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Can do fk all about it, they're amateurs.

He has some nerve. Who the fcuk does he think he is, trying to hinder  young athletes to have the opportunity of a professional sporting career. Yes it might weaken an individual team slightly for a couple of years but every county is in the same boat. They are amateur players and should be given every opportunity to make the best life for themselves and if that involves moving to another country/sport then the GAA as an organisation should be proud of them, not seek to put obstacles in their way.

Absolutely. Understand why Biden did it obviously and I am sure most people would have done the same. .

Would they? are most people outright liars and fakes?

Are you saying that if someone had the ability to potentially stop their child going to jail the majority of people  would not use that power?

Not a good look

Indeed. I have read people say it legitimises future Trump pardons, however the same fella doesn't need a reason or an excuse. The 6th Jan "patriots" will be out.

Absolutely. Understand why Biden did it obviously and I am sure most people would have done the same. Democrats cant turn round and criticise Trump now. As a general query, why should Presidents have this power?

The US political system is unfit for purpose across the board.

I think I just might be all in on Kelleher being our no. 1 going forward, if that's not his path I could absolutely see him at somewhere like Brighton

Liverpool have screwed up by signing Giorgi Mamardashvili. Now they've a problem on their hands entirely of their own making.

2 into 1 can go with Alisson's injury and age profile (albeit it makes no business sense to keep Alisson on his current wage given availability).

3 into 1 definitely doesn't go.

If Kelleher keeps playing like current and Alisson comes straight back into the team and stays there - if I were in his boots I'd immediately be looking around.

Manuel Neuer is 38. That'd be a good place to look. Not Brighton.


If I were Slot, I'd be showing Alisson a contract with much reduced wages, and if he refuses, the door.

Dont know that Screwed up is the phrase as they have 3 top class keepers to choose from. Probably more that there is a difficult decision to be made. Reminds me of the Cech/Courtois situation at Chelsea. Kelleher is simply too good to be backup and if the reports on Mamardashvili are accurate then so is he. Its hard to see either of those guys agreeing to sit behind Ali for 2-3 years so it looks like they might be prepared to cash in on him.

Kellehers performances this season have given them a decision to make i dont think they envisaged when they signed Mamardashvili.

Whats the solution? Straight knock out the whole way?

Champions only. Straight knock out.

Never going to  happen though.  They're not  going to kill the golden  cow.  And  in another way, UEFA know that  fans  will attend any amount of  extra games they  create.

I dont mind the number of teams as such but i think a straight knock out with no seeding would be much better. Maybe allow for no meeting a team from your own league for say the first 3 rounds.

As you say, never going to happen though. UEFA would not allow the chance of a "bad" draw taking out a load of the big names in Sept/Oct.

It's terrible. Liverpool Madrid up now. Interest is minimal for me.

They've destroyed it.

It might get more interesting the last couple of rounds but the reality is its likely to be the middle tier teams fighting it out for a couple of spots with maybe one or two "big" teams needing a win. Same as every other year, a money making racket before Christmas and the real competetion only starts in Feb/March

The slide for Manchester City continues, letting a 3 goal lead slip and only drawing at home with Feyenoord.  No excuse for Liverpool not to beat Manchester City on Sunday and to win comfortably.

Elsewhere Arsenal took full advantage of a Sporting team that lost their manager.

Pep  couldn't  be  sacked, could he?

No, hes untouchable.

Usually a team that has a lead like this at this stage (albeit with 2 thirds of the season to go) normally goes on to win the title.  So Liverpool are in a great position to win the thing. The chances are with the run of games coming up and through Christmas Liverpool will drop some points in the coming weeks, but they just need to expect this is a possibility, and hold their nerve.  Chances are City and Arsenal will drop a few more too.

Fully expect City to win at Anfield next week. Liverpool have scraped through a few games and City will know that a defeat will severely hurt them so they will raise their game. Arsenal have all their injuries clearing up so expect them to go on a run of wins to close the gap as well.

Think yesterday showed how important it is to get Jota back. If Nunez is off it, he gives something different up front.

I use this projector to create a "cinema room" for kids and very surprised at the quality.  That said, if I intended to use it a lot then I would probably seek out something better. 

Projector

*Edit - sound quality is iffy, but it's grand for the kids and I presume I could improve it if I needed.

Cheers Lucifer, I will look

I am looking to convert my garage into a gym/den and the missus has suggested getting a projector for the firestick.  I looked online and the range of prices is huge from £50 to in the thousands.  Has anyone used one with the stick and if so could they recommend a make/model. TIA

And what will the government do with this extra inheritance tax. Will they sort out the deficit and ease the burden on pensioners buying heating oil or approve more contracts for assisting Isreal and the likes. The reason they are broke is bad book keeping and dodgy hand outs to lobbyists. In five years time they will be increasing something else because they couldn't run a bath. This is just history repeating itself, a shower of irresponsible Eaton manufactured twats the whole lot of them.

Cant really argue with that!

Heard on the radio today that they reckon the total tax take from the new rules will fund the NHS for less than 12 hours

I could definitely name one of them as its very telling he left all social media recently and is a great tree hugger from Omagh who was completely apposed to this road.

They should be made to pay the associated costs of all these delays instead of the tax payer.

This is the only way to sort this. Make it so expensive to launch spurious appeals that they think twice, no matter how well funded they are.

Like how I feel about housing, the cleanest solution here is increased capital gains tax.

Thousands of acres of rural farmland I reckon would be a burden rather than an asset for 99.9% of us.

If there are rural folk willing and able to make it work for them, then I'd much favour that over international companies.

Of course such a tax change would see the value of their land fall dramatically. But you know, if the intent was never to sell, then what does that matter...........?

You need a formula that allows the use of the farm for regulated agriculture, but which penalises sale for cash. If a farmer leaves a farm to 3 children who just sell it then there should be no exemption, but there should be mechanism to allow it continue which reflect the value of the income it can raise, which is much less than with other businesses.

Would a straightforward solution not be to have a clause that says no IHT if the land is still held say 7 years post death? If someone inherits the farm and has no interest in farming it and so sells it, they pay tax like anyone else. If 7 years later they still hold it, the IHT liability falls away?

That 7 year thing is standard I think. Non farmers do that with houses so they don't have to pay for their nursing homes etc.

Fairly standard estate planning is to transfer assets to children as the IHT tapers down and disappears if you survive 7 years. It has to be a gift without reservation though, i.e. you cant transfer your house to your kids and then live in it rent free as the HMRC will look through that.

Trusts are a way of reducing IHT as well that give a bit more flexibility and could be useful for some farmers after the Budget. However, they are more complex to set up and will need legal structuring.

One thing that has not been mentioned too much is  bringing pensions "in scope" for inheritance tax. Currently, private pensions are excluded from inheritance tax. Now pension pots  will now be included in IHT calculations from 2027 so the pension pot will get added to property and shares as part of potentially chargeable assets using up the allowance.

Most of these measures will affect "wealthier" people but it will hit farmers badly as you have to have the cash to pay the tax.

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Whether you've any sympathy for farmers or not, Labour said they wouldn't touch it and they lied. Absolutely shameless.

Mind you after taking winter fuel payments off pensioners nothing would surprise me.

Means testing pensioners for winter fuel payments should always have happened, how they've did it could do with a bit of work as there are poor enough pensioners out there who either aren't eligible for benefits or don't know how to claim them.

There are lots of wealthy pensioners out there who don't need it.

I think they've targeted a lot of the right people in this budget although you wouldn't know that as the MSM is in the control of the exceedingly rich who don't want to pay full wack for wee Jonny and Jenny to go to public school or pay more capital gains tax or more tax on their private jets...

The National insurance one I don't know how that will pan out as businesses will want to pass that cost back onto their employees or customers, however they should have done more on the bonuses and wages of these CEO's and extortionate revenues some companies have been making on the back of "the war in Ukraine" and Covid.

You only get winter fuel allowance if you claim pension credit. Which you get if you get less than £11,400 per week.

The UK 'living wage' as an annual salary would be about £24k.

It's not just wealthy pensioners that are losing out. Labour are taking the piss.

p.s. any specific reason why "the war in Ukraine" is in quotation marks? Is there not a war in Ukraine?

Year I presume.

I also point to the fact that the way they're doing it isn't the best, but they definitely should be means testing this payment.

The war in Ukraine was the reason given for the huge hike in fuel costs which were passed onto the end customers however what isn't being mentioned was the historically high profits the fuel companies were making on the back of this excuse.
This was one of the main drivers of inflation and not the war in Ukraine which was purely the excuse they needed.

This is still happening by the way and the Labour Gov should have come down hard on it, but chose not to.

Yes, I meant per annum, not per week.

Means test if you must but for Labour to say someone scraping by on the measly UK pension of £11.4k doesn't need it is ridiculous.

Half what is recognised as a living wage.

Historically the assumption was that most people did not have housing costs in retirement as their homes were paid off. Unfortunately that is increasingly not the case and is only going to get worse.

I know in my place there are a good few colleagues, who i would class as switched on generally, who seem to have a complete blindspot to pension requirements. Will just auto enrol for the minimum amount and have no sense as to what that actually means in a few years. Was talking to one guy who was pleased  that he thought he would have  a £200k pension pot at retirement in about 15 years. Had no idea that would get him less than £1k a month if he was to buy an annuity