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None of these things will do anything to fix the problem. If landlords can't make a profit that outweighs their responsibilities then they simply won't bother and will sell up & leave the market., properties will be sold but most won't be sold to those who are currently renting them. If landlords are allowed to behave as they like then they will do just that. The only real solution is to build plenty of social housing to make a serious dent in the list. Not a wee block of flats here and there, you need whole new schemes similar to those built after world war two ( hopefully with lessons learned from those ventures) After that, private letting can go back to filling it's normal goal of providing short to medium term accommodation for people whom it actually suits to do that - students etc

Children ( especially very young ones) aren't a problem, it's the fucking parents. They let them away with behavior that would have result in a foot up the arse 25 + years ago. the amount of parents who let their kids get up and wander around the place when they're out for a sit down meal is unbelievable. I'd have been telt to sit at peace & quietly too. I'm not even that old btw!

So it looks like a labour landslide is on the cards, but nobody is particularly excited about it and no one is predicting the kind of wholesale changes that happened in 97

These things you mention are all definitely true, but quite often it's just a case of people being shite with money and not being able to see past the end of their nose. I know a fair few lads who even in their mid 30s are still atrocious with money - think king for a day on payday and peasant for the rest of the month. There are others who just don't give enough thought to their purchases, whether something is value for money or not or if they can really afford it. If they have money that day & see something they want they just buy it then are skint till they get paid again, rather than think "oh I better leave some money in the bank cause I don't get paid for another two weeks"

Mostly the first option, cup finals ( especially against non OF opposition) are one for the grannies and day trippers. It's probably the feel good factor around the club actually doing something this year, us almost dying a death and then coming back with this seasons performance has probably done us the world of good in terms of support as it has for other clubs that have done similar. had we avoided relegation in 2010 and spent the last 14 years bouncing between 10th and 7th in the premiership, our home crowds would be between 3 & 4k. it's stagnation that kills interest more than anything personally, I've not been to any games this season, I went almost every week from 2012 till lockdown, now I don't have any free time at the weekends and I'm wondering if, for the good of the club, I'm better to just stay away permanently rather than risk us going back to how it was when i was there ...

Not that many championship clubs will have a 2k travelling support for bog standard league games. There's no reason why we couldn't have half the north stand for home fans IF it was required

This looks like being the first time we've had both the main & south stand full AND having home fans take up a good portion of the north stand. could probably be the highest home crowd since we moved to westfield

Thinking ( and commenting online) that simply adding a primark to a neglected town centre will suddenly reverse 20 years of decline

With the exception of Gilmour, the best of them all had 2 or 3 seasons of regular first team football under their belt before making the move.

Correct, Only 1% of women are over 6ft tall compared to 14.5 for men. Considering most full time professional male goalkeepers are 6'3 or more you are obviously going to see a big difference

Don’t know if its been covered already but the financial impact is about more than loss of hire revenue, one thing Falkirk highlighted when we switched to astro in 2013 was the astronomical cost of undersoil heating. Long before the current energy price hike, Martin Ritchie said that it was cheaper to just take the hit with the game being called off than it was to run the USH enough to ensure it was on. That can’t be what we want in this day & age shirley?

TBF that would be my bills if a didn't have Hive and kept an eye on things, the mrs would have the place at 25 day & night including when she goes out to work and doesn't bother turning the heating off.

This thread is shite, bring back crowd wanking

when you were a teenager did you really think like that or was it more " lets do some dick move here it will be funny as f**k" be honest, i know what I was like Back on to the point, if you could be confident your job would be unaffected by restrictions then you could treat lockdown like a holiday, but if your job, business or livelihood more generally was in jeopardy as well as your kids education/ opportunities, your mental health etc. then it was a fucking shite time all round

I said when she died, the royals are about to realise how much of their popularity was down to her & her alone