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Don't think we have one of these threads  :sherlock:

Gary Glitter sentenced to 16 years.

Head transplants possible in 2 years

Do we not have a 'todays paedo' thread?  

I don't know what colour that dress is

Lilac and black

Is Bobster on holiday working from home today?  No quiz  :(

sorry yes, will have to be moved to next week.

Madonna fell over

This is big news apparently

She'll do her hip in acting like that. Shameful for a pensioner.

Apparently theres some dress that is black and blue or something..

Careful McGoo.


White with a blur hue and golden/brown.

Jack White, Blur and a Stranglers classic.

You've covered the music. What about the colour of the dress?   :)

Many years ago this song was a staple comedy cover of the band I played in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOCUO4NJW4U

This now perhaps seems a little tasteless.

Adam Johnson reputedly arrested for fucking a 15 year old.

I had to think for a bit who Adam Johnson was

Manager of Oxford, when playing days + HMP are done then....

It times like this Twitter comes into its own.

A quick search on #adamjohnson is quite amusing

'Someone check Wes Brown hasn't been arrested by mistake' is my personal favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBM_MIT9EOM

https://vine.co/v/O0brblbrOv0

An amateur thug in camouflage trousers whose Japanese fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate

Heh! heh!...

Swindon 8)

Cryptic tweet from the club just now


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More floodlights?

scoreboard or screen perhaps ?

Renaming it after this Aussie company probably.

Who? I'm guessing it might be something to do with the Aussie sponsor.

I read that as "Women on the roof of the DRS this morning preparing for a new arrival". I thought maybe the GWH had become so rammed we were using the DRS roof as a makeshift maternity ward.

Interesting stuff.

Surely the fuckers aren't ditching the Don for a Bruce?

Shame on them

It'll surely stay as the Don Rodgers stand but the space where the Samsung logos were is still empty. Filling them in with our Aussie chum's logo?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31824040

Jeremy Clarkson suspended by the BBC following a "fracas" with a producer....

How the hell am I going to see a scoreboard or screen from my vantage point IN the DRS?

A tannoy that can be understood?

That's definitely a trapeze. Clearly we are getting dancing girls in the DRS.

Successfully appealed a PCN in Colbourne St.

I have spent a day in Cambridge and almost an entire day in Poxford and I haven't punched a cyclist yet.

So do you think that's a gantry to hang him from? ;)

http://youtu.be/F_yor5Od3yA

John Inverdale slip of the tongue.

Inverdale - what a tint

This is my favourite...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsozEr-X08s

That's amazing!

And ironically enough, Nicky Campbell is a complete West Kent Hunt  8)

This would be logical. The floodlights need to be brighter for next season and it's probably cheaper to fit a more modern lighting gantry on top of the DRS than replacing all the failed units.

Apparently according to Sam its all pretty dull. Sounds like the Samsung advertising hoardings to be replaced by the new Aussie company.

I hope they put all the signs upside down to reflect that its an Aussie Company!

I tweeted him this and he didn't reply after he'd been replying to a few other people's ideas of what it was.

 :sherlock:

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We got one there the other week, didn't realise the bit right at the end was residents only.  what grounds did you use to win the appeal??

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Coloured + Tinted = Cunted

There are no signs which support that end of Colbourne street being residents parking after the disrpution of double yellow lines on both sides. Plus there is an additional sign half way Down Colbourne St on the left indicating that that portion is RP. Again there is nothing supporting the two sides at the County Road end, where there was restricted parking signs previous but they have been removed. I pointed out this with photo evidence and a stinging rebuke that I reckon I could find many examples of residents parking where each section was supported with a specific sign indicating this.

82ers announce a £9.2 million loss up to May 2014.
On top of the previous years loss of £11.5 million

FFP anyone ??

No doubt the 82ers will put a gloss on it.

If Lansdowne hadn't written off another £35m they'd be right up shit creek.

I presume that being in the Championship will involve an upturn in debt.

I'm sure I read recently that QPR had a load of debt written off but the authorities now disregard that when it comes to deciding if FFP rules have been breached.

Yes, at least it's less than the previous year's loss !!

I'm sure that they have lost around £50m in the last 4 years

Here's the losses by The 82ers from 2008 :

2008 £2m

2009 £6.5m

2010 £11.8m

2011 £11.45m

2012 £14.4m

2013 £12.9m

2014 £9.2m

Am sure this seasons loss will be right up there too.
Big expensive squad and reduced capacity at trashton

Tho with FFPs lax use in leagues one and two I doubt they will get any embargoes until the go up

http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/scmp.php

So, QPR in reverse then - they don't get butt-fucked until they come down.

In some, ways I don't agree with limiting a wealthy owner bankrolling a club.

Of course they will....just close the club down, don't honour any existing debts, football or otherwise related and give the new club a catchy new name....like Bristol City (2017 Ltd).

Cheating fuckers

Most of the stadium costs will be capitalised, but they will need the money from Lansdown to pay for them.

They will have to pay out more win bonuses, probably promotion bonuses, and if they win the JPT, bonuses for that in a smaller capacity stadium.

Could be even bigger losses this season as well?

*cough*bought-the-title*cough*

Lansdown has already paid off 35 million of their debt. I have no doubt he will continue to do so.

The bigger stadium I guess he hopes will be the beginning of them turning a profit, although the only real way of doing this is getting them in the Premiership I guess?

And how much will that cost?

That's the reason QPR are in the shit - debts racked up in getting promoted from the Championship.

The question is: how long is he willing to pump money into a club marooned in the Championship

Just remember, they have the moral high ground.  Their shit don't stink and they will win this title purely on the good lads and great management.  Its nothing to do with money.

It's not just a club to him is it though, it's the club he supports and it costs him a fraction of his huge wealth.

If he were to ever walk away I highly doubt he would leave them in the shit either.

Clubs owned by a sugar daddy fan, have a habit of falling apart around the departure of their man.....think Walker at Blackburn, Whelan at Wigan and Hayward at Wolves.....usually though they buy a bit of success first....Walker the Prem, Whelan the FA Cup, Hayward a return to top flight football.   I suppose Lansdown may see the JPT in that light.

Erm Whelan is still at Wigan, just passed chairmanship to his 23 year old grandson to deflect the pressure from him being racist elderly.

That's c.£68m in 8 years, I know Lansdown isn't short of a bob or two but is he seriously that wealthy - Wiki has him down as rich but not stinking rich (in footballing terms).

Lansdowne isn't old, dead or a racist (I'm assuming)

Tax dodging like our chairman :)

Billionaire I believe

The interest alone would be enough to keep the 82 's debt written off every year.

But when they are in the Championship the FFP rules will prevent any owner bankrolling their  club - in theory anyway

He lives in Guernsy doesn't he?

Yeah.. And they're starting to get a reputation for it

Losing £9.2m is in effect losing £180k a week.

Are they paying their players, like Flint, over £10k a week? Madness.

Those accounts are only up to 31 May last year so this season's financials aren't known yet.

I think, TBF, they have attempted to slash costs but that remains to be seen.

They are, in fact, losing £750,000 each and every month

But it doesn't matter as they have a guy in charge willing to write it off.....

Yep, as bad as the figures sound, as long as Landsdown is around, he will pay for it. Suck it up guys!

It's interesting how much the original sugar daddies like Walker, who were home town boys made good putting back something into their clubs changed the expectations from fans and players on what a club owner was there for.

Now both fans and players expect a wealthy owner to freely handover £10, £15m a season so players can earn vast amounts of cash and supporters get on the rollercoaster of success or failure.

The only promise of a return would be maybe getting in the Premier League and even then you have to throw more millions to try to stay there.

The genie is out the bottle so it won't change until the Sky BT Sport gravy train comes to a halt.