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Yeah, good guess.

Yeah, that's why I went to college and Uni and now work in the profession I chose when I was 16.

At my school it was more like the other way round.

Get back to your homework, you don't want to get into trouble do you.

Wouldn't take long.

The sort of attitude I would expect from the public sector, that's why not alot of people are "welling up" whilst the tories cut your pensions.

Too early to say, even if we do spend a decent amount mid-table wouldn't be failure. There are plenty of other teams with cash in this league.

Blaming the government is a cop out. If the teachers wanted it changed they could get it done, they are quick to get together and do something when it's their pensions being changed. We were a man down at work last month because of a teacher training day, it's not just the kids it effects but businesses that have to make money and can't just take days off for training.

Do it as homework then, you c*nts love homework.

Just do it when the kids are off, it's not rocket science.

No such thing as "working hours" in what I do. I have to get projects completed or my company doesn't get paid and I'm out of a job. My clients don't have to wait for anything because I'm training. Teachers' clients are their pupils, the service they receive shouldn't be effected by the teachers lack of training.

I thought they worked during non-school days (marking etc), if they don't and get 10weeks+ holiday a year then yes, they should give up holiday to learn how to do their job. My training at work doesn't effect my clients, I work around them.

Still no reason why training days couldn't take place during non-term days, there are plenty.

Isn't it 6 weeks at summer, two at Xmas, one at Easter plus 2 lots of half terms, plus the usual bank holidays?

It is amazing that they cannot fit a training day into their massive holidays. Or maybe even, god forbid, at the weekend. Just ingrained laziness IMO.

Surely if someone is in your house you are under attack? The way I see it if someone breaks into your house you cannot just assume they are unarmed just because you cannot see their weapon, your best way to be totally sure of your safety is to knock them unconscious or kill them. The important thing is you are stopping them being a threat, their death is irrelevant.

I think that is where you are wrong, the demographics of football have changed, it's now all about middle class families with money to blow (plenty of them round here) not working class males looking for a fight. And over the last few decades much of that open countryside has had things called houses built on round here, again filled with middle class families with plenty of disposable income. looking at stats history is not that relevant IMO.

I wonder how many people delighted at "winning" tickets will be sat there next year bored out of their skull after paying a fortune to watch something they wouldn't usually cross the road to watch? I mean athletics FFS, what is the usual sort of attendance for this boring sh!te?

We bought our way out of League 1, for a club the size of Saints with billionaire backers that is a piece of p!ss regardless of how well the chairman got on with agents. We are now competing for players with clubs who have similar budgets, it is possible that having a bad relationship with agents might mean we miss out on players. I'm not saying it is the case, just that ass kissing Cortese because he has annoyed some agents is a bit daft.

Writing a long list of names is as meaningless as the original Twitter comment. Unless you have a list of which players (if any) have walked away from negotiations because their agent has the hump.

Unless one of the people we are actually interested in has an agent who won't deal with us?

The problem could be that good players will probably have a whole load of clubs interested, if the player's agent does all the negotiating and doesn't want to deal with Saints we could miss out.

If it's true it's good that Cortese is no mug but not good if it means missing out on potentially good players. Impossible to judge either way from throw-away comments like that.

Most footballers are thick, they make money by being good at kicking things around with their feet - it makes sense to have an agent negotiate them the best deal with clubs, sponsors etc. I wouldn't read too much into those comments though, as soon as Saints had a billionaire owner I expect agents have been like flies around sh!t.

We would probably need two decades of success, major trophies and European football to average anywhere near 40K.