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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 07, 2024, 11:02:57 am
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Anyway, never mind all that, Kelvin has just confirmed that the land deal has been signed between the club and the council and it will all be officially announced once it's been ratified by the peripheral parties involved.
Not there yet, but welcome news.
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General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics
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on: March 07, 2024, 09:09:30 am
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Not everyone.
It is funny though how we get threatened that if we tax billionaires or business higher then they'll just go elsewhere yet there is no such "get out clause" for Joe Public. A usual, its a one-way street.
To be fair, we all have the option of leaving the country and going to live elsewhere. Plenty of people do it every year.
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General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics
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on: March 07, 2024, 08:48:33 am
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You lefty’s make me laugh, here’s one for you the government doesn’t have any money to spend, it’s collected in Tax to pay for all the things you want, better Police, better health service, Transport etc etc, yet you don’t want Taxing. You effectively pay 60% Tax when you go over 100k until you’ve paid back your allowance. It's not often I say this but I partially agree with Manny here. Everyone complains about under funded services but then baulk when taxes are high. Things cost money, and that money comes from taxation. Yes, maybe the way companies are taxed could be an alternative (energy and fuel companies are profiteering at the moment and are understandably under scrutiny), but you have to tread very carefully because if you penalise companies too harshly for being successful then they will just restructure where they are based and you'll lose the entirety of the tax they generate.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24
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on: March 06, 2024, 05:41:56 am
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Having slept on it and given it a lot of thought (mostly while laying awake in the middle of the night) and god we were shìt.
We have 6 full backs at the club and 5 of them are out injured, as is one of the centre backs that have been covering that role. The other is Brough who can have good games but only when allowed to get forward; the rest of the time he's defensively rubbish.
Hondermarck or Brough were at least culpable in all the goals and Brough in most of them. They targeted him and he had no answer.
So there is some mitigation for Brady in this as he had limited options, however you can't deny he got things wrong elsewhere.
I'm a massive advocate of Hoskins and always have been, so I've been delighted to see him prove a lot of people wrong in the last few seasons, but he was either rushed back or rushed himself back to play in the Derby game and was so far off the pace it was embarrassing. How he stayed on beyond half time is beyond me.
The half time subs didn't work either, although at least Simpson and Springett looked lively when they got on, but by then the game was long since gone.
It's important not to get too carried away of course as we're still having a good season and punching well above our weight, but it always stings to lose to your big local rival, and that's doubly so when it comes at the end of a complete capitulation as it did last night. Heads went down when they equalised and then we caved completely 90 seconds later.
My prematch prediction was that we'd take an early lead and then lose to late goals after hanging on for must of the game. I got the first bit right but clearly overestimated the character of the side.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: "Things shouted out by the knob head who sits behind/next/near me".
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on: March 04, 2024, 13:11:35 pm
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The regular one near me goes on and on and on every game about the "new" offside rule that says a player in an offside position doesn't become offside until they become active.
To be honest, I'm not a big fan of it either. I think it's backfired a bit as it was bought in to encourage attacking play and meaning lesz stopping of the game. In reality it's not really helped and instead had probably slowed the game down a bit more as the attacking player often hesitates, thinks "am I offside or not?", decides to chase after the ball and then concedes the free kick anyway.
Regardless, that's the rule. There's no point complaining about it every. Single. Time. It. Happens. Nor is there any point in throwing abuse at the poor unfortunate linesman who's just had to flag for it.
"Why didn't you flag in the first place you f***ing twat! He was clearly offside! Just flag it straight away!"
BECAUSE HE WASN'T BLOODY OFFSIDE ACCORDING TO THE RULES. HE CAN'T DECIDE WHICH RULES TO ENFORCE AND WHICH ONES TO IGNORE!!!
It's not even that he's somehow missed the rule change because numerous people have explained it to him, some more forcefully than others, but still he does it...
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 03, 2024, 18:52:13 pm
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Apart from the Quidco banner lurking at the footer this site seems to be ad free.
The Hotelend website doesn't run on its own infrastructure, it's hosted by a business that offers forums for free but make their money from advertising revenue. If you drop the gumpf that follows the URL you can read all about how it works. Suffice to say, the admins aren't selling any ads themselves. https://smfserver.com/
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Charlton Sat 2nd March.
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on: March 03, 2024, 16:01:36 pm
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I'm going to keep saying it's irrelevant every time you persevere with claiming the presence of one player is statistically related to the goals or points in the game. It's because of the sheer number of independent variances that contribute to those three facts. However a single game does have more constants so do you think we were better before or after Hoskins came on?
I have to agree. As someone who works with data on a daily basis I'm a big advocate of decisions being data driven, but there are too many factors at play in a football match to pare things down to a simple points per game perspective and then attribute that to the absence of presence of a single player.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Charlton Sat 2nd March.
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on: March 03, 2024, 07:28:46 am
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned from yesterday - fair play to the Charlton fans for joining in with the minutes applause. A lot of our fans didn't seem to know what was it was about but I got the impression from how early they joined in they had got wind of what was going on.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 02, 2024, 06:54:47 am
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As a complete aside to all of this healthy (?) debate that has spread for four or five pages now in 12h, is it only me who reads this one and hears that Norwegian (?) football commentator from the 1990s when their side beat England?
Well, they have to some degree or another all taken one hell of a beating....
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 02, 2024, 06:48:52 am
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I've just read through the 3 or 4 pages of comments that have appeared on this thread since I last logged on and felt increasingly uncomfortable as I did so. Never have I seen such a display of naivety, ignorance, arrogance, mendacity and sheer bloody mindedness played out quite so publicly. It's like watching someone flagellate themselves. There are so many things that have been said that I take issue with that warrant a response but I don't even know where I'd begin. Plus I've no wish to extend this whole unedifying spectacle any further because it's cringeworthy enough as it is. Instead I'll just agree with MCHammer's last post: I couldn't care if you live 2 miles from the ground or a 1000. If you think the way you and the Trust Board have conducted themselves over the last couple of years is acceptable then you deserve every bit of criticism you receive. I respect what certain members of the Trust Board past and present have contributed over the years but this does not make you immune from criticism when your actions are undemocratic and begin to endanger the very club it is your remit to protect.
This has become personal to many on the board to the point they have trashed every relationship they had. You ignore advice from the FSA, fall out the council and have contrbuted to the complete break down of any relationship with the club.
On a personal level you have contributed greatly to the downfall of the Trust. Your conduct is atrocious, you take no one on the journey with you. You don't answer even the simplest of questions and I know for a fact some existing board members and ex board members find your behaviour a complete embaressment on a personal and professional level. It's harsh but that's the truth. You have contributed nothing of beneift to the supporters or the club in the last 7 years and barely even contribute the entrance fee. You lie, mislead and omit key information on nearly every post you make on this forum. You've not a single jot of contrition for the disgraceful partnership with Cilldara and you expect to walk back into discussions with the club and council as if nothing ever happened.
As for the evidence again simple question....why can't it just be put into the public domain fior EVERYONE to see it?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 01, 2024, 21:35:36 pm
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so you think it is ok that people who don't even live in the Country, let alone the county, let alone the Town, should be given preferential treatment over local people and especially local fans trying to protect Northampton land for the good of Northampton people?
You really, really think that? OK LOL whatever
Local people like Cilldara, you mean? OK lol, whatever
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 01, 2024, 13:33:29 pm
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I don't think that any numbers were disclosed, but you, who obviously wasn't there, said there were 4, which as Duston points out, was more than the NTFC AGM. If you can read that into " Clearly the people are with them after all", what can you read into the NTFC AGM ? I see you failed to answer the 2 other points that I raised about your post, any comments ?
I didn't think either of them needed answering again, to be honest, but if you insist... 1) No, I don't think they could, not without compromising the integrity of the sale process. Had the club walked away from the deal and Cildarra said no, not if we have to pay for a stand too then the council would have been left without a buyer for a piece of land that they want to dispose of. And a piece of land with a sitting tenant at that. 2) One lives in Dubai, the other in Florida. That's common knowledge. We have posters on this site who live in the US, Switzerland, Australia, Thailand.... I don't see the relevance of where someone is based in the debate and yet it's something that is repeatedly weaponised and used to bash the owners over the head with. There's an insinuation there that "overseas bidders" are up to no good. Why not just say "the owners" or even "the people who've been propping up our football club for the last 7 or 8 years"? Nah, better to make it sound like a couple of fly by night chancers. On the club AGM point... this is a genuine question, I don't know the answer so I'm not asking it rhetorically... don't you have to be a shareholder to attend the AGM? That's always been my understanding but it's not something I've ever thought to look into.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: March 01, 2024, 11:32:09 am
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In my experience, there are two reasons that people don't turn up to meetings; they are either happy with the status quo or are so disillusioned that they can't see the point. I think the open forums and the Trust AGM are examples of each. On the "no stand no land" clause disappearing, can you guys honestly not see that commercially and contractually it would be grossly unfair to impose a condition on one bidder when the same condition wouldn't be applicable to the other bidders? We'd all like to see that clause included but you have to be able to take a step back at times and take a pragmatic view. Then there's this: The Trust do want to move forward and would be delighted to work in a positive manner towards an ambitious goal for NTFC with fans, club and council, perhaps those who keep calling for a reset, will do the same themselves. Talk is cheap. This statement is what we'd all like to see, but it would carry more weight if it didn't come in the wake of the Trust rebutting all of the council's points and appear at the end of a post in which the owners of NTFC are repeatedly and pointedly referred to as "overseas bidders", the council are implied to be incompetent at best and corrupt at worst and supporters are referred to as sheep! You say yourself that one fan turned up to your AGM. I was surprised last year to find so few people there and there were 27! Surely you guys can't keep up the stance of everyone else being to blame for everything (even Nat West are in the crosshairs now! ) while the Trust are seemingly infallible? There must come a time when you look at yourselves and ask "What are we doing so wrong?"
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