Wes Tender

No. Because then there'd be confusion with the Eastleigh Automatics in Winchester. You'll have to ask Bernie why it's called that. Presumably the business might have started in Winchester. There's a South Midlands Communications Ltd in Chandlers Ford.

Winchester Automatics in Eastleigh

Just had a good laugh at this that has just appeared. http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=194690 If it is accurte, it seems that half the team that play at Wembley will probably be playing their last game for the Skates, as contractual clauses mean that either they will have to be offered new contracts, or they will be due large bonus payments. Naturally, Admin Andy is not in a position to offer either. So in the unlikely event that the Skates beat Spurs on Sunday, those players would either not be available to play in the FA Cup final, or else they would have to waive their right to the bonus, or accept new contracts at vastly reduced salary for next year in the Fizzy Pop league. Much as I have been a detractor of Rupes, he at least had the foresight to enter clauses into players' contracts that their salary would be halved in the event of relegation. For all that Storrie was paid considerably more than Lowe, he doesn't appear to have been as canny as Lowe in this regard.

I really thought that you were made of sterner stuff than that, Pilchards. If I were in that position, I'd ram their pathetic efforts at selling tickets for a Wembley Cup semi-final down his throat and when the inevitable come-back came that they at least had beaten us to get there, I'd remind him that at the time they had been trading illegally while insolvent and that at least three players who influenced the outcome in their favour shouldn't have been on the pitch. Then, if he threw the 4-1 back at me, I'd tell him to go ahead and crow because their Premiership team had beaten a team two divisions below them, who had dominated the match for 70 minutes and that even then, the victory had been obtained through a string of heroic saves by arguably England's number one goalkeeper. And having said that, I'd ask him if he thought it was worth it, spending money they didn't have, if the result was that their club was headed towards oblivion?

Of course you're special, mack rill. For as long as the Premiership has existed, you're the very first club in that division ever to go into administration. Your place in the history of British football is secure for ever more. Other clubs might follow, but you'll be always be the first to go down the pan from the top flight and therefore on the same level in footballing history as Roger Banister was in the history of the running track and Edmund Hillary in the field of mountaineering. You must be very proud.

No. I believe Saga holidays have far more than a million and the Saga of Noggin the Nog had more viewers in its heyday too.

It's a shame for you, as he constantly ran rings around you.

Thanks for that. Every cloud has a silver lining, eh?

But 19 insists that as the IP address was the same and that it is a possibility that the user names referred to either other members of a family, or other occupants of the same address, which one or more of them will it be? Of course, the other possibility is that it was just one individual with multiple personalities, as Um Pahars insisted. I must confess that I miss his contributions too.

As many know, he often got a reaction from me, but I will miss the enjoyment of the cut and thrust that answering his posts and dissecting them or debunking them involved.

Rob Lloyd and Mark Jackson ought to have a lot in common Quote: The Telegraph As most Skate fans are illiterate, it's a great match all round.

An amusing assessment, Phil, but it doesn't stack up. AA would know immediately that neither Taksin nor Gadaffi's kid would pass the FAPP criteria. AA has let it be known that he was given the name of the first mystery buyer and if it were one of those two, there would be no real point in pursuing it any further. Unless he was rather unethically pursuing the path of the Estate Agent, sending a false signal to prospective buyers, that of course, there were others on the verge of buying, so you had better hurry up and decide. So first there was a consortium. Then there was this British-based hedge funder. Now there is a different individual that only the Guardian has highlighted. Doesn't exactly fill one one with confidence that the whole episode is anything but a convoluted charade. And why hasn't the Guardian story been reported on elsewhere, halfway through the following day since it broke?

Two things:- Firstly the Middle East doesn't have the sort of monopoly on deserts to the extent that it does with oil. Other desert regions are available. Secondly, I disagree that solar energy will be the main energy source, or at least that it will be the one to replace oil. Hydrogen is where I put my money.

Strange that the story in the Guardian was the only one to suggest that the original wealthy single potential buyer had been replaced by another single wealthy potential buyer. Both apparently were using Lloyd to front their bid and although AA had been informed of the identity of the first potential buyer, he is in the dark as to the identity of the second. He says that it is not unusual for the front runner in a consortium to change, but a single buyer is not a consortium. Something doesn't add up. If there is any substance to this story which broke yesterday, surely the other papers would either be publishing any information that they had gleaned from a bit of digging, or else would have syndicated the Guardian story. As for The News, there is not a whisper about it. Strange.

Well, you're on here, bug, as am I, so there must be some truth in what you say.

What you say seems pretty reasonable to me, but what do I know? This is the first I've seen of a report that the solitary prospective buyer of the club has now changed. This really is descending ever deeper into the realms of pure farce. If I were a Skate fan (God forbid), I would be feeling even more apprehensive about the chances of the club surviving total liquidation.

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

Really? I had a feeling that I thought his posts mostly made a lot of sense. Perhaps when the personna is divorced from the former associations towards more contentious issues, the points made are more balanced. Perhaps I ought to have a look back at Speculator's posts and see whether my original feelings towards them are correct.

So it didn't cross your mind that being Easter Monday they might have had family commitments that kept them away? No, that would be too reasonable a reason and was so obvious that it went right over your head.

Presumably as father of the bride, it falls upon you to pay for the wedding and honeymoon. That's some leverage you have there.

Don't worry. In the near future, pressure to replace oil with other fuels will build, either for environmental reasons, or because the oil runs out. Then the West can put two fingers up to the Arabs who have too often held our economies to ransom and tell them where to stick their oil. Then, unless they find diamonds, or gold, or some other commodity of value, their economic strength will decline once more to irrelevance and they can go back to living in tents in the desert. A bonus would be that without the money to spend on weaponry, the whole area would cease to be the main potential arena for the next World war.

Truce?

Did that early goal affect confidence? How was it that after about 10 minutes we played some of our best football and I was predicting that we would soon get level and go on to win by three or four goals? In the event, being generous to the team, the match was constantly broken up by a niggly referee who blew for the most minor incidents and the substitutions made by both teams also disrupted play somewhat. Being unkind to the team, some were obviously not up to it, either because they couldn't be bothered, or else they had been out partying until late in the morning. The Saints of old might have suffered a loss of confidence from letting in an early goal, but thankfully this team is made of sterner stuff and they got away with it. Pardew contradicted himself in his post match interview. He excused the result by stating that having gained the early lead, LO clammed up tight to protect the points and were hard to break down. Needless to say, when we had drawn level, or gone ahead, that excuse was no longer valid. Instead, it us left hanging on from LO's efforts to gain one or more points, so he ought to admit that the team was below par after we equalised.

There are a couple of errors in your response too, Tim. There ought to be commas after mistake and too. So you're not that superior either. But at least I'm sure that what we both write is easily understandable by most, instead of resembling something that would be texted on a mobile phone.

You have to laugh at the brass neck that you have. I make a small spelling mistake, a common enough one at that, whereas your garbled post lacked both puncuation and correct spelling. I've corrected it, so that if you have the aptitude to learn, you will be able to improve yourself. Before After