Whitey Grandad

I assume that’s 100 miles and 2.5 hours each way.

I sympathise with your situation. I can see the sense in waiting another couple of weeks, but beyond that and many thinks start to snap. The vaccination process has been a tremendous achievement and we, as a whole, must have faith in its effectiveness. But where is the threat to the NHS?

It's in the air at the moment. When I spoke to the ticket office a couple of weeks ago they said that they were waiting for guidance but the intention is to go for the usual smart cards when they can.

Wages are only part of the costs of operating a business. There are a whole host of other overheads. Rent and insurance for a start.

You haven’t asked how my business has been affected. And I am by no means the only one around here.

Where have I ever said or complained that it was about me? Unlike you, I have empathy for others and their problems. Can you not for once try and see things from the perspective of others? But no. You’re all right Jack so anybody who isn’t is just ‘whingeing’. What a nasty, selfish person you must be.

They are so limited as to make continued existence uneconomic. If you’re not affected by it in any way then bully for you. But at least have some understanding of those whose lives have been ruined and are continuing to run up debts.

So you think that means that nobody is out of work as a result of it?

If this lockdown is so minimal then what’s the problem with getting rid of it altogether?

There is a whole range of economic activity that obviously doesn’t exist in your world. Theatres, horse racing, weddings, even football matches. Basically, anywhere that lots of people gather. The present restrictions are strangling these businesses which are running up debts and are only being kept on life support by the Furlough scheme. There will be a host of redundancies in the next couple of months and any extension of lockdown will precipitate these. And why do you think that people only want to go abroad for a holiday and a spot of nightclub activity? That is a tiny fraction of normal international travel. What chance does anybody have of getting any business from abroad?

There were 801 patient in hospital in England yesterday. Out of a population of 55,000,000. The vulnerable have mostly been vaccinated and the unvaccinated are much less vulnerable. We have reached the point where the lockdown is doing more damage than the virus.

Yes, you can use your credit to pay your £100 deposit. Like John D and I did.

What position? Hospitalisations are way down and deaths are down to normal. Everything else is overreaction.

They aren’t cheap. Only someone with lots of money would call them cheap.

I don't have any hopes for us. I don't think I'll even bother to watch.

If Carling did ironies...

I thought that Brentford had copied ours?

He will, but with great reluctance.

This wave is different from all the others. It’s moving downwards.

Why don’t they just buy variants in bulk from the Chinese? They can make them cheaper and in bigger volumes.

That go me thinking so I looked back over my payment history and I found these figures. I think they're correct. Some seasons benefit from a concession rate for old gits but this came and went. ----------------------------------------------- The Dell - Upper East Stand Centre - Front Rows Premier League 1993 1994 £248.00 Premier League 1994 1995 £286.00 Premier League 1995 1996 £292.00 Premier League 1996 1997 £306.00 Premier League 1997 1998 £340.00 Premier League 1998 1999 £374.00 Premier League 1999 2000 £425.00 Premier League 2000 2001 £889.00 Two seasons St Mary's - Kingsland Centre Row 'O' Premier League 2001 2002 (paid) Premier League 2002 2003 £486.00 Premier League 2003 2004 £476.00 Premier League 2004 2005 £521.00 Championship 2005 2006 £521.00 Championship 2006 2007 £493.00 Championship 2007 2008 £420.00 Championship 2008 2009 £420.00 League 1 2009 2010 £261.00 League 1 2010 2011 £300.00 Championship 2011 2012 £515.00 2012 2013 £676.50 Premier League 2013 2014 £709.00 Premier League 2014 2015 £737.00 Premier League 2015 2016 £737.00 Premier League 2016 2017 £737.00 Premier League 2017 2018 £738.00 Premier League 2018 2019 £660.00 Premier League 2019 2020 £661.25 Premier League 2020 2021 " Premier League 2021 2022 £929.00

That's true of course, but we have already been paying more for these views ever since we moved to St Mary's

There must be a Carrie On joke in their somewhere.

Strasbourg? Didn’t they also do Chambourcy?

Impressive work. Regarding the goalkeepers though it’s not enough just to distinguish between catching and parrying. Forster might well push a shot away but what is important is where that parry ends up. Pushing a shot around the post is not the worst thing in the world when compared to McCarthy batting it straight back to the opposition player with an invitation to have another go.