Whitey Grandad

At least 4 season ticketers behind me weren't there, but I don't know if that affected it. I know of someone who works evenings so he and his 11-year old son wasn't there either. That, the cold weather, school next day, a small number of away fans, it all adds up. Was Markus there? I didn't see him. That would be another one less.

There was one occasion in the second half when I was watching him. He was holding his position a couple of yards offside waiting for the pass and of course he was flagged for it as soon as the pass came to him. Every body around me was screaming 'get onside' at him. We can all see it, there's no excuse about playing at a higher level or being too quick for the assistant referee, it's just something that he needs to work at because it cost us posession in several good attacking positions. You simply can't blame the referees, the rest of the team, the lack of a language, and so on....

They should be level with the second to last defender and I have verey rarely seen them out of position. Every one of the offsides last night was spot on correct, but that is not the point. It is up to the attacker to play such that he is not given offside. Plenty of others manage to do it without any problems,why can't he? I'm sure that with more specialist training he could be taught to stay onside more.

I've just looked on the traffic England site. M3 southbound betwee J11 & J13 delays of about 10mins due to heavy traffic. Likewise A34 southbound between A303 & A33 10 mins. M27 westbound at J12 delays of 15mins caused by earlier accident, average speed 26mph. M27 westbound between A3M & M275 delays of 20mins due to heavy traffic, average speed 5mph. All at 18:26.

We've been through all this on another thread and I suspect I know why this thread has been started. In all my years I have never known Boxing Day to be anything other than the 26th December, butI shall probably be going to Colchester on Monday 28th December. I had a look at the train schedules the other day and it looks like engineering work on the Liverpool Street lines: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/2009/12/28/__/engineeringworks.html#en230ccfc68040f1b7a560c75ab9ae1f

So what would the East coast derby be? Ipswich v Newcastle?

Tell that to our government: 'For example in 2009, Boxing Day is actually on Saturday, 26 December, so there is a substitute bank holiday on Monday, 28 December.' ( http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/LivingintheUK/DG_073741 )

You can tell it's pantomime season (Oh no it isn't)

My advice is: 'take no notice of any advice that I might give you'

The usage has varied over the years and these terms mean different things to different people. Who is to say what is right and what is wrong? `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

Can't we even discuss your findings?

In terms of league position we are not a big club, but in terms of average attendances where do we stand? As far as I'm concerned we are the biggest club in the world!

Maybe He was ****ged out after creating another galaxy and we were next on His list?

Did you find that site yourself, or did it find itself for you? It's no wonder Davies's form has dipped if he's been doing so much extra-curricular activity.

Indeed, but I suspect it's a matter of who we can get to come and play for us in league 3.

It's great this internet thing: http://www.sufc.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10418~18990,00.html Injured at the moment and out for a few more weeks yet, so perhaps we don't want him back if he's a crock: http://www.football.co.uk/sheffield_united/injury_could_end_davies__loan_296885.shtml

That's what I would have said. Real beer in real wooden barrels. I suppose it's still there? The stream under the humpback bridge is the boundary between Berkshire and Hampshire.

Notts County, Nottingham Forest & Trent Bridge:

I hope all goes well for them. Traditional football clubs like Rotherham are the life and soul of English towns. I see that they had to lodge a bond of £750,000 in order to play outside the town's boundaries and they have to return within four years (by August 2012?) or lose their golden share.

It was from someone whose information I respect but I put it no higher than a rumour. I was expressing concern that if anything should happen to our saviour, the club should still be adequately financed and the reply wasto that effect. I do not know the original source, but I may probe a little deeper. I am fully confident that our beloved club is in safe, professional hands and this would seem to me to have been an appropriate course of action. This does not, of course, mean that such a sum would be forthcoming to be splashed around in a Burley-esque fashion.

I could tell you but then I'd have to tie you up and put you in a Saints kit and leave you at Fratton Park on a matchday morning.

It's a suburb of Sheffield where they used to make a lot of steel. When you used to drive up the M1 there was a big Sheffield steelworks on the left (now Meadowhall) and Rotherham was on the right and there used to be a big yellow sulphorous fog over both of them so you had to hold your nose as you were driving past. The coal mines have now closed as well so the place is a lot cleaner but there's no work. They're decent people who support a club with no stadium and no money but after our recent past I can't really sympathise with them. To be honest, I hope that Luton get through and that we have a big gate because I think that they need the money even more than Rotherham.

Not at all, that's what I was trying to say. What I meant was that there is not much point spending a lot of money this season because of the 10 point deduction. I am quite prepared to leave this management business in the hands of the very capable professionals that we now have in charge. I look forward with enthusiasm to our transfer dealings in the summer and if by some outragious good fortune we get promoted this year I shall be delighted, but I don't expect it and I shall not think it an underachievement if we don't. AP is a very good manager and we are privileged to have him in command.

Does that come from living in Rotherham? (Ooh, I can't believe I said that.) :smt107

The rumour I heard was that Markus had put £50m into a trust fund for the club. If true, that should see us safely through the next few seasons. These things take time to turn round and with the 10 points it probably wouldn't make any difference if we spent all of that this season.