stevegrant

Get a better phone tbf

You could have just linked to here, tbf

Draws would be preferable, simply because that means all 4 teams drop points. It's still early days yet, really, but I guess everyone's view will depend on whether they think it's better (at this stage) to have two teams cut adrift completely - in which case two home wins wouldn't be disastrous for us - or for everyone to be quite close together but for us to be a couple of points above the dotted line. Obviously come the end of the season, we'd take the latter, but if teams like Reading and QPR can be completely demoralised by Christmas it means there's then only one relegation place to play for.

I think there are some pillars towards the back of the stand.

I would expect any player who didn't have a promotion pay rise written into their contract would have sacked their agent pretty swiftly. That sort of thing must be pretty standard, it's a fairly easy incentive to offer a player - earn the club success on the pitch and be rewarded on your payslip.

Do left backs and centre backs not count as defenders these days?

Thing is, there's no real context given to those statistics. You would expect that on the occasions when, say, Man United are losing going into added time, their opponents are making substitutions and doing anything else they can get away with to waste time. In those situations, naturally there's going to be more time added on. Also, the number of times when they're losing in the last minute will be far fewer than the number of times they're not losing at that point, so it's a much smaller sample size.

They have to provide a service, certainly, but I wouldn't expect them to go out of their way to rearrange work that would have been scheduled months ago (the game was only officially moved to the Sunday about 6-8 weeks ago) for the sake of what probably wasn't any more than a few hundred people who would travel from your part of the world. Also, if you think your weekend fare isn't "reduced", try travelling the same journey at 7am during the week

I can't see many (if any) being sold in January, simply because the wages any likely departing players are earning are probably much higher than their quality deserves. That's not their fault, and to an extent it's not the club's fault either as many of them are as a result of automatic increases written into their contracts as a result of the two successive promotions. Ryan Dickson's the perfect example. He was good for us in League One but didn't get a look-in last season, so would have been an obvious candidate to move on, and he'd apparently agreed to sign for Yeovil if the deal was sorted, but because his wages had increased so much as a result of the promotions, Yeovil then couldn't afford him at his current salary (and Saints wouldn't pay up part of his contract to get him out, apparently). I know footballers get accused of only thinking of their wallets, but if you or I were in a position to earn far more than our "market rate" for a year or two and not have to work too hard to do so, I'm sure the vast majority of us would take that option.

As far as Network Rail are concerned, it is infinitely preferable to carry out engineering works on a Sunday when relatively few people travel than during the week when there are thousands of commuters (who pay the majority of the fares) standing in the aisles waiting to get to work.

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Probably IP-blocked.

No trains. All other London public transport will be running though (union strike dependent, of course ).

All over, other results mean that Pompey slip into the bottom 4. Tragic.

3-2

3-1, Ricky Rocha giving away a penalty on his return :lol:

2-1, first goal in 545 minutes

****ing hell Showing their support for the potential ground-breaking unique fans takeover that has definitely never happened at any other club in the country

If it was a simple case of it being a payment lost among "thousands" of other monthly payments, surely they would have paid up when they realised their mistake, rather than allow it to go to independent arbitration, and then when the independent arbitration ruled against the club, surely they would have paid up then, rather than take it to court and then wait until the day before the case was due to be heard before emailing the court to tell them they wouldn't be attending to defend themselves?

I would suggest that if ANY of those things happened, there's a fairly serious problem somewhere. How do you forget to go to court?

So they've already admitted to one mistake in the share prospectus. Now, what about the others...

Frank, the "being contrary for the sake of it" look really doesn't suit you.

"Sceptical" is my initial reaction to that article.

To be fair, I think Eric's point was that it was regurgitating news they'd already reported on last week, but he didn't realise it was a post from Dan Kerins' blog rather than a news piece, and held his hands up accordingly.