Lighthouse

You say that like we’re doing them a favour, letting them play for us. If players get a chance to play at a higher level they will almost invariably want to go. It then becomes a question of negotiation between the player, the club and any potential suitors. We won’t be waiting for ‘stupid’ offers, we’ll be interested in acceptable offers. Football is a business.

Notts in the semi it is then. Surrey probably should have chased that total down but they didn’t, I’d say I’m slightly happier with that. On the other side, Somerset somehow chase down 162, having been 82-8 against Yorks. Overton came in and hit 79 off 30.

Vincey has finally unpacked his golf clubs by the look of it.

We aren't getting £35m for a 28 year old Championship player. We'd take £25m.

We’d take £25m.

Can’t really see much point to that, either in terms of playing talent or financial benefit.

Three runs away from being our top scorer so far. Him and Root dragging us toward a total of sorts.

It’s no use trying to take on big sticker. They’ve got people in the White House, the media, the FBI, the CIA, the RSPB… everywhere.

Archer is a senior pro, who has scored at Championship level and contributed six goals in all competitions. Nothing special but I’d like to see a similar replacement if he leaves, rather than a player who’s yet to do anything above age group football. We didn’t ’fob off’ Ballard, he was doing nothing here or on any of his loans and couldn’t get in the team over players like Sekou Mara. The pathway is there, Ballard needed a fresh start at a lower level.

I gave up and checked wiki, no to the first question. Nobody will guess in a month of Sundays so as a hint; his most famous moment in a Saints shirt did not involve scoring or assisting a goal.

1630 tee time, according to the BBC fixtures. I wonder if that's been pegged for a while just in case, or if the games were brought forward after we beat Norway.

He was very obviously being pressured into doing something he wasn't comfortable with, as was made clear by some of the messages being released. Where the line is in vocabulary between 'coercive behaviour' and 'bullying' is all semantics but it's very obvious why Tonda might be facing a ban and not Will Salt.

Not necessarily. The bloke needs a job and it’s not like he’s going to find himself in the same situation again. Clearly we’ve come to some agreement which is acceptable to both parties, which is good news, particularly for a young man at the start of his career who won’t be out of a job.

Not really, he was quite clearly doing it at the behest of those above him.

Yeah, so as I was saying, the sixth wicket partnership should polish off the remaining runs without too much bother, then we should breeze through the QF and will probably be one of the favourites for finals day. Why do you c*nts keep quoting things before I can edit them?