stevegrant

I'm intrigued as to how he's arrived at a figure of £10m a year for the wage bill. Even that would be unsustainable for them in the Championship. With tickets priced at a maximum of £23 next season, that gives them potential revenue of about £10.5m from ticket sales. Clearly they'll get less than that because a) they won't sell out every week, b) they'll sell a number of season tickets which work out much cheaper than £23 per person per game and c) they'll sell a lot of child/concession tickets. They will only repeat the problems of the last couple of years but with slightly smaller figures, i.e. a wages/turnover ratio that is unsustainable, leading them into debt and administration again.

We were only pulling in £14m once the parachute payments ran out, so god knows how they think they'll get £25m!

Pothas gone for 30.

They did clarify earlier that this would be a similar swing to the one Thatcher achieved in 1979 (about 5%), but about half what Blair achieved in 1997. The 80 years thing is that it would be the highest quantity of Tory seats for 80 years.

Sounds about right, somewhere between 70 and 80 is my guess. At the higher end would be a 30% increase.

Or it goes to show that, much like 1992, you can't trust the exit poll results... The betting exchanges have Lib Dems on 70+ seats at even money, which would be a more than 10% gain for them.

Well you and common sense have never been closely aligned, tbf.

Is that right? The swing in 1997 must have been huge to go from a Tory government to a Labour landslide... Those figures on the exit polls fly in the face of every other poll that has been conducted over the last three weeks, and indeed of general common sense. Surely there's no way the Lib Dems will lose seats today.

McKenzie's been an unmitigated disaster so far.

You need to take out the secured debt (£14m?) from that

Take off the secured debt of £14m and it's 28%

Wow indeed.

51/1 at lunch, Carberry gone for 14.

Not quite accurate, they won't be voting on the actual CVA today, they'll simply be voting as to whether they agree in principle to allow the administrators to prepare a CVA.

Latest: CVA will be over 5 years, with a minimum payment of 20p in the pound. Small creditors and charities will be paid in full, apparently. Not quite sure how they're going to do that one...

Buon Gusto (Italian restaurant at the top of Commercial Road, by the Mayflower) re-opened a few months back under new owners. I went there last week, and can highly recommend it.

329 all out, not too painful in the end.

This. Assuming they're a seeded team, they'll have to play another seeded team, nearly all of whom will have prior Champions League experience. I'll be surprised if they get to the group stage, unless they draw Rangers...

Finally broken the partnership, now let's get Kabir back on to clean up the tail.

This is getting annoying...

No, what did he say?

It's OK, Samit Patel's at the crease and lunch is approaching... he'll want to be back in the pavilion as quickly as possible

The irony of Redknapp accusing someone else of underhand transfer dealings...

Pretty sure there were thousands of Saints fans who did the same in 2003, the difference being it was genuinely difficult to get a ticket in the main allocation unless you were a season ticket holder. Summary: ****-poor excuse

Paul Hart top left?