brommy

28 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Sorry mate, not made myself clear, the only ticket I can list for resale is my own. There is no option to list the tickets for the boys even though I paid for them if that makes sense.

I followed instructions clicked on my name et cetera, just as it says, but the only ticket for resale is mine that could be listed

Have you linked their fan I.D.s to your account?

43 minutes ago, Mozzavfc said:

I assume they were hoping Zelensky would flee the capital (seeing as his background is in the entertainment industry), and they could install a friendly 'interim' government who would give up the territory. I'm sure there are a few ex-ukrainian presidents living in Russia they could use.

Possibly but did the Russians really believe Zelensky would immediately flee and that would lead to the Ukrainian nation accepting they were now Russian. I think Russia misread the room.

5 hours ago, Genie said:

They attempted to take Kyiv right at the start and abandoned it very quickly choosing to focus on capturing and retaining the East of Ukraine. If they had succeeded in taking Kyiv it would have made formally reclaiming the Donbas region much easier and quicker. 

Because this has been the area Russia has been fighting to claim (officially and unofficially) since at least 2014. There are many Russians and Russian speaking citizens there. The full scale invasion in 2022 was a significant escalation of what they were already doing.

Attempting to capture a heavily defended large capital city against it's will, just to make 'formally reclaiming' a distant region easier seems nonsensically stupid so perhaps they did want to occupy a whole lot more land than they currently do.

1 hour ago, Genie said:

I’d agree with that, I don’t think taking and holding the entire country was ever part of the plan.

They have the bit they wanted, and Ukraine have been struggling for a number of months to find a weakness in the hundreds of miles of defensive lines that have been created.

If they 'have the bit they wanted' why did they amass huge resources through Belarus and attempt to take Kyiv? Why do you think the area they currently occupy happens to be only what they wanted and isn't curtailed by the opposition they face?

Perhaps Russia are the bloke who buys a woman a drink but ends a rejected evening by saying I didn't fancy her anyway.

26 minutes ago, Xann said:

 

 

But who are we to doubt? After all, I've heard religions say stuff as daft.

1 hour ago, Rugeley Villa said:

Is it really that far fetched to believe a power greater than ourselves created the universe? I think one can separate the belief of a creator from religious dogma . 

After serious consideration of your question I can honestly answer - 100% yes. I think it's far fetched to think the universe was created by anything anyone might consider a god or creator. Unless some are stretching their definition of god to matters physical such as energy, mass, dark matter and such.

1 minute ago, Rugeley Villa said:

You don’t have to follow a religion to believe in a god . 

True, but that then makes me wonder how someone who has had no reading or influence from religion can even begin to think there might be something called a God. Even without believing in a main stream religion, one's own definition of a God and how that affects them could be deemed as their own religion.

I do wonder why believers of any religion are sure that the religion they follow is the correct one of many?

9 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

Everton sold out with ease, that’s all they were allocated . Yeah you’re right it’s alot of games and this economic weather we are having isn’t great. 

It appears Everton did not sell out. The back third of the upper tier and either side of the lower tier (beyond any segregation required), was empty. I believe cup rules requires 15% of total capacity so they were allocated the whole North Stand (6700 minus a couple of hundred segregation) and the BBC reported they'd sold 4300. By contrast, in January Stevenage did sell out the whole North Stand.

1 hour ago, Rugeley Villa said:

What the attendance was last night 

4300 away and around 24000 home fans seems to be talked about. Everton didn't sell out their 6500 allocation but that still leaves around 12000 unsold home tickets. £20 tickets might have seen the attendance around 35000 but with so many home games coming up, I'm not sure there is a big appetite for the early rounds of either domestic cup. I also think the sale of the Everton game at the same time as the European group games saw many financially prioritise the latter.

28 minutes ago, Xela said:

Why is your front door unlocked? 

It's in a quiet cul-de-sac and I'd very likely hear if anyone came in. I've also got a camera that covers the front of the house. Obviously it gets locked if I'm asleep or otherwise engaged.

In the few years of that type of door/lock and the camera, I've never had anyone uninvited 'try' the door handle, let alone open the door.

Just now, mjmooney said:

Was the door actually closed, but not locked (i.e. 'on the latch')? Bit cheeky, perhaps. 

I've had deliveries like that when our door was slightly ajar. Didn't mind that at all. 

Door was fully closed. It has a push down to open handle on both sides and needs a key to lock. There's no latch system. The handle lifts upwards to secure the door with the five point locking around the door frame which I always do as it pulls the door tightly to its frame and reduces any draught. It was windy yesterday so an unclosed door would have been wide open and the wind would be rattling my interior doors in my hallway. In any case, I heard the door handle and door locking mechanism move, heard the door open and then heard it slam shut. The delivery driver didn't even have the decency to lift the handle to seal the door shut again. Tut!

1 minute ago, bickster said:

trespass isn't generally a criminal offence

I'm not seeking to prosecute. I just found it cheeky, perhaps wrong, that a stranger felt it was okay to open my front door, lean inside my hallway and drop a delivery on the hallway floor. I accept the end result was similar to posting it through my letterbox but surely the done thing is to knock and wait for an answer. He'll have done it to save the 10 seconds it would have taken for me to answer and take the parcel from him. I'm not angry about it but it did feel like he'd invaded my personal home space.

Plus, on rare occasions, I'll pop to a neighbour or local shop without keys so not locking my front door, but I quickly activate my house alarm on my phone as I leave. Him opening the door could have triggered the house alarm.

Yesterday Amazon delivered a box just slightly too big for the letterbox. I saw the Amazon van pull up outside my house so I began moving from my living room to my hallway. Before reaching my hallway, I heard the Amazon delivery driver open my front door, chuck the box on the hallway floor and close the door. The van had driven off by the time I'd picked up the box and fully understood what had just happened.

At best I found it cheeky, at worst - isn't that trespass or entering private property without authorisation?

It's difficult to believe Russia doesn't have retribution attacks planned in response to the Sevastopol naval base strike but I'm slightly surprised nothing out of the ordinary has been reported yet. Hopefully that speaks to their lack of credible options.

2 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

They hold everything for 6 months.

I couldn't really care about my drawstring bag but I want my signed FIFA dammit!

 

I don't understand what's so difficult for them though.  Give person on counter your name, person picks up item/s, gives items to you.  The end. 

Why does that take multiple minutes per person?

I've already collected 3 items for 3 people on first game of the season. I joined the end of a queue about 50 minutes before kick off and was told by security staff the service would close in 20 minutes so I risked not being served. There were about 20 fans ahead of me and I waited 18 minutes. Got to the window and one woman sat at a computer took the 3 names I was collecting for, found them on a database and confirmed the 3 items to another woman who quickly picked the 3 items from shelves and handed them to me. Took about 90 seconds so I'd estimate about one minute if only one item was being collected. In fairness the two woman were working in a quick manner, although finding the names/items on the database took a few seconds longer than I thought it should.

The delays are caused by Villa only using one service window and two staff. I think if 3 service windows, 3 computers and 5 or 6 staff were used, the wait would be a few minutes or less.

In my opinion, the club aren't giving it the resources needed to avoid long waits because they are handing out freebies and not taking income.

51 minutes ago, Genie said:

I agree, in the context of any potential future truce/peace deal. 

If Russia withdraw all military presence and claim to Ukrainian land gained since 2014 then they won't be attacked. Seems a fair compromise.

7 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Agreed. Hence the "easily"

So I'm surprised by someone saying it was a crap race

Easily the best race of the season could still be a crap race. Just less crap than the others.

4 hours ago, MrBlack said:

Between the warehouse,  the terrace view, and whatever else they plan in other stands by way of post match entertainment, it could mean it's less of a factor anyway in the future. Maybe we can demonstrate a reduced peak train demand after matches that means we don't need it at all?

The logistics at Witton station during sell outs at Villa Park are already seen as undesirable or even unacceptable. Increasing capacity by 7401 will only make matters worse and won't be mitigated much by a couple of thousand fans choosing to use the hospitality for an hour after the match.

The station improvement isn't essential to the expansion but it won't be a good look for Birmingham and it's pretence towards environmental impact and care of it's residents if the main public transport option fails to cope, leading to gridlock during a flagship event such as Euro 28.

1 minute ago, VillaJ100 said:

Will the feasibility study conclude BCC has about 14 pence to put towards the project and cancel any improvement?

Exactly my initial concern!

17 minutes ago, wishywashy said:

Bit weird to "here we go" a.. feasibility study? But nice to see something resembling progress, I guess.

Good news that the intention to improve the station is still on going.

On a side note, when Fabrizio Romano tweets 'Here we go' in the future, I'll be expecting news of another feasibility study.

On 08/09/2023 at 11:40, The Fun Factory said:

Why is it called the terrace view? It has been the Holte End stand since 1994.

The whole premise of terrace culture is a million miles away from this monstrosity they have embedded into the concourse anyway.

I assumed it was because it has an outside terrace overlooking the back of the Holte End and possibly also the lounge viewing windows overlooking the pitch. I didn't associate it with standing terraces that disappeared at top level decades ago.

On a not unrelated note, I always thought it slightly odd that you stand on a terrace but sit in a stand.

31 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

 

Hatton out!

On a serious note @Captain_Townsend , maybe they don't have any " decisions " to report yet!

I'd hope intensive work, research and due diligence would be going into these decisions to make the correct one, not the " quickest " one.

 

As it's been weeks not days since Christian Purslow left (although he still lives rent-free in some minds!), the wait could actually be down to research, caution and diligence.

40 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

How tall is he?

You nearly Elphick'd me there! The correct answer to your question is 0.027 piles of 'Digne wage'.