A genius indeed. The first record I bought with my own money was Good Vibrations in late 1966 as a 14 year old. I’m not sure whether it was prescient to buy one of the best ever pop songs at such a young age or a curse to realise that it was all downhill from there. I was privileged to see him several times from 2005 when he finally got his life back and before dementia caught him. To paraphrase one of the great lyrics - “I might not always love him, but as long as there are stars above him”.

I’ll be seeing the Boss again at Anfield on Saturday night. Third time for me, plus his cameo with Paul McCartney at Glastonbury a few years ago.

The Polestar's list price is a lot more than the MG5. Two years ago the MG5 was a shade under £31K and the Polestar that I'm ordering now is c£48K. But the monthly lease cost for the Polestar is less. It's £96 a month less, although the majority of that is because I am paying a bigger deposit than I did for the MG5. I don't know but guess that lease costs in general have come down and there may be incentives for electric cars to encourage sales. Although I don't know how that works with a company like Polestar which only makes EVs - maybe there are cross costs with Volvo?

I like our MG5 and, if MG had not discontinued it I might have got another. I am the very opposite of a "petrol head", seeing cars just as a useful means of getting around and I have no interest in them beyond that. So the Cyberster does absolutely nothing for me. Two years ago when we replaced our Zoe for the MG5 I would probably have preferred a Polestar 2 but the wait then was over 9 months so it wasn't really practical. Now the Polestar is coming in early June on a 3 year lease (at less cost than the MG's lease) so hopefully it will deliver.

To be fair I had forgotten that you were in NZ and there is no clue apart from the oblique user name reference. Having been to NZ three times I have once or twice looked at the practicality of hiring an electric car if we go again. It's obviously more of a challenge in a place like the South Island with large distances and only 1.2m people. Any long drive, especially down the west coast would need careful planning but a quick look online now suggests it would be doable.

If by that you mean that there isn't a sufficient answer for those who can't charge an electric car at their home I would agree. Otherwise there really is enough infrastructure now. It still needs to grow as more and more electric cars are sold but unless there is a sudden explosion in sales what is available now in terms of public chargers is fine.

It pretty much does have a full English breakfast, as part of brunch on Fridays and Saturdays.

Gav - a quick google suggests that 5 BYD models have 5 star NCAP ratings? I haven't looked closely though. BYD have been around for a couple of years in the UK now - I remember coming across a BYD showroom when walking from Birmingham New St to St Andrews for a game. In Europe BYD sales have just passed Tesla. Range anxiety these days seems to be primarily in people who don't drive electric cars. In our case we charge nearly all the time at home but when we do venture far enough to need a charge away from home we haven't come across any real problem for years now and certainly not since we got our MG5 almost two years ago. Before that we had a first generation Renault Zoe for 6 years which had a lowish range and could only charge with a Type 2 charger. That was a problem on a long drive with slow charging and low range but those days are now well in the past. We have driven to London, Bristol, Glastonbury and Cornwall in the last two years. Every time we have charged en route and in the time we stop for a wee and a coffee the car is charged to 80%. The MG5 is a 2 year lease so we will be replacing it in the next couple of weeks. I might have had another had MG not stopped making them so I have a Polestar 2 arriving.

Due to a complete cock-up on the ordering front I have a single ticket to see Bruce Springsteen at Anfield on Wednesday 4th June I would like to get rid of. My wife and I are going with friends on Saturday 7th and my son was buying an odd ticket near us to come along but between us we managed to order for the wrong date. I'd like some money for it but I'm happy to accept less than we paid for it. PM me is you're interested. It's a seated ticket on the Kop.

What happens if one of the say 11,000 seats you might keep on sale happens to be next a mate of someone who wants to move and sit there but it’s sold before a seat transfer happens, for example? In truth there is plenty of time and space for anyone who wants to buy to do so even if sales are off for a week. I doubt there will be hundreds chomping at the bit on 21st May.

I’m not sure I understand your point Matty. Do you mean the club should just block some seats out for those who want to move? How would that work? As an example I can imagine that there are some fans who might want to move to the safe standing seats in NO1. Up to the claim your seat deadline there were none available as it was sold out to ST holders last season. I imagine that some will not have renewed so there will be some space. Alternatively there may be some who want to move out of there as well. You need to keep everywhere free so that people can choose.

This is usually to allow the club to action any requests for those who have renewed to move seats. There will be a lot more freed up after the claim your own seat deadline.

The Macron deal finishes after next season. The tender for the next contract is out (or was at the last Forum, might have completed by now). Macron will have the right to continue if willing to match the price of the winning bid.

Yes Gav, it was. There are some similarities with Rovers here. Northcote had been owned by the Egyptian millionaire owner of the Stafford Hotel in London for a good few years. For a while they have had a plan to build a new building there to house a find dining restaurant and convert the current main restaurant to a more affordable bistro type place. The planning permission was got but the owner wouldn't pay for it. Northcote went up for sale and Craig found buyers willing to both pay for the hotel and the work to be done but then the Egyptian refused to sell as he wanted more money. There was a frustrating impasse until Lisa announced she was leaving. I don't know that this was the case but I suspect she "left" to encourage the owner to realise that he could easily lose a lot of value if he wasn't careful. As well as Lisa quite a lot of the other staff left as well - I don't know whether they have mostly come back as well. we haven't been since a night at Obsession in January.

Eustace's last 14 games produced 17 points - Tom was right. Although you do need to take into account the 6 points from 3 games under Lowe.

My first game was in the late 50s/early 60's. I always remembered it as home to Sheffield United and winning 3-1. But that game doesn't exist, so I either got the team we played wrong or the score. I was about 7 or 8 at the time and my Uncle Bob took me - I had to stay at his house in Bamber Bridge the night before (I lived in Rufford) and get the BBMS special to Ewood. It was my first night away from home and my first night with streetlights outside the house.

Duncan replaced Mike Graham as the rep for WATR - Mike resigned as he had too many other commitments.

I think you're both talking about different games. In the away game we had 2 on target, at home 8. The home game was one of those where the goalie had a blinder.

Not wishing to detract from KHod as he certainly made his opinions felt but he was far from the only one who did so in the meeting. Inevitably what appears on the minutes of a meeting cannot reflect everything what was said and more importantly how it was said.

If a number was mentioned I must have missed it, which is always possible. It was a challenging meeting to take minutes at because there were a lot of people there so it was sometimes difficult to hear everything said at the far end of the table. I have just had a look at the minutes I took and I do not have any numbers, or rather there were a lot of numbers but not the one you're looking for.

Because it is a long held policy on the Forum and the norm in most organisations to wait until the minutes are issued before discussing them. As you will remember Simon from when you were on the Forum.

I don’t know where you got the idea that I don’t know when the minutes will be out. As I said somewhere over the weekend there were a couple of loose ends to tidy from our side and they have I think been sorted. I’m also a bit mystified why you and a few others are obsessing about the number of season tickets sold at a date 2 weeks ago, about 3 weeks from the early bird deadline. To put you out of your misery there is no figure in the minutes as no one asked the question. I’m relaxed about that because it would have been a meaningless figure whatever it was. The great majority of people who were going to buy will be doing in the last week. What would be the point in paying two weeks ago?

The club aren't sitting on them - I have a version approved but I'm just checking with the chair on a couple of points. He has a day job (unlike me) so it could take a little while.

There were certainly lots available when I bought mine on I think Thursday.

I've never been Chair. I have been the secretary ever since I joined the Forum in 2009 and still am.