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Logically, we’ll struggle but think we’ll somehow pick up a point or 3 this weekend. Either way, it’ll be an early start and on the sauce early doors and I’m looking forward to it!

What does ‘fitness’ mean specifically here… does it mean he’s unfit because he’s lazy and not kept in shape, or does it mean his body is struggling to adapt to a change in regime following an injury. From MR’s comments, unless what he’s said is completely fabricated, it’s the player needs to be...

Simms is still our best striker and like last season, there’s a lack of good chances for him. Basette is 19 and is energetic and raw but he is a longer term project and probably does not have the skill or consistency to start regularly in a Championship campaign.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t been paying close attention to your mood on the new government. There is no cast iron economic laws because if there was there’d be no need for politics. Keynesians believe that increasing aggregate demand won’t cause inflation, monetarists believe the exact opposite...

It sounds like you’ve got some buyers remorse Ian?

It’s ok to disagree but to deride anything you don’t like as ‘myths’ and ‘right wing’ is just not discussing a topic in good faith. I’ve not said that increases in public spending will definitely always cause inflation. These things are contextual and 2010 to 2024 was characterised by a...

Spending as a % of GDP is not the same thing as debt:GDP ratio.

So it doesn’t have infinite funds then. Inflation, economic confidence, debt burden are all limitations and you know this. One of the many reasons our inflation is stickier than our counterparts is our public spending and debt.

Noted, but you more or less make the same argument for many issues and the costs tally up. You either accept there’s a limit to public spending or not. £110bn in servicing debt and that will only increase with an increased deficit fueled by borrowing. The NHS budget, just to contrast, was...

In isolation, no of course not. That wasn’t the point and you know full well it wasn’t. It is clear that you don’t really see a limit to government spending so every issue be it the NHS, public sector pay rises, pensions, winter fuel allowance, education, free school meals can be done away with...

This is day to day government spending. Around 7 countries (8 including UK) have a GDP to debt ratio above 100%. This impacts the cost of borrowing money so all of these spending commitments come with a hidden cost of servicing debt. For context, in 2023 the Government spent £110bn on servicing...

Government debt is just as large as GDP which is a trend that just can’t continue to keep growing.

Only Millwall (14) have missed more ‘big chances’ than us (13) and we’ve only converted 2. As soon as this picks up we’re going to be ok.

Kitching did start the season suspended and his form dropped off toward the end of last season and Binks did deserve a run in the team.

An excuse for Rachel Reeves? Nah, it’s worse than that. In terms of the economy, she is about as establishment as you can get (literally an ex-banker) and won’t really challenge the orthodoxy at the treasury (I.e. higher public spending and increasingly higher or new taxes) or have any original...

The women’s game is past proving they can fill stadiums. It’s proved popularity and a niche in the market. However, it needs to prove it can also be profitable. Bearing in mind a ticket for the men’s game in the ETSC zone costs £25 (Wembley on a weekday is inconvenient), the pricing seems a...

We’re 6 games in, not every bad result needs to precipitate massive changes. I personally wouldn’t have started the same team v Swansea. However, the logic was sound because the performance against Spurs was admirable. If anything, an unchanged team from Watford away would’ve made more sense -...

Additionally, the optics is terrible. They stated just how bad public finances were, chose a universal benefit that cost £1bn (or so) but in the same breath ‘pay off’ their trade union masters with inflation busting pay rises worth 4 or 5 times that. Then, targeting pensioners is the least...

Yep, buyers remorse has definitely started to kick in. That’s quite a statement given just how unpopular the Tory government was and in hindsight, how stupid it was for an early election. It’s not out of the realms of possibility for Reform to have a breakthrough in the Red Wall at...

I think our is at least original. The problem being the original concept for the away kit is better in theory than in practice. The home and alternate kits are lot better than the away one.