Skyline Drifter

Money and credibility. It doesn't look good to sponsors and outside agencies if the top league plays short and more income will be lostg to the game by the bigger first division teams playing two home games less than by third division ones doing so.

Oh calm down! Personally I thought it was an accurate and rather apt observation. It's a well written and pretty stark piece. It certainly doesn't look like the Livi situation will drag on as others have. I'd guess they'll either be taken over this coming week or liquidated at the end of it.

No one said he was.

Am I not "a cock" any more then?

I quote lots of people on lots of subjects. I've 20 odd thousand posts for goodness sake. You have a persecution complex. On the TWO occasions I've picked you up for something you've deserved it (one being a public accusation on this site that a certain player takes drugs and the other the quoting of a racist and homophobic chant aimed at Sol Campbell). You can relax in the safe knowledge I'd have picked anyone else up for the same thing. It doesn't mean I give a damn what they think either. In fact I did also pull Lyn Marie up for the second one.

Frankly Graham I don't give a damn what you think I am. I'm not your biggest fan either but I would never ever wish anything but the best of luck to anyone where a child / pregnancy is concerned. And you have yet again completely misread what I posted. I didn't criticise you for broadcasting anything. You do what you like. I suggested to you that the reason you haven't read anyone else on here having problems is that other people may not have chosen to broadcast them.

Maybe we just don't all broadcast them. Good luck.

Thomas @ 22 weeks

Er, no. You're not getting it. If you aren't playing a direct relegation / title rival then what the other team does is irrelevant to your team so it's only a "three pointer".

Because depending on the result at the end of the match the difference between the two extreme outcomes is 6 points. If Team A is on 23 points before it plays Team B who are on 20 points then, a win for Team A will leave a gap of six points and a win for Team B will leave them level. So it's a "six pointer". Likewise, if they are both on the same points then a win for Team A would leave them 3 points ahead and a win for Team B would leave them the same. Relative to one another the difference is six points. You have the opportunity to win three points for yourself and prevent them getting three points at the same time.

It IS a conviction technically I think.

Congratulations.

No news yet?

Good luck. And to all others who are impending, particularly Haitch who is similarly imminent it would seem.

Why's that then? Precisely. My dad came to look at all three Universities I was considering going to with me. Apart from anything else I had no other means of actually getting to the place other than him taking me but even if I had where's the problem?

You live and learn. Cheers.

I've never heard that before. I had no idea what it meant. It doesn't even make sense. Kids today speak an entirely different language! Neither incidentally do I have the first clue what "l33t speak" means?

There are effectively no points on offer at all so it just comes down to whether he feels it best to prepare in Indy, Hamburg or by working on his own. Rankings points aren't open ended. You don't get to play 52 weeks and accumulate millions of points by default because others aren't playing. It's your best 18 events that count, including mandatory counting of the Slams and Masters 1000 events. Even if Murray won in Indy it wouldn't help his points total. The 250 points he "won" at Queens aren't in his current "Best 18" either, though they will be once Indianapolis is past because the 0 points he's carrying as a penalty for not showing up at that tournament last year having entered will drop off. In theory if he won in Hamburg and picked up 500 points he could improve his rankings points as it would replace one of the carrying 250's but anything less than victory would do him no good, there's no real likelihood of his winning on clay with some clay specialists entered, and none of the other players in the top six are entered either. Like I said, I'm a little surprised he's not playing the ATP500 at Washington the week before though. Maybe he is and he's miscounted the number of weeks to his next game in his site interview?

In about a fortnight. There's the only grass court tournament in the USA at Newport next week but most of the bigger players won't play in that. Murray hasn't entered it. It's Davis Cup Q-F's this coming week too. The first tournament of the hard court season is the Indianapolis Open starting 19th July. It's only an ATP250 event though. The Hamburg Open which is an ATP500 event and has gone back in the calender somewhat this season is the same week. That's a clay court event. The bigger players will play there if at all because there's more ranking points at stake. There are a few clay and hard court events of similar standard up against one another in the calendar over the rest of July before the next ATP Masters 1000 event begins 8th August in Montreal. Murray will definitely play there. I'd guess he'll play the ATP500 event in Washington the week before. Not sure he'll play much before that. He may play in Hamburg I suppose. EDIT - Having checked, he hasn't entered the Hamburg Open. EDITED AGAIN - On his own website there's an interview saying he's now got five weeks off before his next tournament which would place it in Montreal. Looks like he isn't even playing Washington.

Didn't they already announce his appointment? You sure this one isn't to announce their latest coaching suspension of duties? He's been "in charge" for about three days or something by now. It's overdue.

Yeah, I knew that. I don't think that fact in itself means much. Any player carrying an injury is fairly unlikely to opt to play Davis Cup, especially with Spain's squad as strong as it is anyway. He might be back for the start of the hardcourt season or he might not. We'll see. He obviously wasn't that far away from being fit for Wimbledon given he tried two exhibition matches the week before. Also the return to the Masters circuit means 3 set matches, not five which will be more attractive. Having said that he plainly isn't a big fan of hardcourts and it's probably the worst surface for his knees. He may just decide to give it a miss and rest up properly. Depends how important retaining No 1 spot is to him.

If he wins Wimbledon he'll move up to 2nd in the rankings, 5 points behind Nadal. When his 0 points for Indianapolis drop off at the back end of July and are replaced by the 250 he got at Queens he'll probably go to No 1 though I guess it would depend on who gets what points at Indy this year maybe? If he doesn't win Wimbledon on the other hand (and presuming Federer does) he'll remain 3rd and is more likley to lose ground on Federer between now and the US Open than gain it. His position relative to Nadal would depend on whether or not Nadal gets back to playing immediately.

Ah, should probably have thought of that. Thanks. I would have thought the other businesses on site would be looking to secure separate supply (either as a group or individually) from the football club forthwith.

Who reads the "Twitterings" of anyone? I don't "get" Twitter at all.

Sorry, are we really saying that over a week later there's STILL no electricity at the stadium? I simply don't believe that. How are people who work on the site doing anything? What about the offices that share the bill, have they been shut since? How can they call meetings at the Almondvale Suite tonight if there's no power? There wouldn't be any lights to see by! Or is everyone issued with a miner's helmet and candle on their way in?