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Very jealous Hutch, we were down in George November this year - Christmas in the cold.

Reading to London is £4.2k per year for me at present, 6% will add another £200 to this. Combined with that the train I take recently was 'awarded' the title of most congested in Europe.

Sounds like a good home support in tonight. OWTS coming across the stream loud and clear.

Just hoping David James doesn't put in the same level of performance he did two seasons ago.

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Team: Davis©. Richardson, Martin, Hooiveld, Fox. De Ridder, Cork, Schneiderlin, Lallana. Guly, Lambert Subs: Bialkowski, Harding, Hammond, Connolly and Holmes. Fonte misses out with Toe injury, congratulations to AnthemsNotBangers who wins the ITK award this week by calling Jose's absence.

Please save this for April 1st

Unless it is 2nd

2012 predictions for our fishy friends? I am getting in early with the shock revelation that Kanu was granted a final salary pension when he struck his deal with Storrie, the bad news for the Skates is that he is set to start claiming it in March having reached the official UK retirement age.

I do agree Crazy Diamond that the BBC have done a much better job than the road crash that was ITV's 'The Championship'. I also believe that the show will be a loss. That said I think if the rights drop as a result a Free to Air broadcaster will pick it up and hopefully do a good job.

Matt Phillips for Puncheon + Cash was the one on the Football Rumours site that intrested me. Holloway rated Puncheon and we coverted Phillips before. To that end if Puncehon could moderate, we could forgive and his return not affect the team morale then he would be a good 'signing' for us.

If we match our own form from the first half, we will likely be.

I am no expert but the wireless thermostat is usually a paired unit. You have a sender unit that's signal is received by a base unit. When the temperature in the room where the sender unit is below the level you have set the sender notifies base unit. This base unit produces the 'call for heat', effectively switiching the boiler on (assuming the boiler is on constant or in a required time period).

There are quite a few Saffer shops in London and surrounding counties. The one I use is in Maidenhead. Presuming that is the South African Castle Lager you mean.

From memory the Italian Football deal coincided with Gazza's move to Lazio. The rights would have appeared good value for what at the time was seen as the #1 league in the world. The Football League has a small albeit hardcore following, but because of competition against the media machine that is the EPL and no market for the FL internationally it's best hope is to be carried at a 'fair' rate by Sky or ESPN. To bring it back to the thread, I believe the BBC (by winning the rights) defacto paid over the odds.

As long as we don't match their financial results I think we will be ok.

If the show was such a ratings winner (commecial success) why did one of ITV, C4 or Five not pick up the rights? That's right folks, it wasn't worth what the BBC paid for it.

I am sure I read the West Ham were in the hock for £80m. Their current wage bill should be covered by their good attendances and merchandising + £16m parachute. Funding a £80m debt won't be cheap in the current climate so I would imagine that although Sam can bring players in he will have to move others on. However, this is football so all financial and commercial logic goes out of the window!

I think Fonte is a clever defender who reads the game very well. In League One he looked a class above, in the Championship he has had a few wobbles in the few games I have seen. That said the partnership with Hooiveld has grown in strength game by game.

Crab Lungs "Dear Bucket Rattlers" from memory.

Cracking news. Saints retain key talent of Lambert, Lallana, Fonte, Hooiveld, Schneiderlin and Cork. Add in the decent length deals for Chaplow, Hammond, Harding and Barnard and we have a really stable squad for next 2-3 years.

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He will say that he has always been a big fan of our at the first press call.

Please keep it civil. I've removed a few posts that were the usual inter-poster bickering that added nothing to the thread.

Rickie had been busy!