dubai_phil

On the subject of the US version. (it is on here on a Sunday night - day after UK version (which is about 8 months behind UK) It has 3 Yanks on it. They are soooooooo annoying I'd rather watch poopey on TV than listen to them. However in their defence, they did an expedition across the Mojave desert to Vegas in beaten up old 4x4's and yes the driving scenes were as funny as f\/ck, another of their downsides is that they are also somewhat anal in their love of Redneck Pick Up Trucks. Oh and Verbal? yes it truly is that bad. TBF the movie channels have improved - we get 3 ppv & 1 now in 3D, and about 7 movie subscription channels. But the light entertainment? Apart from Top Gear the highlight this winter has been X Factor USA - it REALLY is that bad It has taken this place 19 years to reach THIS level of TV. Trust me when I first came here MOTD was on 10 days late and on Pakistani TV. On the upside, the TV stations in Oman do show the very latest movies - always hand held cameras in cinemas. It's sort of one of the reasons we have to play golf or drink Bullfrogs, or more usually, raid HMV/Virgin for every sale DVD they have each time we are back

You guys have NO idea. Clarkson and co are without a doubt THE best thing on our TV screens over here. Our Satellite provider picks up a random selection of US shows and maybe once in a blue moon actually starts from Series 1 episode 1. One channel just airs varying versions of Letterman The Tonight Show Ellen de Generes & that bloke with the big chin all day long. BBC Entertainment gives us Doctors and occassional random Holby City episodes and 5 year old Doctor Who. Don't like it? Well, you lot have a magic thing called a remote control so go watch something highbrow, nobody is forcing you to notice that Hammond couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, nobody forces you to watch such clearly scripted drivel... It makes money. It entertains millions around the planet. I laugh more at it in one episode than I have ever managed in Something about Jim and all that other US Sitcom garbage we get saddled with the other 6 nights a week

Last year should have been their fallow year but the suppliers told them Portaloos would be a problem this year (and security guards) so they switched fallow years. Interetsingly the company that build some of the stages are also involved in the Olympics and wouldn't have had enough equipment to build both (as they found out last June)

Still not getting hung up on "linked commercial entity" as the only area where a points deduction could apply. The small print in the rules mentions unfair competitive advantage. That is likely to be the issue. Consider - any new owner coming in has to cover the CVA & any secured creditors (latter from Parachute payments no doubt) Why should they add in the 10.8 mil to CSI? Chinny is their main creditor, he won't care about that, only the Lithuanians may want that money back. So the most likely scenario is that a new buyer prepares to take on the club and that 10.8 gets written off. Now THAT is where other nPc clubs will start to have an issue, by their own admission, poopey used that money to improve their squad (c'mon, nobody is gonna believe they spent 10,8mil on the dripping taps & hot water) so UNLESS the new onwers pay that back, they get a points deduction for unfairly taking 10,8mil of money and not paying it back. THAT would then give leave to a nice legal battle - like what we had (yeah right)

Holy Krap, that explains EVERYTHING Alps is not some fat git sitting in Austria. It's my scouse supporting ex-wife Nailed her down to a T with those descriptions Should have seen it LONG ago - NOTHING is ever good enough....

My Daughter got something to do with Horses, she was well happy. My mate down here owns a company doing stadium erection work (yeah lots of jokes - fastest erections in the business - once up stays up) Anyway he's building the Beach Volleyball stadium.... Even then I couldn't be bothered. Wanna look at chick's bums? meh Bangkok & The Dolls House is cheaper to fly to.... Which is another way of saying. Good luck & hope you enjoy to everyone going, but it ain't my thing, thanks to our krap satellite providers down here ain't seen and Olypmics since before I landed here in '93, only snippets on Sky News. The value will be what it does for London (& other locations) on the International stage. All those ME tourists heading down for a week in Portland after it all finishes......

AP's last summer

Look. Alps has made good and valid points about new signings - specially our last summer in L1 when things were clearly wrong. Also he is entitled to say he is hacked off about something in a match thread. BUT, and this is the key. It is a MATCH THREAD, it is NOT the time to start going off and adding comments about stability in the club, our transfer strategy OR the thoughts and opinions of ANY other poster. The match threads are where WE can feel a part of the club we love. Having someone come in and go on and on is WRONG. It is NOT a problem if he does it in other threads. But, to be honest, if I was at SMS and had someone going on and on like him every week to my group of friends there would only be one outcome. On here we get infracted if we did that at SMS it would be different because eventually somebody would feel strongly enough to give up their freedom to watch Saints by swinging at him. In the concourse? It would not be a problem it would be a debate/discussion. But during the game? No. There are two words - feck off I am listening to and enjoying the football. Speak to Saints fans out there. Many of them followed S4E but no longer bother. Ask them why they no longer bother? and the answer is always the same.... OUR TEAM and OUR MATCHDAYS are OUR escape from the reality of daily life where every one of us has been shafted by Bankers and other morons. If he wants a simple solution? Listen to Saints player and comment ON THE GAME not his opinions of the politics of the club our his misunderstanding of how Transfer Negotiations work. Leave that to OTHER threads. It used to be funny waiting for the cliches. Now it is truly sad, and I do not think anyone in life can be that bad (apart maybe from 19C) - if they are, then God got something seriously wrong

That's him - very inconsistent. One moment RL & Messi rolled into one, the next - Ali Dia. And he's at Rangers who are even deeper in the pooh money wise than Celtic

Nope on this one I actually have an opionion, thanks to the vagaries of local Satellite systems (we have THREE of them), the SPL is the ONLY football I have at home on telly. Hooper is a useful player & I have seen him play. I have never seen Sharp Jut or Maynard on telly so have never ventured an opinion on them. I'd certainly take him over that over rated "Balkan" striker (I think) who's name escapes me at Rangers

Domestic T20 in NZ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/sportvideo/cricketvideo/9000590/Greatest-catch-ever-Bevan-Small-and-Michael-Mason-combine-to-dismiss-Brad-Wilson-in-New-Zealands-T20.html It's only 40 something seconds but wow

Repeat of last year's 4th round and finish the job this time

In other news. There ARE still people out there with more money than sense. Beyonce just had a baby daughter Delivery cost was (according to Radio SET in Poland) US$3 million

Statement of intent though. Nice. shows we are looking properly at what we need to 1) Get out of nPc and 2) Stay in the Premiership

I went to Tokyo for 36 hours for the WC with a mate. I remember 3 things from my trip Take a train from the airport into the city it's a LONG way by taxi & ******* expensive Asahi Hangover Nope don't remember anything else of any value whatsoever

There, that reads more accurately The current squad won't keep us top - correct it is too small So maybe somebody is doing something about it. Now how would we find out? Oh yeas, listen to the interview. Convinced we will not bring someone in? Then you are accusing Adkins of lying Annoyed it is taking so long? Obviously has never experienced a transfer window before, how many times have we signed 3 players in the first week of ANY window? How many times have we sold Lambert & Lallana this week to clubs who want them? How many times in the past did we lay down to have our tummy's tickled WITH THE FIRST PHONE CALL when "bigger clubs" came knocking for our players? Not one. Sure they went EVENTUALLY but it almost always took a small thing called - Negotiation.

Alps. It is NOT what you say but HOW you say it. You want to rant on the match thread about a performance that's not the issue. the REASON you get the bile and vitriol is that you ARE posting ill informed garbage - no that is not MY interpretation, it is your OWN. You REGULARLY admit yourself that you do not LISTEN to commentary. So you make sweeping generalisations based on what? Brighton that you quote was a nightmare. But we scored a goal (we're not the FIRST team to have a ball over the line NOT given - FIFA have a programme to STOP that heppening) FFS that wasn't NC's fault) and played well until the sending off. I do not think anyone on the match thread did anything EXCEPT call Lambert a **** for reacting. Thing is we did not go on and on and on and on for the next week about it. Nothing at any club is as it seems or as it appears on FM2010/1/2 and a lot of things at SMS are not right (but then the same can be said at the moment about lots of clubs whether it be the nastiness at Liverpool, the debt at Manure, hell even redkrapp is having a rant about Spurs at the moment) So you ARE post6ing ill informed drivel. Start LISTENING to the games and commenting but it is your continual "I know what is going on I don't need to listen" attitude that is turing a shared experience on match day into a continual proof that Care in the Community does not work. That is your fault, not ours, and it is nothing to do with problems at SMS or delays in signing players caused by UK Law.

there you go

Blimey - now we know why you knew so much about Lee signing. You're SDR aren't you....

lolz

Sounded like Hoskins played well and we settled down well in the last 30 mins. Anything from anyone at the game? Should he make the bench for the next League game as cover? Pleased for Bart, takes pressure off needing a keeper as well as the other positions in THIS window Strangely the one poster who has hit the nail on the head about the morons ruining match day threads has been Mero over on the poopey thread. Still looks like the embers of a flicker of a recovery were laid today. Onwards and upwards

That'll do nicely Dinner time

Ah bless Salisbury get a consolation goal

Another nipper comes on Jack Stephens