1976_Child

Pinnacle and Lie-nham are a bunch of fantasists. All this BS about it "definitely being tomorrow" and "this will be a really important day for the club". What a disaster. The worst thing is that MLT was duped by them. Terrible, but we saw it coming didn't we? Now the squad is disolving before our very eyes and there is no one to coach the remaining players. Dear oh Dear. What a ****ing mess our club is in. I must be honest, the chances of the club still being in business at the begining of next season must be 50/50.

I've mentioned this before, but if the worst comes to the worst then a fan-based consortium could bid for the brand name "Southampton Football Club" and the club's badge and any assorted trade marks and then set up a "new" club with the same name and badge. Would probably be a pub team at first but you never know...

Indeed, well done to the lads. I watched the penalties. First one was bally awful, but Hart was on form.

so we start today with TL saying that today will be a desive day in the history of Saints. and we end the day with no deal. I'm off down the pub. I'm a grumpy, p!ssed off carbon-based life form. If there is no news when I wake up tomorrow then as far as I am concerned Pinnacle were nothing more than a bunch of jokers.

I have just heard that Pina Colada are absolutely ready to sign. They just have some eleventh hour legal issues to sort out with the Football League. This could all be rumour though. Who knows.

thanks, how nice.

dunno but I reckon it is something to do with the takeover/liquidation

no need to be rude.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1703627,00.html Basically if no deal by this time next week then the club is liquidated (last paragraph). Also, it appears he is ****ed off with pinnacle who are clearly trying to wriggle out of the deal (imho)

Right. This is the way I look at it. Unless Pinnacle sign today and produce concrete evidence that this chap is not some Walter Mitty fantasist then I have lost all faith in this deal going through. There is no way they can get away with taking it over another weekend. If on Monday there is still no deal then Fry should tell them to scarper and stop wasting everyone's time. Then turn his attention to the Swiss.

give over.

Very sad day. Stop all these horrible 'jokes'. Not nice. He was a human being. Please show some respect.

Esspresso Beer from the Dark Star Brewery. Very, very good

Actually, I have never worked out why supermarkets haven't gone into the DVD rental market. Screw blockbuster. They could do fantastic deals like mid-week, spend £30 on shopping and rent a film for free. Or get it on your nectar points.

My Sainsburys in Hove is very good. and we too have pretty cuties on the fag counter. The only problem with it is that it has a crap selection of DVDs to buy. So on the rare occasions when I fancy watching a DVD I go to Tesco instead. But generally I prefer Sainsburys.

I just had a very nice coffee flavoured beer. When I go back into the kitchen I'll dig the bottle out of the bin and let you all know the name of it. very nice though

No thanks. And by the way, I don't think wind farms are crap. They do exactly what it says on the tin. the problem I have is that allthough they will be part of the solution they will only ever be a very small part. And of course electricity is not the same as liquid fuel. Seriously, people should be extremely concerned at our energy policy. Putting aside liquid fuels for a moment, the electrical capacity of the country is not exactly unlimited either. These are serious issues which are not being attended to.

kudos

no. I want the housing market to crash! It is interesting though that whenever I do raise my very real concerns people just can not even entertain them. So many people are just too comfortable believing that things always follow a trajetory of ever increasing wealth, health and consumption. Viewed along side 4000 years of human history the last 50 years is just a blink. Just ask yourself. Why does it now take two bread winners to provide for the average income family, when a generation ago it was only one? (average)

sorry, chips were done half hour ago. had them with a nice egg and a piece of ham. even managed a few droopy lettuce leaves!

Things are not good at the moment. Here's why: 1. The country is bankrupt. Taxes will go up and public services will suffer because of less spending. It doesn’t matter what fantasy world Gordon Brown inhabits, these are the facts. And there is a very good chance that investors will have no more appetite for our bonds and the country will literally become insolvent, and in a similar fashion to what happened at St Mary’s today public sector workers will not be paid. The only other way ‘out’ of this mess is to get the printing presses rolling and that is the kiss of death for any economy. This really worries me. And it all stems from profligate spending by successive governments (but Brown must take most of the blame) coupled with the absurd fractional reserve banking and a fiat currency. 2. At 33 years old, there is no point me looking forward to a state pension. It will not exist in 35 years time. It barely exists for today's pensioners. So to be able to retire on £20,000 (before tax) in today's money my financial advisor tells me I need to have a pension pot of at least £750,000 in 35 years time (again, today's money). That means saving more than £1,000 minimum per month from now on and assuming a rosy average real rate of interest of 5%. Fat ****ing chance. 3. In the medium term I need to put away a deposit for a house. Now that 100% mortgages are a thing of the past I will need a minimum of 15% deposit. Even if crappy one-bed flats in Brighton fall in price by a further 50% to an average of "just" £100,000 then I need to find another £15,000. Say I hope to have my own place by the time I am 38 then I will need to save another £250 per month. At a real squeeze this is just about doable, however it would mean absolutely no discretionary spending (on things like the odd pint or watching Saints - football would be impossible to afford). But then there was that assumption of prices falling another 50% so realistically there is **** all chances of this happening too. 4. The assumption that GDP will always continue to grow at a steady clip are ludicrous in the extreme. The only way GDP grows is if there is a concurrent growth in the supply of cheap energy – particularly liquid fuels (oil). The consensus amongst serious minds from within the industry says that global oil production has peaked already in 2005. Whether it has already or is about to is irrelevant. We are now consuming 5 barrels of oil for every one we discover. That is unsustainable. Even if the populations and demand from India and China was frozen the world would need an additional Saudi Arabia every 4 years, to be discovered and brought online just to keep up with falling production from other oil fields. This is not going to happen. Unfreeze the population and demand from India and China and even if a new Saudi was discovered every 4 years it would not be enough. New tar sand production (still not economically viable with oil at $70) will never be able to even cover the decline in conventional oil fields let alone produce the new Saudi every four years. Tar sands are highly polluting and require absurd quantities of water and natural gas. The gas heats the water and the steam is run through the tar, releasing the oil (which is not sweet, it contains sulphur which falls into the water). Shale oil is not even viable at the moment and there are serious doubts whether it would ever produce ‘net energy’. In short, the very foundation of the western world’s economic ‘miracle’ of steady GDP growth since the Second World War, cheap oil, is over. Peak oil is not a wacko theory. It is a geological fact. Without cheap oil our very way of life is going to change dramatically. This won’t happen suddenly (although there undoubtedly will be shocks along the way) but what people should take on board is that constant exponential growth in GDP is not possible. This fact tied in with number 1 above should, to the economically literate person, send a shiver down your spine. The very basis of our consumptive debt based economy and monetary system is that we need to produce and consume more tomorrow to pay for today’s interest. 5. I honestly can’t see a future where I can meet all my bills, pay my rent, feed and clothe myself and save £1,250 per month AND pay the increased taxation which is surely coming our way in a year. I am still failing to convince the bank to finance my business, even though I have proven cash flow. As such I am unable to grow my business and participate in this crazy GDP ‘growth’ fiasco. Things are really, really, really bad. I am just lucky that I do not have a family to support. If worst comes to worst I will just give up and become a tramp. Or a monk. My business partner has negative equity a wife and two young kids to provide for. He is working 90 hours a week at vastly reduced daily rates and is still not making ends meet. I am sure there a many other members of this forum with similar stories to tell. I do not want to monopolise the sympathy. In fact I do not want sympathy. What I want is leadership from the idiots we send to parliament. 6. There is absolutely NO political leadership on any of these very real, serious issues. Life is about to get very complicated and we live on a small island with many different cultures and still constant inflows of immigrants. Leadership is analogous to climbing a tree and seeing further than the people below and seeing that they are marching blindfolded towards a cliff. Leadership is then standing in front of the people and urging them to change direction. Leadership is not about being elected and leading them off the edge of the cliff. Our politicians, of all parties, are simply not providing leadership. This really frightens me. 7. Throughout history there have been times of relative peace and stability and there have been protracted periods of hardship, war and famine. There is no reason to believe that history will not repeat and that we are not now on the cusp of the next period of hardship. And I don’t just mean a slight recession. There are nearly seven billion people on the face of the Earth. When I was born the figure was just over four billion. We are looking down the barrel of the gun. 8. And last but not least, my football club is still not safe from extinction. So to summarise life as we know it is utter crap. I am not down hearted. I am philosophical. What I will say is that these are certainly interesting times to be alive. Cheers for reading and I welcome your comments, 1976.

Thank you for spoiling my potatoe thread hatrick. Yes, you. You know who you are. For the rest of you who were eagerly awaiting news of what I was cooking tonight, I have just put a tray of McCains crinkly over chips in the oven at 180 degrees. I will let you all know when they are done.

I will start to support Totton AFC. ..or we could all form a new club: Southampton AFC

what did he SAY on sky???

The Prem was over rated. Much better being in League 1 with -25 points and/or out of business completely.