stevegrant

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?56325-City-game

Haven't looked at what they're offering these days, but it was £4k + VAT when we did it before, which didn't include the kit - I negotiated with the club separately for that. Not going to do anything like that this summer, it's too short-notice now, but might look at it for next year.

Man City play on Tuesday 26th April and (most importantly) Wednesday 4th May. That should mean our game remains as currently scheduled, on Sunday 1st May.

Yeah, consider that retracted

Batting bonus points on offer, relatively rare at this early stage of the season so best to make the most of them, I guess. I doubt they genuinely believed there was a chance of a result at 10:30 this morning.

Would expect so, although possible he might bat if absolutely necessary. 360 all out in the end, Bell getting 174 of them - his record at the Rose Bowl is ridiculous

Difficult to imagine any sort of result now, bit of a race for bonus points. In other non-Hampshire news, James Taylor's had to retire with a serious heart condition

Presumably you'd struggle to get an Uber to start a journey out there, though?

Decent recovery yesterday, especially considering most of the runs were scored with either Topley (at 9 with a first-class average of 3, really?!?! ) or Tomlinson at the wicket. Sounds like Topley's managed to pick up a broken hand while batting, though - hopefully his right hand...

I think it's more the increased pace. Tomlinson really struggled last season because as wily a bowler he's been over the years in second division cricket, he's just not fast enough to trouble first division batsmen. Carberry Alsop Vince Smith Dawson Ervine Wheater McLaren Wood Edwards Topley is a long batting lineup, down to 9 and you could probably argue that Edwards should score more runs than he does. Topley, Edwards and McLaren are going to be under a fair bit of pressure with the ball, and they'll need Wood and Ervine to not get hammered to give them enough of a rest. Can't imagine there's going to be much in it for Dawson or Smith this early in the season.

The app tells you how long it'll take for them to arrive before you book. Radio Taxis' app does the same.

13-man squad: Carberry, Alsop, Smith, Vince ©, Dawson, Ervine, Wheater, McLaren, Wood, Tomlinson, Topley, Crane, Edwards. From that, I imagine it'll be Tomlinson and Crane who don't play. Surprised that Wood's still in mind for 4-day cricket, I was under the impression his knee was knackered.

Only uberX initially.

I've always found the data to be wildly inconsistent, often listing pubs that either don't exist anymore or don't have Sky/BT anymore, or not listing pubs that do have Sky/BT. Strange, as you'd think they wouldn't want to advertise pubs that don't offer their channels.

This pretty much covers it

Which rather ****es on your claim on Twitter that "anyone can be an Uber driver", doesn't it? Ultimately, from my perspective, competition is no bad thing, and if a slightly more expensive service provides a better experience then I'm still more inclined to use that - cheap isn't necessarily better.

Not many, as far as I can tell. The Spitfire ditched it because they realised that they'd be able to fill the place regardless of whether they had BT Sport or not simply because of the location, so might as well cut that significant cost out completely. The only pubs I can think of off the top of my head that definitely have it are the Frog and Parrot (Above Bar), Encore (Commercial Road), and I think Bedfords (Bedford Place) has it. Other than that, no idea.

The general problem I have is that the vast majority of people who whinge about our support don't seem to do much (if anything) to improve it themselves. Try starting a few songs rather than turning around having a pop at people around you - you never know, they might join in.

A Barnsley-supporting mate laughed when he heard they'd signed him. "****ing ****" was his assessment

That is the churn of referees who leave the game every year.

Ron channelling his inner David Pleat there

I've never heard Tony Pulis say "b'there" to refer to "over there", tbf

Frustratingly given what happened with us last season, he's not missed a single minute in the Premier League or Europa League. Rested for their one Capital One Cup game and three of their four FA Cup ties.

Alderweireld is a better player than van Dijk, who in turn is a better player than Lovren, IMO.

Wanyama, like quite a few of our players, is very useful in certain circumstances but a waste of space in others. When we don't have the ball, he's very useful as he's good at winning it back and providing a shield for the defence, but when we have the ball and want to go forwards, I don't think anyone would legitimately try to claim that he's a better passer or dribbler than Romeu. He would have been very useful against Chelsea, for example, where we had very little possession and needed more bodies to win it back. I don't think the issue at Bournemouth was them "going through us", as 99% of their play was down the wings and they only scored because of poor concentration from two set pieces. Despite how bloody awful we were, that was still the only difference. Yesterday was a failure to take the handful of good chances we created in the first half and then a collective lack of responsibility taken by 3 or 4 players compounded by Yoshida getting his legs in a tangle for their goal.