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That whining has been audible for the last 2 years... hard to envisage it getting any louder but I fear you are right and we're yet to experience whining of biblical proportions.

Couldn't help notice the Derby - S****horpe score whilst following the Skate game on BBC website tonight... sounds like fun.

Oh, and every time I see the logo, all I can think of is Thomson/TUI...

So if aap3 pay, lets say £300k a year to sponsor Saints, how much are they gonna pay SaintsWeb for this advertising thread?

It's their strongest team AND their weakest team, all at the same time. It's their ONLY team.

At the risk of inflating his ego, this quote about Saints sums it up for me:

Only if you're planning on travelling to Australia still in 2050... gonna be awhile before we see any commercial implementation methinks.

You're about 4 years too late.

I can.

Hell yeah.

lol, I'm not applying, no fricking way. I actually enjoy reading people have meltdowns and overreacting, why would I want to get involved again!?

What odds on 'None of the above'?

Either that or Frank Spencer.

Far be it for me to comment on whether TB has done a good job or not thus far, but all this furore over PKF's fees is troubling me slightly. His company has a job to do and therefore should be paid for it. His company wouldn't have been needed if previous owners hadn't f*cked them up so much. This is a direct consequence of what went before, and the fans need to accept that. Of course, if PKF were to accept less than the full amount due to them in the course of the administration, say 50% of it, then perhaps they should only do 50% of the job...?

That's a new one, not seen that before, might give that a go. Especially as I'm not going to be there. That will doubly qualify me to do so.

The whole of page 14 should just be deleted really... just as Son of Bob pointed out recently, if people just ignored alpine rather than reply all the time it would be far better.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637487 Pretty unlikely I'd say.

Amen.

It's not the message, it's the way it's put across. I think most fans will agree that we need a CB or two, but don't feel the need to make it out to be the end of the world because we haven't signed them yet.

So... Muhammad loses in the QF's. Cook has been talking about his non-selection today (before the QF) clearly very upset by it still. Selectors need to have a long hard look at themselves it seems.

(You can tell it's Friday afternoon)

Isambear Kingdom Brunel Albear Einstein and...

You know that feeling when you scour a forum for threads you might find interesting, don't find any, but decide to click on one anyway, just in case, to see what is being said? I just did that and found this thread. So glad I did. Cheers Bexy.

Prost was indeed a top man. I got to know Huw Jennings and Stewart Henderson well whilst they were at Saints as it was at the time I was covering the Youth Academy sides for the Echo... both very accommodating and easy to talk to and the Academy did well under their stewardship. To be honest, we've generally had good people in a lot of the Academy/reserve roles over the years, and we probably wouldn't be as accomplished today if it were not for the foundations laid by those previous staff. Back to the current U-21 team, this is no different to the side that Hunter has run for the last couple of years, aside from the fact that we now have a league to play in, so we're already well set for the new dawn IMO, and Martin Hunter is exactly the right person. As for other younger coaches, there are plenty in the Academy although I have no idea how each of them are progressing or how they are viewed by the guys at the top, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if Les Reed and co didn't have some significant succession planning built in to some extent.

It is worth remembering though, that for all the players there may have been issues with, there have been signings where there have seemingly been no problems whatsoever, so whilst it is absolutely fair to question what may have happened in some of these case, it should also be viewed in context amongst the signings who've spoken highly of the club and the way we've conducted ourselves (Rangers and Palace the most recent examples). As always, I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the middle and we're destined to never really know what happens.