Just another gripe about the state of FIs comms. What the fuck is London time when its at home? Is that the same as Manchester time, or should I just know my place and doff my cap to our southern overlords?
(I know its GMT but Greenwich is specific and historic. "London time" however can kiss my northern arse)
@JonJak said in Premier League Return?!:
@Leighton I assume that if football does start up again you won't be watching it or will have nothing to do with it in protest
Honestly, i dont think id be that bothered. Its fine. The premiership is a big bag of over hyped wank, and corona has shown that up. If an empty stadium fielding 22 millionaires kicking a ball about in silence brings joy to your life then i hope you are happy. Personally, i'd rather we nipped this virus in the bud first of all and only carried on with normality when its sorted good and proper, rather than putting on a empty joyless show just for the sake of sponsors and tv companies. It really is just a game. Move on.
Sterling. Plenty to come yet. Euros. In every competition. Always guaranteed press coverage. Safe as houses, and frankly theres still room for his price to grow.
Its needs to bottom out soon. Its way to volatile and thats why people are selling as soon as economical to do so.
FI have forgotten their product here. As said, it doesnt recognise or reward actual footballing performances anymore. To me thats a fatal flaw.
But quite why anyone would sell when its like this is beyond me. Just sit on it and wait. Idiots.
Honestly they need to do more consultation. Speak to us all regularly - Not just the whales. They are losing the casual users confidence. I suspect most just want a low maintainance bet based on football knowledge, not to check our ports every two seconds to prevent it all disappearing. Not every user wants to know about sell orders or market depth, but they do know about Bruno and Pogba or whoever else they like following.
They need to talk to us all. Urgently They are fast drifting away from their users, and whilst the "product" is great still, and you can bring in all the fancy gizmos and nasdaq tech you want, but if you don't have the (Literal) buy in from your base, then whats the point?
This might sound slightly dumb as it has been busy since its launched, but i'd like to see in action when football is fully back and theres games every other day. I think a lot of the sales are people freeing up some real world money much needed in lockdown, and I don't think its a co-incidence that its commission free for two more months as even FI know thats the best way to stimulate an otherwise fairly stagnant market at the moment. Wait for games to return and transfer windows to open and then we can fully judge.
Personally, I remain to be convinced i think - Its clearly an improvement in many ways, but not completely. As others have said its killed the lower end market, which was a large part of the game for many (especially new joiners with limited funds figuring FI out) - We all bought dross when we started on here, but we could shift that dross easily. If you join up and are lumbered with your initial portfolio throughout and cannot sell, you'll be livid.
People are dying in droves. Fuck football.
No way should that count. True or not, that's atrocious and should not be MB worthy.
However, they have made a rod for their own back with grealish "allegations" paying and a prudish attitude to the Walker "sex scandal", so let's see.
Three bottom of the barrel stories anyway. If none of these had counted, people would have understood and wouldn't have objected. Oh, why did they keep Grealish paying out? Foolish decision, that's forever gonna be held up as a benchmark now.
Grealish. Just adding another mental example of MB inconsistency to this thread. He crashes his car (probably drunk) and certainly breaches coronavirus distancing rules, but FI seems to be ok with this, and people are getting double divs.
All I'm asking for is clarity on what does and doesnt count as MB worthy. If a bookie was weighing up your bets like this every time you placed them, you'd rightly kick off. So why do FI do this (in)consistently every other day?
Greenwood. Entirely unjustified price at this stage of his career.
Look, Robertson is clearly in form right now and markedly cheaper, but Trent will rise again for sure. Stop writing him off so early into the season.
More importantly can someone change this thread title. Who is "TTA" and what are his PB scores?
Its happening then.
Personally, I'm against this. It seems rushed and self serving. Ultimately, aside from more profits for a few already elite clubs, whats the point?
That said, what does this mean for FI and my holds? Fewer games? More games? PB league holds to grow even more, non PB holds to decrease in value if no champions league?
Anyone who thinks they can turn a sizeable profit on here in 4 weeks is optimistic at best. Patience is the key. I'd have a look again at what your port would be worth in six weeks time, six months time and a years time.
Not an investment as such, more a hobby with value, but I've got a really good vinyl record collection that's accumulating value daily.
If anyone else on here does too, and hasn't yet done so, I'd advise getting yourself on over to discogs.com and cataloguing them all on there (Perfect lockdown activity). You'll be surprised just how much your particular variant can go for.
Mine is currently at a minimum value of £5k, median £8.5k and a max potential of £15k (Assuming good to mint condition, fairly unique and a buyer willing to pay top dollar). Defo worth checking out for curiosity more than anything else.
I've invested all my money with the dealer at the casino. Its risky, but I'm holding pocket aces and it surely can't lose, right?
"View" it as an investment platform all you want, but its 100% a bet on a gambling platform. Thats the long and short of it. You're only a career ending broken leg away from losing the lot! Be very wary.
Someone needs to bookmark and save this so we can refer back to it in a few months time. As said, FI love an update, but how much actually comes through as promised down the line - Precious little if we are being honest.
So, for example, where they say "the last thing we want to do is rush a Media Monitor release without having completed comprehensive back-testing and forward-testing", let's get that saved for when Evra or Crouch next appear on the MB list again or a Grealish story stands despite its questionable ethics, or you know any of the other issues and problems that MB has (See the MB transparency thread)
Its needs to bottom out soon. Its way to volatile and thats why people are selling as soon as economical to do so.
FI have forgotten their product here. As said, it doesnt recognise or reward actual footballing performances anymore. To me thats a fatal flaw.
But quite why anyone would sell when its like this is beyond me. Just sit on it and wait. Idiots.
That the home page now defaults to showing the dividends and Footie first, rather than the All time P&L? Its always been P&L, except when times are bad!
It first did this on Brown Sunday, when my P&L plummeted, then returned to showing P&L when it stabilised again, but now its back to my dividends as the default, because its a ropey time.
I cant help but be suspicious that the app is basically saying "Yeh, we know your P&L is wank at the minute mate, same as everybody else, but look at all these sexy divs you've won on here - Thats good right?"
Im not paranoid. Its defo a change (Conscious or not) when the going is bad. Keep an eye on it yourselves. You'll see.