CB Fry

This is a most bizarre set of assumptions of what a PR-driven house of commons would bring about. PR by its nature will force compromise and coalition. You'll get extreme parties in the commons - you might get a Green MP and a BNP MP but not swathes of them. And it certainly won't make the middle ground any less attractive, because most of the country are in the middle ground. And, again, you've started a thread based on tonight's headlines with your usual "ah-haaaaaaaaaa" finality. Nothing is "categorically stated" until the dust clears which might not be until a week after the ballot. It's the tightest election campaign for a generation - expect quite a lot of flex and flux for the next week and a half. You're going to have to roll with it.

Fair enough but I think we're going to end up with weak government anyway. A victorious Brown or Cameron will have bugger all discipline with the puny majorities they can only wish for at this stage, and the loons on the extremes of those parties will have a bloody field day running rings round the whips.

It's a self defeating argument. British Parlimentary democracy is not designed for coalition government, so when there has been coalitions they are seen by all parties as "broken" pretty much at point of birth and they don't last long as a result. There are plenty of non coalition governments that have "failed" as well - Wilson/Callaghan in the late seventies, Major from 1992, the Tory administrations of the fifties. If we end up with a coalition this time, it will probably last for eighteen months tops. But I'd expect an election in October this year, especially if we end up with some co ck-eyed coalition with a Labour prime minister who didn't even take part in the leadership debates (not the likeliest outcome, but not impossible).

If you call winning the second world war a failure then yes, you're right.

Au contraire. You're following things far too closely and getting over excited by isolated quotes. If you think Mandelson and Brown were "quite content" a couple of days ago then I don't think you're following politcal events at all, especially if you are using the Di-ly Express as your primary source of news as your avatar suggests. Both main parties are simultaneously delivering the message of "vote for us, a vote for the third party lets the other lot in" as well as leaving enough wriggle room to deliver a compromise that will deliver their man to Downing Street. This hasn't really changed much since Cleggmania kicked off a couple of weeks ago.

Not noticed that at the same time Cameron has begun cosying up to Clegg as well in recent interviews? I love the fact you see seismic conspiracy in every single quote. Madelson gives a quote to a Mirror Group Newspaper along the lines of "vote Labour". Who'd have seen that coming?

No, but then nothing is guaranteed for anyone at anytime anywhere. We'll be favourites.

Sounds a lot like the pompous "reality checks" we had in August when those oh-so-jolly-clever people decreed that anyone saying we could challenge for the play offs this season needed a "reality check" when all we could expect for 2009-2010 was simply to stave off relegation. Well they were completely wrong then, and you're wrong now. We'll be red hot favourites to win the league next season, not according to Saints fans, but according to everyone. That's reality.

Whereas people who spend their time t w atting off on fantasy land football management simulators are infallable experts.

Lee Holmes was just like Robben as well.

Which is fine. I'm not questioning the decision at all. But having a sub on/off the pitch for twenty minutes is a conversation point. It just is. Pardew could have answered it better but he was clearly angry with himself that they didn't do the job so came across a bit arsey. Perfectly understandable. Anyway, I have contributed enough to this thread.

That's what I think too. People like the ones who take one pretty tame post match question and turn it into a conspiracy against SFC by, er, Radio Solent. Any chance you'll ever explain what Solent's "agenda" and what their "grievances" are? It's you making something out of nothing, Prof.

Hmmm. Looks a bit thin on first read. Nice try from the Telegraph but Brown and Cameron can't use it tomorrow night because they'll just be throwing stones in their own glass house. Anything like this falls into the "they're all as bad as each other" white noise. Can't see this being a game changer.

Topline answer to the three questions posed. Football Players and Football Agents, Redknapp, Storrie. Redknapp and Storrie's contacts, the "how" is anyone's guess and would make you weep I'm sure. Because Storrie was the chief exec. The owners ins/outs is one thing, but the answer to the question who has actually made any money is pretty clear. Footballers and their agents.

This is a fair point and a reasonable fear. Hence why getting the job done this season was so critical, but alas not to be. Another season in L1 may be a lot to stomach for a couple of promising AMs and a 28 year old striker who has proven all he has to prove at this level. But despite all this I think we will be top 2 next season. Winning is in our bones now and some ins/outs won't change it.

Stick the kids out for the JPT, shouldn't be on the radar next season. We should be champions, but top two and automatic is the expectation. We will have every single resource we could wish for and now is the time. We can't play the unlucky underdog card that some are still trying to play for us even now.

He is but is desperate to demonstrate his knowledge which, in interviews, results in him taking five minutes to ask one question.

That's completely what it sounded like in the first half, especially, and then it snowballed in the second. But in the last minutes then it was (bad) luck as it was rattling around like a pinball. At the end of the day we couldn't have done much more last night, or this season.

Not sure it was luck or bad luck. Just the weight of the challenge of us winning, what, eight games in a row to the end of the season. Just a bit too much to do in a short amount of time and the pressure told.

In your opinion. You might try and lord it, but you aint Arsene Wenger my old son. You're not even Lew Chatterley. Asking a sensible question - why sub a sub - was a perfectly normal thing to do. What freaking "agenda" is Solent working to now? And what "grievances" have they got? Is "Paranoia" a key part of the Pro Licence course you did? I think you need a bit of real life experience mush. You don't know it all from sewing a fabric badge on your tracksuit. Maybe, maybe not. The list of reasons for taking him off sound like quite good reasons to not put him on a whole twenty minutes earlier. But I'm not bothered about the decision, just the reporters right to ask about it. I never question any decision any manager makes during a match. People probably think I do but I don't. For your info, Radio Solent is not "Football Expert Only FM" for people writing a thesis on the catenaccio system. It is, hilariously enough, mainly for people not at the game. You know, radio isn't really a visual medium. Didn't they teach you anything at Ball-bag college?

Yeah, because I've not said anything like what 70s Mike has said on this thread.... Look at me Pardew bashing Just read what you want to read you bunch of planks.

Which is absolutely no-one, at all. Not one person. You're just churning out the same garbage regardless. This is a forum nervous breakdown by a loon troll desperate for a reaction. "Stick by the manager" when we are in automatic promotion form but for the ten points. "Stick by the manager" when he has delivered instant success in less than a season from the ruins of a train wreck. "Stick by the manager" when his results and his passion are there for all to see. What a brave thing to say Yeah, you're really going against the grain here, looooooony Oh yes. Maybe you're mad because the instant success he has delivered is what you said couldn't be done and only existed in the minds of immature impatient unreasonable fans. But you were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Utterly, utterly, utterly wrong. My assumption from August/September/Octonber/January was that Pardew would succeed instantly this season. Your assumption was that he would fail this season because it fitted your 1977 narrative of "three seasons of failure before anything can be achieved" routine. And you were wrong, wrong, wrong. You were wrong, wrong, wrong. Welcome to Sadoldgit's slow, painful nervous breakdown

Yes, and the line of questioning was why not someone else being that James was on the field for twenty minutes and was a sub himself. It wasn't a "stupid ass" question it was the question any reporter or any fan would ask. Pardew's reaction was arsey but fine - you can tell he was gutted and it's great he feels so much for the job he is doing. But enough reporter bashing already.

I think we might be witnessing our first forum related nervous breakdown. Me and Wes Tender had an entertaining debate on another thread the other day (let me spell it out. We. were. on. opposing. sides.) And lord knows me and Alpine have had plenty of ding dongs about some sh ite or other on this forum going way back. You, on the other hand, are rapidly descending into utter madness. Looooooony.

You freakin' obsessed wierdo.