Tinmans Love Child

Hearing about this ‘R’ number thing with Covid, I’m sure Rovers have used a very similar calculation to work out their attendances, for example, if R is 3, then they multiply the actual attendance by 3

1 hour ago, And Its Smith said:

China showed how to deal with it.  Assumed the Tories would do the same. Not my fault they didn’t.   China have aggressive local lockdowns and contain the virus very well.  As someone who goes to China and know people there I was just communicating what was to be expected.  You can have a go at me for that if it makes you feel better 

The lady doth protest too much

Agreed interesting reading the first few pages, a lot of people calling things exactly in line with what happened.  
 

Fair play to And It’s Smith, they keep going with the ‘it’s not serious’ line for about 3 weeks and dont let up, until they then start blaming the Tories for not taking it seriously!  

7 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

Have they still got Timmy Abraham on loan, or did he manage to escape?

1 hour ago, bs3 said:

Spot the difference 

Hypocrites, also very poor to take something serious like redundancies and turn it into a dig at the club anyway, weird why they said we made 40 working class people redundant, I assume to make it sound more out of order, what is working class these days anyway?

23 minutes ago, Lrrr said:

One interesting point on their forum, could we see the season moved back to October 1st so all fixtures could be played with some crowd in attendance?

Could work with the whole adjustment to the 2022 World Cup?

2 minutes ago, S25loyal said:

When did he say that? 

Start of the season he said that defo

It’s funny that when SL writes of our debt they mock this approach and gloat how it will all go wrong when SL sells up, yet when exactly the same thing happens to them it’s amazing news and the start of a new era!

11 hours ago, Gashead2017 said:

What a time to be a Gashead, debt free tonight and a multi million new stadium development being announced next week, not sure life can get better than this, we jut need to convince Matty Taylor we can offer him better prospects than Oxford and it will have been a perfect summer. 

Where have I heard that before?

On 02/06/2020 at 11:03, Dolman_Stand said:

I can see crowds being back before the end of this calender year, one option available to the club maybe that only season ticket holders (that have bought them to date or up to a maximum number of say 8 - 10,000) for next season could be allowed within the stadium as a starting point.

You would then need to space those people out i.e. only one in every three seats are to be used, this would obviously mean moving people from the seats they have paid for in the interim and there would also need to be heavy distancing restrictions around the concourse areas but its  a possibility.

Maybe but I can’t see it personally, it’s still way to many people in one place.  Obviously in the end things will start back but I think next year 

2 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Only thing is that it will inevitably disrupt next season. I'm glad it's coming back, although I'm personally still of the view that this season should have been scrubbed and then 20/21 played as normal - including having fans in the stadia - but the decisions have been made.

One thought - if they are sticking to the spirit of distancing and other rules then surely the fixture list should be re-done in order to minimise travel for each team? Seems against it all to have our squad going up and down the M5 every couple of days.

There’s no way 20/21 season is going to be played as normal I.e. with fans in the ground, I can’t see that sort of normality for a long time as social distancing is not really possible.  Therefore if you take that as red, and behind closed doors is the new normal, then you might as well finish this season off first.

18 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

Blimey, an article from tomorrow!

22 hours ago, 22A said:

Just found this on Youtube under Recommended videos; it's only ten seconds long.

 

I video’d that at the time to send to my Rovers supporting friends, always makes me laugh!  A week off work! Jesus 

9 years ago on Facebook I posted this: 

To my Bristol Rovers supporting friends, bad luck and all that following your almost confirmed relegation to League 2 this afternoon.  To the bloke who made the effort to watch the City v Hull playoff final up The Beaufort Hunt pub a few years ago, wearing his Rovers shirt and cheering when Windass scored the winner for Hull, "IN YOUR FACE"

Happy times!

5 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

Furloughed their "players"..? Are you sure about that..? Or just the non playing staff..? 

I'm not sure the Furlough scheme is meant for people who are probably earning £70-100k+ per year..! Even if they do get it capped at £2.5k per month. 

 

The furlough scheme isn’t in place for the individual really it’s meant for the company to help them keep going, the individuals salary to some extent is irrelevant.  Even if you earn £5k before tax per month (£60k per year) then half of that being paid by furlough scheme is 50% help so why wouldn’t you use this?

8 minutes ago, The Humble Realist said:

The 'grossly overpaid 'was in reference to someone saying the club will need help to get through this too when I said about fans being refunded season ticket money  .

If the club didn't offer refunds (hypothetically) but continued to pay Kalas 20k a week I think we would all agree that would be outrageous. 

It's highly unlikely such a scenario would ever occur(the club WILL offer us all refunds and Kalas will likely not be paid his full 20k every week with deferrals etc) but hopefully that helps with the context the original quote was said in

 

I think most fans think football clubs should be run (or told to run) in such a way that they can only pay out what they get in.  

The massive loss making that nearly all clubs have operated on for years has got way out of hand, especially when it’s driven by paying very high wages to players that they cannot afford based on income.

Maybe this will force hands to bring in salary caps etc etc, regardless of clubs being a rich persons play thing, they are part of the community and should be offered some form of protection from going bust, and the best way to do this is to make sure they are run in such a way that at worst they break even.  Also players wages should only be a % of income, say 50%, which would drive down wages I think.

3 hours ago, pillred said:

It's not the number of deaths so much as the number of new cases despite as I said the almost total suspension of our social and economic activity plus social distancing the number of new cases actually rose in the 24 hours preceding Friday to 5699, the day before Thursday 16th the new case total was virtually identical to what it had been over 2 weeks previously so the lockdown measures have NOT reduced these new case figures, that is what to me is the most alarming statistic I'm glad the NHS will be able to cope with 5,000 new cases but again when are we going to see some reduction? surely by now over 4 weeks into lockdown that should have happened.  

You are forgetting the rate of testing, we are testing double the amount of people than we were two weeks ago, and the rates of infection have stayed flat.  If the lockdown hadn’t worked then you would have seen double the infections.  The measures are working, the stats are readily available to prove this https://coronavstats.co.uk/

16 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

Nice to see Wycombe in the window of the chippy, they really are their nemesis club....such a ragbag collection of supporters, too. Not exactly moved forward in that time, have they?  Compare what we've done in that time......and that's why really, and deep down they know it too, there really is ONLY ONE TEAM IN BRISTOL.

Yet they still argue that because there is only 1 division between us that SL has basically wasted his money, such a short sighted argument

1 hour ago, Riaz said:

It’s not deadly to healthy people.

Are you on the wind up?  Healthy people can pass it on to the not so healthy people who can then die.  Have you not watched any of the briefings or read anything on this?

If I get the virus but don’t worry as I’m healthy, I then carry on as normal and pass it to my Gran, she dies.  That’s the facts.

They have estimated that 7,500 people have died in Care Homes of this already which hasn’t even been reported in the figures.  That means more than 22,000 and counting have died within weeks.

8 hours ago, pillred said:

5599 new cases and 847 deaths so despite closing down almost everything socially and work related there is absolutely no sign of any slow down in the number of either. I don't know about you but I'm beginning to lose hope things will get better anytime soon, when are we going to see any benefit from the sacrifice we are all making?

Sorry but you are wrong with this statement, without the lockdown measures the number of deaths would have been in the thousands a day by now, as number of deaths was doubling every 2/3 days, this has actually levelled off, and also they have kept the number of new cases on or around 5k per day which means the NHS is supposedly able to cope with the numbers.  I think it will drop off steadily in the. Injunction weeks

10 hours ago, mozo said:

I think there will be distancing rules off the pitch and testing prior to kick off.

I fully expect this to be too difficult for L1 and 2 to resume which makes the Bury and Bolton situations a bit ironic. PL and Champ could resume though.

At the moment. That needs to be figured out prior to resumption. 

It'll be weird and half as entertaining. But better than nowt and a means to an end (literally!)

Will be a bigger shock for Leeds than us to be fair. It's not like the Gate is rocking every week!

I'm not disagreeing with you. But the closure of a season is pretty important. We were witnessing history with Liverpool, and plenty of clubs have a huge amount to play for. In the current economic climate, promotion and relegation matters even more. It would be huge for Coventry or Preston. 

If we were top of the Championship, 10 points clear, nobody would be saying we should just void the season.  It has to be finished before you start the next season IMO, yes there will be difficult hurdles to overcome in order to make this happen, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t.

16 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

I suppose it's a bit like posters who spend a lot of time on here, but won't shell out a tenner to support the running costs of the forum.

They are under no obligation to do so, but they could choose to, it's their money at the end of the day.

As you’ve asked so nicely and have not been condescending or patronising I’ve subscribed

I used to work for Nationwide and they are usually pretty good at these sort of things, but great to see the CEO self sacrificing his £1m bonus and various other financial incentives.  It goes to show that regardless of what you are legally entitled to receive in your contract, the individual always has a choice:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189919/amp/Nationwide-boss-Joe-Garner-volunteers-huge-pay-cut-coronavirus-crisis.html

As others have mentioned, SL could pay the NPS their full salary and not claim money from Gov if he wanted to, yes legally and he can claim it and has done nothing wrong, but that’s beside the point.  

The same goes with players, yes it’s not their responsibility, yes they have no obligation, yes they are employed by a different company blah blah blah, but they could choose to do something if they wanted to, it’s their money at the end of the day.
 

2 minutes ago, Delta said:

Tidied for you

Still here? 7:50am on a Sunday morning!  I feel for you

4 hours ago, Delta said:

I think you are flattering your team a tad.

I have no interest in Bristol City - I know nothing about them other than Baker & Weiman play for you as well as some bloke you call Fam.

Aston Villa live rent free on this forum so I comment (down to the fact that Aston Villa is my favourite subject).

“I have no interest in Bristol City” says villa fan posting on the Bristol City forum