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If you find yourself risking a lot more than a pound at any point, you're probably still part of an 'experiment'. Ideally, you just lose a pound and make some new friends

3 - 0 Charlton, although I shall not be including this game in any accumulator I do tomorrow.

Were the numbers on the balls before the draw was made? I doubt it. So how to get the numbers on the balls? Photoactive paint and an extremely quick lazer burst? I notice he wrote the numbers down on a pad (pressure sensitive with character recognition?) before he showed us the balls. It'll be a clever use of technology for sure. Modern day smoke and mirrors. I much prefer his cold reading and influencing of people tricks really. They are just un-nerving.

I've no idea where he is in relation to the program either, so I'm just guessing. One cruel trick I thought of once was to record the lottery programme, buy a ticket next week with the same numbers and then replay the programme at the exact time the follwing week at someone's house who doesn't normally watch it. Leave lottery ticket on table in plain view, and walk out of room and go do something else. Then see how the evening unfolds . . . . . Never actually done this. Bit too wicked really.

My guess is that the lottery result isn't actually LIVE, but slightly delayed by 30 seconds or so. There's a lot you can do with a morse code buzzer in the sole of your shoe if you have a partner watching the really LIVE feed. If you have a piece of paper locked away with the so called results, a last minute switch is childs-play for a competent magician. I'll be interested to watch, but perhaps not Live.

No goal scorer

All right. I'll speculate that Saints will put an offer in for Lee Trundle (Bristol City) and Bayo Akinfenwa (Northampton). Feel any better now? Thought not. Sometimes speculation is the last thing you want to hear.

Damn. OK go to http://ircimages.com/. It's on page 6 at the moment. (The warnings are REAL. It is very much NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Kittens, holiday pix and then kerpow filth. YHBW) When the mods get round to processing my fiver I'll be able to edit my mistakes :/

I'm guessing this is the page in question?

FAW will probably punish Swansea more for tonight than Millwall or West Ham will be. Swans down to 6 men (inc 2 injuries)!! Game will possibly be called off any minute now. Farce. Ref totally lost control.

Better hope there are options other than Swansea. Just can't see the chairman Huw Jenkins being at all impressed with them. a) he takes a VERY conservative view with money (won't even plan to spend next years Martinez/Scotland payments yet) b) wanting to be in the international window is tosh - if they wanted that they would have made themselevs affordable and be scoring goals in the CCC already. Greedy lazy poles not welcome at SCFC. Hopefully they will come out of 'retirement' in September if they are still here and play for the love of the game. I wish.

It would free up salary for loans though. I do wonder though if AP is actually supposed to trade his way to better players. Surely players are actually going to play WORSE while the team is poor and their relative values will drop until such time as a 'critical mass' is reached and we actually have a GOOD team. I'd rather hoped this was something ML was prepared to underwrite, if not extravagantly. I get the feeling the poles will be difficult to even give away, which doesn't help AP if he has to trade his way to success, but maybe its a hit he feels he has to take. Depends what 'dysfunctional' actually means. I guess we'll find out eventually.

That console pretty much has identical info to the BBC Live Match page. Click on 'Show team line-ups and match stats' to get the stats. Just paid my fiver at 1AM this morning LOL

Beg pardon! What have Swans done now?

Looks like he's available on loan if he can be sensible about wages. News from Bristol Trundle told he can leave Bristol City Reader comments seem to confirm complete lack of pace. But then he never had it at Swansea either. I think he's on 10K at BC. Was 5K at Swansea.

How I started watching Saints. I came down here over 10 years ago, but I support a perrenially crap team who have had the occasional moment of success. Watching (even occassionally) a premiership team when yours is languishing in League 2 never really appealled to me. Anyhow . . . . come the 2005/6 season I thought "I know. I'll go watch Saints stuff Cardiff". I duly noted the appropriate date when the fixtures were released. That season Swansea made it to the Johnstone Paint Final at Millenium Stadium, Cardiff. That game was on the Sunday. The Saints/Cardiff game was on the Saturday. I thought "Sod it. I've been waiting for the Cardiff game ALL SEASON. I'm going. I can't afford to do both. Never mind. Swans will make the play-offs anyway." The Saturday came. I went down to St Marys for my first ever game. Database only. I'd never been before. :-( **** **** ****. I even tried to sneak into the away end. No chance. So I did not get to see the Saints v Cardiff game . . . . . and I did not get to see Swansea win the JP trophy v Carlisle when Mr Trundle scored . Bugger!! I was right about Swans getting into the League 1 play-offs that year, so I did get my trip to the Millenium stadium. We lost to Barnsley. **** The following year I got myself onto the Saints database early in a league cup game . . . . and the rest as they say . . . . . Is Trundle any good now? God only knows. He was never fast, couldn't head the ball, and always seemed to be injured over Xmas (!???), but he scored plenty, made as many assists, and the kids loved him. I wasn't too sad to see him leave Swansea though. We had become Trundle United, and this is a team game. I don't think Gary Johnson knew how to use Trundle. He is left footed (incredibly left footed!!!) but he is not a left winger/midfielder - he simply doesn't have the pace for it. Stick him in the middle as one of two strikers, with a foil to play off, and maybe, just maybe HCDAJFU.

Well although this 'Swansea interest' now does seem to be confirmed, I'm still firmly of the mind "I'll believe it when I see it". These two are still outside Swansea's max wage of 8k/wk. Far more likely Swans players may come the other way next week. 10 squad members to be culled next week. Mostly minor names, but possibly some first teamers as well - e.g. butler, bauza, monk.

I was wondering that. I'd feel a hell of a lot less nervous if he did.

I'm not sure Saga was ever in the frame TBH. It was just some very sloppy journalism based on the fact he scored 2 v Swans in January.

Tangentially related, on the subject of low European birth rates and Muslim Immigration I have no idea if the figures are REALLY accurate. But it and the above story does make you wonder how we got here.

Cardiff supporter, who thought they were in the Premiership this year, has a look at the fixture list and sees first game is against SCUN THORPE !!!!

Nor would I expect you to. But I and most Swansea fans did since they were a big fish in our pond, and they rather spoiled our end of year celebrations with their legal challenge to the -15 point penalty. Leeds results for the 2007/8 season from their official site Poyet left around Monday, 29 October 2007 Wise left around Mon Jan 28, 2008 Leeds record up to Poyet's departure WWWWLWWWWDWWWDWW = 41 pts / 16 games = 2.5 per game Leeds record without Poyet, but with Wise LWDLWLLWWDWDLLWWLD = 25 pts / 18 games = 1.4 per game Leeds record for rest of season after Wise departs LLDDDWWLDWDWWWLWW = 29 pts / 17 games = 1.7 Now any conclusion you may take from that will be an opinion, but one with some empirical backing. I seem to remember that Wise did not spend much time in Leeds itself, but delegated all of the coaching to GP, and one can presume his advice regarding team selection was taken as well. When Gus Poyet came into the running for the Swansea job, I was more than happy. That's all I'll say. ATB

As several have already stated, Gus Poyet would be a great choice. He was THE brains at LEEDS when they did so well at the start of their League 1 campaign. I certainly wasn't Dennis Wise who jumped immediately after Poyet left, before he was found out. GP also knows how bigger clubs work. If this drags on and on and on . . . . . . Roberto Martinez should be available around January. He knows League 1 quite well

1 - 1 Looking forward to the post match analysis.

On the other hand, if people round here really want CLOSURE, then who they hell am I to deny them? It's no skin off my nose if Totton becomes my second team. :/