Ken Tone

The question may well be if we need this player that much. Is someone who can't get into Reading's team worth £15k a week, or might we get someone better or as good, for less money? Maybe we're shopping around before we decide either way, perhaps between Howard and one or two others? Being rich doesn't mean you don't want value for money.

Arguably even more significant in terms of promotion (but just as likely to be untrue!) in that article is >>Norwich look set to complete a £3m move for Peterborough striker Craig Mackail-Smith, 27. If that really were to happen now it might knock Peterboro's form badly at just the right time for us, but I think I've read somewhere that Barry Fry has already said no to this?

Surely most of the allocation were already sold, for the original date? This is dream cash flow stuff for Plymouth if they usually sell most home tickets in advance rather than via walk up. In effect they get a big bank holiday crowd in May with many of the tickets already paid for, weeks in advance.

You called? Winning all our remaining games may be an unnecessary target, and an even harder one to meet, since we still have to play Brighton away, but with the way Peterboro and Huddersfield are going we will have to win damn near all. Btw those who quote bookies' odds for promotion as if this gives a good indication of likely success, forget that bookies aren't simply predicting likelihood. They look at expected gains and losses, which take into account the amount bet on an event as well. So any club with a large following will almost automatically have short odds for promotion, because their large number of fans will put a lot of money on it.

Dyer didn't leave because he wasn't a good enough player. He left because he acted like a little ****. Long term, he's a better player than puncheon IMO, but I still wouldn't want him back. (Puncheon will fade again at whichever clubs he joins. As someone else said, cash in now before the buyer see the cracks)

The BBC website is not now showing the game on the 26th as a forthcoming fixture for either club, but neither has it got any news story saying it has been postponed, and our club web site still shows the game as on, with no hint even that it might be postponed. Very odd.

Hence my comparison with Surman, or maybe I should have mentioned Oakley. The sort of player some fans never appreciate, however much other fans and the manager do.

Agreed. Thought he looked like the new Drew Surman when he played before, mostly in left midfield. Now he's back in the frame he looks promising at CM.

Bartley is not in League 1. He signed for Burnley in January, not long after Mitchell said no players would be leaving Bournemouth. (He also gives away penalties etc in abundance!)

I agree. Solent were way OTT. Dean Richards was a cracking player and it is a tragedy that he died so young. I feel deeply for his family. However: 1. We have first team squads of up to 40 players. Maybe 10 - 20 of them leave the club in any given year on average. So logically maybe 10-20 ex saints players die each year. We can't have a minute's applause for each of them. This is why we have 'all saints day'. So presumably we should make a greater public gestrure for special cases. That's a judgement call as to who Is a special case. Le Tiss for exxaple clearly would be. Deano? I'm not sure. He was only with us for about 2 years and that was 10 years ago. 2. The club was part of the event at wolves and has contributed to the collection for the hospice. I knowe bradford did the same and also have a tribute at their home game but he was a *current* bradford employee.

No. Almost certainly a sparrowhawk, or just very faintly possibly if you are near a high point with a nest, a peregrine falcon. But a peregrine woud be more likely to take the pigeon in flight, not off a roof. Sparrowhawk is favourite by far. The white-tailed eagle, which as teamsaint says has been in Hampshire for several months before the Telegraph found out (even though it was featured several times on BBC South in January), is also known as a sea eagle. Basically it usually eats fish, though it will no doubt scavenge on other stuff if desperate. They are so big that they have been known to take lambs. This one is a young one, out of its normal area, and has been on the coast near Barton-on-sea over much of the winter. I have seen sea eagles on the Isle of Mull, where a small number breed. They are huge. You really would know with no doubt if you saw one. Many people confuse buzzards and red kites with eagles, but not if they've actually seen an eagle! And btw although a heron is grey it does look dark against the sky when flying.

I've only seen N'Guessan at home and he loopked rubbish in that game (I know others say he played better away) ,so I'd tend to agrre with you over him, but it's a bit tough to slate Forte. He's had a promising few minutes as a sub, when he looked a lot better than N'Guessan IMO, then he's been injured. Give the bloke a chance!

Seems a bit previous though doesn't it, to deduct the points before administration as such. I presume they will not lose more points when they actually go into admin? And they do now have to go to admin,do they? (or liquidation) ...they can't say "we've suddenly found some money, so we won't after all"

Be fair. It does include all the pies you can eat.

To be honest I think I'd be fairly ok with the 6-0 personally

Follow the link to the "letters of note" site they got this from. There are loads of good 'uns there ...albeit not football related. Try this american sports one for example http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/regarding-your-stupid-complaint.html

source?

Personally I thought Forte looked a lot better than N'Guessan, in his admittedly brief appearance. I didn't see N'Guessan at Exeter but he was crap at home. Besides, Forte is a player Adkins has managed before and whom he has signed permanently, as opposed to Nguesan's loan, so surely if anyone displaces AOC it will be Forte? -- or rather Jonno ;-)

The concept of SSN 'confirming' an earlier BBC report is a weird one. I'd believe anything on the BBC site over anything on SSN.

It's the lack of proper corner stands that reduce its capacity in relation to the overall size. Same issue affects Huddersfield. Those curved rooves look pretty but waste space ..classic example of an architect putting form above function.

Going bottom by some margin when they were above the relegation zone won't exactly fire their players up for their game against Brighton, will it? Are they due to play many other of our rivals still this season? May well affect us.

Headline banner on BBC. No more details yet Page last updated at 13:57 GMT, Monday, 21 February 2011 Sport Feeds RSS feed FOOTBALL: League One strugglers Plymouth Argyle to be deducted 10 points over cash flow problems

Surely you remember the rules from our points deduction? They were engraved on my heart. There is a fixed date --before it the deduction happens immediately regardless of how many points you have at that time. After it, the deduction happens the next season unless applying it immediately would cause relegation, in which case, that is what happens. We went into administration just after the date, so the points came off next season because we were relegated anyway. If we hadn't been relegated anyway they'd have come off in-season to make sure were relegated. Of course with any further (unlikely in my view) Pompey points deduction it won't be for administration as such anyway ..they've had that punishment. The authorities can be pretty much as nasty as they want for other deductions. Look at what they did to Luton and others.

Don't know on what you base this, but the 7 Nolan principles for standards in public life are applied rigorously in public sector employment. Any public sector boss who employed his son in the way that Pulis has done several times, or even who favoured his son's business in the way that Ferguson did with Darren F and loans, would be sacked. Things are generally laxer in the private sector but still boards of directors would not exactly smile on a chief exec who used his position to help his family rather than do the best for the shareholders. This thread isn't the place but if you want to reply via "The Lounge" with some examples of nepotism in the public sector, please do.