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Mads Jorgensen

It's 15% for cup games... when we were there 18 months ago, we had about 1600 if I remember rightly, probably about 1000 on the terrace and the rest seated behind the goal

And there's not a cat in hell's chance Reading would have Pardew back after he walked out on them to go to West Ham.

Would be useful if people from here wouldn't cause me any more grief than I'm currently getting, cheers...

Speaking of valuable land, did anyone ever find out what happened regarding Jackson's Farm?

Marc Wilson?

I've thought about doing a SaintsWeb podcast for a while now, but I think there'd probably be a shortage of things to talk about really.

Speaking of the Dons, I'll be on Radio MK within the next hour previewing our game Think you can listen live at radiomk.co.uk or something like that

Not much point in pulling that one as they ran it as their back page headline in the print edition today. What an almighty mess

Errr... didn't Peter Storrie say only a few weeks ago that all of the cash from the TV revenue was going straight into the hands of Standard Bank to repay the loans to them? If so, how have they managed to secure a loan based on something that's already securitised?! I suspect he should have backed his initial judgement, to be fair...

Would a conviction on that charge automatically disqualify him from being a football club director?

Can't do any worse than Mike Newell did, to be fair. Also, a rather major irony of her succeeding Newell if it turns out to be true (and I doubt it will happen, tbh)

Strachan and Pearson will be the favourites, I'd have thought. Doubt Pardew's even on their radar at the moment.

The word is that upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is an absolute nightmare, but everything else I've heard has been generally positive.

Very much so

I'd agree with him on that point, to be honest. The whole organisation is doomed to fail when it is placed under so many regulatory restrictions just because it's a state-owned organisation. Its competitors are not under the same restrictions and can therefore negotiate with its potential clients over the fees it charges. Royal Mail is not getting a level playing field, and the only way it will do is if it goes private, IMO.

Unfortunately the counties voted for this setup. They bring more people through the gates for 20 and 40-over cricket than they do for 50-over cricket, so it's no great surprise that they want to do what's best for them financially, rather than what's best for the national team.

To be fair to him, on this occasion he does have a point. Absolutely ludicrous that he (and others) should be thrown out for holding up a poster with the word "Judas" on it. He should have been thrown out for body odour offences instead.

I'm not sure the most recent strike did actually get any sort of result for the union - if I remember rightly, about half of the underground workforce belong to a different union to the RMT, and they all worked as normal, and even a lot of the RMT members crossed the picket line because they didn't agree with the strike. In the current economic climate, with more than 2m people unemployed, there can be no justifiable reason for striking other than on the grounds of health and safety, IMO.

Something I read in one of the free papers on my way to work this morning suggested that recruitment agencies that provide workers to Royal Mail during the strike might actually be acting illegally (i.e. providing replacement staff during "lawful" industrial action) and they could be fined £5000 per worker per day...

To be fair, the Sun is 'Arry and Storrie's favourite mouthpiece, so it's probably not too far wide of the mark.

van der Meyde?! :lol:

I saw this on another forum earlier in the week, and someone found a YouTube video showing a game at that ground - at the other end of the ground is a luxury hotel... utterly bizarre

Is the Vanilla one Mac-compatible?

Right, I don't do torrents, so how would I get hold of a copy of the strawberry version?