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Financial results from last year
at 20:43 25 Mar 2024

Excellent analysis. We are operating within a financial plan agreed between owners & club management.

This year's accounts will be fascinating. Presumably non-playing staff costs will increase but not by much. Player wages will be higher as planned (much, much higher if we go up again, as there must be huge promotion bonuses payable - was that also an element if our relative high wages last season?). But commercial revenues will be way up, tv/ media maybe 10m up...
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How much does a football stand cost?
at 13:59 25 Mar 2024

Pretty sure Fulham's cost was high because of a few factors we don't have:
1 Building right back to the river - space and engineering issues
2 Central London costs incl / esp wages

Ashton has said repeatedly ours will be a single-tier, to maximise space beneath. That promises decent concourses, but also big dining space. There are a number of clubs who have nice squarish rooms that seat 300 - 500 for dinner (examples, Plymouth, Crewe, Bristol City). If we did this, we'd pick up a lot of local big-dinner trade non-matchdays. There would still be room for private dining facilities, either with or without pitch view (I can't think of any modern single tier stands with exec boxes, but can imagine it could be done with outside seating). I'd love there to be a decent restaurant open 7 days a week, like maybe the MPW at Stadium MK.

It'll be interesting to see what ITFC might do with the joins to N and S stands. I imagine there may be an attempt to align then at roof level, but there is potentially a massive gap between E and S stands (perfect space for a brewery, like at Spurs...).

It would be ideal to shift the pitch maybe 2m east, as currently most seats in West Upper can't see the touchline. Also, widen the pitch a wee bit.

I am not convinced we would move boardroom / directors box across. Logistically it makes little sense. There are very few west-facing directors boxes (thinks, Shrewsbury & Fleetwood), as you get blinded by the sun or soaked by the rain.
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McKenna to manage England
at 00:45 24 Mar 2024

I'm not sure the kind of people offended by the continuation of the tradition of recolourising / redesigning the St George's flag would take all that well to a German taking charge. Worth it for the bantz, surely?
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What's this Budgie been up to then?
at 09:39 23 Mar 2024

The state of him! He looks age 45 & about 18 stone...
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Random question about the club accounts
at 09:38 23 Mar 2024

Correct. They expire fairly soon.
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Given Bright Path focus on investing Native American money
at 18:18 22 Mar 2024

I had a slight concern about the link to gambling, but it reads like it is a step removed?
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Given Bright Path focus on investing Native American money
at 18:07 22 Mar 2024

I am fearing precisely what kind of culturally-inappropriate celebrations might yet be forthcoming from some of our fans...
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New investors
at 18:06 22 Mar 2024

The existing owners have not sold 40% of the club. A new investor has put new funds in alongside the existing owners. The existing owner retains control of the club.
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Quote of the day to unpick
at 18:02 22 Mar 2024

I had to turn the radio off. I now wish they'd gone the whole way and made it rainbow colours.
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What's going on with the Large Hadron Collider these days?
at 20:41 21 Mar 2024

Blimey, that is some tunnel, 91km circumference - almost 20 miles wide!!!
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Tory snowflakes update
at 18:25 20 Mar 2024

Shame it isn't a rainbow cross then!!!!!
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Parking for the women's game
at 13:00 19 Mar 2024

You should find a space in the Portman Road car park, as it isn't a huge crowd, but if not then you'll be a bit tight on getting in as turnstiles close after 45 mins.
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Town v Wednesday on sky at moment
at 22:51 18 Mar 2024

And they still didn't show the 18-pass move for our opener!
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Coventry game re-arranged - Good or bad?
at 15:19 17 Mar 2024

And we've never lost a midweek game since McKenna joined...
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Sterling.. Leicesters best player today
at 15:18 17 Mar 2024

Does us no good at all, Sterling being so poor. I am fearful that Omari will be a shoo-in to their first team next season...
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Yeah it was racist and misogynistic….but they want his money, so let’s move
at 16:38 13 Mar 2024

I am wondering how on earth this govt is going to come up with their promised definition of "extremism" without including many of their supporters, several MPs and at least one ex-PM (the one who illegally prologued parliament)...
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Newsnight.
at 09:58 7 Mar 2024

Increase in child benefit, reduction in taxes for workers, increase in taxes for wealthy pensioners, non-dom status to be axed - it was a Labour budget...
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This weeks Budget give away/bribe
at 10:56 4 Mar 2024

Pensioners do pay tax on their pensions. From this year, the vast majority of pensioners will be paying income tax, even those largely dependent on the pitifully low state pension.
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If we get to the premiership
at 10:13 4 Mar 2024

Last time we went up, I confidently and loudly predicted that Venus would move on and down in the summer, due to his utter lack of pace. Come July, he appeared in an athlete's body, sharp as a knife, and played like Beckenbauer for a season.
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This weeks Budget give away/bribe
at 10:08 4 Mar 2024

Merging NI & income tax would need careful planning. You could take the simple route, and just combine the existing regimes, calling it income tax, but that would increase the tax rate on most pensioners from 20% to 29(?)%, which would be pretty severe. There are additional complexities from NI being charged differently according to employment status, etc.

I agree, reform is needed (though the mess that is Council Tax is even more important). In a sense it is already happening, as the reduction in NI (benefitting workers) is more than offset by a freezing in income tax bands (costing workers + most pensioners) .
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