Whitey Grandad

That's a time, not a date.

My tickets are blue too, but they're in the South Stand. Previous tickets that I've had there were red, but they were in the side stands. No, I don't know the reason why, either.

There's not a sound in the world to beat it. I was in a small boat in the Solent for the D-Day 50th celebrations and when the Battle of Britain flight flew over together with a P51 and others I nearly fell over the side with excitement. I also remember the 50th anniversary of the first flight. I was driving east on the M27 and I was just coming down the hill after Chilworth when a group of spitfires - 7 or 9 of them - flew over in line astern from the north and swung left to land at Eastleigh. It was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen.

Hindsight is wonderful. Let's just hope that he's not 'injury prone'.

My tickets finally arrived this morning so I shall be sitting in the south scaffolding with all the other cuckoos. Unless it rains, that is, in which case I might stay at home.

Playoffs, or automatic promotion?

Maybe, but do you think he was the sort of player that we needed, and has he been effective since arriving?

That's a thought. How about 'Where would we be under Pearson?'

So, just like us then.

But there have also been other SINGLE games.

What we needed was a midfield general, as has been mooted elsewhere.

At his age he's at the end of a footballing career, even without the injuries.

About where we are now. Possibly higher because there would not have been the disruption.

I filled my car up with diesel in Holland on Tuesday (it's all right, it is a diesel car). The price was €1.38 a litre. It's a new Mercedes E350 and I'm getting well over 600 miles on a tankful. Anyway, we drove through the border with Germany at over 70mph. We've all come a long way in the last 65 years, but as Theodore Rooseveldt said: 'speak softly and carry a big stick'. There's also a roman proverb: 'Si vis pacem para bellum' - 'if you wish for peace, prepare for war'.

Perhaps you should like in Costa Rica? http://www.diplomatmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=321&Itemid=

I used to have a cartoon on my office wall. It read: "I feel so much better now that I've given up hope".

Too big a squad = too many changes ?

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?28642-Play-off-semi-final

Me neither, but I shall keep on looking.

The last game of the season is Saturday, 7th May (against Walsall ) and the final is on May 29th so following the usual pattern the first leg would be Saturday 14th May and the second would be either Tuesday 17th or Wednesday 18th depending on the telly. Those are my best guesses. I'm already getting depressed at the thought of it all, but I shan't show it.

One or two unlucky losses against a team who manage to fluke a goal are to be expected over the course of a season. We seem to be having too many of this type of game for my liking. We are not ruthless or single-minded enough.

Fair point. Has anybody ever done a full cost/benefit analysis on the Acagemy over, say, the last twenty years?

I have my own business and am self-employed and I also have three full-timers working for me, and yet I am getting to feel like that every morning. I've lost too much in the recession to even think of stopping at the moment. My words to my wife as I leave home in the morning are 'here I go again'.

Sadly, I have to agree with you.

The announcement that they may have to go into administration counts as an insolvency event as far as the league is concerned, hence the -10.