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I'm definitely in the 21st will do camp. Iles and a couple of people on the Team Talk podcast not long after promotion were suggesting we should be aiming higher, top half even, but I'd be more than happy to build slowly.

Top 8 for me.. up via playoffs. COYWM!

Would have preferred to avoid a derby on day one but actually PNE is quite a good one. Dunno about others but I never feel a huge rivalry with them but it is certainly always a very feisty matchday I think we should give them no more than 3000 tickets and hopefully fill the rest of the stadium ourselves, or as near as dammit. If the weather is good, encourage the return of the white wall PNE no mugs at the level but not the most fearsome either. Create a cauldron of an atmosphere and see if we can get ourselves off the mark

Again - not like you to have a knee jerk reaction to something! 🤣

I really think we need to be focusing a bit more on experience than potential this season

If only you weren’t (childishly) ignoring me, you could enlighten us with “what with”? Just so you know where I’m coming from my 87 year old dad had unbelievable care and support over the 4.5 years he was battling melanoma before he passed away in December. My 86 year old mum is being incredible well looked after by district nurses, doctors and clinics for her illnesses. There will always be exceptions, this week it’s the NUH Trust, but by and large I think the NHS and all who work in it are brilliant. I’m happy and proud to pay my taxes to fund it.

What a great thread this is, it’s amazing what some folk are going through and you’d of never thought it posting on here all these years. Good luck everyone, I wish you all the best

Right lads , 90 minutes to make history . So first 10 minutes keep it simple , safety first , and DONT do anything stup............ Oh.

Reading this has finally convinced me to listen to her indoors and finally retire at 70, that and visiting yet another pal with terminal cancer lying in bed in a grey room in a hospital. Someone offered to buy Dimron Towers last week and we've had an offer accepted for a modest house near Whitby, so I intend to get a new(ish) dog and enjoy my remaining mobility before Mother Nature takes it off me. Still a bit scary though

Hope @Zog1 has got his analysis and data all fired over to the coaching team.

I think if you look at the squad as it stands today, keeping us in the division would be an achievement for SS's coaching and Fergal's recruitment. We've sent back most of our best players and the next worst team in the division finished 20+ points ahead of us last year. I'm not saying we can't hope for more, but it's a big job with not much margin for error.

I'm of course not saying that; they'll have a budget within which to work with and that's about the long and short of it. Asking them questions about PSR regulations and such would just be pointless as, outside of how much their department has to spend, they would have no clue. It's not one of their many strong points. The accountants and the CEO (also an accountant!) will be the ones worrying about the regulations. Schuey definitely wouldn't care as he doesn't report to the board. The notion of Schuey being asked about obscure financial framework just makes me laugh.

Have you got any idea how much of a waste of time and money a transition to another system would be when we already have one of the better health systems in the world? It would take decades to properly roll out. You'd also be looking at about an additional £100bn annually to match France or Australia's spend as a proportion of GDP. And for that you'd potentially get some modest improvements AFTER decades of instability. And there would be huge implications and gaps in patient care while the transition happens too. Have a read about the problems Australia had mplementing Medicare, or the Bismarck reforms in Germany. It's just not worth it. What is worth it is properly finding the NHS so that it provides the service we all want, instead of bitching and whining about it all the time and pretending there's an easy solution to the (actually comparitively small) problems the NHS faces compared to most other countries.

Think most of us on here are realistic. We do need a lot of new players better than we have. Recruitment needs to be spot on (almost impossible), but we have to trust the team in charge of this have clear plans. If we can get a decent core of players, we'll be competitive. 21st will do, bloody tough league this.

Like all large institutions - there are elements of the NHS that are unwieldy and inefficient. A lot of that is down to the confines in which it's asked to operate by central government (and is demanded by the public). And also because we don't have the capital to spend on large scale infrastructure projects which would help solve the longstanding problems. Any spare money tends to go into workforce and care. The NHS problem is a bit like the military one. It needs significant investment in both the infrastructure and in paying people a competitive wage to stop them moving abroad or working in the private sector (where are the easy to manage lucrative contracts end up). Don't delude yourself into thinking this model would continue to work if EVERYTHING came under the auspices of private healthcare providers. People calling for full privatisation are doing so for ideological reasons - and tend not to have the slightest idea what the fuck they're talking about. The NHS and the way it's funded needs to change. Sadly for the tax payer - that might mean putting more in to get more out. Or dramatically altering our collective expectations about what we want it to deliver in future.

My missus has seen the light and our dog is loving it !!

Can't have that Bolty. Have had an up close and personal look at the NHS this past 12 months and they've looked after my wife superbly. And recently myself too. Both at Bolton Royal and I can only say the people we've experienced there are an absolute credit. I'll also throw in the Italian version of our health service who saved her life last June. I'm certainly not going to diminish the kind of incidents @Dimron refers to, clearly unacceptable and heads should roll. Not trying to get into a fight with you over this but I just want to highlight some of the good stuff the NHS does. And I think there is more good than bad. Is it perfect ? Course not but in my experience, the people working in it are doing wonders, I can't speak of the people at Bolton highly enough.

Why would Schumacher know? His job is to purely to manage the first team. He certainly wouldn't be reading reports on Championship financial compliance on a rainy Tuesday at Lostock. Why would Fergal mention it? He's a football man, not a finance man. The CEO would be the person to ask, as BW is far more than just the men's first team.

Absolutely not mate, was superb treatment. Wife was covered by the GHIC card. Yeah, you could say it was an emergency. Insurance would've covered everything if it had been a private hospital. I wanted to point out that for all the bad press it gets, our NHS is bloody amazing.

No let's not be needing another Wilbraham day please! We knew the challenge anyway, but seeing the fixture list really does bring home the fact that almost every week it'll be a battle. We're a club that has got used to winning games more often than not, so it'll be a culture shock for some

The international weekends are never less than shit, other than for potentially booking holidays and other stuff, but its great that we officially have no fixtures in those weeks. No need for all the usual discussion on how many players need to be called up for either team before we know whether we can plan for playing Stevenage. And 9th of Jan is FA Cup 3rd round day. That's round 3 (three) - with us in it. Not Peterboro away but it might be off if either of us win 2 cup games.

No fight mate, don't worry about that. Of course any entity so vast and money devouring will have successes and failures. They delivered my two children safely and securely for example. It will rankle plenty no doubt but I just believe that there are more cost effective and superior models.

I’d save the fees for players who are proven at Championship level or have stood out at lower levels. Wouldn’t pay a penny for him, but if we’re looking for a 4th/5th striker to add squad depth, and he’s available on a free, then I’d consider an offer.

Imagine your football team has a jar of pocket money. 🫙 The grown-ups in charge say: you can only use some of your pocket money on your players — not all of it. And "players" doesn't just mean paying them. It means everything that costs money to have them: paying their wages, the money to buy them from other teams, and the money for the helpers who sort out the deals. You add it ALL up together. That whole big pile has to be smaller than your jar of pocket money. You always have to keep some pocket money left in the jar. If a team uses too much and breaks the rule, they get told off — and sometimes they have points taken away, like losing stars off the sticker chart. ⭐

The treatment I have received over the past 7 years has been second to none, for me, Salford Royal is an amazing hospital and staff are brilliant

I think the point is that if we signed a winger tomorrow who'd managed 1 goal and 0 assists in 22 appearances on loan somewhere last season, that would also be judged as a poor signing and no replacement for ACD. To bring it back to N'Mai (who I don't think we'll sign), what Fergal and co think of his potential at 22 will be more important than his stats from last year.

I've not paid much attention to these new Squad Cost Rules but taking a brief look, basing any sort of relative cap on revenue generated seems to be similar to me to the issues I've always had with the existing PSR rules in that it just protects the status quo for the big boys that either already have huge revenue streams or their owners can artificially generate them through sponsorships and money moving amongst their different entities. Any cap like that, whilst I understand the desire to protect clubs from rogue ownership, only ever seems to limit competition in my eyes.

He was in a division too high a year too early in his development. It happens, just one of those things.

I know its hot and loads of folk are idiots but fuck me im sick of well meaning types coming on the tele or the wireless telling us how to survive in the heat.

I think it's fair to describe him as a flop given he was sent to the league below the following season

Bought myself some loop earplugs, absolute game changer as it just keeps the din out and clears my head a little. Had 4 weeks of agony. So few days after Wembley had a summer cold, and then lost my hearing, everything started to sound like a drum next to my head, had some medication, and it felt like someone had stabbed me inside my ears, both eardrums perforated! 5 days of antibiotics, followed by 10 days of trying to clear my Eustachian tubes, and my ears started to hurt again. Huge nose bleed (my first ever outside of the times I've broken my nose) and hearing has come back all muffled. So a side effect is I considered these ear plugs to give my ears a rest from all the noise.. They're bloody great! Felt so much calmer with them in, and I can't even explain it. It only takes about 15dbs off the noise.

Our Maggie has given up, got progressively worse the last couple of days, the heat hasn't helped either, so after 12 years of companionship we have had to let her go RIP Maggie the Wanderer

Brazil's 1st two goals against Scotland last night.

Sorry for your loss pal they just arnt around long enough are they. My daft fucker was in the north sea with me yesterday. He was like a pup. I knew he was doing to much but there iwas no stopping him.,he has struggled today and slept most of it And limped through the rest. Well until the barbie went on and then it was like he was on whizz. . Take care

Are you saying that the UK caused the current conflict out there? Moreover, if we do get engaged in a conflict, then the last thing we should be doing is giving succour to those involved who might actually be an enemy. During the second World War, we sent German citizens who lived here to camps, as a means of mutual protection. We certainly didn't allow a load of German citizens in from there!

So you’ve agreed they’re likely to be terrorists, hate Brits and Israelis and that’s you’re happy to welcome them here. Jesus wept.

The NHS wouldn't release some requested data to the Cass review neither. Definitely need some investigations.

So do you not think kids seeing parents being blown to bits in Iraq, Afghan etc will have the same anger? Are they likely to be terrorists or is there a threshold of buildings that need to be destroyed before they flip and become a terrorist?

Pretty much every conflict in living memory is a case of one side against another, the 10 year old boy who has seen his family member killed by an Israeli will hold the same anger a young proddy would do in Northern Ireland towards Catholics, or a young kid in Afghan or Iraq towards Brits and yanks the list and comparisons are endless.

What's going on in the Nottingham NHS? Paranoid Schizo aĺlowed to walk the streets and murder innocents and now 500 babies and mothers have joined the casualty list And half the senior "managers" refused to be involved in investigations. All similar to the Post Office scandal, it's about time we brought these professional managers to account

Cleverly is one of the biggest cunts going. Air of arrogance is more of a god complex.

She made herself look a cunt is what she did.

Weirdo

Schools not opening or closing early because it’s to hot. We really are breeding a nation of wet wipes aren’t we.

Same with Farage.

Let us not forget she was gagging to jump into the Iran war with president Nonce and genocide boy just a few months ago

We'll top the group. Job done. Ghana gave us a wake up call which will help us in the next round. Spain couldn't beat Cape Verde ffs! ICH!

Latest poll from over the weekend. The Tories won the seat in Aberdeen last Thursday and a couple of by-elections from Reform. Kemi now has the most favourable ratings among all the leaders. Let’s see if the ‘Burnham effect’ changes things.