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New bottle of Fullers Honeydew opened..

New player fitting in. Game on Tuesday...

Saints have kept the pill? I presume 'tater meant ball..

connolly on for sharp

looks like we'll need to get another goal on the break:-( atm

Wouldn't be so bad if we had a bit of fresh snow for some off-piste skiing...

Hah! I've done goalkeeper training 3 times this week from 8 -10 in the evening at at least -6. Couldn't feel my feet by the end of each session...

Just opened a bottle of Fullers Honeydew... I don't think I bought back enough beer from my last visit to the UK, it seems to be going quite quickly. If it works I'm going to ask for sponsors...

I think my lucky p**s has taken over..

Good ball in my Lambert, whoever scored, apparently

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wide by sharp, corner

sounds good...

Just as well I didn't jump up when we scored coz I wa on the loo. I'll go and drink some more tea or beer in case it was a lucky p*** and I can do it again...

Nice slow OWTS

Just about to be broadcast again - I listened to the first minutes of the programme last night before having to dash out to footie training and was wondering if anything of interest to us might come up! Thank goodness for internet radio..

I reckon that's the first intelligent post you've made!

No, no, no! The whole point is that you measure the right thing in order to reward people: whether bottom line club profits or in footie terms league position etc. Rewarding the buying and selling of players distorts the process of achieving success for the club. It's the same in business as I pointed out. Anybody who has dealt with metrics in business/computing knows you have to measure the right thing: no good achieving 100 transactions per person per day if 50% are incorrect or you are miss-selling PPI insurance or whatever..

June Tabor aaaah. My favourite singer... PS: Thanks for the link; made me feel quite homesick.

I was there! Bologna is nicknamed La Grassa (the fat one because of the good food) and La Rossa (red - coz it's left wing). The administration did fans proud in 1990 as with little notice they helped set up a fans camp, a phone line for the FSA etc.

..or coach.

See my subsequent post. As for sales people, if they are actually selling physical stuff at a profit perhaps that's better. But I remember early in my career where I came across our shops selling goods on HP to people who had no intention or ability to complete the contract. The shops still got their bonus as they managed to push the costs elsewhere... Sound familiar?

Exactly! It's one of the reason the banks are financially in the sheet because a lot of their paper profits were just moving money around on what turned out to be non or dodgy assets, or trading just for the sake of trading because there might be short term bonuses for the traders. If you have money in a fund they often charge extra funds for buying and selling costs. Sometimes called "churn" in the financial world. That's why the biggest chunk of shares I have I own direct and there are minimal costs involved.

Even if they don't get wound up immediately they are going to find running a business extremely difficult. Expect to see them training on Farlington sports ground (not too bad as pompey municipal pitches go), producing one page team sheets after Bishops printers refuse them credit, stewards going on strike (not being football creditors), wish I still had friends at SSE so they request a security deposit from them for the leccy, all supplies being COD, police request payment in advance for match day security, coach travel paid in advance, external physios getting cash before treatment, the list goes on. Hopefully teams won't loan them players as they can't afford the insurance... Not looking bright, is it?

To give the jury some credit, they have to be certain of guilt, and the fact that they had to have an overnight delay suggests it wasn't a straightforward verdict, and some of them (possibly even a majority) considered there was guilt but not beyond reasonable doubt. I followed the case on here but to give a true opinion I'd need to read a transcript. I never heard any questions such as: "Mr Redknapp, as an admittedly simple soul, why did you fly to Monaco, of all places, to open an account? As you say... such a small sum... What reasons did you have for Monaco? Did your accountant advise this? [Checkable with the accountant..]. Didn't you have perfectly good accounts [with the same bank!] in the UK? Wouldn't it be easier to run a UK account where you even had a personal banker? [Remember he was not aware of the Monaco account.] Ah, it was for investment. What movements were there from this account of an investment nature? [Also verifiable.] etc etc.. If Redknapp should get the England job - and I don't think he will - I won't bother watching them anymore.