Davefevs

…and we aren’t on for long!

Guess might need to bung Antoine on now

Balls

Not guilty.

Hailstones set of my ring doorbell!

Might be because some are bank holidays, then first weekend of January is FA Cup Rd3

I’ve plugged these and BCFC Womens into my spreadsheet, wait to see City’s when they go on. I’m sure they won’t all add up because of the way inter company charges are done, but hey-ho.

I’d go by what is in the accounts: Stoke City FC Ltd: 19/20 - £52.663m (834 employees) 20/21 - £47.983m (662 employees) no crowds I suspect employees numbers will be back up again when they submit last season’s accounts. Looking quickly at Transfermarkt, I don’t see too many players leaving in the summer of 2021 to see a huge decrease for the period of last season (21/22), e.g. Wimmer However a few players left in last summer that might reduce 22/23s wage bill, e.g. Afobe. But I’d suggest this is journalistic license from the PL budget of £94m at end of 2018, rather than recent years halving! I don’t read “onerous contracts” as wages being written off either, I think you’re leaping to the wrong conclusions there. I read it as impairment, which they’ve already given detail on (whether you agree with it or not).

I might be wrong, but wasn’t he appointed previously and stood down before he started…or am I thinking of someone else?

@ExiledAjaxyou went too soon

Jackson Irvine and Aaron Mooy both have their own threads on OTIB transfer section…he’s not putting the effort in!

Would you be sat next to Danny Murphy!

He really will have to get inside his shorts to have any chance!

Agree to an extent…but I’ll give them benefit of the doubt because was also around the time of lots of conversation re UEFA salary cap rules coming in. That salary cap is likely to be much more closely linked to player costs. Going back to my early days of looking at FFP, 5/6 years ago (!!!) I assumed Holdings company rather than just BCFC was hugely advantageous to us…but over time I’m not sure it is really. Complete speculation from me, but you could forgive the EFL wanting to quickly get the current P&S stuff done and dusted without anyone punished and usher in the new rules as a nice blank sheet of paper to work from going forward.

Nope

Sttttrike

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Some island beginning with F…nicknamed Fun Island. It wasn’t one of the glamorous islands, but nice, all the same. No water bungalows or anything like that. No pro footballers, just the goalie from Cobh Ramblers who was an ex-teammate of Roy Keane.

My daughter was really surprised me and Mrs Fevs honeymooned on the Maldives…she thought it was The Falklands (Malvinas)!

FWIW I’ve asked the EFL to share their guidance on add-backs. I’m not expecting a response!!!

we played Fleetwood a couple of seasons back, they were very tidy…we won on pens. Them or Stockport up for us.

Bad injury to the Saudi CB during injury time.

Absolutely. I’m hugely in favour of a rugby / basketball style clock. All I’m saying is that you have to be careful how you define “what stops the watch”! Rugby doesn’t stop every time a whistle is blown for example.