sotonjoe

email sent. Didn't get round to it last year, but should make the most of the opportunity really.

quite right

My understanding of the Groupsave fares was that everybody in the party was supposed to travel together. That means you're not allowed to team up with four people to buy tickets if you're not going to do both the outward and return journey with them. Obviously, it's up to you if you want to chance it and come back individually etc, but don't act like an idiot if the SWT staff do pull you up on it and try to charge you a penalty fare.

that's pretty ironic as well.

on the ****

steve stone

Congratulations ... you've managed to find a way to argue about the greatest thing to have happened to our club in 7 years. You should all be very proud.

errr ... tangent? The post was about trying to blood five new recruits into a winning eleven. Injuries are a compounding factor; who would argue that Hammond isn't a key player in central midfield so to get a winning midfield, we need to ensure hammond has played with that four / five players? Hammond hasn't been a key player, is that what you're saying?

not at all

and fergie didn't bring immediate success

and it reminded that we have a real chance but no pressure in this game. I cannot wait.

saints win apparently ... kiss of death ;-)

A question for those saying results aren't good enough ... what's the solution? At what point do you advocate sacking Pardew and what sort of manager do you think we could attract as a replacement? It's one thing being narked about the fact we're not in the playoffs, but what alternative do you see?

yeh, stop all the moaning. The tickets are hardly difficult to get hold of. If you deserve one, you will get one.

I've no idea about Pardew's argument, in fact I don't think he's been directly questioned on the subject. However, I stand by the fact that you can't bring five players into a team and expect to stumble upon a winning combination straight away. Now, whether Pardew was right to expect to do that is another matter; indeed you may wonder what was so broke in the first place and whether he would have been better just to tinker. However, we've gone for wholesale change and have made many team changes over the past few league and cup games, and that has disrupted the momentum.

As I've just said on the league results thread...

What people don't realise is that we've had just one game since the transfer window shut and that's just one game with our 'new' team in place. Add that to continued injuries (Hammond for instance) and it's clear that we haven't had time to gel. We have two cup games now where various players will be unavailable due to cup ties and that will further prevent us from settling on a first eleven which includes our new players. It won't be till the end of Feb and the point at which we will have played Norwich, Wycombe and Walsall in the league that we should have a good idea of how the new recruits have settled. Less than two wins there and then we'll have reason to start moaning. Until then we have to be patient and sensible in our reactions to results.

performances? I thought it was the results and the resulting league position you were moaning about.:smt119

At the moment, he stands to get nothing back if they're liquidated. If there's a genuinely rich idiot in talks, Chanrai will get more back by stumping up a few million whilst negotiations are ongoing. I think you're analysing the situation according to what you want to happen, not what actually might be happening. we'll obviously have to wait and see whether there are buyers waiting in the wings and obviously i hope there won't be.

yeh, i was gonna say monday night is usually open mic night at the talking heads.

Tesco, or any other shop for that matter, don't have to sell you anything at all if they don't want to!

if he puts his hand in his pocket to pay the HMRC, he gets time to find a buyer. simples.

Now a sizeable minority are moaning because it looks like we won't make the playoffs.

that's what I was saying, but you lot were saying no! They're going to say that he's stabilised the ship and will agree to pay some cash. Meanwhile, they'll also have to prove that they have serious interest from prospective purchasers. If that happens, they may get a stay of execution. If they get early wind of it being impossible, I guess they'll go into admin before the hearing. It will be very interesting if they take a gamble and go to the hearing without any prior idea of what may happen.

Right ... so why on earth has Chanrai seized control? Is it really just to "get a better look" as somebody has suggested? What on earth is he set to gain by doing so?