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Funnily enough Evian also had a TBA match for that date! I think one against them is enough though...

Eric, I'm sure I could send you a few of my favourite links... Only joking!

This, Wade Garrett's question and Frank's Cousin's comment are reasonable points. The budgetting for SMS assumed one third at 18k, one third at around 24k and the rest near capacity. It's a bit like transport infrastructure where the seat is the ultimate perishable product: you'll never have a system with so much slack so that it's never full, but you try and increase capacity as demand increases and then tailor and fine tune that demand through other means to get the best yield (e.g. special offers, cheap day returns, etc.). At the moment I'm pondering my holiday dates, but there's no point me staying on until the 1st September if I can't get a s****n' Man Utd ticket, and it's a genuine worry that they may be difficult to get. If it's really too easy people pick and choose and roll up (or not) on the day, if it gets too difficult to get tickets people give up. Of course we wouldn't sell out 40,000 every week but that's not how it works.

Apologies, you got a bit of a backlash for the excesses of certain other posters. It was more like "oh, please, don't _you_ start".:-)

These look good, but in a review I saw that there is too much lag for playing an instrument, DYOR: http://www.richersounds.com/product/headphones/sennheiser/rs160/senn-rs160

Looks like kick-off is 18.00: http://www.etgfc.com/2012/06/18/programme-intersaison-etg-fc-om-le-28-juillet/

Admit it, you've been doing a correspondence course with Turkish! Remember it's a very tiresome form of humour...

Yeah, but it's a bit like a primary school playground here: "'Corse we bully him Miss, he's such a nerd"... Or "she was asking for it"....

Just checked: 2,272 kilometers to Kiev from me. Think I'll give the drive a miss!

Heh, heh, the shot of the flag towards the end "The South coat is Ours"..

Are you going to change the destination to 'Citeh? That rain should have helped the dry pounds...

To complete the project certainly those timescales would seem likely, but I presume it would be phased? For example, the Kingsland expansion might be done first, to give additional capacity from the off? The fact that even these sketches are being put in the public domain seems significant enough. We just aren't a "Harbourdome" type club: when our players pose with diggers they're actually being used....

Not 'arf!

PS; Some of you might find this useful: http://www.thononlesbains.com/admin/files/361105157_OTThononGuidePratique_page_pageBAT.pdf

I've just watched the interview with Adkins on Saints player, being in footie mode after watching Italy on the box earlier. He was like the cat with the cream, couldn't keep the smile, no.. grin, off his face. Signings are surely definitely well under way: some of them will take longer than others, no doubt. That's really put me in the mood to go to the pre-season game in France... a couple of hours drive and I'll make a week-end of it. Can't wait now..

Yeah.:-( A couple of them post on here...

I've hired a car only twice in my [over :-(] half century of life and this story is one of the reasons why. The second time I dropped off the car at LGW only last week and made sure somebody had a look at it before I departed. I'll be checking my next credit card statement with care. As it happens I managed to block the CC on the day I left coz I got the pin wrong, but I'll still check to make sure... The guy who was returning his car before me had a problem with his windscreen. I quipped sympathetically "that's how the bu***rs make their money", and he smiled ruefully.

Not bad, not bad at all. You've got the content right and almost the style. A bit of personal abuse balanced by victim bleatings and you're there!

How many away fans at 'Citeh?

I meant they agreed to it! Big mistake...

The creditors in CVA1 did a deal....

Nothing in the italian press although I suspect he'll leaving Bari (2nd div) soon: there was already talk last season and now Bari are in the s**t with the betting scandal, and Ultras (I nearly wrote fans there...) threatening players. One name in the frame (and remember folks, foreign rumours are no more reliable than UK rumours) is Dani Benitez from Udinese [now where have we heard that name..], but as he's been on loan in Spain where he's had a 3 month ban for throwing a [plastic] bottle at the ref I'm not sure there'd be a place on the bus for him..

Well, if anything this thread has made me appreciate that getting tickets might be a leetle more difficult than last year.. Last August on my hols I wandered up North to see friends, and Saints at Barnsley, and bought a ticket on the day. Different approach this year, perhaps down the pub!

Guys, it's end of term/school holiday time; looks like some of your kids have been posting using your user names...