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Gray definitely doesn't, he continues to bang on about "daylight" between the defender and the attacker, when that was removed from the rules at least two years ago I'd be delighted to see the back of the pair of them, half-decent presenters who actually know what they're talking about and don't ask dumb questions just to get a layman's response are ten-a-penny - most of the SSN presenters would do a better job than Keys. Granted, it's harder to find decent pundits, but Sky do have a few on their books among the utter dross. Le Tiss, Alan McInally, Dion Dublin... all decent enough, but they only ever get the chance when one of their former teams are being shown, while the rest of the time we have to listen to Jamie Redknapp literally not knowing his arsehole from his elbow.

Prior is a better keeper than Davies at the moment. However, Prior shouldn't be opening the batting, stick Bell in with Strauss. If I remember rightly, the rule on injured players is you can replace them within your squad before the start of your first game in the competition, so they've still got a few weeks yet. Bresnan's bowling is probably quite well suited to the low skiddy pitches on the subcontinent. My first-choice XI would be: Strauss Bell Trott Pietersen Morgan Collingwood Prior Bresnan Broad Swann Anderson That said, I can quite easily see a scenario where either Bresnan or Broad is left out to accommodate Shahzad and/or Yardy.

My player summary, for what it's worth: Davis (3): confidence appears shot to bits, communication is appalling. Jointly at fault for the first goal. Richardson (1, for turning up): how the **** he got in the League One team of the season last season is a mystery to me. Get Butterfield back in there, he may not get forward too much, but at least he won't put 80% of his passes straight to the feet of the opposition. Harding (3): offered very little support by Dickson, but like Richardson seemed to be brilliant at finding a white shirt all afternoon. Fonte (4): like Davis, at fault for the first goal, didn't seem comfortable at all during the game. No idea what's going on there. Jaidi (6): won plenty in the air against Showunmi, but when he did get the ball at his feet, just lumped it long every time. Chamberlain (4): comfortably his worst game for us, barely got a kick and was drifting all over the pitch in the first half, which then left Richardson exposed against Jennings. Dickson (4): on the rare occasions he got on the ball, he looked alright, but failed to track back which then left Harding in trouble. Chaplow (0, didn't turn up): utterly anonymous. We effectively played with 10 men for the entire 90 minutes as he contributed nothing at all. Schneiderlin (5): at least tried to get the ball down and play it on the deck, but gave it away more often than not. Guly (5): not really the game for little flicks, and he and Lambert were often playing 50-60 yards apart, so when one of them won something in the air, it fell straight to the feet of a Tranmere defender. Lambert (6): worked hard but had no service. Always crowded out by at least two defenders, and wasn't close enough to Guly when he had the ball to link up. Re the penalty appeal, Barnard had a free shot at goal, 12 yards out, with no defenders close enough to block it after a great turn - why would he go down unless he was tripped?

First time all season

I suspect the number isn't very random at all, but is based on an algorithm which combines the date and time of the request, the card number and the account number. That data can easily be stored on the chip on the card, so it probably only needs to store two or three years' worth of codes for that card.

OK, I've had nothing from the OP which suggests to me that this is nothing more than a selfish money-making scheme. The reason the club don't do big signing sessions anymore is because the stuff invariably ended up on ebay - I'm not prepared to let the forum be used for personal profit.

You have 5 minutes to justify why this should remain... your time starts now.

The whole "Bent isn't worth £20-odd million" argument baffles me. Since he played his first Premier League game in 2005, only Wayne Rooney and Didier Drogba have scored more league goals than Bent (DD and WR both with 82 compared to DB's 81) - considering he's always played for lesser teams who clearly don't create as many chances for their strikers, that's pretty damn impressive. At the end of the day, a player is only ever worth what the buying and selling club agree he is worth. In the short-term, we could probably easily say that there is no price for Chamberlain as he's not for sale. While he's happy for that situation to remain, great, but there will obviously come a time when he feels he needs to move on. Hopefully that won't be for a while yet though.

Wasn't that game in August??

Interesting... http://twitter.com/#!/RohanRicketts

He's handed in a transfer request this morning.

Channel 984 for BBC South

If he's logged in, he won't be able to read anything (as he's in the "Banned" usergroup). Also, at the moment, the main board is registered users and subscribers only, so he wouldn't be able to read the main board as a guest either.

Shows up on mine, see attached image...

The Blackpool game has been included

Incredibly, talks with Birmingham have stalled because he actually wants a pay rise to sign for them First-team football clearly not enough these days then...

The coverage is provided by ESPN, but bizarrely they're not showing it on their own channel (although it's entirely possible that Eurosport is now owned by ESPN). Might be highlights on the tournament website, http://ct20.windiescricket.com

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I thought their player appearance policy might be something more like "we will seek to ostracise any player who demands that we actually stick to a contract we agreed to in the past"

A quite impressive number of pots calling the kettle black there And I stand by that, having obtained the same figure from two sources, one of which was a ****ing public document Says who? Your mate high up at the club who you see socially every two weeks or so?

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Nor will they be able to pay a transfer fee for him.

I'm genuinely baffled by the problems we've had over the past few games, as it appeared as though we'd fixed it up until that point. Baj and I will have a chat about it tomorrow.