The Kraken

There we go. The reaction on here has been like players waving imaginary cards at the ref.

Is that truly the only other option you could find?

Ah right. That makes perfect sense.

To be fair its only the sanctimonious, precious, easily offended brigade that have demanded he be sacked. Most others see it for what it is; a pretty poor and very minor wind-up which has severely backfired.

And they're not unique? Is that what you're saying?

Just trying to work this little dig out. Nope, not happening.

This. Rather than laugh at the sheer idiocy of it, or at how Pompey fans have to mask their jealousy of a club that can afford its own training ground by conducting such a "prank", we end up with a number of over the top internet reactionaries demanding a man (idiot) loses his living. Pretty predictable but nonetheless sad. The skate journo got one thing right; "uptight".

It's really quite a badly designed piece of road; not single carriageway but not dual carriageway either, kind of a bit of both. And considering its a 40 limit you get some absolute lunatics piling along it at times. Surprised its not been hit up with a speed camera yet. Making it dual carriageway like the top of the avenue would have been a much more sensible idea.

Ok.......................

Quite amusing reading back on this thread: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?45240-Echo-Confirms-Forren-quot-Signed-For-Next-Season-

That was the much quoted original price. We also paid a premium to Aviva upon promotion to the PL; for some reason I have a figure of £4M in mind, not sure whether that's accurate. Whatever, the price that was paid was an absolute bargain at the time, even for an L1 club. To now be a PL club enjoying the enormous TV riches on offer, I wouldn't be surprised at all if we were valued easily in excess of £100M; revenues for one year alone almost hit that figure, and guranteed revenues are a decent starting point when it comes to valuing any company.

I've heard that its going to be an all red badge to go with an all red kit. A wise choice.

It really won't. Most fans will just lap it up; others will gripe about it if they don't like it then get on with it.

Staff comps have now moved to the Itchen / Chapel corner. Which is probably for the best, really. Firstly it allows more "proper" Saints fans in there and will hopefully add to the atmosphere. Secondly it gets potential families and such like out of such a rowdy place.

It shouldn't be millions of miles out, but it also can't be classified as in any way accurate. That method of calculating season tickets relies upon the assumption that every unavailable seat is a sold season ticket, when this quite obviously isn't the case. The club will always make certain amounts of seats unavailable for segregation, safety issues, seating for stewards, complimentary seats and seats for guests of staff, plus last season often whole blocks of seats were not made available for sale until other seats had sold out. There's a huge amount of unknowns within it all, and the online system simply has no way of taking any of that into account.

Which was found last season to be an inaccurate method for working total numbers of season tickets out.

It's a disgrace GS. No wonder none of the decent posters bother on here any more; you can see why!!

You must be kidding? What on earth has the delicate flower infracted you for?

I don't understand what relevance that has to, well, anything about this thread really. Other than to prove the point that its a bit daft for a fan of any club, let alone ours, to choose to implicity trust the club over every signing they make simply because they're professionals and its their job. Which was what the comment was in response to.

I was kind of thinking the same. I've watched enough women's football to know that, as a spectator sport, it really isn't for me and I won't bother watching if its on TV. Much like women's tennis; for the most part I find it pretty boring, but even as just a casual tennis fan in general I found today's mens Wimbledon final riveting stuff. Maybe Duncan doesn't like differing opinions to his own; who knows.

If you take that route then there's no point in discussing it whatsoever. Just leave all that to the experts. Kind of defeats the idea of a forum though, where the whole point is to discuss issues, whether (ill) informed or not. It's entirely subjective, but yes I'd say we have been hit and miss, albeit more hit than miss.

Is that not a bit of a cop out? That you trust the club before you make any informed decision of your own? I mean, fair enough if you haven't seen him play; I haven't which is why I haven't contributed to this thread, so I'll judge him if and when I see him in a Saints shirt. But to make any kind of ruling based solely on the fact that we're after him seems a bit odd to me; "we're in for him so he must be good". Especially so as we've been somewhat hit and miss in the transfer department of late.

Very true. This place is still very good for a bit of occasional behind the scenes news, rumours and general Saints chat; but it seems to have become filled with a lot more sensitive posters over the years and lost a lot of the humour that made it really decent.

It's true to say that some of the better posters don't post here any more. The ones who had a bit of wit and banter and could handle a bit of p*ss taking and being taken the p*ss out of while chatting about Saints and other related issues. The infraction system kind of sums up why this place lost it; takes it itself too seriously. The spin off b-anter site tried to keep some of the old site ethos going.

Its not going to change before the season starts, is it?