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Just now, Magicman said:

Having white on makes us a threat and upped the tempo

That and Lincoln losing a player

17 minutes ago, kingsy1884 said:

Not sure how to react. What a brilliant signing!!! This feeling has been missing for so long.

Maybe the first time since Kris commons we had someone who can take FKs and Corners.

Rooney?

4 minutes ago, Mihangel said:

Have I gone early?

Stunning view. And the hills are lovely as well etc etc

Just now, LazloW said:

What I really don’t understand is; why announce that “it’s all done bar the shouting, and it will definitely be done tomorrow”, if there is any chance it won’t be. Why make a rod for your own back? Why whip up expectations yet again? Why why why.

I know there’s another 8 hours of Thursday to go, but surely they would have announced something by now if it were ‘nailed on’.  

I work from home and it’s times like this I wish I was still in the office; at least I wouldn’t be able to spend so much time refreshing this thread and Twitter with the beady eye of my boss on me!! 

I thought they said they anticipated it would be done tomorrow (today)

39 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Neathier has derby county

 

MK Dons weren't in major financial problems they merely moved the club to a new location as they thought they could get a bigger fan base.

AFC Wimbledon were a brand new club created in response to them moving

3 minutes ago, NottmRAM said:

Twenty years ago, I bought a car for £12k. The same day, I filled it with petrol. I also bought something online c.£20. The bank called to ask if I had bought the petrol and the online purchase "as these are commonly bought if someone had found/stolen a card. They made no mention of the £12K. After that, I have always assumed the banks flags are a bag of dogs testicles.

Old systems were very basic

3 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

actually, whilst there must be some ridiculously low threshold (I don’t think a one off transfer of funds of a couple of hundred pounds is likely to trigger serious AML checks), I believe you are correct. 

Unless they were flagged as a certain type of account.

Yeah you're right,  there would be a lower end threshold that the system would ignore even if it hit a flag. They also have scoring systems so one flag of a certain type might not be enough to trigger a case,  but 2 or 3 may. 

There are countless rules that can be put in place.

1 minute ago, Tamworthram said:

Absolutely right. The red flag threshold will be far far below £20m

The flags would be based on how unusual the payment was compared to normal transactions.  If a transaction was more than a certain amount outside standard deviation compared with transactions in the past 6 months/ year etc. 

6 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

The Binnies pulled out, the Administrators did not reject them; they asked them to increase their bid which they refused to do and pulled out.

Yes, of course, we want to avoid liquidation. I just hope we have that choice.

Rooney's press conference answers did not fill me with the same level of confidence that you appear to have.

The report says it was the administrators who ended the discussions not the Binnie's.

1 hour ago, 24Charlie said:

I believe Cloughie said he might not be the best manager in the country but he is in the top 1

Ah sorry I was thinking I'd missed some big story

28 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Cloughie ?

Why are people referencing Cloughie?

17 minutes ago, Red Ram said:

You are correct that there has been a downturn in cases at the national level over the last week or so as per https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases

But the most recent day we have complete data for is September 10th. There were 28,6222 compared with 'only' 3,580 for September 10th 2020. As I said earlier, we all know what happened last winter and the most important metric is the number of people in hospital which is four times higher than this time last year. The fact that the cases are 8 times higher and hospitalisations are 'just' 4 times higher is down to the vaccines but it won't be enough to stop the NHS being overwhelmed.

And no, I don't have a crystal ball but I don't need one to see what's going to happen next unless action is taken now.

I take your point, but probably not a good idea to make like for like comparisons on months of the year. We're in a very different situation to last year with a highly efficacious vaccine and high levels of natural immunity.  We also have a largely opened society and have seen no sustained increase in cases.

This points to HIT being hit for the moment. This threshold could/will change in winter,  absolutely,  but it's not a comparable to last year.  We need to wait and see. 

Ultimately though,  there is little evidence for masks in lab tests,  rct trials or in the copious amount of real world data.

1 hour ago, Red Ram said:

The evidence from the BMJ, the WHO and Nature unequivocally demonstrates that's simply not the case

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n432

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-masks

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

The level of protection for the wearer, rather than other people,  varies significantly with the type of mask though.

 

 

 

 

It was consensus prior to pandemic that a virus can't be stopped with a cloth or surgical mask.  Nothing has changed on that,  which is why the WHO states the evidence for them is weak. 

In the UK, masks were pushed by spi-b the psychological branch of sage, they  became a political issue. 

To the person who said I'm talking tosh, please look up the stats, we've been having 15-25% week on week fall in cases for 2 weeks.  

Masks don't have any material affect and the inference seems to be that the covid situation is worsening.  Cases are plummeting currently.

It's the publics duty to push back against unevidenced rules. This is akin to the scotch egg with a pint rule, it does nothing other than make us question legitimate rules.