Jimmy_D

In the current climate, I'd imagine everyone will be waiting and seeing what happens before actually moving forward with anything like buying a football club.

From the limited information that there is, my guess is that someone guessed their password and used their account as a convincer for a fake fundraiser.

Seems like exactly the sort of decision someone would be making with our future relationship with the EU still uncertain.

We'll have to keep an eye out for Amazon delivery drones flying over St Mary's Hopefully the people that kept an eye out for Paul Allen's yacht are still around.

I take it you haven't read the Pompey Takover Saga thread then.

At our recent peak, we played well enough to win 9 times out of 10 in a League Cup final against Man Utd and finished above Liverpool in the league. Hardly 'far' better.

Didn't Koeman have a victory over every other team in the league during his time at Saints?

95/96 was a better escape for us in my book. https://www.premierleague.com/video/single/626001

Steve de Ridder looked pretty good on his full debut, got the fans behind him, but then never really lived up to that start.

It's not that difficult to understand. They've reserved a certain amount of capacity for COVID-19 patients. Those will not be used for non-COVID-19 patients because it'd be putting them at risk. Meanwhile, a combination of factors are reducing demand on the rest. Partly, it's that most people are staying at home and so at less risk of needing hospital. Partly it's that people that need treatment are staying at home because they don't want to put extra pressure on the NHS. What exactly do you expect would happen if the lockdown was lifted?

The Y2k bug is an interesting one actually, I owned a computer that was affected by the Y2k Bug. The date on my computer went back to 1900. It's not in question that it needed to be fixed, if that had happened in computers dealing with databases that handled transactions, it would have been catastrophic. Payments wouldn't have gone through, for example, and banks would have had to revert to paper records, because it simply wouldn't have been possible to set the correct date on affected computers. As far as affected computers were concerned, the correct date didn't even exist. They fixed it because they knew they had to, and the fact that people question whether it needed to be done, because 'nothing happened', is proof of how good a job was done to avert it. Our preparation for COVID-19 this seems to have just been enough, in terms of critical care beds and ventilators at least. A combination of the lockdown and increasing capacity kept us just ahead of the curve. When you're rapidly increasing capacity like that and you don't know what you're up against, you'll always overshoot the exact numbers you need, and you wouldn't want to have capacity too close to the line because it that would mean you had to rely on luck to get the numbers right. In terms of PPE, it seems like we had enough, but our logistics was too slow to get up to speed. Partly I guess because our logistic capability was itself hit by COVID-19.

It's worth remembering at this point, that different countries will have different criteria for counting deaths by COVID-19. For example, some don't count any with underlying conditions. Some include probable deaths. Some will have far better detection rates than others. Each country's figures are good for comparing how that country is doing now compared to how it has been doing, but aren't necessarily good for comparing how they're doing compared to other countries.

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The reason the lockdown was put in place was because the projections for imposing self isolation on just the most vulnerable was that 250000 would die, with the NHS overwhelmed and unable to treat everyone. We're still nowhere near herd immunity, so going back to that strategy, those projections would still apply. The reason so many countries were taken by surprise by this is the combination of it being highly infectious, and it being transmissible by people with no symptoms. It only takes one person who doesn't know they have it, and without social distancing reducing how infectious it is, it will quickly get to everyone. The costs of that would vastly outweigh the benefit of opening up the economy again. Would you want to be one of the NHS staff who decides who gets treatment and who gets left to die? I know that the lockdown is tough. Really tough. We'll be paying for the effects of that and the effects for the virus for a long time. But it really is the least worst option.

I don't think 'project restart' is about actually restarting the league personally. Anyone can see that's extremely unlikely. I think it's more about liability, the Premier League being able to say they did everything they could to restart and it was taken out of their hands eventually.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52418048 Dutch league abandoned and left as it is. No promotions, relegations, or titles, and current placings used for European qualification. I'm sure there will be legal challenges, but it seems, on the surface at least, to sidestep UEFA's stipulations that voiding the league would forfeit places, and possibly broadcast revenue for games already played is protected too, as they still happened in effect. I can see that being widely replicated myself.

If re-signings count, Kevin Davies

Oof, that brings back a bad football memory.

Kelvin Davis has to be up there. Given the Team Captaincy when Liebherr took over in League One, turning down a move to West Ham in the Premier League in the process. First season we won at Wembley in the JPT. Second season we were promoted from League One. Third season we were promoted from Championship (and finished above West Ham). After that he became Club Captain, and all the way through he was reportedly a massive influence in the changing room.

Sorry to hear that, wishing you and your mum all the best.

It'd probably have been even shorter lived if Wright had had some decent trainers on lol

Ultimately it doesn't really matter as they're deferred - they'll be paid eventually. As long as it's enough to keep the club going until we have an income again, ensure all the rest of the staff are paid, and means the club can avoid using the furlough scheme, it's an excellent move by the club.

Freedom of speech just means he wouldn't be arrested for it, and even that isn't without restriction. It doesn't stop other people lowering their opinion of him because of it.

I take it you didn't watch to the end of that video then

We do have a written constitution, or at least a valid equivalent, it's just that it's written in centuries of precedent. Let's put it this way, I wouldn't fancy compiling it all into a single document. Especially as any existing precedent that contradicted it would presumably take priority over it anyway. If the precedent exists as to what should be done we'll follow it, and if it doesn't we'll do what we've always done and create the precedent that will be followed. If precedent needs to be changed because it's not what the people want or times have changed we can change it for that reason too. It's not a perfect system, but over time it tends to reflect the will of the people it applies to.