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On 16/04/2024 at 21:26, FlyBritishMidland said:

That’s a good point.  With Sky now taking over the broadcasting rights in the UK across the EFL, maybe the red button will also cover L1 and L2 for midweek games?

I think the idea is that they'll be online/through NowTV/SkyQ and I think it is going to include L1/L2 games.

What will probably happen is that currently at Saturday lunchtime there is a choice of either premier league on TNT or 1 championship game on sky. What'll happen is that you'll be left for a choice of a premier league game on TNT or a choice of a few EFL games on at lunchtime and there will be a few on in the evening. I believe this will be incredibly unpopular. Don't understand why they don't just leave the games on at 3PM and let you watch them on TV. It's evident so many people watch the games through other means at 3PM so why not just show them? I think people go out to the games for a day out and the atmosphere not because they can't watch them on TV.

16 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

Meanwhile, the EFL tried to impose a Premier-league-mandated points deduction on Leicester. Leicester said, hold on, there's nothing in your rules that allows you to do this, and took out an injunction to stop it. The EFL said, "oh yes of course you're right" and withdrew the deduction.

My conclusion is that the EFL doesn't know its own rules and if we'd had the wherewithal to be able to contest their outrageous behaviour against us, we'd have won as well.

EFL statement:

Leicester Statement: 

 

They just make it up as they go along. I don't support Leicester breaking the rules but it's just clear to me that EFL is run by a cabal of club directors and go after clubs base on what they feel is right.

We need a regulator and proper process.

If derby get promoted I would expect 75% of our games to be on TV or streamed next season under this deal. 

I hope rams tv continues next season as it is but if there's no domestic streaming wouldn't be surprised if it's cut down a bit.

The EFL completely bottled it with this deal.

I would say though that piracy (dodgy firesticks and the like) probably help lead to this outcome. If they were responsible for their own revenue the risk is just very high that people use that over paying for an EFL product.

I think they could have partnered with Amazon or YouTube and got them broadcasted on their platforms that people were familiar with.

They probably thought that they didn't want an ITV Digital style collapse either that puts them all at risk.

39 minutes ago, thischarmingram said:

That was just unacceptable - we can still easily finish second but that performance for a second placed team with 4 games left was so bad. No game plan, no idea how to create a chance, can’t string 3 passes together,  tactics were again reliant on hoping we score from a set piece.  Didn’t look like we had spent the last 9 days working on anything. 

Saturday is huge now - must win no excuses and hope others do us favours. 

I think that's the main point for me - what on earth have they been doing since the last game? Thought they'd be refreshed, motivated and up for the challenge.

Could only watch the last half an hour but some bad decisions from players tonight in the final third and the set pieces were rubbish. That last FK needed to be a shot at goal.

I think max verstappen was on the screen for about 30seconds in this race. I'm not even entirely sure what verstappen does can even be considered racing. He just drives fast.

If we beat Wycombe and Pompey beat Bolton I think we're there.

I'm very nervous about Wycombe now.

It's been 28 years since we were last promoted automatically... It's not exactly something we're used to as a fan base and you can tell in nerves of the fans.

Guess next q is do we want Pompey win against Bolton or are we still in title race?

Looked a difficult second half. Portsmouth probably feel they're as good as promoted now.

Looked a pen to me

3 hours ago, Wolfie20 said:

Bruges was lovely - we stayed in one of those big canal barges which had been converted into a rather swank hotel.

Not sure if it's been mentioned but Salzburg is great - interesting with its' castle, gardens, good restaurants and wonderful mountain scenery close by. We would also re-visit Verona (& Lake Garda), Sienna, Cologne, Budapest, Rome and Florence but give a miss to Pisa & Venice.

Plenty to choose from - we're looking forward to a few days in Northumberland in June.

 

I think Salzburg is a great choice for a break for a weekend. It's a great town, doesn't feel too busy, some nice traditional places to eat/drink and its got great countryside around it. Airport is pretty small and very close to the city on a bus/taxi so you aren't messing around.

That JR goal...

About 300 left

Dwight Gayle, what a signing.

Incredibly lucky with the decisions.

This ref from Chad or what?

If be livid if I was Reading. Lucky I'm not though.

Will Def be 30k+

I like the rams daily podcast. Living far, far, away from derby its a great way of keeping up to date.. along with RamsTV.

It'll be a massive shame when the BBC run out of money and they have to have one broadcast for each game.

Back in the mel era when I guess the budget was a bit higher, I really enjoyed the RamsTV meets series.

1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:

There are some countries where if you gain citizenship in another country, you automatically lose your original citizenship (but you can apply to regain it afterwards)

Yeah that's true however in this case she was born as a UK Citizen.

It essentially leads to a different class of citizenship if it can be revoked if you've got another citizenship.

I think it's dangerous that you can have your citizenship given by birth taken away on the basis that you're eligible/hold other citizenship.

What wound me up about the charges (and still does) is the fact that it appeared that they were approved then retrospectively the decision or view changed.

The later charges are a direct consequence of the inadequacy of oversight of the EFL. If we'd known they weren't going to be seen as compliant, then business would have been different. It's not evident in the findings by the tribunals that this was ever considered.

An independent office of football regulation is needed.

1 hour ago, Archied said:

If jc is out and we are lacking a number 9 then we play a front 3 with nml , cbt and barks buzzing round and interchanging, bird sitting behind them linking and threading passes , we can still get wide with lower pulled back crosses too , yes we need to change it up a bit but these are decent players with pace and can finish ,,, 

coyr

We gotta just adapt and move on. Ideally we'd only have to push through final 5/6 games but at the stage people just have to pull together and sort a system out to make it work.

On 27/01/2024 at 18:50, ilkleyram said:

Serious/not being critical question: so why didn’t you give the task to a more junior member of staff?

 I’m old enough to remember computers first coming into the workplace. The chat then was the same as now - we’ll all be redundant/on the beach. What has happened is that jobs have changed and the workplace has changed and skills required have changed in many places but the overall number of jobs have not. Might not the same happen with AI? 

You're right - probably could have done but the flexibility and redrafting is just much faster.

It's also on tap, I don't need to manage their resourcing to fit in these tasks and have them working on stuff that produces more value and frankly they prefer doing. At the end of the day people will learn how to use the technology to their advantage and to make their job easier and you're right, the nature and requirements of jobs will gradually change.

There are some tasks I wish I could automate more easily or flexibly instead of wasting good staff time. 

I guess the risk in that in a few decades time is people will find it extremely difficult to write without directing a natural language model.

I think stuff like chat gpt etc is pretty powerful. I've been using MS autopilot to help me this week write parts of reports and presentations. We aren't permitted to use chatgpt as it harvests your data.

It's not perfect but it's a good start and edit it to add details, reword etc.

I can see how it impacts jobs though, this is a task that I may have given a junior member of staff..

I think there's still a bit of a way to go before roles get fully replaced (although customer support roles are already being replaced in part) but I can see a lot of benefits to low-risk technical design being done through AI.