It’s not an either/or. We’ll be paying more taxes after October as well (CGT and inheritance tax dead certs to go up). There needs to be a rebalancing between wealthy older generations who benefited from free higher education, final salary pensions and astronomical house price growth and younger...
I think Gomez is the Milner replacement, and Hinsh for now is a FB/RB. Your point still stands, but Wieffer, Baleba, MOR, Ayari and Gomez sounds both great and manageable
I’m interested in the answer to this too. My issue came about after I went for a long walk in Air Max’s and I think that may have been a contributing factor.
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Been brilliant. If you can afford it I’d also recommend shockwave treatment
One other important tip: they only serve low alcohol beer (unless in the posh seats). If you drink a lot of it, all it will do is make you need the loo a lot. I had to recalibrate my typical cricket going experience and save the drinking for the evening
I did the same Tests in 2005/6 and by the time I landed in Oz we’d lost the series. So my biggest tip would be to get out there in time for the 3rd Test!
Oh, and it was the coldest Boxing Day on record and I ended up having to buy a Cricket Australia top. So take a hoody!
I had a similar conversation with a similarly real life Leeds fan. The one he’s gutted about losing is Archie Gray. Said of Rutter ‘he’s either brilliant or totally rubbish and there’s nothing in between’. He can’t believe we spent £40m on him.
I’m expecting a similar trajectory to Barco - loan back till Jan, then a few cameos second half of the season. Hopefully without the need for a loan next season though…
I tend to treat our club estimates of return dates like I do estimates on timeframes from builders. At least double it, and maybe more than that. For some reason always seems to take longer than anticipated!
Positionally it seems like he’s effectively replaced Buononotte. So my bar is whether he is an upgrade on him. He can’t do anything about the fee we paid (which does seem extraordinarily high).
If we are done, it’s been a very odd transfer window. Some amazing signings, even if most are already crocked, a mind boggling amount of money spent and yet we still seem to have left ourselves light in CM. And quite a few I expected to leave (Igor, Lamptey, Peupion) seem not to have done.