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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.

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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...

Yes

I'm going to guess that the England TSTs have already sold out.

The Old Grey Mare and the White Hart have been suggested as away-friendly pubs near the ground, both on Rochdale Road.

One of our sources is wrong, Duncan... mine tells me sales of the Pink are up this season

Absolutely insane how we've suddenly found a knack of scoring from set pieces, having been utter turd at them pretty much since Le Tiss retired...

There was definitely contact, but unfortunately Morgan decided he had to over-exaggerate the fall with a twist as he fell - as a result, I wasn't at all surprised to see the ref give the decision the other way.

On my way back now... we were superb in the first half, probably Lallana's best individual performance of his career so far, Southend just couldn't get near him. Notable mentions for Schneiderlin and Lambert going forward and Paul Wotton for a sterling holding job in front of the back 4. Couldn't do anything with their goal, great strike from the free-kick.

Well that was unexpected... a very pleasant surprise though

To be fair, with two goals he did at least contribute, which can't be said for most of the rest of them.

Christ, that was painful viewing. I think the main thing that Pardew will probably have learned from tonight is that some of the fringe players aren't good enough. Also, lumping the ball to Lambert is a ridiculous tactic that just doesn't work. Surely we've learned that by now? ("apparently not" is the obvious answer) While we were terrible from about the 10th minute onwards, the ref was equally appalling. Some of the decisions he gave were just bizarre in the extreme, and then showed complete inconsistency by not giving us a free-kick for identical "fouls". Made a change to see five clinical penalty takers, though - why couldn't that have been the case at Pride Park?

Yes.

We also sponsor Graeme Murty. Altogether, it came to £1400 (£700 each)

Morning all Just had an e-mail from the club stating that the Sponsors Training Session will take place on Thursday 22nd October. This will include watching first-team training, refreshments and meeting your player (either Simon Gillett or Graeme Murty) at Staplewood. A full itinerary will be sent nearer the event. This has come a bit earlier than I was expecting, so we will be conducting the draw at some point in the next week. The prize list currently stands at: 2 pairs of tickets to the end-of-season dinner 2 pairs of tickets to the sponsors training session 2 signed player shirts 1 Saints shirt signed by the Soccer Saturday panel 1 copy of Taking Le Tiss Winners will be drawn in order of the prizes - the first two winners will get the end-of-season dinner tickets, the next two the training session tickets, etc, but we will draw four further names in case the original winners are unable to attend the training session. e.g. Winners 1 and 2 get the end-of-season dinner tickets - sorted. Winners 3 and 4 get the training session, but winner 4 cannot make it. Winner 5 would have had one of the shirts, but instead moves up to winner 4. etc When the draw has been completed, the results will obviously be posted on here, and you will be contacted with full details of how to claim your prize if you have won one. RESULTS

Came on after about half an hour as Le Tiss got injured, replaced some time in the second half. Presumably it's in ITN, Duncan?

That's effectively what it is now that we've already qualified.

The bit in bold is untrue. The rights could have been picked up by any of the major broadcasters, but none of them were willing to pay the asking price because it was expected that this game would be a dead rubber for England by the time the game came around - an expectation that proved to be right. The company who have bought the rights, Perform, already have plenty of business in the UK as they (badly) run the vast majority (if not all) of the Football League official club websites. Apparently they're going to need 300,000 subscribers to break even on this - I'll be surprised if they get 300. Bet365 are streaming it for free for any customer who has money in their account, and there are countless other sites that will be showing it for free (most will probably be doing so illegally, so I'm not going to name any of them).

Yes, based on us winning promotion (from the Championship), him playing a certain number of games and getting full international caps. There's not a cat in hell's chance we'll pay £1m in total.

His words: "I can remember playing..."