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I've cut it down to players who actually played (should remove Saganowski in practice too). Yeesh. Players now playing above League One in bold. 1 Kelvin Davis 2 Chris Perry 3 Wayne Thomas 4 Marek Saganowski 5 Jan-Paul Saeijs 7 Rudi Skácel 8 Bradley Wright-Phillips if he still starts for Charlton 10 Paul Wotton 11 Andrew Surman 12 Lee Holmes 15 Jason Euell 16 Romain Gasmi 17 David McGoldrick if he's still playing for Forest 19 Morgan Schneiderlin 20 Adam Lallana 22 Simon Gillett 23 Lloyd James 24 Oliver Lancashire 26 Jake Thomson 28 Bartosz Białkowski 33 Joseph Mills 35 Matthew Paterson 37 Oscar Gobern if he still gets a game for Huddersfield in the Championship 39 Ryan Smith 40 Anthony Pulis 42 Kayne McLaggon 45 Callum McNish Left during season (loan or otherwise) 9 Grzegorz Rasiak 5 Andrew Davies 14 Stern John 31 Tomáš Pekhart 30 Jack Cork 38 Jordan Robertson 41 Alex Pearce 18 Nathan Dyer 41 Zoltán Lipták

Time to dig out the Saints Championship relegation team from 2008/9 to have a look at the auspicious players we fielded that season maybe ?

Erm, but it does. God knows, but history is not their friend. Note no question of assuming the amount doesn't exceed £2m, they KNOW this one does. Two things here - firstly how deluded are they, and secondly, you just know if the league rebrands in that timescale and they miraculously DO get promoted, they'll use that as an excuse to get out of it anyway...

Unfortunately we know how they will go about this one.

An MP used the word "weird" there, where "unusual", "unexpected" or "scandalous" would be more appropriate. Then again, if you have to live in the constituency I suppose they don't really have much to choose from when it comes to educational standards.

Not sure about that as it's not on tv, but if there's a decent crowd it'll probably be from walkup. We seem to have a lot of home friendlies this summer - it's also a very LONG close season due to the early end for Euro2012 and relatively late start due to England not having a major tournament in Summer 2013.

Or at least he's got a contract extension written into his contract as a promotion bonus, as seemed to happen last close season with a number of what proved to be not-exactly regular Championship starters. Dickson, Barnard and Butterfield spring to mind.

They presumably told them this about a month ago, given the timeline of Dickson's tweets, and their appearances in the Dev Squad at Sholing weeks back. Dickson on twitter was very obviously resigned to not getting to play, his choices being staying and not playing, or taking a pay cut to play elsewhere permanently.

Anyone actually going ? I only know of one person in my usual group of ST holders. I'll be in Cardiff watching Team GB... got lucky considering I bought those tickets over a year ago.

We'll soon see, won't we ?

Unfortunately his Prem experience was about 7 years ago and he's probably forgotten everything he knew - if he's even able to reach his previous levels of Prem performance with West Brom since his various accumulated injuries.

Obviously it's contractual, the club has signed a contract to have someone provide their website for a specified time. There's no obligation to sign up to it in the first place, but as they did, they're stuck with it for now. Many other clubs have signed up with the same company to get theirs as well, but it's not based on the league they're in or anything. They're just (presumably) one of the cheapest, as they offer a template for football clubs so it can be done for multiple clubs with only a few individual tweaks instead of having to engineer the whole site from scratch every time. As others who seem to have some industry knowledge have suggested the OS is basically just for advertising, a number of clubs have just taken the cheap option to do that and have no particular interest in content or design other than "run some ads". Your "Man City use someone else" comment suggests you expect that one company would provide everyone's club websites for some reason, I'm not sure why that would be the case as pretty much everyone did their own before the template approach came along.

I'm deliberately avoiding them, remember? I'm also not remotely "worked up".

And 19 home matches for two people which we haven't paid for yet.

I think the clutter at the bottom is by design. I at least appreciate not having the "Under Construction" banners all over it, but other than that the bottom half is more Web '98 than Web 3.0.

Lucky them. Some of us are prioritising the football.

I've got one. And I'm saving all that money in ticket tax, plus petrol and car parking. Isn't it great ?

There were only 5 players to click on in the squad list when I looked earlier. We're not Portsmouth FFS.

S'only 19 League matches, maybe 3 cup games, so that's over £30...

I think it was the likelihood of just inconveniencing the people in the queue behind us that was what swung the decision not to do it.

The best thing about the new site is the visible time and date-stamping of the articles.

They would have been pound coins.

No, I didn't go on match days, that would be REALLY stupid. Yes, they were different rules.

You're not teaching me anything there. It's been his nickname for years.

Me neither, given that the cost per transaction will barely be pence as part of the everyday running costs they incur whether selling tickets or not. There's also the argument that the club wants to sell their tickets to make their profit, and should rightly incur the natural cost of doing so. They basically want their cake (ticket profits) and eat it (ticket selling profits). On the flip side, with the tv deal now worth far more than matchday revenues, they could easily absorb the cost OR they could make tickets ridiculously expensive or cheap if they wished because the money isn't a significant revenue stream in the grand scheme of things. I'd be thinking if they wanted to expand their customer base to as many people as possible, customer-facing policies and no antagonising those who are already customers would be a good place to start.