Saint Without a Halo

I am not disagreeing that on the balance of probability and the facts available to us at present it looks like Saints are in the wrong in this particular case! What I am saying is you then cannot make the giant leap the Journo makes by extrapolating this assumption and intimating and inferring there is somehow a club policy to delay payments to local businesses in general when in fact the club has this year brought a lot of new business into the local community as a result of promotion and the Sky money!

What ever happened in adjudication and the later case we do not have the full facts for and whether or not Saints were wrong or right in this one case and whether payments were held back on purpose or in error cannot be extrapolated into the conclusion that the Journo is intimating i.e that they have a policy of withholdong payments into local businesses in general! of more interest is how many bills have saints paid into the local community every month and what percentage of them do these bills constitute? and therefore can any sensible conclusion be drawn from this one isolated case at all?

Of course the court would find for the plaintiff if the other side offered no defence! As I said they may have decided that defending the case was more cost and bother than any benefit and just given in! Doesn't mean they had no case to defend. The point i am making is the journalist is not in possession of the facts and is making out that this is serial behaviour that is hurting the local community! He needs far more evidence to reach such a conclusion and as I pointed out this bill is probably a drop in the ocean to what the club pays out to local businesses on a monthly basis.

Just how how many bills do saints pay every month to local businesses? based on the annual turnover of the club there must be a lot of large bills on a regular basis. Does anyone really know why this one particular one wasnt paid! Statistically speaking, to draw any logical conclusion from this one case is not possible, particulalry given the complete absence of facts. If any one of us receive a lower than expected quality of service might we not hold payment back? and if we did! does that make us serial non or late payers? Just because the court case wasnt contested doesnt necessairly meant the club didnt have a a legitamate grievance in the first place. For example they may well have decided the cost of defending the case exceeded any likely benefit. (just as plausible an argument) Also, I would hazard an educated guess, that since promotion the club is plowing back far more money into the local community than it ever did in league 1.( most of that coming from outside the local community from Sky TV and commercial benefits and so Saints are now a net benefactor in the region!)! Where is the more positive story covering this angle? This is lazy journalism drawing conclusions based on minimum fact and maximum conjecture! no more no less! When Saints stop paying the majority of their bills month on month like Pompey, is when I for one will begin worrying, not before!

sure you got these two the right way around?

Punch cork and Gaston were superb

Yoshi good attempt saved!

Puncheon has been great so far just needs another goal! to cap it off!

We give away the ball by Yoshi fortubnately Abramovic wasnt playing!

Puncheon has had so many damn shots

Fox for Shaw? Why?

Better by Punch but wide

Punch misses a sitter

Gaston off ?

Davis coming on? WTF

About time a returning player in our side scores too!

Yay taters have said our centrehalves are doing really well ! first time thats been said this season! Piunch you beauty!

cork has added some good midfield balance Davis never had!

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One outstanding bill for 60k against which a court has found for the contractor following what may or may not have been a dispute regarding specifications/quality. One Swallow dosent make a summer! what is our annual turnover in terms of spend? I would wager that 60k is a drop in the ocean compared to bills we have and are paying monthly! Hardly Pompey is it?

Particulalry as he now looks the most likely player to keep us and also given that he is our most valuable asset in terms of potential sell on! yes looks pretty stupid!

As opposed to out of them?

Errr Celtic seemed to do well against Barca and we struggle against the likes of Westbrom and the Hammers also Boruc was Polands number 1 so a bit unfair to put him down on the basis of the SPL although I am in the camp of giving Gazza a chance as I think he has potential!

I believe it is normal for contracts to state that at least 15 mins must be played to be eligible for win or draw bonuses! Maybe thats where this rumour comes from! A big saving in paying out those bobussu so far this season for all involved no matter how many minutes they play!

Yes football is a team game and as a team we certainly ****ed up that brief passage of play. However overall we played well and that at least bodes well going forward!