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1  General Category / General Chat / Re: War on: Yesterday at 23:07:35
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xr50

Worth a watch, in fact I recommend it.
War is not a game, most of those shown were recently trained in the UK.
The only difference to previous wars, is the use of drones, which are used to good effect..

Unfortunately by both sides.
2  General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics on: Yesterday at 23:01:13

Oh well, if the Sun says so it must be true! Grin Grin Grin Wink
3  General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics on: Yesterday at 22:59:59
Angela is a prime example of how low the bar is set for Labour voters. She’s deputy leader of the opposition but you’d expect to find her behind a till.

Angela is heralded as an example of progressivenesses, proof that anyone can become an MP. She’s just a woman with a track record of bad personal choices who blames her own bad choices on the system.

She actually wants to change the world to make her previous bad choices into the standard of society.

Not that you're in any way judgemental, obviously!
4  The Hotel End / Other Football & Sport / Re: England Shirt on: March 26, 2024, 16:20:51 pm
The change of colour of the flag is a bit weird, the price of the shirts is scandalous.
5  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Derby County (h) 23.3.24 on: March 21, 2024, 15:24:21 pm
As a season ticket holder I don't know whether to go and watch this game or lie down in a darkened room until it's all over.

I'd say go to the game, I generally find that the least stressful option.  Cool
6  General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics on: March 21, 2024, 14:15:37 pm
Perhaps some of them should go and get a job, it’s liberating, the work shy who go to food banks so they can still go on holiday and afford their drink and drugs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232321/The-food-bank-users-selling-handouts-raise-money-drugs-Nuneaton-residents-say-practice-despicable-abuse-trust.html


It's well known that many people who use food banks are working in jobs that don't pay the bills.
I worked for over 40 years and in my experience if you found work "liberating" you were one of a lucky few.
As for the food bank 'scammers', in different circumstances they'd be called entrepreneurs!
7  General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics on: March 21, 2024, 12:52:38 pm
According the Governments own figures there were 12 million people in this country living in 'Absolute Poverty' in 2022-2023.
This was a rise of 600,000 in a year, the biggest increase in 30 years, since the previous Tory Government.
They don't change, do they?
8  General Category / General Chat / Re: War on: March 21, 2024, 09:23:45 am
Presumably that was an observation, not an insult.

It was a question, which was presumably answered with a FACT!  Grin
9  General Category / General Chat / Re: War on: March 20, 2024, 23:06:36 pm
Wrong, I don’t do it to be controversial 😉

But you are confirming you spout bollox Wink
10  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: First season back table on: March 17, 2024, 12:07:47 pm
The thing is with managers, if you cloned twenty Pep Guardiola, gave each one exactly the same budget and put them in charge of the twenty Premiership clubs, One Pep Guardiola would win the title, a handful of others would be lauded for their achievements, half a dozen would get the sack and three would be relegated. That's how stupid this whole argument is. Sometimes I think its all down to luck and being in the right place at the right time.

Spot on.
11  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Wycombe (a) Sat. 16th March on: March 17, 2024, 12:05:02 pm
The second game running which had 0-0 written all over it where the points went to our opponents.
I thought Moulden could have expected more protection from the Ref for the goal conceded to Blackpool. I can't defend him for the Wycombe goals though, especially the second which he misjudged thinking it was going wide of his far post.
Last season when Lee Burge was injured we had Tom King as back up who was as good or better than Burge. This season we've had Thompson and Moulden as back up Keepers and their lack of experience has cost us points. Yesterday I actually thought Mouldens handling had been good but then he makes two errors, that's young players in a nutshell.

Sadly the season looks as though it is fizzling out because it had been exceptional compared to most peoples expectations back in August.
12  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Grade the Cobblers on: March 14, 2024, 11:59:14 am
Players & Management - B+
Ownership - C
Facilities - C
Match Day Experience - B
Community - A
Do I feel part of the club? - B
13  The Hotel End / Other Football & Sport / Re: Go Marching In on: March 14, 2024, 11:12:46 am
As football is a game for poorly educated hooligans and rugby is a game for better educated gentlemen you would have thought they could come up with something more original.
14  General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics on: March 13, 2024, 21:15:56 pm
There is a name for the younger generation it’s called W@nkers, entitled ones at that, the whole woke agenda has acted as a conduit for sitting at home because you have anxiety, well guess what going to work gives you a purpose and is better for mental health than popping antidepressants like smarties.
We can’t keep importing foreign labour because our own is too fcuking lazy to work, time to cut benefits for those who can work.

I think most generations have denigrated the young (often unfairly) and calling them names is hardly going to help.

We need to overhaul the benefits system and the workplace. Too many British workers feel undervalued (as well as overworked and underpaid!)

People who are able to work should be better off working than drawing benefits, this is often not the case. People genuinely unable to work should receive benefits which give them a reasonable standard of living, again, not always the case.
15  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Blackpool (h) on: March 13, 2024, 14:01:19 pm
Spot on young man.

How I wish I was! Grin
16  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Blackpool (h) on: March 13, 2024, 11:01:31 am
A poor game lacking any quality or excitement which really deserved to end 0-0. I was worried when I saw that we had set up with three centre backs, we haven't really come to terms with that system. Playing the ball across the backline slows the game too much, at times Sowerby and Leonard dropped deep giving us a seven man defence and no-one to pass to in midfield.
In the end the game was settled by a suitably scruffy goal, from my view in the south west Moulden looked to have dived on the ball and was then kicked several times until the ball went over the line. Most referees would have blown to give a foul on the goalkeeper.
After that Blackpool set up to defend and we were too slow to play through them.
Hopefully at Wycombe we revert to 4-3-3 with Leonard further forward where he can hurt teams instead of exchanging passes with our centre backs. UTC
17  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Supporters Advisory Board on: March 11, 2024, 13:07:08 pm
While I’m thinking about it, we need to turn the pa speakers in the west stand to face inwards then people will be able to hear it, at the moment the face towards the pitch for some reason.

Glad I'm not the only one that can't hear announcements, even with my hearing aids!
At Cambridge I could hear what was being said as I walked up the road to the ground.
18  General Category / General Chat / Re: War on: March 06, 2024, 19:37:06 pm
I’m not so sure, the French secret service have stated they have intelligence that Putin is planning WW3 with the west and won’t stop with Ukraine, hence wanting to send NATO troops to Ukraine, it’s going to end very badly, I’ll give it 2 years before all he’ll breaks loose.
As I’ve said the sooner we have conscription the better.

Let's hope they ask you to lead them, Captain Mainwaring04,  Wink Grin
19  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: March 06, 2024, 10:16:16 am
A point that was raised on our coach coming back last night, why do we play so narrow at the back. It cost us at Orient and again last night, our defenders stand 20 yards off any wide player, giving the opposition an out ball every time and the said player time to control the ball and start running. Another thing that I was amazed that JB didn't change was the continual pass back to Moulden with Posh pressing him as fast as they could, he didn't have time to take a touch and make a pass, he just had to get rid, so with him doing that, the person who passed back might as well got rid in the first place.
    IMO we need two different game plans, we don't have the players to go head to head with the better teams in this league, so in these games, we have to make ourselves hard to beat, with a solid 4-4-2 and get some tackles in, make the opposition work for their goals. Oh for a "Roy Hunter" in midfield to stop players running 40 yards without a challenge.

The choice teams have is to, defend wide to stop crosses coming in, or defend narrow so that there are more defenders in the box to defend the cross. I prefer the stop the cross rule.
I am also puzzled by constant passes back to the keeper when the defender could easily clear the ball himself. Possession is all well and good but players at lower levels forget it's pass and move so eventually the keeper is the only free man.
The 'Roy Hunters' in our team should be McWilliams and Sowerby but both are off the pace at the moment.

Anyway, chins up lads! The important stat is that, this season we have shared the points with the P@@h. We are on a par with them Wink
20  The Hotel End / Other Football & Sport / Re: Bring Back... on: March 05, 2024, 10:05:30 am
Indirect Free Kicks for Obstruction, especially in the penalty area for holding and blocking not considered 'enough' to award a penalty.
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