Weston Super Saint

I went for the new stadium option. Would love to see 15,000 empty seats every other week.

You lot are slacking! The9 has mentioned his wife four or five times and no-one has called for rule 1. So, here it is, rule 1 please The9! Also, not one person has mentioned the egg chasing

Garmin with Android is excellent - the bands are anyway. I have the vivosmart HR, the wife has a vivosmart and daughter has vivoactive. All three of us have Android phones and never have an issue with syncing the bands and having bluetooth always on doesn't seem to affect the battery life of the phone much and allows the sync to happen in the background. The forerunner was a bit of a pain to sync as you had to access a menu in order to turn bluetooth on and then turn on the app on the phone to get the sync to start, a bit fiddly but never had to delete the app or device from the app...

Frankly, it's crap! I had it for five weeks and then sent it back for a refund. The biggest issue is with the HR monitor. I was turning the HR on before starting an exercise to allow time for the watch to stabilise, then you go to another menu to start recording the exercise and the watch would lose the HR! It would then take anywhere from 8 to 20 minutes to re-establish the correct heart rate again which, when doing a quick 30 minute turbo session is pretty useless when 20 minutes of it is recorded at 70bpm! The idea behind the watch is sound, unfortunately I don't think the tech is good enough at the moment. I have replaced it with a vivosmart HR which works much better, is a fair whack cheaper and a lot smaller on the wrist. It doesn't have GPS but I always take my phone when out on the bike anyway so use that one.

Absolutely right. This new club is squeaky clean and has never done anything wrong financially, you can see this in the accounts they've published....

FFS! Squirrel, not rat!

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Portsmythmatics

Half?

I've always assumed that this was their 'modus operandi'.

Not sure why they'd need to bother. Top is top, so they can't get any higher anyway. Leave that sport science piffle to those teams that aren't top.

I read somewhere today - I forget where - that working 1 Saturday in 4 is considered as 'unreasonable' for junior doctors and thus triggers a 30% pay rise. To me - having worked in hospitality for 18 years and working nigh on every weekend [Friday, Sat & Sun] except for holidays - it seems incredible that this would apply! Ask any of the people you meet who are working at the weekend, from the person who sells you some milk on a Saturday morning to the bar person who pulls you a pint on Saturday night or Sunday lunch and every single one of them would LOVE a 30% increase for working at the weekend! The issue is, they won't get it. The reason they won't get it is because they knew what they were getting in to before they took the job! Just like the doctors do. They know that evening and weekend work will be required. I'm not complaining that they get the 30% pay rise. I am complaining that they are not happy about it! To me, having given up 18 years of weekends - which was my choice to do so! - they are an awful lot luckier than pretty much everyone else that works at the weekend. Most of those will be on little more than minimum wage...

It certainly seems like a sensible decision to have enough doctors on duty when there is a higher chance of people dying. The big question for me though, is why should that be junior doctors? I'm assuming that if patients are much 'worse' when admitted at the weekends then surely it would make sense to have the most senior / experienced doctors - and other care staff - on duty? I'm not really sure where I stand on this issue. Of course I agree that Junior doctors shouldn't be 'mugged off' and shouldn't be made to work excessive hours. We have laws in place to stop lorry drivers from driving when they are tired as the tiredness is likely to cause accidents and kill people, yet we don't have similar laws in place to stop junior doctors from working when they are tired [i still think 70 odd hours per week is too much!]. On the issue of evening / weekend / unsocial hours, I don't have a great deal of sympathy. All doctors know the hours before they even sign on for medical school so this should come as no surprise to them that they will be working these hours. I also think that junior doctors get paid pretty well for the work they do. There's also the fact that junior doctors will eventually become 'senior' doctors where the pay and benefits get a lot better..... One thing's for sure, the picket lines are way more civilised when the Junior doctors are on them!! I've never heard such eloquent 'chanting'!

Certainly makes you wonder where the circa £3m per home game generated in the local area is going. Doesn't look like it's being invested locally

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Switched to Android about 2 years ago and glad I did now. Even as an 'apple fan' even I knew I wasn't using all the functions to their full extent - and quite frankly didn't need to! Android phones have caught up in terms of functionality and available apps and do pretty much the same as Apple if not more due to the 'open' nature of the OS. The price difference is also a big factor. Current phone is a Samsung Galaxy J5 which I picked up last September for £150 and it does pretty much the same thing as an iPhone 5 but costs about £300 less!!

I'm not sure why their away attendance is a surprise to anyone. If I lived there, I'd also take every opportunity I could find to get out of the sh!thole!

For the sake of posterity : http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35483723

To be fair to them, I'm now a believer! They've spent so long in League 2 now, that I, four one, believe they should still be there I love the way they've gone from losing on Saturday but being 'championship' standard to losing on Tuesday and being mid table League 2 standard. They have more highs and lows than a crack addict in a pharmacy.

Can you let me know the date - and post a reminder closer to the event - Burnham is about 6 or 7 miles from my house In Weston so I may bimble on down to say hi

AFC Bournemouth RESERVES! If you make a full ELEVEN changes to your side before the game, then it is a RESERVE team. But well done to the phew for securing such a magnificent loss. There truly is no other team that can lose betterer.

A zero you say? Have you produced any accounts to back that up

To be fair, keeping 'Arry on is a very wise move indeed. After all, who has more experience than him of being involved with clubs who have spunked all their money

I was given a Garmin Vivofit last year for my birthday - I was also on a 'fitness drive' at the time after several years of not doing a great deal and turning into a fat bastad - and have found it to be a little bit limited. Great for tracking steps and sleep and calculating calories burned to some extent, but I've always found it a little bit lacking and have had to use separate apps for tracking bike rides and another app combined with a chest strap for heart rate monitoring. I've just - literally, just! - ordered a Garmin Forerunner 225 as that has pretty much everything I need in one neat little package, and not to mention it is less than £170 falling from it's launch price last summer of close to £250. It has built in GPS and built in HR monitor so now I don't need the separate apps on the phone, plus it has all the functionality of the activity tracker as it will count steps, calculate calories used etc etc. So far, the activity tracker has helped to keep me motivated and lose 2 stone last year with another 2 stone planned for this year....

The burning question is whether you got to eat your sandwich yesterday - alongside the question as to what type of sandwich it was....

Hi Benji. Many thanks for your reply. As you have mentioned, I will 'win' in respect of having the redundancy declared an unfair dismissal. However, my question around Polkey was concerning the amount of the compensation that will be paid - the basic award would be exactly the same as the statutory redundancy that they have said they will pay - so the compensation element is the bit I am more concerned about. So, the question around that is that they would have to 'prove' that the redundancy would still have happened even if they followed the correct procedure. However, they have now given TWO reasons for the redundancy which are polar opposites - one refers to putting money in to the business, the other to taking it out! - so would they have to 'prove' the first reason that they gave or can they just pick and choose between the two they have given.... My suspicion is that they would have to prove the first but I can't find anything to substantiate that....