stevegrant

Panic over. Grey shirts found. Don't ask...

Surprise surprise, just over a week to go and a rather major headache has developed... Long story short, the club have sold all the adult-sized grey shirts, so there aren't any left for us (despite having reserved them a month ago, and the people involved at the club read the forum on a daily basis). As a result, they have offered us last season's yellow shirts instead. We're not in a position to turn this down for several reasons, so that's what we're going to have to go with. Needless to say, I'm not overly happy with the situation, but not a great deal I can do about it, sadly. Due to the timescales involved (and the lack of likelihood of acquiring yellow shorts/socks ), we'll stick with the grey shorts/socks combination for the away kit.

To be honest, I could give a damn whether they invest a penny more into the club above the amount they pay to buy it, as long as I still have a club to support come August 8th.

I don't think it's actually possible for my eyes to roll any further back into my head than they are doing now

Division 4, actually

I don't think there are enough trees in the world to fit that list, to be honest... :smt117

Certainly as far as the Echo are concerned, they are quite happy for people to quote a relevant individual paragraph or comment for people to discuss, as long as there is also a link to the referring article. I think that should probably be taken as a reasonable guideline for all sources.

The problem with McGoldrick's penalty-taking is that he puts it in exactly the same place every single time. If he was blasting it into the top corner every time, fine, but he's trying to pass it into the bottom-right corner. Any keeper worth his salt would have watched our previous penalties this season to see where they were placed. The Exeter keeper won't have seen him take one before, so no big deal that he's gone the wrong way there. The Watford keeper's probably seen him take the Exeter one and guessed right. Quite why the Cardiff keeper didn't notice, I've no idea, and obviously Jensen had seen three previous examples to make a decent guess.

None. We'll win our two remaining games with the pressure off so the 10 points will be taken off this season.

Genius

Pepe's been given a 10-match ban :shock:

As someone who has been openly critical of Crouch in the past, I can only echo these comments. His comments on 5 Live yesterday were ill-informed at best, but it's clear that he simply can't talk to public audiences or the press very well and in hindsight I suspect he wishes he declined the offer of an interview. Without him, we wouldn't even be having the discussion about whether we were going to be able to sell enough tickets for tomorrow's game. There would be no game.

Apparently when he took over, they only had 2 points from 8 games. Triffic.

The boot will be very much on the other foot in a couple of years' time. Let them have their little giggle at our expense, the situation will be magnified in reverse when it all goes tits-up down there.

2004

Words cannot describe how utterly idiotic that statement is, if that is indeed what he said. For a start, the "sporting sanction" - as Lord take-ten-seconds-of-breath-between-each-word calls it - was only brought in in 2004. The PLC was formed in 1997.

I don't think there's any "If" about it - we will appeal, and judging by the conduct suggested in the statement on the OS, rightly so.

They did put those runs on at Taunton, though... Also, surely Ambrose is their keeper, not Frost?

For anyone who's not seen it, here's Pepe giving away a penalty and then going completely insane

I watched an equally mental game on Sky Sports 2 last night between Real Madrid and Getafe, where Real twice came from behind to win 3-2 in the 93rd minute with ten men. If anyone can find the highlights anywhere, it's well worth watching even if it's only for the utterly bonkers last 10 minutes.

Yes, that's correct. Or beg, steal or borrow a pair from someone else if there aren't any left in your size

Right, big update time. Sorry for the lack of them over the last couple of weeks, I've simply not had any time. Here are the (hopefully) final squads. (45) shows a player playing for 45 minutes, not (necessarily ) his age HOME GK: The Banana Factor RB: silversaint (45) CB: disintegration87 (45) CB: DarrenLeTiss LB: SaintKenny RM: JustMike CM: prideofthesouth CM: hamster (45) LM: SaintNeil90 (45) ST: stevegrant ST: bigdavewatson (45) RB: dannypope (45) CB: fos1 (45) LM: Scudamore (45) CM: saintsforlife7 (45) ST: Nexstar (45) Manager: dubai phil AWAY GK: bpsaint RB: Andy_Porter (45) CB: Saints Mad Si (45) CB: The Flying Finn (45) LB: Neilza RM: forever a red and white CM: INFLUENCED.COM CM: lee_saint (45) LM: Griffo ST: Baj ST: The9 (45) RB: Um Bongo (45) CB: ooohTerryHurlock (45) CB: Bugenhagen (45) CM: MLT's Headed Goals (45) ST: Foxy (45) Manager: nickh TICKET INFO For anyone wishing to come along to watch this game, it will be cash on the turnstiles (Itchen North, seating in blocks 7 and , £5 for adults, £1 for kids. At the moment, money raised will be going towards "Save Our Saints" (and I will be doing my best to ensure our money goes to the right sort of areas, i.e. the "regular" staff, not the players, who quite frankly earn more than enough). If the ownership situation is sorted before then, the money will then be split 50/50 between Saints in the Community and a charity as chosen by the players. I have had a couple of nominations for charities, all players and managers will vote on the day with the charity receiving the most votes getting the cheque. Turnstiles will open at 5.45 (kick-off is 6.45), and I'm looking for a couple of volunteers to man the turnstiles for that hour. Someone from the club will show you how to operate them on the day (I think it's just a case of pressing a button). I'll also be looking for 8 volunteers to be ball assistants. Any correspondence to playatsms@saintsweb.co.uk Oh, and the date for the game is Thursday 7th May

But he can't afford £6m (or so he said in the Echo), so how would he manage that, with the current levels of interest, which is only driving the asking price upwards? If he was the only interested party, and was offering £2m to buy SFC from SLH (the money from which would go to Barclays as settlement, leaving SLH to be liquidated), he'd own the football club in its entirety. "Dead money", apparently.

When you say "nobody else has heard it", presumably you mean "and I've not heard it"? Some people are happier to divulge that sort of information, others prefer to keep their counsel for various reasons - on here, I suspect that's mostly because people like you who won't even entertain that their side of the argument might not all be sweetness and light accuse the messenger of being "paid". What's the point in putting information in the public domain if it's just going to be rubbished without any sort of reasonable thought process behind it other than "I don't like him/the person he's backing, therefore he must be talking crap"?

These things do have a habit of finding their way down the food chain, so to speak. There's all sorts of stuff that's been doing the rounds which would put the other side of the argument in a very different light.