The Kraken

Point taken, but effectively all the press are doing is reporting from what is heard in court, rather than their own interpretation/exaggeration of the facts. So the truth should be somewhere within all that, just maybe hidden a little bit behind the sensationalism.

Depends on precisely what he's done, for me. Lots of hearsay and speculation flying around about what did and didn't happen, maybe a lot of that will come out in the press.

The problem with that is that Southampton is a thoroughly ugly city; you'd get an averhead view of the industrial docks and fawley power station! Hardly massively appealing right now. We missed the boat with Ocean Village, that should have been Gunwharf. Since then we've lacked massively behind. The Echo today has a story on the final design of the Spitfire monument, which is a start, but we need much much more. The devotion to housing above infrastructure really does us no favours at all

SEEDA weren't in control of massive sums, but it was still substantial funding. Having dealt with them over a number of years, I can happily confirm that they are a pretty shambolic outfit with a clueless management system, and it's no bad thing they are in the process of being wound up.

Not really hutch, as it's really two different scenarios that you're talking about.

Well that makes little sense, I don't even think you know what you're trying to get across there. I think it's best you try not to explain it any further.

Why? Who says the second team have to go, apart from you?

Thank God you're here, no-one had noticed that already.

Correct. I still don't understand why the second placed team just magically disappears.

If that happened we'd probably finish much lower than 17th.

I'm not sure if Nigel Adkins will be next England manager; not enough top level experience yet.

Why does the team in second just automatically disappear? If you beat the team in thrid place by a point, then you're in third place (unless the team in second place just magically erases itself).

It largely depends on Barnard's court case, I'd suggest. Connolly's strain last week showed how light of genuine strikers we are at the moment, his return will be very welcome and give us some great extra options. Touch wood.

He'd offer something different alright, being as he's not a striker.

It's the fantastic world of NickG, anything's possible in that particular happy little bubble.

I'd suggest Burnley's latest press release about the importance of them holding on to Jay Rod suggestst that that particular iron is still in the fire.

Don't talk daft Turkish, why would we want someone better than we already have rather than someone probably worse?

Who on earth is "Krackan"? Nice conversation, by the way. If it makes you sleep better at night, then whatever you say Nick, whatever you say.

Tips are for staff only, and are distinctly separate from a meal charge (in law); a restaurant would not be able to include a tip within its takings, or even withhold a tip from its staff, as that would be fraud. Services charges, though, might be different (I know they are different in law to a tip in the USA, not sure about here).

6 foot 1?

Correct, and the money that he was allowed to spend was astronomical. It was a good achievement, no doubt about that, but not "amazing to break the top 4 monopoly" as his media chums have previously described.

Didn't think Wenger or any of the Arsenal players were nominated tbf.

Correct. Where this assumption comes from that the second placed team gets automatically removed, I don't know.

This is indeed all you need to worry about; if Nige wins the manager of the year award I doubt he'll care how many manager of the month awards he has. As they say, form is temporary, class is permanent.

On paper we are most certainly not a League 1 team. In fact, on paper I don't think we've ever looked a League 1 team. Of all the managers in line for this month's awards, NA had the "worst" form guide for the month; so it's no surprise he didn't get it. It's a pretty meaningless award anyway, and I'm pretty sure NA would swap not winning it all season in return for promotion.