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So a general election with all the inherent expense for absolutely sod all then.....

Wasn't Ross whatnot at Huddersfield before he joined Saints?

Ooh they don't care where it comes from as long as it's cheap. From what I can gather their total budget is somewhere around 40 to 50 million £ a season. That's what, about a third of ours? Galtier was on about 90K euros a month, so 17 or 18 K£ a week if you like it in those terms. I seem to remember from an article from Le Progès, which is the local rag, that ASSE operate a strict salary cap, 90K euros gross a month, there may be bonus payments of sorts on top but it really is chicken feed money when you take out all of the social charges that you have to pay.

Well really that's no yardstick is it. We should have done better but we screwed up because we just couldn't score when it was needed. Probably because we had no strikers worth the name. They were absolutely "minable" against Utd, just out of their league really, we at least put up a decent performance against Utd in the LC final. Galtier left because he just wasn't getting anywhere, no money, poor pay, team made up from dregs, all the best players sold for whatever they could get for them. Don't think Galtier has another job yet, could be wrong, but he just wasn't interested in giving up any more of his life on a bunch of cheapskates. Before StE was a historic club but these last few years have been a real trial.

I think he just hates muslims to a degree where judgement doesn't even figure in the top 5 of his priorities. Probably be his downfall.

Well here's a little bijou for you all from L'Equipe who are saying that he has turned them down....again. St Etienne are far too lowly for a bloke like Puel, they pay peanuts and are basically mediocre...and I go to watch them from time to time.

Well in the case of Darth Vader it's comprehensible, he only has (had) half a head really.

Hope we can beat the rain though.

Their president is still conducting interviews today and will be doing so again tomorrow. I think they've set a deadline of 15 th June, so that's Thursday week. Viera seems to have told them he's not interested in leaving MLS just now so that's one that you can cross off. There's also a petition doing the rounds calling for Ranieri to be appointed. Oh and one last thing, St Etienne are a bit on the cheapskate side so they won't pay a giant salary and the won't pay any sort of transfer indemnity for the manager.

But now it's Bell and Trott, get them out and we're set, fail to do that and we'll be against the clock at sometime tomorrow.

Warks really dragging it out today. We'll do well to bowl them out again tomorrow.

Don't think Caceres thinks so though..

St E had a short list, Celestini was favourite but that's fallen through apparently. Now they're looking at the other 4, Garcia, Ranieri, Puel and believe it or not Viera. Puel wants to run everything his way with them and that's not the way StE want.

Best not get carried away eh.

Wow, monster stand by the old guys, I promise I'll never slag them off again....

Ervine leading the fight back, Adams propping up his end. proves that you never can tell in cricket really.

You are probably not entirely wrong actually. In fact I seem to remember that one of the grand gurus of ecology back in the day seemed to think that curing sicknesses in the third world was going to lead us to endless problems. I can't remember his name but he wasn't yer ordinary, ecology, left leaning type. Doesn't Dan Brown have one of his pantomine villains with similar theories ?

So Warks at the Rose Bowl today. No Vince or Dawson because they're with the England Lions just now. Is that really necessary? Really? Is it some sort of invented measure to even up between counties with internationals and those without. Carberry gone already, Adams not off the mark having faced 12 balls. Looks like it could be down to Rossouw and Bailey because with Ervine down to bat at 5 it's not looking very solid after them. And it goes from bad to worse, Rossouw and Bailey are now both back in the pavilion and we're 32/3, why do we elect to bat each time and find ourselves in ridiculous positions. We'll not do a "Taunton" every time.

But match income is such a minor line on the balance sheet nowadays, What does it matter that you have just a handful of matchgoers when the PL gives you 118 million, ie 6 million and change for every home game. You'd need to sell a lot of tickets to make 6 million a match really.

Can't see why not, didn't Dortmund sack him because they ran out of patience with him being a knob all of the time ? Won't have too many "big club" offers methinks.

Apparently we've made a bit over 122 million £ from the PL this last season so we can expect a significant boost in profits I'd guess. Might be able to pay off most of our loans and cut interest payments.

Epic win, well bowled chaps. Oh and well done to the batsmen who managed to make 293 on what must have been a turnip field yesterday. Obviously a wicket that turned excessively to advantage their bowlers backfired on them and left a potential bank holiday crowd tomorrow with nothing to watch. Might they get a sanction for that?

OK so maybe we can bowl a bit. Wicket must be pretty tricky down at Taunton, probably explains why we chose to bat first on it, didn't want to get caught on a potato patch batting 4th.

Wasn't he pretty awful when he got some first team experience during the RLC games ? For me the big disappointment is Topley, he was a real prospect when we signed him a couple of years back but he just doesn't seem to be anywhere near the same player since his season long injury.

As someone remarked the other day, we have suddenly become a shambles. Can't bat and can't bowl.