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Really? Do lots of people take this attitude? It strikes me a bit playground, "if you don't pick me first I don't want to be in your team". If you think you should have been first and want the job you take it and prove your point. Otherwise the job goes unfilled (as if) or the third of fourth or.. get the job. It does show why discretion is best in these matters. Hands up if you tell the boss "Can I have a day's leave Friday as I'm going to a job interview?" You might tell them when you get back and use a job offer as leverage in your current situation. Frankly all this wild speculation is not getting us anywhere. If Howe really was offered it why would he not come? A massive increase in salary, budget, crowds and training set up, and even if he couldn't end up working with our Les in the long term it would still look good on his CV. Just because we have interviewed a number of managers doesn't mean we have offered them all bloomin jobs!

There are various scenarios but that described by Colinjb seems a very possible explanation.

You'll need it!

Marsdinho does have a point. Reminds me of the story of my friends and neighbours sailing over to France and hailed frantically by a couple of Pompey types in a little open boat somewhere Needles way. "Can you give us a jump start?" er no, "Can you give us a tow" - holding up something akin to a short piece of string.. 'Best radio the coastguard' said my friends. You guessed it!... Eventually my friends radioed and gave them a tow until the inshore lifeboat took over and then set off back on course, having missed their tidal gate the other side..

Oh behave! All of you.;-)

Hmmm, I speak Italian (and French), experience of English and Italian football although no coaching badges at the moment. Hants FA cancelled the one I was due to go on. For 200k+ pa I'd say yes to NC!

I think I'm going to double my HRT dose tonight as I'm getting bad PM tension. Nobody has sent me one...sniff..

More like a nightmare team...

But Bobby, remember, we are all deluded! Incidentally, thanks for the link so that I was able to watch the game on a stream. Watching Saints 3/4 times a year live and via the net occasionally I have to say my win percentage is a lot less than 53%.. Over the past four years it probably works out at about 15%!!

Here we go!

No, but the quality of the Dons game picture was encouraging

Thanks. Hope it works as Betfair is blocked in Italy.

If there was going to have been a media campaign about this why not previously, and it's certainly not something I'd heard. Mind you, I hadn't heard the term "beard" before either! It still leaves me heartily disliking him for his voting record. If he won't grant me equality and enforced a 3 line whip on the crass section 28 he won't get any support from me.

P*** off Dune!;-) I don't send dodgy pics to dodgy blokes! Mind you, the thought of you having a waxing makes me cackle. You're not my type, I'm afraid. Unfortunately the girls in my footie side are all too young... and if you entered our changing rooms you'd have to make sure the shower was freezing..

Weellll, I'm crackin' on the bones - really! Plus tin whistle, keyless and keyed flutes at a lot lower level. Somewhere I have a bodhran I can't really play anymore but would be OK with a bit of practice. Yeah, and 4/4 is a bit boring: I'd prefer a jig or two meself.

Surely their worry will be that they won't even get what they agreed to, and if they don't they can go back to the courts again?

Thanks for that as I didn't even think to check, will give it a try.

Thanks for the pics, guys. They make me feel a whole lot better! Still no personal pics yet: 'spose I'd have to host them on flikr or summat?

Indeed! He's got a bad record on equality issues. I'm lesbian (but buy me a drink and I'll still flirt with you!) and obviously don't give a monkeys about sexuality but if he were gay I wouldn't be impressed on the hypocrisy or the betrayal of his wife (assuming she wasn't in on it). Why bring up the miscarriages at all: it doesn't prove anything and puts her under unwelcome publicity. Don't like Tebbit but he was right about the lapse of judgement. Today I saw for the first time that photo of him in the park with his aide and again, gay or not, how he appeared was a real lapse of judgement for a politician!

Still another kilo to go (I was lying, it was nearer 3 kilos over), but I seem to have stalled a bit. My argument being that muscle is heavier than fat and I've definitely got no fat on my legs now! PS What's rule 1?

B****y h**l, is it really? That's a well equipped pub team he plays for! I have to admit I'm a kilo over my winter season weight after a summer in the UK but I'm positively sylph like compared with him and he's nearly 20 years younger. Possibly bigger boobs than mine n'all! Still, nothing like 4 evenings training a week to get the weight off.

Incidentally, having a brief look around the Italian web sites it seems that Ighli Vannucchi didn't move to Saints, not through any money disagreements but it seems that Pardew wasn't "convinced".. E infatti – continua Ighli – dal punto di vista economico l’accordo c’era. Era tutto ok, sembrava che la trattativa andasse in porto, poi qualcosa non è andato per il verso giusto. Pare che l’allenatore (Alan Scott Pardew ndr.) non fosse convinto e quindi eccomi qua”.

Yep, I've just finished a mug of tea and about to have another. Footie training tonight, Weds, Thursday AND Friday this week. Not bad for lowish level women's footie eh? It's taken quite seriously here...

Maybe he did and NC didn't want to play at the time?

One of those high powered two-handed pump up water pistols.. great fun it used to be. What I wanted to know was why the cat owners on either side put down slabs or gravel leaving me with as the only mug with a garden with any grass or beds? I actually quite like cats and they like me... but not the neighbours' cats. When they saw me they'd high-tail it at speed!