stevegrant

Yep, we're screwed. Oh well, should win a few games next season in Div 2...

Oops... :smt033

179 all out, leaving 240 to win. Tough ask, although given that their last two wickets added 63 to the total, it's not a lost cause yet.

Keeping tabs on the other games... as I mentioned yesterday the forecast for Manchester was more rain today (who'd have thought it ) and that's how it's proved with play already abandoned for the day, so neither side has any points at all yet. Kent were bowled out for 227 by Yorkshire, who are 223/3 in reply. Sussex managed 339, while Nottinghamshire are 37/0 in reply. All of which leaves the table as follows: 1. Somerset 12 146 2. Nottinghamshire 12.5 140 3. Durham 11.5 139 4. Kent 12.5 135 5. Sussex 12.5 128 6. Lancashire 12.5 126 7. Hampshire 13.5 124 8. Yorkshire 12.5 120 9. Surrey 12.5 106

If you'd bought them in plenty of time, they would have been £8. Or even as little as £3 if you're a student.

Only the two days behind, mate http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=948 Edit: glad to see Setanta are up with the times as well

2000 called and asked for its news back

Yep. If at all possible, do not accept or reject anything in this meeting. Make it clear that you wish to have time to read through their offer carefully and that you wish to discuss it with an employment solicitor. They may even offer to pay for this (can be quite expensive - I [or rather my former employer] paid £300+vat for 2 hours' work) to ensure that there is no scope for any claim after you've signed it.

Isn't that a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face, though? You won't buy a season ticket (which saves YOU money) which I guess you've had for many years because of the board, and yet you'll go anyway because you don't go to watch the board... The word "principles" continues to be thrown around on here, with people claiming they have "principles" because they won't support the club financially so long as Lowe is chairman and blame him for people losing their jobs, and yet the very thing that would probably keep those people in their jobs is the paying support of the fans! It's just a vicious circle. For the record, if people can't go anymore because of financial pressures, work, distance or things like that, fine by me, not a problem. If people are choosing not to go because they don't want to watch Championship football, also fine, as long as you actually state as much rather than hiding behind feeble excuses. If people are seriously choosing not to go because of who is chairman (despite having continued to go under his chairmanship when we were in the top 10 in the Premier League), I think that's quite sad. Entirely up to you, of course, but I won't be at all surprised to see those "principles" go flying straight out of the window if we end up having a successful season.

To be fair, this is one thing that Apple has got right. The majority of Java applets that sit on websites are poorly written with no "garbage collection" and as such end up consuming astronomical amounts of memory. Oh, and "most websites" don't use Java. They might use JavaScript, but that's an ENTIRELY different kettle of fish

It's also why Kevin Phillips signed for us despite his basic salary being cut in half.

65/6. Quite impressive given that we were 65/2...

Dunno about that, Durham got away without any deductions when 15 wickets fell on day 1 and 17 on day 2 a few weeks back...

Elsewhere, Lancashire v Surrey has already been abandoned for the day without a ball bowled, and more rain forecast for tomorrow, which I guess means Friday and Saturday will be a frantic bonus-point chase with no chance of victory for either side. Which is fine Yorkshire seem to have the upper hand against Kent which I guess is both good and bad for us: good because it drags Kent into the mix, but bad because Yorkshire are only 5 points behind us with a game in hand. A Nottinghamshire win at Sussex would be nice, but Sussex are currently 199/4, so looking likely to post a big total and probably bat until tomorrow lunch.

Because they'd already got the points on the board earlier in the season. If I remember rightly, they only lost 3 or 4 times at home all season.

I'd take a 3 or 4 point deduction in exchange for at least 3 bonus points and 14 points for the win!

I don't mind the lower tier, as long as you're not on the front couple of rows the view is fine. The upper tier is very cramped, not entirely sure how they justify it being £5 more expensive than the lower tier.

You can do a bank transfer, you know...

Hampshire agreed to play one county championship game away from the Rose Bowl every year starting from this year so that the grounds we used to use occasionally can still host county cricket every now and then. Therefore I assume there'll be a game at Portsmouth and Bournemouth in the next couple of years as well.

Lower tier's £25, I think I'll be taking that option.

They wanted to buy Surman as a direct replacement for James Harper, who is a central midfielder.

Stephen O'Halloran. There's a good reason why he didn't play, he was absolutely rubbish.

26/3, Chanderpaul gone for 6

That was the first thought that sprung to my mind as well

Added to the fact that Loftus Road is a complete and utter dump.