Michael Carr

@Barnsleyfcpolls No, I wasn’t going to renew after 50 years anyway due to the death by a 1000 cuts the cub has suffered since being in admin. Assets separated, on field success mismanaged, the club less concerned by what happens on the pitch and more with social media pretence that all is well.

Has Conor’s interview changed your opinion on renewing your season ticket.

@PenistoneGS is anyone there ?

The ancient Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and to give them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription reads: “I am in tears while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”

@CuthbertLodge Concur totally - Gudjon Thordarson performed miracles & was treated shabbily - same with Andy Ritchie. Only one who got a free pass was Simon Davey

@Spike1887 Absolutely spot on The truth hurts I would argue though that it started before Hecky - Robins was forced out by The Saviour, who wasn’t really a saviour in my book.

Pulls the plaster off the wound that is how this club has been run for years. Nobody wants to face facts - keep flogging quality & not backing whoever the manager is with squad investment and this is where we get. Been going on since Hecky had his team sold from under him.

@SamWatt30745054 He’s laid it out - waffle & bullshit from ‘the club’ for last few years has totally contradicted actual events - he’s the latest fall guy, but it’s weird that everyone who said earlier in season that we have no hope have now had an attack of the vapours.

All those saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing 😝 He’s engineering his way out of the club without losing face and making sure he’s not unemployable next time round. Should be no outrage because lots of folk want him out anyway surely

The Workshop of the World Chose to Close Britain did not lose its industrial base. It dismissed it. There is a difference, and it matters, because one is tragedy and the other is a choice. Britain invented the industrial age. It mined the coal, smelted the steel, built the ships and laid the pipes. It did not inherit these capabilities from a more productive civilisation. It created them. For the better part of two centuries, the physical infrastructure of British life was built and maintained by British hands, from British ground. The country knew how to keep itself alive. It has spent the last thirty years methodically dismantling that knowledge. Not because the resources ran out. Britain has gas beneath its own sea floor right now. It has the geology for gas storage. It had blast furnaces capable of producing virgin steel until last year. The resources did not disappear. The will to use them did. The consequences of that choice are no longer theoretical. This week, with Middle East supplies disrupted and Goldman Sachs warning that oil prices could breach the peaks of 2008 and 2022, Britain found itself with 1.5 days of gas in reserve. Europe had several weeks. Britain stores between 2 and 6 percent of its annual gas demand. Germany stores 25 to 30 percent. France and Italy around 20 percent. The gap exists because successive governments pulled funding from storage infrastructure and watched it collapse. They assumed the gas would always be flowing. It is not flowing now. And Britain has nothing to fall back on. It must outbid rivals for every tanker that docks. Traders know this. The UK gas hub price has moved above the main European benchmark all the way to the end of May. Britain is not a victim of market forces. It is a country that voluntarily removed every buffer between its population and the market, and is now surprised to find itself at the market's mercy. Steel tells the same story in a different register. Scunthorpe's blast furnaces are gone. Port Talbot's primary steelmaking is gone. Britain is now the only G7 country that cannot produce virgin steel, a distinction it shares with no comparable nation on earth. Energy minister Sarah Jones told a parliamentary committee that Britain needs virgin steel. She said yes, on the record, when asked directly. The government let the last of it go anyway. The carbon taxes applied to domestic producers but not to imports until 2027 are not a technicality. They are a policy that made British steel unviable while foreign steel entered the market untouched. The industry was made to fail. Ed Miliband appeared on the BBC to explain that Britain had been left at the mercy of international energy markets. He has been Energy Secretary since July. The North Sea licences his government has declined to issue, the storage his department has not built: these are his decisions now. Jon Butterworth, chief executive of National Gas, wrote to him directly warning that keeping the lights on would require three new storage facilities or six giant LNG barges. Miliband's department said it was confident in security of supply. There are 1.5 days of gas in the system. The political class that made these decisions will not go cold this winter. They will not lose jobs in Scunthorpe. They will not face the mortgage pressure that Mohamed El-Erian warned about on Radio 4, when he said the average British person would be hit from multiple sides, on energy, on borrowing costs, on the price of goods across every supply chain that runs through the Strait of Hormuz. The consequences of three decades of voluntary de-industrialisation will land, as they always do, on people who had no vote on the strategy and no seat at the table when it was designed. "Britain invented the industrial age. It mined the coal, smelted the steel, built the ships and laid the pipes. It did not inherit these capabilities from a more productive civilisation. It created them."

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@BarnsleyFC This league is bent

We break away and Cleary tries on goal, but it's blocked. Huge appeals for a penalty but those are waved away. 🟨 1-2 🅱️ [90+3’]

@BarnsleyFC Shocker. Bent fuckers

McGoldrick goes down in the area but nothing is given. 🟨 1-2 🅱️ [65’]

One day, I don’t know when, but we’ll keep a clean sheet

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@TommiPedruzzi @The_Healthy_Man Not yet

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The energy debate in Britain has to be the most retarded in the world, eclipsing even the Germans. To anyone who has just started to listen-in, Britain appears to be the only part of the world where exploiting domestic hydrocarbons has zero impact on markets and is net negative to the national finances, and where the environmental impact is apparently uniquely damaging. We taxed the N Sea oil & gas sector into oblivion, while importing £10bns worth from the Norwegians—from the same sea. We banned onshore shale gas exploration while importing it from the US. We’ve de facto banned coal mining and blew up our coal plants without reliable replacement. We de sold off and de facto euthanised our civil nuclear sector, while making it virtually impossible to build new plants—those plants being built left ruinously expensive. What new capacity we’ve built is made up of unreliable solar and wind, both of which require vast direct subsidises to be economical; and biomass, the largest producer of which is a former coal plant refitted to burn N American forests—with worse emissions and being more expensive than coal. We sold off and decommissioned almost all our gas storage, leaving us with maybe 2 days capacity. Our electricity production has contracted some 20% since 2005, while our population has increased by roughly the same. The result: we have the most expensive electricity in the industrial world. What industry we had left is disappearing, and the wealth along with it. Despite the wars, the prices and the loss of industry and the impact on our national BoP, our leaders have done precisely sweet F-ALL about it—Nay! They have double downed on the absurd policies. Either we’re uniquely retarded, or we’re governed by utterly corrupt officials who are in the pocket of vested interests. Frankly, I think it’s both.

Enjoyed his walk via boozer

@JoM121077 @Dave103L Not having that, I’d make a right bollocks of it. The only way is to spend a full afternoon fighting like fuck with the bloody things

Just what sort of witchcraft is this?