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No it is NOT! That cost would have been covered in the loans figure. 14mil to buy the club 19 mil to get it into the nPc. Remember that percentage was during our L1 promotion year, by swapping loans for equity any losses on the books will have been wiped away/covered or capitalised. That 93% LAST season is now seeing our revenue increased by around 30% PLUS 15 million quid for AOC The figure will still likely be high but it will be trending down as a percentage. NC is NOT daft, he is enjoying his job. he will have made sure that everything is running smoothly and funded, otherwise the shareholders can simply fire him

Manchester United are also up for sale. As are Liverpool. People have been trying to buy Arsenal for a while. In fact the only clubs not for sale at the moment are Chelsea & Man City. The only issue is The Price. And nobody with a brain will want to pay it for any of the above or Saints

340 to win. Yeah right. Seems The Bowlers have done well but they've had their foot on the SL throat a few times and just let things slip through their fingers. be lucky to make it last until lunchtime 2mro

To Pub, or not to Pub. That is the question. Tough game, will need to be at our best.

Just got my Southampton E-Newsletter It was headed Comedy & Curry I thought - that's not a very nice way to advertise Corporate Tickets for the skate game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_for_Honours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-questions_affair I lose track being so far away. Which cash for Government Favours are we on this time round?

We already have that. There were pages of threads about it when AP was here. How unsettling & divisive it was to have a DoF by "stealth". It was one of the reasosn cited by some posters for the "breakdown in relations between AP & NC Les Reed He's been in the job since 2010 HTH

Bale - has the bottle but no pace. Lallana - don't see it he's been out on loan but isn't worth a place in our team. And the one I have owned up to What is all the fuss about, he's rubbish, couldn't hit a barn door... (MLT pre-season friendly at Salisbury decades ago after he missed 3 one on one's with the City Keeper) There I feel better now. That's not bad in 35 years, I've been right on everything else always ever. Honest

Oh dear.... A "super Virus" can be programmed to act down to component level, the technology forms the basis of many new Asset Management & Audit/Forensics & SIEM Apps coming onto the market at the moment. You can make it do whatever you want, including disabling ANY indicators that it may have altered what the user thought the computer was doing. You can hide the code in a fake PDF reader upgrade site, hide it in a txt file or download it through facebook (HOW many times do you click an FB link?) Of course the easiest way is to drop a flash or SD drive outside somebody's car (that's how the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi got hacked.) It is really astonishing how incredibly simple it all is. And of course as Convergence increases around Home Entertainment the more devices there are. Sky did a report on hacking through mobiles (you leave your wifi on as you walk around - easy set up a fake wifi access and you can log all the entries into a phone - so if they use FB or Twitter or mail on mobile they can get in) The funky stuff is just now starting to come out. Super Viruses and piece of cake hacking of Android & Mac The world has a vested interest in pretending IT is secure with what is out there now. If that was true why are so many companies spending a fortune on PCI Compliance audits & the new rules that brings in for Merchants. It SCARES THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF ME!

Well found

Lol this has turned up all over the place - even on non Saints fans down here's FB pages

Oh that made me think and ooh look at the lyrics Which then made me look a bit more and ....Or maybe And gang - this is a classic. How appropriate

Meh nothing new there. Any of you lot have web cams attached to your 'puter? Equally a piece of cake

Yeah, it was only about 100k to meet them allegedly

probably the most accurate cliche ever said. "Control the Controllables" And we should be Champions IMHO Think what has happened of late is that up to Xmas We Hoped we would go up but Believed we would fall apart and maybe get a playoff place Now I think we Believe we will go up and Hope we don't get a play off place I think it is great that we don't have the arrogance of WHU fans this time (Or let's be fair our own arrogance as we got into the playoffs under Burley)

There is always another angle. Simple "Commercial" logic of Project Finance. What is the cost and what is the return? I know that it has been posted & published many times, but the Highest Level of PL Academy attracts funding from the PL (I recall it being 2.5mil per year) So IF it costs 10 mil to build Staplewood then that is 4 years of the money. If you then take the Academy as a "Business Unit" within the "Greater Club" it has annual running costs - rent for the extended part we have on a long lease, rates utilities, Salaries for all the staff and the Youngsters etc. It then has income - Sponsorship and of course, Player Sales ANY businessman can look at the figures for the past 7 years and see the Maths - the Business Unit makes a profit, which then benefits the greater Football Club. As a stand alone, (keeping things simplistic) you could walk into Dragons Den and get the cash investment needed to expand, let alone a Bank. (Especially IF you as CEO happened to have been a reasonably successful Banker) Same COULD hold true IF a new Stadium was to be built. The Greater Football Club owns Jacksons Farm. Currently it is next to worthless. Go through the process (using this new planning law Coalition stuff) to get permission to build the new Stadium surrounded by a Mixed Use resdiential/Commercial development, sell off that part at a profit and the stadium cost could be halved. THEN look back at the rules on "Contaminated Land" SMS was built on the Gasworks because the land was cheap and there are rules about what can be built over what timeline. Now, some 10+ years later the land SMS occupies could become very valuable for a Hotel/Waterfront complex. The profit from the sale COULD mean that a new 45,000+ seater stadium costs the club Almost nothing. BUT of course to get to that final point, money HAS to be borrowed to cover the costs of the Project. BUT that is standard Commerce. It is a huge leap of IQ concept to understand that it is NOT being borrowed to buy Ferrari's for brainless muppets

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Lol at this thread the permutations can do your head in No wonder Nige goes on about Controlling the Controllables, taking each game as it comes. Max number of dropped poits - ie draw helps us on our way. Sod the rest of the permutations, this team and us as fans have been here before, we'll do what we need to just like we did last year

OK so as my mates say (who are ST holders) EVERY WEEK Oi you fat git GET OUT THE FECKING WAY... Oi you want to leave then fecking leave... Oi Steward - get them out of here... HTH The problem is not about leaving early, it is about standing up, walking SLOWLY down the aisle while watching the game THEN hanging around the actual exit tunnel. Do one OR the Other. Oh and No, it isn't possible to "Just stand up" there are people who take KIDS in the stand - so IF the grown ups stand up the Kids see sod all. Like I said - Selfish

Meh, some people want to leave early. So what - fine. BUT IF you are going to leave early THEN FECK OFF AND GO. Don't be an ignorant **** leave your seat and then slide oh so slowly out the exit - pretending that you are leaving and yet really standing watching the game. THERE ARE STILL AROUND 200 FANS WHO CANNOT SEE THROUGH YOU and are STILL WATCHING THE GAME. Now THAT annoys the hell out of me. I sit with my mates in the Chapel & the last 10 minutes I can see sod all. They have seats in Row N near an exit I can choose to sit on my own higher up so I can watch the last 10 mins, but the WHOLE point of going back to SMS is to be there sharing the experience - WITH MATES. Want to leave early? Fine - BUGGER OFF THEN. Stewards should be much more "aware" that these people are in everyone elses way - that makes those that leave early then stands there (at least 75% of them) - Selfish Cocks

Duh Do you lot REALLY think me & Eric would have stayed down here So long without Bacon Butties, Real Ale and DM on the Innernet? Just off to have some Pate on Toast to get rid of the taste of that plate of poo C'mon Wet Sham you can do it - drop 8 points in one week, you know it makes sense

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Lightly sauted Waitrose Essential Smoked Bacon. Yeah

Rickie has something in or around the Pelvic area Too much information