..the figure keeps getting bandied about when talking about "the richest match in football", namely the Championship play-offs.

Is this creative accounting? The winners don't actually get 40 megapounds do they? Is this based on some estimate of the repercussions, like what they'll gain from being in the prem?
If it is then the 40m figure is hogwash, as is the "richest match" theory.

Might I just say I am stealing this phrase:

Feel free. Come to think of it megasquids might have been more lyrical. :)

I dunno. Megapounds is much more straight forward and hard-hitting.

Ok. OK. I know I'm dull but mega in SI notation means 100000 ie 10 to the power of 6.

1 million is 1000000 or 10 to the power of 7.

And about 80 is the number of empty seats in Darlo's first play-off in eight years.
Out of two thousand.
Not the 3000 that Pools sold.
In a game that wasn't a play-off.
After we'd frankly become bored with play-off as they were the norm.

Sorry Mr 147, you've been misled by your physics teacher.
10 to the power of 6 is 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 (6 times, right?)
Which is a million-ish.

Wouldn't that be a mebipound (or is that too vague? OMG what a horrible pun. ).

To be fair they got 0.6 megapounds for Stockdale - fuck knows how - but the fact remains that they needed 4-5,000 to break even. I love it when the likes of Sussex rant on about how great the ground is, but I don't know of any other place that has underpitch heating and can't afford to run it (remember their Grimsby game? ) or a game where they couldn't sell any more tickets because they needed to keep 15,000 seats free, in case the entire island of Anguilla came along (I assume).

massiv tv rights in the prem both through SKY & BBC. attendances wont go up for Hull because they basically sold all their tickets every game anyways!!

like they have sold the 36,000 tickets for saturday!

All this rings a distinct bell. You weren't by any chance part of the Grammar School generation that included Bernard Kooiman and Derek Wilson?




Who, of course, would be much younger than oneself........

I believe Mr Kooiman was in the upper sixth form when I was a fag (yes, we called newbies FAGS in them days!).
So in terms of grammar school generations I guess that's a mild yes.
Bernard was the best chess player in Hartlepool and I actually knew him from the Athaneum before I ever met him at the grammar.

[quote="chip fireball"]they will be half a million snodgers better off in league 1 next season

is that 'demimegasnodgers'

Well, the thread reminded me of the sort of thing Bernard used to spend time pondering. I don't think he was actually in the 6th form but left school at 16, tho I| may be wrong. I used to be friendly with his younger sisters, who revered him a bit. He had a very unusual mind, but I was told he had a horror of undertaking any sort of employment where he might be called upon to use it. At one point he worked as a bus conductor in London