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Plans agreed by NFDC but has there been any progress with the proposed revamp?

Quite a bit of repainting work paid for by Barrs and CLC under warranty, as I am led to believe Before he left Andy Oldknow addressed a meeting of invited Business Guests prior to the Brizzle Rovs game and said there was to be a major revamp of the Mike Channon suite.

Spot On

Wonder if King Edwards School will be keen to rent out Wellington Sports Ground having been stung for unpaid ground rent?

£10m pa players budget will enable the cheats to assemble a reasonable squad. Doncaster and Blackpool pay between £6-£8m and they have done OK

Are away attendance figures available for all clubs?

Barry Connor now works at John Lewis

Indeed it is. It is called Dickie Lewis's by many locals as I think as the statue over the main entrance is of a nude man with his todger on display. This caused quite a furore when put up. Not sure if this was before WW2 or after the store was rebuilt after being heavily bombed. The George Henry Lee store is part of the John Lewis chain and completely separate to Lewis's. GH Lee closed when the new John Lewis store opened in the new Liverpool One shopping mall development

Will be titled 'Swindlers List' The casting is soon to start Any suggestions for the actors to fill the lead roles? There was also a suggestion that a TV series titled 'Portsea Island CSI' was to be commissioned but when the researchers found out that there was a complete lack of dental records in the area and all the locals shared the same DNA then the idea was dropped

Wasnt it something to do with the Andrew Davies deal? Same as Forecast with Bale at Spurs? Looking at the finances presume Pulis, Molyneux and Forecast are on =/- £3k per week, so 2 seasons x £150k apiece + signing on fees/agents/pensions etc, say £500k + and only Molyneux has played (4 or 5 times?) for the first team. Great business Rupes!!

Anyone know if there is any truth in the rumour that Terry Clarke (the builder, who has been on TV recently, who is owed money for work at Fratton Park) is currently working on a big extension for Mr Storrie's gaff at Hayling Island!! Also, with regard to Mr Storrie, it is noticeable that he is not one of the many owed money by PFC. I guess you can say this is good financial management

Brilliant free kick from Harte but Seabourne fouled him (if his aerial challenge was indeed a foul) yards into the box. Seems the Ref was not completely sure so gave the free kick outside the box, not that it mattered!! Dan Seabourne continues to worry me. Not good enough in my opinion On a different topic talking to a Carlisle fan who goes to a lot of their away games. He considers us to be the strongest team in Div 1, and was v impressed by our support and friendliness at yesterdays game

Understood to be interesting Fulham Thought he was in trouble with the law or am I mistaking this situation with Ulrich Van Gobbel?

Quite a few Saints regulars live in Bournemouth so will be an interesting journey for them when they come up with the Bournemouth & Boscombe Albion 'hordes' for next seasons derby

More or less on the Jurys Inn site. It was a fair size store as I recollect not much smaller than Edwin Jones/Debenhams. There was a Co-Op Funeral Directors nearby + a Co-Op removal store. Each Co-Op purchase gave you a dividend which could be redeemed at year end (a precurssor to Green Shield Stamps etc

Oh and Tyrell & Greens is being demolished following John Lewis (ie the store owner) taking u[p residence in West Quay

Plummers is now part of Solent University Mayes/Owen Owens was split into two and housed TK Maxx before their move and Argos The old Co-Op was demolished (that had a great Xmas Grotto too) Some suggestion of Debenhams moving into the Bargate Centre which makes some sense as the current East Street location is too far away from the mainstream shopping. Noticeable that Lewis's in Liverpool (another iconic Dept Store) has closed due to the building of the Liverpool One (West Quay equivalent) Mall

Interesting that Manderic 'lives' at the Walkers Stadium That's dedication of duty for you Understand that when he was at Pompey he stayed at the De Vere in Soton

Spot on. Frasers used to use a pneumatic system (Lampson Tubes?) which wisked your cash and invoice from the payment till up to the accounts dept. The receipt was prepared and any change would be returned in a little canister. As also mentioned C&A was indeed a clothes store not a Dept store I suppose in some respects Woolworths could be classed as a small Dept store in the same mould as BHS and M&S

How many are missing from this list? Tyrell & Greens Plummers C & A Owen & Owen (previously Mayes) Bourne & Hollingsworth Co -Op (the old biggish one opposite St Mary's Fire Station) Co-Op (the newer one now occupied by Littlewoods) Couple smaller ones in St Mary's Street (can't remember the names) As a kid I always though Debenhams was huge but at 3 stories this is a tiddler compared to Hudsons Dept store in Detroit. Until demolished this was 17 stories, had 51 elevators and carried over half a million items. It was also the largest building ever to be blown up when demolished in 1998 Supposedly it produced the\worlds largest flag at 235 x 104 ft (wonder how this compared to the flag produced for the opening of St Marys?)

Bad move Stu Scrap prices are underperforming the market at the moment Better off flogging them on Ebay. I would have bought one for Spy Towers

The Saints signs put up on the Lordshill/ Romsey Rd roundabout have finally disappeared after a year. Think one was forcibly removed (nicked) whilst the remaining two served to remind many of us of the club's rebirth. Anyone know if the Council removed them? Presume they were there without permission.

Seabourne reminds me a bit of Richard Dryden. Keen and strong but not quite up to the mark. Agree with a previous poster who said that Seabourne is AP's least effective signing. Thought he was rather lacking when playing for Exeter here at Xmas. Still most managers reckon that if they get 4 out of 5 signings right they have done well!! S

Hats off to the Tangerines I say Don't think they have paid out any substantial transfer fees, have a wage bill similar to ours and have, within their ranks, Brett Omerod and Jason Euell who most Saints fans reckon weren't good enough for us. A three sided ground with crowds around 8,000 and yet knocking on the door of the Championship Play Offs. As a complete aside, many years ago when I was a nipper, Blackpool had a duck for a mascot and it used to waddle around the penalty box chasing a ball with it's owner before the game. Probably was a better finisher than some of the players I have seen over the years!!

Does he put out his best side in all 4 competitions and possibly end up with a fall from grace after a successful Cup run (a la dirty Leeds), or does he field weakened side in the Cups and concentrate on the League? Guess he will have to agree targets with Cortese pre season but I think we all know where NC's priorities lie