Beware of the wolf in sheep's clothingPeople join the board and immediately start bashing the merger. Place them on ignore if you want to avoid their rants.
With the cost of debt likely to fall, given the high debt of the combined entity, we can expect even more synergies than predicted. In just one day Q1 will be over, and I expect we'll get very early news on how both Flutter and Stars did, and it won't be as bad as some would have thought. Remember that margins on sports betting are quite thin, so if those who were all sports betting converted to casino / poker playing, that's actually likely to translate into margin wins.
However, that's not a likely scenario, still I think with so many guarantees on poker tourneys raised and even then blown out of the water, we could be in for a pleasant surprise. It seems like April 30th is the timeline to lift quarantine restrictions in the USA. That's a far cry from the August timeline which Flutter mentioned in their profit warning...