Port Said Red

I have the Octopus Agile tariff and at it's most expensive it costs around 18p per KWh between around 11pm and 7am. On occasions (when the wind was blowing) coming up to Xmas they were actually paying me to use electric across that period! I have never added a charger to my house as, despite already having electric in my garage, I was quoted an extra £1000 to run a dedicated line to the garage on top of the cost of install. I charge from a standard 13amp socket at around 3KWh an hour so and overnight charge adds plenty for me most of the time. I rarely charge when I am out and about these days, going up to London for the West Ham game cost me around £22 to charge at the hotel to get home again, which is OK, but would have cost me about £5 at home. The cars 2nd hand are not too bad, I am looking at the Hyundai Kona which 2nd hand I can get at around £20k, with a 300 mile range I am even less likely to have to charge away from home too.

As I said in my subsequent thread, we don't have a player of Twine's type in the squad or looking to make a breakthrough.

I am assuming that last line is in reply to the part about blocking youngsters? I don't think that is the case here, from what I have seen of the U21's we don't have a "playmaker type" coming through. Benarous if fit? Acey is still young and recovering his full fitness, will he develop, who knows? Murphy is a possibility and I did wonder if we might see him sooner rather than later, but this signing takes the pressure off for the rest of the season. But otherwise, it's good looking defenders and dynamic looking youngsters with pace and potential. This isn't a criticism of the Academy because I think "Number 10s" generally have something that can't be coached, finding youngsters with that innate ability to both see and execute a play is rare in all sports, finding them with the physical attributes required is even rarer.

How many more times? It's not dropping players, it's options. There are 16 players involved almost every game, having more quality means those players can be used more effectively and be fresher. The days of it being just "the starting 11" has been consigned to the history books a long time ago. It's not even going to block a youngster from sitting on the bench as Manning hasn't been filling all the spaces anyway.

This is something that always strikes me, the way they must prepare for the extremes. Miami Dolphins for example could be at home one week in 80/90° heat and away to Buffalo or Green Bay in ice and snow, the following week. It must be a very scientific approach to getting the players right for that.

I watched Alex Scott playing knowing that I wouldn't see a penny of the £25m that he was likely to be sold for, I am just a fan after all. Is there some sort of share scheme I have been missing out on all these years?

What about the joy in seeing him play? That's like saying you couldn't enjoy Alex Scott playing knowing he was likely to be gone in the summer. If (and I am not giving it up personally) we are not going to make the play offs, then some exciting football will be a way of keeping bums on seats.

Yeah, I never did feel the cold in those days, a bit different now....

Ian Gay discovering that Brad Greene of the Flyers is 6ft 11in and 18st 10lb.

Women have hard on's? Do tell..............

Thank you Eric Morecambe

Does 69.8 kilos suit you better?

Yes. Officially still our player.

Weimann's loan move to Baggies now on the main site, I think we will here something on this soon.

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-men-news/weimann-heads-to-hawthorns-on-loan/

The thing you have to remember is that players like Zak who show some loyalty miss out on the big lump sum paydays that the player that move get, especially when they run their contract down. Take s figure like £250/300k possibly more and spread that across his contract and it look less out of kilter with the others we have signed.

I thought the concourse etc knocked spots off the London Stadium, presumably they are not really that interested in competing with the other options available over in the Westfield etc. It might be different in the home end of course, I am guessing that the area under the Atyeo isn't much better than it was when we're in it back in the day, so maybe they give the worst bit to the away fans too?

My feeling is (no inside information here anymore ) that they would have been making inquiries for both and possibly one other (Lewis Bates?). I think Azaz may have been preferable if they were under the impression that Twine was going to be a lot more expensive or that Hull might want to keep him, but they have had to put more effort in to the Twine deal once it became clear that Azaz wasn't coming.

It's his go to status as soon as someone posts something that contradicts his clearly deeply held beliefs. "Look, look, they're picking on me"

Is he reasonably two footed @Harry? To me that always makes a big difference to how easily opposition players can close you down.

Hopefully with McCrorie getting minutes, Roberts returning to fitness and hopefully Rob A not too far away, it will feel a bit more competitive. Twine would also allow us to blood Murphy at a less pressured rate. I know I am ever the optimist, but it's often the case that one player can lift the whole team, strikers make more runs if they think they are more likely to receive the ball, the other midfield players have more options and so on.

I appreciate all the reasons that you say that Twine isn't worth £5m, we had these discussions earlier in the thread. I think that it's all relative though, I think we all agree we are lacking that something special in midfield, and if Manning has persuaded the club that he can make Twine that key player then he could be worth £5m to us come the end of the season. I think the most common criticism on here of the Lansdown's is their lack of ambition, I don't actually agree with it but, it seems a like a no win situation when this comes up and suddenly the cry seems to be "Not that much ambition".

What about the previous 25 years of poor decisions by people who didn't even put their own money on the line to make them? Don't act like every decision they have made has been poor either, or how many of them only seem poor in hindsight.

I would be amazed if any of the older posters voted yes, and if they do, then they are looking at the past with rose tinted glasses. We are in the best position we have been since the Harry Dolman era, and even Harry didn't get everything right. People pointing at Manchester City etc, but how many of those clubs are there across football as a whole? Even they took 8 years before they hit the right appointment in Pep, but I still don't think there is some tried and trusted method to getting everything right, sometimes it's luck of the draw. As for the poll itself, do it again after we have won a couple of games, we really are that fickle.