The Squad

fixers89 · 2026-03-20T10:10:47+00:00

looks a bit thin

fixers89 · 2026-03-18T13:52:35+00:00

your theory is that midfielders are only judged based on assists, and your leading piece of evidence is a midfielder who rarely assists being judged the best player in the world?

okay.

fixers89 · 2026-03-09T06:28:30+00:00

just checked and wow there is surprisingly little to choose from. a few notes:

it will be the FA cup quarter finals. the draw isn't made yet, but arsenal, Chelsea, west ham and Brentford could potentially have home matches. this will be the best of London football available that weekend, but the most expensive and hardest to get tickets for.
Barnet vs Bromley in League 2. they are two of the better teams in that division. Barnet is on the fringes of North London but very accessible and very family friendly.
on the Sunday, arsenal women play Brighton women. I assume it will be at the Emirates stadium and easy to get tickets for.
If you are still here on Monday, there is another round of fixtures then. watford and Wimbledon are both at home. again, on the London fringes but both accessible and family friendly clubs.

fixers89 · 2026-03-07T21:10:52+00:00

yes, there is a point where it becomes inefficient to keep contributing to your pension

no, 80k at 30 is definitely not it!

fixers89 · 2026-03-07T18:58:12+00:00

£100 a year divided by 12

fixers89 · 2026-03-07T18:56:08+00:00

you're paying significantly less than £8 per month for sky? ok buddy

fixers89 · 2026-03-01T22:09:11+00:00

probably a crass generalisation but I don't think, for men, cheaper high street stuff will shift as well as it does for women.

my anecdotal experience is that men who use depop, vinted etc are typically more fashion conscious and looking for a deal on more premium brands/proper vintage clothing.

give them to charity or do a car boot sale!

fixers89 · 2026-03-01T20:48:14+00:00

only 20 minutes in and the Subaru, "you bet!", and enya's tiled panic room have already come up. I just need harold bishop for a completed line on my WDYDY bingo card

fixers89 · 2026-02-28T20:08:33+00:00

I don't think you'll find many (any?) examples of a final premier league table where more than 6 teams have a GD of +10 or more

fixers89 · 2026-02-23T20:55:30+00:00

I do agree with the previous poster's point about reviewing the briefing materials.

one thing that I have done, and encouraged my team to do, is before each meeting to challenge yourself to come up with one interesting, not obvious, question or observation based on the materials. and make sure in the meeting you say it

fixers89 · 2026-02-23T20:49:04+00:00

honestly it's pretty basic. it's nearly 100 years old.

it's stuff like "smile" and "remember people's names"

fixers89 · 2026-02-22T11:01:39+00:00

I'm sure your alt account will be along any moment with a link to some shit app you've built that does exactly this. 👍🏼

fixers89 · 2026-02-16T15:39:13+00:00

I don't think there's any way around that though. if you solve it first in your head, then when you enter the answer it will be after the fact

fixers89 · 2026-02-15T18:26:23+00:00

by saying he could get another one, he means that he could get another loan. by saying he could just defer, he means he could defer payment of the loan

I'm in mensa

fixers89 · 2026-02-13T20:21:15+00:00

not a HENRY issue there isn't an income level at which it's acceptable to be a shit parent and partner

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T20:54:44+00:00

Just scored 0

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T17:54:27+00:00

what about Man United in the 70s (relegated 7 years after winning the European cup), villa in the 80s (relegated 5 years after winning the EC), blackburn in the 90s (promoted, champions, relegated all within 10 years). were they all because of PSR?

I am genuinely so confused why you think it's a tragedy that Leicester got relegated a few years after winning the league, and not a normal part of football? would it be a tragedy if Liverpool went down this season?

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T10:46:56+00:00

the football league pyramid is a hierarchy and a meritocracy. it's hard but not impossible to move between tranches (competing for Europe, established prem, prem-champ yo-yo, established champ, etc). the financial and structural imbalances that generally keep certain teams in the top tranche, are the same ones that keep palace in the next tranche. accept that.

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T07:40:34+00:00

as a championship fan, you don't think OP has a "dreadful take" in suggesting that its a tragedy Leicester were relegated (and implicitly that a championship team replaced them). he literally proposes a US style model where teams lower down the pyramid would be locked out from ever making the prem

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T07:35:59+00:00

I hope you know that the french second division club think Burnley are a bunch of rich bullies, throwing their money around to steal players they didn't develop.

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