Micky

I think that I made that clear in the first line of my last post...! As for the dress comparison - I'm struggling - do not see the correlation at all. Asides, Princess Diana probably did more for 3rd World Children than most others celebs will ever achieve.

Sorry to hear that it has gone 'titsup'. T'was not my intention to spoil the party, was just taken by the verment argument over who people should and should not vote for - I don't think Barrack campaigned this hard to get the Presidential vote...! Perhaps after the mod has cooled off he might rethink his decision - good luck.

Calm down mate - it's an internet poll - probably being enjoyed by about 100 people - if that. It wont be the end of the world if you don't get your own way. If the BBC can make such a flamming horlicks of SCD on national television with millions of people polling, and then manage to bodge it, I'm pretty confident that the Mods can come up with some kind of arbitration in order to restore parity here. If people are 'chucking their hand' as you put it, based purely on the fact that they are not going to get their own way - then perhaps they should go visit the real world occasionally.

I kind of agree - perverse as it may seem, but I would much rather be where we are now than where City are. Yes they are in the Premier League, yes they have millions of errr whatever to spend, yes they are buying the best players - but given all of that, is this real football. They are probably one of only 3 or 4 clubs that can now compete in this country. Such has the finance taken over the game that we now have our very own mini league in which just a very few are members. All we need now is another 92 Sugar Daddies and perhaps we can all be in the 'same' league. Am I interested in how City do this/next season? Not really, much more interesting to see how Luton Town do to be honest.

Paying 100 million to bring Jermain Wright back to SMS Let's face it, if we can afford that then we must have found a Sugar Daddy and all our problems are over ;:

Like - dream on...!

I think somebody is trying to wind you up - nay not trying - succeeding. I can see you, your face is red, your eyes bulge from thier sockets, steam eminates from your ears, you're pulling your hair out, your head is about to explode....!!! The John Sergeant debacle must have driven you to distraction...!

Exactly - and he knows if he starts to sell - he aint going to get anywhere near his 200 back. When you look at the debt in the Premiership, if the bubble were to burst - we would probably be quite an attractive 'investment' (and I mean that in the proper meaning of the word) proposition.

Just imagine - what would happen to Sky TV if it lost the rights to cover premiership football. It would basically rip the heart out of the company, who subscribes to Sky for their entertainment or movies these days - not a large percentage of viewers I'm sure. Sky have to keep pumping money into football because effectively it is their 'bouancy aid' and without that - they probably sink quite quickly.

Supposedly much of the debt that is associated with Premiership clubs is deemed as 'sustainable' - i.e. there is a method for recouping the balance. Generally through TV, Advertising and Merchandising. The problem is that many of the Sugar Daddies have now actually provided 'personal loans' to clubs, Roman has 750 million owing if he leaves Chelsea, Al Fayed will be looking for 125 million to leave the Cottage. And there are many more in similar positions - so if (when) one walks the club more or less folds. The only up side that I can see is how on earth do you make back your 750 million. Let's be honest all you can do is sell lock, stock and barrel - in which case you are going to get bottom dollar because everybody knows your intention is to run. Therefore if Roman Abramovich decided to take the money and run - I think he would be looking at a massive loss on his 'loan'.

Too late - I already have - post 18.

Improbable as it might seem, that could actually be very good for our game in the long run.

They have - but the money they paid for Bridge pales into insignificance in respect to this latest deal....

This situation is the very core of the problem facing 'so called' English football. The devide between the big and the pretenders is so huge it is, in most cases, insurmountable. It is all that is wrong with our game - the playing field is tilted totally towards the 'money man' that the game is being ripped away from fans. Accepted - it is only a game - however as somebody rightly pointed out, when a 'windbag kicker' (no matter how good he be) costs more than a bloody hospital, and gets paid in a week what a nurse will never earn in a lifetime - then something is horrendously wrong. As for the FA - they probably care very little - they get their chunk of the money - the bigger to whole - the larger the slice. We have very little scrupples left in this country when it comes to money in football - you don't have to look very far to see that. For me the sooner that some authoritive body step in the better. Yes we have the best league in the world. But while other countries play largely home grown talent - we do nothing of the sort - 'our' game should be branded as the 'European Premier League'. Let's face it most of the talent is not English. How on earth do we provide both teams for the European Champions League Final but fail to qualify for the European Championships as a Nation - flooded with continental (nay, global) talent (costing mega bucks) which is slowly sucking the life blood out of English football. When last did England (or any home nation for that matter) win anything - when did we even get close? The sooner the bubble bursts - the better - we can all make a fresh start on an even playing field and bring some fans back to 'our' once great game.

I'll be well chuffed - especially when we storm back to win 4 - 2! Will make interesting debate on here for a start and hopefully fend off all the doom and gloom merchants for a while. COYR.

You wrote it but you don't seem to understand it. It is just that - your opinion. Others will have differing opinions and will vote so. Please try to understand that not everybody in the world will concur with you - and at the moment you sound like a spoiled boy in a sweetshop. In the unlikely event that Ron should venture on here - I'm sure that he will be more than flattered by the level of support that he has got. I'm also sure that if he doesn't win 'the vote' he will also take it in very good grace.

Sorry Frank - but your opening gambit coupled with your conclusional statement kinda made me chuckle...!!! Is it a solution or is it not a solution...???

Surely a vote is just that, an independant vote of confidence. People can vote for whom they wish and should not be swayed from their vote by somebody elses wishes. Anyway, I vote for John Sergeant - every time - irrespective of form. Ohhhh is this not a BBC run vote - I thought it was, based purely on the apparent chaos...!!

Interesting stuff - not least the bit about how his contract details got to be published as well. I can understand him being more than p i s s e d o f f...! Makes you wonder what kind of journalist prints such information and as JE says - where exactly did they get the information from. Mind you - all this sort of story does is put himself in the shop window.

Ahhhhh the ever refreshing 'most important game of the season' thread...... not seen one of these since errrr - the Forest game barely 2 weeks ago....!!! Must win, 6 pointer, can't lose, catastrophic consequences blah blah blah. Let's face it guys if the managers and players don't realise the seriousness of our current plight then we are in deep shyte. We have to pull our fingers out before we get set adrift at the bottom - that means 20 cup finals between now and season end.

I don't want Kelvin to get Player of the Season - I want DMG to get it. Let's face it for that to happen it means that DMG has to have blinder for the rest of the season, scoring 25 goals in the process which in turn means we avoid relegation. So while I am eternally grateful to KD for his heroics thus far, DMG for Saints Player of the Season please.

After a win, much like yesterdays: 'This result means nothing unless we follow it up with another 3 points against.....' Whereupon we generally lose our next home game against the likes of Forest....! Let's hope this one does not come back to haunt us again on Saturday

'The takeover will be concluded in the next few days....' Normally a Wednesday phrase in time for Fridays by the likes of Tommac, et al.... absolute classic...!

If we win all of our remaining games we will stay up - no problem. Errrrr but... current form says that aint likely to happen and we will struggle. Win away at Reading, lose at home to Forest. The problem is not consistency though - becuase from what I have seen, we are consistently poor. Even yesterday - we were apparently lucky to come away with the points. If I were a betting man - it would be on us to be relegated. We now need a huge improvement in our home form in order to get out of this mess. It's in our hands - as I said in an earlier thread - time to stop talking a good game and start playing one - consistently.

You'd probably wake up somewhere along the line too..!