stevegrant

Jesus H Christ

Wow, that PDF contains some absolute gold. For example, the NON-PLAYING staff have agreed to defer a percentage of their wages. Absolutely no mention of the players. Fratton Park is valued at £7.7m on the balance sheet, but "for the purposes of this exercise, we believe the value to be nearer to £15m"... sorry, what??

But would have rendered their period of administration invalid... can the courts invalidate it retrospectively?

The red card itself at MK Dons wasn't rescinded. They merely changed the period of suspension to one game, which he had already served by the time the appeal was heard anyway. As a result, the 4-game ban is because it's his second red card of the season.

Right, I've just set up a league on the Telegraph site: http://fantasycricket.telegraph.co.uk/league/view/8000493

Looking at the graphic above, I don't think that's how it works. If a candidate polls enough first-choice votes to win the seat outright, they do so and that's it. If no candidate has reached the winning threshold, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated from the process and all first-choice votes for that candidate are put back in the system - the second-choice votes from those votes only are then allocated, to see if that then gives any candidate enough votes to win. If not, the candidate with the next lowest number of votes is eliminated, etc etc. I think...

I spoke to Fordy on Saturday, but I'd already had an email on Friday from someone looking to replace "forever a red and white" for his 45 minutes. He's next in line if anyone else pulls out. Having sorted out the issue with replacing sotonjoe by allowing two players who had originally wanted to play 90 minutes to do so, I wasn't going to go back on that as I didn't think that was fair on those people. If they didn't believe they could last the 90 minutes, I'm sure they wouldn't have asked to play for that amount of time in the first place.

No replacement, I gave two players the opportunity to have full 90 minutes instead as there didn't appear to be any takers.

Partially. I'd probably attribute more to the lack of fitness at the start of the season due to the uncertainty and Pardew's relatively late appointment. The points deduction was a psychological barrier as well as a numerical one, but we were in winning positions in a number of those early-season games only to throw points away late on, so I think the fitness and stamina was a bigger contributor. Points dropped against Millwall, Brentford and Stockport due to lack of fitness... those 6 points would have seen us move ahead of Huddersfield tomorrow night if we were to beat Oldham.

The BBC highlights showed what I assume was the exact same clip, blatant elbow by their player (who did get booked), but no real complaints about Morgan getting red for kicking out really. Pretty stupid thing to do right under the linesman's nose.

Several kinds of pots and kettles being thrown around with that comment...

The Montjuic really was a terrible ground, no atmosphere, the stands are miles away from the pitch, no wonder Espanyol still didn't even fill it when they played Barcelona.

Can also go from Waterloo East, which will probably be easier for those of us coming from Southampton.

I'm impressed, Nick, that you've managed to make the single most idiotic point in this entire thread. Well done.

The thing that baffles me the most is that all debt is supposed to be frozen during administration and any additional costs are to be met as and when they fall due, so all PAYE and NI costs since they went into administration have been paid on time, hence the debt to HMRC hasn't increased. Yet the overall debt has leapt from £60m to more than £100m in the last 6 weeks...

Yeah, pretty much. Tempted to drink in London and make my way to Gillingham at the last possible moment.

It's Gillingham, what do you expect?!

You're probably right, although the principle still applies, IMO

All of which says more about the state of our society than anything else, really... There needs to be an incentive for those on JSA to take jobs like that rather than remain on handouts from the state, rather than just sweeping the acts of a load of criminals (which is essentially what they are) under the carpet. As MC said above, it sets a rather dangerous precedent - as long as they're doing a job that nobody else seems to want, we'll let them do what they like.

On what grounds? Surely an illegal immigrant is still in this country illegally, regardless of whether they've been here 10 minutes or 10 years?

All bar two (I think) of the teams in the Welsh Premier League are part-time. Also, the ability level is on par with Blue Square South, at best.

They're associate members of the FA now, and the situation with the Welsh teams is a hell of a lot different to that in Scotland in that Wales doesn't have its own professional league, whereas Scotland does.

I don't see any reason why we need to include Scottish teams in English competitions, really.