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Just means they have to have been playing in this country for at least three years before their 21st birthday. So the young players Arsenal, Liverpool etc sign from abroad when they are 16 would be ok. What they would have to stop doing though, is sending them to a feeder club in Belgium etc for a few years to develop. If you take our 16 from last night: Kelvin Davis - Qualifies Chris Perry - Qualifies Lloyd James - Isn't 21 yet so not sure how that works. I assume he'd qualify. Jack Cork - Not 21 yet Matthew Paterson - Not 21 yet Rudi Skacel - Doesn't qualify Morgan Schneiderlin - Doesn't qualify Adam Lallana - Not 21 yet Andrew Surman - Qualifies Bradley Wright-Phillips - Qualifies Jordan Robertson - Not 21 yet David McGoldrick - Will be 21 on Saturday, would qualify Alex Pearce - Not 21 yet Tommy Forecast - Just turned 21, should qualify but according to Soccerbase hasn't been a pro for 3 years yet Paul Wotton - Qualifies Romain Gasmi - Doesn't qualify Matthew Paterson - Not 21 yet So interestingly, if you apply the letter of the law, only 5 of our squad from last night would qualify. I'm sure they will have something in place for under 21's. Of those 5, only Surman came through our academy.

I mean it's not working in the sense that crowds are pitiful. You are probably right when you say that improved performances will cause increased crowds. But what happens if we don't get improved performances? Being a table-topping team isn't the only way of getting decent crowds to come and watch you. Other clubs manage it. But there is a sense of apathy surrounding Southampton. As far as I can see, little or no effort is being put into making people 'want' to go and watch Saints.

No offence, but that exactly the 'sit back and wait' approach that the club have been employing so far. It doesn't seem to be working does it.

In order for us to survive long term, the club need to make some serious efforts to get fans coming back to matches. Otherwise, sales in January are just a sticking plaster over a gaping wound.

I wonder if many clubs would fail that test at the minute?

By 'redevelop Fratton Park', I meant build shops and houses on it.

What about men who call girls mate?

Interesting that they are going to apply for planning permission to redevelop Fratton Park in a few weeks, yet aren't going to submit the application for the new ground until next spring. I presume something will be put into place to stop them doing one but not the other?

That's ok, it gets dark just after lunchtime in Bath.

Don't think there was any need for that, it was a simple question.

Do HMRC allow people to claim expenses for their travel into work?

In 30 replies, and some long winded ones at that, no-one has actually answered the question posed by Dog. It's next Monday, by the way........

No.

I agree with a lot of what you write, but someone's going to say it so it may as well be me. Woodward didn't join the club until after we were relegated.

Would we not have got a tribunal fee, like we did with Leon Best?

One important thing to note is that most trackers have a bottom rate that they won't go below. For example, I currently have a rate of 3.28%, but there is a collared basic interest rate of 3.03% minimum. So if the base rate falls another quarter of a percent, it will be passed on to me, but any further falls will not.

I'd say half all those figures and you'd be near the mark.

Has he made any comment on this yet?

She's got a very strange voice. Heard her 'effort' from Saturday on the radio this morning, sounded pretty awful. Looks rough when she's not fully made up as well.

Surely anyone who receives a remotely acceptable offer will be off? We aren't in a position where we can push for a good selling price. Clubs will make take it or leave it offers, and we'll have to take it. I'd say people have got remarkably high estimations of how much we'd get for some of these players.

The reason people get annoyed with you is that you state things as fact, when they are anything but. That graph, for example, doesn't seem to show the Wii, PS3 and 360 against each other, as you said. It shows each of them against their previous generation. So the Wii is selling more than the Gamecube (no surprise there), the PS3 is selling less than the PS2, and the 360 is about flat with the Xbox. Are those worldwide figures, by the way?

I'd agree that discs are too expensive, but they aren't that much. They are between 15-20 quid. Which, if you are right that they were £25+, shows that prices are coming down.

I might offer a quid, and then just as contracts are due to be exchanged I'll gazunder Sacha and offer 60p. It's a buyers market, after all.

Briefly, I think the difference is that we sold the land to a property developer, whereas Pompey want to go into property development themselves (or at least in partnership). Plus they've got more land. They aim to build on Fratton Park and also around the new ground. Not that it will ever happen...........

I'm stick on level 10.