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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣

« Last post by Tony on Today at 02:54:00 pm »

Does anybody want to see the BMC die? I don’t (never did cancel my membership, decided you can’t argue for reform and leave).

Firstly, I’m glad to hear this.

I would suggest that your posts in this thread do not demonstrate “financial illiteracy” [I commend the excellent quote] but, rather,  highlight the support you and your business receives through well developed policies, procedures and governance learnt from across the group of companies and their experienced leadership.

I’d also point out that (much like E grades…) we don’t expect finances to scale linearly; scaling from your €100M, the BMC would require a CEO’s signature on every bill of more than £450. That doesn’t seem like a good use of time.

Given the God awful job of ensuring any sort of sensible governance/oversight the previous incumbent did, I doubt it would have helped in any case.

I completely agree with voices as disparate as the Council and Remus that Nails is delusional if Nails thinks they could get anywhere near approximating the spending split *retrospectively* within the BMC within a day with the (evident) haphazard accounting that occurred in the period. From the noises being made, I suspect the paper trail may simply be impossible to reconstruct (at least without excessive expense - [dubious] finance IT system “migration” was mentioned). As Remus says HMRC only cares about tax its owed from the organisation overall.

The Council and the new leadership have taken a sensible and pragmatic approach. The best thing members can do now is to support and encourage the Council to constructively hold the Board to account.

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competitions / Re: Olympic qualification Paris 2024

« Last post by galpinos on Today at 02:53:18 pm »

It seems to show 10 "qualifying" athletes in the results. Is it only 10 in the semis?

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bouldering / Re: Non-Quality Bouldering Videos

« Last post by Wellsy on Today at 01:41:32 pm »

Yeah that probably works. I think if you're mega tall it's 5+, I'm 5'10 and I had to do a mighty leap

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bouldering / Re: Non-Quality Bouldering Videos

« Last post by lagerstarfish on Today at 01:23:58 pm »

The only way I could make the start 5+ was to "French" start it. Bounce up from one foot on the floor.

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competitions / Re: Olympic qualification Paris 2024

« Last post by sherlock on Today at 12:14:39 pm »

Full Qualifications on replay now, all 5 hrs of it. On Olympic Channel App but can't post link for some reason.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: BMC Resolutions shout out 📣

« Last post by Oldmanmatt on Today at 11:35:57 am »

Thanks Ben

Being kicked in the nuts by MC currently feels like the last straw from a personal perspective.

Some say it’s too fucked to fix. I can see how it can be rescued in terms of drastic actions to take to stop the cash burn and rebuild from there but the politics of having competent leadership in place with experience of business recovery and being given that sort of mandate still appears a long way off when the Board are still quibbling over trivia.

In one respect, Offwidth is right. The past is the past and there (at the moment, pending further revelations) is no reason to believe the organisation is beyond salvage.
End the BS and platitudes, come clean, investigate properly (external audit?), publish the action plan and remedials and watch the support grow. Does anybody want to see the BMC die? I don’t (never did cancel my membership, decided you can’t argue for reform and leave).

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news / Re: There’s a bloke fighting this weekend

« Last post by Wellsy on Today at 10:53:08 am »

I agree Usyk is the better man. And he's certainly mentally stronger, plus extremely tough. Fury is definitely able to beat him, and vice versa. Like Nibs I hope the refs and judges are up to the fight, which could be the best of a generation

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news / Re: There’s a bloke fighting this weekend

« Last post by Aussiegav on Today at 10:42:44 am »

Usyk.
Hard as nails, better mentally, a better boxer. He’ll work out Tyson Fury after 5 rounds.
Fury isn’t a knockout power monster which gives Usyk time to learn & adapt.

Fury hasn’t fought enough credible people. Especially in recent times.

Usyk is a better character of person and deserves the unified champion title.

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news / Re: There’s a bloke fighting this weekend

« Last post by Nibile on Today at 10:40:30 am »

I'm still buzzing after Inoue and Lomachenko's fights. Exciting stuff.
For this I am extremely anxious: I like Fury, I loved how he showed Wilder's many flaws, and I like his style inside the ring. With all that said, my heart is with Usyk, not only because his is extremely skilled, but also because of how he behaves inside and outside the ring.
This surely will be his toughest fight, Fury is an excellent boxer and a lot heavier, with a one punch ko in his hands, so I don't know if Usyk's angles and relentlessness will do the job as with Joshua, who is a static puncher.
I am afraid that Fury's size will pay out in the end, but I have enormous faith in Usyk's capabilities and will.
I sincerely can't wait.
I only hope that referee and judges will be at the level that is required by this fight.

Edit: re melius perpensa, probably Fury hasn't one punch ko power, because he rarely - if ever - proved so, but surely he can deliver a ko combination of two/three punches. But then again, he floored Wilder with single punches... an overhand right and a left body shot in the second fight, and a right hook in the third fight...
I am confused now.

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news / Re: There’s a bloke fighting this weekend

« Last post by Wellsy on Today at 10:30:59 am »

Fury at his best is as good as Usyk and much bigger, I think he'll take it but Usyk can never be counted out.