The Farmer

Should of stuck with the gold theme throughout And be a bit more creative with the 125

Summary?

Played as an overage player for the Under 23's IIRC.

Well maybe the might up their game to help Saints. On current form I don't expect many aspiring L1 teams will want the Saints in their league next year!!

Didn't get my very first one, Max Ramsey

Brown "Yeah, I reckon I could serve 2 burgers at the same time, look."

*Backs out of thread quietly*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g18oHWRT7gw

Ted has his own statue so he is suitably honoured. To try and curtail the number of illuminaries, I'd say stick to players and I'd personally opt for Tiss, Channon, Paine and Holmes. Great servants and the leading players for appearances in the red and white: * Terry Paine 713 * Mick Channon 510 * Nick Holmes 444 * Matt Le Tissier 443 * Tommy Traynor 434 * Jason Dodd 398 * Eric Day 398 * Bert Shelley 392 * Claus Lundekvam 357 * Stan Woodhouse 351 * John Sydenham 342 * Francis Benali 311 * Hugh Fisher 302 * Tommy Mulgrew 293 * Glenn ****erill 287

Is it on down the Pub?

Played up front for the England Schoolboys as well. I was at Wembley that day. He didn't score. But he did sport a tasche.

One of my pet gripes of the modern game. High weekly salaries over long contracts means you don't get any more Mickey Evans types in your team, busting their balls every single week. Its to easy to see your motivation suffer when you are on £5k a week for the next 3 years.

Just making it the blue we always use, we have never been that dark, well not with yellow.

I would of prefered the blue we had had before: Or completely inverted the design tbf *'scuse rough n ready editing*

Pretty bad in all honesty. And the yellow band is tapered more on the S/S version!!!!

Well I'm sure the takeover talks, regardless of who came good in the end, took a lot of skill and patience to get past the finishing post - but that's not a patch on the effort I put in to get that Tetris score - have you seen how far I am ahead of Rut??

Well I am certainly looking forward now to the return of the Northam back row rabble

That was indeed the case, although I faced a little backlash through association so I thought I would lay low for a bit. Brilliant to see everything is now sorted and that we have a fresh, exciting start under the new regime. For the first time in years, we can all look forward to the new season.

This post was much appreciated Art, as were the sentiments behind some of the responses to it. Cheers. Can I come back now?

Response to the questions above: From Tony Lynam, 9:31pm 26.06.09 Spencer Thank you for your e-mail, and I will happily answer the questions posed as I fully appreciate that the continued uncertainty causes nothing but concern, least of all for the staff and players at the Club, and of course to the fans. Firstly I want to address the wholly inaccurate portrayal of Michael Fialka. I have been in meetings back to back today, and therefore have not been privy to any additional media or press coverage, though my understanding from the BBC is that they had properly researched Michaels credentials, and were going to ensure that an accurate description was put in the public domain. This mornings "sensational" headlines were quite astonishing, and you can imagine my shock and surprise at what was said about Michael. This created an incredibly embarrassing position to explain - and Michael and the Administrator have spoken of their shock about this. Michael spoke with a senior member of staff at the Daily Echo and I understand that he made his position clear, including some true facts and not speculation. In making his name known yesterday, of his own choosing, Michael clearly hoped that this would help strengthen his position and the on-going discussions with the League, who obviously had his name as part of the fit and proper persons test procedures. What was subsequently (incorrectly and ill informed) said done damage to the hopes and desire of both the consortium/administrator in completing the deal, and added to the very real worries of the staff. The BBC will, or have, put the actual true position across to repair that damage. And I am pleased to say that despite this embarrassing episode, Michael and his colleagues remain determined to completing the deal that everyone wants signed. For the avoidance of any doubt, Michael and his colleagues chose NOT to seek publicity - they don't need it, and for this reason, their identity was specifically kept confidential at their request. The sticking point (obstacle) with the League led them to decide it was time to speak out. So for anyone who has any doubts, if he wished to be involved with this transaction for any other reason than buying the Club, he would have sought to attract the limelight for the past 2 months. It is plain to see that this is simply not the case. In direct answer to your question, there is a formal relationship between Michael and his colleagues for the purchase, funding and development of Southampton Football Club, which they remain committed to achieving. Let me also make clear that Michael will be the legal owner of the Club, and thus be responsible for the financial arrangements and commitments being made. Without jeopardising a signed confidentiality agreement with my client (the "Consortium"), Michael has committed to the purchase of the Club and only yesterday publicly stated that there will be funds available to rebuild the Club, and the prospects of pushing for promotion in the long term to try regain stability on and off the pitch. The Administrator today also confirmed that the issue causing delay in completing the purchase is an issue which only came to light very late in the day with the Football League, an issue which we had no prior notification of. Finally, on a personal note, I can only apologise to everyone concerned that despite relentless effort to resolve this issue, the situation is still on-going, thus putting the considerable time, money and effort that has already been spent by a number of people at risk. I remain instructed to continue to work at resolving the problem, and whilst continued uncertainty does not ease concern, continued commitment by our clients/legal representatives should demonstrate the passion and belief that this is something that can be overcome. I assume that any other interested party will be having the same issues facing them, and I therefore dearly hope that this deal can be completed as quickly as possible, for the fans, the staff and for the Club itself. Best wishes Tony Lynam

Tony is heading towards his 3rd meeting this evening as we speak. I can't enlighten you as to the probability of the outcome of this meeting or/any other meeting over the next couple of days but suffice to say all relevent parties are still actively seeking a solution to the outstanding issues, which are technical issues, not financial.

I've not been privy to the actual mandate invoked with regards the company set-up behind the initial proposal, or indeed if the set-up behind the initial proposal has been refined in any manner since, so I would not wish to comment on it. I will point Tony toward this thread to see if he has time to reply in due course with regards the question.

He also said ALL other interested parties would request the decision to appeal on seeing the FL mandate, so it's not a case of Pinnacle being finicky as many on here are labelling them.