Jimmy_D

Going back to the original post, I'd be more surprised if they didn't have the sash as one of the kits they're looking at, considering how successful it's been (just look around the ground next game), and the fact they'd want our current kit to work from as well. Doesn't necessarily mean that's what we'll end up with, although personally I wouldn't mind us staying with it long term. I love the fact that we stand out, that you see our kit and KNOW it's Saints.

The Sky money is going to be less than they've been getting soon as well, that won't help them. They're heading for another perfect financial storm.

In a way, it doesn't really matter how good he is, the fact we've managed to sign him ahead of Premiership clubs that wanted him is a huge statement of intent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2426280/Beattie-wins-south-coast-battle.html Is that the one you're after?

I guess we're not the current holders any more Well done to Carlisle though.

Football League Show highlights now up: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01091r9/?t=43m50s Enjoy

Sorry about temporarily closing the wrong thread... only just back from the game, and not entirely recovered yet... Flippin' 'eck. That is all.

We're not in a relegation battle. At this end of the table, I'd rather have the three games in hand, just about.

Plymouth do appear to be in real trouble now. It's not debt that's killing them so much, but the fact that cash flow is negative. They can't cover their running costs, and going into administration to reduce the debt won't help that situation.

Ah dammit... Still not a bad set of results this weekend for us though.

Nice bonus for Di Resta! How much prize money is each point this year? Shame that amazing drive by Perez won't be recognised though.

Pretty close between Fonte, Jaidi and Chambo for me. It'd have been Lallana by a long way if it weren't for the injuries though I reckon.

Agree with that, bloody good spot by DC! There were a few moments where inexperience showed but that's only to be expected, already prefer him to Legard. Far better Australian race than we've had in recent years, bodes well for the season I reckon, although I've got a horrible feeling the race for second spot will be a lot more exciting than the race for first... Vettel in that Red Bull looks untouchable. Depends on how much McLaren can improve the new design they've pulled out of their thin air. I still can't work out how a German driver in a British car driving for an Austrian team works so well though... it really shouldn't work but it does What a race by Perez though, how he managed to be so light on the tyres... I'm sure all the teams are wondering right now. That could end up being the only single stop run of the season.

Agreed, Couthard isn't perfect yet, but he did a damn good job during qualifying, considering it's his first commentating job, and he's only going to improve.

Dropping Morgan that many times will end up losing them this match... Then we have a match against NZ for a final place!

Oooh! Good point

That is a scary amount of pace Vettel had there... Gonna be tough to beat unless the Red Bulls shred the tyres over race distance.

So we now have a method for remembering which colours are which hardness thanks to Brundle... (Or at least, Brundle is the first one I've heard say this) Silver - Hard - Knife White - Medium - Toast Yellow - Soft - Butter Red - Super Soft - Jam And for the sake of completeness: Blue - Intermediate Wet - Fairly obvious Orange - Extreme Wet - The one that's left over... It's going to be a nightmare to tell the difference between the tyres as the colours are on the side and difficult to see while the cars are running. We'll have to rely on the commentators keeping track at the start of the race and pit stops, would have preferred it to be on the running surface like the green stripes on the Bridgestones last year...

Here we go, nearly time for the first lap times put down in anger of this season... Looks like Red Bull might have been sandbagging a bit judging by their FP3 times...

Great results, not half as worried about Huddersfield as I was about Peterborough on that run. Can't help feeling that suddenly seeing us above them with a game in hand, despite that run they had been on, might have got to them a bit... Now for a day of sport, with F1 Qualifying being followed by England Cricket being followed by the Wales v England match

Yeah, don't mention... that. Things went right against us when I did...

This is more nerve wracking than listening to Saints...

Prefer automatic of course. Then again, it is about time we won at Old Trafford again...

According to FM he's 29 now... (Ok, ok, I've been playing a while, born in 87 according to FM)

OK Alpine, I'll bite. If you want to disregard the games in hand, fine, we're still two points off of second, and Huddersfield have to play Peterborough soon. We can catch them even without the games in hand. So what it comes down to is you want to give up because we might have injuries to two players to keep them out for a couple of games? Despite the fact they might be fit again for the next game, or that we might win without them, or that the teams around us might lose, right now, after we've got 13 points out of the last 15, which is more than our rivals, after one 'bad' result in which we kept our unbeaten run going, because you're worried about how serious a couple of injuries might be, you want to give up? Bit too early for that. Also remember that Adkins was a physio, we've already seen with Lallana this season that they won't play if they're not ready.