stevegrant

Looking to get a game against West Ham's fans team on the morning of our game at Upton Park next month (22nd February). Kickoff likely to be 11am. For any newbies, this is 11-a-side, standard is pretty average so no real requirements on that front. Fitness is probably more important, but some of us even struggle with that these days Anyone interested in playing, please let me know Current Squad: Steve Grant Kev Thornton Steve Thornton Stu Holloway Andy Porter Chris Bulpitt Geoff Justice Ant James Ben Newton Julian Ganley Matt Marchant

Seems I was wrong... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/appointment-of-interim-ceo-1310367.aspx

Seems like strange timing to only now be kicking off about the Bath centre, when it's been running for the best part of 20 years. Also, I'd be absolutely amazed if we ever went as far as buying parents a house - I'm sure there are all sorts of incentives thrown in the direction of families of promising kids but until very recently we've never had the budget to go as far as that.

The most amusing bit about that comment is that Allen has actually hit the "dislike" button

Gareth Rogers left a couple of months ago, I believe.

I doubt it serves their interests - they've probably already handed over this season's cash, so they might as well get the last few months' exposure for that money.

It's worth bearing in mind that Zoopla's sponsorship deal with West Brom expires at the end of this season anyway. The sponsorship (especially at £3m a year) probably hasn't brought the tangible returns Zoopla were hoping for so I suspect they wouldn't have renewed in the summer regardless of the Anelka situation, and they've even managed to get themselves some lovely positive PR and publicity out of the situation as well. That's not to say they weren't within their rights to complain - of course they were, although the "demand" that Anelka be dropped was perhaps taking it a little bit too far.

Received transfer fees are accounted for in the period in which the transaction takes place (e.g. if we were to sell Shaw for £30m in June, the full amount payable - not including add-ons - would appear in the "Profit on disposal of players" section of the accounts), which is significantly different to how transfer fees paid are accounted for. Essentially, that £30m would be football income and therefore counts towards the FFP calculations.

There will be big changes at some point in the next year or so, the newest "major" version of vBulletin is absolutely horrendous so I won't be upgrading to that. We'll be moving to a different provider.

Sorry, but where do you think the vast majority of the newspaper bull**** over the last few days and weeks has come from?

Nick, you're the master of the "we have to wait until both sides state their position publicly" cop-out. In the real world, it won't ever happen. At some point in time you have to decide, on the balance of probability, what you think happened and to form an opinion based on that. Benali has no need to tell everyone what happened - as far as he's concerned, he's allowed back at St Mary's, Cortese is no longer there, he'll want to just move on, he can't control what his daughter or Matt's son says on Twitter. Likewise, Cortese won't say anything publicly about it, why would he? From his perspective, it's a private matter.

Interesting/amusing to see that the two big hitters in the Daily Mail's sports department aren't exactly singing from the same hymn sheet

No, the ones in Southampton are SEAT, Skoda and Volvo, I think.

Buying from a Jaguar dealer rather than a SEAT one? Seems a fairly safe decision

That's nothing to do with profit, that's to do with the balance sheet. Completely different. The only thing that complicates the profit and loss account slightly is transfer fees paid, as they are spread equally over the duration of the player's contract regardless of what payment terms the club has agreed with the selling club. For example, if we signed someone for £10m on a 4-year contract, the "cost" of that signing (listed as "amortisation of player contracts" in the accounts) will be £2.5m per year, so even though we spent £10m, only a portion of that is accounted for initially.

You can only buy P1-P4 through Fulham. The rest is on sale through the Saints ticket office, and went on general sale (so don't even need to be a ST holder) this morning. According to the online system, there are "Restricted View" tickets still available.

It never got to court, NC settled shortly before the case was due to be heard. Absolutely right.

Where has this been said?

Surprising news, everyone in the national press was adamant he'd be leaving. Oops.

Not very.

The accounts for last season are due out by 31st March.

Do we know if this is actually true? I've only seen it referenced in Neil Ashton's articles in the Mail and in Ben Smith's articles on the BBC, and considering both of those have been fed every leak out of the club in the last year by Cortese's PR man, David Bick, I'd be slightly reluctant to necessarily believe that's true without verification from another source.

You go off and support the newly-formed Nicola Cortese FC, then, and we'll stick to supporting Southampton