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Which all fits in date-wise with the Charles Sale piece in the Daily Mail of course......

Perhaps football clubs want to make it seem like they are totting up actual attendance figures rather than quoting a ticket sales figure....?

The quotes are more apt around "attendance" though as it isn't an attendance figure. It's a "number of tickets sold" figure. And, yes, I know what they say about "small things and small minds". I'm the proud owner of both....

I heard from someone 'behind the scenes' at another football club that it's for "tax reasons".....

I wish for long term prosperity over short-to-medium term mediocrity

Have I ever mentioned before how ridiculous it is that football clubs are able to claim non-attendees in their attendance figures?

So, is that a 'buy', 'sell' or 'hold' recommendation....?!

Gearing Definition (UK specific) The most common use of the term 'gearing' is to describe the level of a company's debt compared with its equity capital, and usually it is expressed as a percentage. So a company with gearing of 60 per cent has levels of debt which are 60 per cent of its equity capital. The significance of the gearing ratio is that it shows at a glance how encumbered a company is with debt. Depending on the industry, a gearing ratio of 15% would be considered prudent whilst anything over 100% would be considered risky or 'highly geared'. 'Gearing' is also used in a related sense to refer to borrowings by an investment trust which boosts the return on capital and income via additional investment. When the trust is performing well shareholders enjoy an enhanced or 'geared profit'. However if the trust performs poorly then the loss is similarly exaggerated. Finally, 'gearing' is also used to refer to the ratio between a company's share price and its warrant price. So, what's our current 'gearing' rating? Anyone?

The OS are probably just doing one of their usual pre-emptive updates to see if the software will handle such a low amount when, sorry...if the time comes....

Market cap = £4.49m (which I believe is less than our overdraft. Which I again believe is what underwrites the overdraft facility in the first place....?)

Hmm....21st March, eh.....? An interesting calendarial juxtaposition with the recent Charles Sale column..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1125028/Charles-Sale-Premier-League-turn-Hero-Fund-cash-villain.html Lowe point for Southampton Southampton's beleaguered chairman Rupert Lowe, who regained a club left in financial meltdown by the chronic mismanagement of the regime that forced him out of office, will have to make a major decision by the third week of March. That is whether to put the club into administration and take the Football League’s 10-point penalty this season. Southampton, whose bank Barclays are threatening to reduce their overdraft facility considerably, have to find extra monies by the end of next month to keep afloat.

Just off to unload the tumble-dryer.

False economy IMHO. Go for quality rather than quantity.

Three Brit Awards for Duffy. What's the world coming to?

So, mixed evening then. Derby heading off the radar but Forest still in our sights.

Full time: Ipswich 2 Forest 1

Full Time: Derby 4 Blackpool 1

Girls Aloud win 'Best Single'

Braga 2 Standard Liege 0

Derby go 4 - 1 up

Derby go 3 - 1 up

Latest: Ipswich 2 Forest 1 Derby 2 Blackpool 1

Entering the 'worst case scenario' scores into this BBC predictor should do the trick....race you to it.....Go.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/predictor/default.stm

More plants on that site than Wyevales http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/4134160.Saints_fans_prepare_for_another_protest/

And could we have refused to switch? Would be huge false economy if we took the money rather than contested the switch (if feasible)