The not STFC Transfer Rumours thread

[Jimmy Quinn]

Depending on the pitch of the roof facing East may reduce the yield of energy by 15/20% which maybe a factor.

[Riddick]

Please stfc, sign someone for the sake of this thread! Look how off topic we have gone.

[Legends-Lounge]

Please stfc, sign someone for the sake of this thread! Look how off topic we have gone.

Was thinking the same a cpl of hours ago.

[singingiiiffy]

Depending on the pitch of the roof facing East may reduce the yield of energy by 15/20% which maybe a factor.

80% of something is better than 25% of nothing

[4D]

Have we actually signed anybody new yet?

[Nemo]

80% of something is better than 25% of nothing

Bollocks and football, for example.

[horlock07]

You're bloody right though. How many stadia have solar panels all over those huge roofs? And turbines powering their floodlights? Even Dale Vince doesn't seem to have caught onto that one has he? One for the next Trust meeting please Jan!

In terms of turbines getting consent for anything of any significant size and thus use would be a total nightmare to get planning permission for, in terms of panels I suspect its something to do with stadia roof's being comparatively flimsy not designed to add weight on top of them, being structurally designed to resist sheer rather than hold anything beyond their own weight.

I've got a mate who is heavily involved in football (And other) stadia planning, I ask him when I see him, if I remember!

[horlock07]

…you’d think if our finances were as bad as rumoured and that information was accessible enough that a poster from the TEF knows about it - that the club/manager doing these negotiations would know, right?…and not agree deals we can’t afford?

Indeed, anyway I'm off over to the Oxford forum to set up an account called Stratton38 and see if they believe that I know more about what's going on at their club than the club apparently do.

[4D]

The CG would be great for wind turbines, considering the average wind speed is around 70mph.

[horlock07]

The CG would be great for wind turbines, considering the average wind speed is around 70mph.

Oh there is no doubt that with the tunnel it would be better than building them in the Irish Sea  , however try getting permission to build a feck off turbine in an urban location, its hard enough getting consent for the bloody things in the countryside.

[No Longer Posh Red]

The CG would be great for wind turbines, considering the average wind speed is around 70mph.

Especially on the Bank.

[Wobbly Bob]

The CG would be great for wind turbines, considering the average wind speed is around 70mph.

Wind turbines won't work if it's too windy & solar panels aren't very good when it get's too hot.
A urine recycling system might work. Would add a bit of veritas to "Same old Swindon, taking the piss...."

[Bob's Orange]

I thought that this was an interesting non-wrist-slitting perspective:

https://twitter.com/Ryan_Real_EFL/status/1676999557341642764

"Not far behind loads of teams at an early stage still. Don't forget you've booted Sandro and Morris.

So it's a completely fresh start.

Most of the deals that will have happened with other teams, will have been in the works since March/April.

If you wanted speed could have kept Sandro and gone for the targets he was working on👀.... No didn't think so.

Flynn has come in, assessed the squad and highlighted targets now he's having conversations seeing who is available who wants what. It's not always black and white. It's sometimes circumstances.... sometimes a player who looks perfect from the outside may ask for massive wages .... Sometimes they don't want to move... and fans go why didn't you go for him.

You're going for experience too remember.... These guys often have families, kids, lives that they need to think about. It's easy to sign an 19 year old with just a suitcase.  Not like FIFA or football manager when it's just wage and fee. Often they have to relocate, uproot schools, take kids from their friends... it's not that easy.

It'll come together and things are moving. If the start of the season was tomorrow I'd understand... It's not you've got time you've got a guy who the club trusts making the decisions with a decent budget.

Don't panic!"

I think this is an important thing for fans to take into consideration when a player has chosen (or so and so club have beaten off X,Y,Z club for the signature of....) to sign for whoever. It doesn't always follow that the biggest club with the best support will automatically win that signature - in some cases it does of course. Terms of contract, relocation packages etc etc, loads of things that happen behind the scenes. I think the football manager analogy is pretty good, fans tend to really simplify these things and not look at these things holistically and without rose-tinted specs.

[Nemo]

For example, I can't imagine there was a chance in hell we were the most lucrative option Jonny Williams had when he joined us originally - but we were reasonably located and clearly managed him very well fitness wise towards making the World Cup in Qatar that was always clearly his main aim.

[Berniman]

When this was in the transfer rumours thread I was going to post this but then it disappeared.  Transfer rumours is a hypothetical thread right, so why do people get so angsty when somebody posts a negative rumour, i don't get it..  The whole point of a rumours thread is that you read it and then make your own mind up as to whether you believe it or not.

People getting themselves worked up because Cowley posts something that may or may not be true is like people getting angry with Trump for suggesting injecting bleach into yourself will cure Covid.  Make your own mind up, but getting angry at the person delivering the message on a forum is a bit weird.

I used to see it with Duke as well.  Maybe the Transfer rumours thread should be renamed to the Positive Transfer rumours only thread.