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Papa AND Antonio time

Woo Morgan had a shot Corner

With the state of the British Education system that may be a tough ask, perhaqps we could just nurdle a goal in the last 5 minutes

Sounds like we have to get our act together in midfield. Managed to get away from my nervous breakdown mate & his WHU v Bolton game Accoding to Google the temperature is N/A degrees here today. Sandstorm blowing in.

There IS a God. Avram comes on the radio and we lose the feed. Well done Saintsplayer

"Adam will be taking a bit more care over reading out your texts aster the Saturday... Let's just say it's better not mentioned..." Words to the effect

OK who's sending the silly questions in for NC?

Oh and the tater's mentioned The "Mike Hunt" text again - lol

Mate from Bolton staying here for the day so spent 1st 10mins trying to find their game for him, switched on late to here Barnard's goal and catch up. Lol at the first 30 or so posts on here. :-) TBH it sounds like we've made more passed in the first 20 mins than in the whole of the Wycombe game. Meanwhile Lallana YOU MUPPET! :-)

Ah so THAT'S why he lost form

Ah so THAT'S why he lost form

All we need are two grumpy blokes as Judges, now where the heck would we find them? Perhaps we should have more of a Daily Cooks Challenge. We could set the guys a 5 minute challenge or a Beat the Budget. Meanwhile on the Ketchup debate, Kimball Ketchup. The kids take bucket loads of it back when they come here, tastes like proper ketchup, but for me, once you've had Maggi Chilli Sauce you can NEVER go back

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My Flag has already been to a JPT Cup Game this year. Unfortunately as it was so fecking cold we had it wrapped round our knees like the bunch of old farts we seem to have become. Still it's all ready for it's big weekend out and forms a useful secondary service of wrapping up the Duty Frees. Interestingly no glass allowed in the stadium. Does that mean we can take Plastic bottles into the ground? They do nice 1/2 litre plastic bottles of Vodka a DF for 2 quid....

Didn't I see somewhere earlier in the thread that Pele was up for playing at the back? Or was that me getting confused with Mars Bars & Sebastian?

It's actually quite heartening. They are the Marketing Man's Soundbites. They are what you hear when some "Lovable Rogue Actor" passes away through neglect, self induced abuse or whatever. They read as they are meant to be read - condescending "Yeah like If Only. Chester were outside the FL, Bournemouth are still just hanging on and Leeds well no one loves them and Saints well everyone tried to avoid us when Rupes was doing his political thing. The football family should have helped them tell the truth about their financial position in the Summer It should have told Storrie to carry out Due Dilligence on Al Fahim It should have told them it is more important to pay your taxes than sign more players

I read that quote as implying the impact is a lot more than on "The Brand". Now this is interesting, Factoring in Football is a way of bringing new secured funding into football. If the implication is that the Poorsmuff saga is impacting in the flow of revenue or funding systems, this is an entirely different issue from "Marketing Bullsh1t" or Branding. Even the most imbecilic fan must surely have noticed that Banks are not lending as much money as they used to to ANYONE. This strains all Football Clubs finances (remember what it did to us!). So if there are concerns about the impact on sources of finance for normal footballing business in this recession when Corporate & Sponsorship Revenues and Bank Overdrafts are being withdrawn, this is no longer about "Marketing" and The Brand. This is a really different ball game.

Rollapitches = what do they expect.

Adn the reason you chose to start a new thread rather than put it onto the Travel Arrangements thread? I assume you cleared using the forum for advertising with the admins.

For those thinking HMRC are being "Hard" on Poopey. It is the LAW that says you MUST pay taxes. Evade taxation as an individual - you go to Jail. It isn't about special cases, it's like speeding - You speed you are caught you are fined. you speed too much you lose your license. Just bear in mind that the WUO was issued in DECEMBER. It was issued in December because poopey were already a long way behind in paying Taxes - ie abiding by the Law. poopey did not set aside enough money in their Annual Operating Budget to pay wages AND taxes. They built a business plan on HOPE. We HOPE we can borrow more money. They HOPED to avoid the weight of the Law. HMRC told them they had to ay their taxes. HMRC and PCFC AGREED a payment plan, HMRC made efforts to AVOID this WUO process. PCFC decided to pay salaries instead of abiding by the Law. PCFC decided to pay Avram Grant 950,000 a year instead of using some of it to pay the taxes. PCFC decided NOT to reduce their COSTS by making staff redundant, staying in cheaper hotels, not chartering aircraft. PCFC had EVERY chance up until December to WORK with HMRC to pay their taxes. Even AFTER the WUO was issued up until the morning of the first court hearing they had EVERY opportunity to pay back some of the taxes and negotiate. They had an opportunity in January to sell players, to loan players and to reduce their costs - they made no effort until it was too late but actually ADDED players to the squad. They have no money to pay their LEGAL DUES - TAX but CHOSE to sign more players. The ONLY time they tried to negotiate was at the door of the Court Room. The Court case is not about Hardball. It is the fact that PCFC have lied about paying taxes - they made an agreement that they broke. PCFC are a Business version of Lester Piggott. A serial Speeder who ignores THE LAW. Enough of this "they are playing hardball" nonsense. PCFC have to all intents and purposes been "Taking The P1ss" since the start of this football season. That is why they will pursue this. HMRC are now themselves ANGRY that they gave PCFC time. Why? Because in that TIME, all PCFC have done is "To increase the amount they owe". HMRC sure wish they'd done this in August, and they sure as heck do not see ANY change in attitude at the club and in many ways see no change in attitude from the Administrator. No more time needed as it will just add more debt.

OK. So the new concept to not have the points added is "Because we tried very hard" Dear Mr Blatter, when I was young I tried very hard to be a decent pub team footballer. Because I tried very hard you should now send me a World Cup Winners medal as I deserve it. Now, let us look for a proper comparison shall we? Where can we find an example of a Football Based business that had a money problem? Oh yes, look, not 30 miles away from Poorsmuff. A football club that ACTUALLY reduced it's running costs by 30% in the year up to admin. A football club that did not pay a Manager 950,000 a year. A football club who had to play their Academy team as they could not afford to pay their players. Oh and a football team that despite ALL their troubles, still owed the Taxman around ONE MONTH's NI & VAT when they went bust. A football club that didn't ignore a legal threat hanging over it. A club that did the RIGHT thing for the sake of 4,000 pounds so that it did not break the law. And what happened to their "We tried very had we don't deserve a points reduction" appeal? They moaned at me for having a dig at their intellectual grasp of the situation, but dear oh Lord. Nice dig by Mack though. Think you finally cottoned on to "That which cannot be said but everyone thinks has happened" Once you start down that road the rest starts to make more sense. Welcome aboard, will be interesting to see how it all falls out when HMRC's net is landed

Although actually, the strain on the subs would be morefrom their sides at having to watch him play. Until we get confirmation that Unit 1's Physio team are available for the evening I'd be worried about Side Strains and split seams :-)

I suppose you could argue for giving him the chance to step up and shine, but the Forum Match is such a tough game,played at such pace that it places a strain mentally as well as physically on the teams. Personally I think the game would come to soon for him and I'd be worried that he wouldn't last a full 45 minutes thus putting unfair strain on one of our super subs.

Anthony Pulis is nearly ready to resume full training. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1984358,00.html Connolly not ready for Tranmere but is getting close James has had an injection

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