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Comment | Hugh Fisher's 1976 FA Cup Winner's Medal Sold At Auction
at 16:52:57
Oops - missed the first paragraph off, it should read as follows:
That auction house charges a 15% seller's commission + VAT so they will take a fee of £1,800 + VAT (another £360) so Hughie will only receive £9,840 of the £12,000 hammer price.
In addition the buyer will pay a buyer's premium of 24% + VAT so an additional £2,880 + VAT (another £576) bringing the total purchase price of the medal to £15,456.
So, in total Hughie takes home £9,840, the auction house claws in an eye watering £4,680 in buyer's and seller's fees / commissions and the VAT man gets £936.
In days gone by they used to say you never saw a poor farmer, more recently that has been changed to vet and dentist - think you can add auctioneer to that list if this example is anything to go by...
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Comment | Hugh Fisher's 1976 FA Cup Winner's Medal Sold At Auction
at 16:40:13
In addition the buyer will pay a buyer's premium of 24% + VAT so an additional £2,880 + VAT (another £576) bringing the total purchase price of the medal to £15,456.
So, in total Hughie takes home £9,840, the auction house claws in an eye watering £4,680 in buyer's and seller's fees / commissions and the VAT man gets £936.
In days gone by they used to say you never saw a poor farmer, more recently that has been applied to vets and dentists - think you can add auctioneers to that list if this example is anything to go by...
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Comment | Nottingham Forest Mulling Over Move For Saints Star
at 12:58:29
I am sure CA will be vital in the next few weeks let alone months. If we beat Watford next week we will have 11 games between now and March 9th. We will need all hands to the pumps to maintain our current form in what will be a relentless 5 week period and beyond that as well. I just hope we tell Forest thanks but no thanks - and make sure you win enough games to ensure Burnley get relegated 🙂⚽️🙂 |
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Comment | Magnificent Southampton Away Support Now Needs To Be Replicated At St Mary's
at 16:02:23
This might be an interesting exercise to undertake; the Ticket office must have the details of all the supporters who purchase away tickets throughout the season - take the magnificent support at Millwall for example - why not write to / email everyone who purchased a ticket and ask if them if for next season they would be interested in moving into a dedicated ‘home end’ as a group and replicating that level of support at every home game. I would suggest it would be the Chapel as I doubt the police will be happy to see the away fans moved very far from where currently reside. I am sure that a database could be built based on the details of away ticket purchasers that could identify at least a couple of thousand away regulars who could be potential candidates to establish a new home end next season. If established, it could lift the atmosphere at SMS. Of course, there is no guarantee everyone would want to move, at away games you don’t have a choice, you go where you are put. At SMS as a home supporter you do have an element of choice. Might be worth investigating though - who knows? |
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Comment | Southampton V Leeds United The Preview
at 14:48:51
hMuch has been said in recent weeks about the way RM insists the team plays and the need for flexibility in his approach to help stem the number of costly errors that have led to us conceding goals and also making us somewhat easy to play against. On Saturday we have Leeds coming to town with a certain Joel Piroe on board, a player I really wish we had signed, but that’s not the point I am trying to make; in Piroe not only do Leeds have a top class striker at this level on a good run of form but they also have a player that has lived the ‘Rustyball experience’ first hand for the last couple of seasons - he will therefore be able to give the Leeds coaching staff all the inside info on exactly how RM sets up on top of what they already know. Therefore this would be the PERFECT time for RM to throw Leeds a complete curve ball by mixing it up tactically and ditching the tippy tappy in favour of a more direct style of play especially in our defensive half of the field - it might just work wonders as Leeds won’t be expecting it… |
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Comment | Tottenham Wing Back Linked With Southampton
at 14:25:21
Underweststand I know exactly what you mean about Levy, I would not trust him as far as I could bench press an elephant. Although Rupert Lowe isn’t exactly high on my Christmas card list, he gets credit where it is due for one quip he made about Levy back In 2001. In the aftermath of Spurs poaching Hoddle from us then Dean Richards we made an official complaint to the PL about their conduct. Lowe had been quite vocal on the radio and in the press prior to the hearing labelling the Spurs board “a bunch of North London yobbos” and calling the relatively newly appointed Levy “another cowboy in charge” (with previous reference to Alan Sugar). He got told to apologise for his remarks at the hearing which I don’t think went down well with Lowe. Outside of the hearing after it finished he was interviewed for radio by either the BBC or LBC and the interviewer asked him if, in a spirit of reconciliation, there was anything nice he could say about Levy. After a long pause, Lowe said “Well…. I must say Mr.Levy was immaculately dressed today, he had Spurs on his blazer badge, Spurs on his tie, in fact, I think he even had Spurs on his shoes”
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Comment | West Ham United Agree Deal With Southampton
at 17:33:19
Farewell JWP, gutted to see him go but totally understand the reasons why - Block 8’s post above pretty much sums it up. With £100k a week off the wage bill SR simply MUST now give Smallbone what he is asking for - and I’d offer Tella improved terms as well.
I’d invest the fee received for JWP in Piroe and Kasper Schmeichel (Nice want £9m for KS) - if we invest his fee wisely and repurpose a percentage of the savings on his wages on improved contracts for WS & NT then JWP will have done one last favour for all of us he has left behind here at SFC, a last favour that could help us in our quest for a successful season and possible promotion.
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Comment | Sheffield United Have Will Smallbone Offer Turned Down By Southampton
at 17:08:07
With JWP now going to West Ham that’s £100k a week off the wage bill, so, SR for God’s sake just give WS what he is asking for - and whilst you are at it, give Tella an improved deal as well. Show both of them you value them, show both of them (+ Sheff U & Burnley) that you mean business. RM has had nothing but praise for WS - so RM, you need to get in front of Wilcox and demand these issues are actioned immediately.
I’d invest the JWP money in Piroe & Kasper Schmeichel (Nice would take £9m for KS) and just prey that the rumours of Palace being interested in McCarthy, as mentioned in another post, are actually true! If Palace are interested and stilll want Che then we could do a Tesco’s offer for them, buy one, get one free - I’ll leave you to work out which one they get for free… |
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Comment | Southampton V AZ Alkmaar The Verdict
at 15:33:34
Spot on SanMarco, I agree 100% with your suggestion for the transfer window to go from the last day of the season to mid-July. All this nonsense with the likes of Lavia, Tino & JWP would be over and done with by now and we could all get on with proper planning and preparation for the forthcoming season.
Personally I’d go one step further with the loyalty bonuses - just scrap them altogether because with very very few exceptions there is no loyalty shown by the players anymore. If they must continue then pay them one week after the closure of a set number of transfer windows to run concurrently after the player first signs a contract then annually thereafter, again a week after the window closes.
Whist we are at it, scrap the Bosman Rule and in one fell swoop you’d cut out about 75% of the nonsense and faffing about that goes on in every transfer window. Bosman was a nothing player who if playing today wouldn’t even get a trial never mind a contract at Eastleigh. All well and good giving average non-League players freedom to move but to apply the same rules at PL and FL levels is nonsense. The player could still move when out of contract but for a market value fee. Any failure to agree a fee would either see it set by a proper tribunal or by multiples of the player’s current wages. |
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Comment | Saints And Leeds Head To Head For Championship Striker
at 17:33:40
As the Nike slogan states - Just Do It
Absolute no brainer
Che to Wolves or Boscombe for what we can get, you’re welcome…
Don’t upset Swansea by putting in a low-ball offer otherwise they will sell Piroe to Leeds but not Saints
If they want £9m give them the money, don’t argue
If they want £9.5m give them the money, don’t argue
If they want £10m give them the money, don’t argue
Just Do It 👍🏼 |
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Comment | Newcastle Claim Southampton Are Moving The Goalposts Over Tino Livramento
at 20:14:56
Oh dear Nick, naughty Southampton won’t roll over like a good litttle club and have one of their best assets plundered for peanuts, how dare we even think of being so disobedient?
Well done Saints, keeep it up, if needs be get Pickfords in to help you move the goalposts a bit further. The barcodes are supposedly putting in one final bid - if we reject that, I reckon they will hurl their toys so far out of the pram it will need a search party to find them…
In our favour, Tino has three years left on his contract, also, it seems he wants regular football, I would venture to suggest not guaranteed up there this coming season. On the minus side, if his heart is really set on the move away then is there much point in keeping a demotivated player? Would it end up going in the same direction as VVD?
Personally, I’d like to see Saints put wheels on them there goalposts, keep Tino if we can and play hardball with West Ham over JWP as well. Get decent money for Lavia, ABK and Sulemana and what we can for Adams and Tall Paul. Invest in a decent GK plus Stewart from Sunderland or Piroe from Swansea (or both!!) and let the rest sort itself out on deadline day as seems to be the custom these days.
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Comment | Saints Supporters Boycott Bournemouth Friendly In Their Thousands
at 16:02:17
If they must play Bournemouth in a pre-season friendly then surely this game would have been the ideal candidate to have been played behind closed doors at St George’s Park? That way thousands of gloating away fans get zero opportunity to ram it down our throats. |
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Comment | Southampton V Grimsby Town The Verdict
at 18:28:17
Clunk76 - in AA's case, never mind a banjo, I doubt if he could hit the aforementioned cow’s backside with a double bass!!
What seriously worries me about next season is this - we needed Pens to dispatch Lgue 1 leaders Sheff Wed in the League Cup, hardly pulled any trees up v Lincoln City (14th Lgue 1), likewise struggled to beat a very average Blackpool side who are currently 23rd in the Championship. Bearing in mind the exodus of what quality players we do have, we will be left with the dross and the deadwood that will be in no rush to give up the lucrative PL contracts they are on. This may well mean that the team fielded last will be roughly representative of what we will line up with for the start of a 46 game Championship slog when August comes. I really fear we could do an Ipswich, Sunderland, Bolton or Sheff Wed and end up back in League 1 if we are not careful - trouble is there will be no Markus Leibherr to come in this time to lead us back to the promised land....
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Comment | No Plaice In St Mary's For Harry Haddock After Ban For Grimsby FA Cup Tie
at 22:25:08
That decision sounds like a load of pollocks - as for the old trout who made the final decision, I don't think their sole is in the right plaice. If their fans do come up with some cunning alternative plan to inconvenience us we will have ended up making a rod for our own backs - talk about baiting the opposition supporters... |
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Comment | Southampton V Nottingham Forest The Verdict
at 01:39:45
In response to the previous two posts from jameslastfan and wessexman, it looks like the reason the Welsh Oaf got the job is down to SR’s useless spreadsheet led management - see an extract from a Hampshire Live article below:
In his first press conference as Saints boss, Jones revealed he had scored highly on all the metrics Ankersen and Southampton's ownership group Sport Republic were looking for during his interview
See the full article here:
www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/nathan-jones-rasmus-ankersen-southampton-7818046
To use an analogy from Greyhound racing; SR appointing NJ is the equivalent of them entering a three legged mongrel in the Greyhound Derby! Considering the position we are now in due to NJ’s totally clueless and inept management, in order to stay up, SR now need the aforementioned three lagged mongrel to win the race…
Not even Branfoot was this bad - and that’s saying something.
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Comment | New Prime Minister Confirms His Love Of Saints In Parliament
at 22:36:08
A point 12 for your humble consideration as an addition to the tax changes proposed in point 6. Inside the land border proposed in point 4, increase the VAT rate to 50% on vodka, super strength lager, cigarettes & tobacco, take away curry, pizzas & burgers and in 5 years you will undo all the financial damage done by Truss and by Kamikaze Kwarteng. Legalise the sale of certain nefarious substances and tax them likewise and you’d do it in 3 years or less😎 |
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Comment | Nathan Redmond Issues Classy Farewell Message To Southampton
at 18:16:28
A classy salute to all involved with SFC both on and off the pitch. I also have some great memories as well as a few WTF moments. I agree he was jumped on far too quickly by some if he made a mistake - to his arch critics I would say compare Nathan’s overall contribution to SFC to that cart horse Carrillo for example - now there was a player worthy of criticism!
Good luck in what will be a very different playing environment and thanks for the memories. |
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