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Train Strike FA Cup Final

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posted on 27/4/23

Won’t affect us because we all live in London!!! AMIRIGHT???!

Bantz.

comment by Pun (U21588)

posted on 27/4/23

Absolutely epic bantz

posted on 27/4/23

Basic salary for rail workers

Rail travel assistants - £33,310 - includes ticket collectors, guards and information staff

Rail construction and maintenance operatives - £34,998 - they lay and repair tracks

Rail transport operatives - £48,750 - includes signallers and drivers' assistants

Train and tram drivers - £59,189

Add in a decent pension and numerous other perks it's hard to see the workers gaining much public sympathy compared to nurses and carers etc.

posted on 27/4/23

comment by Clockwork Red: With or Wout You (U4892)
posted 5 hours, 6 minutes ago
comment by FFS Mike. (U1170)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by (K̇ash) - Liverpool 7-0 Man U (U1108)
posted 1 minute ago
Will be hard for the City fans for sure.
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They’ve all chipped in for a minibus.
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Hearing that McGoo Travel has gone bust as well.
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Isn't Curly Watts the CEO of that blue bus company

posted on 27/4/23

Maybe Mick Hucknall and Eamonn Holmes can organise a march for United fans from Marble Arch to Wembley.

posted on 27/4/23

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 22 minutes ago
Maybe Mick Hucknall and Eamonn Holmes can organise a march for United fans from Marble Arch to Wembley.
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And meanwhile Liam Gallagher could organise a City firm to meet up with the train drivers in the sidings and kick the crap out of them

posted on 27/4/23

comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 43 minutes ago
comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 54 seconds ago
You go drive a train at 100 mph with no where to go if something happens
Then got drive a bus at 50mph


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or look at it as drive it at 100mph on a road that has no real other traffic, or inconsistencies you see on a road. no lane changes, lights that the train auto stops for and you get a perfect forecast of whats ahead.

Oh and dont have to deal with passengers. For me the bus driver has to do the job of conductor and driver and his job has more stress and pressure due to the randomness and inconsistency in the route in comparison.
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A perfect forecast on what’s ahead?
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yes, there is a train 15mins ahead goign at this speed, wil stop here, here and here for 5mins, then stop at this light for so so mins.

A bus driver literally figures it out and adjusts as he goes, there is far far more unpredictability between the rail and road.
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Bit like the bus driver who hit a fecking bridge causing train delays yesterday meaning I got stuck in London Waterloo for hours?

Kunnnnnnnnnnnnnttyttttttt

posted on 27/4/23

comment by Ali - (U1192)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 43 minutes ago
comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 54 seconds ago
You go drive a train at 100 mph with no where to go if something happens
Then got drive a bus at 50mph


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or look at it as drive it at 100mph on a road that has no real other traffic, or inconsistencies you see on a road. no lane changes, lights that the train auto stops for and you get a perfect forecast of whats ahead.

Oh and dont have to deal with passengers. For me the bus driver has to do the job of conductor and driver and his job has more stress and pressure due to the randomness and inconsistency in the route in comparison.
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A perfect forecast on what’s ahead?
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yes, there is a train 15mins ahead goign at this speed, wil stop here, here and here for 5mins, then stop at this light for so so mins.

A bus driver literally figures it out and adjusts as he goes, there is far far more unpredictability between the rail and road.
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Bit like the bus driver who hit a fecking bridge causing train delays yesterday meaning I got stuck in London Waterloo for hours?

Kunnnnnnnnnnnnnttyttttttt
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On a more positive note, you could use your Oyster Card to get to Wembley.

posted on 27/4/23

comment by TopForm (U15726)
posted 1 hour, 34 minutes ago
Lots of strikes going on these days, nurses, train drivers, spurs players.
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And arsenal players

posted on 27/4/23

Rail transport operatives - £48,750 - includes signallers and drivers' assistants

Bollox

posted on 27/4/23

comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 7 minutes ago
Rail transport operatives - £48,750 - includes signallers and drivers' assistants

Bollox
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/61840077

posted on 27/4/23

Ok so you telling me how much my basic is

That for signallers is a grade 9 basic and that’s as high as signallers can go

It goes from Hrade 1 to grade 9

So it a more bollox from media

posted on 27/4/23

comment by Fan Gillhaus 1903 (U3339)
posted 1 minute ago
Ok so you telling me how much my basic is

That for signallers is a grade 9 basic and that’s as high as signallers can go

It goes from Hrade 1 to grade 9

So it a more bollox from media
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Don't shoot the messanger.

posted on 27/4/23

All throughout our strikes media were speaking shiete

posted on 27/4/23

The only way to get a good raise is to do the following things

1. Get a new job
2. Threaten to quit (nicely of course)
3. Strike

If the train staff got 4% I've no qualms with them striking.
4% is a pay cut.

posted on 27/4/23

comment by Dave the Save (U22987)
posted 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
The FA should hold it at Goodison Park
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They should play the Cup Final at OT.

Split it down the middle. Make City the home team. Give them the home dressingroom and their fans the Stretford End. Game on.

posted on 27/4/23

comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Dave the Save (U22987)
posted 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
The FA should hold it at Goodison Park
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They should play the Cup Final at OT.

Split it down the middle. Make City the home team. Give them the home dressingroom and their fans the Stretford End. Game on.


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Would still have home pitch advantage

posted on 27/4/23

comment by TopForm (U15726)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Dave the Save (U22987)
posted 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
The FA should hold it at Goodison Park
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They should play the Cup Final at OT.

Split it down the middle. Make City the home team. Give them the home dressingroom and their fans the Stretford End. Game on.


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Would still have home pitch advantage
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how does that work then?

I dont think Pep and City would worry about that.

posted on 27/4/23

comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by TopForm (U15726)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Dave the Save (U22987)
posted 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
The FA should hold it at Goodison Park
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They should play the Cup Final at OT.

Split it down the middle. Make City the home team. Give them the home dressingroom and their fans the Stretford End. Game on.


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Would still have home pitch advantage
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how does that work then?

I dont think Pep and City would worry about that.
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If you spend a lot of time playing on a particular pitch you'll know it's nuances better than the opposition.

posted on 27/4/23

comment by TopForm (U15726)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by TopForm (U15726)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Dave the Save (U22987)
posted 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
The FA should hold it at Goodison Park
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They should play the Cup Final at OT.

Split it down the middle. Make City the home team. Give them the home dressingroom and their fans the Stretford End. Game on.


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Would still have home pitch advantage
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how does that work then?

I dont think Pep and City would worry about that.
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If you spend a lot of time playing on a particular pitch you'll know it's nuances better than the opposition.
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posted on 27/4/23

Not sure why that's funny, home field advantage is a well known and studied phenomenon. Whichever way you cut it they would still feel at home and have an advantage.

posted on 27/4/23

You'd know this just from playing sunday football in a league

posted on 27/4/23

comment by TopForm (U15726)
posted 7 seconds ago
Not sure why that's funny, home field advantage is a well known and studied phenomenon. Whichever way you cut it they would still feel at home and have an advantage.
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You have just googled that. Home field. FFS Its a pitch. You think that the smell of the turf is a factor?

Show me a link to the evidence about the nuanaces of the turf as a home advantage

posted on 27/4/23

comment by TopForm (U15726)
posted 7 minutes ago
You'd know this just from playing sunday football in a league
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I played a higher level than that. On good pitches. Not cow fields.

comment by Busby (U19985)

posted on 27/4/23

comment by Ali - (U1192)
posted 43 minutes ago
The only way to get a good raise is to do the following things

1. Get a new job
2. Threaten to quit (nicely of course)
3. Strike

If the train staff got 4% I've no qualms with them striking.
4% is a pay cut.
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It’s 4% for two years. So an almost £5k pay rise.

I’m all for helping people with the cost of living, but somebody turning down a £5k increase when already on £59k, whilst choosing not to work deliberately on big public events pishes me off.

If the whole country has an 8% pay rise, guess what? Inflation continues at 10%+.

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