Good morning, everyone. My name is Leonel Fernandez for more president of the Dominican Republic I have the honor and pleasure of being able to speak today to the president of the United Mexican States Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, I had the honor of sharing with you recently in Chile and I remembered We remembered our first meeting now. We have you here today I would say this is a memorable moment to talk about the achievements during the first year of your presidency with your reform package It's very interesting because four years ago in 2010 Mexico was celebrating its independence by centennial and it marked the creation of the nation state of Mexico and it also coincided With the hundred-year celebration of the Mexican Revolution With the caretaro constitution it introduced the social component for governor for governance Later They mentioned that your party the institutional revolutionary party the pre had ruled 71 years That it was needed some sort of democratic alternance in the country that happened 12 years past and now the pre is back in power with you with a very important reform agenda for the transformation of the country You have accomplished the pact for Mexico a pact that has five key points Divided in 95 commitments and I would like president for you to talk to us about how the pact of Mexico will bring about the social economic Cultural transformation of your country. Thank you very much. Mr. Luna Fernandez I am very pleased to be here in the forum for Latin America It's a great honor that I am here to share this panel with you so that I may share what is happening in Mexico Here I have an opportunity to greet many people from Latin America from Mexico and the remaining region Sister and brother countries all whom I have had the opportunity to Agreed in a different venues. I apologize for the slight delay. It's been a very hectic morning and because I Was with president martinelli and we signed the free trade agreement with Panama and other Tools for greater integration between the two countries, especially in economic matters I ask for your understanding and I you I Will try to be Very open in my participation Mexico is a country that has been consolidating its democracy in the past decades Few countries in the Latin American region and the rest of the world Can It can be said of them that For 100 years from 1934 that they've had a great economic political and social stability in Mexico in this democratic climate That is increasingly Consolidated a country that's more diverse more pluralistic where all voices are Recognized have representation within the different venues in the political sphere that our country has this has allowed This Political democratic mobility like you mentioned in 2010 after 70 years of rule by one country in Mexico My political party we had political alternance. We had two administrations Beginning in the year 2000 and in 2012 the party I represent again Won the election But regardless of the political reality in the country is very different We had a A hegem hegemony in the government now we have a plural participation diverse participation of political forces Within this context it was fundamental to establish conditions that would allow the country To change to effect structural changes that would make it possible for Mexico to attain Greater development growth in the next years This is what gave rise to the pact for Mexico that you mentioned the pact for Mexico is Nothing more than an agreement of political wills between the government of the Republic and the main political forces in the country We agreed jointly an agenda of structural changes that the country had postponed for years and That was a fundamental to undertake within this framework of the pact for Mexico It was eventual that There would arise natural differences However, the pact has provided Mexico with important structural changes So which I would like to refer to and just list them and we can expand on them first Labor reform in the transition period From the end of the previous government period and the beginning of the one that I lead it's a reform that Makes the labor market more flexible opens up hiring opportunities, especially for women young people who with little experience May have greater facility and joining the workforce beginning with this we Enacted reforms on a consensual basis a reform to improve the quality of education Recognizing that public policy in educational matters that had been undertaken until then had attained a Fundamental element, which is educational coverage at the basic level now preschool middle school high school and also upper high school and Higher education now the challenge is to ensure Quality and education and that's the goal of the education reform in Mexico Not only of a constitutional order, but through secondary legislation The topic has been how to achieve economic growth Competitiveness production now regarding that sphere because we know Mexico has macroeconomic stability There is a low inflation rate Interest rates are low, but you have faced economic growth challenges How is the pact of Mexico in your government? How do you intend to launch competitiveness and economic growth? I think there have been several ways That included in the one-sided list that whose fundamental goal is for Mexico to achieve greater economic growth because Mr. President The truth is that Mexico Even though it had had positive Economic growth rates on average in the last few years. They were below its potential An average of 2.4 percent per year low Even more so in contrast with other regional economies that have experienced far superior growth Facing this potential, there's reforms that will certainly influence economic growth for Mexico Will list some first a reform in Telecommunications to open up the sector to greater competition to achieve digital inclusion which is indeed a challenge today to ensure that all the population can enjoy these services in any part of our country and Economic competency reform Which intends to fight monopolies and establish conditions Optimal conditions within a legal framework to promote greater economic competition a Reform a financial reform that will basically Target the achievement of more credit To promote small and medium-sized businesses This points to Mexico's macroeconomic conditions, which are very favorable if the Mexican financial system is solid robust solvent And maybe with some adjustments that were made during the financial crisis that our country suffered in 1995 before that Before the economic crisis That due to institutional financial institutional reasons the world experienced later But this economic reform I insist is targeted to ensure greater access to credit for Mexicans And for small and medium-sized businesses fiscal reform That is directed at bolstering the economic capacity of the state its governments and also to lessen dependency on oil revenues and Energy reform which is perhaps the most important achieved within a sphere In which no legal modifications had been introduced in at least 50 years and which will become in the most important element to promote Mexico's economic growth the job creation and Regional development throughout the national territory this energy reform Will make it possible To have greater competition The Exploitation of new energy sources, especially clean energies And it ensures that this is the goal of the reform for Mexico to have for its Population for its small medium-sized companies, which are the ones that generate more jobs in Mexico To have access to energy supplies that are cheaper That better prices and this will generate greater competitiveness for our country I believe that this is the most important transcendental reform that Mexico has attained within this reform agenda that we have spoken about and right now The Congress is debating several of these issues Now other reforms have taken place within the constitutional framework, but now Congress is taking care of enacting secondary legislation To ensure the achievement and implementation of these reforms that I spoke about as you indicated the Mexican state shall continue to own hydrocarbons and Therefore the reform is not a private privatization How can the private sector participate in the reforms the ones especially in the energy and telecommunications sector in telecommunications? The reform first of all establishes That there will be a regulatory body Cistell That will open up more competition within the sector there will be more television Stations now we have practically to there will be more and additional one Owned by the Mexican state and this will open up competition and can you have foreign direct investment there? There will be foreign direct investment in terms of percentages Corresponding to reciprocity with other countries Where the cap the originating capital comes from? In regarding energy issues first it is very clear in the reform that we enacted last year that the Ownership of the hydrocarbons is and shall be the Mexican states However for its exploitation we open up the possibility of allowing the private sector to participate in the exploitation of these Pemex establishes conditions to allow for greater capacity and bolstering it Talk for allowing it to compete and this will open up Participation regarding hydrocarbons and energy sources to this effect a regulatory body will be created and It will establish a first of all a zero round in which Pemex establishes the areas That shall be developed and certainly Next year the beginning of the year. They will establish they will open up another round To establish the possibility of participation by the private sector this mechanism that I must insist in which the Ownership by the Mexican state prevails over hydrocarbons, but it generates mechanisms for the private sector to participate is Based on in the successful experiences of other countries Especially in the Latin American region. I can mention Brazil the Brazilian case the Colombian case Which undertook structural changes in this fear of precisely to Achieve greater yields in the energy sector and why is this so relevant reform in this matter? Because today we observe that the world the global map when it comes to energy production has changed Today we observe that the North American region particularly the United States has achieved a greater Self-sufficiency when it comes to energy matters that they now have new sources for exploitation especially shale gas and this a swath That aborders with our country So this North American region particularly the United States. It's made it a more competitive region So this forces Mexico to undertake structural changes to be in conditions of greater competition Competitiveness otherwise will be losing investment that could arrive in our country and that That having a more expensive energy supplies would not achieve I must insist the purpose of this reform is for energy supplies to be cheaper For Mexico to be more competitive to make it more possible to generate more jobs greater economic growth for our country Mr. President in regarding energy reform. We're talking about oil natural gas and The electrical sector reform and as you added the fact that in Mexico, you know, there's a shale gas That perhaps requires new regulation because it's a new element how can there be participation in the reform of the electrical sector and What regulation have you thought about regarding shale gas? Well, that's exactly what Congress is debating And as soon as the initiative is presented for the secondary legislation To maintain the spirit of the constitutional reform that has taken place in the energy sector How can we translate this to a secondary legislation that shall ensure that the Mexican state Will keep ownership over hydrocarbons and second as is also established in the Constitution What will be the mechanisms to speed up the exploitation of other energy generating sources? like shale gas and in matters of electrical energy the same as As in oil There has been created a regulatory body to promote the participation of the private sector To take advantage of the networks of distribution that the federal authorities have so that energy can be distributed through more regions and More regions of the country and more importantly to ensure that electric energy is cheaper at the end of the day the Federal Electricity Commission shall be the main generating energy body but The private sector might also become a co-generator of energy. So I will tell you that in Mexico We do have co-generation of electricity, but this benefit reaches basically only those who have the Financial capacity to generate electric energy But a small and medium-sized businesses and that the major users don't see benefits of Being able to generate a more energy with mechanisms With economic mechanisms at a lower cost and achieve as a result Paying less for electric energy So a Mexico has to become more competitive and the reform made regarding energy is a Aiming for this goal so that energy is a more it's cheaper in Mexico so that our hydrocarbo hydrocarbon exploitation May I become more competitive that our country can develop an industry with greater technology innovative capacity to compete in Mexico and generate energy and at the same time Generate more energy with the participation of the private sector and that this Benefits all Mexicans, especially small and medium-sized businesses, which are the ones that generate employment in our country Well, we clearly see in this a reform project of the fiscal reform Where Mexico only receives twelve percent of tax. It's probably one of the lower Lower countries in Latin America because of oil revenue The reforms in the energy sector telecommunications, but Looking at Mexico's development model when you analyze the situation of Latin America in the last ten years And you speak about this a bonanza. We've had we We've had a lot of exports of Raw resources to China, but there's also in Mexico manufacturing. There's a high technology software Aerospatial Automotive industry tied into the economy of the United States How do you see the sustainability of the Mexican economic model that is based on a capital-intensive? model Well, I I think that's the path that the right path that Mexico followed and must continue to follow First to be a great promoter of free free trade We are perhaps the most open a country in Latin American Latin America toward the world with our agreements that we have with different regions and countries and Consequently this has generated These structural changes to increase the country's competitiveness and to allow for a greater capacity For our own production Mexican made that allows us to cook that would allow us to compete in other markets and What can I say about Mexico? We are a country that without doubt has been incorporating Has achieved greater development in areas such as specialized manufacturing We are the fourth exporter in the world of vehicles to other regions We are the eighth producer and The fourth exporter We have been advancing in the aerospace industry. We have become the sixth provider for the United States in this field and Without a doubt our trade toward North America has intensified and I can say the same Regarding other specialized industries where we we hold a prominent place We are the first producer and exporter of TVs a plasmas Electric appliances, so I want to say that Mexico effectively Has been building and Creating a platform for its economic growth Based on first Becoming a center a logistical center Due to our geographic location that will allow us to participate in different Markets and to make Mexico a market a platform for participation for other countries So they can access at those other markets Mexico has free trade agreements that provide the opportunity to access a 1 billion person a people market And on the other hand we have incorporated specialized industries as In the example said, you know, I have used to illustrate What I have been talking about Mexico for example it our colleges graduate, which does not happen which does not happens In other countries about 100,000 engineers per year So this gives you an idea of where we're focusing our development for our country's economic growth and According to the line that you've drawn for us Mexico Has been following this for a few years. It's the same path we continue to take to promote today we work to ensure as a result of the educational reform that We will have these skills the capabilities of our students So they will be able to incorporate themselves into this labor market that has been built in Mexico this specialized Market and up also to ensure That they break away with a tradition of just a working just of maquilas, which are jobs that are perhaps are not Not well compensated. So today we are working to generate better-paying jobs higher quality jobs and that this demands greater specialization from our graduates and this path are really to enter these very competitive markets Mexico is prepared continues to prepare itself and continues up to promote its greater presence in them In this aspect the role of Mexico in the Pacific Alliance that will open up new perspectives What will Mexico's participation be in the transatlantic partnership if a North America if it involves North America the United States? Europe what will its impact be on Mexico? Well, these are you know in total agreement with Mexico's vision of being a faithful promoter of free trade that is why Mexico is so open to the world The agreements that have already been signed and the Pacific Alliance It is one of the most recent innovative agreements that we entered into with three other Latin American countries Chile, Peru, Colombia and Which allows us to have an integrated market? Not just for a flow of goods For trade, but also a free transit of people to share Capital markets and also to make this greater integration a platform a more competitive platform to Launch to enter the Asia Pacific market a market that without a doubt in the last few years has been growing Has experienced greater development and the countries those countries that believe in free trade We want to participate in it So the Pacific Alliance we believe promotes the integration of member countries Those that eventually might join it to be because they are consistent with the principles that inspire this Pacific Alliance agreement that has been signed that is right now in the process of being ratified by the member countries legislative Congresses and afterward After this consolidation Enter the Asia Pacific market We've also participated in negotiations for the TPP the Trans Pacific partnership with some of the countries Where some of the countries that are already participating in the Pacific Alliance are also working on now That's another mechanism for integration of American countries with the Asia Pacific region that probably has a lot of potential Mexico nowadays within this Negotiating table that we've worked on participates with great enthusiasm with full conviction that this mechanism Shall materialize as quickly as possible and Mexico Has manifested its political disposition its commitment to support Disagreement and this reaffirms our position of being open Mexico's position the one it shows the world and that it wants to continue President of Mexico traditionally has played a very active role relevant in the international scene Mexico is the second of most important economy in Latin America with a capacity of generating wealth in Of 1.3 trillion per year. It is a member of the G20 Which is a source of pride for all Latin Americans. How do you visualize? Mexico's new role as a global actor. It's ties to Central America the Caribbean to all of Latin America What can we expect from your a mandate? For Mexico as a global actor. Thank you, president Mexico and Especially for the government that I am honored to lead within its definition of great priorities there are five and One of them is for Mexico to fully assume its global responsibility. I have been working to that end first of all trying to seek closer ties for cooperation mechanisms with our countries in the Latin American region particularly the Central American and Caribbean region that are the regions that That are our neighbors our geographical neighbors and with the rest of Latin America and I believe that This is confirmed in the relationship the diplomatic Relationship that we have been working on that we have been building in a very intense manner This is ratified by the meetings. I have held with the Latin American Presidents the Caribbean presidents the definition determination of mechanisms for greater cooperation Also, Mexico is a country that is clearly committed to international law Mexico is a country committed to Sustainability and respect for the environment. I must say that Mexico is an extremely diverse country It is a privileged country Because of having in its territory Almost ten percent of biodiversity in the world. It is a country With the presence of many species that you cannot find elsewhere. It's part of our natural wealth Mexico is a country that is committed to the tools of fighting global warming however our contribution to global warming And might be less. It's only one percent, but not withstanding. Mexico has assumed legislation its own legislation in the several of its public policies To make a commitment to sustainability and respect for the environment Mexico wants to be a leader of this in this effort at the end of the day scientists have Recognized that this is happening Because humans you know human beings By working on the development that we have promoted we have you know sadly affected our environment and Mexico with great consistency Commitment has assumed its responsibility in Facing this phenomenon Mexico it shows solidarity Toward the causes of humankind it has shown solidarity In the fight against a nuclear disarmament to look for solutions to conflicts everywhere in the world peaceful solutions and Mexico Born out of this conviction respect of its principles which are written in our constitution shall continue to work consistently and Of course assuming its Responsibility within the order and peace that we want for the whole world President Peña Nieto we could continue talking to you all afternoon and especially we haven't talked about Mexico's Archaeological treasures Mexico's soft power, which is its culture the movies music literature and I take this opportunity to congratulate you on the 100th anniversary of Noted a literary a man Octavio Paz which we're celebrating and you have persuaded us that there is a very coherent consistent plan for Mexico to become an International dynamic presence and for all the transformations within Mexico that will enable the country to reach the growth of desires I Am seeing people telling me that you know we are We have to observe the 30 minutes allotted to you and we'd like to ask the audience for applause for President Peña Nieto and To ask you and to ask Marisol Ardita our executive director Our executive director for the Latin American forum who will up announce a matter of great importance before your Leadership and commitment to achieve this great consensus that is allowing this transformation structural transformation that are fundamental to Mexico and for Mexicans Mexico's living a great moment Which is favorable for Latin America also therefore the World Economic Forum would like to thank you and And accept with special pressure your Generous invitation to have to hold the World Economic Forum in 2015 in Mexico. Thank you, Mr. President Thank you very much Marisol Who is the senior director for Latin America for the World Economic Forum? Thank you all Mr. President Donald Fernandez once again, I would like to thank you for the opportunity of sharing with you briefly several of the changes especially structural changes conducted by Mexico within the last year and without a doubt they are oriented towards Maximizing the potential of our economic growth in a sustained way so that this will translate into the well-being and Greater social development for all Mexicans. I am pleased to see that within this Forum we are accepting the invite invitation to have Mexico as the venue for the 10th World Economic Forum for Latin America in our country The fact that is the 10th which also imposes a great challenge for our country. I hope that it Coincides with the progress made to that Forum so that it matches the progress that we make Until then it matches the structural reforms that have been conducted by Mexico. All of this will again Lead to the economic and social development for Mexicans And This World Economic Forum for Latin America is Definitely very relevant. It is because it joins the countries that have a greater Identity in terms of historic cultural and language similarities. We are brothers we share ideals and principles and Having a space For this great Latin American community this space is a space that we can share our experiences we can hear voices Authorized voices and that are of important reference so that we can enrich the actions From the government that will generate new public policies that will give more Development socially and economically for Latin America. This is growth. This is how we understand it from the World Economic Forum This is the purpose of having different events in different venues of the world and we Acknowledge the ones that are taking place here in Latin America in a very special way. That's why we accept with honor Having Mexico be the venue for next year's forum, which will enable us to Hear the voices of our brother countries and have other Countries in the region see what Mexico has been accomplishing in terms of its social and economic development Thank you very much for the honor of having Mexico as the next venue Thank you for allowing us to be here today


Welcome to Toffy TV! It's a year! Since Sam Haldais become the Everton manager and where we just wanted to commemorate the event by having a little chat. Well there's been an article this week from when the king voted about Haldais and he quoted the first part of it when he came in about, you know, when he had a pop of Michael Silver and was going on about how he'd got the job anyway even if the pair of them were in the running and everything. And it's when you think of how we felt 12 months ago, so how we feel now, it's worth having a chat. Well let's, you know, go back 12 months ago, we just, we just beat him west on 4-0, when he really scored a hat trick, actually what he even scored as well. But obviously Sam Haldais was in the crowd, everyone knew he was going to be the manager, you know, people said and we said you couldn't help but think that the team were probably being influenced by the fact that he was the manager. Maybe that's unfair on David Unsworth, but whatever it was it was and we won 4-0, best performance probably of the season overall. And, you know, we took that into the Saturday game where we beat Huddersfield, which I suppose on paper a lot of people would say we were safe after those two games. We were 9-0, weren't we? I suppose we were safe only because we kept a good ratio of wins up, 1-3 effective media, which is what we needed to stay away and we did stay away and obviously we ended up finishing 8 in the Premier League. But when he came in, I don't think anyone's wanted it obviously, but I think it was just one of those things, wasn't it? We were all very looked into the idea of him becoming manager at first, but then it just sort of, it just was what it was because of the predicament we found ourselves in. Yeah, I mean, you know, we were, the Ronald Cooman era was neither to end when it did and I know people have questioned if you'd just left them where would you have finished, but it wasn't as simple as that things were already falling down anyway. Ronald Cooman himself was falling down, he wasn't shaving or not, he looked terrible. Didn't he near the end? You know, I suppose some people wanted Unsworth to be giving it to the end of the season and maybe Unsworth. I don't think Unsworth wanted it to the end of the season. No, not near the end. Not near the end. He looked like he, I mean, he, Unsworth probably argued the case differently, but it just seemed like he'd had enough. But I don't know whether that was because he knew that the club actively wanted the replacement. I think if the club would have said you're the manager, I think he'd have viewed it differently. It became a bed in the end because he knew it wasn't going to be him. And then we had that Atlanta performance and we had the Southampton performance and he looked like he just wanted to be anywhere else for our manager. But I'm glad and delighted that he got that win in the league because he won us both home games, didn't he? And at that time, Sean Dice, you know, was someone you were considering. Obviously, we wanted Mark O'Shildo, we couldn't get him. So all of Dice was one that you just looked at and meant, all right, well, if we get him, we know that we're going to, we're just not going to be here. We won't go down.  No, but you were just worried because when you're in that... I was having sleepless nights and honestly, I was having sleepless nights and not ashamed to say that I was having sleepless nights worrying. And I was still having those sleepless nights, maybe January time and we haven't won a game before. I haven't won for like so many games. It really did worry me. I always felt, and I said this, didn't I? I said it on camera many times that we had our players were good enough to get us to wait. I said that's where I thought we'd finish, even when we were struggling because we did have good footballers. The fact that the matter was though, that means very little if you don't get results. So Sam Alladai's coming and done the job he was, I suppose he was asked to do. But my disappointment in the Alladai's era didn't want him to come in and give everyone a chance. He never plays this good in his career to work with. He's never been in the club of evidence. And he might take this as a... he might look at this and go, you know what? I'm going to really give because everything he was saying was like this is me fine. Sam, I want to see the opportunity I wanted. So I thought he'd come in and go, you know what? I'll dig this team out of the predicament it in and then I'm going to show you that I can play differently. Now he dug that team out of any predicament by March. We beat Stoke away at the end of February or early March and it was done. We had 40 points. No-one, them or the team weren't getting 40. And we had a lot of winnable games. And it just never changed. And I know a lot of people didn't take too many because they didn't want them. That's a bit fair enough.  So at that time, even though points wise we were safe and we were chasing Burnley down and we caught them in all fairness. With a couple of weeks to go we almost caught them. We weren't touching this. You just felt like there was nothing. The club was like stagnated all of a sudden. And I think the biggest disappointment for me at that time was it felt like you had those fears. That Farad Masheri was probably going to, was might have been thinking, this isn't going quite the way I'm business there. I put a lot of money in. The team looks worse than when I put money in. And everything kind of come to a halt. I know it wasn't, but that's how it looked. Yeah, I suppose. If anything has come out of the Aladdais era, it is that that Farad Masheri wasn't willing to settle. Do you know what I mean? He's put money in. I've said it on myself, on shows where it was like, does this man fully understand the implications of saying things that he's doing? But I think we were getting down to the last few games of the season. We still didn't know if Sam Aladdais was going to be sacked. He had that 18-month contract. He kept on hinting, making things, saying things. But we'd set ourselves on shows. This is what he did at Westam. He's almost purposely winding people up. But I know he's come out and since I said I knew I was going to get the sack. But I don't think he did because why would you hold the bitterness that he seems to still have? On for so long, if you thought it was just a business arrangement, when he came in, he obviously, he'd been approached and then backed away and then came back into the running because he probably thought, well, I'm worth more now. I can get 18 months out of this. And then remember when he came in and we were all, we sat him in, he'll keep us up and he'll go. And we know that for a fact and the people who didn't want him, we obviously hated the idea of Sam Aladdais being the manager. My wife for a start, I kept on saying to her, he's going to keep us up and I don't know where staying up at this point. And then he'll go and then it'll be let's start again. And I was quite happy with that at the time because that to me is all that mattered. So it was nice that when the time come to get rid of him, we did get rid of him. And it was just banks were moving in a different direction. And we have moved in a different direction.  There are too many originally wanted anyway for those two roles. And I think that that shows that he does want to take this. If anyone ever questions him, you can question. Of course you can question every decision of anybody. But if they've got an idea where they want to go and they think saying people going to take them, you can only say, well, you've done that. You know, you've done what you said you were going to do. Everything else is a gamble, of course it is. But if you stay or something in the right direction, it's got a far better chance of getting it than it would be with somebody else. Yeah, obviously there was a period where you start thinking, yeah, I'm not sure he's not going to be next season. That was around February time. Stuff I was hearing and it was like, it's not cutting dry, he's going.  But quite clearly Marcel Brands was, I think once Marcel Brands agreed and I think he agreed to come around the end of February early March, then it was quite clear Sam Allardyce wasn't going to be working here. And then obviously Marko Silver had taken a few jobs down so quite clearly Marko Silver had been told he was, you know, he met Marcel Brands, which is out there now and they'd obviously agreed that each other was going to work together and wanted to work together. And so obviously when Allardyce ran, and the good thing as well, I mean, there was some realistic expectations wasn't it, five o'clock after the West Ham defeat. Why haven't we sacked them when people's veins bulged? I wanted it before the last time. It was never going to happen. I just thought it would have been better. But as it happened, he was gone the next day, wasn't it really? And then we all knew he was going to a meeting, he was on the sky going, I've got a meeting tomorrow and then I'm going on Aldi. He was sacked at that moment. So it was good that I haven't got it done very quickly and obviously we saw all the Danish barapax and they, you know, became the CEO. Robert Eustam, Robert Elstom was out the door and there was a lot of changes. His office is now a cafe. And it's a lot more productive. It's a lot more productive. And so obviously... And Wayne Wayne as well. Don't forget that, that Wayne going out was a big part of that process as well, when you thought it was the right decision or not. Well, it was forward thinking. It was about getting rid of the old and getting bringing in the new. And you're out that decision made by Meshiri, and made by, well, probably made by Marcel Branser, Mark O'Shilder, carried out by Farah Meshiri. You know, the progress is very tangible when you look at it. I think I haven't had something like the sixth highest wage bill last season. And it's 11 now. So he's cut back of it. I know that that's Wayne Wayne, and Sandro's gone back out on loan and things like that. But that's a big thing. So, you know, we got to the summer, didn't we? And it was all of a sudden Silver Brans, a couple of signings and everyone started. But, yeah, but going back, going back to Aledais, when he came in, you know, obviously came the day after we just won 4-0. And that was a love, that must have been lovely for him to come in, because that set the tone on the Saturday we beat Huddersfield and did okay, and played well in that game, got two goals second half and won the game. And then we went into the Maisie side derby, and it was, you know, Liverpool were absolutely flying. It's got like seven, thrown sevens out against, seems in the Champions League and things like that. And I think we all thought, you know, obviously coming into the Maisie side derby this weekend, that we all thought, you know, that time, I mean, I remember saying, jokingly, well, if we can keep it down to 4-0, I'll be happy and things like that.   He doesn't like Liverpool, does he? No, no, what he doesn't like is, he doesn't like people belittling his style of play and people saying, well, my style is the only way you can play football. He likes to say, well, no, you can play it always. And that's fair enough, that's, I suppose, that's like a waking class sort of blue collar kind of thinking. And that's fine. He's from, you know, Douglas and all that in the Midlands. And that's what he is. He's very much bread and butter, man, isn't he? He is what he is, but we did, we went to him. I tell you the worst superhero ever, bread and butter, man. Bread and butter, bread and butter, bread and dripping, man. No, if it was better, I'd tell you what, if it's like a, you know, a bit of tiger bread with a little bit of butter on it. He wouldn't bite it, that's better. But yeah, you know, we went there and we did, we warmed him up, he laughed a clop after it. You know, we had the very misting where it clops. Like, are you happy with that pointer, the Everton fella, who's like, yeah, yeah. Delighted, thanks mate. You know, on clops veins are bulging in his neck, and he's crying, and there was no boom. Anywhere, it was good. All of the guys laughed on the carpet, living penalty. It was just, you come away. It was funny. But I was right, I'm like you don't before it and I feel almost ashamed saying this at the time. But I remember thinking, as long as we don't get a hammer in, then I'd accept like a 2-0 defeat, because we don't watch them. So you're just saying every week 4-0, 5-1, 7-0, 4-0. And I was thinking, we are wide open, okay, we've had two clean sheets on the run out of Westam and Pudgefield. But we've come off 5-1 and 4-1. It went two games, so defensively we were all over the place. You know, we had Michael Cain hallucinating at Southampton and Ashley Williams pretending to be a defender and stuff. So at that time you're just thinking, if we just get a narrow defeat, that's almost... and it's embarrassing to say, but that's how you were looking at it and going, as long as there's not two damaging, we've then got to go to Newcastle, then we've got Swansea, and they were the two games I was looking at. But that was it, wasn't it? Obviously we went to Newcastle, got the three points. With another clean sheet? With another clean sheet and another, you know... We rode with that local couple of times, but barely we... But it was quite comfortable, wasn't it? And then the Swansea games, a little bit more cultured, you know? Yeah, it was. And I had a Guilfee. Guilfee, Wondergolan. Wondergolan. It was a little bit more cultured, and then we drew with Chelsea, 0-0, battled out of point, and then you were just like before Christmas, you were like... I remember we were in here and it was like, if we pick up four points over Christmas, we're done, we're sold. I think we were on 20... 20, something like that. We could have got to like 30 by the end of the Christmas period. By New Year's Day, yeah. And we were like, right, we've got West Brom away. We've got to do it then. And then we've got Bournemouth and Bournemouth for clap. And then we go to West Brom and we were terrible at should have got beat and got a point. But we were terrible and you were like...  I just remember looking and going, there's two games there. We played three defence in my field, there's a pwg mwstaw. We were adding one incentive. It was like two games there, it was like, we've done nothing to that and win those games. And then Man United come and it's like, right, we haven't won in four.  We went on the FA Cup then, to Liverpool. Then we got battered at Spares. We had West Brom at home, we were terrible. And we drew and obviously changed my card. He broke his card. And then we went away to Arsenal and he played three at the back and we were four on the down after 20 minutes. And you were looking and all of a sudden from that, from the Chelsea game, which you were kind of come out just before Christmas going, you know what, they're flying. He could have won it in the last minute. He was almost scored and you're like, all right, we've rolled that. Love, we've defended brilliantly but we got a clean sheet. That was all right. To that night of that Arsenal game going, what's going on here? We haven't won since Swansea on the 18th of December. It's the end of January. We're out the FA Cup and we have been last two away games, four and five won. That's the same. By the end of the year, we could have been nearly on 30 points and we got to the end of January, we haven't got 30 points. I missed that like 27 points. You know, we beat Leicester in me 21 last day of the month in January, which was a huge win coming and coming back. Deadline, though. And then we looked my man out. And then we, yeah. And then that was another one. It was like, not going anywhere, not going anywhere, not going anywhere, not going anywhere.  He's lied to us, his fans.  And he had both talks and dropped them. And we were all a bit like, like, what's going on here? And then obviously we had thee out of me in Leicester. We beat Leicester. We beat Leicester. That was a great performance, Leicester. We beat Palace. Beat Stoke did me in that one. I ended up beating Stoke, but it was the other games there wasn't it? It was like, go on. We beat Brighton as well. The Wofford games was the one for me. You know, going down to Wofford, it's Neil Neil's 11 minutes to go and you'll look at who he's bringing on. He's bringing on, snarling. It's a shore of the midfield. And Wally's on the touchline day score. And you're like, so it's 10 minutes to go. You bring Stomach, Cavill, Llewyn on. And you're like, hang on. So now you're bringing a strike on because we need a goal. But isn't the point of Neil Neil if we needed a goal and could have won the game? It's those decisions. Wofford, then Bayle, on the side. One-nil up. In fact, we played very well in the first half. We should have been treating up, shouldn't we? And then, you know, you're at the end and snigging on. I can't remember exactly what month it is. I remember going on five live. Millions of cents off the... That was it last time we had a play fair. I remember going on five live and they were like, you know, the pros are talking down to me as they always do. Shouldn't you be happy, shouldn't you be happy? And I was like, hang on. For the Nefertoni, and it's the fact that we're in this position and we have to have a manager like, that's the embarrassing part. That's the embarrassing part. And I think it was... It's... You build a relationship, don't you? And that's what I'm saying early on, when it was like, when he was laughing a club and all those things, and he was... But then you start doing things to build a relationship. Like you said, we were safe. We were fine. Dabi comes around and they've got a Champions League game. They're in between Champions League games and they're dropping all the players. And you're like, just go for it. We used to getting beat by a Liverpool. It beat us. It ain't going to make a blind bit of difference, but if you win as a Dabi, you can hold your head up and walk away and go, we'll have one here at Dabi first. Dabi's top of your CV forever. You'll be loading it now on every channel. I wonder what Dabi did he want. And we could go, well, at least he did. At least he gave us that. But he didn't. He bottled the opportunity to win a Dabi because he didn't want to get beat. But that's... We were safe. And as fans you're like, just go and win the game. We're not asked. And I know this and Don puts one wide and obviously makes a big difference if he's put that in. But you're like, we've got a chance to win this.  But we only... I think the problem with the Dabi was we only really had a goal the last 15 minutes. That was the problem. We had one shot in the first half which Carrie has made a great save in Balasi. Other than that, I remember talks and work on one over, I've made it a box when he turned, well, turned Van Dijk well and it's over. Other than that, it was decade. He'd had one chance through Wings. Then the second half, it was a non-entity for me. But we were just happy with that. And then when we went for it, we had a toss and it was just why Don should have scored two. We could have won it. And you'd end up going, if this... Why haven't we just pushed them back 10 minutes into the second half? Because we won on away goals. I forget, we won on away goals. You see, actually said that. The FA cut the feet, right? No one slagged them. No one slagged them because we went for it and we were unlucky. Pickford makes an error and unliked Jordan makes a bit of an error. We lose the game and everyone just went, at least we had a good goal. I mean, we listened from what February onwards, we didn't have Guilfee, which was a massive blow to the way we'd been playing it.  You might have won the derby, but it's a big deal. They couldn't play together, though. Although, yet, they could never play apart. Both of their games suited each other. We were in that role playing quarter back, with Sigarton off coming off the left. It worked perfectly. And Tuna's, Sigarton got injured. You seen the difference. You seen that. Wayne struggled. Wayne struggled from there on.  And then he started not using Wayne right. I did, though. Instead of just saying, right, you're not playing today. We're bringing on the last 10 minutes. He played them every game for like 70 minutes and it was just like, you're getting less and less error. Put them on the bench for a couple of games and then bring them in for the home games. We're putting them on with like 25 minutes to go and just go, come on, go and get me something, go and play high off the pitch. I mean, he just managed it wrong and in fact, the disconnect was... But actually he eroded and he eroded the relationship by smirking the fans and those things. Well that barely and now some people and you would argue that, you know why he given a man a to stick. But those evertonians who had gone to Wafford a week before seen us throw that in, gone to Burnley, seen us in control of a game. And even in that game he sort of, he made like a mad sub. And you're like, why are you taking him off? I think he took Rooney off and Rooney was playing quite well. Took him off when there was no, literally no reason to. It was one, one. Then we go behind. He should have made the sub, he didn't. We went behind then he made, and you're like, what's going on here?  And let's not forget, we were going for a European place. That's the mad thing about it. Yeah, yeah. We were going for 70. We'd be Burnley that day. Yeah. It was off the grabs. Well, we got, I mean, even with a couple of games left, we got within four points of them. We pulled back 25 points on them, basically because they stopped winning, but we did. And he still didn't have the, he still did. Shit a brick. You know what I mean? And you're like, Southampton around the last home game. Tom Davis got in the 95th minute, a draw, and it was like, there was nothing. And I know, listen, the very, you know, those last games of the season, when it's not known, it's difficult to get a performance off the plays of this, but he should have had them fired up anyway. He had a chance to relegate Mark Hughes. Yeah.  Mark Hughes would have relegated two teams that season. In the same season. If that doesn't give you an incentive, what does? I was fuming with us that day that we didn't send in that fuming. And then fuming more with Swansea a few days later when they got people in. But, so we got, you know, we kind of got to the end of the season. And he would, and he had them say, there's played three derby matches, didn't lose your league derby to Liverpool. Well, all right yet, you didn't.  You know, we might have, if we'd have beat them around, you know, then fair, you know, we would have got four points out of six and everyone would have gone, done well in derby, it's there for us, Sam. Look at the other way, he didn't win one mate. You know, they lost the league and you got knocked out the FA Cup by them. So it's one of them. And it showed in that FA Cup game that it was the rest of the time. It was just the tactics because in that FA Cup game the shackles come off us and we had them every bit. There was a period where we scored and then from then on we had two opportunities. Do you remember his famous statement though after, was there after the Chelsea game when he said, right, we've learned how to defend now. It's about scoring goals with the other end. And then we started conceding left right centre. We all kind of went, oh, that's, all right, yes. So maybe what he's trying to do was sure or sure. But he didn't though because he started changing the back line. Yeah. Then he messed with the back. Don't forget it was Holgate and Williams who were getting us the draws and then he did swap them round a couple of times. But he'd do it in pairs so he'd put Keenan Jags. I think he'd play Keenan Jags and Chelsea. Chelsea, yeah. And then he started like mixing them and it was like, no, you, we had, we had the basis. I mean, don't get me long as well. He was hampered by things like Cuckol Matina. But then he made the decision, not. But he made the decision. He made the decision to play me. No, no. But he said at first he had no choice. But then, when he did get the choice, whether it was to bringing temporary left back or whatever, he didn't do anything with it. Played through. It's a period in our history I would just like to forget about now. I really want someone to give him a job so he's mate on the telly or on the radio. Focus on that. Just stop bringing him on. Like he was on BT a couple of weeks ago and Jake Humphreys on Twitter going, oh, we've got time. It's going to be great. And it was like people like, none case. The only person this is good for is him. So he can moan about why he's out of work. And it's like. He did give a lot of people hope because he said they're building the 60,000. Well, he did either to that. But it's like, as soon as England started doing well, that was his England legacy over. He couldn't say, what if, what if, what if because it was like, yeah, we know what if to the fourth best team in the world. And, you know, they're all everyone's happy if you're an England fan. So suddenly it was like, what if it ever. And it's that first as opposed to when Silver came and it was a little bit new getting certain people say, I'll add I should have got as a point in that game or I'll add I said, oh, what's the deal? I mean, I still see some. People on how's there any difference at all about just, just let it go. Just let it go. Because I think we're all seeing it. I don't know what the difference is. There's a massive difference. Oh, no, no. I'd say it for teasing for you. Yeah. Volleyball or something. I don't know. Something else. Crochet. Croquet. No crochet. Oh, crochet. Yeah, crochet. I mean, that's a good one. Yeah, yeah. That's boring as well. Not for everyone, I accept. Oh, sorry. For me. You never watch football. The crochet will. I have my chips. Honestly, it's on paper for you this year. I'll try and get it. Heart beats, does it? Well, I should hope it does. So. Well, not for someone. I'm actually, it's only got finished. It's gone. That's the big thing. Can you get through? Can you get through? Without buying. Without buying. That's the big one. That is the big one. Anyway, I digress. So, yeah. I mean, that's the thing. So stop putting them on telly. Someone gave him a job. He'll get a job. He'll get a job. He'll get a job. He'll be available next week. I don't know if he will. I don't know. I don't think he called it. I don't know whether he... I don't think he called it. No, I didn't. I didn't think. I never thought they don't want to rip it up for him. I just wonder whether he prefers to... I mean, I suppose, listen, the gig's not going to last very long. And in fact, it's up. It's already up. I've had him clean about ever. And it's already up. It's gone. It's finished. It's over. I think what's going to happen is his mates in the media need to let it go for a start. Because it's no coincidence that this year all these, you know, former pros of a certain generation are a little bit techie about ever and whatever they're doing. That's no coincidence. No, no. It's like they sack my mate. So... I'm going to have a dig. We're going to have a dig every time we can. That's no coincidence. And people know he's... I don't even... I don't find him controversial. He never really says anything controversial. He'll say, might say some things out of it, might say he doesn't mean or something, but you never go, I can't believe he said that, like of any value. Unless he's going to become like the P.S. Morgan of 40 or something. No, mate, right. If you take the evidence stuff out of it, I never use some iron listening to him on the radio cos he's quite, he's quite like straight talking, so to speak. So when I was driving around, you know, I was driving around. Just driving. When I was going from place to place in my last job, I'd add the radio on sometimes, and he'd be on that thing. Yeah, you know, right? And even when he was linked with the evidence job and he was going on, I was thinking, nah, just on the radio, I'd rather listen to it and be my man. You know what I mean? There's a value in him doing that, but bitching and whining about everything. You know what I mean? All he had to say was, they wanted something different, they wanted a different direction. Just let it go. Let it go. Full on frozen it up.  Full on frozen. So what are you here on? Let it go. What are you here on? Obviously, Michael Silver's here now. It's dark, it's weak, hence why we're doing all of this as well, the anniversary of him coming into a dark baby. We both touched on it before. This time last year, we were sat thinking, just a narrow defeat might be the end of the world.  We can beat Liverpool. I'm not saying we will, but now I look at that team and go, this team is capable of winning or I'm feeling, it might go the other way, but at least I know that. I'll be amazed, right?  Well, what I would say is, what I would say is, I'll be flabbergasted if they don't play in a way that allows us to have a go. Do you know what I mean? So even if we went there and you went, oh, there's something different by playing a slightly different way, we'd be playing a slightly different way to allow us to get the ball in different... So even if, I'm not saying, say we went to three at the back, I'd go, we'll be playing three at the back because it's going to open up this space and that space because he's watched. He hasn't gone, we're going to stick 10 men behind the ball and just try and pump a ball. And listen, it worked last year on one go for one penalty that one ref wouldn't have given one would and that was the flip of the coin, really was the flip of the coin. Where is this year? Put it this way, how many chances did they have last season to score? They had loads? How many times? They didn't have loads of clear cup ones. The salas header just after that time? Yeah, I think they had, I think they had something like 27 shots, I think they only had three onside. Of course, what I mean is that... But they had a lot of opportunities. What I mean is that... We were lucky. We were lucky. We weren't getting there and that's great. They had the one for him in Robert's room on slide and then on the line and it went across for me now. So we got lucky and that was by playing ultra defensive. So we used to say you don't have a go with them in a way like we did at Chelsea and things are different, you know? Well, under allies we went to Arsenal ultra defensive and we were four on the line after 20 minutes because the chances went in for them. So that could have been the landfill. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But I know people are going, well it wasn't and I know it wasn't and that's fine. But we've gone and David Moyes inside to just defend them. To me fair to Moyes he did get points there sometimes.  But that's what I'm saying. What I mean about that is it's more something like Martin has you went there and I just said we're going to have a go with them. But without any kind of plan of how we were going to have a go with them, we were just going to have a go with them and that just leaves yourself wide open. It's all fairness to Martin. Martin has his fair start. I'm not having any fairness. No, there's no fairness. But if Martin has his fair start, we had 21 shots and 64% possession. Liverpool had half the shots. But we will... And we got B4nil and it should have been more. It should have been more. Exactly. Because of the penalty. And well... But he had John Stones a right back. He could have played David's at right back. At stone centre. At stone centre. And just played 440 but Alcarazzi anyway. But that was then. That was what it was. The second time we got B4nil we went there with no confidence and he played Brian of the Aida with a right back when he couldn't just play then he won a right back. So basically what Marcos... The reason why I think what I've been able to know will have a go with them is because I remember there in Marcos Silva last year when he was the Wofford manager and Man City beat them 6-0 at home. Wofford had loads of chances and City had three of their goals were off shot. But they got beat 6-0 in the commentator interviewing them, the interviewer after the game was like, got Chelsea away next week. You know you're going after the goal there with five at the bottom. He said, play exactly the same way. He said, I can't get my players to change the way they play, to shoot different teams, go defensively this week. He said, because I will be late. I suppose... And they ended up going to Chelsea in nearly two weeks. I suppose the lesson in that is a leper car and change of spots and that's all advice. As much as he said he was going to do it and as much as we asked him to do it, he is a limited coach and a limited manager and couldn't do that. And I know he'll say, well I did that a bottom. And it is ego as well, by the way. Yeah. And I know he changed the style slightly a bottom. But look at the place, he had a bottom. They were amazing. No, what I'm saying is, he had really talented footballers who were just in the last part of their careers. So what I'm saying is that he could just almost pick a team and let it go and do what it needed to do. Because if you actually think about bottom, their main asset was Kevin Davies' upfront. And chicken dance? He would just bang it up. No, no. And he'd knock it down. But that's what I'm saying. It was more like, you get the ball up and then once it's in the final third, we used it for us. He had a good of a coach, didn't he? That's what I'm saying. You got it into the final third by banging it. Knocked that. So at the end of the day, he did stick to his principles. His principles just didn't suit us. And they were having a year down the line. We're all happy except for him. And that's fine by me. We're all happy with the year, aren't we? Just the year, yeah? Just the year. No, we're happy. I'm just either me, yeah? Yeah. Nothing year. We're happy that we are where we are now as a footballer. That's where we were. If anyone can honestly put their hand on their heart and say to me, I would rather have aledais than Michael Silver or just have the situation, that situation than this situation, then I would... The mad. Yeah. I'd be driving you to Ashwaith. I really would. So... There you go. Everything's different. Everything's changed. Going into a barbie with a bit of hope. Yeah. And we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Might not be enough, but at least we're hopeful. Let's see what happens. Let us know your thoughts in the comments on sam aledais. Let's just see what you say. I'll be better now than then. What? Were you happy with it? Do you know what? There's plenty of people I've still seen them and I've got no problem with them who say he did a job for us. And that's it. I've got no argument with that. My problem is he's still going on a barbie. He's still going on about it like he didn't get this massive pay off. Let us know. Just let us know your thoughts in the comments. Listen, if you haven't subscribed, please do. Give it a little sub. It's going to get 30,000 subscribers. Oh, do it, please. Click the bell for the later so you know exactly when a video comes. Don't want to miss any because we've got that many out that you might go along on. I haven't seen that one. And I've got more videos, like 40 exclusive videos a month. Join us over on Patreon as well. Thanks for watching. See you later.


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We can actually write code that can transform the world. We can write code that can bring down government. We can write code that can transform policy. We can write code that helps someone get a water connection in Africa. We can write code that can analyze the traffic. We can write code that can make people believe in global warming. What can we do with our code that will transform society, that can transform community, that can transform nation, and thus transforming the world? I'm here to invite all of you to random hacks of kindness. So what is random hacks of kindness? I'll tell you a short story. 2009, Mountain View, California, there was a bar camp being held there. And a bunch of people came together and they said that instead of participating in taking away information, what about doing something? What about giving back? What about doing something with what we know? And one of the speakers at the bar camp was the head of FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency. This is the department of the US that deals with disastrous management. It's an entire department that deals with hurricanes, tornadoes, what happens if something really bad happens in the US. So the head of FEMA, he flew down. In a speech he made up, he says NASA has so many satellites out there in the space going all around the Earth. And half of them are looking back at Earth. Half of them are looking into the space at different planets. But half of them are looking back at Earth. And when you're looking at Earth, the satellites are generating data. Data on pollution. Data on rain. Data on weather. Data on land flight. Now, just a few months back, around that time, a little later, he says all this data is there. And it's lying on some server in NASA. What if we could just open it up so people can develop apps with it that could democratize it, that make it open. So two programmers said we could do that. And they developed, in a period of 48 hours, they developed a hat that took the data on landslide risk. Means you give the lap long. It tells you the risk of having a landslide on that piece of area. Now, they developed an app with the Google Maps API. And in 48 hours, it was ready. FEMA was really happy with it. They took it. And they deployed it all over the Caribbean. They deployed it all over the Caribbean. And this app was, in fact, you post Haiti. You know, there was a massive earthquake in Haiti. So post Haiti, this app was actually deployed all over the Caribbean.  And the guy in the municipal office, before booking, giving you a permission to build on that piece of land, he checks for the risks. He enters your coordinate. He checks for the risks. And completely a non-technical guy, government officer, he will check, he will get the risks. And he'll recommend you what you need to do to rectify the risks. And once you do that, only then you get permission.  Now, this is the impact of what we can do with that code. So that's when the idea of random hacks of kindness was born. So the first random hacks of kindness was done in Mountain View. And the people were asked to create solutions for disastrous management. Anything that deals with the emergency regarding weather, regarding famine, regarding any disaster that can strike at mass level. Now, then within six months, we had the next random hacks of kindness, which happened in nine cities around the world. And Bangalore was one of them. Now, we're having it every six months. Today, it's going to be happening on June 1st and 2nd. It's going to be happening in more than 30 cities around the world, where hackers, programmers, like your design professionals, everyone come together. Over the period of two days, there'll be various problems around. You can choose your problem that you want to work on, a problem connected to social good. You can choose the problem you want to work on. You can form your teams, and you can work and hack for them two days. So at the end of the two days, you can demo your mock-up. You can demo your prototype. And these prototypes can attract mentorship, can attract funding. And it becomes a platform for social entrepreneurship. We are having a random hacks of kindness this June 1st and 2nd at Center for Internet and Society. And all of you are welcome to participate. There is a pre-event meetup on the evening of the 31st of May, in which you can meet a lot of people from the nonprofit community, nonprofits working on environment, nonprofits on disasters, nonprofits on women empowerment. And you can get to know about the problems they are facing, the technological problems they are facing. And over the next two days, work with them for a mock-up or prototype that can be actually used by the community. So on June 1st and 2nd, we are having the random hacks of kindness at Center for Internet and Society in Indranagar. And for more information, you can check rock.org, rhok.org. There is an event-brick registration there. You can register. You can send it to your friends. It's an amazing way to give back and to do what we do best, which is write code. And I hope you guys are inspired to come back and hack and do something and change the world. Thank you all. Bye-bye. So we are going to have a short break. But first, I think Pratik wanted to make an announcement. How are you? What do you have? Just one slide.


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Alrighty, so the Cedar Fair stockholders call was today at 10am and I took all the notes I possibly could of the entire stockholders call and I am just going to spit them out in this video. And if there's anything important, I'll discuss it. But a lot of these are just numbers. There is some really cool information about the ride announcements for 2024. And then also future investments that the park is actually doing some research into currently. So they have a whole new mindset about developing some new experiences and they've hired a team for that. So they dropped that little bit of tea that I thought was interesting. But it is no surprise that weather has impacted the parks. And it is starting to improve. So they said that weather and the wildfires were impacting attendance at Cedar Fair parks, except for the Midwest Park. So parks like Cedar Point and Kings Island were actually doing really well outside of the wildfires at Cedar Point for a bit. But Kings Island is actually having a really strong year. 2023 season passes are low and Canada's Wonderland attendance was obviously affected by the wildfires in spring. And the Midwest parks again make up a 6% increase in weather. So that's really cool. Cedar Fair as a total has a 4% increase in guest spending due to food and beverage mainly. The new mobile app this is really interesting tea is in development and is continuing and it's pretty far along in its development. It will have payment options as well as wait times and it'll be extremely user friendly and it's going to roll out later this year at some parks and then a full rollout in spring 2024. So that's really exciting. Group attendance is up 11% due to school and youth events while corporate events are at par with last year or lower than last year. Cedar Fair is not satisfied with the numbers that they are presenting currently. So they have done an emergency mode to drive sales. I think a lot of you got that email. So they're doing an emergency sale to drive sales and attendance at their largest parks. And they believe that the discount they're offering to get in will be offset by the increase in guest spending that Cedar Fair is witnessing which is actually true. That is concrete information that would translate to higher revenue. There were 737 operating days this year versus 708 days last year due to adding more school days in spring. So there were 7.4 million guests versus 7.8 million guests, 501 million revenue versus 507. Fewer season passes were sold this year mainly contributed to California's Great America and Nottsbury Farms. So the California parks are holding the chain back significantly. It was mentioned a lot. So fewer season passes have led to 300,000 less visits. Canada's Wenderland and Nottsbury Farm make up a 200,000 attendance loss. And they attributed that again to bad weather and wildfires. The resort properties are actually doing significantly well and are up. Cost of goods. So this is really tea information. Cost of goods is down over last year despite inflation. So there's a 3% to 6% decrease in labor costs and a 2% decrease in operational costs for the 2023 season so far. For adjusted EBITDA there is 151 million versus 171 million the year before. Revenues are up 11% in July 2023 versus July 2022, roughly about 40 million dollars. So that is good news but that is attributed to again a higher average ticket and they are adding and reducing. So this is this was a tea adding and reducing days at parks where appropriate to control costs. So again what they mean by that for example Canada's Wenderland has added an additional week in January to Winterfest and they've added Fridays to the September schedule whereas other parks are canceling their Halloween events and there are rumors that carowinds might actually not be year round anymore but we'll keep an eye on that. I'm going to touch on that a little later. They kind of drop a major hint in the question period. Notts and California's Great America are down 9% in season pass sales. So those two parks were attributed to the season pass decline. Strategic this is tea information strategic 2024 season capital and passes. So 3.2 million passes were sold in 2022 2023 despite it being down is still the second best year for season passes. They plan on a more attractive pricing for the 2024 season passes in key markets and then as they sell and get to their targets for their season pass sales they're going to raise the prices. So most parks will announce their new rides in the next two weeks. Finest they plan on having the finest thrill rides in the industry. Few additional surprises for thrill seekers are on the way and family and thrill entertainment as well. Adding more unique experiences that broaden the guest experience Cedar Fair is looking to add even further unique things to draw in new guests that they currently do not draw in and they look forward to exploring these options down the road with a team. Streamlining labor and overhead costs are one of the targets that Cedar Fair is going to be focusing on for the remainder this year and 2024 and new targets for 2024 will be announced to stockholders in November. So we'll have some information on that. So California parks are disrupted currently by bad weather monsoon like weather and the low season passes are going to impact them for the rest of the year. Cedar Fair has warned the Schlitterbaum parks are also not doing so hot. The prestige pass is expanding to more properties but will not become the core pass they confirmed. Some year round parks will no longer be year round. This is what they said on the stockholders call in the question period. They did not say which parks but that's T so keep an eye on that. Caroline's attendance greatly impacted due to weather and Fury 325 and they are not saying no to any merge or purchasing agreements. If a park has an attractive portfolio and is looking to merge or be purchased they will explore that so they did not say no to that. So that is the stockholders call definitely a lot of information in there in terms of the future of Cedar Fair. They definitely seem to be wanting to become more of a theme park with broader guest experiences and not just relying on roller coasters and flat rides to bring people in and I think that's really smart and I would love to see what that translates into in the next five to ten years. Anyways thanks so much for watching the city. If you have any questions comment down below and I'll try and answer them to the best of my ability. Thanks so much for watching today's analysis of the stockholders call and obviously I'll have my 2024 predictions for Canada's Wonderland my final ones either later today or tomorrow. Anyways guys have a good one. Bye!


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The lads stuck to the game-planer from the first minute to the last, were really solid. Of course they had chances, but so did we, certainly in the second half on the break. We had some really good moments where perhaps we could have won it. But I thought it was a solid performance, full of spirit, full of commitment. We looked to fit a strong team tonight and I was pleased with the display. It wasn't all about the defending, but you know a great defensive away display. I think that's four clean sheets in our last five away games now. Yeah, you look at the last three games to go glory and it was one of the top scorers in the league and commentary as well, we've been free scoring and tonight, it's gone away with three clean sheets, it's enormous credit to the whole team because clean sheets are not just about the goalie in the back four, it's the whole team and I thought everybody worked for that tonight. And it's a hallmark I suppose, it's quite similar to the late in oring performance. Obviously you're coming here late in oring, it has served a lot of good attacking players, a lot of threats, it's a difficult place to come and a similar sort of performance where you've kept the clean sheet. Yeah, you look at the oring game, we got the goal in the first half and we had chances on the counter attack to further our lead and unfortunately didn't take them. But yeah, we've had some tough days rather than at the New York stadium as our supporters know, some really tough ones and we spoke about it to the lads before the game but there was no way that that could happen again tonight and I'm really pleased to be leaving this stadium with our pride intact because it was dented on our last couple of visits and tonight we've restored a lot of pride against our local rivals. As we say, it wasn't all about the defending, there was a massive display across the pitch, certainly I thought John Stead had that difficult role that the single man up front for certainly the second half, he was very impressive. Yeah, I thought John got better as the game wore on, it's very difficult up there because there's a lot of running but what he does, he always puts an honest challenge when the ball goes up there, he might not win everyone but he stops the defender getting a clear header back over on midfield and enables to pick up second balls. I'm really pleased with his work ethic for the team tonight because it can be a thankless task and about 70 minutes so I was going to bring him off and put some fresh legs and then he seemed to find another lease of life so I left him on and I'm really pleased with him. And that Voffery free formation as well certainly seemed to work obviously as we say with John with the figurehead up front that change certainly seemed to work tonight. Yeah, I felt we looked at it during the week and it just gives a stronger base, a stronger platform in the game of football and at times our back four does get exposed both home and away and putting Doiley just in front of them almost like a sweeper in front of the back four certainly helped us and I thought Doiley was terrific tonight. You know he got injured against Shrewsbury. He's only had a couple of days like training this week but he put himself up for the game and once again we were thinking 60, 70 minutes that would be him tonight but he managed to see it out and I'm very pleased with his performance.