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Reply | Angela Van Den Bogerd
at 10:59 28 Apr 2024
Technically the DWP isn't a rebranded Benefits Agency, but an organisation formed by the merging of the BA and the Employment Service, who I was working for when it happened (still got my old name badge somewhere).
The primary IT system used by the BA at the time is still in use now, although less and less as more things switch over to the UC systems, which is much more user friendly and less prone to bugs compared to the old one, which isn't even navigable with a GUI.
I can vaguely remember back in the dim and distant past some talk about payment cards but that came to nothing at the time. Ironically a similar system does actually exist today for people who cannot or do not have a bank account. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 20:08 27 Apr 2024
Trolling is a problem everywhere unfortunately. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 20:01 27 Apr 2024
Oh for sure.
When I was a moderator the biggest crime you could commit was being tedious. Spats and arguments are par for the course. You could even post something that I vehemently disagreed with and I wouldn't mind. Hell, I've crossed swords with Perchy more often than most, but he's far too much fun to ban.
Be dull and repetitive? You were gone. Trampie was a prime example of the type I would target. [Post edited 27 Apr 20:02]
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Reply | Putin and his propagandists are deluded
at 19:22 27 Apr 2024
We're probably at the point where if Putin tried his chances against Poland on its own he would get his arse handed to him. The Poles have had enough of being Europe's wartime crossroads. They've got a well trained, well funded armed forces and are in no mood to muck around.
The idea that Russia could take them on, alongside France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, The UK, Belgium, The US and others? Laughable. Even at the height of the Cold War the Soviets never considered it worth the risk, preferring to rattle the sabre occasionally in return for concessions that the West considered cheaper than going to war. Now? Not a chance. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 18:59 27 Apr 2024
The rest of Wales outside the central Cardiff postcode area has certainly suffered as a result of devolution. The desperation of the Senedd to see the cancerous capital bloom at the expense of everywhere else is plain to see.
It is one of the great ironies that Cardiff voted no in the first place. Maybe if the citizens of Swansea had had the same common sense we'd have been spared the whole catastrophe. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 18:57 27 Apr 2024
Maybe he was banned for being boring.
Seriously, that should go on the list of reasons for getting one. |
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Reply | Norwich City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 18:39 27 Apr 2024
I'm "consumed with hate" says the guy spewing seven lines of vitriol at a player who came on for 22 minutes.
If me calling you on your nonsense bothers you, I don't care. |
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Reply | Putin and his propagandists are deluded
at 15:37 27 Apr 2024
It's taken Russia more than two years to look vaguely capable against a Rag Tag Ukraininan force using NATO cast off weaponry. The idea that a conventional non-nuclear war against the full force of NATO would last more than a couple of months at most is hilarious. Not even Putin is dumb enough to believe otherwise, but his tankies do.
All Russia has is a weight of numbers. Their kit is laughable in comparison. |
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Reply | Leeds
at 10:55 27 Apr 2024
This.
Always better for us either as a #10 or with someone like Pato in close support. Looked as lost as Flight MH370 otherwise. |
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Reply | Contract option taken for Liam Cullen
at 11:01 26 Apr 2024
Clubs certainly don't help themselves.
For example, no doubt Matt Grimes is on not far off £1m a year, maybe more despite there being no serious competitors for his signature the last time his contract was close to expiry. We're probably paying him twice as much as we needed to to keep him around. There will probably be several others on or around the £10k per week mark.
It's not the transfer fees that we're paying out that are the problem. It's the ongoing expense of wages. Wages are the club killer. |
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Reply | Swansea reject Cullen contract and trigger one year option
at 21:42 25 Apr 2024
I think Sheehan did ok steadying the ship, but I'm not sure that he's what we needed going forward. Williams is an ambitious appointment and I hope he does well after a somewhat ropey start.
There seems to be four or five players in the u21's who could conceivably step up and do a job for the first team next season. I wouldn't be surprised to see players like Allen, Naughton and maybe even Cullen moved on and replaced by internal candidates. |
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Reply | Swansea reject Cullen contract and trigger one year option
at 21:20 25 Apr 2024
The problem is that the expensive options are no more of a guarantee of success than the cheaper ones. Indeed, they represent an even greater risk.
We have to shop smarter, allied to an internal structure that can survive a change of manager. The single biggest problem we've had this season is making wholesale changes as a result of one failed manager, to suit his successor who failed, and then trying to course correct back in the previous direction to suit his replacement.
Yates is a perfect example of this. He did OK under Duff. Williams has no use for him. The best other example of this I can think of is Pawel Abbott. Scored plenty of goals before he came here, and plenty after. But we signed him for KJ, KJ left and then Martinez just didn't want to know. Abbott got the blame.
The club needs to decide what it wants to do and then stick to it. [Post edited 25 Apr 21:22]
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Reply | Swansea reject Cullen contract and trigger one year option
at 20:52 25 Apr 2024
You're not wrong in thinking that the club is a financial basket case, but this is The Championship and so is almost everyone else.
When we first dropped into the division we were in a hell of a mess. "Haemorrhaging Money" according to someone I know who had a better knowledge of and access to information on the clubs financial situation than basically anyone else. That danger was averted by the sales of McBurnie, Rodon, James et al.
We're still a loss making concern now, but almost by design. We're spending more than we generate, but largely on the understanding that gaps will be plugged by shareholders if player sales don't do it.
The alternative is to cut spending to the point where outgoings don't outstrip incomings, but that would generate the kind of supporter hostility we haven't seen since Petty. |
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Reply | Contract option taken for Liam Cullen
at 14:57 25 Apr 2024
I think it's said more about the way our season has gone. The end game of having most pace and creativity systematically stripped out over three or four years. We didn't have any kind of service from the flanks until January, and even that has been hot and cold.
I've said before that Yates' biggest problem is that the manager who signed him and got some decent early displays out of him didn't last long and his replacement is clearly not all that fussed. If Williams stays, which seems certain, then Yates has no future here.
Cullen is clearly in Williams's good books but it's not making all that much difference with him. Lots of effort, not much quality. Much like Oli Cooper, he's basically getting by on being "one of our own" at present. |
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Reply | Contract option taken for Liam Cullen
at 13:55 25 Apr 2024
What we paid for and are paying Yates is irrelevant to whether or not Cullen is worth keeping around.
Cullen has been indulged and been given every opportunity to improve under consecutive managers and not really done so. He's not a kid any more. If this is the future then it's probably not going to be much better than the present. |
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