Rayo Vallecano Tonight

BromleyMonkey said:
La liga looks quite condensed, they might have finished 8th just outside the European places, but they were only 8 points outside of the relegation zone
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It was the same here for a long part of the season. Only right to the end has a bit of drift occurred. Nobody running away with it in any quarter.
 
Mr Palaceman said:
Actually, Concorde was making a decent profit for B.A. About 500mil.. After they realised what they had and doubled the ticket price.

Early on, it was running at a loss because the ticket price was too low. The executives who were using the service, were not the ones buying the tickets, their companies were. They did a survey of the actual passengers flying on concorde who thought that the price of a ticket was double what their companies were actually paying The penny dropped, the price doubled and the service started to make a profit. At its height, you couldn't get a ticket due to demand.

Then the crash happened, which was not a fault in the aircraft but a piece of debris on the runway that had fallen off a McDonald Douglas DC10 and peirced a membrane of Concordes fuel tank. This was modified and the plane was certified airworthy and the service re-started.

However, the thing that actually made it unviable was, just as it came back into service 9/11 happened and that was when B.A. made the decision to shut the operation down. They couldn't afford to keep it on the ground and wait for business to pick up again.

Virgin offered to buy it, as they knew they could make a profit but B.A refused to sell to a rival. They would rather kill it off than see it flown by another airline. And so we lost the most iconic and beautiful aircraft that ever took to the skys.

A bit like Palace really, having our wings clipped in Europe due to no fault of our own... (That was my attempt to bring it back on thread. I think it worked... Hmm).
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Not really - yes it made a profit some years, but never enough to cover the initial cost of the development.

A bit like building a house for cash and then renting it out at a below market rate. Yes, you make a profit each year, but arguably never enough to justify the initial outlay.
 
palace99 said:
Not really - yes it made a profit some years, but never enough to cover the initial cost of the development.

A bit like building a house for cash and then renting it out at a below market rate. Yes, you make a profit each year, but arguably never enough to justify the initial outlay.
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It wasn't all about the money though was it?
 
just look at the profiles of the players on both teams. Especially the money.

We are Eagles. Majestic but troubled and maybe endangered.

Rayo V are Pigeons. City centre dwellers. Low budget, rummaging in bins. But like flying rats they are not in danger of disappearing like the dinosaurs.


Leipzig will be like an multi-million Abrams Tank versus a kid on a bicycle with a 20 quid RPG. History has shown us that money does not win every War.
 
samprior said:
Yet they still won... But they just missed out on European football! Which means Wednesday becomes even more important for them!
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They are no mugs. Looking at their May form do not think they have been beaten, although a chink of light they have conceded in every match. Quite a few draws so could easily see ET and plenty of nail biting. We haven't been in great form league wise but had some good performances in Europe. Get one of those and we should be fine. COYP !!
 
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