Whitey Grandad

Well they take off from some place where there isn't any ash (like, the rest of the world) and then they fly over us (and the ash) and they land some place where there isn't any ash (like, the rest of the world).

So how many seasons in League 1 can we wait until he has grown up?

So.... the longer it goes on the more the 'football' element of the debt and the smaller the HMRC proportion. The players could agree to defer their wages knowing that they will eventually be paid in full and everybody else could agree a CVA. Is that possible?

It's all that they have to cling to after a few sh!t years.

Palace were in administration for two years.

Was it just me or did anyone else think that Davis was passing the ball out more last night?

Interesting figures, and a lot of them are in Euros. How will variations in the exchange-rate affect the 25% figure, and at what date is the rate determined?

I was there last night as usual and I have always been critical of him. He didn't seem to fit into the team. He has no pace, can't beat a player, loses posession easily. We certainly can't wait for players to 'develop', that philosophy belongs in the past. I'll never forgive him for that self-indulgent lunge that gave away a penalty earlier in the season and cost us the game. Were it not for that, we might still be dreaming...

It was more like volleyball than football. Apart from the two or three times that the ball glanced of someone's arm I'm sure I saw at least two instances of someone punching the ball out of the box. The ref was not at this best last night but how three players missed that cross across the goal deep into injury time I shall never know. Oh well, at least next season should be good.

I counted over 7 instances of him losing posession or passing to the opposition.

Past his best, I'm afraid. A good solid pro with valuable experience but you wouldn't want to have to play him every week.

I have to agree with all that has been said. It looks like we need a couple of midfield dynamos before next season. I can't blame James, it's not his fault he's bad. I blame Schneiderlin for his moment of stupidy.

The ash is apparently below 20,000 ft so British airspace above that is open.

I've just looked on the trafficengland site and they are showing delays of 1 hour southbound J8 to J12. Normal conditions expected from 7:00 pm. The A34 southbound to Winnall is showing a 15 minute delay until 6:45 so it looks like any other cross-country route is to be preferred.

If it's any consolation the controllers at NATS don't know what is going to happen either. One of my staff was in the control room today and nobody seems to know what will happen. Instructions change by the minute and the controllers are not informed. As for the jet engine damage, someone who used to work at Rolls-Royce explained that the fan blades have small zig-zag channels about 1mm diameter for letting the air cool the blades. If this gets clogged up then the blades will overheat and the engine will be junk. If any engine has been flown through volcanic ash then R-R will have nothing to do with it.

:confused: If we were relegated we wouldn't be in the Champions' League. (Or am I being thick?)

The best hope is that the weather changes by the weekend back to the usual south-westerly patterns. That seems to be the case at the moment.

Oh don't, please. It doesn't bear thinking about.

Not if we win all our games.

There's a new television deal with the Far East that will bring in bundles of cash. I can't remember the amount but it is shedloads.

Wasn't the talk at the time that Markus was paying for it out of his own pocket? The point about capital expenditure is that it is normally amortised over a period longer than just one season, and we are a 'debt-free' club, whatever that means. We have been splashing a lot of money but we have also been taking a lot from the larger crowds and from the cup runs. The JPT alone would pay the purchase price for Rickie Lambert.

That would be capital expenditure and not revenue, and it has not happened yet.

They used to be preferential creditors but that has not been the case since September 2003. Now they have the same status as the others.

I've got two cruises booked from Southampton and the ferry to France is booked for the July jaunt down to Spain with the caravan so at least we'll still get our foreign holidays. What really gets me going is all this talk about how brave and exciting it was to spend two days on a bus and train to get from the other side of Europe. For people of my generation that was the normal way to travel. My missus went to Sweden on a school trip by train and two ferry crossings and I've lost count of the number of times I've driven 6 or 7 hundred miles in a day to get back to the channel ports. The ones I feel sorry for are those with weddings booked in Antigua and suchlike. For the others, sit back and enjoy the countryside.

Do you not think so? I'd like to see the figures but I would think that we must be close to break-even this season, if the initial purchase costs are not included and assuming a rent-free stadium.