Horley CTFC Saint

Re 1: Looks like Holloway's getting the sack then

Better keep the horse under lock and key then

Cant help there but I know how ManUre fans would have preferred ManSh1tty to win it - the Saints way

How fast can he make an omelette?

No, ask again after 37 games

Blackpool

Christians and Lions

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16219134

Saturdays

In fairness most of our defence Kelvin excepted seemed to spend more time in the oppos half of the pitch - that will change next season surely otherwise its gonna be a short stay in the Prem

I heard that he'd gone hunting for ducks

Check out our parallels with Crawley Town some time - its truly spooky

He was good on the right wing!

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37532-Financial-fair-play http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37517-Another-reason-to-win-on-Saturday

Our loan was converted to equity for obvious reasons

English clubs aspiring to membership of the Premier League, the world’s most lucrative domestic football competition, have agreed to curbs on how much they can spend to achieve success. The 24 clubs in the Championship, English football’s tier below the Premier League, have voted to operate under new financial restrictions designed to end the spiralling losses racked up by players’ wages that have put the survival of several clubs at risk. The Football League – which runs the three tiers of the sport outside the Premiership – has persuaded Championship clubs to agree to limits on losses they incur and on equity investment from shareholders. The restrictions mirror rules introduced by European football governing body Uefa for clubs that qualify for the Champions League and Europa League. Not every club was so ready to give up the free market. Three of the 24 Championship clubs voted against the new rules, which impose sanctions in the form of a transfer embargo or a fine for failing to keep within spending limits, and restrictions on owners’ investment. They are understood to be Reading, which won promotion to the Premier League last week, Southampton, favourites to be promoted this weekend, and Leicester City. Greg Clarke, Football League chairman, said: “The free market is not the best solution to all of our problems.” His vision of football finance is in marked contrast to the Premier League’s, which has been more than happy to see ambitious Championship clubs speculating in a bid to win promotion to its exclusive membership. The rules are unlikely to be well received at the Premier League because they may limit the number of Championship clubs with the financial clout to compete for promotion. How the rules will work The Championship’s “financial fair play” rules borrow from the Uefa rules of the same name, with some tweaks, writes Roger Blitz. Coming into effect from next season, the rules say a Championship club can incur losses for the 2012/13 season of no more than £10m. Within this loss is a level of shareholder equity investment that cannot exceed £6m. This permitted loss is reduced in each of the next three seasons, so that in 2015/16 the acceptable loss is £5m, of which shareholder equity investment cannot be more than £3m. To allow for the new rules to bed in, clubs that break the rules in the first two seasons will not be sanctioned. But from the 2014/15 season, clubs in breach face the imposition of a transfer embargo. Any clubs in breach of the rules that are promoted to the Premier League will have to pay a “fair play tax,” based on a percentage of the sum by which they have exceeded the losses threshold. Clubs relegated from the Premier League to the Championship will not be subject to sanctions in their first season in the new division, provided they have met Premier league financial regulations. Money raised from the fair play tax will be distributed to Championship clubs. Clubs in breach that are relegated from the Championship will miss out on this distribution. The Premier League, which has reservations about Uefa’s financial fair play rules, declined to comment. Mr Clarke said it would be consulted about the new rules. Mr Clarke has painted an increasingly ominous outlook for English football since the former chief executive of Cable & Wireless Communications and Lend Lease joined the Football League two years ago. Debt, “a proxy for risk”, said Mr Clarke, has reached £1bn across the three divisions, and he warned it is projected to double in five years unless urgent action is taken. Richard Scudamore, Premier League chief executvie, tends to be more sanguine about debt in football. Two Football League clubs, Portsmouth and Port Vale, are in administration, but there was a real danger, said Mr Clarke, of liquidation for 3 or 4 clubs. Income from broadcasting rights deals has fallen by a quarter, but the biggest problem for club owners was the dearth of buyers. The best outlook for the Football League for the next five years, its chairman argued, was for clubs to control costs in order to avoid the need to raise any new net capital. “This is a step on the road which will allow over a period of time our clubs to be financially sustainable,” Mr Clarke said. The Football League initiative follows last month’s joint agreement with the Premier League and the Football Association to set up a new regulatory authority to monitor the professional game’s finances. Mr Clarke has already persuaded the 48 clubs in League 1 and League 2 of the Football League to adopt salary caps, but he said it was “impossible” to make that work in the Championship. Tom Glick, chief executive of Derby County, said: “The key is we have options. We are not being told how big our squad needs to be. Some will choose to run a tight squad, some will invest more in youth development.” According to John Beech, sport and tourism professor at Coventry University, clubs are facing “an increasingly turbulent financial scenario”. The new rules were a step towards their survival. “It was becoming less and less defensible to continue to allow unrestrained financial doping,” said Mr Beech. But will it drive down wages, football’s biggest and most uncontrollable cost? Mr Clarke says there is anecdotal evidence of a more realistic approach from players, with some, worried by the budget squeezes in their clubs, prepared to negotiate longer-term deals in return for less money. But one consequence is a widening gulf between wages in the Premier League and in the rest of English football. “I have no idea and no interest in how the Premier League [is] going to regulate itself,” said Mr Clarke. “But if you’ve got a player in a Championship club, he can double his wages in the Premier League if he’s good enough.”

Reading Southampton & Leicester!? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/43fe56e2-8ed6-11e1-aa12-00144feab49a.html#axzz1t5IlSzdY

If Coventry play like Chelsea did tonight against us I'll be fuming

...and anyway as my Maths teacher always to used to say to me there is no law of averages

My money's on him going for: Davis Richardson, Saeijs, Jos, Fox

Hope you're not one of our players!!

So if we're gonna do it shouldn't this have a thread of its own??

Another pop at winning it next season

Jeez when did they get promoted?!

Wonder what Adkins could have done with Matt Le Tiss?