donaldstott

They play in the Minor Counties. There is no relegation or promotion in to first class cricket, you have to apply for first class status. I assume they either don't want to do so, or feel it would be a waste of time trying - Durham are the only team in the last 90 years to have gained first class status.

Hopefully we can get Cisse off and running for the season. Would love to see another clean sheet and 2-3 goals. Don't remember the last 'comfortable' win we had, which would be great for confidence.

Pretty shitty week, going through redundancy at work, had to let two of my team go. On the plus side I have 4 interviews lined up over the next 3 weeks.

BA promo. Very effective, pretty, poignant stuff. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WPcfJuk1t8s Not sure how to embed the video on an iPad.

In fairness, i doubt he has too much editorial control. I didn't know that the SD website was part of a magazine. Who's going to buy that?

@@Noelie Someone better? Someone willing to come to a club where he is not allowed to spend without selling, someone willing to work under Joe kinnear, someone willing to do so on considerably less than the market rate. Not sure that someone exists. If pardew goes, I have no doubt whatsoever that it'll JFK in charge on a permanent basis, I personally find that prospect horrific.

He is out of options I reckon. Arsenal was the best fit but they have picked up flamini. Who else is going to pay the amount we want?

I enjoy it 9 out of ten weeks. It's a few quid in the back pocket (28 to be precise) and as long as you are competent it's a fairly easy gig. I've been doing it for about five seasons and you get to know the lads that you need to man mark. I don't give them a pre-match talk or owt. Most of them are too busy pissing in the bushes or finishing off a spliff. I'm too old to make it through the ranks now. My admin is far too poor to do it. You've got to be a company man to get there, i.e. you can be roundly hated by players, but as long as you get your match report in on time, do 40 games a season and are a stickler for the rules you'll do alright

I never get past the "this really f*cking hurts" stage to be honest. It just seems so pointless. I understand the point of running after a football or a squash ball - I don't want to lose, but I'm not motivated enough by simply keeping fit.

Level 7. Should be Level 6, but I missed out on promotion because I only did 19 games last season rather than the requisite 20.

I walk 15 minutes morning and night to the station. Play five a-side once a week and referee on Wednesday nights and Sunday's during the season. Will occasionally go out on the bike, while the wife runs. I've tried jogging in the past but simply don't see the appeal - at what stage are these much vaunted endorphins supposed to kick in?

We used to have separate accounts and a joint account for bills, I earn nearly double what she does so paid twice as much into the joint as she did. That worked ok except she has somewhat of a clothes habit and never had any wedge for a fortnight before payday, it meant I'd need to pay for way more than her in terms of nights out etc. For the last couple of years we've had a single joint account and an AMEX which we use for spends where we can for avios points. The extra visibility has definitely reigned in her spending, so we're comfortable now each month. It's a bugger for sneaky birthday presents and stuff - have to use cash. She reckons she's due an eternity ring - not sure how I can do that without giving the game away!

The one thing I like about Gosling is that he seems to have a knack of creating very good chances by making intelligent runs. That he's a very ordinary finisher doesn't help. I reckon he could get goals though given an extended run. The problem is the rest of his game doesn't seem up to the job.

Regardless, it's a fundamental change from minimum of 8 to a maximum of 17. In theory you could now have a 17 man squad with no home grown players.

With the loss of Harper and the impending loss of Perch (maybe Shola and Gosling), I was looking up the home grown quota rule. Is it me or has this changed? I was under the impression that you need a minimum of 8 home grown players in the squad, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8858634.stm The Premier League now say you can have a maximum of 17 'foreigners', see: http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/fans/faqs/home-grown-player-rule/ So you can have a 20 man squad with only 3 home grown players. Hardly encouraging local talent..

I think you're right. We need a 4th centre half assuming Williamson is on his way, but it's not exactly a priority area, and I certainly won't be someone on 50k a week.

Didn't fixtures day used to be a good day, when you got to look forward to the new season... For some reason, not quite there today!

The plot thickens. Can we now get someone who can string a sentence together in to run the club..

Yes, and is FMA hiring him on the basis that he signed Tim Krul and won manager of the year three times and has the ability to pick up the phone to any manager on the planet.. All of which are clearly bollocks.

How can the head of any business listen to the two interviews we've heard over the last 48 hours and say "that's the man for me". A mixture of the offensive, lies and utter stupidity. Ok, let's give him a directorship.. It beggars belief.

And still nobody congratulated him...

His "Charlie Insomnia" cost us £3m. Sold to Wigan for £6m, sold to Villa for £9m. Let's see how much "Yohan Kebab" will cost us... Man's a liability.

He claimed the 'which one of you is Simon Bird' press call happened in the post match after we beat Spurs. We beat Spurs two and a half months later. Barking mad, stupid or a pathological liar - you decide?

I can only find one in '94. He won manager of the month three times in a season!