Recent Posts

1

General Football and Sport / Re: Man City - Cheating Bastards on & off the pitch - 115 Charges

« Last post by jillcwhomever on Today at 02:36:19 pm »

The delay is deafening.

What delay? The rumour has been that the hearing will be this autumn, which I have posted numerous times.

2

The Boozer / Re: Holidays 2024 - What's your plans?

« Last post by fridgepants on Today at 02:35:42 pm »

Can't plan anything for this year as we have other stuff going on/to spend money on, but that doesn't stop me wondering what options there might be for cheap non-Ryanair flights from Liverpool or Manchester toward the end of the year. Really enjoyed going to Germany last summer to see the friendly, wandering round on my own for a couple of days living off cheese and bread and getting in ten miles a day - it's making me think I'd love to go to Berlin again, or maybe Munich as I've never been.

Would also like to head to Greece and eat all the food but really not a fan of too much heat, so need to work out what time of year might be cool enough to walk around and look at stuff but potentially still warm enough to have a wee swim in the sea.

3

Liverpool FC Forum / Re: West Ham United vs Liverpool (Premier League) - 12:30, Saturday 27th April

« Last post by Sheer Magnetism on Today at 02:34:58 pm »

I'm actually going to this, albeit not in the home end. We've definitely got the capability, it's just the desire side. The big danger from them is going to be set pieces, hopefully we can deal with them more effectively than in the week.

4

Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by jillcwhomever on Today at 02:34:44 pm »

https://twitter.com/i/status/1783805159534928323

Loves a bit of needle.

He's got a sense of humour, he'll need that. 

5

General Football and Sport / Re: Man City - Cheating Bastards on & off the pitch - 115 Charges

« Last post by lobsterboy on Today at 02:34:34 pm »

I can understand posters saying that this kind of speculation is Evertonian. And it's true that no one has any hard evidence of it.

But people need to wake up if they think this isn't plausible. Russia are the country on earth that is most synonymous with industrial scale doping in sports. Russia, who are the original sportswashers and saw success in world sports as the way to attain soft power. They doped for generations to show the world the strength of their country and compete with the USA.

Abu Dhabi and Man City's entire raison d'etre is to gain soft power by sporting success. They've already shown absolutely flagrant, shameless disregard for financial rules. They pay referees for side jobs to keep them sweet. These two things are undeniable. Do people really think they wouldn't go near performance enhancing drugs to ensure success and aid their quest for soft power?

Like i said, there's no hard evidence, but I'd say their physical capacity, especially given the ages of some players, season after season, is highly dodgy to my eyes. No other team has done what they've done year in year out without a massive drop off. We can match them for a while, but we can't sustain it. Fabinho's legs fell off at age 29. We're ending the season looking completely spent and we've played far fewer games and had far more injuries than these the past two season.

I'm not having them and I don't believe it's in any way beyond credible to think there's something dodgy going on.

I'm just cynical old-arse.
Evertonians are deluded. Its not comparable.
City's owners pay refs, pay off the books, pay off the council, pressure the government, pay off the authorities, fake sponorship deals and all the rest.
No way they aren't cheating in every other way possible as well.
My other favourite sport is cycling which taught me early on that if it looks to good to be true then it probably is.

You know what though?
I don't think they are the only ones and the lack of positive tests and bans in the game in general is a bit suspicious.

As for 115. They'll get away with it don't you worry

6

General Football and Sport / Re: Man City - Cheating Bastards on & off the pitch - 115 Charges

« Last post by Zlen on Today at 02:34:15 pm »

The delay is deafening.

7

Technology and Science / Re: Excel help

« Last post by Dan The Man 28373 on Today at 02:33:49 pm »

Need some help with a file I've created at work, it's basically a sales dashboard, which has a tab with all the raw data in (in a table) & then multiple pivot tables & charts are linked to this raw data.  There are also multiple formulas (not too complex, just VLOOKUPs pulling data from the raw data table & SUMIfs).

The file has weekly data going back to 2019, with around 270K rows in the raw data table.  And probably 50 or so pivot tables, 20 pivot charts.  File is around 125-130MB currently.

Recently, I've been getting an error message when opening the file across my work network (don't get the error when opening on my laptop & my personal drive).

Basically saying the file is broken & asks me to repair it.  When I do this, I end up losing a lot of data which I have to populate again.  I've done Backups but get the same error.

Is there anything I can do to get rid of the error &/or reduce the size of the file.

Specific error message is:

"WE FOUND A PROBLEM WITH SOME CONTENT IN XXX FILE.XLSX, DO YOU WANT US TO TRY & RECOVER AS MUCH AS WE CAN".  F YOU TRUST THE SOURCE OF THIS WORKBOOK, PLEASE PRESS YES.  I clicked on Yes & it takes 7 or 8 times to repair the file, but large chunks of the file are unusable or not even there.

Is there anywhere I can find what content has been affected?  The log file is useless as I can't access it.

Need to resolve this ASAP as file is used by myself & colleagues on a daily basis.

Let me know if you need any more info.

8

Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by Dim Glas on Today at 02:31:41 pm »

He's got a personality that's for sure, which I think is massively important to manage Liverpool.

It defo helps a lot whatever people might say!  But many different personalities can work too at the right time. Rafa for instance, far more quiet on the sidelines, but got the history and culture very quickly, and got the ‘us vs the world’ part of it too - that’s also a big thing.

Going on absolutely nothing but instinct, as I don’t watch dutch footy, I have a good vibe about Arne 

9

General Football and Sport / Re: Man City - Cheating Bastards on & off the pitch - 115 Charges

« Last post by Kopenhagen on Today at 02:31:21 pm »

Nothing will happen.

10

General Football and Sport / Re: Man City - Cheating Bastards on & off the pitch - 115 Charges

« Last post by jillcwhomever on Today at 02:30:34 pm »

Unless this is expected to last months (including any legal challenges), I'd wager that automatic relegation will not be on the cards, because the amount of complaining in the media about the apparent disruptive nature of mid-season points deductions in the PL (despite the Football League handing them out with regularity) seems to have laid the groundwork for a situation in which Man City would not receive some type of demotion or penalty that would disrupt the fixture list.

I remember an article from Miguel Delaney saying they could basically do what they wanted about City, should they be found guilty. The point is as well, if they went for a relegation it would be no punishment just dropping them down one league. The other thing, should City be found guilty they will immediately appeal it anyway. I am less focused on seeing what the punishment is, I am more concerned that it takes place. Whoever loses, it's massive for City or for the PL. If City are cleared they could just as easily sue the PL, what happens then? The whole of football is in a state of flux. I just think because people are so sceptical over this, they are underestimating the ramifications for football once the result of this becomes known.