Which will happen first?

[CB Fry]

Which will happen first?

 

a) The final announcement and completion of the takeover of the club by the successful party

 

or

 

b) The removal of Southampton from the BBC Teletext Championship Club News list? (that's going to hurt)

 

 

I think b). I think this needs full discussion and possibly a poll.

 

(By all means broaden this out to you know you're in league one when... I notice Sky Sports News have moved us to the L1 ticker already)

[Rocker268]

Surely b wont happen until the official start of next season when the fixtures are announced, until then we should remain a championship club.

 

I think a deal will be done first though

[FloridaMarlin]

If the takeover happens before the publication of the fixutres, it will be A).

 

The BBC keep teams in their respective divisions until the fixtures are published, at which point they are 'accepted' as being in their new division.

 

Someobdy else will tell us when the fixture lists are published.

[Bailey]

Saints have already been moved to the League One section on the SkySports website.

 

http://www.skysports.com/football/leagueone/0,19734,11718,00.html

[Pancake]

Date for fixtures: 17th June

Date for Pinnacles 21 days to run out: 19th June

 

For that reason, Im going with (b)

Edited 4 June, 2009 by Pancake

[Weston Super Saint]

Date for fixtures: 17th June

Date for Pinnacles 21 days to run out: 19th June

 

For that reason, Im going with (b)

 

Pancake never lets us down, so I too am going for b)

Edited 4 June, 2009 by Pancake

[Weston Saint]

Date for fixtures: 12th June

Date for Pinnacles 21 days to run out: 19th June

 

For that reason, Im going with (b)

Fixtures will be released on 17th June

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/KeyDates/0,,10794~1357319,00.html

[Pancake]

Thats what I said Weston.

[Hatch]

The Football League had it in writing on May 25th

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/LatestNewsDetail/0,,10794~1657379,00.html

[Gordon Mockles]

I'm with Pancake and Weston SS - b.)

[Scudamore]

Date for fixtures: 17th June

Date for Pinnacles 21 days to run out: 19th June

 

For that reason, Im going with (b)

 

Pancake always lets us down, so I too am going for a)

[trousers]

Both will happen at exactly the same time....on a Friday, obviously

[dubai_phil]

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/League+One/Southampton

 

And we've already been moved on Newsnow

 

 

HTH

 

(Oh used to be a useful link when Newspapers wrote about us)

[trousers]

And, not forgetting that the BBC already have us in League 2....

 

[PaulSaint]

Looked for us this morning on ITV Text, we'd gone but I saw Scun*horpe. That hurt!

[Doctoroncall]

The Football League had it in writing on May 25th

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/LatestNewsDetail/0,,10794~1657379,00.html

 

And they still have us down in the CCC (club badges on the right):

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/ChampionshipHome/0,,10794,00.html

 

Bloody amateur organisation!

 

 

I'm going for A

[FloridaMarlin]

And, not forgetting that the BBC already have us in League 2....

 

 

Wishful thinking by Plymouth fan Tony Husband, who has had it in for Saints ever since they took Sturrock.

 

He is currently relishing Saints downfall. So much for BBC impartiality.

[dellboypete]

Fixtures will be released on 17th June

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/KeyDates/0,,10794~1357319,00.html

 

 

But the season officially ends on the 12th June so we are still in the championship for another week!!!

[Ken Tone]

Can still remember the pain of the BBC removing us from the premiership table/page. That happened well into the summer, so I suspect that it does indeed happen when the fixtures are announced.

 

Happy days.

 

K.

[Hatch]

Our sticker for the Panini 2009/2010 season is going to be pathetic.

 

No players, no shiny badge, probably a tiny squad photo.

 

Sad times.

[PhilippineSaint]

He is currently relishing Saints downfall. So much for BBC impartiality.

 

Is that like ITV's impartiality with Fred (the Skate) Dinage?

 

Pete UAE Saint

 

on tour in Singapore

[the saint in winchester]

Saints have already been moved to the League One section on the SkySports website.

 

http://www.skysports.com/football/leagueone/0,19734,11718,00.html

 

And they have been taken off the Championship clubs who have their own text page. Oracle page 574 is no longer Southampton, it's S****horpe!

No special page for our boys now. We are dust.

[Bossman]

Looked for us this morning on ITV Text, we'd gone but I saw Scun*horpe. That hurt!

 

me too! itv teletext page 574 will never be the same again.

[scott_saints]

Teletext? It's the 21st century ffs!

[scotty]

Teletext? It's the 21st century ffs!

 

 

News article in the latest issue of Viz ;

 

"Wales to get internet by 2020".

[CB Fry]

Teletext? It's the 21st century ffs!

 

 

And? Still one of the most accessible sources of two minute news you can get. I must look at the Saints section of BBC Teletext three times a day!

 

When Saints news is relegated to a footnote on the "news in brief" section, that's when our League One existence will really start to bite.

 

I'd been thinking about starting a Teletext related thread for a while, delighted to see it's not "just me"!

[sotonswan]

Oh look. Shiny shiny.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/default.stm

 

And 10 points restored as well!

[hamster]

Our sticker for the Panini 2009/2010 season is going to be pathetic.

 

No players, no shiny badge, probably a tiny squad photo.

 

Sad times.

 

And be worth a fortune in years to come. JPT winners and promotion to the Chumpionship season maybe.

[Eyes k8]

This is all getting a bit morbid, rather like when we finished in the bottom half of the championship ten years running. Can you imagine that ten years. You lot think you've suffered after a couple of bad years, Ten years of putting the table up on teletext and having to wait for the bottom half to come up. So I've worn the T shirt on this one. You need to cheer yourselves up. I can't start threads but one of you should start one: How Rupert will think he's lost his money? I think you'd enjoy that more.

[ITKSaint]

So much for BBC impartiality.

 

Fret not, it's only the organisation as a whole that is supposed to be impartial, not every single individual comment by every single employee.

 

So for every League 2 video story, we can expect a report on our 2003 FA Cup triumph.

 

:smt046

 

 

You'd think Pinnacle will want to catch the wave of euphoria as the Hartlepool fixture date is announced so I'm going for c) - both on same day. (fixtures announced and takeover confirmed.)

[Chez]

probably a tiny squad photo.

 

that will make a change

[Victor]

Oh look. Shiny shiny.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/default.stm

 

And 10 points restored as well!

 

Just as well - looks bloody tight that table!

[The9]

I'm still laughing at Mike Ashley's SportsDirect.com online site moving all their Newcastle merchandise to the Championship section within 2 days of the end of the Premier League season.

 

Surely we're used to this, it's only 4 years since the last one ?

 

Then again, if there are still people using Ceefax...

[Smirking_Saint]

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/League+One/Southampton

 

And we've already been moved on Newsnow

 

 

HTH

 

(Oh used to be a useful link when Newspapers wrote about us)

 

First time i have heard of this site, could be useful

 

Thanks !

[Master Bates]

Fixtures will be released on 17th June

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/KeyDates/0,,10794~1357319,00.html

 

I think Pancake was saying we needed to be registered by the 12th June?

[madsent]

First time i have heard of this site, could be useful

 

Thanks !

 

It's not that useful. Because of our nickname, we often get our news bundled with that of Saint Mirren, Saint Johntone, Saint Patricks, the Saint Helens rugby league and Northampton rugby union teams and there are occasional bonus snippets of news about US collegiate teams in New England. Enjoy

[CB Fry]

For anyone who hasn't yet noticed, we are no longer on BBC teletext. Soul destroying when I had a flick through earlier.

 

We are officially relegated now.

 

 

[Master Bates]

It's not that useful. Because of our nickname, we often get our news bundled with that of Saint Mirren, Saint Johntone, Saint Patricks, the Saint Helens rugby league and Northampton rugby union teams and there are occasional bonus snippets of news about US collegiate teams in New England. Enjoy

 

It's St Helens :mad: