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I was in my garden last night at 7:59 just aimlessly singing, if you all hate the Rovers clap your hands, and suddenly the whole neighbourhood joined in!

Couple of remarks from asschat Because rest assured, this club is on the edge of oblivion. Even genuine City fans sympathise with us at the moment with the people running our club Um I don’t think we do

I don't. Sooner they go bust the better. The only ones I would feel sorry for would be the staff who would lose out.

Tory MPs clapping nurses less than a year after cheering the House of Commons down when they won a vote to stop a nurse pay rise. Amazing

Cuprinol

Really? After decades of rubbing 1982 in our faces? Getting on their high horses over the AG8 and our financial difficulties nearly 40 years ago. Many, many Gasheads would love to see us disappear, I know because over the years they’ve said so openly on Social Media. Staggering lack of self awareness from the Saghead who posted that.

I don't think so, I seem to remember from school that 80% of **** all, is **** all.

No, Brand new team. took players from local leagues and offered them the chance to try out, Basically following Guernsey's lead after getting turned down by UEFA to form a national team. When I say local teams I mean local parish on island teams.

That applause was strangely more emotional than I thought possible

They’re optimistic, still going in 10 years time? ?

Seems some are finally waking up in Horfield; "£23m in debt and you still have to stand on a sh**ty terrace and wade through 4 inches of piss to go to the toilet. This is all going to end badly. Crowds over the next 10 years will decline. You only have to look at the number of supporters at the mem who are 65+ to realise that."

Harrison went to Ipswich for 700k since then iirc. That being said, only 1 million from their 2 best players last decade says it all

This isn't even government policy. This is the police on a "frolic of their own". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/uk-police-use-drones-and-roadblocks-to-enforce-lockdown?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2E5o5mwYWgy2xcfVhk5I7M7Ajki5dTjkZdFGya6g7gXLI7fOjJJ7K9Tl4#Echobox=1585243378 The police are making up their own rules now. That's not a comforting thought.

Just settling down to watch Contagion on ITV2. I love those far-fetched disaster movies, they are a great break from the mundane reality of day-to-day life.

I would be delighted to apologise if I'm wrong, and I'd certainly be in the exalted company of every epidemiologist, scientist, doctor and emergency planner on the planet. Incredible that somebody with such unique knowledge as you should be on otib. What are your medical or scientific qualifications? A Nobel prize at least, I'm presuming?

20,000 casualties, it will be less than half that unless there is a massive downturn ( by that I mean a lot more cases) I think we have seen if not the worse of it at least the beginning of the end, it may be a bit bad for a week or two more but I'm not of the were doomed brigade which puts me in a minority of one on here so it seems. I'm talking overall deaths not contagion because the number of deaths per contagion is not accurate there are a lot more people who have got it than reported which means the percentage of deaths per contagion is a lot lower than published.

I pity them but certainly don't sympathise. Pity is even more humiliating IMHO. OTIB.

How very dare you ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52063085 Interesting points regards wages and transfer embargo for clubs that defer wages.

Apologies mate, I must have been using #gaslogic.

I think the whole country did

Just checked, Tom Lockyer had already left the b-losers before he signed for CAFC. 'Tom Lockyer became Charlton’s third summer signing of 2019 following his departure from Bristol Rovers.'

A bit more abou the Pangolin theory here Robbo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52048195

A local journalist hears a story of a pig that can do Maths . He calls the farmer and arranges to come and see the beast. On arriving at the farm he is greeted by the proud owner who takes him directly to the sty to show off the pig’s prowess. So 2 + 2 ? The pig taps his trotter four times on the ground. 3 - 1 ? The pig taps his trotter twice on the ground . The questions continue a little until the journalist has seen enough to be convinced. Excitedly he returns to his office with the Scoop . Being the ambitious type he contacts the editor of a big daily newspaper who demands proof before buying the story so a new appointment is made with the farmer to show the pig to the editor from Fleet St . The two journalists arrive at the farm and once again the farmer accompanies the scribes to the sty . Before the spectacle starts the men notice that the pig is missing a leg . ’ My god , whatever happened to his leg ‘ they demanded. ’ Oh , with a pig this intelligent you don’t eat him all at once ‘ replied the farmer .

Can't they just do the sums on their extra fingers?

So, @Eddie Hitler they made a couple Tillson’s profit on sale of player/s, guess that was the guy who went to Charlton, can’t think of anyone else!

To much info Stan , ??

I was just discussing this with a member of my family. I think they have to make a universal law to ensure that it's enforced. Obviously if you're in the middle of nowhere in the Peak District, you're not going to be affecting anyone. Equally, most of us are sensible enough to do the right thing (i.e. keep our distance). But if they don't bring the measures in, you just know there will be people out there who don't take the necessary precautions, or who live in too built up an area to be able to.

Not this time Bert. Debt to Dwane Sports up to £16.2m from £13.1m. Interest payable on that £700k so 4.8% which isn't unreasonable now that a chunk of that is unsecured by exceeding the value of the ground; vaued at £11m. The going concern note is more standardised suggesting that it was less of an issue - Dwane Sports will have provided proof of funds. As above post operating loss before player sales £4m up from £3.6m but include the interest and it's £4.7m up from £4.1m. In some ways this a a smaller verison of the way that City runs its business with an acceptable ongoing budgeted loss; with our operating loss before player trading being a much larger £18m. So if the AQs are genuinely rich and are choosing to supprt Rovers as the Lansdowns support City then there is no reason to suppose that they won't keep going as they are. Obviously there remain the questions about the ground and the training ground but financially they're looking ok within the context of the mad world of football finances. Tbh I'm surprised as they are now very much underwater in terms of their investment but are continuing as they were. Also remember that this is 30 June 2019 so that debt is now going to be at least £20m vs the £11m valuation on the ground so approaching £10m underwater and they're unlikely to receiev that from selling. IIRC £6m was thr quoted figure paid. There were no post balance sheet events noted so if they have capitalised the loan it was after the date of signing being 20 Feb 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52052351

Bedminster sounded loud on Radio Bristol Very loud here in Easton - people banging drums, cheering and clapping. It was like being in S82. Maybe we could have an "Atmosphere" thread for future 8 O'Clock Claps for the NHS? What about chanting to encourage adjacent streets? e.g. "South Street South Street clap your hands". What do you think Robbored?

Lots out in my street showing appreciation for the NHS. Good to see.

A fellow red is back at work at hospital from retirement teaching the use of ventilators. Providing support and guidance, Kelvin is a Hero Red.

So Wally has blown his inheritance then.

As a species we are constantly asking for novel viral trouble really, be that by mixing and butchering all these disparate species in one unsanitary place, or pumping pigs full of antibiotics in massive sheds in Mexico. And it's not just the Chinese that have wet markets tbf, you see similar in Indonesia and all over Asia- and are they any less dangerous than what the US does on an industrial scale to livestock and the subsequent loss of human medical protection? Let's hope attitudes change after this.

I'm told there's all sorts of unpleasant conditions you can get from camels toes......

To$$er. He should have been arrested years ago for having a name like Cody Pfister.

I have to say, until scientists have been able to do more analysis, we don't know who or what caused the virus. We may never know. The causes of many great pandemics, including "Spanish flu", are just conjecture. The dominant theory is that it began in Wuhan in November/December and may have some connection to the city's "wet market" and either bats or pangolins. But there are problems with this: the form of bat coronavirus found in the kind of bats eaten in central China is only 96% a DNA match with Covid-19. That isn't normally close enough for a mutated virus to "jump species". As for pangolins, it's the scales that are ground up and used in (already banned) traditional medicine. These would be very unlikely to carry the virus, and pangolins only have a 90.3%match with the genetic material carried by Covid-19. Unlikely that they are either its direct source or even the "bridge" to forest bats. They are critically endangered for one thing. Also, multiple reports suggest that neither bats or pangolins were sold in the wet market in Wuhan. Bat-eating being much more of a rural thing; something that is dying out in modern China. You don't need to blame the peculiar eating habits of some Chinese for these zoonotic diseases. They are much more likely to come from everyday farm animals that everyone eats: chickens (SARS/MERS); pigs (Swine Fever), etc. Moreover, research on many virus outbreaks has suggested they may have circulated for decades at a low-level before a mutation made them more dangerous and a "super-spreader" burst them into an epidemic. Although AIDS was first identified in New York in 1981, evidence now shows it was present in the Congo basin area in the 1930s and had reached the US by the 1960s. Deaths from it were chalked up to different causes. So I personally wouldn't "blame China" for a virus mutation over which they would've had no control, and which may not even have originated there. If there's blame to be attributed, we need to await the "inquest" on all this: and that may be years away.

Q1..Please can I use a stepladder......... Answer..No Q2..Please can I take my hard hat off for 2 minutes while I work in a place where I can’t fit my head in if I keep it on......... Answer..No Q3..Please can I use a perfectly good drill that has a PAT test out of date by 1 day while I await re-testing........ Answer..No Q4..Please can I run an extension lead across the floor for 5 minutes ........... Answer..No Q5..Please can I use another trades mobile scaffold which I am trained to build...... Answer..On many sites No Q6..Please can I undo my chin strap in a building with enclosed windows when the temperature is about 90 degrees...... Answer..On many sites, No Q7..Should I go to work on site when there is a global pandemic that is the most contagious thing ever known to man, travel on the tube squeezed in as usual with hundreds of other people, use a finger scanner for access and get in a small lift with 10 other blokes and a lift driver that stays in there all day........ Answer..Yes Ok thanks.....as long as my health, safety and well-being remains your top priority I will crack on ??

RLODC Final from last summer being shown 10pm sky sports cricket tonight

Not even a Tilson!

Just for piss taking purposes I googled it. Just over £300K. Result: 50000000 SSP = 323346.00031 GBP That sounds familiar doesn't it?

Shouldn't you be self-isolating?

Following brexit me and Mrs F refuse to go to Spoons.....I hope a lot more people do the same now.

They could play that abortion behind closed doors and no one would notice ! It's T20 dumbed down for idiots !

sorry, but is anyone actually interested ?