Ken Tone

And if instead of logging in, I try to access the saintsweb web site as such rather than go straight to the forum, it tells me too large to download. K.

On blackberry, log in screen comes up as if the name and password were all one line. Can type in user name but as soon as I attempt password it jumps back to my bookmarks folder. Still getting the time delay on typing this too btw. Nothing appears on screen for a good 30 secs. Very unnerving. K.

Can't now log in on my blackberry. Anyone got a solution? Also on my pc, when typing in this quick reply box, there is a 30 second or so time delay between my typing and the letters apppearing on the page. K.

How about sending back to own clubs all those players you had on loan but couldn't afford to pay? How about offering to cancel contracts of highly paid players thus enabling them to find other clubs on a free transfer? AA could have done that weeks ago during the season, thus saving money that the creditors could have had.

As far as I can gather it's a "tradition" that only developed in the late 1990's and really took off even more recently, so it's hardly a long-standing culutural issue and hardly colonialist to complain about it when they want to stage a world event. These are plastic 'trumpets', not some ancient traditional local instrument. If you want to put on an international event you have to decide what compromises you are or are not prepared to make to attract international money. If they want to make it really unattractive for just about every other country in the world to watch their event, then fair enough, that's up to them! Their sponsors and advertisers may have a view though. K.

I tell you what. Why don't the broadcasters digitally cut out the bloody racket from these oversized kazoos so we can actually hear anything else? It must be possible with modern technology. Then those who do like them can simply set up 3 or 4 alarm clocks to go off continuously in their living room next to the telly, to get the "authentic south african atmosphere". I normally watch all the world cup games I can without missing work. This time, after the first couple of games, I've stopped watching because of the bloody buzzing noise and consequent complete lack of atmosphere. You can't even tell which side the crowd is supporting! Expect I'll still turn on for the England games, but if ITV keep showing slow motion relays of Capello gesticulating while missing actual football, even that is in doubt. K.

Just as long as it's not blue and yellow, ie a yellow sash on a blue shirt/short. K.

Btw, if you hold the cursor over the picture on the OS, the name 'Norman' comes up for all players. Obviously a hint to our next signing? "Paul is dead bless him" (obscure cultural reference for oldies about conspiracy hint theories) It's been a long week K.

Lol. That explains the black socks then K.

Shirt in itself is ok but not with white shorts. Looks like school PE kit, as naff as the current England kit. With black shorts it would have been much better IMO. Still, shirt will look ok over a beer belly with jeans I suppose ;-) K.

Somebody tell me what day the first game is please. You'd think it would be easy to find on the 'net but no. K.

Renew now, then go on holiday later in the year. Overall you'll spend no more than you would have done with the installments --just the other way round to previous years. This has been really badly handled by the club. No excuse for such short notice. Still no actual formal announcment about the apparent decision not to move the way fans ..which would have affected whether I renewed in same seats or moved. K.

Well things are going better. He's not in jail and apparently he is still getting paid !!! K.

I even went to the lengths of looking at lawyers' and insolvency experts' web sites, only to find a comment that the FL insolvency policy is notoriously hard to find. What possible excuse can they have for keeping this policy secret? If even the main regulator doesn't act in an open manner, how can anyone have any faith that any football club will act with probity? Seems to me that anyone who trades with a football club is taking a bigger risk than the banks did with all those toxic mortgages for Billy-Bob and Chuck and their mates. K.

Brian: “You have to be different!” The Crowd: “Yes, we are all different!” Small lonely voice: “I'm not!” Bit like being a saints fan surrounded by plastics K.

If anyone is really short of things to do , here is the Administrators report for the creditors meeting last month http://www.uhy-uk.com/media/news/PFC%20-%20Report%20to%20creditors%20Adobe%207.pdf Some gob-smacking amounts owed to agents in particular K.

Well having now skim-read the league rules I can nothing in there that would lead to Pompey having another points deduction next year reagardless of admin, cva or not. The only reason would be another offence, such as not payiong what is due to another club. There is perhaps a possibility that they will default on the full payments due to other clubs as and when they come out of administration. Or if they stay in admin there may well be further payments due that they default on. It looks to me that Bournemouth, Rotherham etc were hit because new companies were formed and applied to be admitted in place of the original ones. So those rules read to me I'd say that pompey fans can be reasonably confident of no extra points deduction next season unless the club officially folds (because no CVA) and re-forms after it becomes a FL club. That probsably explains why we have no clear agreement on any deadline in terms of administration or a CVA .. there isn't one! But the whole thing is clouded. Typical football lack of clarity. No wonder there is so much money wasted on dubious deals etc. K.

Or do you mean the Southampton People's Liberation Front? (Someone had to say it. All these years and Monty Python still lives on) K.

We seem to keep getting contradictory messages about the date for Pompey to avoid a FL points deduction. Does anyone have the definitive correct answer to the question, when do they have to come out of administration and/or have a CVA in place to avoid a further deduction? Or is it that actually there is no definitive answer because the league have some discretion over this rather than a hard and fast rule? Could they start the season still in admin with no points deducted? K.

Quite Just about everything he's done seem to me to be ignoring that formal duty he has as admnistrator to get the best deal for the creditors. I just can't understand why he didn't send back to their home clubs all loan players the day he arrived , why he didnt sell anyone he could when he got permission to do so and indeed why he hasn't done deals with others he can't sell, just to release them for free to avoid their wages. Now he's appointed a new chief exec, offered new contracts to players and even to poor old Linvoy Primus -- with whose mony? -- the creditors' money in effect. Every penny he spends now leaves less for the creditors. Does no one regulate administrators? K.

The difference is that last July we had just been taken over, there was a wave of relief and even euphoria at our mere existence... and everyone knew we had a new team in charge and that much had to be set up from scratch. I simply cannot understand why we are not selling STs yet. It is just plain bad sales technique not to capitalise on the goodwill that was there at the end of the season following Wembley and the late good run of results. Goodwill fades over time. Sad saints-addicted gits like me will buy a ticket anyway, but others waver and some will not now bother to get a full ST, relying on buying tickets game by game .. and some of them will not attend every game. K.

No idea if this has any truth behind it but I notice that below the Murty article in the Echo someone has commented as below..... K. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- legod7, totton says... 3:21pm Fri 21 May 10 I e-mailed the ticket office last week about season tickets. Just had a reply "An announcement is coming out on Monday. Season tickets on sale from Tuesday"

+1 k.

Of course a few years back Swiss bankers were commonly referred to as the Gnomes of Zurich. --and now these are being publicised with the old kit? Say no more. I sense a conspiracy. ;-) K.

Well as Uncle Dave Merrington would say, 'in all fairness' that's a pretty impressive array of vacuum cleaners. In fact one of them may even be a carpet shampoo machine. I wonder how many CCC clubs or even premiership clubs could match it? I think you should all be ashamed of taking the **** like this. It seems to me that this is clear evidence that oldham are well-placed to develop as a club for the future. Maybe we should email their fans saying so? K. (Is there an icon for sarcastic?)