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He's adjusting his game plan. Anyone who watch the mighty (TB less) Patriots get atomised by the Dolphins last evening would appreciate the finer points of a flexible game plan, if you think Saints are bad watch that Pats display,we're like Man City in comparison.One player does make a difference contrary to all the old sporting adages.

Nothing real about the fizzy badger p!ss they sell at SMS.Still pouring rights being pouring rights......

He's some sort of Yank I think, TT raves over him so he must be. Young 18 or so, looks 30 in his OS photo though.

But the bloke who drives their boat is a New Zealander, the swiss just pay for it no doubt,I don't really think you can say Switzerland won when it's not a swiss who's the main man. It's like all those Kenyans running for Gulf States. To me they're kenyans, always have been,always will be.

Anyway half the refereeing decisions nowadays are totally random and incomprehensible . I know it's a difficult job but they change the outcome of matches and can totally negate the effects of coaching,planning and investment.You can battle really hard,give your all to get a tough draw and then some dumb kint gives a totally undeserved penalty against you in injury time,puts everything you've done down to zero.You pay 30 million for a centre forward and some half-wit kicks him up in the air and gets a yellow, then there's goals like the one on saturday, the hand of god etc etc, the course of events is changed by wrong decisions.It has to stop-how? who knows.

You can't have Cricket in the OG, it's a game only played in the vestiges of Empire (and Holland-but they're crap ),just like Rugby-they are not global sports.To this end softball should be removed as well,along with basketball,archery,taekwakky,sailing-in fact every sport that isn't available to the entire planet.

You've missed the point BTF, perhaps my dissertation is badly phrased. Ballet is only used as an example of the kind of namby pamby event that is at present considered as a must for the Olympic Games. In the original version there were only events that required dexterity and physical strength, driving a chariot is not akin to running round the block in yer average Toyota. The games that require no realistic physical condition are snooker,darts and whatever else I said-Poker perhaps.

Commitment-the saviour of soul.

The problem with all these non forthcoming bids is that the raise people's expectations, they are therefore never content with what they have (OK it's not that great). Now if you didn't want to believe that Lowe et al will soon be ousted you might view their stewardship in a changed light, you might eventually but grudgingly accept that it will be the staus quo for the foreseeable future and get over it.Whilst there is even the remotest possibility that that is not so ,people will cling on to whatever straw is proffered,be it ever so unrealistic. Thus the club is destabilised, whoever is seeking to buy out the current shareholders for a knockdown price (cos it's all they can afford) will certainly not put any real facts into the public domain because that would be counter-productive.

that's what 3 games in 7 days does to you I'm afraid.Not even sure that the players haven't sort of unconciously put tuesday's game on a higher plane than Saturday's . It could bring them to Nirvanha. Tuesday's game will be our 4th in 10 days, the nucleus of the side is the same,there are adjustments but being down to 10 men at QPR for an hour,slogging it out against Ipswich and trying to do what was considered a divine right by the fans (winning against Barnsley) is taking it's toll. We've not much in the way of fresh legs available so maybe,just maybe they weren't as committed for the 50/50 balls as they should have been. If we win on Tuesday a "big" game is a nigh on certainty, unless we draw Cardiff away that is.

Yes I looked it up a bit but found no real answer, if you sell 1000 tickets at 20£ and give 15000 away you're in dump apparently,unless you're a registered charity licensed for mixed trading or something like that. Don't know what the percentage is though. However selling stuff at a loss is considered as dumping-whatever that may be and a surcharge may be dded.

can't see why they'd do that, the 892tickets must have been sold by Barnsley anyway.Perhaps they're all so rich up in that god-forsaken hole that they buy tickets and don't go to matches.

Not even a game, lots of things you can't do whilst smoking a fag but they don't pretend to be sports. When I'm out running, I'm a sportsman (cos I'm firkin fast,well according to Jimmy Saville's rule of thumb criteria anyway),when I'm arsing about down at the beach it's not a sport.Don't smoke anyway. Strange what people perceive as sports nowadays, snooker,darts and would you believe it-firkin poker, turned on Eurosport the other day-Poker,WTF. These are games, they require no great level of physical fitness to participate,skill yes,physical condition no. They'll be putting ballet in the next olympics if we don't buck our ideas up about what makes a sport,Archery,Pistol Shooting and Sailing -fook off.

I can see that you're probably right but I'm not so sure on the VAT front. They are particularily attentive to free articles or those sold below the "market value". When you import something from the States or the Gulf (or anywhere else outside the EEC) it has a "nominal value" for VAT . If you come to some jumped up arrangement with your supplier to invoice the goods under the "market value" you can get an assessed valued slapped on you for VAT purposes.I'm not saying this would be the case for football tickets but there was the old ""carrot and sofa "case. This was essential to contourn Sunday trading arrangements of course but the jist of it was that if you paid £200 for a carrot you got a free sofa.Now a carrot is zero rated, a sofa certainly isn't and the seller got hit for the VAT on the free sofa. The sunday loophole was also very quickly closed down.I am sure that HMC+E have rules governing the sale of tickets below an average price?they have similar rules for everything else.

Aha Upstairs Athletics, good to see you got lucky.:smt074

Cricket is a game.

The problem with all these schemes is how the VAT man sees them, for yer average VAT officer there's no such thing as a free ticket,not unless they all are anyway. Have we no HMC+E official to point us straight on this one??

Fag smoking pastime Phil, we have established that it's not a sport.;)

You have got to weigh up just what is the cost of letting in all those "supporters" virtually fee of charge.Now I know nothing of the regulations concerning police and steward presence per X number or supporters but I presume the management do.We have in the past given out free tickets to schools and such I believe,when and where I've no idea, I'm sure some-one has. Now those tickets would in theory have a negative cost, unless they all ate 3 pies and dranck 2 cokes each.When you have more people wanting stuff at HT you've to get more people in to serve them (I know that).Now it could be that many of our home games last season were buoyed up by freebies and cheapies,once again I've no idea on that. We paid our players far too much money with respect to our income, that's all I know. To sort the problem out that had to be tackled, it has been ,unfortunately the results leave to be desired as of yet,but then they did last season as well,at a disastrously high cost.

Ah right he's counting only Saint's supporters, a supporter being an entity that went to that particular match.Got the drift.

SF76talkingtomyselfallday.com would be a better title; I liked that forum at the start then it just got to be all bile and hatred from the same person on a continual basis. You could go 2 matchdays ithout geting a single football related post.

Aha Bitterne Park Rec of a Sunday afternoon.

sad to see you resorting to such drivel Phil to be honest. We're doing as well as can be expected. If you don't like the forum sign up to one of the free ones, they talk about Music(if you can call 1980's punk that),Crisp,Biscuits and very occasionally slag pompey off. It's not 14000 supporters it's 15000 as near as dammit. Lowe,Wilde and Cowan are probably here for the foreseeable future so get over . A lot of people passed the last week-end glued to that ridiculous game of Golf, ffs that's just a pastime for idle rich bastards..It's not even a sport, I always apply the rule of thumb to "games" that pretend to be "sports". If you can do it smoking a fag,it's not a sport.Everybody's crowds are going down, at least our management have realised this and cut our stupidly astronomic player salary costs. We have always had home-grown players in our side. Right now they need our support and understanding, not some-one slagging them off every 30 secs.I'm sure a lot of our young men read the forum so just cut them some slack eh!!!

Show Some Faith (for once in your lives) Bet Man U supporters are shiiting themselves eh, only 5 points from 4 games, sack Sir Alex,bring back everybody who's left in the past 10 years, it's all the boards fault et etc etc, not to mention Pompey who got shafted 6-0 today, Our team will get there, it's time they need. We have been awful before you know,just that some of you have short (or no) memories.