Cider_boy

Huge mistake by the ref. Forgot the teams had changed ends at half time and awarded the penalty to the wrong team. ?

It was so unlikely I didn't follow it on the radio, didn't want to hear about the gas staying up. Turned the radio on after full-time, kicked myself for missing it as it happened.

Sorry if I've missed a thread already, but previous gas shirt sponsors (and still advertising with them), football index in administration Football Index: What has happened to online betting company and what has the fallout been? - BBC Sport Went looking for the connection: New Front of Shirt Sponsor Announced - News - Bristol Rovers Football Index and Bristol Energy - the sort of basket cases the Gas are dealing with, well suited!

When you haven't won a game for 6 months, who would you rather be up against than the gas!

90+5 minute goal. for Hull 1-3 ?

When I looked at a prediction thread on ass chat at the start of the season, the most popular selection by them seemed to be 7th.

Matty Taylor (x2) and Ellis Harrison scoring just now too. ?

Who's had the most box entries? We know that's all important!

Plenty of time for Donny to improve their goal difference yet ?

Also, he will have the get out due to the lockdown. Signed the accounts and said he intends to maintain the company for a year in Feb, but that was before he could have known about the current situation, if he does now want to back out, he has the excuse, hasn't just changed his mind etc...

yeah, and fans of all other clubs in the country would suddenly love us

I agree re working from home. The only benefit is the lack of a commute, the rest just makes the actual working day harder. But if I couldn't do the vital part of my job that brings the money in I'd be furloughed on 80% pay, max £2,500 pm. Why are footballers different?

I'm an office worker. Doing my job everyday as normal (just from home) and being paid for it accordingly. I am not just doing half-arsed training courses day in day out, keeping myself vaguely ready to start working again in a few months time. That's effectively what footballers are doing at them moment. Professional footballers job is to play competitive matches in front of paying fans. That's what brings in the money that pays their wages. All sorts of workers have to do training in order to perform their actual jobs. Some are still able to do so, others (including footballers) are not.

But on the same basis, any of us could have an underlying condition we are unaware of. That's not how I want to discover it either!

Sorry to link to the post but https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/shoppers-stormed-bristol-tesco-during-3972913 all rather sad if we need to start putting the police (or army) on supermarket doors.

This. The arguments on social media (and on here) between those who think we must all self-isolate and those who think they should just carry on as normal seem as bad if not worse than - leave v remain - Johnson in v Johnson out

Several pages back I saw some misleading figures about how many extra deaths there had been so far this year. In fact so far we are running at below the average of the last 5 years: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales Week number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Week ended 03-Jan-20 10-Jan-20 17-Jan-20 24-Jan-20 31-Jan-20 07-Feb-20 14-Feb-20 21-Feb-20 28-Feb-20 06-Mar-20 Total deaths, all ages 12,254 14,058 12,990 11,856 11,612 10,986 10,944 10,841 10,816 10,895 Total deaths: average of corresponding week over the previous 5 years 12,175 13,822 13,216 12,760 12,206 11,925 11,627 11,548 11,183 11,498

Given the medical advisers are still saying that going out to get some exercise is recommended, what's wrong with tennis? If you play with other people from your household, you're likely to be doing more social distancing from others than if you go out for a walk. Sounds like a reasonable thing to do to me.

Found this quite interesting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

Absolutely. My brother who works at a GPs surgery says that even they can't get any hand gel. It should all be requisitioned by the government, used in the NHS first, and the distributed to households, possibly using posties (with armed guard if it ever gets to that stage)

Much of this reads as a conspiracy theory. Although it doesn't seem to quite add up when you look at the economic damage governments around the world are causing compared to how they try to talk down the threat of the virus to the majority of the population. Maybe I'd better start to stock pile after all. Is the Thatchers farm shop open on Sundays?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51846159

No Gas penalty nor opponent sent off today, that's a first for a while.

Anyone know how Taylor Moore's been getting on recently?

Yep, Steve's not spending all this money, building a legacy to just walk away in a few years 'cos he's bored with it. Besides, his son and heir is already involved anyway.