The Kraken

Not necessarily, no. There's a chance we COULD have that, but we need to sell a lot more of the 2,300 odd savailable seats still on sale.

If there were a mad scramble for all games like this, that would be justification that we need to get on and increase the stadium size.

As per my earlier post; I don't necessarily disagree. But this game isn't at sell out, it doesn't look like it will get there either. Its touch and go whether we'll get more than 30,000 in attendance. Not a sell out. Do you think that still justifies it?

There isn't though, there's over 2,000 home seats left.

We already know it doesn't. In the top league, against the big sides, its never ever been in doubt that we sell out and could sell more tickets if the capacity were there. That's never been the issue. The issue is; what is a realistic and consistent maximum attendance? How many tickets would we sell for the top games; for the mid-range games; and for the lower ranked games? And is it financially viable to build a larger stadium to handle the popularity of the more popular games given the expected attendances of the mid-range and lower-ranked games.

I can see why the Man Utd game selling out could potentially be used for justifying that, of course. Why do you think having 2,000 unsold home tickets represents the same justification?

PST press conference with Comical Farmery.

Not necessarily. He just has to agree to the scheduled payments of them over the next 4 years.

All he has to do in that regard is meet the terms of his own CVA.

They're not exactly flying out then; I did the same on Wednesday and there were 2,700 available, 1300 or so in 43 and 44. With Wigan likely to only bring around a few hundred (in an available allocation of 1613) plus segregation, and with the corporate areas not sold out, there's a reasonable chance this could not reach the 30,000 mark.

I think there must be an element of enjoying the limelight of being ITK. Otherwise you wouldn't do it, surely? Hundreds of desperate tryhards constantly asking you "Has he signed yet", constant abuse from faceless wonders and all manner of idiotic accusations and requests for more and more information.

Unless the Trust's bid has changed significantly so as to remove the funding from the council, it is not a credible bid. The council will not provide the loan if there is another competing bid on the table. Therefore if the Trust have not plugged a £1.45M financial gap from their plans, and so long as Chainrai's bid meets the terms of the CVA, the PST's bid cannot be serviced. Colin Farmery is doing his best Comical Ali "nothing to see here" impression. But Portpin hold all of the cards here, and he knows it. The Trust need to first of all find the funding to match their bid. They then also need to get the players to renegotiate their settlements from £8m to £2M. Portpin on the other hand have agreed to £8M, so their deal is by far the best deal for creditors (which Tricky Trev is legally obliged to recognise). If Chainrai wants it, and if his terms meet the CVA, its his.

I walked past Food Factory yesterday; I never knew exactly what it was or where it was before then. The 4 fat slobs I saw that were taking themselves in there and licking their lips in delight at the never-ending food marathon they were about to face was enough to put me off.

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Hopefully after the photo was taken she proceeded to beat the sh*t out of him.

I should have made it look half convincing.

Not necessarily, gambles with old players don't always come off. The Dixon/Speedie example though was just a poor analogy, that's all. Its just I've been able to see some fantastic players at Saints, a lot of who would never have come here in their prime (yet when they did we finished 2nd in the league so by no means average players). So I'll always be open to seeing an older head come in, if its the right one. As I sais earlier I thought the Jaidi signing was a really good one, he was past his best but just the right player we needed at that time.

Exactly, I'm surprised Colin came out with that, its a bit of a naive statement. Jaidi was a fantastic signing for Saints, absolutely brilliant for what we needed at the time. And finished his career with us. I can't believe there were people saying "ooh, Jaidi? Too old. no thanks" when we got him. Maybe there were.

Ring them up quickly and get them to spell it properly before they print it.

I guess that explains it. Some of our most successful and exciting teams ever were built on a backbone of experienced pros who were seeing out the back-end of their careers with Saints.

Did you support Saints during the Lawrie Mac era? Or Chris Nichol, with Jimmy Case? I've got plenty of time for the right type of old pro coming in.

I seriously hope not, I made it as unconvincing as I could!

Good idea, back in 5.......

In that case, welcome aboard Saint Derek