stevegrant

There's a key difference between our situation a year ago and the situation Palace now find themselves in. Their stadium will be infinitely more valuable as property real estate for a developer than it is as a football stadium (location location location etc). Brendan Guilfoile (the Palace administrator) is doing his legal duty to maximise return for the creditors, but there's only so long he can run the business for before it ceases being a viable proposition - that seems to be the case from tomorrow, unless he can sell any more players relatively quickly. Re the fee for Ambrose, ultimately the most the administrator can get for him is whatever someone's willing to pay. If the highest bid is £750k and they're a few days from beginning the liquidation process, it's his duty to grab that money while he can. Arguably Mark Fry did the same with David McGoldrick and Andrew Surman, which allowed the club to continue trading for an extra few months. It doesn't bear thinking about what might have happened had those sales not taken place (even though we did ultimately get "fair" prices for them).

The responsibility for paying the football creditors will fall on the Premier League, who will cover all payments from their parachute payments. As a result, they'll only get about £26m of the £48m due over the next 4 years, most of which will probably be released to them in years 3 and 4.

Don't know which are any good, but there are loads on the Blackberry app store. Download it and just search for "radio" Someone I know has the 3GS and they've had exactly the same problem.

The main reason I've limited it to 400px wide is because there isn't a fixed width of the red header, it depends on the available width on the user's screen. If the available width is 800px (the vast majority of users, except some mobile users, will have at least this amount), the user menu on the right covers almost half of the available width, hence leaving 400px to play with. I can increase the space vertically by as much as required, but it starts to take up too much room after a while.

It happened after about 5 minutes of the game, I think! 80-odd minutes of hobbling around trying to get through it on adrenalin alone probably hasn't helped my cause, tbf, but there was no way I was coming off! ](*,)

Will probably pop to the hospital this evening... expect it's probably just heavy bruising but worth getting it checked out anyway.

It's called "minimising expenditure by encouraging membership participation" Would happily pay a professional to do it, but I know that there will be some excellent contributions from forum members

And thanks to that tackle, I am struggling to walk. Possible ligament damage, need to get it looked at.

Can do either. Last year I emailed everyone just before I got all the copies back from Baj/hamster to get postal addresses - obviously anyone who wants to collect theirs in person can do so, although it's possible that I may have moved to London by that stage this year...

Correct. The vBulletin logo will be gone, that's just the default logo for the forum software. There's enough space to extend the image to 400px wide, and I can move the menu down a bit so the image can be about 100px high without it looking like it's taking too much space.

If I remember rightly, it took 6-8 weeks last year. Hopefully won't be quite as long this time around.

That graduated red background won't change. It can be either "just" a logo or a full banner (with bits of the crest, player images/watermarks, stadium images, etc) - open to ideas really

Someone suggested to me that, because of the comfortable financial situation at the club, they didn't feel the need to release them early as every other club does as there's no pressing need for working capital over the summer. I'd disagree, personally, particularly as Cortese claims (and everything seems to back up the claim) they're not running it out of Markus Liebherr's pocket, but as a viable self-sufficient business.

Wouldn't be much of a prize if it was the latter, tbf

Yep, no problem. The prize is a signed shirt, by the way.

His sources are very reliable, I've heard Lukey's weekly rants against Jack Warner and Peter Storrie are always good value.

As some of you may be aware, I've been working on a major upgrade to the whole SaintsWeb site for most of the last year or so. In conjunction with a new major version of vBulletin, the software we use to power the forum, the new site is not far from going live - probably a week or two away. To go alongside this, we want a new site logo/banner. This will not be a forum-specific one, as the new version of vBulletin allows us to integrate the forum with all the other areas of the site (the existing Prediction League and Podcast features in addition to new user blogs, a comprehensive stats database and a revamped news section). I'm therefore throwing it open to anyone on the forum to design a new site banner. The specifications are as follows: The image must be no more than 400px wide by 100px tall The image should feature SaintsWeb prominently The image may optionally feature the strapline The number one independent Southampton FC website The image should feature some part of or all of the Saints crest (preferably the "normal" one, rather than the 125-year special, but that's up to you) The background of the image should be transparent where possible, in order to enable the banner to blend in with the header block background (see the sneak preview below for an illustration of this) - as a result, submitted images should be in either GIF or (preferably) PNG format. There is a (rather nice, if I do say so myself!) prize for the entry that we choose to use (although we may request slight alterations), and in exchange for that prize, you agree that the image becomes intellectual property of SaintsWeb Ltd. An initial deadline for entries is midnight on Friday 4th June, and entries should be sent to me at banner@saintsweb.co.uk Any questions?

Funny you should mention the logo... watch this space

We were beaten by the better team, no argument there. However, some of the decisions were disgraceful, really. The one time we got a 50/50 decision in our favour, we had a 3-on-2 break but the ref a) refused to play advantage, and b) then stopped us taking it quickly. Strangely, he let you take as many quick free kicks as you liked all evening.

"Rule Britannia..."

To demonstrate the retardedness of the officials last night, you got a free-kick for that

Seems a very sensible decision. Given that a lot of sides in the lower leagues struggle to find enough players to fill the first team subs bench, it stands to reason that games against their "reserve" teams aren't going to provide any benefit to us other than perhaps injury recuperation.

I assume that's basically the Blackberry Internet Service - previously, they used to charge an additional monthly fee for all the internet services like push email, web browsing, Blackberry Messenger, etc. Now I think it's all bundled in. You'll get internet access, definitely. I've not owned an iPhone though, so can't really say whether it's "like" what you get on there. Much better battery performance The newer Blackberrys have UMA technology, which allows you to use any available Wi-Fi signal to boost your mobile signal If you end up cracking the screen, you can still use the phone... Nowhere near as many apps available, not as much built-in storage space.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't YouTube use Flash video? Something of a flaw on the iPhone... Disagree. Particularly if you're in a 3G area, the connection speeds are very good. Also, the Blackberry battery doesn't degrade after 6 months meaning a day's usage runs the battery to empty like the iPhone does.

Concourse will be open for food and drink, not 100% sure how much beer they'll have in though.