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I like the idea of having some great minds around the BOARDROOM table. We have achieved a hell of a lot in a short space of time doing things the Southampton Way. Clearly we already have people in the club who "Think outside the box" (The hotel room team for eg). I know we joked about it but even in the worst days of Rupert & Wilde et al they did not actually PICK the team or dictate tactics. The UK Cycling team showed what a REAL scientific approach can bring, look in every direction for an extra 1%. It certainly worked and others are now playing catch-up. In football our great idea has been praised all season, and others are now looking to copy us (Poyet & Sherwood's "quotes" of late). So the way to stagnate is to keep the Flat Cap on and say everything is fine because it worked last month. A Motivator? Wow, just imagine if the ONLY thing he does while here is give the team around the 1st team the tools to make JRod BELIEVE he IS the best striker in the PL. (He could be he just doesn't believe it himself yet) As a Board of Directors and Advisors I like it. Being available on request to HELP the Football side, I like it. Being all arrogant and Simon Clifford and IMPOSING their ideas on the playing side? No farking way, and I cannot see Les Reed or anyone below him standing for that. Yeah. Promising and sounds like we are still on a Journey. The Project continues. Brilliant. Now go sign a farking CB, keeper & Left Back and we'll believe

Luke Shaw ‏@LukeShaw3 8m “@TekkaBooSon: Luke Shaw 'can't confirm' he is signing for Chelsea - pic.twitter.com/EhE3BoPPAr” nice try pic.twitter.com/955x34wlp0

I was once kinda flustered while at the European Ladies Tour End of Season Awards party. One of the Caddies (who had probably had 6 Jaegerbombs too many) came up with the interesting statistic that approx 65% of the Girls on the tour were in fact "batting for the other side" So in answer to your question - Yes you are right. Just not the way round you first imagined. I have no idea about how accurate my ITK source was but I DO know the Dance floor was VERY unusually busy and boneresque when they got onto the slow dance stuff

Well, when it comes to the end of year awards, nice to see that Bazza has got his most lucid & sensible post out there nice and early. Oh and don't worry chaps, Tiger's in town next week.

Does this mean I won't be spending the next month reading TSW and sipping Chardonnay?

Dunno Richmond. That's the fun. NC= Anti FPP regs what will new CEO say. Stagnate? maybe. New 5 year plan? Possibly. Barca quality kids? Could do an Everton.

You're from Skatesmuff When...... (yeah OK I changed it from redneck but hey) 1. You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. 2.. The value of your motor goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it. 3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws. 4. You think a woman who is out of your league bowls on a different night.. 5. You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean. 6. Someone in your family died right after saying 'Hey, guys, watch this'. 7. You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader. 8. Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan. 9. Your junior prom offered day care. 10. You think the last words of the Star-Spangled Banner are 'Gentlemen, start your engines'. 11. You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off its wheels. 12. The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than your spouse. 13. You have to go outside to get something from the fridge. 14. One of your kids was born on a pool table. 15. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. 16. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it. 17. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.

Fictional author Colin Grey recounting his love encounters at the bottom of the garden. Here are some extracts... I lay back exhausted, gazing happily out of the shed window. Despite my concerns about my inexperience, my rhubarb had come up a treat. She stood before me, trembling and naked in my shed. "I'm yours for the night," she gasped, "You can do whatever you want with me." So I took her to McDonalds. We stood alone on the idyllic white beach. She shed her clothes. I shed my inhibitions. At that moment I knew it would always be about sheds. We tried various positions - round the back, on the side, up against a wall... but in the end we came to the conclusion the bottom of the garden was the only place for a good shed. She knelt before me on the shed floor and tugged gently at first, then harder until finally it came. I moaned with pleasure. Now for the other boot. Ever since she read THAT book, I've had to buy all kinds of ropes, chains and shackles. She still manages to get into the shed, though. "Put on this rubber suit and mask," I instructed, calmly. "Mmmm, kinky!" she purred. "Yes," I said, "You can't be too careful with all that asbestos in the shed roof." "I'm a very naughty girl," she said, biting her lip. 'I need to be punished.' So I invited my mum to stay for the weekend. "Harder!" she cried, gripping the workbench tightly. "Harder!" "Okay," I said. "What's the gross national product of Nicaragua?" "Are you sure you can take the pain?" she demanded, brandishing stilettos. "I think so," I gulped. Here we go, then," she said, and showed me the receipt. "Hurt me!" she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over my workbench. "Very well," I replied. "You've got fat ankles and no dress sense." "Are you sure you want this?" I asked. "When I'm done, you won't be able to sit down for weeks." She nodded. "Okay," I said, putting the three-piece suite on eBay. "Punish me!" she cried. "Make me suffer like only a real man can!" "Very well," I replied, leaving the toilet seat up. My body writhed and quivered from the pain. I had learned my next lesson. Never again would I leave a live upturned plug on the shed floor.

Just a reminder to keep an eye out for Helix (and Almost Human) 2nd episode of Helix started to flesh out the story and is starting to get quite claustrophobic and (almost) scary. Not sure yet whether it could become a Walking Dead with Intelligent "Superhuman" Zombies or just a Bio Med is out of control type warning show. Almost Human is really starting to flow now, the template enables the writers to come up with totally off the wall "Crimes". Last week was "Hi-Tech necklacing" broadcast on the Dark Net (Bad Internet) This week was about a "Guided Bullet" - software hacks CCTV, Mobile, GPS data, you fire a bullet and it flies round corners and up stairs etc until it finds the victim. Potty but feasible stuff. It is developing into good Saturday evening fun, unusually putting normal Sci Fi Weird idea technology into the hands of "standard Cop Series" Baddies and the banter between the Cop (Karl Urban) and his "Nutter" robot Dorian is enjoyable. Has a "something bad going on in the background" story running through it as well, "Bar Coded Baddies" pop up from time to time. It ain't Dr Who but it has hit a 8/10 from us now (even without the Sex-Bots who still get mentions!) and is top of our "Don't Miss" TV shows at the moment.

The coming days will show that maybe the opposite was true. NC resigned because KL did NOT want to sell the club. Not beyond the realms of possibility that NC had lined up Jianlin at a good price & KL said no I want to keep it (or no I have a different idea) Whatever the case there should be enough to keep this place speculating for a week or two no doubt

You mean they are trying to flush somebody else out? There is another interested party? I mean IF she wants to sell the club how the hell does she expect anyone to KNOW it is for sale if she doesn't "mention it" OK I understand Keith Harris is past his sell by date these days, but not ONE Journo, in Europe has been able to definitively state "Sources Indicate SFC is for sale"

But it seems to have been the case from day one that KL has wanted a "Premium" price for the club. Otherwise we'd have been bought by muppets by now. It may well now be WORTH 120mil. But let's face it she doesn't need the money so can afford to sit on the asset. As a negotiating tool the longer it is left the more risk to an interested party that some assets would be sold but she would STILL want the same price.

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Two Mexican detectives were investigating the murder of Juan Gonzalez. 'How was he killed?' asked one detective. 'With a golf gun,' the other detective replied. 'A golf gun! What is a golf gun?' 'I don't know. But it sure made a hole in Juan

Two Reasons Why It's So Hard To Solve A Murder in Poorsmuff: 1. The DNA all matches. 2. There are no dental records.

GS should that's f'sure

MLG - FFS get a room with CBF Perhaps you could try Winchester both of you?

All together now......... SOURCE? Thanks Griffo, we can get this back on tract now and away from the CBF is the only poster ever right all the time discussion

Yep As we learnt back in the days of yacht watch. We learn more as we wait and see...........

Pick a conspiracy theory then it fits. MP knows what NC is up to so for Adam to tweet that all he had to do was "What's all this about Sunseeker/Jianlin?" to any of the MP's team. They roll around on the floor laughing - Tweet sent KL has advisors at the club working Adam asks one of them. They ROFL Adam calls up a mate in Poole and asks what he has heard from his mate who knows the taxi driver. He ROFL's He bumps into Sibley - He ROFL's In just about ANY scenario or conspiracy you can see how any reaction would give enough of a clue to enable a tweet to be sent. In fact the ONLY conspiracy that is so off the wall as to be hysterical is Big Adam giving NC a call on a Sunday morning

Thanks Bear. I just thought, seeing as he is such a big TMS expert on the subject, that there might have been a pick of the Tokes in amongst it all. I've never done any research into that sort of thing in a Muslim society, as they kinda have different rules and always manage to kida do things back to front or not quite how it is in Blighty. Suppose they would be into Camelling or something.

Stealing pap's Lounge log in for a moment, IF Adam is correct, then that is mighty fast to locate, ask for resume's, conduct interviews and come to a deal all since Wednesday. Possible of course as Windows says, but opens another door for discussion. Maybe she has been looking for longer?

No never seen anyone mention that name at least twice in any posts since last week cannot be true That has to be a crock of Schitz mate

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport 9m #saintsfc could announce appointment of new chief executive as early as tomorrow

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport 6m #saintsfc could announce appointment of new chief executive as early as tomorrow