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Worth noting also that the WCML upgrade was originally budgeted for £2bn, finished late, went many times over-budget, caused huge disruption and was de-scoped. "Why don't we just upgrade existing lines" is something we tend to hear a lot, but that comes with massive risks and would be unlikely...

Apart from freeing up paths for additional services. In any case, there are lots of upgrades going on. E.g. the East Coast mainline is being upgraded and that with add extra paths in a couple of years.

Yes. It's long overdue and entirely necessary.

That's self evident. But there is a distinction to be made between stopping payments in the middle of a 5 year period and at the end of a 5 year period isn't there? The club could legally hold you to all the outstanding payments for the 5 year period in the first scenario. In the latter you can...

I don't think that is correct. You are only committed to each 5 year period.

I could well be wrong, but my understanding is that for each 5 year period you are committing to all the payments for that period. So, technically, if you default on your payments the club could pursue you for the entire outstanding amount. In practice, as long as there is demand, I'd imagine...

I wonder what will happen to petrol stations in the coming years. My guess is they will mostly close, declining in number slowly at first and then rapidly until they become very few and far between. This is something perhaps those determined to hang on to their old cars might not have fully...

And soon after this is complete comes another 7 years of disruption from 2023 to 2030 because of the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/sussex/upgrading-the-brighton-main-line/unblocking-the-croydon-bottleneck

Ha.

Trouble is there is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. You need money to make any meaningful changes and in the absence of central government funding that usually means increasing revenue from parking, be it permit permits, car park charges, or even introducing a workplace parking levy a la...

I dare say a lot of the increase in number 7 journey times, especially those eastbound, was down to ever more taxis snarling up the front of Brighton station. I've been stuck on buses unable to pull out loads of time there. It'll be interesting to see if the rank move leads to a measurable...

I was not arguing that it should be profitable. Just making an observation.

From now on they have to present the loans and direct support to NR together so that might make it quite an eye-watering figure next year. Presumably a lot of the support is to help service Network Rails £50billion+ debt, although I can't pretend to fully understand all the financial reports...

The £5billion per year figure is broadly accurate, but that figure is support provided to the total industry, not just to operators. Network rail gets the lions share. Support to operators is much lower and sometimes it's actually a net premium rather than a subsidy.

Traore reminds me a bit of watching Jonah Lomu. You know what he's going to do, but he's so freakishly strong and quick you just can't stop him. He's an absolute beast.

Beat me to it!! For those who can't be bothered to click on the link it confirms Leicester are looking at White. Not surprising perhaps, but it shows it's not just paper talk.

Great stuff! Keep it up. Re Watford, you don't goal any xG for OGs, even if it's a situation where a goal was a reasonably likely outcome. So that will go some way to explain it. xGA seems a lot more variable this season. We seem to be generally good at keeping xGA down to respectable level...

If your hypothesis was correct then you'd expect us to have out performed our expected points throughout the season. But we didn't. We came crashing down in the second half of the season. You can only outrun lady luck for so long.

Why?