He isn't actually a loony though is he, just someone with a few different user names on different threads purposefully putting things that wind people up.
I think it's just part of the back straight, which we like to call the cauldron , where the massif sit which has hearing issues, maybe it's all the noise we make which is making us go deaf.
I'm with you bruv, I don't think we can afford to get off to a slow start. If we do, that's our own fault not having any warm ups. Looking forward to the new noise making implements.