sotonjoe

You think there were significant funds (in excess of £250k etc) offered for home shirt sponsorship that we turned down?

Sorry guys, if you take that article at face value then I think you're being a bit naive. Essentially, what we have here is a difference of opinions between us and the business world with reagrds to what the club is worth as a sponsorship proposition. Cortese and co will quite rightly state our case as un upwardly mobile team with great potential, whereas the potential sponsors are going to be accusing him of overinflating the value of sponsoring Saints. The upshot will be that there isn't a deal to be done that suits both parties and, on the balance of things, Cortese will have decided that if we're only being offered something in the region of, say for argument sake, £250k a year for sponsorship, then we may as well refuse it and try to make something positive out of it. Mark my words, this club is a business and if somebody had offered a significant amount of money for sponsorship, we would have accepted it. As things stand, we're not interested in insignificant sums of money so we're going to make a fancy shirt. That's fine by me and I look forward to the novelty of it.

When did we get into Europe?

is this the thread where we start picking on each other?

i ordered mine on thurs night and am still waiting nervously.

#-o

It will sell out, but not on thursday! As long as you're prepared to queue for an hour or so you will get tickets at any point during the day. The phone 'seems' easier but not if they don't have enough lines etc. Still, being a season ticket holder now ... it's not my worry anyway. ;-)

rubbish (and i hope your smiley implies the same)

Renting playing fields doesn't make a difference to the food situation. Pompey don't rent school food!

if you have several external walls in your kitchen, i wouldn't bother. You probably won't be pleased with how warm it manages to make it.

he's probably ****ed off that you're trying to create another standing area in the ground.

wait till the pompey game ;-)

good idea, they look like a must.

presumably 'winter sunshine' equals 'sun in your eyes'?

TBF, that sort of behaviour is the reason I stopped watching games from the Northam Stand. Being right in the middle of all the singing is great, but the amount of spite being shouted at the pitch was embarassing. Having to listen a group just shout the usual racist claptrap at Euell last season was the final straw for me. You'll get idiots in every stand I guess, but there seemed to be a concentration of them in that stand. Im much happier with people being 'quiet' in the Kingsland, if it means I don't have to listen to rubbish being shouted.

Sometimes you read posts with a comma obsession that is unwarranted. Commas shouldn't be used just to indicate 'a bit of a pause'. You could have used just the one between 'punctuation' and 'although' and it would have been fine.

Just purchased mine and my mate's by linking his account with mine. Quick and easy as usual. It's great being a season ticket holder. ;-)

Have you paid your £5?

brilliant ... what a nice chap

Don't go to pubs ... Steve Grant is having a big **** up for everyone at his place beforehand. PM me for address.

the brian stock thread of course

Statement from Sotonjoe: I do not formally have knowledge of a facebook screenshot and am shocked and surprised this suggestion has been made in respect of MSN, Twitter and other social networking contributions which either have been, or are about to be made, or are disputed. I am disputing the amount of time Brian Stock reportedly spends on Facebook and have formally notified SOD (Sean O'Driscoll) of this. I expect members of TSW to withdraw their suggestions forthwith.

Definitely photoshopped.

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The 'database is, essentially a membership scheme, they just don't charge you for the privilege anymore like in the prem days. Anybody can be added to the database by sending a nice email to David Luker. I don't think he'll be accepting new apps until after the Pompey game though!