Foxy

Hence a suggestion of player-coach rather than going straight off the deep end into management. A kind of Killer to your Mark Wotte if you like. Mind you I can do the swearing already, although mostly under my breath - which I guess is what comes of marriage

Though how Saints ever got onto Sensible Soccor is in itself a minor mystery. Going back to the earlier suggestion, I would be utterly up for an annual event, shoudl there still be a club to arrange it with. Perhaps with my ageing limbs I should be asking Nick if there's any chance of moving to player-coach with a view to following in his footsteps in a few years time?

Bit more than some of those XL boys shorts, I'd say

Great evening. Thanks to everyone.

He's just wanting to get there early for a good seat at the forum match

This is why we awayers will win. I avoided these faddy insect-based food regimes and went for a sensible bacon butty for brekkie.

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Any suggestions for an official away team post match pub, or are we just gonna try to get round all of them?

C'mon you flinty coloured lot! Forecast from met office shows a stiff breeze and maybe some light rain. Shoudl slicken the pitch up nicely for our silky style. We're gonna walk it

It's the big day! Laughably I am trying to 'work from home' until around lunchtime, but have already laid various kit items out and am already struggling with the temptation to take a break to give the blades a bit of a shine (mouldies looking passable so that's OK)

Beers afterwards too, so try not to drive there!

Mrs F will be bringing the Teeny Terror plus some friends - dunno if she can bring the hangers on into the WAGs section? Anyhow, I am more than up for post-match beer - so much so that I have booked into a hotel in anticipationof missing the last train home

That'd work from the club's perspective. A buy and leaseback arrangement would recapitalise and get a lot of the debt off the books. So long as they didn't **** the entire windfall up the wall in the sailor on shoreleave manner normal for football clubs and just leave themselves with a higher cost for a ground than they currently have with the bond. Question comes back to whether this could be done within the budgetary constraints of the council and Uni.

Bit of a populist gibe, fairly typical Winter. Not sure the council could reasonably be asked to take a speculative punt on something as risky as a stuggling, debt laden football club. The idea is nice but I fear that local govt would be taking on more risk than an individual or private company as they would probably not have the option of using bankruptcy or admin to hide behind should it all go pear shaped. Nice idea but think there wasn't too much logic behind it that his colleagues on the Torygraph political or business pages would agree with. And as for the idea of Lawrie as a kind of conduit between board and sporting sides. Hmm, I seem to remember that he was one of those who did so well out of the reverse takeover. Nuff said.

Suspect that messy may have been a description rather than a comparison. Unless the comparison included the word 'unlike'

Got my shorts. XL and make me look like Stanely Matthews. Think some of the skinny, youthful types might have to share a pair, three-legged race style

Mike Ashley? Eeek Or a closer association; Bobby Goalpost, Sir Charles Substitute, Half-Time O'Higgins?

Ah, but I have an excuse - the comment was addressed to the wider group, your Gaffership. Glamour-wise it looks like I will be sharing my hotel room with two females average age 19 so the groupies will have to go away disappointed.

On the off the field side have booked myself a hotel to save on having to be at the mercies of the last train home or having to invite Mrs F to do some driving (last time I got over-excited and a bit late back it wound up costing me about £90 for a cab after I missed the last train and didn't like the idea of facing the wrath of her in charge after an unauthorised night away

OK boss. As (if only by birthday) one of the senior players some confirmation and feedbaCK on UR points a) will be indoors at 9, between bar and pool table b) it's warm today fluid levels should surely be maintained c) ALready live with two women, average age about 18, no energy left for more d) see previous point, barely get 5 mins peace in smallest room to peruse the paper e) Took the Foxmobile for a 5 mile spin down to Tescos already today f) passed wind just now and dribbling taken care of by Fox junior g) I'd bl**dy well shoot my in-laws given the chance, have you just given me license to do so? h) I'm having a barbeque later, I will be eating carefully as it's a b*gger when the ketchup squits out of your hot dog.

Fair chance he was someone owed money by SLH rather than a buyer. Hopefully it was Jimbo the billionaire though

You really need to get out a bit more often Steve

Yeah, the protest will be just as effective

Yep, that's a god price. I'd be up for it

Can't wait for Saturday (although on reflection perhaps I am now convinced we will be crashing to earth sometime soon). Oh, fork it, happy, happy day