As much as I loved the og intro music, I love run lads shoot lads even more.
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As much as I loved the og intro music, I love run lads shoot lads even more.
Pretty despondent.
Trying to find positives. We lost only narrowly vs MK and Swindon. Many clubs above us have praised our performances eg Bromley, Swindon, MK.
We’re still theoretically in the race but we aren’t any nearer to grinding out results. Our lack of shots suggests we aren’t even close.
Shrewsbury away was also a complete failure to gain any traction against a bad team
Bet Huw thought we’d be in the playoffs and he’d take on investment at a profit…
Imo they just don’t like investors terms. Huw valued us at £1m iirc?
Pratt / Huh are surely demanding less (£300-500k?) and who wouldn’t
Trust should have sought to cancel the 80s shares months ago but still should. Will take months
The Trust also doesn’t have the money for a new investment round
His maths adds up, and we are doing better than Bristol squandering £m’s more.
Didn’t take enough blame for squad, but those saying there are easy signings out there are foolish
Got to get investment in. I fear the Trust are fussing over dilution of 80s shares - may be better just accepting it.
Few owners will stand up and face the music for almost three hours. He’s a flawed man but he’s not a bad person. I worry abt Huw saying he’d sell up to break even.
Wish he’d said ‘I’m in it because I want to be here’. We need him to want to be here because there is no other show in town right now
Fascinating graph from a Swedish study that says a lot about the current approach to special needs children
www.ft.com/content/8252...
True. Mathematically, sadly, we can’t survive if we lose every game 1-0 and Bristol Rovers keep losing 3 or 4-0…
but I suppose all I’m saying is there is a foundation that Fuchs can build on, given the right help. which might be better than our rivals have
Trying to not be too apocalyptic. Our 5 minute, two goal collapse aside, we have had three L2 games playing okay, & better than the teams around us
But we’re in an unshakeable rut of dropping points. IMO we need experienced (25-30yo) competition at CM & RW - a few players ‘phoning it in’ as you say
The recommendations
Feels like there are genuine wins available to the Cardiff Bay gov’t if it focussed on asking Westminster for the most impactful reforms. I worry the next government will not have had the past experience to appreciate the impact of small and incremental reforms like this though.
Lots of positive recommendations in this. Power to smooth budget settlements between years, opportunities in tax devolution, the favourable funding treatment of devolved policy areas, low exposure to PFI leading to better prospects for capital borrowing rates. www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/asset...
Amid the already dire proposals trailed in the media by the government for the Autumn budget… we’re talking about compensation for Waspi women??
There’s a lot wrong with the handling of it… but £10.5 bn spent on this and not on dozens of more important issues is mad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kudos to @welshpolitics.bsky.social for probably the most insightful podcast into the workings of devolved governments, perhaps ever
This stuff ought to shape a huge part of the upcoming Senedd elections but politicians inevitably will shy away from these issues
Pretty worrying re: inter gov’t relations & devolution
e.g. Labour runs edu in E&W. Yet the 🏴 edu dep’t are given no info abt the 🏴 edu dep’t re-designing technical qualifications
*should* be a big national story - it’s ignored because it doesn’t matter to 🏴
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Great episode. Love to hear the suggestions from Blakey in the midst of all the doom and gloom from County fans right now
Came across GB News ‘reporting’ on Charlie Kirk.
The host immediately turns it into left versus right, ‘woke’ gets the blame, complaining "the left are perpetrating violent crime”
Channels like theirs are fuelling the same toxic political atmosphere that is causing this violence in the US. Madness
Not really the key point of this article but allegedly Ellen DeGeneres is selling her £22.5m home after only living there for 9 months. That’s £2.6m in stamp duty, nearly £300k a month 🤔 on.ft.com/3UtdeqV
Local govt ends up being an area that comes out better than some during the SR:
Average annual increase in spending power of 2.6% per year in real terms between 25/25 and 28/29
Will leave spending power 2.7% lower in real terms than in 2010/11 and 15.9% lower when accounting for population growth
Well bravo regardless. I have been to three and the planning was insane, especially when a rail replacement gets thrown in…
I appreciated the Tranmere recommendation, I’ve been looking for somewhere to tick off next season so that might well be it!
Great pod as always, @1912exiles.com! Ollie, do you reckon you are going to all 51 next season?
Vance doesn’t seem to understand the implications of his government’s own tariffs… unherd.com/2025/04/jd-v...
More should be done by employers and government but how much is down to the poor quality labour market in Wales and other areas in the left-behind UK. When the local jobs are low pay manual/warehouse tasks, it’s inherently less accommodating of disabled people. www.itv.com/news/wales/2...
some interesting reading on zonal pricing for energy within the UK
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Image from Octopus. Seems positive but it will open a can of worms about the boundaries. Boston and Haverfordwest being grouped with London seems controversial.
Fascinating breakdown of the risks of driving, cycling, flying… the most eye catching: “The health benefits of cycling are so profound that over an 18 year period, someone who cycles to work and back has a near 50% lower risk of dying of anything than someone who drives.” youtu.be/vDhGHPHCgqI?...
The Spectator has its own DOGE, promising 'to stop the government splurging our cash'.
I'm sure there is excessive spending in the public sector, but most of the Spectator's claims are debunked with a 2 second Google search.
Huge win. But god I start to see Jardim’s dilemma picking an XI. Antwi has been poor all season but then today he turns in a decent shift. K Evans has been good all season but today he comes on and does little. I wouldn’t want to be picking the team.
The lineup is… bizarre. Evans deserves to play. Hudlin doesn’t. Greaves should have started. Either on for a tactical masterclass or disaster.
Shows a flaw in the Ombudsman system where, whether or not Cardiff Council acted properly or not, they act solely for the complainant and don’t seem to be expected to assess what impact their decision will have on non complainants. Crazy.