Alanh

The Ravi Shankar bel puuri house in Drummond St, near Euston is excellent. All veggie buffet for about £7 per person. Certainly beats your routine curry house.

Thanks, published on the OS after I last searched.

Anyone know how much the tickets are for this one? I can't find the info on the OS.

I enjoyed it, but was disappointed with the atomic bomb plot device. It lead the movie to one predictable conclusion. Thought Bane was good, but nowhere near as good as Joker or Scarecrow. I guess the bad guy had to be different in this film but Bane didn't have the unpredictability or either Scarecrow or Joker which made them both compelling on screen. I thought Anne Hathaway was very good as Catwoman, much better than I expected. Also, I think filming so much of the city shots in daylight felt wrong. I always think of Gotham as a dark, shadowy place and so it felt wrong to see so much of it in daylight.

The last time a No 3 was needed was when Liverpool had Reina and Doni sent off in quick succession and Brad Jones had to step in towards the end of last season.

I think you might be right about CB's we might only see one come in if Dan Seaborne does enough to convince the management that he can make it after his injury. I think we'll almost certainly see two keepers come in as Forecast is clearly not rated as he never came close to challenging Bart of No 2 status last year. A PL squad needs three keepers so I wouldn't be surprised to see a youngster and a more experienced player come in before the end of August.

So the FL's ruling means that the players know that all football creditor's have to be paid and that Pompey have a couple of parachute payments in the offing with which to make those payments so IMO there is even less chance of them walking away for peanuts now. If the majority of the PPs are going to football creditors I think that the two ways for Chinny to get his money back are 1) sell the ground to a new owner for whatever he wants, or 2) rent it to a new owner for the long term. I think that the onoy way the PST bid is now going to work is if they restructure their bid so that they use the bulk of their money to buy out Chinny, buy the club for £1 in the knowledge that there will be very little PP available post purchase and they have to runthe club on gate receipts under the watchful eye of the FL. Sounds like a 5 year plan for relegation to the Conference to me!!!

Mick Williams is insistent on Twitter that if the club is liquidated the players will not receive the wages that they are owed. Obviously he's biased in that he wants them to reach a compromise agreement so that the trust bid can progress, but not sure that he's right otherwise why would the PFA have mentioned the £23M?

1. No official handicap but probably around 20 2. Hum the tune of the Blue Danube as it's the perfect rhythm for a golf swing 3. try to keep your right knee as still as possible during your swing.

NA always talks about the squad so I think the concerns that people have over record signings being on the bench are not valid for him. He'll be thinking about the 18 man squad for day one. I'm pretty sure that we'll go 4-4-2 with two holding central midfielders. So for the first match of the season I'd say that we'll see 3 or 4 new players in the 18 man squad along with the core of last season subject to fitness and by the end of August there will be a couple more new faces added. I'm going for something like the following: Davis Richardson New CB Hooiveld Fox New RM Schneiderlin Cork Lallana Lambert Rodriguez Bench New keeper Fonte Hammond Guly Sharp Lee New midfielder

I go with my son (u17 concession) and Dad (OAP concession) and we are planning to relocate across a block or two as the central Kingsland is now premium. I figure a slightly less central view is worth it for a saving of more than £450.

Fox and Richardson had that attacking responsibility and did it very effectively all season. They may not get the opportunity to do the same next year when they are up against higher quality attackers buit I can't see us changing far from our preferred 4-4-2 with the midfield 4 either adopting two central defensive players and two wide attackers, or a diamond.

Villa, Everton, Arsenal and Man Utd are probably the best examples of prem clubs bringing through players from their academy in the last 5 - 10 years. They have shown it's possible, you've then got to blend them into the squad along with transfers and have a manager that is committed to the whole system. I think we've got the manager to do it, and I think that the new acadamy will attract the players so we should achieve the objective given time. The thing that each of those clubs have in common is their long established status in the Prem which makes them more secure in terms of not panic buying players. It might therefore take us a few years to get established (possibly with some relegation and promotion) before we can also have the same number of players coming through.

Matt Jarvis is originally from the Guildford area and I heard yesterday that he has bought or built a house in the Cobham area, just off the A3. Apparently he is definitely moving but his agent is playing it very coy about who he is going to.

Yes, that's exactly what is going to happen. BC has said that he will step in if no one else buys the club. His motivation for that is to ensure that the remaining parachute payments are paid out to whatever is left of the club. He should know that there is no chance of getting back to the Prem now without major investment so he'll go into asset stripping mode, getting as many of the big earners off the books as he can without a care for the impact on the playing side of things. Once he's got the PPs he'll sell the club to anyone who will take it off him.

Based on seeing what Norwich and Swansea did this season and having seen how NA prepares the team through pre season I'd say no to your question. I think we should be able to be better than 7 or 8 other teams in the Prem next season.

You would think that JWP and Reeves have the best chance with Shaw and Stephens next in line. I'm not sure that we will send too many of them out on loan as we will probably consider our development squad the best place for them to ...erm..develop!

As said above we already have something like this on the front face of the TV gantry. The only problem being that as it is right under the TV cameras it never gets seen on TV.

Yep. Despite this being one of the biggest games we have played in recent years and despite us being in the best form that most people can remember some of the 34K that we are talking about still won't come along. They might not be able to afford it, might be doing other things, or might prefer to watch on TV. We do know that more of them want to come to this match than any other recent match thanks to the announcement that the game has sold out and the presence of messages on this forum pleading for tickets. The crowd will be made up of the 21K hardcore and as many of the rest that both want and can get a ticket.

Presumably it will be a combination of Coventry paying us for all of their tickets, therefore they will count as sold regardless of whether Cov have sold them on to one of their fans; a reduction or removal of the segregation netting and Saints fans buying every other available seat including hospitality.

That's patently nonsense. I reckon your numbers are probably about right in terms of hard core fans and floating fans, however the floating 34,000 will not distribute their attendences evenly across each game of the season. That's why when only 4K of them decide to come and see Barnsley we end up with a relatively low crowd, but when more than 12K of them want to come we have threads on here and conversations in pubs about people looking for tickets when games are 'sold out'. It's obvious to everyone else on this thread but you are just on a wind up.

Agree with most on this thread that we need a new right sided CB to push Fonte hard for a starting place. I'm most concerned about the way he holds attackers when challenging them. I know that all defenders do this to some extent but you see more fouls given for it in the Prem and that could cost us. IMO Fox will be fine for the Prem, and Richardson probably will be as well. Are they really that much different in terms of ability and performance to the like of Rangel, Taylor (Swansea), Shotton, Wilson (Stoke), Baker, Lichaj, Hutton (Villa), Hughes, Baird (Fulham), Martin, Drury (Norwich). They aren't as good as the top 4 or 5 teams put out at full back but they are good enough for our first season ambitions which I would think are mid / lower table safety. As for Kelvin, I think he deserves a crack at the Prem for at least the first half of the season. If there is a good young player available to challenge him then we should look at that. If we do get promoted the priorities for me are CB, CM, RM and striker.

Very disappointed. Was looking forward to celebrating tonight, but will have to wait a bit longer now - Monday or Saturday. Their goals were decent strikes, not as good as Norris's, but good enough. If someone had buried one of the 5 or 6 chances we created at the start of the second half we would have coasted to the win. When did Rickie last get a free kick on target? Understandable overreactions are going to be the order of the day on here for a while, but remember we did just about everything in that game apart from put the ball in the net. We fought for possession and created much more in their final third than they did in ours. Games are rarely easy wins and on this occasion their two strikes were enough to beat us. We'll beat Cov on Saturday on go up with two points to spare.

I think Richardson and Fox will be fine in the Prem if we go up as I don't think that they are significantly worse than the full backs of most mid table teams. Sure they can be improved upon and if the cash is there it would be great to see comptition brought it as both Harding and Butterfield are unlikely to make too many starts. I'm more interested in seeing real competion brought in at CB where we will need at least one new addition to replace Jaidi and possibly Seaborne if he doesn't recover / make progress to Prem level following his injury. I think both Shaw and Stephens are for the future and will have the opportunity to get game time out on loan before challenging for first team slots with us.

From what I understand the f-duct system that Mercedes have developed allows them to stall both the rear and front wings whenever the DRS is open. This gives them a huge advantage during practice and qualifying because they can have the DRS open as much as they like on any given laop. During the race the DRS zone(s) are resticted to one or two places in the lap so there isn't as much of an advantage and they end up defending a falsely high grid position against faster cars behind them. Also, I'm sure I heard the BBC commentators musing on how quickly they will get off the line at the start and how their f-duct will help them in the race to the first corner when it isn't active until about the third lap anyway.