suewhistle

Nothing like a morning laugh...

So it will be double Portsmouth's average with just the home fans? Oh, sorry, wrong thread...;-)

You've just reminded me... Is FoxyProxy any good?

An important point, enjoying your football! It also suggests that he wasn't before, for whatever reason. As for being disappointed with a signing: it's all starting to be a discussion of semantics, but it does suggest a slightly judgemental attitude. I think you can be allowed to say you are disappointed in not signing "x", but I think you always have to be more circumspect when you talk about your actual signing "y"..

I was there. Still suffer from tinnitus and bloomin Chanson d'amour, da da da da daa..

Yeah, but we're not quite sure what'll bring Ho back. It's a shame Mero and Mack don't pop in: I think most of us feel sorry for the likes of them, and it's always easier to discuss things with intelligent people (leaving aside spelling!).

The loan players are probably arrogant ****s who have been sent to toughen them up and make them realise that if they don't pull their fingers out they'll end up in a crap set-up like Portsmouth. Blackpool have invested their Premiership money in infrastructure, even Stevenage welcomed their recent FA cup bonus as it would help them improve their facilities. Portsmouth rented a shipping container for their cones at somebody else's training ground and then failed even to pay the rent for that...

No, clubs are beginning to realise they'll be able to get them for free, and unless they really, really want a particular player why bother now.

They're all a bit scattered in that picture: do some of them smell?

So with 12k against Brum it looks like that average is going down, doesn't it? Shame really when every ticket sold is so vital, even at 2 for £25. I don't think there are many teams that'll bring the crowds like us, Brighton, Leeds and WH next season, although it's an academic argument really. Haven't you really noticed is that what we are pointing out is the dichotomy between all the wind, fury and rhetoric of "Pack the Park" against actual real attendances. It's not even like Saints back in the 70s when any regular could tell you the crowd figures were fiction: but understated. From the appearance of the empty stands the FP crowd figures quoted are all too true.

probably crashed...

oh, I dunno'. Forest score a few, you know!

Yes!

7 (seven) to Forest!

I've got a 4 houjr lesson to give tomorrow to new and unknown students. My lesson prep isn't going very well as I can't concentrate, perhaps a beer would help....

Wheeee

Posh ahead

PBoro equalised

haha OG

ah dear, genuine laugh out loud moment. I mentioned Alpine in passing on a thread where he was being tiresome. He's been on my ignore list for some time as although I understand negativity I can't be arsed to cope with it _all_ the flaming time and I really make no assumptions about what he thinks, it really doesn't matter. I don't hate you, I just think you're a PITA. I've posted about you twice and with views that aren't a million miles from those expressed by others but I'm glad you feel the need to give me a personal reply. Anyway, in the absence of golf there's fresh powder to ski tomorrow so time for bed.

He is a bit sad, isn't he?The occasional post might be amusing but it's the constant Alpine-like repetition that gets me. That, and his constant disapproval of what other people do to enjoy themselves. It's all a bit retired colonel in Cheltenham or Tunbridge Wells: "Japanese tourists with posters at SMS - harumph, shouldn't be allowed", "dressing up at football games: mongs", etc. How old is he as I suspect he's not even a retired busted private? Old before his time, obviously. Troll or not very sad.

Thought about this today as I played the second half of a game in Italian women's regional division C. The team used to be in the B division where the presence of a doctor was compulsory. The problem is the cost in amateur football, and this requirement, along with transport costs means that many clubs who win this division refuse promotion. But cost shouldn't be a consideration in the Premiership; interesting article in The Guardian about changes in 2007: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/18/fabrice-muamba-medical-rules?intcmp=239

Sometimes DP you don't half talk some rambling rubbish, probably fuelled by OSH (I have the same problem with prosecco..). ;-) But this post is a very good précis of their position.

If it's the peter White who does the BBC In touch programme, he's a Saints fan, I'm sure. regular at SMS.

23? Geez. From the Guardian report "6.38pm The crowd are slowly, solemnly filing out of the ground." It's something I worry about when I play but at 56 that's hardly surprising. But 23?!