BelfastEagle
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Tonight they have fielded a total reserve team in final league game.
Rayo Vallecano Tonight
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silvertop
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Pray we do the same
Yet they still won... But they just missed out on European football! Which means Wednesday becomes even more important for them!
doombear
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So, we're both in the same boat so-to-speak
PalazioVecchio
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we are the big scalp, the lumbering financial giant. The favourite, Goliath. IBM, Soviet Union 1989, Concorde ,
Rayo V are the plucky upstart, the Macclesfield, the Palace that faced Liverpool/Citeh last summer, David, Microsoft 1983, Ryanair
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Goal Machine
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They’ll be up for it and they’re in good form. I’ve read they have a very passionate fan base too.
Bookies may have us as favourites but it will be a tough game for sure. We’ll need every Palace fan to give 100% to help push the boys over the line.
Bookies may have us as favourites but it will be a tough game for sure. We’ll need every Palace fan to give 100% to help push the boys over the line.
cryrst
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Our end of season form is generally the best we produce so we should win.
Goal Machine
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Hope you’re right, but we can’t afford complacency from players or fans. I have faith that OG is too professional allow it.
I’m confident we will win, but it’s certainly no gimme.
BromleyMonkey
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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
crvenaeagle
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How did Ryanair get on that list?
PalazioVecchio
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Concorde is like a majestic Eagle. Going nowhere. A financial dinosaur.
Ryanair is modest , unassuming, and scoring one in every away-venue.
You don't believe me. Which is more likely to get everybody to Leipzig ?
Part Time James
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Sounds good, but I'd bench Ryanair and give Johnson another try.
Very straight forward player that Ryan Air. Doesn’t come with any extra baggage
doi209
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Concorde stopped flying in the early 2000s due to the cost of keeping them airworthy. I hope Ryanair can afford to keep it's 380's in the air.
I wouldn't call Ryanair modest - have you heard Michael O'LKeary ?
cryrst
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It was more likely the fact it crashed and killed 113 people.
Eagleman13
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. . . Only the French one 😉
doombear
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Tuat was possibly the excuse they'd been waiting for given the growing restrictions on where Concorde could fly to if my memory serves me right.
grumpymort
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No it was running costs the maintenance on them was expensive.
The deaths you mentioned didn't help.
US made things difficult as well which didn't help
New versions are in production expect to see one by 2030
Mr Palaceman
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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).