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3k Saints, Brighton is a great day on the p*ss, it's a 3pm k/o and the game is huge. In theory this has everything you need for a cracking atmosphere and a proper, proper away day. We also have an alright record in Brighton and they look beatable. Just hope the bingo bus lot have a break for the day and decide to jump on the train, have some beers and get behind the lads, because winning this one means we're level on points with them and their run in is a hell of a lot worse than ours.

I really don't understand why we have to mention the blue few in all of our songs, i mean "Fathers gun" normally gets sung in the first ten minutes of every game, and currently Hojberg hates them, as does Austin. Plus we feel the need to mention Prowse comes from there, and also apparently we like having them on a string. The only one i'll get behind is WTFILN, but that's because i was there at Fratton that day and it actually has some meaning behind it. Mind you 90% of the children who are obsessed with them would run a bloody mile if we played them in the cup without a bubble, which is what makes it even more embarrassed we're so obsessed.

Not sure if this has been posted yet but here's the government study published about the implications of a no deal https://assets.publishing.service.g..._Trade_of_a_No_Deal_Exit_on_29_March_2019.pdf Some takeaways for those who can't be arsed to go through it all (haven't added any opinion just summarised). 1. Paragraph one, according to this document no deal doesn't have any mandate as a result of the referendum. 2. Paragraph three outlines a siginificant (sic) impact on business, trade and the economy. 3. Paragraph six outlines that the government is preparing for as much "continuity" as possible in a no deal scenario including unilateral action, whether reciprocated or not by the EU. 4. Paragraph six also outlines how EU hauliers with be favoured (in the immediate aftermath) over UK hauliers. 5. Paragraph eight highlights that almost a third of the most critical projects (to accommodate a no deal) are behind schedule. 6. Paragraph nine shows that to date (of publish of the document) the government has spent £4bn of the public purse on Brexit planning. 7. Paragraph fourteen outlines that any continuity of business is at the mercy of the EU, and that it's unlikely that the EU27 will support such a thing (even if we are within the confines of WTO law). 8. Paragraph 12 outlines that agreements will "clearly not be in place" with a number of countries that amount to 11% of our current trade. 9. Paragraph 19 alludes to potential loss of citizen's rights, at least in the short term. 10. Paragraph 17 talks about the fact that UK are not prepared for the outcomes of a no deal scenario, including passport renewals, driving licences renewals, car insurance in relation to travel within Europe. 11. Paragraph 21 outlines that the UK economy will be 6-9% smaller in the event of a no deal brexit, with a "significant difference between regions" (Wales -8.1%, Scotland -8.0%, Northern Ireland -9.1% and the North East of England -10.5%) 11. Paragraph 25 outlines the cross border impact on goods, including taxation and slow down in crossing goods over the borders. 12. Paragraph 26 explicitly states that businesses with supply chains will have additional costs and burdens (sic). 13. Paragraph 29 outlines our reliance on the EU for food (30% of our food comes from there) 14. Paragraph 32 outlines what potential tariffs on goods could look like "EU would introduce tariffs of around 70% on beef and 45% on lamb exports, and 10% on finished automotive vehicles" and how it's impossible to predict how businesses would cope with this. 15. Paragraph 35 says that no deal would have severe impact on NI and last longer than the UK 16. Paragraph 39 outlines the impact on the service industry (80% of our economy) and highlights the difficulty we'll have in employing trained staff from the EU. 17. Paragraph 51 basically says that the government are not prepared for a no deal scenario and cannot mitigate the damage that it'll do to the UK. All in all it makes pretty grim reading, and i'm sure there's things in there that'll speak more directly to areas other people here are interested in.

We should expand the ground as soon as possible? Because if we build it they'll come?

Another example of THE GREATEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD™, playing a game we have to win at home and setting up with a back five... The biggest irony is that i'm desperate to win even though i hate the premier league with an absolute passion.

Funnily enough i feel the same, it'd be the most Saints thing in the world to win at the Emirates.

Things might be worse than we think.

Through their own incompetency too as they didn't submit their tender in time

Certainly be closer ties and shared resources, can't disagree with that, but to replace nations in their entirety (not that i personally care if that happens or not, so long as a degree of localised control of laws is retained) is fantasy and scaremongering of the worst kind. I've got to be honest i've never really understood nationalism though, to celebrate an accident of birth as something special is pretty bloody odd. To celebrate a culture and history is fine, likewise to accept it's failings and problems is fine too, but to pretend that people are fundamentally different because they happened to be born somewhere? I'll never really get that.

There's plenty of pro Leave arguments i can understand but the idea that the EU is somehow planning on becoming a united states of Europe one doesn't make sense to me. First off it'd never happen and most countries and people wouldn't be interested in it happening, there's also little to no evidence to support the claim and most of it seems to be either hyperbole or conspiracy. Secondly does it even actually matter? Nationalism is a pretty outdated concept if you think about it sensibly and the ability to travel freely, work where you want, have full access to health care and benefits anywhere in a block of 27 countries is pretty f*cking cool (and desirable).

Did one of those predictor thingies because i was bored and had us coming 16th, was surprised how hard Burnley's run in was to be honest.

Given i know the person working directly with Gao's on this (or they were until they were replaced by Chinese representatives) i know you're right. Mind you there's some people on here with very weird jealousy about this stuff who refuse to believe it.

Lemina has a hernia type thing apparently. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fair enough if that’s what you choose to believe mate, but I’ll go with what a first team player said instead Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

To be fair to Shance he's sort of right, there's a clause that says we are beholden to sign Ings if he's available for a certain number of games (note he doesn't have to start just be available), if it's under a threshold the purchase doesn't kick in. Also i've heard, but it's more of a rumour than the last one, that Ings himself has a "get out clause" if we get relegated. I thought this was all pretty well known to be honest, and i'm amazed people think it's bullsh*t as the club would be doing incredibly bad business if they'd committed to signing a player with long term injury problems. Oh and before people ask i have no idea what the threshold is, the person that told me didn't know the details of that, simply that there was one.

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Given the state of our fans it's really difficult to tell sometimes

Nope none at all that i know of, did hear there was someone looking round staplewood but that was last week and could've been nothing. Guan might know more though.

you know this is Che Adams and not Charlie Adams right? One is a 22 year old young striker playing for Birmingham, the other is a journeyman footballer playing for Stoke.

Not convinced that's an error just yet to be honest, definitely was a real attempt and an expectation it'd be done sooner.

Fenerbache are struggling because FFP is working, in fact their owners have basically said that they're going to ignore FFP and take the European ban so they can buy who they want and win the league next season.

Bus should get you there on time depending on when you get in (it takes an hour 45) but a taxi shouldn't be massively expensive either and would be much quicker as think it's only about a 45min drive from Preston to Burnley.

I'm doing Euston to Preston with Virgin, then have a Northern ticket Preston to Burnley (assuming it's running) and same for the reverse, i think a fair few of the london lot are doing the same.

Over the last 10 years we've made a net profit of £71m in transfers, but until about 3 years ago were running with an operational debt. Make of that what you will.

Looking at the website it seems there are some trains but not many, i have to work out how to get from Preston to Burnley (and back) if there is a strike on...