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Well at least MP will see how bad Fox is defensively.

Wooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!

That date is irrelevant, the FL's deadline is June 30th.

You would have thought that after the first successful appeal, they would have got the parole hearing problem fixed.

Do you think he took it to Strasbourg, or his self-interested lawyers ?

So who decides when somebody loses their Human Rights ? Is it on conviction ? Is it only if the sentence involves custodial time ? Is it for certain offences - such as rape ? But then is it ALL rapes, or only those involving victims under 16 ? Do you believe that a UK Bill of Rights would work any differently ? Once you start being selective, the system is open to manipulation and abuse. This is simply another case where the question should be 'How did officials who know full well what the regulations are allow this to be overlooked for so long' ? If the rules had been applied correctly, his appeal would have happened, been refused, and there would not have been a case to answer in the HR Court.

All the players used are in their respective teams' Premier League squads, and therefore should be good enough to play in the EPL. Same with Saints, if due to injuries or suspension we are forced to pick Tadanari Lee or SDR as starters we'll no doubt bemoan our fate, but they are well paid to warm the bench. Remember a couple of seasons ago when we hosted Blackpool in the FA Cup and HollowHead fielded a 'weakened team', but nobody commented on the number of changes Saints made to their starting 11.

1 year nearer early retirement.

The older they get the more they cost, ( and it doesn't stop when they move out ).

I don't think the FL do have discretion - the last team I can remember in this situation were Stockport; they went into admin in April 2009 and were still in admin at the start of season 2009/2010. They came out of admin in the middle of June 2010, 2 weeks before the FL deadline relating to season 2010/2011. Grimsby Town were hoping that they would have been invited to make up the numbers in L2 if Stockport had been kicked out, as they had finished 23rd that season, but the FL said they would have operated with 23 teams.

Clarinet

But there is always the OTHER court appearance - you know, the one where clever Trevor has to ask politely for permission from the creditors to extend the administration.

Which are ?

In reply to Trousers - above : So the main thing NA did wrong was to deliver the project ahead of schedule ? I think this sort of analysis might well provide an insight into NA's reactions after the Coventry game at the end of last season.

This.

Well the crowd were singing the latter.

Luke.

Good start against a good team - maybe should have been ahead at half time, but hanging on a bit at the end.

Isn't that Redkrapp's usual opening gambit at a new club - "Just look at this squad, they're rubbish"

To do that on top of the managerial change would probably see NC waking up next to a horse's head.

Well Lawrenson's quotes are condescending at the least. For 'experts' you can lump in all of those who now hope that Saints will be relegated, and that seems to include many on here after reading some of the guff that was spouted in the 24 hours following the managerial change. Yes Nigel Adkins is a nice bloke and the team seemed to have turned the corner, yes MP is an unknown in the EPL, and NC does come over as a complete ****, but I'll say it again - our opinions count for jack sh!t, only Nicola's bears any weight, and he sees this as improvement. It's not the players' fault - so talking of protesting and potentially disrupting Monday's game is counter productive. All we can do is take a lesson from the great NA - draw a blue line under this event and move on. Football, especially in the EPL, is not what it was 40+ years ago when I first walked into The Dell, SKY has seen to that. But regardless of the commercialisation and p!ssing about with kick off times, I want MY TEAM to win every game. This is my opinion and you are entitled to hold an alternative view.

So many 'experts' writing MP off before a ball has been kicked. NC sees this as progress and improvement, at the moment his is the only opinion that counts.

So you've written off MP before a ball has been kicked ?

Next 3 games : away @ WBA in half an hour, home v Newcastle, away @ Everton.

Based on what ? Exactly, absolutely no reason to think we can't win on Monday evening.