stevegrant

Just what we need, another left-back/midfielder

This has been and continues to be an excellent two fingers to the ECB. 102 more runs after tea for the world record...

No, clubs are "permitted to name up to 5 substitutes". It's effectively optional.

Sorry guys, can't have that link on here, we'd be in contempt of court.

Who would have thought a thread like this would turn out this way?

Should be fine for a draw, heavy rain all day tomorrow, according to the forecast.

There were loads of obvious spammers registering with @mac addresses.

Ah ok, Baj monitors the Contact Us inbox - he's on holiday at the moment. For any subscription queries, please email subscriptions@saintsweb.co.uk, which I monitor on a (fairly) regular basis - especially around this time of year when the majority of subscriptions are up for renewal!

Who did you send that to? I've not received anything, and the "admin" account isn't used (and should issue an alert if you try to send a PM to that account).

Also added a Sun Dream Team one into the OP.

The big heading in capital letters above the fixtures and results grid

The format is, as described on the page, Saints score first.

That's my fault, I've not put all the fixtures in yet... will fix that at some point this week, but no real rush.

Don't forget that the SaintsWeb Prediction League is up and running again for this season, simply enter your score predictions for each Saints game and score points depending on how accurate your predictions are. Correct scoreline and result: 10 points Correct result: 5 points Correct result + either team's correct score: 6 points 80 people already entered for this season, let's see if we can get that to the 200 or so we had last time around. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/prediction-league is the address

What he said.

Well, every Saints fan last season as they didn't sell pies for some bizarre reason. I wasn't impressed

Those figures are slightly flawed, given that the majority of match-going people don't buy a programme, don't buy a cup of tea and probably don't buy a pie.

Didn't Sharp turn us down because he didn't want to move south?

Yes, damn him for not letting people nick content from his website to pass off as their own

Do they not own Spyker Cars, which owns Saab?

You might find some megatrain deals if you're quick. South West Trains don't do advance tickets, so if there are no megatrain options, your best bet will be a Group Saver, assuming you can get 4 people to travel together. Alternatively, Southern DO do advance tickets, and their website is offering 25% off at the moment on top of the cheaper advance fares, so you might be able to get a decent advance fare going round via Chichester, Gatwick and Croydon into London Victoria.

Some would argue they've let the club get away with everything to date, so why should that stop now? Things do seem to be a bit more above-board with this new lot (although clearly that's not saying much), but the Saab situation would concern me. With what is presumably their largest asset struggling for its day-to-day cashflow, it doesn't take much imagination to envisage a situation where they're moving money between each of their interests to prop them up on a short-term basis until they either get lucky and a load of cash comes in (Saab gets a big order, for example, or Pompey get promoted) or they realise they can't juggle it all around anymore and something eventually has to give. I still don't see what they aim to achieve, business-wise, at Pompey. It seems to be a gamble on promotion this season (although without a Leicester-esque mental spending spree), which would then allow them to sell up in a year's time at a sizeable profit, but what beyond that assuming you don't go up? They're clearly not stupid men (perhaps unlike one or more who came before them), so why would they leave themselves open to such exposure and risk?

I do wonder whether there is legal recourse back to Portpin from the charities and small creditors, given that Portpin agreed in writing to reimburse all of them in full. As far as the CVA is concerned, I think technically these debts fall on Portpin's shoulders now (the CVA proposal states that , not PFC 2010 Ltd.

While most of your points there are valid, are you not somewhat concerned that various people seem to keep moving the goalposts in terms of when the creditors will start to receive some of the money they're owed? In the original CVA proposal that was agreed by creditors (and I fully accept that they have since agreed to a rescheduling), the first payment of £2m should have been made in September last year, with a further £3m payable in January 2011, so on that basis, you're £5m behind, a position which will have to be recovered at some point over the next 4 years - no mean feat, I'm sure you'll agree, given the relatively small number of revenue streams the club has. A third of the CVA could have been paid off already, which would have left the club in a much healthier position long-term. I would argue that Chainrai had no intention of paying any of the CVA knowing that the schedule could be amended, and it'll be interesting to see whether the Russians have similar intentions. At least they don't seem to have been spouting their gob off since they arrived about how they were going to turn Pompey into Champions League winners within 5 years or other similar nonsense that previous owners have come out with.

Bear in mind the refunds for the Test match aren't actually handled by Hampshire. The address you had to post the tickets to was somewhere in the midlands.