City v Grimsby

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Urika Peece. said:
Personal experience. I was buying and selling paint from two local wholesale's in Hull a few years back. I'd buy half a pallet from one place and all the returned, dinted tins and end of line colours from another. Every week, I'd be there. Cash. I'd then sell the stuff during the week cheap.
Until one Saturday morning when I turned up and was told by both firms that they don't want to supply me anymore because I was 'under selling' the paint.
Seems a bigger customer said they would no longer buy from them if they continued to supply me because I was selling the paint cheaper then they were.The bigger customer was a multi million pound national concern, I'm a one man band.
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So they screwed you and your average DIY enthusiast who doesn't mind a dent in a tin....Greedy bastards!!
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
I think they call it universal credit these days but you're absolutely spot on.Slightly off topic but Wetherspoons employ younger employees on minimum wage ie:-18-20's on £6.45 per hour,21-24 year olds on £8.20 per hour rather than pay a 25 year old £8.72?
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Jackson's used the schemes available at the time to do the same decades ago.
 
Urika Peece. said:
City did the EFL a massive favour by fulfilling that fixture v West Ham. The EFL should have made the decision to play that game or not, not back City in a corner to play or face the consequences.
We had to play because the next round games are being played next week.
Wonder if it were Spurs and not Orient with three players showing positive the game would have been handed to Orient the other night ? Which is what the EFL should have done to City v WHU.
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West Ham only had 2 players who were positive. Can't see them abandoning games when 2 players out of a massive squad are showing signs.
 
Urika Peece. said:
Personal experience. I was buying and selling paint from two local wholesale's in Hull a few years back. I'd buy half a pallet from one place and all the returned, dinted tins and end of line colours from another. Every week, I'd be there. Cash. I'd then sell the stuff during the week cheap.
Until one Saturday morning when I turned up and was told by both firms that they don't want to supply me anymore because I was 'under selling' the paint.
Seems a bigger customer said they would no longer buy from them if they continued to supply me because I was selling the paint cheaper then they were.The bigger customer was a multi million pound national concern, I'm a one man band.
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You're Leo Sayer and a claim my 5 pounds
 
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Barchullona said:
Jackson's used the schemes available at the time to do the same decades ago.
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Personal opinion,you get what you pay for? You very seldom see the same face serving in Wetherspoons one week to the next,they come and go on a regular basis.False economy having to train someone new every week as opposed to taking on a 40 or 50 year old experienced barmaid/man?
 
Barchullona said:
West Ham only had 2 players who were positive. Can't see them abandoning games when 2 players out of a massive squad are showing signs.
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Grimsby have only one player tested as positive and the next three games have been postponed.
It wasn't the number of players at WHU it was the danger of others catching it that was the problem.
 
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Kalman said:
Because the EFL only cares about 'equalling the playing field' in Leagues 1 and 2 i.e. the wage cap. Championship and PL teams are free to do as they like and even break FFP rules and get a slap on the wrist.

If poorer teams are expected to handle mandatory testing costs, a 'COVID tax' would have to be enforced by the FA on the wealthier clubs. Personally, I'd be all for it. I was against the wage cap in Leagues 1 and 2 because it just widens the gap between those leagues and the Championship and makes it harder for teams promoted to the Championship to have a fighting chance at staying up. I also think it's unfair on the likes of Sunderland and Portsmouth, who tend to have decent crowds even in League 1 and therefore more revenue to spend on wages and transfers.

I think an internal tax enforced by the FA to fund grassroots orgs and lower league academies and facilities across the football league would be a fairer way of narrowing the wealth inequality in English football, rather than wage caps.
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I made that point about Sunderland a while ago. How ludicrous that with 30,000 crowds they should have a salary cap of £2.5 million for the entire squad whilst teams with lower crowds in the PL could pay a single player £5 million a year and more.
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
Personal opinion,you get what you pay for? You very seldom see the same face serving in Wetherspoons one week to the next,they come and go on a regular basis.False economy having to train someone new every week as opposed to taking on a 40 or 50 year old experienced barmaid/man?
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Agreed. Unfortunately these jobs aren't considered worthwhile, unlike in Europe where there table service is common and good service gets a tip and a good living is possible.
I remember being 9n Spoons years ago and a group of Germans were in. One said, as a matter of course, keep the change. After he had walked away the girl sneered "20 p, big deal". Some bloke stood there asked how many people she served a day. Couple of hundred or more she said. Now imagine he said, if they all did what he had done and told you to keep the change, could be 10p, 20p could be a bit more. Multiply that by 200 and then multiply it by the days you work...
 
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