MUFC

25 minutes ago, Stan said:

@MUFC

25 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Oh fanny

Come on Ricciardo.

Wonder if the Mafia games will be remastered for PS5. Or will they just make a 4th?

On 30/04/2024 at 11:17, RandoEFC said:

Predictions - Miami Grand Prix

Apparently we have another Sprint this weekend - yay. I will again be sticking to the main Grand Prix for our predictions. Therefore, your deadline is Saturday qualifying as usual. Please note that this weekend onwards will see us make a Pole Position pick without Max Verstappen.

@RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush

 

Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3 AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS?

Perez

 

Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS?

1. Perez

2. Sainz

3. charles

 

Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Lando Norris.

5

 

Bonus Question - Which driver will be the biggest UNDER-performer this weekend? (This will be judged by the driver who finishes the race below their championship position by the most places).

Tsunoda

2 hours ago, MUFC said:

There are jobs which we'll be unable to do. But in some cases you can do some prep work. Doing it youself or contributing is way more satisfying.

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On 01/05/2024 at 22:27, Dr. Gonzo said:

Doing it early and doing whatever you're capable of doing yourself, so you don't have to pay someone, are good ways to save money while doing necessary maintenance on a house. I've learned so much shit working on my house fixing things that have gone wrong and the one time I couldn't figure out how to fix what I needed done, I was very fucking annoyed when I saw the bill. 

There are jobs which we'll be unable to do. But in some cases you can do some prep work. Doing it youself or contributing is way more satisfying.

On 19/04/2024 at 13:56, Rick said:

Big summer ahead. Paqueta, Kimmich, Musiala & Witz. You lot signing a 5 year £1bn deal to be the official meat partner of the local butchers? 

22 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

I assume at your house every room is a wet room

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

That's not really free speech then if you're putting conditions on it. People should be allowed to protest and publicly voice their opinions without being violent idiots about things.

What the anti-pro-Palestinian group did at UCLA wasn't really a protest - it was a coordinated attack. They fired fireworks into crowds of people and also used "bear mace" (which I think is just very strong pepperspray, but I'm not sure) on the pro-Palestinian protestors.

It deserves condemnation. Especially when everyone involved is living safely in a country with no threat to themselves from Hamas, Hezbollah, or the IDF. There is legitimately no reason to bring the violence from this conflict to foreign shores by people so far removed from the conflict. And from two groups of people that largely can't even get the history of the region they're protesting about right.

I don't think "protests always have a violent minority" really excuses the idiocy and vile propaganda spreading to justify shit like a group of kids in uni getting painful liquid sprayed into their eyes and having fireworks shot at them for making a public political display that these people who attacked them agreed with. The police not getting involved with what happened at UCLA quicker and standing by and watching that happen, is an absolute fucking joke tbh. I think it's a bit different to the kids in NYC at Columbia University getting raided by police for vandalising school property after they took over a building.

At UCLA the victims were students, not a building.

I'll fuck all their aunties up the arses.

10 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

By the same token the US pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia University have been disgusting for their rhetoric and violence, the pro-Israel protestors that attacked the pro-Palestinian protestors at UCLA last night are also disgusting. Honestly, this sort of selective outrage for this conflict is infuriating to me. Oppression and conflict elsewhere in the world is routinely ignored... unless it's Israel-Palestine, in which case the world seems like it tears apart at the seems trying to lend support to one side or the other.

I can't understand why so many people feel the need to take sides in such an ugly conflict.

Is it me or do protests for each side take place at the same location on the same day? Surely a rule to say that if both sides protest in the same city. They shouldn't be allowed to cross paths and they should be miles apart.

Another rules should be that if you want to protest. You have to be barefooted or wear flip flops.

10 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

It wasn't really a couple of years after getting Ferdinand though... it was something like 11 or 2 years after that signing they signed Ozil. Manchester United spent a lot of money because they were good and winning things in the era where money started pouring into football, driving it to the mess it is today. Arsenal did increase their spending, but much of that was because they were in direct competition with United and had to spend to keep up. And both of them had Chelsea to worry about and Chelsea were spending money in a way that we hadn't really seen in football other than when Real Madrid went crazy with the galacticos project.

I know some of these managers cross over between different eras of football... but the money in English football from '92 onwards just exponentially explode out of control.

And it really depends on the context of the question as to who you'd want as a manager with £100m. If you're talking about starting a side from basically scratch, making up an XI out of £100m... all of these managers would probably fail lol. If you're talking about one of them taking over an existing side and giving them £100m... I think Klopp and/or Wenger are the standouts with Ferguson for me as a maaaaaaybe. And for Mourinho and Pep... nah, they'll struggle with "just" £100m unless we're talking about a club that's already competitive and with a very strong academy because they're the definition of chequebook managers.

Good point by you and Spike, Ozil and Sanchez came way after. Arsenal did spend big eventually and had to, as you said Utd were competition and Chelsea came with a new rich owner. But another reason is that Wenger had one of the best scouting networks in the 90s. Other teams obviously got onto this and improved their own.

21 hours ago, MUFC said:

Things like a wet room downstairs are in huge demand. They can increase value by between 5%-10%. The key for house maintenance in my opinion is to do repairs ASAP or stay on top of general maintenance like papering and carpet changes/new floors. Too many people leave a repair or issue. In most cases doing it early usually results in a cheaper fix. People leave it for ages and damage can spread causing further issues. Long run it usually ends up costing more.

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31 minutes ago, Spike said:

Fergie constantly broke transfer fees, mate with inflation of the GPB; Rio Ferdinand’s £33,00,000 fee in 2002 has nearly doubled to £60,000,000, check it out on the bank of England.

A couple of years after we got Rio. Wenger signed Sanchez and Ozil. They were expensive, wasn't Ozil over 40 milllion?

2 hours ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Armed with batons? Yes

Armed with firearms? Not necessaryly

If it's a pretty female officer. Your best bet is to act like an asbo in the hope she smacks your arse with her baton

Do you think the police in your country should be armed?

20 degrees in Manchester with some sun. 

11 hours ago, Devil said:

Maintenance or not owning a property is an investment that can be profitable. I live locally to Manchester Airport so I've seen property prices nearly double over the last 6 years. I've sold two of my previous houses and made nearly 200k profit. I've also  converted my current houses double  garage into an extension giving me another room which I've converted into my living room. I had it valued last year five years after I bought it and it was valued over 100k more than what I bought it for. I haven't put it on the market to be fair but I could easily sell up now and move out of town and be completely mortgage free if I bought in an area house prices are more reasonable. 

All this will be left to my two children as well. 

So a little bit of maintenance shouldn't put people off.

Things like a wet room downstairs are in huge demand. They can increase value by between 5%-10%. The key for house maintenance in my opinion is to do repairs ASAP or stay on top of general maintenance like papering and carpet changes/new floors. Too many people leave a repair or issue. In most cases doing it early usually results in a cheaper fix. People leave it for ages and damage can spread causing further issues. Long run it usually ends up costing more.

15 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

If it's £100m in today's money - I'd go with Klopp or Wenger.

Ferguson didn't spend the insane amounts of money that fly around in today's era of football and he deserves a lot of credit for being the United manager and bringing them success in an era when money started flowing into football. But his best sides were not cheaply assembled sides by the standards of the day. But honestly given that he was the one that built United into a financial behemoth with his football, he could probably do a good job as well.

Not Pep or Mourinho for me, though. Chequebook managers that I can't see reaching the heights they want to reach without spending loads of money - other than instances where they inherit a dominant team at the same time as having a bunch of brilliant players coming through the academy (like Pep). They're obviously good managers, but they're the sorts of managers you want with an unlimited budget... not with financial constraints that in today's football is not all that much of a warchest to truly change a side.

Much as I've slated Pep. The youngsters he had through the system. Didn't he bring them through the ranks? He was managing the youth side and he had a big part in their development? Fergie brought in the 92 players. But from what I've heard and read. Unlike Pep he never had a full on hands on approach. Most of their development was via Brian Kidd and Eric Harrison. 

6 hours ago, Stan said:

Absolutely mental.

Getting too scary out there now.

Reductions.

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