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1 hour ago, cidered abroad said:

Reference claims a day ago that it would take two weeks to get a Covid Pass. 

This morning, I downloaded the NHS App, completed all the data it requred and got my Pass within half an hour of starting.

I think the "two weeks" bit is you won't get a passport (under the vaccination branch of the eligibility options) until 2 weeks after your second jab. At some point they will make it the booster jab that counts, no doubt

13 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Do hope so! Although I struggle to see how, unless they are operating on the lower levels due to equity not being stuck in...

Cardiff

2017/18- Upper Loss Limit £13m

2018/19- Upper Loss Limit £35m

2019/20- Upper Loss Limit £13m

2020/21- Upper Loss Limit £13m

The last two averaged into one of course.

FFP adjusted for Covid in this case is £13m + £35m + £13m + £13m=£74m.

£74m/4 x 3=£55.5m.

They would need to have exceeded *FFP losses of £55.5m

*=Subject to equity, otherwise £15m. Or anything between £15-55.5m.

Is this how it works with the COVID-averaging? I thought it was 13 + (35 + 13)/2 + 13 = 50

39 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

SL reputedly has £1.5 billion and he has invested approx £150 million in City.

That is on tenth of one per cent of his wealth.

When I bought £70 of shares in BCFC 1982, that was 99% of my available cash.

 

Sorry, but they use "short form billions" these days - so it is 10% of his wealth, not 0.1%. Also you are comparing his wealth to your available cash - I very much doubt he had £150 million in loose change down the back of his very expensive sofa. There were several sales of H-L shares reported at the time if I recall

The only thing I can think of here, is with the -12 from admin as well, is the EFL view that they will get relegated without question - so adding more to the points deduction is not going to make any difference? If so, then the extra conditions are what makes a difference and they appear to be more stringent than for Reading

I'm lucky in that my work offers a salary sacrifice scheme which with the government rules on the benefit in kind tax effectively means I can lease it for half the headline price. many people are not so lucky or couldn't afford it even if their employer ran the scheme. We need two things to really get people to move over in large numbers:

1. a functional second hand electric car market. That will probably be a few years away, as it will need some of the current new models with better ranges (mine does over 300 miles on a full charge) to come onto that market

2. sufficient on-street infrastructure to allow people with no driveway to charge their car. There is a Post article that converting lamposts to work as charging points was "coming soon"...in November 2017! The chargers in many local park carparks now charge £1 plus 30p per Kwh, a lot more than your household electric but apparently if they used the right scheme it would be possible to get this electricity directly billed to your household account as if you were plugged in on a driveway. An alternative would be to allow culverts to be installed into a pavement (at a sensible cost) so that a charge cable can be run to the car without causing a trip hazard

40 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

I agree in general and I hope you are right. 

To me, it just feels like we are going backwards & NP hasn't got a clue how to impact a game when it's not going our way. 

Yes, absolutely, 3 points was the oder of the day on Saturday - but (as good as it felt at the time) I think we'd all agree that we very very lucky to hold out for the win, against a poor team, who could easily have done what Forest did. 

The players gave everything - but we have to be better, or we are in big trouble! 

Given the number of times this season that we didn't hang on, I would call that an improvement, albeit one that doesn't help our hearts. This win is like a striker ending a goal drought by having the ball go in off his backside, lets hope that the result is the end of our particularly poor run of home results rather than a flash in the pan

7 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Not a fan. 3 from 7 is fine, with the concussion protocol as the exception for a 4th.

Just an excuse to disrupt the game more, & as the original reason given for it was player fatigue due to Covid resulting in virtually back to back seasons, I don’t get the logic now.

Probably is more down to the big clubs wanting it.

Cue some clubs giving lessons on how to "fail" the concussion protocol on the correct sign from the touchline...even with an enforced layoff for following matches

The problem with "All lives matter" isn't the words themselves - in isolation they should be clear and obvious to all. It is the context of how they are used as a rebuttal of the "Black lives matter" line. If only the phrase used had been "Black lives matter too", then we wouldn't have this as a linguistic issue where a conflict between the two phrases is generated

Get well soon NP! Hope this is as mild as possible and at least nobody will be moaning at you for not being on the touchline....

26 minutes ago, AnotherDerbyFan said:

That's P&S, not related to administration or cash flow

It's you who doesn't get it. A club's revenue isn't volitile... it's not going to go from £30m to £10m, then up to £40m in successive seasons in the Championship. In 17/18 revenue was just under £30m. Roughly £15m of that was from match receipts and commercial/hospitality activities (which would have been £0 (or certainly very close to) in 20/21. 
In 17/18, we reached the Play-off semis and early rounds of the cups (Man Utd away in FA Cup). 18/19, it was the Playoff Final and cup games away to Man utd, Chelsea, Southampton and Brighton (I think all 4 of those were on TV?). Match receipts would have been down in 19/20 (no Playoffs or cup run), but sponsorship thanks to Rooney would have offset that slightly. 20/21 would have been similar to 19/20, but for a full year of Rooney sponsorship. For simplicity, it's reasonable to just assume £30m revenue for all seasons, minus the Covid impact on match receipts and commercial/hospitality activities... c50% of revenue.

It's not about what we spent prior to Covid. It's about whether the numbers stack up to say we would not have been in administration if it wasn't for Covid - in our case, was the business going to be self-sustainable from the 22/23 season onwards.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all. I'm simply putting forward a potential viewpoint that some on here instantly choose to dismiss without actually looking at it in detail.

I won't dismiss that out of hand, but you have seen counter-arguments here already. Yes, the income will have dropped for sure.... but the same is true for all of the clubs in the championship (parachute clubs excepted perhaps) - none of them have had income from tickets or hospitality/commercial streams. SO the question to ask is why Derby and not most of the clubs? For that the answer most would jump to would be the "shenanigans" that Mel got up to chasing the dream.

4 minutes ago, 22A said:

Our win was simply down to Bentley (so they say).

 https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/forum/276639/why-do-opposition-keepers-turn-iworld-class-against-us/#8

urgh, that ad-strewn forum just served toremind me what a gem we have in OTIB... renewed earlier in the week, a fiver very well spent

6 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

Bloody slowly BS2!

I'm 54 and at this rate I'll be 154 by the time they catch us up! 

Genie: "You have one wish"

Gashead: "Make me immortal"

Genie: "Can't do that, ask for something easier"

Gashead: "make me live to see the Gas overtake the gurt 'Teds"

Genie: "Immortality it is then..."

Looks like they are trying to out-tinpot the Gas

2 hours ago, Sweeneys Penalties said:

Joey Barton reacts to loan signing of Connor Taylor as he joins Bristol Rovers from Stoke City - Bristol Live (bristolpost.co.uk)

 

Christ look at the photo. It's got "Has it really come to this"? plastered all over his face

Interesting to note a methane snorter appearing in the comments for that article to try to take credit for Connor Roberts scoring at the euros, on the grounds that he had made 2 appearances for them 5 years ago....

15 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

Was that when people were sat on the steps of the dolman?  I remember it being total carnage, and the club were lucky nothing bad happened to be fair

That was truely scarey - I was in the middle of that mass with my then-girlfriend....she's never been to a football match again and took some serious persuading before i was allowed to take my eldest for his first match

edit: with tickets, of course - can't remember if everybody had them and they had been oversold, or some turned up expecting to POTD

1 hour ago, Dr Balls said:

Agreed when certain segments of the population won’t social distance or wear a mask indoors, the chances of compliance for re-opening to larger numbers of spectators is pretty much nil while prevalence levels are this high.

unfortunately the bolded correction is more accurate I think. That isn't even a comment on whether such measures are a good thing or not, more that a high level of compliance will be needed for permission to start to return to be given

When (no idea timescales) they do start to allow fans back in, I can imagine it would be a nightmare trying to work out who sits where. We have five STs from one household so it would be fine for us to sit all together - but how many small groups are booked by one person but are from multiple households...

600 STs.... about where we were after hour one of the first day of renewals... or am I underestimating our side of the equation?

14 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Ah, but if they`d asked who all these celebs` second favourite team was...……………………......

Ninety-second maybe....

The Beeb must be slipping - why doesn't this article wax lyrical about "Da Famous QuarterZZZ"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52224708

Free to leave, yes I can see that. But if the league rules preventregistration at another club at the time, then freedom to move will be limited I would think

12 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Is there perhaps a Lear Jet decked out in blue and white quartered livery squirreled away somewhere in Filton?

Given that the runway is not operational any more, that would put it in the same category as just about anything to do with that sickening excuse for a club

****ing useless

Chickenpox twice - yes, 100% First time around my brother was plastered, I had a few spots but not many. Second time around, I was plastered even more than my brother had been

This one? No, not once and I'll try to avoid it having diabetes....

7 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

That's somewhat reassuring and may lead to a shortening of the crisis. However, being a virus it still has the ability to mutate and so a second wave could be caused by a new strain. 

There is a commonly held belief that you can't catch chickenpox twice, right? Wrong, it's extremely rare but some people do catch it twice or even multiple times. 

Unfortunately true - I had it twice... apparently the first time was very mild sonot enough to give me immunity, I made up for that in spades second time around.

I was told on Friday that I was to be working at home for the foreseeable future, guess I'm one of the lucky ones that can. It also means when the kids' schools are shut (one is from tomorrow, only partial but affecting his year) it won't affect my wife and her 111 shifts