stevegrant

Get the iPlayer downloader app, then you can download it and watch it offline.

It'll be on iPlayer, I'd have thought...

Series 8 is out on DVD... http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/12159741/Spooks-Series-8/Product.html

My favourite line from tonight's episode: "So the country will have to struggle on without pornography and Minesweeper for a few hours? Do it!"

True, but there's usually a surge straight after the final whistle as well.

It's been down all weekend

For those who were on the forum during and immediately after the game yesterday, how did it go? In particular, was it quicker than normal? Did it fully crash (with the "Database Error" message) at all?

I've said no such thing, as you're well aware. If you want to retain your membership, I suggest you watch what you say.

History tells us it doesn't matter whether they're coining in the sales revenue or not, there will always be fundamental problems with the game on release day.

Should point out that at no point was I using work time to do this... Also, quite difficult to test what we need to test without actually having hundreds of people online at once. We've got just over 200 online at the moment, but that's fairly standard for mid-afternoons. The proof of the pudding will be at 5pm tomorrow, but it's likely to be a bit of a trial and error scenario to get the database config absolutely right.

Isn't this a relatively simple case of corporate theft?

Somerset have given up on the run chase, still need about 140 off 9 overs. Notts just about scraped to 400, and now need 3 wickets in 16 overs to win the title.

The title race is looking a bit interesting, though!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/promotions/8003821/Two-for-one-cricket-tickets-for-England-v-Pakistans-One-Day-International-at-The-Rose-Bowl.html Two for one deal now...

All young players get media training these days - essentially taught how to be as diplomatic and bland as possible.

There's perhaps some basis in the suggestion that as he knew/suspected that his card was marked in terms of his future at the club, he wasn't as motivated and driven as he was last season before all the speculation started. That would appear to explain the lack of fitness and stamina - we weren't too bad last night until we conceded the first goal after an hour or so, but then you could see the confidence and any remaining energy drain from the players and we were never going to get back into it from that point. (I should add that the players' character needs to be questioned at this stage as well - last season, we conceded first on countless occasions but still went on to win games) The fitness is the main thing I hold Pardew responsible for at this stage. The recruitment policy is a bit of a grey area because of the management structure within the club. We know about the transfer committee, comprising Pardew, Cortese, Reed and Burke, and it's possible that there simply wasn't a consensus of opinion among those four as to which players we should bring in in attacking positions. I think someone suggested recently that there was an issue regarding whether we'd sign either Papa Waigo or Michail Antonio (or both) on permanent deals, with AP favouring Antonio and NC favouring Waigo. Given the egos and stubbornness of both of them, if there was a disagreement over this, it's very hard to see either of them backing down from their position, and as a result, we ended up with neither. If this is the case, then both are equally responsible. I'd expect him to be fairly active in the loan market once he's had a couple of games to assess which areas of the squad he feels would be benefited the most from a couple of additions. Personally, I think we're OK defensively, but our problems in midfield and going forward leave the defence far too exposed. As a result, I'd like another striker and at least one pacy winger, preferably one who can take corners as well.

The thing that confuses me the most about that particular issue is that last season, the match tickets were £24 in the wings and Northam stand. Then at Christmas, they brought in the £2 matchday surcharge (which made sense, particularly if anybody had seen some of the pre-match queues at the ticket office). This season, they've reduced the matchday price by £2 to £22, but brought in the transaction tax, claiming (justifiably, to an extent) that all departments within the club have to be self-sufficient. Surely the best way to ensure the ticketing operation remained self-sufficient/profitable/whatever* would have been to maintain last season's pricing structure, as they'd have brought in much more money? It's more a psychological thing than a numbers thing - once people start to be charged add-ons over and above the price of the ticket itself, many will raise objections. However, if the price itself covers any costs, they don't mind paying. It's the "stealth" feel that gets people irritated, IMO. * - that of course raises issues surrounding the ticket scanning system the club are supposedly looking to install, if it's going to cost £2m (really?!? Clubs like Southend have it, and I can't imagine they paid £2m for it), I would assume it's going to be as a result of passing it onto the customer...

This, I imagine. It's clearly in Sky's interests to get as many customers switched over to their HD packages as quickly as possible, for most customers that means an extra tenner a month. If they can convert all of their 10m subscribers to HD, that's a scary amount of extra revenue, even if half of them are on promotional deals for the HD part of the subscription.

You put your left leg in...

Indeed. I would suggest people re-read the sticky thread at the top of the page if they are unclear on this.

This

The last manager to win his first game in charge for us was Paul Sturrock, in March 2004

It can work either way, depending on the manager and players.

Also worth bearing in mind there are officially three administrators appointed to the case, AA, Michael Kiely and Peter Kubik, all of whom are listed on the UHY website as partners. If all three are working at the same time, that's a bill of up to £1350 + VAT per hour. For a 7-hour day, that's more than £11,000 including VAT. They went into administration on 26th February. They've been in administration for 140 weekdays (28 weeks) - I'd expect they've put in hours at weekends as well, the days will have been longer than 7 hours each and they'll have also enlisted the help of junior administrators to do a lot of the basic work. Not including expenses, I reckon they've racked up at least £1.5m in fees

Lifted some time in the last 7-10 days. Someone told me on Twitter this morning that there were some Rochdale-based photographers in the ground on Saturday - can't say I noticed, but I've tried to block as much as possible about that afternoon from my memory Since then, there have been reports in journalist-targeted publications (example) that it has been lifted, and also the Sun dropped the "South Coast Team" replacement in their article about Nigel Adkins this week, which would suggest that an agreement has been reached.