Season Ticket Renewal

[BaggyTrousers]

Last season STs dropped by 600, if they only drop by another 600 this year I reckon they will be relatively happy. If they had lost that play-off to Ospreys and been in the Parker Pen...............who knows?

[Sue Dename]

What Neil Best could have written is facts like Ulster's financial 3-year plan was showing an escalating loss for three years.

Year 1 they turn a profit, albeit small. That's a win-win.
Year 1 only 3 clubs in the whole of European rugby turn a profit, Ulster Leinster and Northampton.

What Neil missed is that Wasps is owned by a consortium who adjacent to Ricoh Stadium own a Hotel and a Casino to fund the Rugby club, and they still make a loss.

It will be a cold day in hell when Neil praises Ulster for astute financial management.

[Rooster]

Was in a bakery yesterday and all cakes were marked at 50p, except for one marked at £1.

I said why is that one £1 and all the others 50p?
The baker said well thats madeira cake

I hope you put your coat on and started to walk after posting that Mervyn

[Snipe Watson]

Was in a bakery yesterday and all cakes were marked at 50p, except for one marked at £1.

I said why is that one £1 and all the others 50p?
The baker said well thats madeira cake

I hope you put your coat on and started to walk after posting that Mervyn

In fairness to Mervyn he didn't put it in the "joke of the day" thread....

[BaggyTrousers]

What Neil Best could have written is facts like Ulster's financial 3-year plan was showing an escalating loss for three years.

Year 1 they turn a profit, albeit small. That's a win-win.
Year 1 only 3 clubs in the whole of European rugby turn a profit, Ulster Leinster and Northampton.

What Neil missed is that Wasps is owned by a consortium who adjacent to Ricoh Stadium own a Hotel and a Casino to fund the Rugby club, and they still make a loss.

It will be a cold day in hell when Neil praises Ulster for astute financial management.

Yeah, well I know you aren't addressing me directly, but whilst I have no interest in Neil Best or Wasps or for that matter any other club, what he said & what I have said about Ulster's finances is largely correct and you have simply confirmed it. I have no problem with Ulster turning a profit, I just explained how it was made, the efforts of others on the rugby pitch.

Any corrections you'd like to make to the above I'd love to hear. As I said, my comments were without any access to UR's financials.

[Deraless]

Was in a bakery yesterday and all cakes were marked at 50p, except for one marked at £1.

I said why is that one £1 and all the others 50p?
The baker said well thats madeira cake

I hope you put your coat on and started to walk after posting that Mervyn

A man walks into a Bakery shop in Ballymena.
He says to the Baker "Is that a cake or a meringue?"
The baker replies "You were right first time, it's a cake."

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[damianmcr]

When you have to put on an accent to get the joke!

[rumncoke]

Baggy

Yes social housing was sold off cheap — which seems a mistake - if you believe the sale was to create a profit — the hope was to create Estates of mixed tenure — and reduce or avoid the costs of maintenance — which are not insubstantial because it is virtually impossible to control and guarantee value for money in the public sector.

The fact is that 99 times out of a 100 times the repair request inadequately describes and /or quantifies the repair necessary and the request can become a blank cheque- that does not mean contractors make a profit because frequently the tender prices fail to take into account the time that can be wasted as a result of that failure .

Social housing is only as good as the tenants some are good but unfortunately too many are not .

Grenfell tower a disaster exposed the problems the local authority had no idea who and how many tenants lived in the tower .




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[UlsterNo9]

Baggy

Yes social housing was sold off cheap — which seems a mistake - if you believe the sale was to create a profit — the hope was to create Estates of mixed tenure — and reduce or avoid the costs of maintenance — which are not insubstantial because it is virtually impossible to control and guarantee value for money in the public sector.

The fact is that 99 times out of a 100 times the repair request inadequately describes and /or quantifies the repair necessary and the request can become a blank cheque- that does not mean contractors make a profit because frequently the tender prices fail to take into account the time that can be wasted as a result of that failure .

Social housing is only as good as the tenants some are good but unfortunately too many are not .

Grenfell tower a disaster exposed the problems the local authority had no idea who and how many tenants lived in the tower .




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Thanks Neil Best for another insightful discussion.

[Dave]

Rumsplaining or in other words bullsh1t.

[rumncoke]

Dave

I know more about social housing than you ass knows about f-rting .

At one time for a population of 1.6 million in NI we were building over 500 houses per annum

Croydon population 4-500,000 built 54 but then the greater London area doesn't have much undeveloped land going cheap .

Build more is easy said but not easy to do when everybody goes NIMBY


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[Dave]

Off topic

[BR]

Still no regrets.

[bangorboy]

What size was the crowd for Scarlets?

[Tender]

Some of them were huge.