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A classic line from that film where Schwarzy plays a Russian Copper.

Can't get any sense of involvement about Ukraine playing Portugal myself.

18th of August???going to be a long old summer then,nigh on 4 months without a real game.Don't suppose pre-season will start before mid July then either.

I'd find it totally logical if we voted against.Despite protests to the contrary I think that my resumé of the state of affairs is about right and we'd be right in the sh*tter next season if we didn't go up...which we will of course.

This seems to have been deleted though. Try their forum: You won't be the first though.http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/forums/7-Coventry-City-General-Chat

Think Chelsea might well win the final actually,depleted or no, wasn't at all impressed by either side in last night's game. As for the penalty shoot out,you'd have to ask yourself what exactly Ronaldo and Kaka thought they were doing, Neuer prefers to dive to his right so they went to that side anyway and not even just inside the post.Ronaldo's penalty reminded me of Billy's against Blackpool, woefully weak and inaccurate, a gift for the keeper.

Exactly, you can be crap but not necessarily inexperienced.

But just because their defence might be young it doesn't need to be totally inexperienced (the 17 yrs old I'll grant you). Our midfield might well be, Schneiderlin 22,Cork 23,Lallana 23 and De Ridder 25. They've still got nigh on 800 first team games on the counter between them though.

Towards the end of June as a rule, might be different this season I suppose.

If we'd had Tad available it would have been all over 3 or 4 matches ago.

Wasn't this a well known internet hoax ? the other twin girl was supposed to be called Compote wasn't she?? Anyway L'Etat Civile refuses names like that more often than not.

Same ref as we had at Burnley away apparently.Nothing much to report on that occasion but he's got a bit card happy of late.

My, do those home-made shirts look crap now.

Wouldn't that be full of Dads and 5 year olds nowadays?

Bloke in the black jacket next to the lad in the blue away shirt is smiling, must be a Skate.

Amazing thread, 99 posts now without having established as yet that free money and stuff cannot be anything other than a good number. let's put it this way.If you were in line for an inheritance of say 500K£ in cash and assimilables, how many of you would refuse it or take it and give it all to charity. That should sort the men from the boys.

Jeez,do those punters look depressed, they should take some sick leave and hang about in the pub. Mind you a bit of a slimming cure would probably help most of them.Why are the majority of football supporters so f*cking lardy arsed ?

Exactly, to quote Whispering Dave on the subject. What you doan't waant to do now is throw an Easy 2 sicky and hang about in the puubb.

We may have sold Chamberlain for a fair amount of money (not £12 million though,not after VAT has been paid on the sale) but we have invested fairly heavily in new players for somewhere around half of that.The saving factor in our accounts for this last season is that youth development is exempted from all of the "fair play" rules for the foreseeable future.Everything that can be imputed to the academy and development squad can be sidelined from the total operating budget, in our case this will be a fair old amount. For this season the rules were:Acceptable deviation from financial equilibrium= £4 million,permitted owner equity injection up to £8 million.So with a £12 million,partially offset by owner equity increase of £8 million, operating loss we would still be within the football league targets for this season,with the possibility of writing off youth development factors to boot. Next season would be something completely different if we were to be marooned in the NPC again, we'd have to cut costs.

The players got a salary spike for getting promoted,virtually all of them.Our losses will be pretty monumental this season I expect. All the extra TV cash (and it won't be 4/5 mill cos the basic award is just 2.4 million) will be gobbled up on extra player salaries (don't forget we have some expensive additions) and the AOC money is mostly gone.Our loss for this season will probably be somewhere around the 12 million mark.

these rules start next season, 2014/15 is when they apply to maximum effect I believe.Owners can only pump in 6 million next season,then 5,then 3. Our losses will exceed 6 million this season without a doubt so next season we'd have to increase revenue or cut costs and that would mean player salaries, where we are no doubt in the red again big time.If we don't go up this season next season will see us diminished. "Owners will be allowed to invest £6m next season, £5m the year after, then £3m in the 2014-15 season."

Dear oh dear,what would you do in the event of a real crisis..hide in the coalshed or something?

forum rules innit. should be a new forum rule. Engage your brain before putting your fingers into gear.

I assume this is by bias of extra tickets being made available to ST holders as usual??

We will no doubt see on Saturday then. I expect Coventry to have well less than 1500 supporters present.Their section will be heavily infested with Saints fans who may or may not manifest themselves before full time but at 90 mins, when the stewards can't turf them out, expect to see 200/300 of our lads (and lasses) in there.