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Thanks so much for the feedback peeps, most appreciated. Went down this morning to pick up the tickets and watched England in the warm up. Someone had a good job running around the bowl finding all the balls that Bell & co were knocking in to and over the seats!!!!

Can't see anywhere that states you're not allowed to take your own food in, but always thought you weren't allowed??? The old fella won't go anywhere without his ham sandwiches, pork pies and scotch eggs!! So food allowed or are we smuggling it in in our underpants! Cheers

The OP is spot on about ticket information though. Our final game of cricket got called off about 1:30 and having already given my season ticket to a mate, I thought about taking my dad. He thought it was sold out, couldn't really find anything easily on the terrible OS and thought that with first day glitches of the new cards the ticket office would be a nightmare, so gave it a miss and watched one of the few games of cricket that survived.

Dune would feccking hate all these Euros!!!!!!!!! (how do you get them on an iPad??)

I'd argue there was Bob Higgins even before Merrington! (And probably someone else before him). And Lowe should indeed take credit for some good appointments to the set up (Prost, Jennings etc).

Stayed in an H10 hotel in Tenerife over Easter and they had a great policy. No loungers could be reserved before 10:00am and any that did had the stuff religiously removed and put in lost property. Some bemused people wandering around after breakfast thinking the stuff they had out down four hours earlier had been stolen! Sadly, there were still some who sat down for an hour at 9:00 to do a crossword, left their stuff there and then popped back about 4:00 for the cool part of the day.

But SCW ended up as our Director of Football!!! a long way from just being in charge of Sports Science (and as came out in the wash later, the plan was for him to become Manager). Had he just been in charge of Sports Science or Sports Performance, and had the existing management team accepted it, and had it been a priority, and had he not bought Clifford in, and had it not been a massive distraction, and had it not cost us money that probably should have been spent securing "repromotion" [sic], then it might have worked.

I love it when people talk complete ********. Quite simply you obviously never had any shares if you reckon you never received a penny as SFC PLCs dividend yield over the Years was very generous indeed. And back to solely Lowe and the Academy.... I think it would be fair to say that Lowe invested time and money in to the Academy and saw it as a benefit for the first team and also as a benefit to the bottom line. Whether he got the balance right is up to others to decide, but I also think his, and others, claims to be the inspiration for inventing this idea is stretching it somewhat given ours and others history and record in the past.

Wonder what the commentator will say if Sir Rickie scores on Boxing Day and flashes his cheeky Merry Xmas boxers??? And as you say whilst wrapped up in religion, so many of these issues/stories are more cultural/tribal/historic legacies.

We must be in the mix somewhere which is mental enough in itself!! Imagine we'll need to blow our wage record as well as transfer fee if he's already turned down Spurs though.

Just heard that Spinning Kenny, the man of a thousand disco moves and spins is no more. Bless him, the wife is now reminiscing of nights in McCluskeys and Jumpin Jaks, whilst I can remember him from haunts before that. His satin shirts, pony tail and dizzy spins will be missed. RIP Kenny

WOWEE!!!!!!!!! Just had a corker of an e-mail to and fro regarding Portsmuff from a very old acquaintance of my times working down that way (did a short stint with one of their sponsors back in the day and still keep in touch). Apparently he/they think liquidation is only a matter of time, but a number of people in the circle he mixes in (semi big hitters down that way) are thinking of promoting a Phoenix Club for next season, but are not at all impressed with PSTs performance to date and do not want them involved. I told him he had some ground to make up and doubted he would get ahead of the PST with regards grass roots support, but he was adamant they would get businesses and supporters on side. So what are he odds on a Portsmuff City and a Portsmuff United being in competition!!!! Talk about splitting the fanbase.

Just can't see how their Trust bid can or will work. The amount Birch has negotiated with players (probably with Chanrai in mind) is for £4m-£6m more than the Trust have in their business plan!!! Cant see them raising the difference, nor can I see it being possible to negotiate a further compromise from the players in time to satisfy the powers that be (even if potential liquidation might be focussing a few players minds).

I would have to agree with you. The current Club will, for some time, be burdened with the legacy and debts of their recent unethical, immoral and uunscrupulous existence. It would be better to start afresh in the lower leagues and attempt to capture a semblance of respect and decency. The PCC loan, outstanding debts & stadium/land ownership issues are too large, too intertwined and too burdensome to give the Trust any chance in the short to medium term. However, from a p15s take perspective, we should want the Trust to wade in and bumble along before hitting the same problems in a year or two.

Demolished and now flats I believe. But there's still a Southampton Mason's Arms still very much alive in Koh Phangnan!!! http://www.themasonsarms.in.th/

I know schools who were doing loads with the Schools Sports Partnerships, particularly linking with sports clubs and going in to Primaries where many didn't have dedicated PE staff (and also a shortage of male staff). Problem is Gove scrapped it as soon as he got through the doors of the DFE (as well as scrapping the school sports survey which allowed for a detailed analysis of what was going on on schools). Cameron (and Hunt) got it seriously wrong with their anti state school tirade and from my experience (somewhat anecdotal of course), teachers are well up for supporting and pushing competitive sport as well as other activities to get kids interested, healthy and active. Sadly, contrary to what Cameron says, money is an issue.

We are actually well served by local rowing clubs down here. Off the top of my head can think of BTC, Coalporters, Southampton ARC and Vospers/Itchen (plus the Unis). All of them are very welcoming and you don't have to sign up for doing it competitively and they're more than happy for you to use it as a means of keeping fit/recreational. Did a bit at Coalporters and Vospers back in the days!

Spot on. All this *****ing and moaning about the FAPPT not being tough enough and leaving them exposed to dodgy owners is now conveniently forgotten as they fawn over BC coming back. Then again it shouldn't be a surprise given the way they have only been too happy to praise owners/players/officials I the heady days only to be up for a public hanging the next. "there's only one Peter Storrie" ringing around the tip was may fave.

I think one of the biggest problems is the misunderstandings highlighted in your own post. Honor killings, Izzat, whatever you want to call them transcend religions and have their basis in tribal & cultural history, rather being a "Muslim" issue. http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2012/honour-crimes/ http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-crimewave-that-shames-the-world-2072201.html

Round my uncles and we're talking about the Central Baths as he took part in the opening gala in 1962 (water polo). We are trying to work out when it closed. Found out The Quays opened in 1999, but can't find when the 16ft 6 close? Also did Central baths have a refurb in 80s (flumes put in???) or was there anew pool in between Central Baths and The Quays??

Has he been paid all the money he was owed first time around?? Or is he still,on their list of football creditors??

Whilst I accept retweeting or re-posting of articles does not imply approval, but I'm not sure posting of that article and it's ludicrous viewpoint is worthy of even this noddy forum. I just struggle to comprehend the hypocrisy, sanctimony and sensational claims from the TPA on this one. I'm all up for ensuring taxpayers money is spent as efficiently and effectively as possible and that taxes are kept as low as possible, but the TPA really show their true colours here with their right wing gutter press diatribe.

Of all the anti union rants, I have to say the TPA "revelation" that 36 Union leaders earn more than £100k has to be the weakest and most hypocritical one out there. I've worked at a number of medium and large companies and at some there were more than 36 earning that in one company!! Feck me, without getting too Berty Big Balls, my last P60 before going in to teaching in 2003 was approaching that figure. The average bonus at Barclays Capital was about the same. When you consider they represent/work for hundreds of thousands of members with income in the millions (my Union leader earns £104k, represents 300,000 professionals and has an annual budget of £40m) and they regular deal with the top mandarins/echelons of Government, then quite rapidly the TPAs argument unravels. Its almost "Socialist" in terms of jealousy of people earning large sums. Sensational story me up I'm surprised you used it in an argument Trousers.