Lord Duckhunter

Fuck me, what’ll be next, Keith Richards taking the piss out of someone fucked up on drugs.

You know exactly what it’ll be, the cringiest pony. “We are Southampton, we spy when we want”. Peak nod when you’ve actually been punished for it, but they’ll know the tune and some of our chumps will think it’s funny.

Could we? Have you seen his contract? How do you know when it said we could take up the extension. Maybe it couldn’t be triggered until the season ended.

Absolutely terrible so far. Piss poor games, piss poor coverage. The European championship has been ruined with too many poor teams qualifying, and now the WC is going the same way. Elite sport, my arse….

The BBC should be banned from anything to do with football. You can tell the people running it are the type who call it Footy & think birds should be paid the same as blokes. Fucking 1990 has a lot to answer for.

Dear fucking god. I hope they get absolutely battered in the next 2. Bunch of fucking nods. Haiti FFS

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how it was set up in the first place. It was quite deliberately set up so the workers of the time, pay pensions for the pensioners of that time. A system where the money was hypothecated, wouldn't have given anyone any sort of worthwhile pension until about 1978. Who was going to pay the pensions of people reaching 65 in 1952, if the workers in 1952’s NI contributions were ringfenced for their retirement? This is where the inter generational argument is so toxic. In my working life I paid the pension of my grandfathers generation and then my fathers. My kids & Grand kids generation will pay my generations. Pointing and saying “look at those rich Gammon, they don’t deserve “welfare”, will only weaken the pension. That weakening of the pension won’t change my life or anyone over 50’s life. The generation who will suffer will come from the ones doing the pointing.

It was only brought in to bring pensions back up to the level they would have been had the Government not broken the link with earnings in 1980. When it was set up, nobody said then it was “unaffordable”, and had the pension remained linked to earnings it would be slightly higher than it is now. It was not some sort of bribe, or bung to people who vote in large numbers, it was a specific policy to address a specific issue. I used to buy this “unaffordable “ line, but when you look into it, that’s too simplistic. The present generation are paying more pension benefit, because in the last 46 years not enough was paid in. We are correcting that 1980 decision and the fact that until the coalition, subsequent Governments didn’t correct it. It’s now getting into the area where it is where it was intended to be, so a time ale should be set to abolish the triple lock and go back to the original link to earrings. It is now being used as an inter generational football, with pensioners being portrayed as rich and entitled. Some are, most aren’t. The most important thing is the principle of the old age pension remain. It should be universal, with rich people getting it as well. This is to encourage everyone to save in a private pension themselves, to build on the foundation of a basic state pension. If you start means testing it, I might as well piss money against the wall each year, rather than put it in a pension. If you’re taking 12k off me a year, because I’m drawing down 12k a year, why bother building that pot up.

The only thing that makes sense is if he thinks “one more and I’m done”. Maybe he doesn’t want to go through all that rehabilitation again, so has decided if he gets another long term injury during the WC he’ll retire. Mentally it must be taking a toll on him and he’ll be over 30 by the time the season starts. It must get harder to get back fit, the older you are. If he gets through it, he’ll have plenty of options afterwards and I doubt he’ll actually play that many minutes.

Don’t talk pony man. We don’t even know whether we could have even had renewed before the “window” anyway. Did the contract state we could trigger the extra year at any time, or was it specifically “within 5 days of the last game”. Unless you know the answer to that, you can’t say we handled it poorly, or “left it too late”. Even if we could have triggered it early, why on earth would we. I’m sure you’d be one of the first moaning if he’d pulled up injured during the play off final, after we’d renewed it the day before.

Confirmed, he’s off

Why? If it hadn’t of been for that helmet we’d have been well clear of the play offs.

We’re going in July, staying in Budva. The snap dragon doesn’t like going anywhere twice as she wants to see different places. We loved Albania, so thought we’d give it a go.

The triple lock has only brought the old age pension back into line with where it would have been had Mrs Thatcher not abolished the link to earnings (which subsequent governments didn’t reintroduce). The left opposed that 1980 decision, so you’d think they’d want to rebalance it, but no, they now use it as an excuse to hide behind their complete and utter failure to control the welfare budget, and try to portray pensioners as rich . The only ridiculous thing about the triple lock is the random 2.5% and this was inserted purely for political reasons. After Brown had to give them a rise of pennies the coalition didn’t want that bad publicity in future low growth/low inflation years, so devised the 2.5% The basic fundamental point which used to have universal support, is pensioners can’t work extra hours, can’t get second jobs or work side hustles. Their income should be pegged to earnings/ inflation so they have the same spending power during their retirement. In no way should increased spending on pensions be used to hide the fact our welfare system is fucked and people who should be working, aren’t. They’re being paid to do sweet FA.

It wasn’t “fun” at all. Even the easy victories were pretty tedious, even when we banged a few in,the 28 passes between the back 4 & keeper that preceded it were draining. I’ve seen 3 promotions from the 2nd tier & that was far and away the most boring. Even this great unbeaten run of Lego’s was boring on the whole. Contrast that with last seasons end of season run, different gravy that was.