Gaspode

Obviously a bit short of players so now they’ve signed Serge Aurier…..

Liverpool 1-0 down in Naples - penalty following a Milner handball. Allison also saved another penalty following a foul by VVD….

25 minutes ago, CodnorRam said:

Ah man that’s an incredible list of bands . You into any modern bands ? I couldn’t recommend a new welsh band called florance black enough , they’re brill 

Cheers for that - I'll look them up.

I don't really follow new bands (though I am partial to Black Stone Cherry and Clutch - neither new, but still producing good new music).

It's a combination of my taste widening (to include folky stuff (love Seth Lakeman, Laura Marling & Suzanne Vega), a bit of old jazz (Miles Davis, Monk), 'new' prog (Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson & Pineapple Thief), electronic stuff (Gary Numan has being doing some good stuff in the last few years) and also bands that I was aware of years ago but didn't really listen to as much as I do now (e.g. Pixies, Radiohead, Depeche Mode) - but I think the main issue is not really having the visibility of what's out there in the 'rock' world other than what I pick up off Planet Rock - in the late 70s/early 80s there was Sounds newspaper which highlighted the new bands to watch out for and also the Friday Rock Show on Radio 1 with Tommy Vance who was very keen to give bands a chance of airplay. Every week brought a new band to find out more about...

Nowadays there may be the same number of bands coming through, but what was generally called 'rock' has now split into a huge number of sub-genres and I just can't get into the trash/death stuff at all - I think I've mellowed...

PS forgot the Scorpions on my original list - they were great at the Assembly Rooms in 83

Just thinking back to the 'heavier' bands I saw at the Assembly Rooms in the early 80s:

• Iron Maiden (twice in 1980 - though didn't go to see them again after Di'Anno left)
• Thin Lizzy (I think 3 times)
• UFO (3 times at least) - what a great live band
• Def Leppard (probably the worst of the lot, though they were very young at the time)
• Magnum
• Gillan (at least twice)
• Saxon
• Budgie (once at AR, once at the Rockhouse - my poor ears)
• Hawkwind (and again at Rock City)
• Jethro Tull (more times than I can remember and at multiple venues)

Missed out on Ozzy, Schenker (though caught them eventually at De Montfort), Motorhead (again saw then in Leicester), Priest simply because there were so many bands playing in a short space of time that I couldn't afford to go to them all.....?

Further afield I saw AC/DC (3 or 4 times), Blue Oyster Cult, Whitesnake (several times), Slade (all at Monsters of Rock in 81), Plant & Page (a couple of times); the Stones - and then loads of more 'proggy' bands mostly multiple times (inc Genesis, Yes, Rush, Marillion...)

We were so lucky to have a thriving venue in the early 80s (and a huge number of bands touring) - feel sorry for folks nowadays that they're starved of seeing bands in smaller venues and have to travel out of the city...

8 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

I found the article but it's paywalled - the relevant bit is

It was the mention of Artemis that I remembered

 

Jeez, the tranformers are involved as well?

11 hours ago, Highgate said:

There is a hell of a lot going on in that sentence.  ?

Are the 99% of climate scientists the extremists or the moderate sensible ones?  

 

If your job is ‘climate scientist’, you’d be pretty foolish not to be fully onboard the ‘man-made environmental catastrophe’ train so probably nearer 100%.

It’s been one of the underlying issues with the whole debate that as soon as it became clear there was money to be made, a whole industry developed to support the concept based on a little evidence and a whole heap of guesswork, supposition, and b*******. That industry (which very much includes the climate scientists) is never going to properly question the foundations they’ve built their fortunes on so they provide a nice little platform for the more extreme eco loons to dictate to the masses - and anyone questioning the strength of their evidence is cancelled as a climate denier…..

The really sad part is that the climate clearly is changing (as it has for eternity), yet due to the shouty voices overpowering everyone and drowning out a reasoned debate, the focus is still very much on cutting emissions rather than addressing the elephant in the room - that the human race needs to deal with the effects of climate change (man made or otherwise).
When the seas rise and many millions find their homes underwater, and others find their countries uninhabitable due to excessive temperatures and associated famines (and it will happen regardless of any changes we make at this late stage), the consequences will be a catastrophe of a scale never seen before - and the people impacted are unlikely to sit back and simply accept their fate - mass movement of people and the associated pushback from those in ‘better off’ locations will rewrite the boundaries we currently understand between nations and people - with disastrous consequences.

I’d argue that finding a way to deal with/minimise those issues is vastly more important than anything Extinction Rebellion are pushing for, but their noise distracts to the extent that we’re not even looking at the bigger picture….when drinking water becomes more expensive than oil (Mad Max anyone?), we might just wake up - but by then it’ll be way too late….

It’s been crap in the East stand for quite a while - occasionally way too loud to have a conversation but mainly just garbled - sometimes it’s even hard to make out what song is being played….So I guess it’s not just you - unless we’re both sad old duffers with knackered hearing

1 minute ago, Bris Vegas said:

Brighton v Leicester is brilliant.

Brighton play such good football. Leicester look a mess.

Rodgers will walk soon.

If he’s given the chance to - get the feeling he’ll be gone regardless of whether he wants to or not

1 hour ago, alram said:

they seem to think it's a mortgage for the stadium redevelopment they just got approved

 

i would like to think they are using it to sign players though

If it is for the shed redevelopment on top of the £150M+ they've just splashed out (and that's ignoring wages for the new squad and the significant interest payments for the loan), they're taking an even bigger gamble than it first seemed. They'll be royally screwed if they don't manage to stay up.....

West Ham were in danger of being relegated a few years ago - they were having to pay something like £15M per year just as interest on their loan without repaying any capital and there were predictions then that they'd probably go bust if they were no longer in the PL....

21 minutes ago, ketteringram said:

Anytime somebody glues themselves to something, I've never figured out why they're not just left there.

Quite right - a week without food and water and they'll be begging to be relerased......

On a more serious note, there need to be some questions asked about security and how they managed to get into the chamber...

Leicester losing 1-0 to Man Utd - and don’t look as if they’ve got any answers at all. Chasing shadows - if they can be bothered to chase at all - they’ll be in deep trouble this season if they don’t buck their ideas up….

7 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

And he is a left back 

and appears (over the last 3-4 seasons) to have lost any desire to play football anymore - no thanks.....

6-0

And another from Haaland

2-0 Haaland again

Haaland scores despite Worrall trying to foul him…..

5 minutes ago, therealhantsram said:

The thing about new towns like Slough, Bracknell, Basingstoke, Woking and so on is that they all tend to be in the wealthy South. They suffer from concrete 60s architecture and being designed for the car... but because the inhabitants are in general better off than the average, there tends to be low levels of crime, lower levels of poverty, less vandalism, less drug dependency and more shops on the high street. I dare say, for example, that every one of those new towns has a Waitrose.

Sadly, the real "worse towns" are in the former great industrial heartlands of the North. Places like Middlesbrough, Blackpool, Hull, Rotherham, Blackburn, Burnley, Grimsby, Bradford, Doncaster and so on. Here's a handy map to tell you where they are.

 

 

  

I based my opinion purely on having spent 2 months working in the hideous place - and I can assure you that while there may statistically be less crime than other places, but there are still large numbers of very skanky people....

17 minutes ago, Crewton said:

"Why don't you fly off" seems more appropriate. Or something like that.

I can think of an alternative (but don't want to get a red card....)

7 minutes ago, Rev said:

Rotherham. Close thread.

You've obviously never been to Slough.....

On 28/08/2022 at 14:09, Unlucky Alf said:

I spent 6 months in Freiston in an establishment in 1975 ?, Dykes, Fields full of Sugar Beet and the Wash, The nearest thing to a hill was when we stacked the sugar beat and covered it in hey

Mate, you're not allowed to use that term anymore - you have to say 'a member of the LBGTQ+ community'.....

A señor striker or striking a señor?

23 minutes ago, Big Trav said:

Told from someone that it’s ‘most likely’ Carroll with an outside chance it’s Robson-Kanu. Ambitious if true 

I'd be happy with Carroll if we can keep him fit - never really rated Robson-Kanu though - he has very good games followed by a lot of anonymous ones.....

2nd highest spenders in Europe (behind Chelsea) - that's one hell of a gamble.....

Joined Boro on a permanaent....

16 hours ago, Premier ram said:

Tyler Walker, Macauley Bonne, Saido Berahino , 1 of those 3 for the strikers role

 

Berahino - the bloke who was so good that Stoke released him with 3 years left on his contract? His former Stoke teammate, Glen Johnson, is reported to have heavily criticised Berahino's attitude at Stoke, singling out his attitude in training, regular lateness and lack of effort. He ended the interview on Talksport by saying "If I was the manager or owner of a football club, I wouldn't take him if you paid me." Was also released by Wednesday after a year...

Bloke's trouble and far from the type of team player that Rosey has brought in so far - be amazed if we went down that route...