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Post by empirebaypete on Nov 23, 2021 21:36:52 GMT
As someone else said earlier I thought the first bloke to get sent off was a bit unlucky. I've seen a yellow given for that.
But for both those reds the referee was in good position and had a good view.
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Post by empirebaypete on Nov 23, 2021 19:45:19 GMT
Morning All.
I've got a morning off work. Thought I'd pay for this one.
Come on GAS
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Post by empirebaypete on Nov 16, 2021 22:42:42 GMT
Can't believe what I've just seen. Best tenner I've spent in a long time. Nearly went home at 3-1. They should have got a fourth too but somehow failed to score. I went out and mowed the lawn. Missed the excitement.
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Post by empirebaypete on Nov 16, 2021 22:26:35 GMT
Blimey!!!!
I was only following the text on match centre. Decided to go and mow the lawn when Oxford's third went in. Finished the lawn, come in for a cuppa...... Wow!!!! what a result.
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Post by empirebaypete on Sept 26, 2021 1:31:00 GMT
Hope everybody is enjoying their Saturday night - doesn't matter if you're Barton In/Out or shake it all about - 3 points away is the important thing. Sunday morning here. Woke up around 6. I thought to myself, do I even want to check my phone for the score?
Woo hoo, what a surprise. So after 5 or 6 days of sunshine it's tipping down this morning. But a Rovers win & bacon & eggs on the barbie and everything's great.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jul 24, 2021 23:07:18 GMT
Wtf. If true he has to be sacked. Total and utter scum. Vile human being. Leopards don't change their sports. Just read the article myself.
Your post sums it up completely.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jul 6, 2021 0:39:58 GMT
Wouldn't trust an ombudsman as far as I could throw them. Had one experience with them and they found in favour of the investment company despite me acting upon the advice given to me !! Not the Ombudsman itself, but a formal letter of complaint addressed to the Chief Executive threatening to go to the Ombudsman tends to concentrate minds. I was having difficulties with a Unit Trust I had, and wanted to sell. Long story.
Anyhow having had a few emails from them, I then looked up the Chairman, CEO etc. Wasn't hard too guess their email addresses from the info I already had. That soon got it sorted.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jul 5, 2021 0:55:33 GMT
Not meaning to chip in on something I know very little about, but just in case things get a bit messy, perhaps think about contacting the Pensions Ombudsman? Wouldn't trust an ombudsman as far as I could throw them. Had one experience with them and they found in favour of the investment company despite me acting upon the advice given to me !! The L&G one and one of the Aviva ones I think will be OK.
The Aviva one with a higher amount I think could be a problem. I think they've made a mistake. I'm in no hurry really. Some time in the next year it will have to be sorted.
I might take you up on the offer to get you to look at the paperwork if that's OK. Just to see if you think it looks OK, or dodgy. I won't be asking you to sort an issues out.
cheers Pete
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Post by empirebaypete on Jul 4, 2021 1:49:04 GMT
Thanks. I had a few red wines last night so never got any further. The coach of my football team here as supposedly walked out on us after the best season in years. So was on our forum, drinking and ranting.
I think the Legal & General one will be fine.
The Aviva one however I'm not sure. The bloke I was corresponding with on Facebook said he couldn't access the policy number I'd given him.
Also I mentioned before. I have one Aviva policy with not much in at all. I have a policy number for that.
The other letter I have is just two pages. But worth more.
I'll fire off an email and see what happens.
Feel free to PM me any details, I may recall the area you need to speak with. Otherwise I'd suggest sending copies of your correspondence to him as it may provide additional details. Aviva have acquired several other companies over the years, it could be one of the lesser known ones. Just to finish this thread off.
Legal & General have got back to me and I can see how much I have etc. So that's a plus. As for the terms regarding paying a pension to my partner, when it says legally married, I'll have to take a look at that. Aviva have also got back to me and are being as vague as vague can be.
I can't log in to my account because.... reasons. Reasons they don't seem to wish to disclose at the moment.
Still a starting point for both.
cheers
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 16, 2021 22:44:49 GMT
Just a bit of a rant. It's cold here today, so i thought I'd start sorting this out. First stop Aviva. What a load of bollocks. Doesn't like my phone number or postcode despite Australia being in the dropdown menu. It let me register with the address and phone number but it can't find my pension because of the errors. So I try the contact us. It doesn't like the numbers either.
So to contact them for help I need to put my details in.
Their system doesn't like my details. Round in circles.
FFS.
A few hours later and I've had a good discussion about my pension and the Euros with Andy from Aviva via Facebook. Now got an email address.
One email to Legal & General and they've sent a link to log in too.
I was about to write a response then saw your update, hopefully you've now made contact and can get this moving. Thanks. I had a few red wines last night so never got any further. The coach of my football team here as supposedly walked out on us after the best season in years. So was on our forum, drinking and ranting.
I think the Legal & General one will be fine.
The Aviva one however I'm not sure. The bloke I was corresponding with on Facebook said he couldn't access the policy number I'd given him.
Also I mentioned before. I have one Aviva policy with not much in at all. I have a policy number for that.
The other letter I have is just two pages. But worth more.
I'll fire off an email and see what happens.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 16, 2021 11:11:35 GMT
What's for dinner. Left overs. Pork, roast potato, cauli, broccoli, peas beans gravy. With loads of red wine.
Now I wasn't going to have the red wine. But.
Just so you all know Rovers aren't the only f**ked up team on the planet. I've arrived home tonight to find our (Central Coast Mariners) coach has walked out. We've been crap for 5 seasons. He turned it around. We finished 3rd. Now he's gone and done a Coughlan and walked out.
Hence the red wine.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 16, 2021 1:39:22 GMT
Just a bit of a rant. It's cold here today, so i thought I'd start sorting this out. First stop Aviva. What a load of bollocks. Doesn't like my phone number or postcode despite Australia being in the dropdown menu. It let me register with the address and phone number but it can't find my pension because of the errors. So I try the contact us. It doesn't like the numbers either.
So to contact them for help I need to put my details in.
Their system doesn't like my details. Round in circles.
FFS.
A few hours later and I've had a good discussion about my pension and the Euros with Andy from Aviva via Facebook. Now got an email address.
One email to Legal & General and they've sent a link to log in too.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 11, 2021 0:08:55 GMT
I haven't read that article but they were talking about this trade deal on the radio here the other day.
They were saying about the UK farmers being concerned that there would be a flood of Aussie Lamb & Beef in the UK market. That in turn could lead to lower prices. I still find it unbelievable it's cheaper to take meat half way around the world than it is to produce it locally.
Every so often here in Australia there'll be a campaign to eat more locally produced pork. We're told that a lot of the pork products we eat here (bacon especially) is produced in Canada. Why? How is it cheaper to transport the stuff.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 3, 2021 0:19:12 GMT
G'day all.
I live in Australia now, so sorting things via email are a bit tricky to say the least. I was planning on making a trip to the UK sometime and sorting this out was going to be one of the things I did. Obviously that's going to happen any time soon.
I have a pension with Aviva that was set up in 1987.
Does anyone work for them?
Or would anyone be willing to help me get a ideal of what's going on with it?
I also have another pension with Legal & General.
Any help would be appreciated. cheers Pete
Is your Aviva pension a private pension or a preserved occupational pension?. If it's occupational I can point you in the right direction as my wife is in the process of arranging to take her aviva pension in September when she's 55. As stuart says there is an app or via their website you can register for MyAviva which gives you access to investment policies, pensions, insurances you may hold with them. Exactly what you can do through this I don't know. Unless you 100% know what you want to do with your pension I agree with Stuart and reccomend independent advice, because for example the 25% tax free lump sum may not be tax free in your country of residence (as I have found out here in France). I'm not sure if the pension is private or preserved. It says in the first bit of the letter Personal Pensions Policy.
Look, to be honest the letter arrives every year and I think, yeah later. My main pension is here in Australia. I've always thought of the English ones as something I'd take a lump sum on and travel around Europe for six months or so. I'm just looking at one lot of paperwork from Aviva, it has my retirement date next year, when I turn 60. Also this year I suddenly have two lots of paperwork. With two different figures. One figure quite a bit more than the other. This has sort of piqued my interest in it.
Regarding the L&G one. One bit that sort of stands out is the bit about if I were to die. It says. The total spouse’s pension is payable to the person to whom you are legally married at the date of your death. Is that right? Legally married? I ask as we are not married. Been together for 25 years though.
Regarding the recommendation of an independent adviser. Thanks but I tend to just run things past my accountant. We have to fill in a tax return every year in Australia. Quite a few people use accountants. Easier & if the tax office doesn't like something the accountant would sort it out. He's not an adviser as such, but he'd know about the lump sum being tax free or not. I mentioned the legally married bit to him and he thought it was out of date, and didn't think they'd have clauses like that in Australia.
I might start off by sending a couple of emails and if that's no good, I'll send some letters.
cheers
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 2, 2021 23:21:31 GMT
G'day all.
I live in Australia now, so sorting things via email are a bit tricky to say the least. I was planning on making a trip to the UK sometime and sorting this out was going to be one of the things I did. Obviously that's going to happen any time soon.
I have a pension with Aviva that was set up in 1987.
Does anyone work for them?
Or would anyone be willing to help me get a ideal of what's going on with it?
I also have another pension with Legal & General.
Any help would be appreciated. cheers Pete
I used to work for a company that administer some of the Aviva policies, I know that they were introducing an online system called MyAviva which would allow some policies to be accessed by the policyholders without the need to always call up. Your options could include transferring, leaving them for the time being or taking them but each would have their own pros and cons depending on your circumstances. Do you know what you are after? Your best bet would be to look for independent financial advice. Thanks. I did take a look at the Aviva site.
I didn't bother trying to register as other financial sites seem to want you to call when first registering. To be honest I haven't looked, so this one may be different. This may sound strange, but we have no landline and my mobile contract doesn't have international calls on it. All calls are made on Whatsapp.
I'm not after financial advice. More just general stuff on what happens to the pension in a few years.
Or in the case of the Aviva one which has a retirement date of next year when I hit 60. Also I'm a bit confused as I have two lots of paperwork for Aviva, with two sets of figures. Two figures which are are even close to each other.
I thought there was only one account?
The Legal & General one is I had a long time ago. I worked at Purnells printers at Paulton. I really am kicking myself over this.
I didn't realise I had a pension with them. I thought I'd left before the pension scheme started. Over all these years in Australia (30) I never heard from them. Then a couple of years ago I had a letter telling me of privacy changes. I contacted them a few times and never heard back. Then I got on their facebook page. Got onto some bloke who asked for my national insurance number. Strangely enough I had been sorting some old paperwork the week before and noticed an old wage slip stuck in amongst it. Replied to L&G and then got told, no pension here under that number. Then the next day I got a reply from an email I'd sent weeks before. The email had all the details of a pension with them and a secure email system to log into. That was fine. Every so often they'd send an email saying I hadn't logged in for a while and I'd log in. Then an email turned up saying much the same. I admit I didn't read it all. When I went back to read it later I found they'd turned off the secure email and I had to re register. The system won't let me register, so I had access to it and then I didn't!!!
As I said I was planning on taking a trip over at some point and sorting this out was going to be one of the things I was going to do. Maybe I'll send letters to them. Although I've tried that with L&G and never got replies. My main pensions are in Australia. The UK ones are small and an added bonus.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 2, 2021 11:50:03 GMT
I reckon that Joey will already have his own keeper in mind if he is not happy with the loss of Annsi for Internationals. I believe JB should be looking for Annsi's full commitment after the Euros as he is no 3 there is really no chance that he will ever get first choice and therefore should consider retiring from International football and concentrate on his bread and butter. If he does not wish to do that then i think hhe should be made available for transfer and a new no 1 brought in. Annsi probably gets a couple of grand for just turning up for internationals though. Not bad money if you can make that.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 2, 2021 11:37:13 GMT
For those of you wanting to know what Buckie is like, in the states they have something called Night Train. In 1986 Guns N Roses released a great album called Appetite For Destruction. There is a song on that album called Night Train about the drink, check out the song and the lyrics. Tells you all you need to know. Whilst you loose yourself in that fantastic album and what a great voice Axl Rose actually has, check out the great artwork inside the cover. Can’t remember what it’s called now but there is a Robot saving a lady from being sexually assaulted by another robot. Amazing stuff. “I’m on the night train, I love that stuff! I’m on the night train, never get enough.... no” Buckie is banned in the States🤪 Many, many years ago we were coming back from a holiday in Devon or Cornwall. We stopped at Buckfast Abbey. I would probably been 10 or 11 and remember being told by a monk I was too young to buy the stuff. My parents probably bought it anyway.
I can't remember exactly when, but I have tried it. All I can say is I'd never try it again.
I've tried Kava too. I'd never drink that again either.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 2, 2021 11:29:48 GMT
Well I had planned to have something sort of healthy. Meat & steamed veg.
Had a bad day at work (bloody Australian managers) and ended up having corned beef, cheese & tomato toasted sandwiches. While finishing off a half bottle of white wine. Then cursing my 16 year old for eating all the chocolate biscuits that were open.
Still tomorrow's another day.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 2, 2021 10:56:35 GMT
While we are on this angle, have you guys seen much of Jamie Maclaren over there, for Melbourne? He looks a great player whenever I’ve seen him on BT Sport but no idea how that would translate from the level of the league over there, or if he’s consistently as good as the games I’ve seen him in? He spent 4 years at Blackburn when young, and came to Europe again for a few years with a short loan spell at Hibs Yeah. Top scorer in the A league I think.
He's off with the Aussie team. Playing world cup qualifiers in Kuwait.
I would have thought if he fancied another trip overseas he'd be heading for the Championship at least.
He plays for Melbourne City and they're part of the Manchester City group so pay is probably OK. And what with the covid situation he might think Australia is a safer place to be at the moment. Although there's an outbreak in Melbourne, so they're in lockdown for a couple of weeks.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jun 2, 2021 10:50:20 GMT
No, not really. 5 goals in 27 games for WSW.
ALF is way out of our league. Scored a heap for Sydney FC. Then went to India for the $. Now back at Sydney for the next 18 months.
All the up & coming players seem to aim for better than Rovers. We (Central Coast Mariners) have a young bloke heading for Stuttgart at the end of the season.
A 1 in 5 record then. I was interested to see Shrewsbury sign the right sided Australian Matt Millar on loan and he seemed to impress during his spell there this season. He reckons the A-League "level of quality is pretty similar" to League One. Matt Millar is a snake. He was at the Mariners and jumped ship to Newcastle Jets. Just left without giving the Mariners a chance to match the offer.
Admittedly we were going through a bad spell. But even so. Snake. Apparently Shrewsbury didn't think he was good enough.
No not great.
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