benjii

WTF? A coordinated response to a pandemic is apparently not federal government business but something incomprehensible about dishwashers and shower heads is.

We need improvement at centre back, not cover. Anyway, sounds like we are signing Salisu so I doubt we are interested in Mings.

In what way is assessing the financial impact of the new red tape, "raking over old coals"? It is entirely germane to assessing the credibility and performance of those who wanted to push Brexit on the back of premises which are challenged by the same impacts. This is a subject relevant to the whole State.

Yawn*

If they want fair play then introduce a salary cap and a transfer fee limit. But they don’t want fair play, they just don’t want the embarrassment of insolvencies.

Good point!

Try watching the build up to the first. Stephens and Bednarek are far too wide on the other side covering no one and leaving KWP with two to cover. He should have been screaming at Stephens to drift right.

Why did Prowsey try to bum him?

KWP and Stephens weak again.

The whole back 4 was a mess. KWP had 2 players because Stephens and Bednarek had drifted too far over and were too deep. It was that way for about 5 seconds but no one sorted it.

We'll never get anywhere with this back 4.

Well everyone has a different view on what their favourite everyday gun is. Horses for courses.

Not specifically Trump related, but honestly... #mess

Are you Richard Madeley? Either way, I vote for you to commentate on the Olympics.

Mings is shite.

I just wanneee get a little bit o water on that pitch for me playaaaaz

It's probably the company that Kat uses to hold her shares. Not really part of the SFC group any more.

The second of 4 games in 11 days. And the third and fourth look much more winnable. I would make a few changes for this one normally but seeing as we aren’t really playing for anything do we just go with the same guys, providing they are not getting over exposed to injury?

I think that’s mostly amortisation of contracts plus net transfer spend. Usually when we have people on expensive long term contracts we sell them after a couple of years. Now we have players on expensive long term contracts that no one wants so they represent a significant write off each year and they don’t get sold to offset our spending. Frankly, we’d be mad to turn down any half decent bid for Hojbjerg. I guess the contract extension for Long is a decent sign of confidence though. With three other strikers on the books plus Redmond capable of doing a job further forward we could have easily let him go.

I think so. I’m not sure! I guess we just have to be thankful Mason didn’t whip out the red in the first place. We usually get hard done by when he’s the ref so I’m surprised he didn’t. He must have had serious doubts whether it was a foul.

But he’s not allowed to? That’s on the PL for having a weird system. I agree that the monitor should be used.

Trump is also unlikely to accept the result if he loses. He will allege voting fraud, interference etc. and refuse to vacate the office.

VAR and Mason had an absolute mare. It's embarrassing that the penalty was awarded. Awful from Mason in the first place and awful not to overturn it. Then there was the Bednarek incident where Mason clearly guessed what had happened and didn't dare to give the red that was clearly, indisputably, undeniably the appropriate coloured card IF it was a foul. I guess he was relying on VAR to sort it out, which is OK if VAR is allowed to adjudicate on the foul - but it isn't, because he didn't show the red or give a pen. So then you have VAR deciding if the "foul" denied a goal scoring opportunity. As it self-evidently, no doubt, clearly did, then what the hell does an outcome of no red but an Everton free kick in a dangerous position mean? It's a nonsense.

So we know now from the Lander UK accounts that we borrowed £80m. The previous working capital facility was £20m so that probably explains the change of lender - Macquarrie might not have had the stomach to be that exposed to a business that could be relegated and lose a huge chunk of turnover overnight.

So, basically, we are just about sustainable to the extent we don't spend materially more on transfers than we receive. Once we do, we have an accounting loss due to player amortisation, which is exacerbated by having unsaleable players on high wages who need to be covered in the first team squad by another player (Forster, Lemina, Carillo, Hoedt etc.). The interesting thing about the £80m loan is that the 80m is not the maximum working capital facility, necessarily, it's what we have actually drawn down.