Micky

Never heard of him - but roll on page 94 all the same....!

I heard him say that, and most people in football would say similar - but even then I don't think that it applies to us. I don't think that we will have a fair representation of where we will finish after 10 games. We have been dealt a pretty hard start, could well be played 5 lost 5 - but even then I wouldn't panic too much. How many points did Wigan pick up last season after their first 10 games - not many I would wager - but they stayed up comfortably. So long as the lads heads don't drop because of the poor start (which is only to be expected) - we could well be ok - but the first 10 games are not really going to be the markers.

Could be worth a punt - took Spurs from 3rd bottom and nearly made CL - and we all know we need to be making the CL pretty soon.

Going by the brief highlights on motd - looked awful - large spaces - pretty quiet. Nothing for anyone else to fear.

Played 4 and lost 4 is pretty much what I expected tbh. Wigan were never going to be easy. So pretty much I am unsurprised at our lack of points and wont be expecting us to get any any time soon.

So after game one at SMS we have shelved the champions league aspirations, failed to make capacity thus putting the expansion plans on the back boiler and managed to lose to lowly Wigan. Real eye opener. If we get relegated this season, and promoted the following - will we still have achieved the 5 year aim...?

That's a lot of minutes in a single season for young Dyer, he never normally gets into double figures. Good solid season for him. Great value for money for club and fans alike.

Good on you Moff, you get off to Yeovil, we're off to the Champions League apparently..!

There's not a lot about our qualification for Europe mentioned anywhere....

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This. Got to take the rough with the smooth. Think back 3, 4 seasons ago. Enjoy. Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

Sounds bad - reckon he'll be gone by this time tomorrow.

This is how I work as well, I have a co credit card for all expences and I book all of my own hotels, flights and hire cars. I have daily limits for food, but I'd be a right fat b@st@rd if I was to use the lot..! Unfortnately I don't have any booze allowance - but hey ho, can't have it all. Finding a decent hotel with free wifi these days is not too difficult, and at the end of the day, if you have to pay, then just pay for a couple of days during your trip. Funnily enough - as I type I am currently on business in the UK, in a fairly crappy hotel, on their free wifi....!!!

Up until this month, I have flown to europe every month for probably about the last 6 years for work, generally staying a week at a time - sometimes longer. There is much good advice above but really it just gets to be the norm. I didnt use airport lounges although I did use priority boarding. Dependant on where you work the flight is not likely to be much longer than an hour and a half anyway - then you have the travelling before and after the flight. I was in a routine, so much so that I used to go to the loo at the same time after check in, eat at the same place in the airport and the like. As a business traveller you will grow to loath holiday travellers...!!! Hotel stipulations - free wifi access, free parking, decent food, generally clean tidy and that will do. If you get free wifi - contact with home is not a problem. It can be a lonely existance sometimes especially if you are staying over the week ends - but I enjoyed it, despite the pitfalls. If you are hiring cars - as I did every trip, take out your own independant insurance or check to see if your co has its own and dont forget to have personal medical insurance as well. As for the flying thing - lets face it its gotta be fairly safe - Derry never pranged one in 18000 hours...!

Is this the Saints Takeover Saga thread.....????

Me too, thought he was awful against Udinese on Saturday as well.

I think it's a Liverpudlianism, Pap will probably put me right, "you know what I mean like".

Shocking, sad and incomprehensible.

I have an HTC Desire, which when I first got it I thought was the bees knees. It is still a very nice handset, but I am now plagued with the constant "Low on space" notification even though all apps that can be loaded onto the sd card are. That appart though it is a nice bright and easy to use handset once you get used to it. My company phone though is the same as eurosaint recommends, a Samsung Galaxy Ace, and although not the same screen quality of the HTC - it is a very nice handset. Found it easy to use and set up, probably does all and more of what your wife needs to do. As for battery life, my HTC needs charging every night, and although I dont use the Samsung as extensively - I think the battery would probably go 2 days between charges in normal use.

With all due respect VW the boys and girls deserve much better on this occasion. Yeah they can rough it with the best of them, I've slept in some pretty crap dank and dingy places in my time - but generally when exercising or on operations. This is the single biggest sporting event in the world - there are literally thousands of people working to make it happen. I bet not a single civilian is sleeping in a car park - not one. If anything this was a chance to actually reward the Forces personnel for their efforts in Operational Theatres by making this a bit of a 'jolly' for them - but no - we failed there too. Yeah they can hack it, and they will - but given the money and luxuries being meted out to the rest of the organisational staff - this is embarrassing. Our country really doesn't deserve our Armed Forces.

This really is so, so sad. Anybody who has any clout, responsibility or organisational power on the Olympic Committee should hang their heads in shame. The problem is though, what is even sadder still, is that I am in no way surprised about this news. Disgrace, absolute ****ing disgrace.

"I'm loving this thread"

I get the same impression, big bad turkish normally knocks them over, then one of the little boys normally comes and kicks them in the bollux while they are down. You get the picture.

Yo, go Pap go....!!!! If you've suffered loss of earnings because of their incompetence (and the fact that they have now ceded in this matter is testimony to the fact that they were incompetent), a realistic compensation claim for time spent administering this case and any loss of other contractual earnings would not seem unreasonable.