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22 minutes ago, jimbo jones said:

Probably 30 short, it's a different game when you have to do more than just score singles all innings. 

To be honest, I'm surprised we got as many as we did with that batting line up.

I think you're being generous but yeah I agree, that batting line up, 275 not too bad. The bowling and fielding was disappointing. Dropped catch, misfields, overthrows, not great.

This is quite tragic! The batting looked pedestrian, I think we're 50/60 short at least.

3 hours ago, ramswriter podcast said:

i did a podcast

Yey!

3 hours ago, ramswriter podcast said:

with Kieran Maguire

Oh, oh dear.

6 hours ago, Ken Tram said:

The questionnaire was stuffed full of leading questions, almost certainly designed to get support for what they're inclined to do.

I would say, a new regulator is just as likely to be an incompetent quango, so we should be careful what we wish for!

I liked the idea of a compulsory regulation clause in player contracts, as an alternative to parachute payments.

I said that I think that football player salaries are obscene!

I thought the questions were quite balanced, nothing too leading there. Totally agree with the bit in bold, made me happy to see that. I said yes to the salary cap as well. Fundamentally, the majority of football's woes are caused by players being overpaid. And I mean overpaid, more money goes out to players than comes in to the sport, that's madness.

20 minutes ago, rynny said:

And uses the same insults as well. 

See his account lasted long though ?

I think there's a new one, I appear to have gained a new follower, not sure I feel a little grubby or rather honoured.

11 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

That sad act on the Bristol City forum is going to love this ?

He's having an absolute melt down. Small things like that put a little schadenfreude related smile on my face.

2 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

We've been victims of a vindictive crusade by the EFL, their statement last night underlines this fact.

REGRETTABLY they can't relegate us.

Until last night, I wasn't so sure but that statement, blimey. They are supposed to be administrators that follow a set of rules not ones who should 'remain disappointed' or that they 'do not agree that those sanctions are commensurate to the breaches found'. Your rules FFS.

The paragraph below though is the cherry on the icing on the cake, talk about sharpening their knives, it simply did not need to be said. It's bitter and vindictive.

'Once these have been submitted, the EFL will then be required to consider the submissions in reference to the P&S rules and in particular re-assess whether the Club has complied with the requirement to limit losses in accordance with those rules'

16 hours ago, Charlotte Ram said:

I believe that 90% of the posters on here do not understand anything about administration/insolvency.

Which of course wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that many on that 90% continually worry about and raise the spectre of admin.... ?‍♂️

29 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

It seems to me @Sheikh n Bake that you have almost moved away from a fair and reasonable opening question to a stage whereby you are challenging people when they declare their intention to continue to renew regardless (apart from for personal reasons). I don’t know if you’re a bit of a WUM, on some kind of evangelical mission or are simply trying to convince yourself. 
 

You may find it incredulous that some of us will always renew without much, if any, hesitation (and don’t really care much how the price of pies at PP compare with other grounds) but that’s just the way it is.

That's what I'm thinking, otherwise why would you even start the topic? Fundamentally, the fewer people that buy season tickets, the less attractive the club is, the more money it is losing, the lower the standard of player we can acquire. It's some sort of doom mongering self fulfilling prophecy.

It's also the sign of the modern football 'fan', I do yearn for simply times - I started watching as a kid in the 80s, it was part of my life, my routine, that carried on even when I lived in Brighton (there's a club with modern fans!). It connected me with my home town, with my family, with my friends, that's what having a season ticket is all about.

All talk of investment, money, debt, that's a sideshow, for those 90 mins that's what matters, whatever crap is wearing the shirt.

31 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Yes me to. Poppa baalocks thinks I'm an idiot so the post to get up his nose had the desired effect. Sad twit. One team in Bristol- guess that's us then as they talk about fook all else.?

Bizarre, though we should note that nobody pays the slightest bit of notice to Mr P......

Several central defenders for a start. I guess Mengi is one. An upgrade on Clarke would be nice. Another one at least.

11 hours ago, Yani P said:

So...you wont disclose what you know whilst expecting the club to disclose what they know to you? Interesting ....

Precisely. Saved me writing it myself.

12 hours ago, Ken Tram said:

Perhaps not a thread for discussions! Just a place that people who understand stuff, can share information like  ... this is the published debt ... or this is the bankcruptcy process ... and these are the financial fair play rules ... and so on, all in one place.

 

The problem is there are at least 3 sets of people who could post there. 1) People who fully understand the various accounting rules, FFP etc and the how they particularly relate to DCFC (effectively, that is nobody) 2) People who've read Kieran Mcguire's guesswork/BS/fantasy ideas and think they know, yet are wrong but it won't stop them spouting off 3) Those who see Mel Morris as the anti christ.

For what it's worth, like almost everything else, accounting and other rules are open to interpretation, that's why you have legal cases such as DCFCs battle with the EFL

15 hours ago, nottingram said:

Quick reminder

 

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What a bitter little man Maguire is. And, as ever, hopelessly incorrect.