I expect the oil price to go up in the build up to US mid-terms in November. Iran will want to maximise pressure on Trump/GOP

Woking Looks like it !

Never been arrears or debt thanks to my parents . Bought up in the era of if you cannot afford it you don't have it.

I'm with Octopus, they recently increased my DD from £140 - £210 and I'm now £250 in credit.

Keefy, do they charge you interest when you're in arrears?

Change to Octopus Keefy. They don't hoard customers' money, give very good data, etc

Although being almost £200 in credit with EON they want to increase my DD by £31 a month from September. Just how much do they earn in interest from customers in credit? Criminal!

Welcome to Club OF, WTID. Being cantankerous has its uses, as my nosy GP just found out, after phoning me out of the blue.

If anyone wants a 3,000 word Wimbledon season preview, here it is: [Link] It was originally written for a broader audience (beyond Wimbledon fans) so some background stuff that you can probably skim over.

Thanks for the help Triggerfish, It took me a while but I finally found & downloaded it, one of the downsides of booking it via my phone & trying to read the email without my glasses on 🤣 I really do need to finally admit to myself that I’m an old fart & my vision isn’t what it used to be.

Actually WTID my post may not be correct. I can see the Huddersfield ticket already in my account. I don’t have a donstix account but you may well be able to access your ticket via that.

John Scales was sitting behind me during one match last season. He had his daughter with him and she plays for our ladies team IIRC

That’s only been for home games to date WTID. Away tickets depend on the home club. Sometimes you’ll get an email with a QR code ticket. Sometimes you’ll get a paper ticket to either collect at PL or sent to you in the post or to collect at the aaay box office before kick off.

Quick question, I just booked ticket for Huddersfield, do tickets for away games get sent to the Dons Tix app? Or is that only for home games?

Didn’t realise John scales was ceo of RPV

TF - he was, but like a lot of the club the more professional the division the more he found it difficult

I think you make a lot of these words up.

TF - the strange thing is, up until we got back into the EFL we were quite smart with our transfers in. Probably because TB in particular knew about the division(s) we were in, and obviously the money issue wasn't such a problem. I'm still convinced to this day that we continued to wing it as an EFL club until at least MR's time

Yeah my main problem with that era (and it spans before and after Robbo so not down to him) was the loanee strikers we used to get in, and play week after week despite them adding little or no value to the squad.

TF - if you were to think back to how we used to do it up to MR's time in charge, transfer wise, by now we would have re-signed Terrell Thomas and Will Nightingale, and bought in a load of kids from Carshalton which will be the next big thing. I trust our current scouting and recruitment (while fully aware their hands are tied in a way they shouldn't be) more than at any time since the Conference days

Fully agree with all of that Rob - particular your point 3 and that's not a slight on Robbo it's just recognition that the on-the-pitch side of things feels very much more professional than probably ever before. Certainly since we were no longer the biggest fish in the ponds we were in.

Also, we haven't done too badly with the players we *have* signed this close season, on early impressions.

Trigger - a few things to remember this time round : 1) The window doesn't shut for another five weeks or so. 2) Last season we had to rush and perhaps buy players we didn't need. 3) IIRC from Mark Robinson's time in charge, we go to various clubs and "sell" what we're about (in a footballing sense, I doubt if any club is interested in "our unique story"). And the current coaching staff are a bit more professional these days. 4) We can field a first XI for Newport anyway.

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It was this Friday (31st July) last year when we announced three or maybe even four signings (this info could be skewed by the sites reporting it) but that did include two loanees I think. It also included Orsi. CC has hinted that we may have more loanees than permanent signings from here, but I'm not scared yet. Jovanovic was joined by another academy player who made his first team debut last night and whilst obviously I hope they are superb footballers who make the grade and stay with us long term or go for 20 million pounds then I do also hope that we're not at the point on relying on academy players to fill an ongoing L1 squad.