Burnden Pies
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7 minutes ago, Francis Fogarty said:
I've been going long enough to know the difference. I've seen some shit performances and some shit refereeing. I've booed shit officials.
Well where I was sat in NSL the people around me seemed to be only booing the ref at HT - interspersed with the likes "FO ref you clueless xxxx" etc etc so I think DazBob's point stands
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4 minutes ago, JimmyRiddle said:
Definitely his most aggressive! We were far the better team and for once got what we deserved
What did the No.8 do??
Played dead first two corners we had and generally whinged like a little girl
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That number 8 of theirs should be ashamed of himself. Horrible ale house team. And as for that weak as piss ref, Jesus...
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RIP Queen Elizabeth II. Thank you so very much
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38 minutes ago, Cheese said:
MILF
😂
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Just now, Leyther_Matt said:
Proof if ever it was needed that Kachunga is a bigger draw than Okocha 👀
Lies, damn lies and statistics...
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1 minute ago, Leyther_Matt said:
Significantly higher than the semi final against them!
Haha yes it was! There's something really good happening at BWFC, you can just feel it
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Just now, Marc505 said:
Anyone seen what attendance was in the end? Hope we convinced a few to come back and give us a go again.
20,064 according to Sky. Very good that
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Haha what a bunch of touchy mongoloids
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Any club with a giant prawn on their badge shouldn't be taken at all seriously
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5 minutes ago, Zico said:
Imbread
Warburtons?
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When British Gas was a private monopoly it was obliged to store gas (lots of it in the disused salt mines in Cheshire). This was good because when gas was cheaper (eg summer when there is less demand) it could be bought and stored for the good of the consumer. When the market was open up British Gas (understandably) argued it was unfair that it was incurring the expense and inconvenience of storing gas when the new players in the market did not. The Gov't agreed and storage largely went outof the window, and all energy suppliers became subject to the vagueries of the international energy spot market. Some other countries didn't do this, and hence aren't seeing quite the exponential price hike we are. Selling off the land also gave Centrica a nice kickback, which was duly passed on as a one off dividend to shareholders.
In anyone's definition privatisation of the UK energy market has not worked. Just look how Norway has treated its North Sea gas and oil resources, and compare that to the UK.
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4 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:
To be fair Pies, the Centrica CEO didn’t take a bonus last year and is looking like he won’t again this year but on the rest I completely agree.
The guy should have been sacked never mind anything else. But that's how it is in senior business and politics I suppose!
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16 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:
Worse than that Pies and I wholly agree with you on the management. I’ve held shares in Centrica for many years and considered anything under £3 a bargain so I’m still well under water at todays price. Incidentally, the current profit margin equates to £13 per customer so please explain to me where the profiteering is?
Think you've answered you're own question. Company does badly for years. Suddenly same company does extremely well. Without any discernable change in policy or management
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1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:
They aren't the only ones who have had low profits though. Seems to be a market that fluctuates quite a bit.
I worked for Centrica for twelve years and have also been a shareholder. Yes profits did fluctuate like that of all companies, but were within a relatively healthy range. New senior mgt group came in and made some catastrophic decisions - outsourcing customer services abroad that then had to largely reversed; acquisitions in the US and elsewhere that lost millions, several UK company reorganisations that were ill thought out and badly executed. Consequently a share price that was always within a healthy range plummeted, meaning for the first time ever there were no dividends paid. Meanwhile the CEO and Chief Exec continued to get bonuses and salary increases.
Nothing to do with Covid and hardly anything to do with market volatility.
And this same Senior Mgt group will now be making out that these record spikes in profits is somehow nothing to do with profiteering from the current energy situation but instead is down to their wise decision making and excellent stewardship.
More bonuses all round I reckon!
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1 hour ago, Whitesince63 said:
These companies, especially Centrica have made significant losses over recent years so why when the market turns shouldn’t they make a decent profit? Their plans are to reinvest that profit into new technologies like wind, solar and nuclear as well as restoring our Rough gas storage facility in the North Sea. They have also restored a small dividend which will help investors and the pension fund you’re probably in so why has everything got to be a negative because companies make a profit? Tell me you don’t use Social Media or the likes of Amazon who make far more profit than the likes of Centrica and Lloyds but I don’t hear you moaning about that.
Centrica has been horrendously run for years, that's why the profits and therefore dividends paid were poor to non existent. The same senior management group who managed to get the share price down from well north of £2 to less than 30p over a couple of years are now boasting of record profits. Go figure
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Loved his Wombles voice overs, Jackanory storytelling and I can still remember laughing out loud at his character in a film called Mouse on the Moon.
RIP Bernard and thank you x
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As a birthday treat I stayed in the Whites Hotel after we beat Middlesbrough to stay up. it was Gudni's last game for us and he spent the evening having a meal in the hotel with his wife, which really touched me. Anyway when he was making his way out I plucked up the courage to go over and I thanked him for all that he'd done for BWFC and to wish him every success back in Iceland; he shook my hand, looked me in the eye, thanked me and said he'd loved every minute playing for us. Utter class that fella.
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No one is saying everything is Liverpool fans' fault - and this clearly seems to be the case here. However, what really annoys people is that time and time again LIverpool fans very rarely take ANY responsibility for anything. If once in a while the people representing them were to say 'we have more than our fair share of dickheads' or even 'we have SOME dickheads' than I think more people would be sympathetic. Instead we have this narrative shoved on us that 'Liverpool fans all good, everyone and everything else bad', and it's aided and abetted by a shit scared media. It's bollocks and we know it.
I also find it a bit odd that all this bad luck just seems to disproportionately follow Liverpool fc around.
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I remember the day after the publishing of the Hillsborough Report (the last one) there was a 'phone in on R5Live. Amongst the expected flurry of calls was a chap who was now retired but had previously been the head of security at the port of Dover for many years; anyway he said generally the worst English fans for trying to travel to the continent without tickets and general scamming (we would say jibbing) were Liverpool fans. He was then unceremoniously cut off by the radio host as what he was saying was obviously going against the grain of the conversation and was adding an uncomfortable element to it. At the time I thought it was really unfair and that I bet whoever initially took the call at R5 Live and put it through to the host probably got a right bollocking later.
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12 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:
The fact that Liverpool had a parade on the anniversary of Heysel says everything to me..... No class, no remorse & absolutely zero self awareness.
100%. They are self regarding hypocrites of the highest order and that's why they are so disliked
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17 minutes ago, L/H White said:
lets have it right, 90% of football fans are fucking dicks
I must have missed that in the Hillsborough enquiry
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16 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:
This morning a fan who runs a Liverpool podcast thing was on the news and he acknowledged that some Liverpool fans were getting under gates etc.
A breath of fresh air to hear one of them do so.
He'll be excommunicated and banished from "the 'Pool" forever. How dare he speak facts. He will also probably be expunged from all subsequent news and media outlets; doesn't fit the narrative see
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2 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:
Does a good job on homes under the hammer
Agreed. So he should just stick to that perhaps
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