Whitey Grandad

It varies from country to country, which is why the week numbers are not universal throughout the world. I once had to write a computer algorithm for displaying the week number and found out that there are two definitions.

You've started something now... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day Apparently the usage varies from country to country and if Christmas Day is a Saturday, the officla Christmas Day holiday can be the following Tuesday, which is actually after the Boxing Day holiday, or Boxing Day itself, depending on your point of view. Fascinating isn't it? (is there a smiley for 'yawn'?). Whatever, I know where I'll be on 26th December.

And this is a Friday evning so all of London will be going west on the M4. You have been warned!

Please don't forget that there are no trains on Boxing Day (i.e. Saturday 26th December). It looks like I shall be coming back from Bristol that morning, so let's hope there's no bad weather. Did anybody here go to Newcastle on January 1st for that game that was called off because the roads outside were a bit icy?

A Quantity Surveyor. I often had the chance to chat to him after matches at the Dell whilst my daughter was collecting autographs and I remember once discussing what the Dell was worth and how it would be demolished. He's a true gentleman and he's one of our lads so let's do everything we can to support him and his family.

Interesting comment on there about Papa... '...was troubled by the pace of their number 9, but thankfully said player was beyond dreadful - a contender for the worst footballer I've seen play in League One.' Does anybody who went to the game share that view?

I've just watched it carefully on the recording and it looks like it may well have hit his left knee with his arm just behind it. There were certainly a lot of protests from the Grimsby lads. Poor defending though, there were 3 or 4 Grimsbys on the goal line and nobody marking the player who shot.

Handling on the line is instinctive and there's no time to weigh up the odds, especially for footballers who tend to think slower that the rest of us. I can't honestly see him ever reaching the standard that we would need, unfortunately, but that's why these sorts of players are loaned out. Learn and make your mistakes in someone else's team, not ours.

He's a quality player who's a class above this League. It's just a shame that circumstances dictated that we never saw the best from him last season. Good luck to him, but he's gone now so let's deal with it and move on. We have a team that's starting to work well together and with a few more matches and a few reinforcements we can start looking at the top of the League instead of the bottom.

I read a couple of days ago that Tony Adams was lined up for Aldershot. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Tony-Adams-wants-to-return-to-management-at-Aldershot-article202839.html (No, I don't buy the Mirror to read, I only look at the pictures)

Is your mate called Alan Pardew by any chance? (Yes, I know, Alan probably has his FA coaching badge)

Yes, that has surprised me. Lst trai seems to be leaving Cardiff at 21:30 & Filton at 21:09. How about via Reading?

Parkway is 3 miles from the ground. Filton/Abbey Wood is 1.9 miles. Postcodes are: Ground: BS7 0BF Parkway: BS34 8PU Filon: BS34 7JW You could run it but 22:02 is probably too early.

Filton/Abbey wood is more direct for trains to Southampton

I'm just annoyed that we didn't think of it first.

Is there any new yet about ticket allocations? I would probably take 3 tickets but some of us important people need to make decisions about what we are doing more than a week in advance. What on earth is the hold-up? Surely both clubs have done this sort of thing before?

If Rovers want people to go then they should get the tickets out sharpish. What with the postal mess Monday is probably too late to send them out.

We have always noticed a strong correlation between the player featured and the date that they leave the club. So Lallana's off in January then.

..... and were responsible for us being docked 10 points this season and not last.....

Wait until the end of the season before you take off the 10 points. That's when it really matters.

Now look what you've made me do.... http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/KeyDates/0,,10794~1357319,00.html League 1 Season finish May 8th League 1 play-off final May 29th

Does it also say 'Bristol Rovers away'?

I saw that yesterday but I was looking at the fixture list today: http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/FixturesResults/0,,10280,00.html

No, it has to be automatic promotion for me. I've got a holiday booked for the second half of May :mad:

I see that the OS still has us down as playing Rovers at 15:00 on the Saturday.