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On Sky Sports news they were saying that people from Tier 3 areas must not attend matches in Tier 2 due to this clause (the Tier restriction applies to them whichever tier area they are in): there should be no public attendance at spectator sport or indoor performances The nearest ones are Bristol area, Slough, Kent and Midlands, could the club use season ticket address postcodes to make sure that fans from those areas are not invited to attend?

His tights / long johns do look weird but better than pulling a hamstring, which I presume that is why he is wearing them. Or maybe he just likes to wear tights even in public!!

I know the feeling. Being positive: We're playing really well and there is no reason why we can't keep that form going into this game. Being negative: Trouble is that being a Saints fan I'm just waiting for the 'down to earth with bump' feeling and the normal month or 2 period each season when we get very few points. COYS. I know that not all games will go our way but at least play as we have been as a team and we will stand a chance.

I normally watch any football game going but the last 2 England games without Ings or JWP in the squad I did not watch. Mind you I don't understand the European competition format and didn't realise the importance of the Belgium game, I think that having friendly games at the same time period as competition matches hasn't helped. In theory we should have a good England team to compete with any country (Belgium a small country at number 1 in the world!!) but over the years England managers have poorly selected and mis-managed the resources around them.

"Unlike other travel to the UK, there will be no exemptions to this quarantine policy," the guidance says. Since June, elite sportspeople have been exempt from coronavirus-related travel restrictions. The Football Association is awaiting clarification from the government. The latest rules, which took effect at 04:00 GMT on Saturday, will be reviewed after a week, the Department For Transport said.

I wonder if Vestergaard has travelled to Denmark yet to join up with his national team. If he has he may not be able to travel back due to new government ban from Denmark due to Mink covid. England game v Iceland is in doubt due to them playing Denmark before then this week. Travel ban will be reviewed in a week. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54858614

Stoke supporters seem to be taking to him. Getting good game time now that Davies is out injured. https://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/277904/angus-gunn?page=25

A UK luxury car company that a friend of mine works for is heading for record sales this year even though they were shutdown from late March until early May, they have been working overtime since then to meet demand. Some reasons given are that the lockdowns have prevented buyers spending on lavish holidays, socialising etc and not investing in high end property due to price reduction risk. And forward sales orders for 2021 are well ahead of planned as well, many from China who are still seeing substantial economic growth of 4.9% in the last quarter.

For me sometimes they are missing but if I go back on a thread later they are there. Seem to come and go.

I'm finding the same but on a laptop using Edge as the browser.

Gunn is not their number 1 keeper so will more be on the bench more often than not, which unfortunately will not give him much more game time. Their no. 1 is Davies the Wales national keeper and has been performing well according to Stokes fans forum. https://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/296879/davies

Really slow today multiple 500 errors. Can you undo your f up?

Ings and Prowsey on the England bench today.

I'm not so far away from you and I have been to watch Nantwich Town during International breaks or when Saints aren't playing. Good grass roots football.

Like you I watch many sports on Sky not just football, probably watching on average 20 hours a week, now that I am retired. I also have BT but apart from Premier League and European Cup football I only watch some baseball and rallying. I'm a nervous wreck watching Saints on TV (I'm OK when I'm at a match) but can relax and enjoy TV matches involving other teams. Back to the subject, part of the agreement for this should have been to air live within the current subscription the same amount of matches for each club going forward. I won't be paying the £14.95 to watch our matches but for those that will it is unfair to expect fans of teams like Saints to pay for far more matches than say Man U or Liverpool fans.

Yes it is!

Playing up today. Slow at times and had my first 502 for some weeks.

....... and I guess will be with Mr Shouty Man White, I can't stand the man.

I think that people were just pointing out that Gross used to play for Ralph at Ingolstadt and is not currently used much at Brighton, so maybe could do a job for Saints.

What is the link to todays pre-match press conference?

On BT Sport 2

It's disappointing that we have come back to the start of this season so different to the end of last (but this is Saints!). I didn't watch the match but the comments on here and the post match comments from Ralph are deeply worrying . I had hoped that we would have just repeated the end of last season preparation, how our players could get, to quote Ralph, be unfit after only 3 weeks away seems to me not understandable. People say that we only had one pre=season friendly but I seem to recall that we only played one against Bristol City before the restart. Hope Ralph can sort this out quickly because the players that people are criticising now after 2 games are the same ones that were praised 2 months ago.

Slower this morning so far, had my first 504 for 10 days. Speeded up again now, hopefully it was a temporary blip.

Being a long suffering Saints fan I can't see us starting the season like we finished the last. 2 - 1 loss to Palace

Great goal from Mo for Norway against Northern Ireland tonight and generally playing well. Norway 3 - 1 up at half time.