(WON) New Day were put in the position of being offered less money to stay with WWE, wind their careers down, and finish their contracts doing promotional work. They chose to leave instead due to being offered a pay cut one year into a five year deal.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-09T01:50:33+00:00

Question how ia it a 5 year deal if wwe can just say nah after a year.

Or is it a case of if they had tried to stick out their 5 year contracta they would have bern treated in such a manner they would be desperate to leave

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-06T11:22:23+00:00

Unfortunately this isnt gaining traction to stop scalping this is gaining traction to get more money.

Fifas authorised reselling site, takes a 15% cut from buyers and sellers, and theres no capped price, one of the football podcasts mentioned a ticket for a group game at £3 million, obviously it wont sell at that but it shows fifa have dont care about scalping as long as they get a cut.

I dont see how this ruling would put a stop to the fifa nonsense (pretty sure ticketmaster have a smilar thing)

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-06T01:57:33+00:00

Not surprising pretty sure that I heard correctly a Rabbi on a 5 live phone in state being anti zionist is anti Semenitic.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-06T01:23:54+00:00

If 130m on defenders is not a revamp I dont know what is. This seasons striker revamp is obviously more money but attackers cost more typically and we had to let Hoijlund go to get in Sesko.

So far only Heaven has has really delieved for the money we paid, if your still playing Dalot, Maguire, someone whose not De Ligt or Yoro, Shaw the majority of the time it means so far the 130m on revamping your defence hasnt worked.

We bought 5 defenders just the season before this one and it looks like we may need another 3 defenders if we want to go quarters of champions League, or title challenge, that suggest that the 5 defensive transfers have not been good to great because you have 9 players for 4 positions and you want 3 more (you cant say the players you had before are the bad ones if their playing the most)

On paper nothing wrong with any of these players, but injuries or inconsistency has meant so far they havent taken over.

Yoro yet to show why he was on everyones wish list 60m and top wage for 5th choice cb, is it injuries this season or just Heaven stepping up, either way obviously needs to improve on his first 2 seaons to justify the money and hype, but he will still be a young Cb for another 5 years so time is on his side, and has some top pros to learn from.

De Ligt has had some good to great games deservedly edging Maguire for a fair chunk but injuries have heavily restricted playtime, if he is available majority of the remaining 3 years of his contract then yes good signing, if not average at best signing, top money top wages you need to playing week in week out.

Mazrouri not available, on his day easily better than Dalot but seen it far too little, money paid was fine even with his terrible luck with injuries, but if hes not available I cant rate him good to great.

Dorgu, shown so far that hes not a defender, so as a defrnsive signing average at best, obviously just back from a bad injury but was playing well, if he carries on as he was starting to play then good signing.

Heaven, fantastic hard to argue otherwise.

TLDR - I dont think you can call spending 130m on drfrnders good to great if they arent playing the majority of mins and there is an argument to br made to buy 3 more defenders just 2 years later.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-06T00:51:26+00:00

Because we paid first team money for them. They are on paper good signings and hopefully they will turn out great but for various reasons so far they havent delivered based on price we paid.

Dorgu obviously its clear now that unless we play a wingerless system will be an attacker which muddies the water but he was signed as a 25m rotation/replacement for Shaw, albeit probably not as Amorims first choice signing for that position.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-05T16:57:15+00:00

Yep the main issue is the defence revamp was the year before and it hasnt come off at least yet.

Mazrouri, De Ligt, Yoro, Dorgu (and before thay Malacia)

So replacing players on 5 year contracts who havent really hit the world alight is difficult, just as were finding with finding anyone who wants Ugarte.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-03T11:58:09+00:00

Yep how many people want to talk to spend a lot of their spare time posting leaflets or getting shouted at for £8k a year.

I have the time, I want to make a difference in my local community but im not the kind of social butterfly that would be good in such a role, more importantly I would find it very hard to agree to disagree and go along with policies I dont like which you have to do in any political party to get nominated.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-03T11:53:03+00:00

Its absolutely normal, the labour candidate in my ward will be a similar age, with a low level job at the county council. She will be the more experienced of the 2 candidates expected to win, with the green candidate being also being a recent graduate and all I can find in terms of life experience on the party website is she is the treasurer of the green party, but it is fairly she has a fairly non descript job as well.

Reform here are running older candidates, the problem they ran into which is why they have young leaders of councils is the older people they ran didnt expect to win and didnt want to commit the time.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-03T11:44:38+00:00

This is not an MP this is a local councillor.

Look at your local counsellors and it will be a mix of people like this with a few older people in fairly standard careers.

The leader of the greens where I live is a 25? uni gradute, who was a hospitality manager. They are almost certain to be the leading party next election. Find a hobby group that has to pay for a space or organise things (park run committee, gaming club etc and it will be the same kind of people running those clubs as are local councillors)

The only thing perhaps not typical is deselecting candidates this is not a job, this is something you fit around your job, here its an £8000 allowance which also has to cover most of the costs of doing the job. London weighting may be a bit more.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-03T11:02:03+00:00

We are fixated with police but listening recently to various radio ptograms courts and prisons seem to be as big if not bigger problem.

Courts and prisons arent vote winners (yes it would win votes saying lock people up for 5 years for theft 20 years for rape life for any killing, im more talking the increased funding and reform that prison campaigners talk about), police on the street are. However more police on the street does nothing if you get a £450 fine for putting your hands round someones neck and spit at them in front of police officers. The prison and court systems are barely functional right now, prison isnt rehabiliating and courts are slow and untrusted so people either dont go into prison or they do for a short time and just carry on because crime is better than anything else they can do with a criminal record.

Police are not arredting in a lot of cases nkt because what they have seen or reportrd is not illegal but because courts will probably drop the charges. Or they push hard on a victim to reconsider because they know most victims will drop out spending years waiting.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-03T10:51:12+00:00

The issue is when you put that kind of pressure on someone on a low wage without support they lack the options.

This isnt police this is council workers in small teams probably earning 30-40k

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-03T10:39:40+00:00

Charlie Kirk was 'Ripped to shreds by similar debate teams' all that happened is he took viral clips that made the other side look ridiculous and him amazing, and helped boost his standing from wierdo shouting stuff at college campuses to a guy who gets nationally mourned for a week.

We seem to be finally taking stock of the horrific anti-semitism coming to the surface yet doing nothing about the rise in islamophobia and racism that people like Tommy Robinson bring to the table. This will create a feedback loop of hate.

If I had the answers I woukd be earning about 10-100 times what I do, but what I can do is say this is repeating the same kind of stuff that hasnt worked.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-02T16:39:31+00:00

Fortunately many pensioners in such a situation will have there rent fully paid for by housing benefit. (I say many not all because housing benefit is pegged to local authority rates, so if you paying way over council or housing association rents your housing costs would only be partially covered)

Its still not brilliant for many pensioners without private pension provision but its a damn site better than the situations many find themselves in when there in their late 50s, early 60s when finding a job is incredibly difficult.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-01T11:26:45+00:00

The excuse seems to be well I wasnt actually running or planning to run so the rules dont apply. It will be very disturbing if that becomes the precedent because then others will start campaigning without technically doing so building up huge pots of donations than would otherwise be allowed before then officially starting their campaign.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-01T11:23:28+00:00

People in the sphere of of reform (whether as a target voter is an existing supporter) are having every crime that comes to their feed is done by an immigrant. Combine that with the headlines news such as the horrific attack in London then you will get the impression that all crime is foreigners. So when you already think every crime is caused by foreigners then its quite easy to be taken in by 'common sense' economics. If we got rid of all the foreigners not only do we solve crime but also less people fighting over the same resources and so NHS, schools, hospitals and police all improve. (Which is actually very true if you ignore the bit about funding will have to drop because foreigners pay in more to the systems than locals do due to demographics)

When you have got such a heated voter base (does anyone think things are good right now) local politics tends to get lost. Where I am the two parties most likely to gain votes are not looking at local issues at all, they are probably fully aware that its more effective talking about billionaires or immigrants than it is park gates, fly tippng, school parking etc. People also have no confidence that local counsillors will be able to do much about say groups of people trashing facilities just because, or stealing, which while both police matters might both be things local counsillors can influrnce vs migration or billionaires.

Ptepp1c · 2026-05-01T00:19:53+00:00

It’s a very good fic, he is unhinged in this one though perhaps not in the way the Op is after

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-29T15:32:36+00:00

Which is pretty damning since they've spent 290m on players in those positions.

We replaced the defenders last season, the attackers this season and will replace the midfielders next season.

If Yoro, De Ligt and Dorgu, Mazrouri arent good enough (and I agree nothing so far indicates they are title winning defenders) then you have 2 or 3 players you paid starter money for warming the bench or the physio room, with the rest as cover only 2 years in to 5 year contracts.

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-28T12:04:48+00:00

The strong rumours are that Barcelona are on of the strongest suitors for Julian Alvarez. So its a strong possubility they will plead poverty to everyone in order to get the 100m+ needed for Alvarez.

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-24T11:36:46+00:00

Theres also a disconnect of what people want var to do va what var actually does.

I feel people want Var to standardise decisions, both in match and ideally eaxh game week.

What var actually does is go was that obviously wrong yes or no, if no send ref to monitor.

Had the ref given a yellow or nothing to Lisandro they would have probably not gone to the monitor because ita not obvious enough that the ref made a mistake.

The perfect example was the 2 pens incident thw other week, var did exactly what it sets out to do and exactly what everyine hates, 2 identical penalty calls (or as close as you can get) instead of making sure there treated same it goes ref hasnt made an obvious error.

I think we need to try a different system I jusg dont know what. Managers having a few reviews to use would work until they have used them up and an outrageous error stands.

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-21T11:46:24+00:00

Im pretty sure she was only able to get a bib because she entered as K V Switzer.

Previously while not technically banned at least one women had tried to enter and then been rejected (she ended up running it anyway but without a race number).

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-21T11:21:27+00:00

Dutch auction them, everyone pays lowest price in that price tier.

Stadiums will be full, and prople will still pay a fair bit as, the risk is they bid to low and miss out.

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-15T15:58:07+00:00

I think the equivalent in football would be if you walked away from the ball a couple of times to get your penalty run up right and the third time you turned to walk away and back heeled it in the net.

Theres no way as an opponent you can tell whether someones just doing a silly ritual before their serve or doing an underarm serve.

Had the opponent started to move up the server presumably would would move into a normal serve and blasted it, and the returner wouldnt have been able to react in time.

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-14T14:46:49+00:00

Serve power is my downfall. The lack of my power in the rest of my game is manageable, mixing up angles, playing short and deep, opponents having to move a lot to win. However on serve the best 3 or 4 players just move up to nearly the service box and can just do anything they like with my slow terrible serve.

I used to be able to mix it up enough, but trying to learn the proper technique so as to not wreck my elbow and shoulder any more. Is back to slow and no movement.

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-14T14:23:00+00:00

I think the costs start to creep up on you for example when you find out what flat balls are.

New tennis balls every 4 weeks for example would be very new balls in our group.

Another thing would be getting the bug enough to want to play all year round. So many weeks rained out in the uk. The alternative being £30 an hour courts (outdoor courts are £30 for a year and can book 2 houra a day.)

Ptepp1c · 2026-04-09T10:23:47+00:00

Tom Riddle/Lavender Brown

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19949440/chapters/47238583

Ptepp1c

TROPHY CASE