stevegrant

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?

And the winners are.... 1 pair of tickets to the end-of-season awards dinner (Graeme Murty sponsorship) - SaintBletch 1 pair of tickets to the end-of-season awards dinner (Simon Gillett sponsorship) - positivepete 1 pair of tickets to the sponsors' training session on 22nd October (Graeme Murty sponsorship) - Block 5 1 pair of tickets to the sponsors' training session on 22nd October (Simon Gillett sponsorship) - zigsdad 1 player's shirt (Graeme Murty sponsorship) - Martyg1950 1 player's shirt (Simon Gillett sponsorship) - dubai_phil 1 Saints shirt signed by Sky Sports pundit team - Polaroid Saint 1 copy of Taking Le Tiss - JonnyLove Congratulations to those who were lucky enough to win - commiserations to everyone else For those who will be going to the training ground on the 22nd, I will pass on the full itinerary when I know it - in the meantime, please contact me with the names of the two people who will be attending, the club need these names for the gate at Staplewood.

http://www.footballgroundmap.com/stevegrant

IE8's alright, to be fair... much more standards-compliant

Well Murty's back in training, I believe, and he'll definitely be there. Gillett obviously won't be there, but the "meet and greet" session takes place in one area with all sponsors and the players, so the winners will be able to have a chat with other players as well.

I currently have the 8320, which does the job quite nicely. Not long until I'm due an upgrade, if I remember rightly

Draw will take place this morning, results posted shortly

Pretty much every team in the Football League uses the same company to produce and run their website - in fact it's the same company that brought us the distinctly "meh" coverage of Ukraine v England on Saturday. While the clubs themselves obviously have some element of control over the content, I suspect there are various contractual agreements in terms of shares of advertising revenue, etc. The only reason the club signed a deal with Perform (formerly Premium TV) was because it made sense financially, as the club didn't then have to employ people to maintain the technical side of things including SaintsTV, all the video archives, etc. No idea how long the contract lasts for, but I'd hope they'll move away from Perform again at the earliest possible opportunity...

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