Bill Slim was a far better leader than Monty, imo.

Lest we forget [Link]

Easy one to get to by train. Apathy of the FA Cup. Low expectations of a win. I’m not going cos the wife booked cinema tickets as a surprise and I lack the motivation to change them just to watch the quality of football on show at the moment.

Supporters' coach to Crewe cancelled due to too few bookings. (I know quite a few are going by train.)

Agreed it seems rather lazy in its risk management.

Dreadful system design too. If you want to change by more than 1 degree or want to affect more than a small number of locations, you should need a confirmatory code derived from a totally separate system.

Of greater concern perhaps is the possibility that they might just as easily target places such as blood banks, organ stores, or morgues…

The problem (as I see it) is not the remote setting, but the lack of independent back-up monitors & controls in the back of house areas as well as the fact that the BOH walk-in cold rooms are usually on the same system/network

How does a fridge have the capability of getting to 50C anyway?

The Internet of things should be a wondrous thing int he future but in this early era where tech bros and foreign agents want to use it all as mass surveillance and voter tracking then yeah it’s open to abuse and hackers may be doing society a service by messing things up now and then.

OI - I guess it’s for company consistency? There are, for example, over 4,000 branches of Tesco in the UK, so maybe it’s convenient to have them all set from one place (or maybe area by area in groups) rather than having to train thousands of employees in setting and adjusting the temps?

Can anyone explain why when a salesman came along to supermarkets and said you could have all your freezer temperatures set remotely, the executives all thought it was a great idea? What could possibly go wrong?

In fact, OI, it looks like the bond maybe £10k lighter than a week ago - was sure it was £1,093,000 last week

Renowned tie-wearer Scott Parker announced as Wet Spam manager

Agree with nicander on the Journo involved. I've even got one of his books somewhere!

a4e - not a lot. That's the way of all things in media at the moment. The journalist involved is an established, well-known British football finance journalist.

I’m expecting Blackpool to be on and I’m also expecting it to be a difficult game. They’ve conceded the same number of goals as we have (21) (!) so far this season but they’ve scored 17 to our 9 which pretty much tells you where we are with our lack of ability to defend or attack.

[Link] Seems like Blackpool might be on

Thanks to anyone who has looked at this Wimbledon shirt on eBay [Link] There are 5 bids so far and 11 people currently watching it, with 1 day to go… I won’t post about it again until sold, and I’ll let everyone know how much was raised for DLAG :)

Yeah who knows these days. Seems like an independent and small outfit trying to make its way in the cut throat world of modern media. I’ve had to stop relying on the BBC for news because it was becoming highly biased. Difficult to find anywhere these days that isn’t.

OI i expect the money we got for Junior Nkeng will partially cover that 600k at least

The PLB has pretty much frozen whilst the offer is considered. It might suddenly get a boost were the offer to be rejected but at present a 600K hole would need to be covered by a loan from elsewhere. I'd doubt that we'd be in administration in the spring but we'd be on a very slippery slope towards both administration and losing our league place.

Trigg - indeed ;) and meanwhile, I see that Josimar is a pretty small entity from Norway, and its owners attempted to sell it just over a year ago due to their continued inability to turn a profit, but they were “unsuccessful in securing a buyer”… Not sure what that says about Josimar, if anything…?

It’s the disingenuous language around going bust that concerns me about the deal. I can understand why the board would use this tactic because they’re untrustworthy liars but I don’t think it was necessary. People understand that our current financial situation is unsustainable. What they want is a deal that is solid and trustworthy.

Re issue of "going bust" ;nothing is certain, of course, but we have debt repayments circa £1m due next year. On the annual £2.4m losses, don't forget they're not "cash losses" as they include £1m depreciation and exclude player transfer income, so a bit smoke & mirrors