sandwichsaint

My fairly hilly Sunday afternoon (I'm 50 and carrying a few pounds more than I should be) ... : http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/56ae/824f/4ef2/e642/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120624-1427.kml Good luck on your L to B, you've given yourself plenty of time to get up to speed/distance; never done it but it looks good. Don't worry about Ditchling Beacon, it's no big deal; do it if you can, if not walk up like 50% of riders will be (friends did it and they couldn't ride up because the hill was clogged with walkers anyway). Anybody going to Boulogne next Tuesday? - TDF stage finish for stage 3. There are six of us going over to Calais early doors for a day of beer and bikes. Calais to Boulogne is approx 32 miles down the coast and quite hilly with several decent lumps of chalk between the two. Could be a tough ride down if this wind keeps up but I'm sure the beer, pain au chocs, baguettes, frites and vin rouge will provide ample compensation.

Gully RM?

I'm not necessarily buying this, just putting it out there like. Whenever these threads have been up before it's been mooted that Saints/NC didn't need to cut prices ... history would appear to have borne that out.We have achieved 5 yrs worth of success in 3 yrs, the marginal income/marginal support hasn't been missed and here we are in the PL with PL prices and all set for sell-outs/near sell-outs for the foreseeable. NC didn't cut the prices for the last three seasons a) because he didn't need to, and b) because he was conducting a real-time evaluation of just what was the 'pure' level of demand for Div3 and Div2 football at SMS? Who can say?

The day's never wasted is it?

Though they will probably want to see a couple of season's revenues first? Probably need to get into a season-ticket-waiting-list-type-scenario before we see anything concrete? All together now: - let's go round again, baby we'll turn back the hands of time, let's go round again, one more time.

TBF that one has never really recovered from the time Telfer smacked it with one of his rare efforts at goal.

Where's the quote from? Would be an excellent signing.

What should happen now? The PL to require all clubs as a condition of membership to reduce all ticket prices by 20% across the board for season 2013/14 and by a further 20% the following season. This would recycle some of the TV money to the ordinary punters who do so much to make the 'British' game what it is and to widen access to what is increasingly an entertainment for the well to do, more so in that home and pub subscriptions will have to raise sharply to pay for it all, and it wouldn't weaken the relative status between different clubs (domestically) if it was applied unilaterally. The PL also needs to find a mechanism (prize money?) to re-cycle some of the money into Divs 2, 3 and 4 which produce some of their players and provide the foundations and culture on which their 'greatest league in the world' is built. What will happen? None of the above. Clubs will be given the lot and will spend the lot on players and agents who will see their already obscene salaries inflated further which will in turn provide further disconeect/disenchantment between the game and the fans. The bubble may not have burst yet but all bubbles do burst eventually.

I we were playing tomorrow. KD FR JF JH DF JC MS GDe RL AL JR That'll do (depending who we are playing), probably good enough to stay up. If we are playing hard ball we can do better at GK, RB, CB, LB, holding Mid, RM. What wedge have we got left? Interesting times.......

That's a helluva statement: 'Newly promoted Saints start with record £6m signing on the bench'.

Who was the last genuine box-to-box midfielder we employed? Jimmy Case? In that case a) they are quite rare, or b) we've rubbed along without one for quite some time? Sign him up! (Did anybody else think Grant Leadbitter, Ipswich, looked good at SMS?)

Bet they were wearing mini-skirts too?

Out: Lee Barnard to Watford £700,000 .............. possible at 300k Jason Puncheon to Birmingham £1 million .......no way will Brum be spending 1m on anyone Dan Seabourne to Charlton £400,000.......... plausible move but sounds a lot of money (?) for someone of DS's experience Ryan Dickson to Leeds £200,000............. doubt it, Colin be wheeler dealing at a much more experienced level. Col U with Lloyd James would be more his level.

I have 2 tickets, row 9 in the stalls for Elvis Costello at the Albert Hall this Thursday for the 'Revolver' tour. They were an Xmas present and I would love to go but unfortunately due to personal circustances can no longer make it. Can anybody use these at short notice? I can post out first class today or tomorrow. Face value is c£75 the pair, I don't want anything for them but I would like a reasonable donation (£20-plus) to a charity of my choice (will confirm the charity if anybody wants them).

MPZ? Small prize available.

LOL, Interviewer: you are 18, you have played 26 times for Arsenal's first team this season, you have done really well in the Champions Lge and the PL, you are financially secure for life (as is your skate father) and you have just made the full England squad for Euro 2012. Don't you sometimes think you should have played another 40 games for Southampton? AOC: Err, not really, no. Alternative ending - Interviewer to AOC 'Where did it all go wrong?'

loving it! get some back-board-banging and we could just sing it like this. hsaasftrrhtuttplrrhgtbhttphwtsomltrlsgm.

Danny Murphy.

Maybe they'll need a record of our past games if we get to the final of the Texaco Cup or the Watney's Cup? I did LOL at someone on the ST thread who said they would make up their mind whether to get a ST 'once the club releases details of away tkt allocations for next year'. At the moment the ticket office struggles to release this information accurately on a game-by-game or a week-by-week basis; the chances that they will release this information before the season starts, and then stick consistently to what they say, are somewhere less than zero.

There's a light that never goes on...

Totally agree, can't wait to be wallet raped myself. Those of us who've seen 15-20 games a season home and away for the last 7 years should feel privileged to pay the JCL Prem Lge prices next year. As Bob Marley nearly sang: No ST, no cry.

Walking out of Notts Forest and absolutely lording it over the former European Cup winners. One big club and one middle size club and one on an unstoppable upward curve. Nice.

I'm not sure Wotton took 'the easy way out'? His first touch and his positional play were so poor he often took the only way out! He was a player of his times, Lge one and his legs had gone, right signing, wrong player! I loved his commitment (Southend away, Watford away, JPT final etc), I enjoyed the journey, I'm sure he did too, I wonder if he still worries about us as much as we still worry about him?

A steward told me we were going to have 'greener grass' next season, and he's been right more often than some on here.

Well reminded ... this game was the re-arranged one from the death of Markus earlier in the season?