stevegrant

Wage bill in the first season in L1 was around £10m, I believe (haven't got the accounts document at home, it's on my work PC), which I would expect to have DEcreased last season because around 15 players left the club (Wayne Thomas alone accounted for about £500k a year), while only 5 players were signed (Dickson, Richardson, Butterfield in the summer, Forte and Chaplow in January). Throw in an increase in season ticket prices and an increase in attendances (20,982 in 09/10 up to 22,161 in 10/11) and while I don't expect that £8-9m loss to be wiped out completely, it'll be massively reduced. Then chuck in the various revenue increases this season (Chamberlain sale, TV revenue, gate receipts) and I think we're doing OK. Probably should be doing better in terms of attendances this season given the position we're in, but then we don't bang on about how we've got the best fans in the world.

Chiles is horrific. Mumbles through, er, er, his, er, words all the time. Whenever they've got Roy Keane in the studio you can see that he's clearly thinking "you ****ing idiot" I'm not Colin Murray's biggest fan but at least he can ad-lib to camera on live TV.

I'm baffled as to why anyone would choose to drink in the Hole in the Wall

They've just introduced a new tax rate for high earners as well, 53% I think. That should drive a few players away, not entirely convinced whether the 3% difference will be enough to tempt them back to the UK though.

Just show your campus card, that should be enough.

About 5,000 including the block of seating away teams get in the side stand.

Derby in the playoffs? That must have been at least 5k

Nice

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2658576,00.html £30 though

Except if we signed him on loan, he wouldn't be able to play against them...

Among the waffle there, the only bit that matters is "I think that 180mil tota includes ALL the debt incluidng the football creditors and the secured", which was entirely the point. The rest is utterly irrelevant. What does it matter that, since the last administration period, some of the debt has been repaid and some of it has been written off? The figure is an accumulation of the amount of debt PFC has acquired.

Approx £130m from the first administration (although of course we all suspect it wasn't anywhere near that amount but that AA massaged the figures to ensure HMRC weren't able to block the CVA), and then £50m this time. Approx £16m should be deducted from the £180m as that is legacy debt left over from the first administration. Just the £164m then, which of course is fine

Also getting stupidly sent off at Crystal Palace when he was key to Redknapp's genius tactic of "lump it up to Crouchie and see what happens", which left us utterly clueless against Man United's reserves on the final day.

Not that much, unfortunately. It's around £100k for the home team but the away team gets about 10% of that. Only 4 of the 10 will have been at home, so not quite as lucrative as it could have been.

Leicester have equalised against Birmingham as well

Still on general sale from the ticket office

That'll be 10 live games this season, 8 on Sky and 2 on the BBC. As a guide, Wigan have had 6 live games on Sky or ESPN this season so far, and looking at their fixture list it appears as though they're scheduled to have two more.

I believe there is an annual limit of 12 loans, they can't be *that* far away from that now.

This is the crux of the matter, really. Even for a 3pm kick-off, unless you live in or around London, you'd still be looking at spending more than 12 hours of the day on a train at a cost of at least £85 return, getting home after 1am, so it's hardly ideal anyway.

All it needs is a bit of initiative. There are plenty of overnight options, Newcastle's not far away, nor is York. Both are great places to visit and have decent nightlife. This website has loads of great offers for that weekend in both of those cities, and includes off-peak return travel (on any off-peak train, you're not restricted to a specific booked service) from London Kings Cross, going up on the Friday, returning on the Sunday (or Saturday to Monday if you prefer), and two nights' stay in a hotel. It's as little as £66.50 in York and £68 in Newcastle. Alternatively, if people really can't/don't want to stay over, why not organise a coach or mini-bus, or even just a car-load of people? Newcastle also has an airport, and you can fly from Southampton.

Hopefully those who do make the effort to travel will be rewarded. Also, it could have been worse, there's a Monday night slot for the Championship that weekend

On TV, Saturday 5.20pm. Thank **** for that.

The Boro away game (last away game of the season) has been put back to a 5.20pm kickoff for live TV coverage.