Danny

He's a school kid.

Right, I'll try posting something up again! The Echo have pics of them at SMS. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4328611.First_look_at_Saints__potential_new_owners_at_St_Mary_s/

*Sigh* Then what are they donating them to? Surely asking them to forgo or defer wages would be a better idea?

But that would mean the players are donating a weeks wages... to pay their own wages. After all, they are surely the only costs that are dragging the club's finances down.

Yep! But I'm not suffering from the same problem (touch wood!). If there's been lots of issues since a firmware update, surely Sony could simply sort that out with a new update, rather than you having to pay for it to be repaired?

I don't know about the RAM issue, but if that is the problem, Sony will be required to provide a replacement under the Sales of Goods Act. The warranty is merely on-top of that. You won't get it for free, but you should get it for less than £100, as you are entitled in law to expect a £400 machine to last more than 18 months or whatever - especially as it's being marketed with a 10-year life cycle! Hopefully though, it won't come to that.

It was wrong on Saturday. The clock didn't start until about 40 seconds into the second half.

Eastleigh beat them a few weeks ago and were only five points behind them.

This might help (look at the description rather than the video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hEz1Bn3Rg0 It seems the error is when the downloaded file is corrupted - basically I think all you can do is simply keep retrying the download until it works. I guess you could ask Sony Tech Support to provide you with the file via the web/on a disc which you could then copy over to the PS3 using a memory stick/card. I don't know if they'd do that though, although I can't see any reason why. In this thread some bloke says it was because his router was overheating and corrupting the download, although I'm not sure how accurate that is! http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message?board.id=131&message.id=120386

We're down then. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4314803.Saints_are_relegated_as_league_deduct_points/

Rather than the concert being postponed, it was never actually booked despite Rod Stewart's people being keen (as were The Eagles for another gig) as SLH couldn't guarantee there would be an operating company behind the stadium by the time the concerts came around.

Grow up, for ****'s sake.

But still, we have paid it in as much it has left the club's accounts.

If the League are witholding the cash, doesn't that suggest that we have actually paid it?

Ta.

Didn't stop Coventry being bought out. Or Man City - although I'm not entirely sure the COMS is still owned by the local authority.

http://www.3drealms.com/duke4/ To be honest, to have been over a decade in development and still no where near release is taking the ****. Even the Stereo MCs didn't take that long with their second album.

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Can't argue with that.

So I wonder where they got the 7,000 left figure from, if the corners have been opened for all the remaining games, as suggested above?

But the Sky money isn't £49m per annum, is it? Or is that including prize money from the league position?

At risk of being serious for a moment, PFC's accounts up to May 2008 don't look good, do they? Wage bill of £54m. Eek. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Turnover-is-up-but-Pompey.5151915.jp

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/politics/4263766.Could_council_buy_St_Mary_s_Stadium_/

That link's not working. Try this one: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4273401.Football_League_delays_Saints_decision/

Twenty per cent of £150m is £30m. The debt against the stadium is currently £24m and Aviva/Norwich Union are believed to be looking in the region of £10m-£15m to sell it, according to the papers. Factor in the fact that the council is already considering at selling off a fraction of the art work to fund other projects (such as the flats on the site of Tyrrell and Green) in the city - their reason being that only 10 per cent of the collection is ever on display. In fact, to raise £10m, they would only need to sell off in the region of 230 pieces from the 3,500 strong collection, using the average value of just under £43,000 per piece - assuming they were to fund the purchase 100 per cent in this way. Now personally, I do see some merit in the plan - after all the council could make a lot of income from the stadium. For example, two sell out concerts a year (the stadium has permission for four) could bring in an income (before costs) in the area of £2.5m per annum on their own, using an average ticket price of £35. This would actually - shock horror - make the stadium a sound investment in principle - especially bearing in mind over 90 per cent of the art is sat there doing nothing, away from the people who want to see it. However, I feel it's a moot point as I don't think the council will buy the stadium.