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When you read the full article, it becomes immediately apparent that he should be sacked. His 'defence' is very hastily and poorly constructed around the small bit of headline information he obviously had access to at the time, but is completely blown out of the water by the rest of the quotes. It's pretty obvious why the Telegraph wouldn't give the club more details prior to publication - Black would have just used it to try and get ahead of the story. In fact by already coming out with what he has done he just looks even more deceitful. He should be sacked immediately, no questions, no issues, no lengthy 'suspension while an investigation takes place'. Krueger (and presumably Liebherr) wants us to be - and to be perceived to be - a club of honesty and integrity. There are no legal loopholes of any kind to jump through. Why is he even having this meeting whilst employed by the club? He will have a clause in his contract about 'any behaviour likely to bring the club into disrepute'. Regardless of whether he passes any other threshold, he has certainly done that.

Thanks for the advice, I will.

So when they take 25 quid off you for an Official Membership, on the basis that one of the specifically advertised benefits is • Priority access to away tickets (after Season Ticket holders) It turns out that's just not true. Membership by itself has no priority whatsoever.

My conversation with the ticket office yesterday would seem to support that. We have two memberships but only one purchase history due to the club putting both tickets for matches last season on the same supporter number. Called to see if there was any way to transfer a ticket from last season over but apparently there's 'no way' of doing that. Clearly the old man buys two tickets for himself each time because he just likes to stretch out or something... Anyway, I was told that the next criteria if needed would be members with no purchase history. No indication of when but I'd expect some time next week, anyone who already qualifies probably has their ticket by now. Club probably hoping that it will encourage some to spend an additional £25 on membership they wouldn't have otherwise bought.

You don't have to install Kodi. You can view the streams directly from the website on a browser, or there is a specific Sportsmania app for android devices and an app for iPads that lets you view them. All the details are on the website. If you do want to go down the Kodi route (which long term I'd recommend), just download and install Kodi itself and then Google for 'how to install sportsmania repo on kodi', there are plenty of videos that walk you through it. Kodi isn't the most intuitive interface for newcomers but the payoff is that it is very flexible.

Long is on the left of the diamond, Tadic and Redmond up front. At this point, I'm starting to think that Claude is just trolling us. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

I've just registered, when you try and buy Europa League tickets you get a pop up which loosely (!) translates as... Add the three matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League with your subscription , it is an exclusive benefit for subscribers to the 2016/17 season. How to do this is very simple : Enter below the TDT your number , your date of birth and follow the instructions . Subscribers of First and Second Ring Green Ring will confirm its place ( or choose another one among those available ) and subscribers According to Red, Orange and According According Blue can purchase the mini - subscription for the Group Stage in any of activities available First Ring . Then requires a Siamo Noi number, which appears to be their version of a membership? So got no further.

Both from last week. "in and around". It's spectacularly idiotic, as well as nonsensical. Probably began with "in and around the penalty area" which makes sense, but is now just a synonym for "near". So you get pearlers like "Rooney's going to play in and around Zlatan". Sounds painful. Pluralising players names, particularly when prefaced by "your". "Man United have got difference-makers in their team, your Pogbas, your Zlatans, your Martials". Presumably supposed to be "...such as Pogba, Zlatan and Martial". Again, nonsensical, especially when the point of highlighting the player in question is to demonstrate that there is only one of them. Townsend uses both with astonishing regularity, which is always the yardstick of idiocy.

We played 3 centre backs against Watford last season as they play two forwards. So wouldn't be that surprising to see the same again with Targett as left wing back.

Don't get the obsession with re-signing ex players. Its just nostalgia at work. They've moved on and so should we. Never go back. It makes us look weak and desperate, like keeping your ex-girlfriends number in your phone 'just in case'. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

If we want Ziyech I think we would just get on with it. We could sit around for months hoping to save a few million quid, all the while throwing away what should be a full and settled pre-season. The Dutch football authorities, like our own, have shown that they have no problem ignoring things like legal due process in the interests of keeping a club in business, so Twente have a better than average chance of winning this one anyway. If they do win, Ziyech may choose to stay, if not his price will go up and we will potentially have competitors. If we were talking about 20million quid on a player we weren't really sure about it would make sense to wait it out, but the current uncertainty around the club's situation will make both them and him more eager to do business than when it is ultimately resolved. It's like when we got Davis from Rangers. There was lots of legal wrangling about whether he was still their player and whether his contract was enforceable. In the end we just paid anyway, because it wasn't worth all the messing about.

Yes please. Pinged him on the HCDAJFU thread last month. Proper #9, obvious successor/replacement for Pelle. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2338917

Much like when we replaced Shaw with Bertrand then? Bertrand came off the back of an underwhelming season at an atrocious Villa side and had never looked like getting anywhere near the Chelsea first team on a regular basis. Shaw was younger and arguably a better player already. The reaction to Bertrand's signing was universal dismay and underwhelm...ment? Bertrand then went on to have the best season of his career and was the best left back in the league last season. Even before Shaw's injury, he got fat and undisciplined and couldn't cement a place in a United team desperate for the player he'd been at Saints. Maybe what the past few years show is that football players are human beings, capable of being brilliant, terrible, and everywhere in between at their jobs depending on a whole multitude of factors. They aren't automatons on a fixed scale of quality directly commensurate with their latest transfer fee. And we as a club seem to be particularly good at coaching and developing players to perform at levels they don't achieve before (or after). Either that, or we all wear red-and-white tinted spectacles. All those players we've sold in the 'Liebherr' years - none of whom have surpassed their performances for Saints at other clubs - were ever much good in the first place. In which case, why are we bothered about selling them?

Seems very odd in hindsight that in a summer when we lost Pochettino, Lambert, Lallana, Lovren, Shaw, and Chambers, we drew our 'line in the sand' at Rodrigues... Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Bridge probably?

Interesting call. 2 years left on his contract at Chelsea, been there for years but never really gotten close to cementing a place in their matchday squad. Yet another 'victim' of Chelsea's policy of hoovering up a ridiculous number of young players that are realistically never going to play regularly for them. With Cork, Bertrand and Romeu, we've done well at picking up Chelsea's 'rejects'. In fact arguably the best value in the domestic market at the moment is in the huge squads at Chelsea and City.

Apples and oranges. Draxler has 4 years to run on his contract and is a winger. Rodriguez has 3 and is a left back. Both fantastic players but would cost a premium that probably puts them out of our reach. Left back particularly is a position that we are unlikely to spend a huge amount on as we have Bertrand there. Luis Gustavo is a great player also, but at 28 is probably not the long-term replacement for Victor we'd be looking for if we wanted to spend the sort of money it would cost to get him. Schurrle has 4 years to run, and would be unlikely to return to the PL to a smaller club than the one he left. He's also arguably more of a winger than a centre forward. Dost would be a like for like replacement/upgrade for a 30 year old Pelle. He has the right combination of age, experience, and contractual situation that would make him an achievable and realistic long term target that the others you names aren't.

I'd love us to sign Bas Dost from Wolfsburg. Obvious Pelle replacement. Fits the profile of a big dynamic #9, right age, 'right' nationality - Koemans obvious preference for Dutchies is particularly relevant this year with no Euros this summer. Has performed in both Eredivise and Bundesliga so the physicality/adaption issue shouldnt be there. A year ago I'd say we would have no hope of getting him, but the new TV deal is a real game changer, we (and the PL as a whole) are now at a financial level where we can cherry pick players from virtually every team in Europe outside the 6-8 really big teams. Wolfsburg haven't qualified for Europe so we have that as an additional attraction. The Netherlands national team is going through significant overhaul at the moment and assuming Dost wants to lead the line for the new 'generation', he could do a lot worse than being in a PL/EL team managed by one of the greatest and most high profile players his country has ever produced, playing with other 'new gen' Dutch internationals. He's also only got a year left to run on his contract, so if we move quickly we'd get him for (relative) peanuts.

You said or. If United get a point from Bournemouth or don't win the cup. Its and, not or. Both would have to happen, to ensure we don't qualify through either 5th place or inheriting the FA Cup winner's place.

Not quite. If Bournemouth beat United, we finish 5th, and go into the group stages regardless of the FA Cup. If United win the FA Cup, then we go into the group stages regardless of whether we finish 5th or 6th, as the FA Cup winners go into the group stage, and we will 'inherit' that EL spot should they finish 5th and win the cup. This would put West Ham into the 3rd qualifying round as the CO Cup winners spot drops to 7th. The only way we go into the 3rd qualifying round is if United overtake us in the league, *and* Palace win the FA Cup - in which case United and Palace go into the group stage, and we 'inherit' City's League Cup EL spot. The League Cup winners go into the 3rd qualifying round.

Erwin Koeman had a younger brother who was pretty useful by all accounts, surprised you haven't heard of him

Is there somewhere in particular saints fans are planning to meet beforehand? On the train from Amsterdam now...

When you're in SF eat at Scoma's on Fisherman's Wharf. Unbelievable seafood.