Rev IM Jolly

Cheers Weeyin. Hopefully the Hyatt in Mumbai will have a decent broadband connection.

Might be bit early yet, but I begin my travels to Mumbai this morning for work this week, so welcoming any tips on how I might get to see the game tomorrow. Might be one for the ex-pats...

Just speculating, but if the number of tickets available roughly equates to the entries in the ballot, it could simply be an announcement through the various mediums to say tickets on sale Monday morning for those registered, first come, first served. Suppose it all hangs on availability after tomorrow.

Potential minefield though. Given the ST sale is still on through the day tomorrow, that would then give the club a day to cross check the existing database of people registered for the ballot against a number of communications recevied to say that tickets have now been secured. What if a manual error led to someone being removed from the ballot that shouldn't have been? I understand the sentiment behind your suggestion but in practice I don't see it panning out very well. I note the bottom of the ST holders registeration form says that remaining tickets will be made available to people who have registered for the ballot week commencing Monday 9th of May 2011, this will be on a first come, first serve basis. Interesting. Doesn't seem to tally with the "we will contact the successful applicants" line.

The unknown is the 'new season tickets' being sold. Even if it's only a few hundred than that could equate to another 1000 off our allocation. All remains to be seen of course and all might be fine, but if there are only couple of thousand in the ballot then the chances of getting tickets will be getting quite slim.

I know the feeling. Family circumstances have meant the ST has simply been an unaffordable luxury for me and my brother for the last 2 seasons, and whilst I was fairly relaxed up until today that we'd still get tickets the numbers are starting to look too close for comfort now.

I've been moved to come out of my recent retirement to express my sympathy and sadness at the news; as others have said it's particularly sad at this time of year. I'm sure Deaddogman's contributions will be missed on here. Condolences to you and your family.

If my memory serves Craigan was taking part in the spat at the dugouts. It was all kicking off in various places at the one time and as already pointed out, did it really make a difference to Murphy? The main thing for me was the delay in the penalty being taken, and in all fairness Craigan could have sat on Murphy's shoulders telling them all to beat it, and it wouldn't have mind a blind bit of difference to the delay in proceedings.

I think the reasoning behind fatcalf's post is perhaps best summed up with "win as a team, lose as a team". A concept lost on some as yet another witch hunt kicks off. It's no just on here, it permeates through the whole of society these days. There always has to be a fall guy. For me the modern day media play a big part in the development of that mentality.

Apologies, I wouldn't normally go for the 'one word'/smiley post, but... Whit!?

I assume Fizoxy was going for the irony and wasn't seriously suggesting that 'we get' to shout such stuff. There were more than a few on here proclaiming how they could say what they like at the fitba in the aftermath to the McGhee stuff, yet on the other side of the coin here we are a few weeks later with probably some of the same folk apparently appalled because a player has the gall to react. It is pathetic really - both times. Also, if I heard someone making off-the-cuff comments at the fitba which I didn't agree with, racist or otherwise, then in all likelihood I wouldn't be seeking out the nearest Police officer. It would obviously depend on the situation, but generally, the chances of other people hearing it and backing you up and/or the police actually being able to do anything about it are slim to none. However, I don't go to bed at night fretting that I haven't made my contribution to society - these morons are a dying breed, with or without my intervention, and perhaps selfishly, I don't go to the fitba looking to Police the crowd - I believe there are those who are paid to do that.

That's what I took from it! Actually thought it was quite pleasant to read something like that for a change.

Aye, the sending off occured right in front of where I was sat, and he definitely looked a bit uncomfortable when he got to his feet, the ICT lad definitely caught him quite heavily. I think it was a case of enough is enough before he picked up a knock to rule him out of the forthcoming league games.

I'm quite certain PSL won't be hiring you as Sales Director anytime soon Steve. As upset as I know you get about this topic, such an approach would be business suicide. Regardless of how over-the-top, ill-informed, inappropriate or otherwise some comments have been, you don't bite the hand that feeds you and piss the paying customers off. That is, if you want to sell any merchandise in the future, whether it be red/yellow or claret & amber! FWIW, I think the service from PSL when faced with these quality issues has been spot on.

Indeed. Click on find member's posts, then scroll a couple of pages to June, and there you are. Nae bother. Like I said, there were plenty to choose from, so it wasn't exactly searching for a needle in a haystack! Glad you've a sense of humour to take it as intended though Don't know why, but the gists of your posts from that time just stuck with me. I also mind how you felt Brian McLean was best thing slice bread when McGhee didn't fancy him as a centre half a couple of years back, but that was another story. He's nae Steven Saunders right enough! It's not so much the proving you wrong, rather just showing the melodramatic swing of your take on events; you do tend to go for the extremes. Whilst I appreciate it did look bad for a time in June, I just merely wish to show that perhaps it's best to keep your powder dry and don't get carried away at the drop of a hat. That goes for just now as well.