Whitey Grandad

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.

Have you got your tickets yet? I'm still waiting for mine. The chap who sits next to me bought his last October and he's still waiting...

It's 2 yards narrow under Adkins so there's less grass to mow.

Never mind the bickering, what did you all think of the result? I must admit, I was a little bit concerned when they equalised. You could see it coming. The last fifteen minutes of the first half we had lost all sense of purpose and I was afraid that our usual lack of a clinical finish would comeback to haunt us.

RIP Deano, gone after only half a lifetime and with so much to offer. You will be in our thoughts and my condolences to your family.

You get used to it.

Yep yep. Collect your ticket on the way in and then put the same ticket in on the way out. I don't know what happens if you're over the 30 minutes.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer it in its natural containers, myself.

Nutshell. (Am I allowed to say that?)

That can also be a slow word. 'Celerity' might have been more appropriate. Nice of him to try, though.

One could say, The difference between Southampton and Brighton is that we drew at Hartlepool and they lost....

It's the table in May that matters, but it's certainly Brighton's championship to lose and I still think they'll hit a sticky patch sometime.

Check the small print - I had something similar offered to my business recently. The rental is about half price but only for 2 years, you have to sign up for longer and if you cancel before there are hefty charges. They will try and get you to sign up over the phone and get very shirty if you say you need time to think.