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Complete and total boycott is the only way. But I'm sure it'll attract enough attention in Asia and Africa to offset a few english and Irish fans.  What has the reaction been from fans in Europe?

The Irish fans are exactly who are being targeted. Man U fans who couldn't find Manchester on a map.

JP Morgan behind it.  Just like FSG, the Glazers and the Saudi journalist-murderers trying muscle in on the EPL to launder dirty money, they should be rejected out of hand. Shame on the owners of the 6 clubs who signed the letter, bargaining chip or not.

Its the same 6 clubs (with City replacing Spurs) that have been dusting this plan off since the 90's. Shame has been and gone.

So this is basically an elite champions league? the teams would still play in their own national leagues.

The Associations in question have said that of they break away they break away and won't be playing domestically

You argue that Bitcoin is a good alternative to investing of gold. That will of interest to those who are interested in investing in gold. What's that? Some small fraction of 1% of investors and some infinitesimal fraction of 1% of the population?

It's getting harder and harder to find anyone who whilst willing to promote cryptocurrency as an investment is also willing to explain why it's a going to be a good investment other than in the way that tuilips from Amsterdam were a good investment during the period before they weren't a good investment

Do you deliberately misrepresent the point I have made?

I have never had any interest in investing in gold. I'd imagine buying it would be tricky enough and as for storing it.........

My point is that Bitcoin is another asset class that allows people to invest.  A traditional portfolio would see an individual investing in equities (domestive and more exotic), fixed interest and property etc.  Bitcoin now provides another asset class for someone to potentially invest in.

My reference to gold is that gold only has the value it has because people believe that's what the value is.  The point is that once a sufficient number of people believe that an asset is a store of value then it becomes that store of value because the asset becomes tradeable.

I get that you don't think BTC is valuable. You have made that point repeatedly.  Like a I said a few posts back, let's bookmark this conversation for 2025 and see how things look; until then we are both wasting each other's time.

Very happy to move on from gold.

Totally accept that Bitcoin is an another asset class for investors to look at. Then again so are tulips.

Are you willing to have a stab at my earlier question - if Bitcoin was overvalued by 15% how would you know?

I am suspicious of people talking up cryptocurrency.
I'm even more suspicious of those talking up a cryptocurrency but unwilling to explain the basis of its (future) value
But when a poster account responds to a challenge to another poster account I get really suspicious.

Everybody has their own motivations. Mine are clean and above board

Since any commodity's or currency's  value is based whatever people are willing to pay for it at a given pont in time, how would you know if anything is overvalued?

Bubble theory.

A commodity or a currency has an intrinsic value and a use. McDonalds buy beef to make burgers. The Swedish Korona can be used to buy stuff. There is a clear and on paper transparent market for them.

Crypto fulfils no such criteria. It's opaque and has no actual function.

It's in fact the Swedish Krona you can buy stuff with, just like Bitcoin.

I can go into McDonalds and exchange bitcoin for a McFlurry?

You argue that Bitcoin is a good alternative to investing of gold. That will of interest to those who are interested in investing in gold. What's that? Some small fraction of 1% of investors and some infinitesimal fraction of 1% of the population?

It's getting harder and harder to find anyone who whilst willing to promote cryptocurrency as an investment is also willing to explain why it's a going to be a good investment other than in the way that tuilips from Amsterdam were a good investment during the period before they weren't a good investment

Do you deliberately misrepresent the point I have made?

I have never had any interest in investing in gold. I'd imagine buying it would be tricky enough and as for storing it.........

My point is that Bitcoin is another asset class that allows people to invest.  A traditional portfolio would see an individual investing in equities (domestive and more exotic), fixed interest and property etc.  Bitcoin now provides another asset class for someone to potentially invest in.

My reference to gold is that gold only has the value it has because people believe that's what the value is.  The point is that once a sufficient number of people believe that an asset is a store of value then it becomes that store of value because the asset becomes tradeable.

I get that you don't think BTC is valuable. You have made that point repeatedly.  Like a I said a few posts back, let's bookmark this conversation for 2025 and see how things look; until then we are both wasting each other's time.

Very happy to move on from gold.

Totally accept that Bitcoin is an another asset class for investors to look at. Then again so are tulips.

Are you willing to have a stab at my earlier question - if Bitcoin was overvalued by 15% how would you know?

I am suspicious of people talking up cryptocurrency.
I'm even more suspicious of those talking up a cryptocurrency but unwilling to explain the basis of its (future) value
But when a poster account responds to a challenge to another poster account I get really suspicious.

Everybody has their own motivations. Mine are clean and above board

Since any commodity's or currency's  value is based whatever people are willing to pay for it at a given pont in time, how would you know if anything is overvalued?

Bubble theory.

A commodity or a currency has an intrinsic value and a use. McDonalds buy beef to make burgers. The Swedish Korona can be used to buy stuff. There is a clear and on paper transparent market for them.

Crypto fulfils no such criteria. It's opaque and has no actual function.

As I said on the PL thread whilst I completely agree with what he is saying its hard to take it seriously being said from behind the mic of an organisation that has funded and benefited from a break away league for almost 30 years.  Particularly as it was the same break away league that contributed to his fame, fortune and his current work.

It was a breakaway league with the full consent of the EFA who still had an element of control. It was in reality just a rebrand of an existing league

This is (or not as its nonsense) 15 teams leaving the FIFA world permanently to play on their own. But as the football authorities are gently reminding them that has consequences with them having no relationship with the rest of football.

This nonsense has been floating around for 30 years. It was dusted off ahead of tomorrows rejigging of the CL. It is a negotiating ploy and nothing else

With all the money being funneled to Dublin, it has much more of an negative effect on the smaller counties who struggle to raise the amount of finance needed. When the GAA even out the spread of the financial support to all counties equally then we can debate the merits that the funding has on the improvements on individual counties. Maybe it is a coincidence that Dublin dominance started when the financial assistant was ramped up but if the money was distributed equally we would be in a better position to assess the benefits.

Team/player preparation is so professional now the gap between the bigger and smaller counties has grown significantly to the stage were you rarely see shocks these days. The days when the likes of Sligo, Leitrim, Limerick etc were able to compete with the likes of Dublin, Mayo and Kerry are long gone.

That time never existed.

If you had any sense BB you'd stay away from the slagging and prediction game. You'll only end up  having to back slide with a plethora of excuses.  After diving deep to dig up the Dundalk thread, you have only managed to embarrass yourself yet again.

Stick to the LOI thread or start a Shamrock Rovers thread if you wish,  a thread where one wouldn't notice such shortcomings.

Speaking of shortcomings, have Dundalk enough to not get relegated?

To be fair McKenna has been calling out the double standards in all this Covid BS. There is a tsunami of problems coming down the line. Our Government, our media and our public servants have their comfortable heads in the sand. 

Most people are drifting along in this made-up form of living. Others as sinking financially, mentally and health wise.

Or he has been a poor mans Dunphy/Brolly commenting on something he doesn't understand in alarming volume and alligning himself with the only group who agree with him in the fascist right?

Is he still with the wife?

Says he is alone in the apartment so no idea

To be fair McKenna has been calling out the double standards in all this Covid BS. There is a tsunami of problems coming down the line. Our Government, our media and our public servants have their comfortable heads in the sand. 

Most people are drifting along in this made-up form of living. Others as sinking financially, mentally and health wise.

Or he has been a poor mans Dunphy/Brolly commenting on something he doesn't understand in alarming volume and alligning himself with the only group who agree with him in the fascist right?

if you are against level 5 lockdown for whatever your reasons are you are a right wing fascist? Wow

I didn't say that.

Read his twitter feed and output on far right sites.

To be fair McKenna has been calling out the double standards in all this Covid BS. There is a tsunami of problems coming down the line. Our Government, our media and our public servants have their comfortable heads in the sand. 

Most people are drifting along in this made-up form of living. Others as sinking financially, mentally and health wise.

Or he has been a poor mans Dunphy/Brolly commenting on something he doesn't understand in alarming volume and alligning himself with the only group who agree with him in the fascist right?

His latest output. The holocaust was a public health measure therefore all public health measures are to be resisted.

The guy has lost it big time

Where would I find this?  Tried googling a few terms without success.

https://twitter.com/EwanMacKenna/status/1380131941190631427?s=19

Monaghan going to take some heat off Dublin or adding to it?

Seems they'd a full training session at the Bantys home club. Book couldn't be fired hard enough at him in fairness.

Both. Adding to the GAA's arseache that they are perceived to not give a shit. They don't know county sides are training on association grounds but will catch anyone renting the astro to soccer. Hmmmm.

Still doesn't let the Dubs off the hook but its getting lost in a broader debacle.

At one point I liked Ewan due to his willingness to call out bullshit if he seen it. However he increasingly has involved himself in agenda driven commentary and although he still makes some valid arguments on some issues, this tends to get drowned out by all of his other obsessive ramblings. He has recently taken to straying into politics yet what he knows about this subject can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

There was a niche for him as an investigative sports journalist if he had gone down that route (that would be his strength) but he has just turned into an erratic Twitter crank who lashes out at everything.

I think he is stuck for money and is writing about the subject which is most relevant now or which will get most attention/attract the most noise.

You will see on his pieces now he is asking for donations - that would tell its own story

Very short term though. He will never get a gig again now he linked up with Grift and the NP./fash  He should have done what other journalists do with down time and written a book

Any future output is 'but he is the guy who thinks its your moral duty to cough at old people because of the holocaust'. The boy is cooked.