stevegrant

You'll have more choice if you go to Southend Victoria, but it's a bit of a trek from there to the ground. Re the Underground part of the journey, I don't know - the website didn't mention anything about having to buy a separate tube ticket.

A fair point - I was just going by what the National Rail Enquiries website suggested

Group Saver for £20 each, if there's 4 of you, or £25.95 each with a network railcard. Southampton Central to Waterloo, Waterloo to Stratford (underground, Jubilee Line), Stratford to Prittlewell (nearest station to Roots Hall).

Let the train take the strain

I believe the "normal" staff have been paid, it's just the players and executive team who haven't. A statement they released: That last sentence would be the bit that would scare the **** out of me if that was Saints putting that sort of statement out. Essentially they are now totally reliant upon matchday revenue to pay the wages for the rest of the season - if we assume they've got somewhere in the region of 12,000 season ticket holders (complete guess), that's about 8,500 matchday tickets available. On average there are two home games per month, so 8500 x £35 per ticket x 2 = £595,000. Considering that was the size of OUR monthly wage bill less than 18 months ago, there's no way that revenue will cover it, so they're going to need to make a call to "the lawyers" (Ocean Finance) every month just to get the wages paid.

No matter how rubbish Pompey have been in the league (and by all accounts they actually played alright against Villa), they won't lose to Carlisle tonight. 4/5 on them to win is decent value, IMO.

Yep. The first time the whole "minimum of X minutes" argument came up as the ref had signalled 2 minutes, the ball never went out of play from that point on and van Persie scored towards the end of the 3rd minute of injury time.

Good of the Football League to allow their takeover to go through without first having checked the legitimacy of it all, whereas for anyone else they wouldn't transfer the golden share to a new owner until they'd checked it all out...

Yep, it's covered in the fit and proper persons test.

England will be playing on the Saturday, so to maximise the possible attendance, they move the game to the Friday night.

Currently done 64, will have done at least another 9 by the end of the season, possibly more depending on cup draws.

Also an international week...

I paid £55 for my ticket for the Rose Bowl game, plus probably another £60 on food and drink. Fuck doing that again if we're not even going to attempt to learn from the basic mistakes we continue to make every single game.

Now 2 wickets! 40/2 off 9.2 overs, Anderson's got Watson and Ponting cheaply. Extras have had a good summer, 11 in this game already...

The more blocks software houses attempt to put in the way of piracy only serves to **** off its genuine customer base who get frustrated at having to jump through hoops just to be able to play a game they've paid for, and also increases the determination of the pirate community to develop sophisticated ways around them. How many other games FORCE the user - who has paid for the product, remember - to register personal details in order to play it?

Shouldn't have to register it at all, really.

WTF indeed

As long as we can avoid the follow-on, that'll give us at least 2 batting bonus points and should ensure a draw. I'd take that at this stage...

More to the point, who'd have thought that we'd fail to win any of our first 7 games with a -10 deduction and still have a decent chance of beating you to 1 point

Yeah pretty much. I've got it on my work PC solely for testing purposes, along with IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, FF3.5, Chrome and Safari

Wouldn't surprise me - IIRC it's the browser that was shipped with XP, and most people just won't bother upgrading.

Firefox is my browser of choice, but as Baj said above, it absolutely canes the memory after a while, particularly if you run a number of add-ons. Oh, and IE6 is evil and should be destroyed.

To be fair, it was pretty secure... it locked anyone out of the game if they couldn't tell whether the serial number printed on the back of the manual had 1s or Is and 0s or Os I hope they've done away with the forced registration and the limit to the number of times you can install it.

Would love to, but I think they'll struggle to find enough people with that sort of cash available to them to get a full take-up of the scheme.