Good atmosphere at Edgar Street in the sunshine.

On the Isle of Wight taxi situation, Spit is right about the elderly and their lack of use of Apps here. The bus pass generation make a significant number of bus users here. By and large our bus service here is pretty good and there's a Taxi driver community that are barely scratching a living. I was speaking to a drive yesterday. There was a massive shock that no indication that a licence approach was made until it was granted. I agree with Trigger about the local taxis needing to co-operate and get an App based system in place themselves. It won't address the issues mentioned earlier though. Local loyalty isn't helped when the Council do this type of move, with drivers having just paid a ton of fees, only to hear this news weeks later.

Score almost irrelevant - League 2 bound

Wigan 4 League Two Bound 0 today. Ending with nine men, Nkeng and Tilley sent off.

Im going to say an optimistic win, Based on zilch facts other than the football gods have the power to end runs good or bad, and today would be a good time for god (they/them) 🎚 to demonstrate that and womble peace could be a force for good...

O O pls

Agree out play to win but have to be realistic with those players as to how we expect to score. Defend with numbers then shift the ball forwards quickly and go for set pieces as our main chances.

If the management show some passion,maybe the players will too! Time is running out,Exeter will get at least a draw today. Go for the win pass on the deck get the job done ✔️ 💪

Fingers crossed we'll start: Bishop; Ogs, Bauer, Johnson; Tilley, Maycock, Smith, Hippo, Seddon; Stewart, Nkeng. (Hutchinson for Hippo if Hippo only fit fir bench).

0 2

Come on then score predictions for today. Spit went 2-0 I think. I’m sticking with 3-0 as it just feels depressingly predictable given our squad issues and I get the sense the players don’t believe they can win anymore.

With the IOW population being 141,000, many old people who don't,/won't use apps. Can't see uber doing that well on the non summer months. It will put a few good drivers out of buisness, and the bus services will probably decline with lack of paying customers.

Do the IOW taxis have an existing app which does the equivalent of the core UX of the Uber app? If not then they should quickly get one built. It’s not difficult to do and it removes one of the two main customer benefits of using Uber - ease of ordering a ride (the other being price, for now.) In some European cities, particularly those that are relatively self-contained eg Tromso in Norway, similar in some ways to the IOW, the taxis have their own app which allows you to hail/order a taxi easily. They don’t have, need or want Uber. If that app exists already then it would be interesting to understand Uber have been granted their license - ie what problem does that solve?

Red Kite-you can’t remember it that well as they wore all red that day IIRC

Uber is slave labour,if you look at how much a fare is, how much % a driver has to give uber ,the driver running cost etc, driver probably making £2 on a £ 10 fare.no wonder they do 12/16 hour days.,

I remember the OTD game and the Poppies were indeed in their red & black stipes. Great game that handed us the title, bit of trouble after the game

I forgot that Barry Manilow used to play for us… 😂

Look up Waymo London

AIOW- not good for taxi drivers, but you’ll get cheaper taxi fares so good for the consumer.

I thought Kettering always played in red (OTD)? I've seen this picture many times before but never colourised.

Spit will be pleased to hear this [Link]

Yippekayai motherwombles.

Infamous - 8am Waterside Way, 8.30am Tolworth station.

Onto happier things. Trig, Sam West and Adrian Edmondson are doing a bird watching thing on Channel 5. I'm not a bird watcher but the footage is astounding and the gentle banter is highly amusing. Well worth a watch.

33 pundits asked for their top 4 predictions in the PL before the start of the season and the only one with the correct top 2 at present is someone called AI. [Link]