TopGun

Yeah, where is St George? His crackpot views make my days more interesting!

Is it thought that all the engines being V8 and the same CC use the same fuel loads or are some more efficient than others?

Who makes the decisions about fuel load in qualifying? I would've thought that less fuel is a big advantage as you still get 20 laps or so from the front to build a cushion before the first pit stop.

Exactly.

KK?

According to Paul Wotton. Who can he mean? http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=10763

Not bad.

Where is Scooby?

What a shocker. Nothing new there then.

Totally agree.

Seems to me that the goths/emos at least have a few brains. Better than the shell suited grade 1 haircuts that hang about on street corners having left school with no quals.

Even for St George who claims we vote muppets in as UK leaders I think it's quite obvious that the US voters are going to elect Obama. The opinion polls now are are going to be hard to reverse. So St George, that'll leave you with muppets in charge of both the US and UK. And both elected. How about that?

I can never remember whether WSS or Weston Saint runs a pub. If it is WSS, then I think he has big sideburns, big rosy cheeks and a piece of straw in his mouth!

3. And two of them were lucky guesses.

I think Stevo may be referring to times when having a chug in your own (and parent's) house as a 16 year old when mums have the unfailing ability to march into your private domain at a climatic moment without knocking on the door with some silly instruction like "get your lazy arse out of bed"! Cue frenzied duvet cover up of porn mag and sleep pretence.

The guy doesn't think through his arguments but I wouldn't murder the thick, thick tounged rich arsehole. Paul Daniels and most other "magicians" are within my firing line though.

Meh! Ponty hasn't hit his big red infraction button for so long he's feeling lost!

No praw

Fair enough. I should have started my own thread possibly. I thought the topics were close enough to comment on your thread.

Fine. I find your view on the subject disagreeable too but I won't resort to a spat. It may be dull and annoying for you and many others. I don't argue with that. Why post a view like yours without expecting others to comment on the seriousness of it?

Well, read the ****ing Daily Star then, watch GMTV and post on the Muppet Show if you want to ignore realities that affect us all!

Saints are one of the few footballs clubs that are still quoted on the stock exchange and I feel this is currently a visible disadvantage because everyone from the likes of Paul Allen to us individual supporters can see the financial situation. However, I have a feeling that in the future such transparency may start to work in our favour. We have no idea about the finances of most of the privately owned clubs in the CCC but I think it would be fair to say most of them (apart from QPR etc) are probably as ropey as ours and possibly more so in very many cases. The cause of this of course are the ridiculously large and bank leveraged sums of cash that football clubs have been paying to players and agents in a collective game of financial suicide to stave off short term relegation issues. I have a feeling that our current pain and cost cutting exercises may put us in good stead with our opposition clubs in the not to far future when their perilous situations unwind courtesy of the credit crunch and draw in of bank lending. Just hope we can stay up for as long as it takes for the other clubs to unravel!

It's a hard one to call. Perhaps 13.10.08 will become a date as well known as 9/11. Gordon Brown is looking strong for the decisive action he has taken to inject liquidity back into UK banks at least but that comes at part nationalisation which will likely hit our income tax levels for the next few years at least. No matter whether Labour ot Tories in power. Conversly it could be argued that a return to more cautious but still profitable banking may be good for the taxpayer in the long run as both shareholders and customers of UK banks. But it could also be argued that Gordon Brown was happy to watch excessive banking profits flourish to ridiculous levels when he was chancellor for 10 years. And many of those profits have left the banking system into the hands of greedy senior execs on the watch at the time. Personally I don't think there was an alternative to the cash injection and part nationalisations and I do hope it means that the banking system excesses are done with forever. Whether the actions taken are extreme enough to halt a true global crash is debatable too as the banks and governments still don't know the health of many of the industries and companies that have been lent money over the last 20 years. Laissez-faire economics is dead for at least a decade though and probably more. The swinging pendulum will continue to knock bookends from the shelf at both ends for a while yet.

On this point I agree.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-English-football-stadia-by-capacity We have the 18th biggest stadium in England and the third biggest in the CCC after the two Sheffield clubs.