Cider_boy

1 hour ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

Had an awful referee by all accounts. 

Huge mistake by the ref.

Forgot the teams had changed ends at half time and awarded the penalty to the wrong team. 

5 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

Amazing set of circumstances were required. 
 

Northampton must win. 
Wycombe must win. 
Rovers must lose. 
 

Nothing else would do. 

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 

5 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

The latest bloke to report on them for Bristol Live predicted that they would finish 10th..

Presumably he thought they would play 70 games to everyone else’s 46?

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. 

2 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Well they have had a majority of the possession throughout the game, which is what "Garnerball" is supposed to be all about isn't it?

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

Plenty of time for Donny to improve their goal difference yet 

2 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

A year from the date of singing so Feb 21. Previous were signed in May so ran to May 20.

Whilst I'm now thinking it isn't an issue technically this now means that the guarantee runs out before the next accounts have to be filed.

 

Pass. There isn't a financial guarantee in place anyway it's down to whether the auditors believe him so will want to see proof of funds and track record of supporting companies.

He could just say "nah" next week though it would seriously damage his business credibility.

As per my previous posts I don't think it an issue now. I don't know why everything in the garden is suddenly rosy but they're acting as if it is.

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...

30 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

They could be our away following - go to away games - and we'd cover the home games. We'd be huge! The envy of all ......

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

5 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

They are of course being paid for that 90 minutes of performance but they are also doing ?20 hours of training each week to prepare for that.

As long as they are training they are fulfilling 90% of their contract and everything within their control.  They should be paid.

I wasn't knocking people who are working from home; I once did it for six months and hated it.  It's all the grind of office work without any of the fun and banter.  I was so depressed each Monday at 9am when I trudged up the stairs to my office to start yet another tedious tedious week.

The only people who think that working from home is a cross between a great skive and a party are those who have never done it.

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?

1 hour ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Lots of people - I would suggest most - are receiving their full wages.  NHS staff, council staff, civil servants, MPs. pretty much every office worker.

Footballers will be training every day; just not playing games.  Isn't this just another swipe at the level of their wages?

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.

12 minutes ago, TomF said:

I expect she had an unknown underlying condition - quite often the case 

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.

11 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

i wouldn’t personally want an army enforced curfew, but I can’t see any other solution. People aren’t listening and they’re being selfish.

its really sad because following brexit this was an ideal opportunity for the whole country to pull together for a common good and could have gone a long way to bridge divides.

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

2 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Tesco is a needed risk. Tennis isnt

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/

6 hours ago, handsofclay said:

What I don't get about all of this is we are constantly being told that the best way to protect ourselves (apart from self isolation) from catching this coronavirus is to wash our hands after we've touched things and especially before then touching our faces or eating. If we cannot wash our hands - due to the unavailability of sinks and running water in everyday situations - then hand gel is just as good. Now that is something we can all carry around and get into the habit of using. After all, it will be a lifesaver. 

Now this is the bit I don't get. In the last war, it seemed likely that the home front would be subjected to poison gas attacks. Gas masks were thus quickly issued to everyone in the country and everyone carried them around in the supplied cases. Gas masks cost a fair bit of dosh to produce for a nation that in the late-1930s was still in the midst of the Great Depression. Yet it was done. It was seen as a necessity to protect our population.

Now in 2020 we are a far richer country than our 1939 former selves. Yet, there has been no talk of providing everyone in the country with hand gel. Hand gel being significantly less expensive than a gas mask to produce. Instead we are just told about how hand gel can be a lifesaver and when one looks to purchase a bottle at the supermarket, there's none there because someone has bought 59 years worth of supply. I can imagine back in 1939 a Public Information Film telling us that gas masks were essential but it was your task to find one on the empty shelves of the local stores. Surely it isn't beyond the Government to impose emergency powers upon the alcohol sanitising gel manufacturers and get them to produce enough to provide everyone in the nation with a bottle or two a week.

 

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) 

16 minutes ago, SX227 said:

I think all 'meetings' of people over 10 will be the new normal 'maximum' amount.

We clearly aren't being told the whole truth and the effects of this pandemic are being 'manipulated' to try to re-assure the public.

Even with the 'scary' headlines.

Look at some of the facts (as reported by actual government agencies)

The implementation of MARTIAL LAW in some countries, inc the UK very soon (forced detention of sick people)

Republic of Ireland trying to free up 10,000 beds - yes 10,000 hospital beds

Italy applying a cut off age of SIXTY for mechanical ventilation. How many people do you know over 60?

A lot of ventilated patients are already dead - as in no hope of recovery. Case in point the 1st victim in Italy - in his 30's and now ventilated for 39 days.He's a dead man, and someone needs to pull the plug.

Europe is completely unprepared - Spain,France,Germany all already struggling, yet with a fraction of Italian cases.

Iran and China supplying false death rates - multiple vids showing piles of unburied dead.

 

Something else just does not add up - look how many 'famous' people have it.  Politicians, sports stars, Actors - yet Governments would have us believe only 150,000 have the illness - it is so disproportionate the number of well known people in that 150k.

It's the 3rd world I fear for - India has 1 billion people living there with appalling health facilities. Ditto Pakistan,South America, Africa etc.

3000 have died of Ebola in Congo but hardly a single article from the press (because you know, black people apparently don't make good headlines) - and most African nations struggle with basic health anyway.

Put it this way - does anyone believe Thailand has only 82 cases when they had 50 over 3 weeks ago?

 

Personal factual info - Queensland Health alone have just bought an extra 110 ventilators (at $400,000 each) - and Australian Hospitals are amongst the best on the planet - so if a state with only Brisbane as a city of any significant size spends that sort of $$, just what are they expecting.

Here in Victoria, we have erected 200 pop-up testing facilities. These are existing physiotherapy, pathology, closed GP surgeries so have the basic medical facilities - and the queue's are hundreds long - and we are catching the infected.Walk In, test, wait, and if infected,direct to isolation.

And yet our tally grows at a terrifying rate - over 250 now - doubled in 2 days. Private hospitals are being emptied and designated as Corona Centres (no doubt at great profit to the greedy bastards owning them) but Anaesthetists I work with are all absolutely certain we will be having to make the decision on age eligibility for mechanical ventilation within 14 days maximium.

Numbers are being hidden, and the death toll is far in excess of quoted figures.

The death toll in the Western Countries will be significant over the next 12 months - but in Pakistan and India - god help them, for they have no defence at all unless a person is extremely wealthy.

It is impossible to overestimate the POTENTIAL for world deaths at this point.

It really is potentially that bad, unless we bring in draconian measures immediately. And that includes use of the Armed Forces.

I hope everyone uses common sense, washes their hands and isolate themselves as much as possible.

 

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?

4 hours ago, JonDolman said:

If you mean outside the gates then I can't see why people would bother with that. Maybe the pub, but I bet many would be doing that anyway on a Saturday afternoon.

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?

25 minutes ago, chinapig said:

They have been saying that about Steve for years, it's just a desperate hope, in the absence of any hope for their own club.

The question they should ask is: In 5 years time who is more likely to still be in place, Steve or Wally? Indeed, which club is more likely to still exist?

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.