Whitey Grandad

Congratulations to him. I’ve always liked him when he played for us but we should not forget that he scored the third goal for Villa when they came back from 2-0 down to beat us in April 2005.

Yep. It’s not been too great today. Home page not too bad, lounge almost inaccessible but a search for unread posts is the worst.

My refund has shown up today on my credit card with a posting date of Monday 5th. One nineteenth of the gross price that I paid less £0.12 for some reason.

Is there enough lithium in the world? Motor vehicles alone will probably need more than the known resources can provide.

Me too. I feel for Steve and his colleagues. They must be tearing their hair out.

How can you tell?

True, but all these contingencies come at a cost. Regarding standby turbines, when I was studying engineering at university one of my subjects was power generation and we were told about a problem that arose with outdated generators that had previously been running 24 hours a day but were used to cover peak demands. They were going through two or three thermal cycles a day instead of one or two a year and were suffering failures due to metal fatigue of their casings. Energy exchange is a good idea and necessary with renewables like wind where the source of generation is widely dispersed. Let’s hope that we can stay friends with the French and Ireland. As you say, nuclear is very expensive and the reason for the fast breeder reactors was to provide fuel for our nuclear weapons. We are bequeathing a hideous problem to our descendants. I’m all for cleaner sources of energy but to expect to achieve total supply within ten years is cloud cuckoo land.

Renewables are useful and important but is wind power any good in a prolonged spell of high pressure in February?

Hoedt played in the 1-0 win at Swansea and the BBC gave him Man of the Match. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43353971

Just because they are asymptomatic doesn’t mean that they are carriers. Far from it. And there’s no need to call other posters silly names.

The Times this morning reports that he has joint Angiers 🙄

I just wish that I’d seen him play. I had a season ticket and I went to all our home games but I can’t recall ever seeing him playing.

But it’s not my money so it’s risk free for me

We bought him because Pellegrino wanted him. It’s not Guido’s fault that we wasted the money. The fundamental cause was sticking with Pellegrino for so long.

At a meat processing plant in Cornwall 500 members of staff were tested and 170 were found to be positive yet most of these were asymptomatic and didn't know that they had the disease. This implies to me that the tests are oversensitive and are flagging up a large number of false positives. Even if there is some small trace of virus present. We may be taking overdramatic measure on the basis of misleading information. Meanwhile in Italy three British lads who were working there were put into quarantine on 17th August and need to wait until they have two consecutive negative tests before they can leave. "The three guys are regularly tested every Monday but have so far tested positive every week. They say this is because of “dead coronavirus cells” that have stayed in their system." https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12720876/coronavirus-jail-italy-british-friends-stuck-quarantine/

I bought ours to save our seats for the future. Whenever that is.

Harwich doesn’t have the capacity. Not since the Bathside Bay development got stalled.

Yes please. Perhaps they’d forget about us and Leicester then.

Yes, Watkins’s ball.

A clean sheet and a nice comfortable professional 2-0 win. It’s not often that we see that at home and my only tinge of sadness is that I couldn’t be there to see it. i shall have to console myself with my £69 refund and a celebratory beer this evening.

If they’re going to take up to five weeks for each refund then it’s going to get very messy as the season progresses and they have several matches to refund.

Nothing on my card yet but they still have a couple of days left. So when they say '14 days' it appears that they actually mean 'after 14 days'.

Many will be familiar with the story of the Titanic and of the most senior surviving officer Charles Lightoller. He served with distinction in the First World War and later in World War 2 took his own motor yacht ‘Sundowner’ to Dunkirk and brought back 127 service em. He lived at Netley Abbey. His yacht Sundowner is preserved in Ramsgate Maritime Museum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lightoller

As well as being a red card

I wonder how the ‘pro-rata’ amount will be calculated bearing in mind that I paid for my tickets partly with the credit for the closed-stadium games at the end of last season. I would expect that it would be based on the full nominal price of the ticket and not the net price. Time will tell.