Fan The Flames

This is stretching it as a Saints related thread a bit.

Nothing new apart from Markus wanting him gone, but if that was the case why didn't they get rid of AP in the summer.

Collective bargaining and the 39th game are two different things and the 39th game is wrong on every level. So what if people what to retain the integrity of their own domestic sport whilst indulging in the entertainment of another countries sport that has already jumped the shark. Why don't you just talk about the subject directly instead of always trying to uncover hypocrisy.

Well it seems that the balance of fairness is already in favour of the 'big club'. It aint broke Liverpool.

Who knows what the deal was, what's your point.

The dosh is equally shared but with merit payments for whre you finish in the league, so the big clubs already get more. I expect this is the first salvo in getting bigger merit osyments.

Typical Delldaze answer, doesn't try to respond to the op just continues his quest to point out his perceived hypocrispy of his fellow Saints fans. The two things are completly different, no one is complaining about differences in spending power, its the fact a big club wants to abolish the collective bargining for TV rights so they can get more money at the expense of smaller clubs. It whether you believe that the sum of the parts is more important than the prem is as a whole.

Well thats a complement but if they are trying to imply he is just a strong big center forward that gets through the game being a nuisance to defenders, well they would be wrong he had far more to his game. Who the **** are stoke.

People talk about players right level with such certainty, when the truth is you just don't know until they have played at a higher level. Look at Lambert and if Benali was in the Championship no one would have thought he would make the step up.

Most clubs stick by the player, playing the rehabilitation card when they are really protecting the value of their asset.

What did he do again.

If you got 5 points for a Prem goal, 3 for Championship, 2 for League 1 and 1 for League 2. I would guess that Rickie would be top of a Points/£ table.

Leicester we were robbed and Cardiff we had an off day. The season wont be defined by these four games but it will be interesting to see where we are at the end.

Popped into the pub at three and bumped into a few football refugees scratching their balls.

If your last question was how times would the second team have gone up if they got 81 points. Then the answer would have been what you were looking for. But the realtlity is that the second placed team averaged more than 81 points, so if southampton are to come second then they have to beat that higher average and not just 81 points.

Take 2010/11 for example you could have been promoted on 81 points but you actually need 84 points. Its simple there is a gulf between what you might need (what you could have got away with) to what you actually need.

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Harry has done well at Spurs, he may have spent money but that is the name of the game in the top six. I don't know the stats but it would be interesting to see what his net spend is compare to the other teams around him. I bet its not that high. They looked great against Aresenal on sunday.

29 is too young to being dropping into the the non-league. Just looked at his stas on Soccerbase, not pretty reading. Only been bought once and that was by Harry at Portsmouth, figures.

But we are not the only team trying to beat third, so as everyone else is then you have to go for definatley being second. So that means being a point better than second.

So many mistakes so I wont be greedy and stick to this one. How does scoring lots of goals change the amount of points needed, is there some sort of football Duckworth Lewis formula.

I guess it depends where you are in the league, if you are above third then 1 point more than third is enough however below third and 1 point more than third may not be enough. So if its a difference between what may be enough and what is enough then plan for the higher figure.

What are the stats of the third place team going up, we nred to know because my gut feeling is its low.

When Best was coming through he was really talked about and no one really mentioned Walcott, but of course Walcott's achievements in the first team dwarfed Best's.

With an indoor arena we could start host other sports and start a sporting club, another step towards becoming the Barcelona of the North.