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Today Golf followed by another Birthday Party full of Jaegerbombs & Bullfrogs at Rock Bottom's Karaoke then onto a Skool Party Cheese night... hmmm Emirates Hostesses in skool gear..... not good for us old un's that Tomorrow will probably be very unwell until chick comes round late afternoon Sunday chill, may even get the car washed and a hair cut

yes but when there is SO much destruction and despair in property why add to the cost by buying a football club which is at the end of the day a bottomless pit of needing money... 1) They have to be able to buy the land at rock bottom prices - don't see Rupe's selling Staplewood for 50p yet and not sure the coal board pension fund is that keen to lose money, and with construction dropping why would RMC want to move out?. 2) They could probably buy half built houses/offices at rock bottom from existing developers who are overstretched (some are selling places off less than half price) Oh and 3) here's one to make everyone think. When does the Jacksons Farm option expire? How likely are Bovis to take up the option? And finally why sell to a developer when you have the experience on your own board and you have 3 years of recession to play with the politics opf planning approvals....... Long Term planning????

winky smiley thingy as in there MAY be a Dubai Saints flag up at the Watford Game. We hope

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/paulkelso/3161332/Sport-in-the-eye-of-the-storm-Sport.html It ain't looking good out there in la-la land and as for West Ham.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/westham/3168202/West-Ham-feeling-the-big-freeze-Football.html 51 mil in debt to Icelandic Banks oops - guess the local councils will be round to get their money back Lee Bowyer sweeping the streets in Ealing lol

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And secondly would you TRUST an entity that starts a property development project right now to show good judgement?

Been away a long time and memory of place names fade but probably around the Rose Bowl

Just in. Looks like you lot on here are DOOMED. Better cancel the pension plans, don't bother worrying about the team next month you'll all be dead by then if this article is correct! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3165565/105-year-old-virgin-says-no-sex-the-key-to-long-life.html

Did it wasn't even in the top 50 most memorable HTH

Not for Killer though - and all those flights can't be good for it....

We get bacon here, which is good. A packet of Iceland Super Value that costs 99p in UK costs 6 quid here. Proper stuff is more expensive than good steak! What we can get is forzen American hand carved bacon at a sensible price. It's sort of almost like Streaky, but REALLY tasty. In the pan it shrinks out all the water and becomes the perfect crisp (smoked) bacon. Under the grill it stays larger is more tasty but doesn't crisp just burns. The other problem here is that every 3 months or so we run out of HP Sauce (the ONLY brown sauce sold here) that means us sarnie freaks HAVE to keep about 4 bottles in stock at anyone time. Tried one with Chilli Tomato Sauce once - not as good as HP but it WAS good

And so it wasn't like this last season then? At the moment the reactions are much more polarised, more because there are far fewer posters these days. With only a regular 100 or so on-line you have a narrower band of positions held by everyone. The real difference this year is the fact that we all realise that we're "extremely shaky" and hoping to survive rather than the "we are a PL club" attitude that we had for the previous 3 years. We have NEARLY lost all hope, we just want to see that spark hence the mood swings Just be grateful for one thing - we don't support the Spuds right now!

Ha just found this - I should be a guru - this is how NOT to get the best price for your players when you're in the sh*t http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/westham/3161461/West-Ham-plan-fire-sale-of-players-as-crisis-bites-Football.html The club would listen to offers for Danny Gabbidon, Hayden Mullins, Nigel Quashie, Calum Davenport, James Collins, Jonathan Spector, Lee Bowyer and Luis Boa Morte. It was already felt that the squad was far too big under Alan Curbishley and new manager Gianfranco Zola is determined to have quality rather than quantity. lol now where have we seen the too big a squad full of journeymen not quality story before

Love him or hate him, the steps that Lowe (and Wilde) took on their return means that even in the current climate we will last longer than many la-la land clubs. Rumours abound in the press since Lord Triesman's comments. Assets, Profit, Loss and Cash-flow are the key points. Losses can be covered IF you have assets. No bank is likely to shut down a club in mid season because they will NOT be able to sell any assets (players). Likewise, no Bank Manager is going to ANNOUNCE that they will be having a fire-sale in January as the BANK will be wanting to get the most money they can for the players to recover their money, a fire-sale means bargain prices. The PROBLEMS will come when the cash-flow runs out, or when ANY club needs to extend it's overdraft. Not paying the VAT/Tax, Salaries or even local suppliers would be what causes somebody to go pop. We certainly aren't safe from admin, but it is NOT in the interests of the BANK to let it happen and so they hold the cheque book and as others have said will let us trade our way out. But those clubs relying on "FUTURE" cash flow or ever widening debt that is "guaranteed" by an owner will be in real trouble FIRST With LUCK we could survive the first round of admins when (if) it really goes t*ts up in football and after that I am sure a Government with an election coming up will not allow the whole sorry mess to collapse either

Get married but keep a steady supply of FB's available for massaging your ego etc allegedly http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2878

See what you did there = you just further depressed over 70% of the forum members who have gone way past that stage on the list! We were talking about this down the pub Tuesday, an Irish mate has 2 FB's, one at the date stage, and one who thinks she should be a missus. We reckon he's either the luckiest bstd alive or just likely to die early with a knife in his back. He does tend to walk a bit bow-legged at times

WE'RE BEING TAKEN OVER BY LADBROKES!!! Wow, never saw THAT one coming. Good work super sleuth

lol at SB for once... Just knew if I picked up that little tete a tete in the title it may get a bite. bless. 1-0 to Phil :-)

Of course he could have not played football for about 4 months and as such is not match fit but could come off the bench for 15 minutes or so. Against Norwich it could be that JP didn't want to take a risk of changing things, against Coventry who knows..... One thing is for sure, if we DO get to see him after the International Break we may see the online users on here reach the heady heights of oh what say about 120?

I think it is fair to say that the incredibly fast moving melt-down in the financial markets has put a potential spanner in the works of many previously well run clubs. There's a long way to go yet. Who lent the Glazers their money in their leveraged deal to buy Man U and for how long? Any of these deals that involved leveraged loans and length of loans that the buyers could have expected to be automatically rolled over may find their lenders don't have the money available any longer. Look on the bright side - maybe Barclays or NU will go bust and we don't have to pay them back ... think wishfully it could happen in the la-la land of the Asturius Thread:-)

You could be on to something here. While your story is tragic, we just had something similarly weird here involving a full international player. Been saying it for a while - bring back the White Witch! http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=474451&archisec=NAT Maybe the end of season fancy dress idea has come early? Could we attract an extra few fans by having a Coven Corner in the ground??? hmmm

Mind you, give it a few weeks and he may want to go back to their reserves to play in front of big crowds.....

lol at Spuds - potentially lots of nice short cheapie trips for their LUVERLY supporters. Will give them something else to moan about

As someone once said, one of life's best secrets is having one near the top of the list and one near the bottom. Mind you he finds the alimony a strain in these difficult times :-)

Was bored so stuck this on the weekend fred. Think it deserves some debate as I'm meeting my mate on Thursday for beer and would be interesting to see how much things have changed since he got a wife:-) An old mate of mine once sorted them as follows, and I try to recall how it went Wife - a constant stream of bills, criticism of your fitness, lifestyle and friends, secks when they want it and maybe a bj once a year on your birthday as long as you don't get p*ssed up first. It's always HER friends who come to dinner parties. You can't afford a weekend break in Prague Fiance - First signs of worst habits of wife but with secks, a definite reluctance to "go out with the boys". Will still be interested in a weekend trip to Prague but only for the architecture and that "pretty bridge". Will invite your friends for a dinner party but will be stressed out for months about it Missus - a wife in waiting, focuses on looking at furniture, suggests improvements in your wardrobe, will go out with your mates a couple of times a year but gives the body language of hmm. The secks is ok but unlikely to be quickies in a lay-by, might remember where the feather duster is once or twice a year, probably get a bj once every 6 weeks or so, would probably enjoy a weekend trip to Prague but will drag you home from the bar after only 3 beers with the promise of something interesting (which in hindsight wasn't REALLY worth missing the other 6 beers for). You would take her to a dinner party Girlfriend - sits at your side through football, pub with mates, cinema, shopping. Looks at nice things in shops and goes ooh, but doesn't REALLY expect you to buy it for them. Rarely seen without best clothes on, always full of compliments about you, your friends and of course your choice of Vindaloo on a Friday. Only sign of the woes to come would be a reluctance to have a kebab with Chilli sauce on the way home from the pub. Has secks regularly and enjoys being creative. A really good one would buy you a pay of handcuffs for Christmas and a feather duster. Would join you in the dodgy bar in Prague and gently crtique the bodies around the stage. You would have dinner in a pub/restaurant F*ck Buddy - visits you as often as possible, doesn't want to go out, just wants more more more. Will even wear a Saints shirt and sit on your lap while the game is on telly. Creativity isn't there as she normally only has time to tear your favourite shirt in a rush to get it off. Would be on the stage in Prague given half a chance. Who the hell needs dinner! Date - Holds your arm while walking from the restaurant or the posh "chill-out" lounge that you have been to impress her. An occassional holding of hands causes a speeding up of your heart rate and your mouth starts uttering stupid comments that would sound cheesy in a bad Hollywood college love movie. You are focused on what's under the T-Shirt/spangly top, she is focused on what's in your wallet or what's in your gene pool. You know that only slappers sh*g on the first date, you don't want to go out with one but you HOPE that she'll make an exception just for you. She'll want to play it cool so that she doesn't scare you away and you go home thinking - hmm next time, next time, next time. Why waste money taking her to Prague? but you know you're going to take her to that big romantic restaurant that your mates recommended (and which is always embarrassingly BAD) Oh and she's always late 'cos she's making herself look gorgeous Then finally you get that whole drunken fumbling 30 seconds later moment, and then it's all about recovery time as to whether you go to level 2, straight to girlfriend or back to square one. Of course this misses out the whole new technology stuff but it was a long time ago that he recounted his tales! He also pointed out that it can take anything from 3 months to 10 years to get from step one to wife. Just depends on how long you are able to delay the process