stevegrant

From what I can tell, the car parks at St Mary's are pretty much exclusively used by staff, corporate customers, guests and disabled badge holders on matchdays, and they're usually full or not far off being full.

Christ. I said to someone about six weeks ago or so as a joke that the next thing they'll do is bring in pay-and-display in the car park so they're getting extra money from you even when you go to the ticket office in person. I didn't think they'd actually do it

The two mentioned doctors are Dr Richard Peace and Dr Greg Warner, who are both partners in Nightingale Surgery in Romsey. Both are avid Saints fans, Warner (and his wife, also a GP at the same surgery) regularly goes to games home and away. As the article above mentions, the money a football club would pay a club doctor would not make it worthwhile (or even viable, possibly) financially for them to ditch their GP work to go full-time for the football club, hence why they've presumably had difficulty finding someone else to fulfill that role. I've no issue with the club wanting to find someone full-time, but you'd have thought they'd have found someone before ditching the current part-time doctors - assuming that has actually happened, of course. The part-time arrangement didn't seem to do us any harm when we were in the Premier League, and I would imagine the medical support staff at the club would take care of most of the health-related tasks.

Portadown were 1-0 up until the 92nd minute as well

Er... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/8754639.stm

Not harsh that Xabi Alonso's one was retaken at all, there were at least 3 Spain players well inside the area when the kick was taken. Paraguay's one should probably have been retaken as well for the same reason, so while Spain got away with it on Cardozo's one, they didn't the second time. The keeper's challenge on Fabregas from the rebound was also a blatant penalty

To clarify, ALL predictions should have the Saints score first, regardless of whether we're home or away. I have emphasised this on the "My Predictions" page as it wasn't clear. Ponty, the reason I've done it the way it now appears (i.e. you submit one result at a time) is to avoid the situation we had last season where you might only predict one actual score, but the rest would be entered as a default 0-0, meaning if we ever did draw a game 0-0, those who couldn't be arsed to actually make a prediction ended up with full marks This way, if you don't predict a result for a game, you won't score any points.

I don't see the big deal about the handball really, I'd expect any player to do the same in that situation... last minute of extra time in a world cup quarter-final, if it goes in, you're out, if you keep it out with your hands at least the keeper's got a chance of saving the penalty and keeping you in the competition.

The stupid thing about the handball is that he could probably have just headed it off the line Cost me loads of fantasy league points, -1 for conceding the penalty, -3 for the red card. I did get a surprise bonus though, +1 for a save

Apple are now saying that the signal fault that people have been experiencing isn't a fundamental flaw in the design of the phone itself after all (despite Apple saying last week that you could buy a case for £££ that would fix it ), it's actually a ****up in the algorithm used to calculate the signal strength. Er, yeah, ok, so something that's worked in every previous version is now suddenly broken. Forgive me for not being convinced.

It seems as if he didn't even get an assist for it

Can't believe that was given as an own goal Mostly angry because I've got Sneijder in my fantasy league team

Nope, all self-funded.

That's the plan. Absolutely no idea what sort of access I'm going to be able to get to the training ground though, although it's not a major issue either way really. If technology allows, I'm hoping to do a podcast on location as well

*panics*

Well I'm not bothered now as I have my flights booked

When you're in the Prediction League section, click the "My Predictions" sub-link.

Worth noting that the Hampshire website makes it very clear that the Executive Club is located in the Robin Smith Suite - http://www.rosebowlplc.com/pages/executive-club/ Splitting hairs until there's further evidence, though, I suspect.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/MatchdayHopsitalityIndex/0,,10280,00.html

I don't really see what Sky gain from this. Having a sports channel on free-to-air TV is surely to their own benefit as they can plug their paid-for services to their heart's content. I really can't imagine enough people will be desperate enough to be able to watch endless repeats of tedious interviews over and over again that they'll take out a Sky subscription just so they get SSN.

When you do a search, make sure you select the "Show results as Posts" option rather than "Show results as Threads" one.

Yeah, I totally accept that it would be an issue for those who were only going for a short period of time, but they could easily have got around that by emphasising the point that the match dates and times are still provisional, but that the tour dates themselves are pretty much nailed down. It's then up to others if they want to take the risk that things get changed.

It's a fair point, although I would argue that, realistically, there were always going to be a couple of games squeezed into the tour simply due to the timing of it. By the time the tour ends, every other club in League One bar Notts County and Walsall will have begun their programme of pre-season friendlies. Many will have had 3 or 4 games by the 18th. Here's when all the other clubs in League One begin their pre-season friendly games, as far as I can tell from their respective official sites: Bournemouth: 10th July v Spurs Brentford: 14th July v Fulham (may have away games before this) Brighton: 10th July v Burgess Hill Bristol Rovers: 14th July v Bath City Carlisle: 9th July v Kendal Charlton: 10th July v AFC Wimbledon Colchester: no idea Dagenham: 7th July v Borehamwood Exeter: 15th July v Clevedon Hartlepool: 13th July v Almere Huddersfield: 9th July v Emley Leyton Orient: 17th July v KFCO Wilrijk MK Dons: 17th July v St Neots Town Notts County: 22nd July v Stoke City Oldham: 10th July v Barrow Peterborough: 14th July v West Ham Plymouth: 10th July v Truro Rochdale: 17th July v Rossendale Sheff Weds: 10th July v USK Anif Swindon: 14th July v Swindon Supermarine Tranmere: 13th July v Heswall Walsall: 20th July v Wolves Yeovil: 17th July v Swansea

And nor will you on here if you post any more potentially libellous stuff. Strangely, that gagging order applies to message boards as well.

Go into the user's profile and select "Add to Ignore List". I'll try to add it to the popup menu when you click on a user on here tomorrow.