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It's exactly the same as you're describing, and we had fully comp insurance. The Insurer will do its best to reduce their costs. We had internal flooding. Insurers finally offered two options. A ridiculously low level of cash quickly, leaving us with the job of finding contractors or wait for their contractors to do the work. Took an extra 3 months but the costs would have been much higher than they were trying to fob us off with.

This is either legendary levels of trolling or a shocking lack of self awareness. Whichever it is, well played.

The one thing I admire about you is your inability to comprehend basic things. He was interviewed and Partick did not offer him the job. He does not appear to have turned it down.

So sorry for your loss. I'd known your Dad on here since the Topica days, and we shared a few interesting exchanges of view. Condolences to you and the rest of your family.

Falkirk have started well...

Sterling has done alright for himself, playing in the US 2nd tier. Baller League money isn't great with the base players getting £400 a game; that's mainly for the players at Step 3 and 4 of the non-league pyramid. A few of the bigger names get multiples of that. I imagine Sterling will be at the bottom end of those players. Baller League is awful, but it seems to be gaining an audience with the youth and crowds are getting bigger for what is basically the old soccer sixes with a spattering of decent non-league players and ex-pros.

I think that's fair comment. I wa trying to give some balance to Tina's panic to show that there was no evidence to back up his email about short term crash in share price. Alibi - if you follow through from the google page to the company website you'll see it is the same company.

13th October 2023, so a long time ago. I've had a quick look at its performance over the last few time periods. Highest price in the last year has been 23c a share in April. It seems to be balancing off at the moment. Nothing to see here - https://www.google.com/search?q=dalrada+share+price&oq=dalrada+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgEEAAYgAQyBggAEEUYOTINCAEQLhivARjHARiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABNIBCDk2ODBqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

That would be an ecumenical matter.

I imagine that given he's gone to step 4 of non league he will have had a pay off. He'll be playing part time there and unlikely to be on anything above £200 a week.

I think that's the reason he is in the Alba party.

It is true, but I had no idea that Herriot had played for us. My Mum watched the original series in the 70s and I remember my Dad coming out with this nugget. Herriot was playing for Birmingham against Man U.

I think I've worked out who you are.

It is very good. I bought my tickets for Kelty and the Stranraer game before I got on the train in London on the Saturday morning. Also used it last week to go and see Ebbsfleet's first game back in the National League.

I thought he was an old man when he was slithering around on the original sites. Crikey he'd have been considerably younger at that point than I am now.

I see your Ed de Ball and raise you Newton....

I find it hard to really hate something that provides so much entertainment and real schadenfreude.

Agreed. The only one of the five I never bought. I liked the light blue away top from 89-91 and the yellow top with the blue diagonal line that I think was 91-92 away top.

Not necessarily. Goodwin currently has the job, so they have been fishing in smaller ponds since McInnes left.

Non league step 6 at the moment, although he's probably got the talent to play slightly higher. He just needs to finish university in June and see what comes next. He was at Bromley until he was 16, but left as they wanted him to change schools for sixth form to take up the 2 year scholarship offer. He'd have had to drop one A level to allow basic full time training, and he made the decision not to as that would have messed up his uni plans. Only one guy from his youth team has gone on to sign for a league club - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Tanner and that was circuitous. All step 1 clubs are full time, as are a lot at steps 2 and 3. I watch the local step 4 club and those guys are on decent money but train 3 nights a week. It's a completely different beast to non-league up the road. If he was playing Tier 6, where Akinyemi came from, I'd be sending his highlights reel to Dougie....

Youth football in England is a strange beast. They hoover up young talent from local clubs and use them to focus on getting the one diamond in each group as close to the first team as possible. In McGinty's case, he was 15 and they poached him from Charlton. Paid £250K and bought his parents a house in Manchester. There were loads of clubs sniffing around him at the time. The problem is that so many players go through academies and loads end up on decent money. But very few actually manage to sustain a full time career in football. He's probably ended up with a better career than others in the Man U youth team he played for. As an example of how daft it is, my lad played at step 6 on the non league ladder last season. He was 20 and his team mates included two that had played at Premiership academies, two that had played at League academies and two who had played in the EFL, including one who had played at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

No he isn’t. But he did make the L2 version of it.

And scored a cracker to equalise.

fair enough. Both clubs tonight are fairly odious. A bit like deciding who your favourite serial killer is.

I'm confused. Do you genuinely think that Liverpool are more financially doped than Real? I want Real to win tonight, but their finances are a joke. And they were the prime movers behind the super league to avoid sharing revenue with the "little" Spanish clubs.