Window Cleaner

Well yes, they need to improve considerably so you'd expect them to spend a packet wouldn't you.

Hah, gets us a wicket every time, you know like going to the beer tent or going for a slash. Crikey, Holland is on fire.

Playing again but by the looks of it losing a day and a half or so to rain might be a bit of a boon. Back to our can't bat/can't bowl configuration again !!

Unless I've looked at an inaccurate forecast the weather doesn't seem any more promising today, cloudy, a bit on the parky side and cloudy.

Surrey have pulled off a master stroke in signing Sangakkara, perhaps we could have got him instead eh....

7 million £ is still a fair old amount for a player who can't play for you for at least a season and perhaps longer. Speculating on him eventually getting the requisite number of games for the Nigerian national side to eventually get a work permit. One to be left alone in my book.

Here's a little table with all known pre-season games for French L1 clubs . Obviously there are some gaps so you may be able to project where Saints could fit in. Doesn't look particularly evident though, perhaps we won't be playing top flight clubs. http://www.football365.fr/programme-de-reprise-de-clubs-2599047.html

Well as we aren't selling anyone worth a lot of money ( according to Sky anyway) anything is possible.

Well good oh, we can close down all the "top player" transfer threads then and just leave the Summer transfer targets thread open.:p

In any case he wasn't the only player to miss his penalty kick. I think it was Abrahams who missed early on and the second or third german. Couldn't watch it myself because a big storm cut off the satellite feed just at the moment of penalties. England didn't really deserve to win anyway, the 3rd German goal which was ruled out for offside was pretty fine cut, probably about half a foot offside actually, which all goes to show how finely balanced winning or losing can be so a missed penalty isn't any different.

Bonucci is 30, he's been at Juventus for a good few years and probably has 3 years or so left at the top, why would he abandon all that for a couple of quid more at the Chelsea circus...really.

All good manoeuvres to bump up the price by 10 million or so.

And they were not wrong !!

He wants to go seemingly, we're never adverse to a big stash of swans so he'll be on his way soon enough. Reckon we might get 55 for him. Don't doubt that Celtic get a cut so we'll end up 35 on the right side after all the counting is done.

Seeing as pink ball cricket was a bit of an unknown I do wonder if choosing to bat first was the wisest thing around. Our bowling seems more consistent than our batting just now and we could have let them find out the pitfalls first.

Just another José whim I'm afraid.

Solid start from Adams and Dawson today then we got bogged down and are now losing wickets.

Aha, Cat Stevens or Yusuf Islam as he calls himself now (Cat Stevens wasn't his real name either) Father and Son from Tea for the Tillerman, right?

Players will back in about a week won't they? Maybe even some before then for the old basic fitness testing.

Good, now we can get on with our season.

And the French have been fudging it ever since. Due to Hollande's largesses with the public purse in a vain attempt to be popular and in a position to run again this year, we're going to miss the set target by a fair old number of fractions of a point again. Still the EU will just gloss over it again.

Think we'll be cashing in again do you ? Or just can't keep good players when they get a whiff of a "big club".

Always the plan in football, better players everywhere, preferably for less money as well.....

Aren't Juve trying to persuade United to sell them Darmian as their first choice replacement for Alves? Perhaps they want to play him on the wrong side mainly though.

Win percentage can only be used as some sort of indicator when all of the matches are of the same level. A manager can have 20 games in L1 and win them all and 20 games in the PL and lose them all but he'd still have a win ratio of 50% wouldn't he. Adkins was OK at lower levels but just wasn't a top flight manager. Failed to win either L1 or the Championship with what must be one of the best sides ever seen at those levels. Chock full of what turned out to be international class players.