Saints Stuff

Now this is just plain showing off. Bet you lads on here could do even better.

 

You can change it to blue text now...........

 

Apparently Juve and Napoli sent scouts to watch Tadic play for Serbia yesterday.

If they came in with a sizeable bid I wouldn't be that opposed to letting him go. I do like Tadic and is a good player, all depends on how much they be willing to pay. Although I wouldn't think either club would pay over the odds like we've been getting from Liverpool etc

 

http://app.football-italia.net/?ref...napoli-go-tadic#article/footballitalia-100181

Anyone believe there is a £15m release clause?


Nope, me neither.

 

Doubt that we ever have a release clause. The type of player who has one would never join us.

 

Yeah, just like Van Dijk and his £25M clause!

The author of that article clearly plays too much football manager anyway. I have never seen Tadic describes as being able to play "left, right or in a trequartista role".

 

Looking forward to longer days

 

If It's possible to agree more than 100% then I do.
Been waiting for the clocks to go to forward ever since the last weekend last October. Bloody ridiculous pastime putting them back. Just leave them forward.

 

Agreed... I was supposed to post that in ot tho

 

Never mind. It looks just as good here.

 

Pedant alert! Hate to tell you but the days are still the same length.

A Native American once said that only a white man would think that sawing the end off a plank and placing it on the other end would make the plank longer!

I do agree that we should buggering about with the clocks. It's all the fault of the Scots, of course.

 

More of an Advanced Playmaker (Support).

 

If they vote for independence, we should stop changing the clocks.

 

The argument is that is to suit Scottish farmers.....which implies most Scots are farmers....doubt that. The argument must also apply to the North of England. Still they can look forward to independence....they can have their own time then.

All started with the railways....up till then time changed as you went North. Never mattered before because there was no instantaneous communication between someone in Edinburgh and London for instance.

 

Time is relative anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

I've studied Einstein and relativity quite a lot. Compelling stuff

 

Don't get me wrong, I don't want the UK to break up, but I was reading a list of why the Scots shouldn't consider independence. It was virtually a list of why England should.

 

I'm hoping that Spain will revert to GMT, rather than staying on European time.
I hadn't realised that they used to be on GMT, until reading a report about them considering going back to how it used to be. It seems that they were moved to European time by Franco, as an act of support for Hitler. Strange.

 

Spain and Portugal were one hour apart when I went to Portugal a few years back. We crossed into Spain and our guide begged us to stick to our synchronised watches and ignore all Spanish clocks for the meet-up later.

 

Actually, time changes in a East-West difference. The railways standardised time to London time throughout the UK, even though Bristol, Temple-Meads, for example was several minutes into the past [Eek.!!!], on local time, judged by what time the Sun was directly overhead. But sometimes, I believe, local areas set their own local time based on what was suitable for the area, so the difference could be even greater, like half and hour, or an hour or so. That's a bit like us being in a different time zone to another country on a similar longitude just because we say so, ie, being in BST [and perhaps staying there] while another country may stay in GMT the whole year round.

There is a variation in daylight hours on a North-South line, because of the annual North-South-North movement of the Sun, relative to the Earth. In the UK this obviously affects us and is more exaggerated the further North one goes. For example, when I last visited my friend in Lanarkshire during a summer, I couldn't believe how late it was that the light finally left the sky. We happened to stay up really late one night [whisky and chatting in the garden] and the first traces of light appeared in the eastern sky seemingly just minutes after it had finally extinguished in the west. And Carnwath, Lanarkshire is only some 340 odd miles NNW of Southampton. In Southampton, I think the last traces of light leave around 10.45-11pm [longest day and cloud dependent] and the first traces appear about 3.15am. I haven't any reference for that last bit, just memories of being outside on sailing boats overnight in the Solent or just south of IOW, usually with a whisky in one hand and the wheel in the other [naughty.!].

Can we have this chat again in 6 months time.?

 

Anyone know why we've only taken 1500 tickets for Chelsea away? I know it's midweek but I'd still expect us to sell 3k for it.