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Dunno if it helps, but DSTV are showing the full 90 delayed at midnight CAT on SS3. Dilemma time, SaintsPlayer/Match Thread or wait and watch it on the box (or both)

The result now has us odds-on for promotion with all the major bookies on oddschecker for the first time this season, and neck and neck with West Ham for the title. A couple even have us favourites for the title ahead of the 'ammers

Not bad for a club their size.

No, it's MI5's back up for when the webcams are offline or tracking hoodies.

It's extremely difficult to find any accurate information about football finance in the public domain, but I did dig up this from a BBC article in April 2010: Under the proposed extension of parachute payments, clubs would receive £16m in each of the first two seasons after relegation from the Premier League, and £8m in years three and four. Championship clubs not in receipt of parachute payments have received £830,000 over each of the last three years. Under the current proposals, that figure would rise to £2.2m per season. The increased parachute payments were subsequently approved, so it's not unreasonable to conclude that the "sweetener" to the other Championship clubs was also accepted, making around £5m free cash to each club not receiving parachute payments.

Just a thought, but your contract is with Orange UK? It might be that your contract is governed by the EU rules regardless.

Out of interest, does anybody have a figure for what Champ. clubs receive this season? I have a figure in mind of just over £5m combined for TV rights and "consolidation" or "equalisation" payments from the PL (I think that's the bits of parachutes left behind by clubs like Newcastle that get promoted early). Is that about right?

No problem with aphids then

If you're planning to tour Europe in a "new" car make sure your satnav is up to speed for the countries you'll be travelling in. I drove down to the south of France a few years ago in a vectra with my nephew in a mondeo. The mondeo had a problem, and I was able to locate all the nearest Ford dealers on the vectra satnav.

Any substance in the rumours that West Ham are about to lose the stadium? Very dangerous situation for them if it's true, particularly if their owners proceed to sell Upton Park and rent the new stadium.

Ouch!

If you answer all 5 questions I asked, you might have a bit of a dilemma

2010/11 QPR 88 Norwich 84 Swansea 80 Where would Norwich have finished if they'd only got 81? 2009/10 Newcastle 102 West Brom 91 Forest 79 Where would West Brom have finished if they'd only got 80? 2008/09 Wolves 90 Brum 83 Sheff Utd 80 Where would Brum have finished if they'd only got 81? 2007/08 West Brom 81 Stoke 79 Hull 75 Where would Stoke have finished if they'd only got 80? So if you ended up with 81 points, how many times in the past four championship seasons would you have won automatic promotion?

Quick, you've still got time to edit the typo - nope, too late

My best guess at their ticket income for this season is a couple of hundred thousand either side of £4.5m. But don't forget that nice Mr. Chainrai collected about a third of that from Zebra finance at the end of last season. Although I'm sure he put that straight into a high interest savings account for the new owners. The really sad thing for them (and I do mean that) is that if their previous owners and directors had been just a bit less stupid, or crooked, they could have been sitting on £16m of parachute payments this season, and had more than just a passing interest in what's happening at the top half of the league table.

You forgot to deduct the VAT, Corpy. An easy mistake to make, I know.

If it uses the same version of Flash as Blackberry then yes it does. It works on Blackberry.

How many points did we need to get to finish in second place last season? I used to think 87 would have been enough, but after reading this thread I now believe that we actually needed to get 93 to make sure that we finished above Southampton who finished in second place with 92 points and a good goal difference.

The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American history". Who said 'Give me Liberty , or give me Death'?" She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Little Hodiaki a bright foreign exchange student from Japan, who had his hand up: 'Patrick Henry, 1775', he said. 'Very good!' Who said, 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?' Again, no response except from Little Hodiaki, 'Abraham Lincoln, 1863'. 'Excellent!', said the teacher continuing, 'let's try one a bit more difficult...' Who said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?' Once again, Hodiaki's was the only hand in the air and he said: 'John F. Kennedy, 1961'. The teacher snapped at the class, 'Class, you should be ashamed of yourselves, Little Hodiaki isn't from this country and he knows more about our history than you do.' She heard a loud whisper: 'F . . k the Japs,' 'Who said that? I want to know right now!' she angrily demanded. Little Hodiaki put his hand up, 'General MacArthur, 1945.' At that point, a student in the back said, 'I'm gonna puke.' The teacher glared around and asks, 'All right! Now who said that!?' Again, Little Hodiaki said, 'George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.' Now furious, another student yelled, 'Oh yeah? Suck this!' Little Hodiaki jumped out of his chair waving his hand and shouted to the teacher, 'Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!' Now with almost mob hysteria someone said, 'You little ****. If you say anything else, I'll kill you.' Little Hodiaki frantically yelled at the top of his voice, "Michael Jackson to the child witness testifying against him, 2004.' The teacher fainted. As the class gathered around the teacher on the floor, someone said, 'Oh ****, We're screwed!' Little Hodiaki said quietly, 'Steve Cotterill, 2011..'

"Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley" is still one of my all time favourite lines. RIP.

Lambert - untried at this level - top scorer in the league. He's scored 8 in the league. We've scored 25. Who do they mark? Are we really short of a striker?

"We're sending you down" will do for me

Wrong thread I think, but she only works at SMS

I admit this is a flippant post, but if Nigel brought the tea lady on at the moment she would score.

2.2 points per game, exactly the same as we achieved last season AFTER Adkins arrived. In a higher league. Not too shabby.