NERVY-OWL

If we are still out of the bottom 3 by the last game I'll feel much more confident. Huddersfield have got Birmingham next, whatever the result there will put us back in the bottom 3 I think with our poor goal difference unless we can avoid defeat here. As always I'm not confident, I'll just wait and see without making any prediction and pray whatever we do in the next 2 games is enough to keep us up.

Beat me to replying. Maybe the TSY person you spoke to wasn't as in the know as you thought. I doubt anyone would risk voiding any insurance by not parking them in the place the insurance expect them to be put either. I'm sure many questions will be asked when it's died down.

I could be wrong but I thought he said it was a staff member at the interchange or something like that rather than TSY/SYMCA. It wouldn't have to be someone high up that would of dealt with the insurance so not sure how accurate @SheffieldForum information, might of been more hearsay.

You'd have to ask them that but the question was surely asked when the insurance was sorted out as to where they were stored overnight.

I don't know how accurate the information I was given about charging time was, he could of been wrong for all I know. I'm not sure how long it takes to charge would of been a consideration as to where to store them anyway. This incident does seem to show they need to evaluate how they are stored though, even if just better security.

Didn't he spend some on the north stand concourse? Even so I'm guessing it wasn't a great amount, not even close to what the ground actually needs spending on it.

Exactly that.

It's a disgrace. I hope all clubs band together, maybe boycott the fa cup but then the top clubs would probably be happy about it so I don't know if that would work.

Rotherham have lost their manager though so you never know, I can't see it myself either though. I'm not optimistic we'll get the 3 points but as always I hope I'm proved wrong.

Yes it's supposedly not as simple to tow an electric bus compared to a diesel bus.

I only know the drivers were sent down as normal which would indicate the company knew nothing about it also if it was towed in the towing company would of been in on the conspiracy, it's not a simple 1 minute job putting the bus back at the charging points, unhooking it and putting the charging wire in, so that just doesn't make sense to me the towing part. Also the CSI were on the smashed up bus most of the morning, I'd of thought all that would of been done where it had been crashed to not destroy evidence. Like you say though theres that many different versions going around but I can only go on what I've heard and seen myself.

One was definitely stolen and smashed up, the other I was under the impression hadn't left the interchange but could be wrong on that. However one wasn't found 60 miles away, both were parked up in the interchange, first thing the company knew about it was when the drivers got to the buses for start of service.

Maybe this will make them re think it, probably not though after spending money on the charging points. I doubt SPCT would be happy about the council wanting to store them at brightside, I guess the contract and costings were done on the basis of them staying in the interchange overnight. Company costs would go up having to store there. If anything this will be a wake-up call for the council/interchange about the security there.

Not what I've been told but can't give many details while the police are investigating. Not a good look though for the interchange having it happen at all, whatever the circumstances. Hopefully they can get a good view of the driver from the bus or interchange CCTV and get him charged.

Yea obviously depends on the route and weather but the connects seem to use around 26% in a day. I wouldn't know how hilly the 51 is, that would make big difference I guess.

I believe they have security overnight at the interchange, so not completely unguarded.

I checked at the end of the day and it had used about 26% of the battery. That's with lights and heaters on, so yes they could seems that was a 12 hour day. Anyway I'm not sure what your point is, it's still better to have 4 electric buses running around town than 4 diesel's. The odd tow here and there isn't going to offset that.

Not a clue, it does seem strange though. I'm only going on what I was told at the yard so unless his info is wrong I couldn't say.

I've been told the way they had to wire it up means it's a slower charge. When they can hook it up to the correct place then it might be 3.5 hours I guess but not at the moment. Just doing connects though you can probably get 3 days use before needing to charge them if you really wanted. They'd need to find somewhere other than brightside yard to store them though.

I'm not sure what charge time you've been told about charge time but to do a full charge at the interchange is 10 hours at minute, obviously wouldn't need full charge much and it was never the plan to store at the brightside yard as there isn't enough room. I'm not sure if storage will change now but I'd of thought whoever stole it must of had some idea of starting them as it's not as simple as pressing an on button.

I wish there was 5 games. We need to win at least 2 of them and hope for the best. I think we only have 1 win left in us now and it seems whatever we do the majority of teams down there equal it.

Needed to win today, draw not much use. At least Huddersfield ended up drawing. I can't see us getting the points to stay up, I was hoping we'd be out of the relegation zone after today. It's going to be tough now to get another 3 wins which we may well need.

I did unfortunately, can't rely on them to help us out against any of the relegation sides.

Out of all the games we have left this is one we should be expecting to win. Anything less than that and I fear the worst. Hopefully the big crowd will spur the players on to a win.

It just goes to show how much that promotion was needed for United if they couldn't pay for their players. I'm not sure if it was around the time Dozy was sniffing around the club so the excuse was something to do with the takeover side. Either way it doesn't look good. A blade I football with reckons the punishment is too soft and your lucky it wasn't more.