stevegrant

If in doubt, look at each of the squads on paper. France's squad looks excellent, they're just hampered by a retarded manager.

Hence why I've gone for the Goliath with the same selections as well. I'm very confident that at least 7 of the 8 group favourites will do enough to win their group, and if that's the case, that'll give me a decent profit. France are the only slightly dodgy one for me, but it depends on Uruguay performing, and they're just as inconsistent at the moment.

The background is sooooo last season

You appear to have made a rather obvious faux pas there, Daren

Fair enough. The traffic stats from the SFC corporate network shows that there are a hell of a lot of people from the club reading the forum on a regular basis (although that might just be one person constantly pressing F5, to be fair ), so I would be amazed if they didn't use the forum to gather a subsection of opinion. Clearly it won't be entirely representative, as Stu pointed out the 3500 who logged in in the last month is only 8% of those who got tickets for Wembley via the club (and it's an even smaller percentage when you consider how many got tickets via Club Wembley and the Carlisle ticket office), but that's still a much larger group of people with a collective interest than most opinion polls. Yeah perhaps, although I would argue that as long as you have a half-decent grasp of a) how the media works and how your words can be twisted to suit whatever angle the press are trying to portray, and b) how to avoid saying things that are going to wind people up, you won't get too much hassle.

Sorry, are you genuinely suggesting that the club should be allowed to control what the press (whether it's the Echo, Radio Solent, the national press, whoever) write/say about the club and when?? Our own little Pravda... excellent. Doesn't this rather go against your liberal roots? I'd be resigning from the Lib Dems if I were you, I'm sure there's a communist party out there who will be more aligned to your views. And to keep it vaguely on topic. really like the kit. Gets the thumbs-up from me, although the design was hardly much of a secret

The Echo goes to print at 11pm, therefore they can't put it in the paper tomorrow.

Fair enough, misunderstood the tone of your post Agreed, as per my post just above.

And nor will there ever be, otherwise this place loses its independence in an instant. The club are obviously welcome to view the site and take poll results on board if they so choose (and I'm sure they have done in the past and will continue to do so, even if they wouldn't admit as much publicly), but I'm certainly not going to go down the route of any sort of "official" link, particularly one where they call the shots in terms of what questions are asked.

I think your concept of time might be lacking somewhat, I resigned from the board of the Trust in January 2008. For what it's worth, I'm not in favour of the idea. It'll only end up with the same old situation where those "in charge" get the "you don't speak for me" comments aimed at them, and as a result those people might decide to leave the forum as they feel it's not a "forum" in the true sense anymore. This forum has grown because of its diversity of opinion, forming a "group" like that would only serve to reduce that, IMO.

What a shambles.

Did it genuinely say that?! F'king hell...

As far as I'm aware, Jason's the vice-chairman.

I would imagine that most airlines aren't haemorrhaging money like they're Allen Stanford's investment returns.

That's an awful lot of convenient bull**** I'm smelling...

Cheers for the bug report - the major upgrade I've been promising for a while will hopefully take place on Sunday, so I'm hoping that problem has already been fixed in the new version of the forum software.

I'd be careful with the "you" usage, really... Are you too thick or ignorant or just on a plain windup (my most likely belief at the moment, given your particularly irritating and patronising smiley faces at the end of every single post) to realise that many people will have budgeted sensibly, perhaps even for the entire year, on the belief that a payment plan was going to be available for the months of, say, May through to November? It isn't even a case of people "not being able to afford it". I know people who are fairly well-off by most people's standards, and had budgeted for £200 per month over 4 months during the summer/autumn to pay for their two season tickets, as it's more convenient to them, and it allowed them to have a family holiday. Maybe the saying "assumption is the mother of all ****ups" rings true here, but having had a payment plan in place every year for as long as anyone can remember, it was perfectly reasonable planning to assume there was going to be a continuation of the scheme which allowed them a bit of money left over to spend on something else.

Who are you to comment on other peoples' financial situations? Seriously, who the **** do you think you are?

On the Ladbrokes site, you just select the 8 group winners, and then on the mini-slip on the right it shows the type of bets you can have and a box to put the stake... the Goliath one is at the bottom. With Ladbrokes, the maximum stake per line is £19.51, which would be a total stake of £4,818.97, but paying out a potential £36,144.50 Needless to say, I went nowhere near that amount

Am I missing something from UHY's quotes? I would have thought advancing a proposal that would obtain more money for the creditors is EXACTLY the sort of responsible position an insolvency practitioner should be taking...

I've got a £10 accumulator on the group winners, fairly obvious selections: France, Argentina, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, Brazil, Spain. Returns about £320. Also gone for a Goliath on the same selections, which should cover me nicely if one or even two of those make a mess of it. 247 lines at 10p a line, returns just under £200.

Because he's a good player, presumably

I thought we bowled reasonably given the low score to defend. Christian's catch off Briggs was a bit good...

Barry Hearn (Leyton Orient chairman) put that very proposal forward at the Football League's AGM, but the majority voted against it.