stevegrant

From what I can tell, this isn't anything to do with a cosy local relationship, it's a contractual issue from when we signed Aaron Martin from them two years ago, where as part of the deal we agreed to send a "strong" squad for a friendly every pre-season for the duration of Martin's initial contract with us (3 years, IIRC). In theory, if we break that agreement, Eastleigh could get the Football League to place a transfer embargo on us, as we have technically reneged on a transfer contract.

The pop-out screen is an improvement on the old Sky Player system, as you can then resize the video to however big you want it, rather than being stuck with either the fixed size they gave you or full-screen. However, the reduction to 2 PCs is ****.

I'm expecting numbers to be roughly the same. Some will not renew as they can't afford to do so, some will not renew because last season they were free under-8s season tickets that weren't actually used by under-8s (I suspect this is the reason they're being so proficient regarding checking ID for concession tickets this time around), and there will be a number of new ST holders. Still a bit baffled as to why the whole process has taken so long, but "meh" really, from a selfish point of view it helped me out as I didn't have to find a lump sum at the same time as forking out for loads of away games in the last six weeks of the season.

If we have an option of signing Maynard for £4m on £15k a week or Nugent for nothing on £15-20k a week, I'd go for Nugent. Basic economics, a sensible business decision. Both are proven at Championship level, and I would be slightly wary of spending a fortune on a player who fairly recently had a cruciate ligament injury.

Somerset and Sussex both got beaten tonight (quite heavily as well), so we've got a 4-point lead, and a game in hand over Somerset. Below us, there are 4 teams tied on 14 points with Surrey a point further back. With Sussex, Essex and Surrey still to play, we're going to have a pretty big say in who joins us in the quarter-finals. Looks like being a big crowd at the Oval on Friday night, I really struggled to get two seats next to each other on their online booking system.

I wouldn't trust MacAnthony as far as I could throw him, to be honest.

The Peterborough chairman said on Friday that he expected CMS to sign for Leicester over the weekend. Fair to say this has come as a bit of a surprise, and perhaps demonstrates a lack of ambition on the player's part? Guaranteed a starting place at Brighton, whereas would have competition at QPR, West Ham and Leicester. A rumour I heard this morning was that he had agreed to join QPR and then their board pulled the plug on the deal at the last minute. Given the characters involved there, that seems plausible.

Other than your ambition to become the world's most proficient pedant, I'm not sure what your point is.

You can't have it both ways, either debt to a benefactor who isn't likely to demand it back any time soon is a debt or it isn't, make your mind up.

My immediate thought as well.

According to that article, it's an average of 24 hours a week. Despite being "contracted" to 37 hours a week, once they get beyond 6 hours in a day, they automatically qualify for time-and-a-half overtime. Where's the incentive to actually get the job done efficiently?

As I said, I've got no problem with the club wanting to check people who are trying to buy concession tickets, but I'm buying an adult ticket. Their system should easily be able to cope with checking whether the ticket being renewed is an adult one and if so, allow the user to select postal delivery. It doesn't need to be rocket science at all.

But that rather negates the whole point of doing it online, if you end up having to phone them up and wait on hold for 15 minutes anyway.

Not really got much of a problem with them asking for verification that someone qualifies for a concession ticket, I'd imagine most clubs do some sort of check on that, but I'm renewing an adult ticket - there should be no need to verify my age

If anyone has had any problems with their subscriptions being taken twice or any other subs-related problems, please email me at subscriptions@saintsweb.co.uk What has happened in the vast majority of cases is that a year ago (or more), a subscription was created with a recurring payment, and either the user has forgotten it was set up as a recurring payment or the automatic renewal failed the first time (card expired, etc), and as a result has then set up a second payment. Then, as the card details are all valid, the original subscription has automatically renewed. Within PayPal, you can check the recurring payments you have set up by going to Profile -> My Money -> My pre-approved Payments

Nobody, it would seem...

Colville's such a cóck. Even if we had won solely because of the pitch and the quality of our spinners (as was arguably the case against Sussex), so what? What would he rather, every groundsman across the country prepared flat wickets that offer absolutely no help for the bowlers?

To access it, you need to go to the "My Account" section, and then on the left there's a "Renewals" option.

Is anyone else restricted to "collection at ticket office" for the delivery method?

Doubt it. With 9 potential Test grounds, I think it would make it LESS likely that we get an Ashes Test in 2013 because we'd have already had a game two years running. It'll go to Lord's.

Good to know there's a high level of literacy among our teachers

Even as someone who's very much on the anti-strike side, I'd be very wary of taking figures from Sky, who made absolutely no secret of their support for the Conservatives during the election.

Yep. It's all stuff that's been on this thread already in the last 6-9 months or so. Surprising that the Eye is so far behind on that one, to be honest.

How is that any different to the private sector? If the unions don't have all the information required in which to make an informed decision, why were they allowed to ballot for strike action?

Annoyingly, they appear to have shifted the fixtures back a week, so no games that weekend. Bayern Munich are at home on the Tuesday night, playing Hamburg in a friendly. We stupidly booked our flights for that night