a discount for a eticket. The reason is obvious. They dont want us lending our card to others. They want us to sell the match ticket back at ST rates and then sell it on at full price. It's all about maximising revenues It's poor, but when have they ever done it? Really? What we havent bought any players for 3 years? No, they have used legal argument. If the rules are badly written, then they should look for loopholes. Everyone else does/has Man City, Man U & Chelsea to name 3 Gambled and lost. It happens. Should maybe have sacked Rogers earlier but he won the FA Cup for us. Cut price? Who? If no one buys at your price then you sell at the price someone wants to pay. We have always had to do that. I remember being at a talk by Alan Bennet 30 odd years ago and him saying that NatWest told them they HAD to sell Kevin McDonald to Liverpool I seem to remember folk saying the same last season Plans are there, planning is there. They are ready to go when the team/circumstances are are right. You'd have an argument if it was all hot air, like it was throughout the 70's, 80's and 90's. Beaumont Leys, my backside! Define incompetent. The fact that we've won stuff, been in europe, signed some of the best players we've ever seen at our club and most of them for loose change. Yep been relegated, but then I'm not sure there hasnt been an owner in our history that hasnt done that.

"Parasite", "Brentford, Brighton & Palace" better run than us? Bear in mind some thought it was a fiasco under Pierrpoint, Kinch et al in the early 2000's Just before we went bust and we've still won EVERY domestic honour whilst Villa, Everton, Leeds, Florist, Newcastle etc etc have won the square root of Scottish Football Association. The last 25 years under numerous ownerships have been the most successful and most disappointing in our history but really, some folk need to take a look our history and at the rest of the league if they think we are poorly run.

The absolute state of some of the comments in this thread. Good grief. Some folk on here have no idea of what a poorly run football club looks like. I'll just place this here. If you'd like to see where the great teams we should try to emulate appear on the list.

Wasnt impressed today, but then I said - walking away from Sincil Bank - "dont rate the Fuchs much". Be delighted to for it to proved (yet again) that after over 50 years of watching this lot I know the square root of SFA about football.

Did you have to pay extra for that?

Aw thanks

Really? Better than Saka AND Bellingham? Okayyyyyy.

Commentator manages it. Shearer cant

It does. Thankfully we've now got rid of "Boris" and are back to nearly grown up politicians. But I digress. Is there any reason Rice is on the pitch?

Am I missing something? Kane, Saka, Foden. Why is it Trent? Is his name backwards and he's actually Alexander Arnold Trent? Shearer is doing my head in. Either all forenames or all surnames.

Forest are going for it https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2086656-work-commences-on-nottingham-forest-ground-despite-months-of-speculation Shipping containers!