Jackie Broon

Update on the application: It all seemed to be going swimmingly, until yesterday when comments came in from the Council’s ecology and landscape officers. There is the potential for a bat roost within the buildings and surveys will need to be carried out to check for bats. The ecological impact assessment submitted by the architect actually recommends that the surveys are needed, but it seems that they haven’t been carried out and submitted with the application. That’s a frustratingly common oversight, I suspect most architects/agents don't actually read those reports before submitting them. There are also a couple of trees that will need to be removed to make way for the extensions but the architect has not submitted a tree survey, that will need to be done, submitted and assessed. Another frustratingly common oversight. There has also been Japanese Knotweed identified in the area of the extensions and further survey work and a remediation scheme will be needed for that, which will probably be conditioned but with a pre-commencement condition. Which will result in needing to make a discharge of conditions application before starting. Very unlikely they’re going to be able to start this summer now. If a bat roost is identified it isn't necessarily terminal to the application, but would at least delay things further if it would be disturbed, which would require a licence from Natural England.

They're paying for membership of the big 6 cartel. FFP is set up to prevent other clubs from catching up with the big 6 which inflates the value of those clubs and depresses the value of the others.

He's under 21 so he doesn't need to be registered in the squad to play.

I don't think he's in the first team squad, not on the club website anyway. If/when we get into Europe we could just stick u21 players in the 25 man squad to meet the quota, but that would be wasting squad places if they're not up to actually playing.

The rule is different for European football, we'll need to have at least 4 players in the squad that have spent three years with us between 15 and 21, incomings won't count towards that (other than Toney maybe). The only players in our current first team squad that meet the European homegrown rule are Dummett, Longstaff and Langley.

That's the effect of FFP, it makes the big 6 clubs incredibly valuable because they already have the revenue to be able to compete at the top of the table within the constraints of FFP. For clubs outside of the big 6 it's an unbridgeable gap, even multi-billionaires don't have the resources to get round FFP, only nation states do.

Ekitike and Raphinha, I think we'll be looking more at that type of wide forward player than out and out wingers.

I think they could do OK, they could also find themselves stuck in that division for 15-25 years like Leeds and Forest and many others have, and that's probably the more likely scenario given their financial position.

He's played his part and done well in the run-in and that has probably increased his sale value, I doubt he'll be here next season.

Yeah, Villa spent £91m in the summer and another £25m in January, plus Coutinho on loan, and finished three places below us. It's such a lazy and uninformed response.

76 points would be enough for top 4 in all but one PL seasons (13/14). It would have been enough to win the league in 96/97.

This was when they won the title last season. Imagine the scenes outside St. James' if/when we win it.

Such a flat performance and atmosphere for such a massive match for them, other than the spell after they scored, they just seemed to accept relegation.

And Leeds score!

The authorities really need to stamp down on pitch invading, we can't be worrying about players and managers being attacked. They should be making it abundantly clear that they will do all they can to identify everyone entering the pitch and ban them. If one person does it that's what happens, if a thousand do it seems they're just let off unless they headbutt someone.

I actually thought it was FIFA Just something about the way the players are moving.

And the owners financially ruined the club attempting to do that, at a time where our owner didn't give a fuck.

"£170m of their losses caused by covid" apparently. Their matchday income is about £15m per season

Our budget for January was reported to be only £50m, there is clearly a big element of downplaying what we can/will spend. I doubt there is a budget as such, if the right deals for players we want are on the money will be there for them.

Essentially they're just the same a crypto currency but with value linked to the demand for the individual NFT rather than the demand for the whole currency, the images are just a identifier. Ultimately, the value is just what people are willing to pay for something that has no inherent value. People only value them because other people might value them higher. But really that is just a transfer of money from one person to another with no real value. Essentially all money is only a token of exchange for work. If £10 sits in someone's pocket for a year it has produced no work in that time, if it is exchanged every day it produces thousands of pounds of work. real value only comes when there is circulation of currency that results in some kind of transfer of goods or services.

Unfortunately, I can't see Burnley beating Villa away when they have just been comfortably beaten them at home.

Fuck the sky 'big 6' cartel, we're coming to crash your party.

Best performance since the Robson era. Just fucking sensational. What a night, what a club!

If Burnley stay up they'll go down in 20th next season, guaranteed.

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