Ex Lion Tamer

How have they not scored

Stay off the beers and take regular exercise

Is this insider knowledge or speculation?

I largely agree with this, except I think it was our plan to keep Kelvin as no1 for this season, which was a mad decision as he was clearly not up to the Premier League. Then when that went tits up we panicked and got Boruc in as it was always too early for Gazza, which should have worked out but it turns out Boruc is completely unfit. At least tonight's game shows we can compete, we just need to stay in touch till Jan and then we can sort out this huge weakness. Certainly think it's out of order to call Gazza a clown, 20 is very young for a goalkeeper and he shouldn't be in this position.

What a save by Gazza, pure class. He's certainly got potential

We have a team that can pick apart a defence with short passes around the area, can't recall us being good at that in my time watching Saints

Really nice move

Why does everything have to be black and white? Adkins must take some blame for recent tactics and team selection, but that doesn't mean Cortese is infallible. He must take a lot blame himself for our failure to seal defensive signings this summer. Add to that problems with executive boxes, Dell bar etc, it seems Cortese's bullish personality is a hindrance to the effective running of the club. He has appointed good managers and brought investment, but a lot of bad things too. Pros and cons

Classic problem of losing long standing owners and the new ones not knowing how to sustain the place. The Railway in Winchester had similar problems recently

I'm now tipping into the Adkins out camp, sadly. He can have one more home game at most

We need three in the middle to get some passing going, and the two wingers to defend their fullback. Trouble is we have to chase the game now, but we should be starting games a lot more solidly. 442 away from home is madness for a team lacking quality

Our problem was never sacking managers, it was who we were appointing. Sometimes a manager may even be a good one but you have to sack them just to get the 'new manager bounce' needed to stay up. Fresh ideas and all that. I'd stick with Adkins for the moment though, hopefully Mayuka from the start in the next game might make the difference

Crowd sounds good at least

He needs to practice his hokey-cokey, he's facing the wrong way

Is 'easing the the tension' a euphemism?

Simon Peach undermining the club as usual

Pension benefits weren't good enough

No we don't

He's a journalist, it's his job to get clicks on a website, which he has no doubt achieved. It's not specifically his job to worry about whether the story added to your understanding of the club, though he no doubt would include more detail if he had it.

There are two big reasons why the welfare bill is getting bigger (there may be more): 1) People are living longer so are placing a bigger burden on the NHS 2) We're in one of the worst downturns in decades which has meant unemployment is huge right now, so lots of people on jobseekers (believe it or not, most of them wish they had a job and are not scroungers) Regarding your other point, inequality is actually still important. You should read 'The Spirit Level' for an idea of how more equal societies score better on a whole range of indicators eg life expectancy, murder rate, educational performance etc: http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why

My point was about innate intelligence, it was Whitey who started talking about working hard at school. Of course you can do badly at school but because you are intelligent (even if only moderately) still be able to become a success. Furthermore, going to a good school clearly gives you an advantage, you only have to look at the proportions of people in the country's top jobs who went to public school to see that. Obviously some people can buck the trend but the odds are against them. I don't like people cheating the benefit system but benefit fraud is roughly £1 billion a year while 2000 Britons in the offshore enclave of Monaco alone are costing the UK economy £1 billion a year in lost tax revenue. Yet everyone focuses on the 'scroungers', I guess because they are more visible in daily life. You make the statement that we shouldn't take extra off the rich because they have already paid a fair amount, but that is what I am disputing. Why is it fair that they have that amount of money? I don't believe they work 10 times as hard as a school teacher or are 10 times as talented.

So someone with a learning disability just needs to work harder at school? Ultimately, no matter how hard everyone works, there is only going to be so many people who can make it to the top. Why should those who do make it have such vast amounts of wealth when others are struggling to put food on the table? PS you ignored the point about him having a wealthy friend to give him his start in business. Its all very well saying people don't take risks but its a lot less of a risk when you've got £38,000 in your pocket.

Can you really blame people for choosing to take benefits in preference to doing some utterly tedious job for very little money for the rest of their lives? Or should they work harder and then one day they can become a millionaire? I know that life isn't fair but shouldn't we strive for a world which is at least more fair? I've said that there are practical reasons to not raise taxes on the rich to too high a level, but there is no moral basis for a relatively small number of lucky people to to hold so much money when people further down the chain are struggling. Furthermore, capitalism doesn't work if the rich get too rich as people don't have the money to buy the goods and services their companies offer.

Freddie Laker, who was lucky enough to be born in one of the richest countries in the world, who was lucky enough to be born with the intelligence to get into a top grammar school, and who was lucky enough to have a wealthy friend to lend him £38,000 to start his first business. The rich always like to attribute their success to their own genius but actually it has as much to do with circumstantial factors

Right wingers assume that the rich have earned their money, and many of them do work hard, but so do a lot of people further down the chain who have no hope of rising to the top. Actually the most important factor in whether you become a high earner is luck, whether that be who you are born to, the characteristics you are born with or simply stumbling across a great business venture. Obviously the problem is that the tax system has to be practical and if rich people are going to take their money overseas then we have to be careful about raising taxes to keep them here, and there also needs to be an incentive to innovate and work hard. But morally there is no justification for the income inequality we are seeing in the country and which is getting worse.