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Never thought I'd be hankering for a football highlights show with Steve Claridge! Oh, BBC.

The world is turning upside down

Some incredible sub-Photoshop work on there too. Classy!

Skates truly are the fans that keep on giving: Nobby Clark @antonydjames got a few teething problems over ownership this year is about surviving, promotion next. Youll be getting smashed every week Teething problems?! Wow, they still think they're going to buy their way out of L1, even after the sanctions the League have placed upon them. What will it take for reality to hit?

In Portpin's statement it says that Birch has basically spent the incoming parachute payment on settlements for former players and staff, as predicted on here many a moon ago. Was never going to be a great plan if the goal was to keep Chanrai interested. Love it.

Cex often offer stupidly high prices for phones, they've got stores everywhere but you can also look it up on their website: http://www.cex.co.uk.

Despite nearly drowning in sarcasm reading the OP, there's a sentiment at its core that I wish a few more of our fans would take on board. Swansea are a case in point. Got promoted by playing football. Had only secured a few incoming transfers at the start of the season. Widely predicted to finish 19th/20th (plenty of evidence of papers/pundits of this online). Not saying that we'll emulate their success, but it's far too early to panic.

I'm a little confused here. Many of the skates that chastised the Football League for allowing Chanrai to pass the FaPPT are the same ones now ushering him back through the doors. Utter fickleness; taking the attitude that it's better the devil you know; setting themselves up for an even bigger fall; all three? They're really not the brightest are they?! It'll be more than they deserve if BC rips the guts out of what's left. The thought of him rebuilding doesn't bear thinking about - surely it'll be an impossible task with the sanctions placed upon the club anyway?

Jon Stead is only 29, who'd have guessed? Thought he was about that age when he nearly sent us down in 2007-08, before Stern John's heroics.

Goes both ways - most readily available lagers are vile.

That won't help anything, companies will just raise the 'face value'. I don't see how paying the same amount as a ticket + booking fee costs now will be so much better.

I've seen worse, to be fair. No major rendering issues on my screen (viewed in Chrome). Usability's not great but then most websites fall at this hurdle. The biggest crime is the splash page on initial load - the call to action to enter the flipping site is near-invisible.

He's en route to Geneva apparently...

So who's he signed for? The big tease. Also 'full most', haha.

After your good-natured mocking of your own 17th place prediction for last season I thought you'd wised up a little. Nobody's saying that a few new signings wouldn't strengthen us but equally it's not worth getting hysterical yet. Even if the Buttner deal is dead in the water (and there's little other than supposition to say it is), there's no reason to suggest we can't or won't sign an equal or better player in his stead. Fairly sure that Swansea had only signed 2 players by this point last Summer - they had a flurry of late activity and further strengthened in January. Splashing the cash early is not the only option. Blimey, do people genuinely think that the backroom staff are sitting on their hands, or locked away in a darkened room with fingers in ears repetitively whispering "everything will be OK!"?

Says so on the Winchester City website: May pop along.

Well done guys, now I'm imagining Cortese as an Italian play on Tony Hayers.

You still have to explicitly choose a club for it to count though - a few people on my friends list don't have a team registered against their username.

The TL;DR version is that this sort of activity is mostly harmless - people are making fools of themselves, few would think they are indicative of the club's entire fanbase. At the very worst I suppose a player could be put off signing, but every club has its share of weirdos so any top pro would surely be used to that. In reality they probably just ignore 99% of fan 'interactions' and get on with their lives.

Simon Peach's contacts say we're definitely televised against City, although that was predictable enough. Hopefully it'll stay as a Saturday game.

I wear small/medium tops generally and an Umbro small is fine for me, so I'm not sure that's strictly true! Personally not quite cynical enough to believe that today's queues were conceived as a PR stunt - it's nigh-on impossible to predict how many people will turn up to an 'event' like this. Unless you want to start suggesting that half of the crowd were plants, but that's approaching Lowe-era hysteria. I don't doubt there would have been a few using a slow response as indication that the world at large hates the kit - a good showing of interest in the club is more of a positive isn't it? Heaven knows it would have looked feeble if nobody had bothered.

Walked past the West Quay ‪store earlier. Shutters are still down for 'refurb' but you could see the new kit through them. The red is definitely more vibrant than in photos I've seen so far. No doubt here'll be even more moans from the stands as from a distance the pinstripes don't particularly stand out. Thought it was a shame that they've still got the 'Kit revealed 6pm, 29/6' posters up. Missing out on a lot of free promotion as the footfall through there will have been huge today. As for the kit itself, I like it. It's neither good enough to become 'us' permanently, nor bad enough to deserve such vitriol - apart from anything else there's definitely room for a bit of experimentation if keeping kits for just a year is the norm now. Umbro's material quality and tailoring has been top notch so far so hopefully this one matches up. Only thing I don't like is that the aap3 logo is printed on that crap plastic stuff again. No doubt it'll end up cracking and discolouring. At the end of the day I envy anybody that's got so little to moan about that this has shaken their world. Buy it if you like it, send a message the club by keeping your money in your pocket if you find it that abhorrent.

Hmm, you were way ahead until very recently. Seems a bit fishy that they got so many votes in such a short amount of time.

Now I have never been and will never be 'ITK', but a mate from Birmingham today asked me whether we were in for a Blues 'keeper. When I said that there had been reports of interest in Butland he replied in the affirmative with the comment, "I know his mum and that's what she was saying". Only a tiny snippet so yes, I know there's little substance. Just thought I'd share as it seems a bit of a strange thing for her to come out with if we haven't made an approach. Not really like we're a big enough step up from Birmingham for it to be worth a fabricated brag.

Would you like a broader brush?