stevegrant

I will be responding to all applicants over the next day or two. Thanks to everyone who has applied.

Up and back on the day from Kings Cross, £59 return. Not completely hideous.

As you may have noticed, the news section of SaintsWeb has been restored in terms of content and enhanced with two new writers in recent weeks. I'm still on the lookout for a few more, though, to add a bit of variety to the editorial. As a result, I'm looking for three or four additional writers. Basic requirements are that: a) you can construct sentences and write coherent articles; b) you have a decent grasp of good journalistic practices (particularly related to ethics and law); c) you are reliable. I guess this role would be ideal for journalism students looking to get a bit of experience and add some "real-world" work to their portfolio. At this stage, this is an unpaid role. Applications should be sent either via PM to me, or via email to applications@saintsweb.co.uk Oh, and serious applications only, please.

Completely unrealistic... Owen Hargreaves still playing in 3 years' time

Considering some of the train wrecks we get normally, I'm generally delighted when we've got a demoted Premier League ref!

It baffles me why people continue to use thetrainline.com - they offer exactly the same routes and fares as the operators themselves, but they whack on handling fees at the end as well. I usually book mine through Virgin Trains, although it's often worth checking the operator of the train you're travelling on to see if the fare is slightly different. One leg of the return trip from Carlisle this week is using TransPennine Express rather than Virgin, and the same fare was about £3 cheaper than Virgin through their site.

He has a point, but referees are already demoted to the Football League after bad performances.

The tube (and DLR) will be running on the 26th, and all London buses will be running a Sunday service.

I'd prefer to go back to stripes. Firstly, this one was to represent a special commemorative occasion, and secondly we'd have to change "Come on you Reds" permanently, which is probably beyond a lot of our fans

Hmmm...

I'm moving this weekend and don't need the following items: 3-seat leather sofa Bought from DFS for £500 four years ago, in decent condition, although the middle cushion has a bit of a me-shaped dip in it Colour is "mocha brown". Indesit washing machine 1200 rpm, this model. Excellent condition, 3 years old. All offers considered, must be able to collect from Southampton before Sunday though.

Rather incredibly, 25 people went for 4-0 last night I should have some time to look at the intermittent saving problem this evening, by the way.

Ah... you've changed your username since the last renewal, haven't you? I was wondering who that one was...

Pretty sure the first payment of 4 pence in the pound was conditional on a) the club raising enough money in transfer revenue, and b) with the cost of administration deductible. So what, in theory, was more than £3m being paid out to creditors in March will be - at best - £1.5m.

It was me - their wages, at approximately £160k a month between them, account for almost exactly a third of the £495,000 monthly budget. Also worth bearing in mind that Hayden Mullins, Michael Brown, Richard Hughes, Dave Nugent and John Utaka are each earning more than Kitson or Lawrence...

Fixed

All well and good citing the likes of Diarra, Benjani, etc, who Pompey made a profit on when they were sold, but there were plenty of others who made the club nothing. Teddy Sheringham, signed on a free, one year's wages at £40k a week = £2m, left on a free. Total cost, £2m + PAYE/NI Sol Campbell, signed on a free, two years' wages at £50k a week (with Arsenal matching it) = £5m + PAYE/NI... plus another year of Pompey being his sole paymasters, at anywhere between £50k and £100k a week, potentially £5m a year, so a potential total of £10m + PAYE/NI. Left on a free. Even players like Defoe, signed for £7.5m, sold for £15m a year later, but on £80k a week during that time, so that's at least £4m, meaning they only made a maximum "real" profit of £3.5m (and that's obviously not taking into account PAYE/NI, bonuses, image rights, signing-on fees, etc). Peter Crouch, signed for £9m, sold for £9m, according to Soccerbase. Again, £80k a week after tax. At least a £4m loss. The net transfer spend argument just doesn't work in reality because the associated costs with transfers, player contracts, etc have such a massive impact.

What this really needed was another thread. See my various previous posts on the subject in the last week.

The main problem is that the person overseeing this forensic investigation is one of the men central to it having played out in the way it has in the first place.

Coventry to win at Sheffield United at 11/5 looks good value.

I was almost let down hideously in the FA Cup 1st round last season... my slip: Most of them were quite comfortable, but Wrexham won 1-0 in the 92nd minute and then in the final game, Burton Albion v Oxford City, it was 2-2 in the 96th minute, and then Burton somehow scrambled a winner Had a couple of accumulators in the Champions League this season that have been stitched up by one result, nothing costing anywhere near the amounts you're talking about though.

I've got a few cheques that haven't been cashed, but I was pretty sure I'd dealt with the subscriptions for them... I'll check when I get home tonight.

How do you score on that one, by the way? FWIW, to my knowledge I've never even met "hypochondriac", so I don't see how I'm "sticking up for my mates" there

The only stupid decision was his - that, despite numerous warnings, he couldn't leave his "humour" for the parts of the site where it would actually be relevant. I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that the infractions that were handed out to him which pushed him over the 10-point milestone recently weren't done by me, so you can direct your "over-inflated sense of importance" digs elsewhere.

And yet it had no effect on you. How odd.