stevegrant

A hashtag is basically a "topic", which you can search for quickly to find related Tweets. For Saints-related stuff, type #saintsfc somewhere within your Tweet and anyone looking for that topic will find it.

Terrible with animated GIFs though

I find Facebook chat to be really unreliable (and it was particularly bad in Firefox). @officialsaints does basic updates from the games, as does @SaintsWeb of course and there are always loads of people posting in on the #saintsfc hashtag during games as well.

Touché ART, the Saints feed's been running since July, pretty sure it's been mentioned a number of times in the past

@officialsaints is the SFC Twitter feed, which has been running for ages.

Gatwick, not Luton, fortunately. Seat numbers

Surprised Gary Johnson didn't take them to Latvia, to be honest.

The square root of **** all I'll be packing on Sunday, I'm at work today, going to Uxbridge for the cricket and then back home for a wedding reception, and then free all day Sunday. Up at 4 on Monday though

What's Andy Townsend got to do with it?

He's in charge of merchandise, the megastore, etc, yes.

Well I fly into Basel airport on the 12th... not quite the same, but hey ho

You'd need permission from the club to use it on a product, though.

Just checked the CVA proposal, the first year's wage budget is £13.6m, so to be fair to him he's alright on that one. That said, he then goes on to say that they're on the verge of selling Belhadj for £3.75m... only a few months ago, they were touting him around for £5m. Lenny Sowah was also valued at a fair bit more than £165,000. Not quite so easy, this selling players malarkey, is it, Android?

In general, yes, but I don't see too much of an issue with the club wanting to get some part-time staff on their books on a full-time basis. Fair enough, haven't really been paying attention to other clubs' backroom staff, other than seeing that Coles and Groves hadn't shown up to Pompey's pre-season training. Do you have any other tones in your locker other than "tediously patronising"?

I would imagine he's got another job that he deems more important to him or pays more than Saints were offering for a full-time contract (or both!). Maybe we could get David Coles back...

Their chairman has been likened to a modern-day Robert Maxwell by the local paper His businesses are £22m in debt, and they continue to get bailed out by Sainsburys, who have already agreed a deal to buy Roots Hall when they eventually move to their new ground at Fossett's Farm.

Jordan Sibley looks after the Twitter feed. His official title now is "Club Spokesman", but he is essentially the middleman between the club and the press, "Media Liaison Officer" is probably the most mainstream job title that fits, I guess.

Didn't suggest that would be the case - I specifically contacted people I know at the club to see if I could pre-arrange something. Might still be possible, I'll hopefully find out in the next few days once they've got settled in there. No real rush as I won't be there until late on Monday anyway.

Expect easyjet would try to charge me another £50 to take them on board

I fly out to Basel on Monday, been told it's unlikely I'll be able to get any access to training during the week as the training complex is a "secure compound", which sounds rather sinister

If you'd placed a "to win" accumulator on each of the six games Germany have played, and followed Paul the octopus' predictions, you'd have got cumulative odds of 314/1

118/5, 6 down if Key doesn't return, 7 down if Khan can't bat either Potential innings victory, and having taken full bonus points, that'll be a massive lift.

I give it until the Bournemouth game before that gets reversed

Done by a Cork bouncer, apparently 64/3 now (effectively 64/4 if Key can't come back in)

While the figures on their own are utterly insane, I'm intrigued that a website that doesn't appear to have changed (in terms of its functionality) over those three years requires identical spending on "design and build" every year Every site I've ever been involved in has done the vast majority of its design and build before the initial launch...