Barry the Badger

Ultimately, if a negotiation fails it's because both sides are not prepared to compromise any further.

Somebody make sure this gets to Nigel Adkins. Maybe you should release it as an open letter. I'm pretty sure he doesn't realise his signings would be best if they improved the first team.

One of my thoughts is that we're now a lot more choosy about what type of characters come to us. We obviously can't get a good idea of a players character/motivation until we start talking to them. Maybe once bids accepted these players are not meeting the requirements somehow?

This is such a lazy opinion.

I am not worried if deals are falling through. Means we aren't taking risks.

Nothing at all wrong. Bit of cucumber, bit of yoghurt, nice dip with a poppadom or two.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=electrician+london+yell HTH :-)

I take it you've not been following cricket these last 5 years then.

Totally unrealistic, yes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/8842079.stm The problem is that people don't like there being a random element to a game. They want 'doing the right things' to always equal victory (which is how most games work). Well, it isn't like that in real football and it isn't like that in FM either.

We all know he wouldn't be as good as Lambert anyway. I would rather have Torres than Bendtner and that's saying something.

That doesn't explain the improvement since last season, when we also dominated games.

Well perhaps, but there is something of a difference between 'censorship' and the blocking of sites practicing copyright theft. It's not like they're cracking down on free speech.

Well then it's lucky that this is a long way from being like other businesses you patronise. If you honestly believe this web forum run by two blokes in their spare time as a service for other saints fans truly bares comparison to "other businesses", then I'm glad I only have to read 3 of your posts each day.

you are on a windup!

I hadn't considered that it could be the police holding things up, though I guess the club could still be more forthcoming with communication. I do find it funny that you need police authority to have a big flag.

Over the past few years he has been prone to injury, he a long term problem and then quite a lot of smaller layoffs after joining us. He has returned from injuries a number of times for us, each time finding his way into the first team before getting injured and losing his place again. If you take his entire career then no, he has not been injury prone, but since his big injury he has struggled to get a good run going and that is why people label him so. Stop getting so worked up about it. Of course, we all hope that this time the good pre season has really set him up for an injury free season.

Whilst I guess it made sense to use it for the memorial tournament, I agree its disappointing that became the one chosen match rather than one where more people would see it. Perhaps more clarification should've been sought with the club early on, but I'd imagine Mike assumed the club would continue to communicate and cooperate with him after the flag had been handed over. He did a brilliant job getting the project together to honour ML, and it does feel that the club have done the bare minimum. I would have thought the least they could do would've been an article on the OS and continuing to speak to him afterwards about future uses. Maybe the person he was dealing with has left or something?

To be fair, mike always said it was being done for one particular match, initially Walsall but this then changed to the first home game, after which it would be up to the club. If you were expecting it every game, you made that assumption and should've read it properly, nothing more than one match was ever promised. I do get what you're saying but if you're gonna throw words like 'robbed' around its fair to point out you were not. That said, I share your dissapointment at not having seen it more, and I do think its pretty **** poor that the club are now ignoring Mikes request for info.

That wasn't how I read it, I thought he was saying IE dies also taking saintsplayer with it. Just trying to be helpful. Alternatively, until things are sorted, if on Windows 7 install 'xp mode'. You can then run a virtual xp machine within your windows 7 desktop which you coud use to view saintsweb, with the saintsplayer running on the main win7 desktop. Then if ie crashes, you only have to reboot the xp virtual machine. To be honest though, if a webpage timeout causes your entire computer to need a reboot, there's probably something wrong with your computer.

Bit of a workaround but install Firefox and use that for one or the other. That should prevent Saintsweb timeouts killing your saintsplayer.

Was it? My memory is that the charge was simply introduced when the site was started, to help cover running costs. I don't remember any promises that it would be used for anything specific when it was introduced. Honestly if I was Steve or Baj I would've just said **** it and walked away some time ago. They seem to get a total lack of appreciation for the work they put in here. I could understand the animosity if they were taking a wage, but they aren't.

I used to work for a bank and they would send out letters saying court this and bailiff that. We were also encouraged to threaten debtors with bailiffs if they phoned us. The bank had no link with any bailiffs whatsoever, it was all posturing. Don't panic basically.

Having it in one of those massive datacentres should hugely improve the amount of network traffic the site can handle. I'm guessing you will have access to multiple network cards too which will help. Sounds like a good plan to me, good work.

I'm a big fan of Davis but I thought it screamed for him not to retreat to his goal line.

What the hell is going on?