Ken Tone

Mind you the ref also overlooked Kelvin pushing their forward over in the box as he tried to get the ball off him for a kick. On another day that could have been a sending off.

Once the ball is in play, unless the goalie keeps it in close control for over 6 seconds, there's nothing the ref can do ....the git can time-waste all day if he wants to. It's up to us to force him to pick it up. What appalled me though was that the ref let him take ages over each goal kick ...the ref can penalise him for time-wasting in that context, yet he didn't even speak to him, let alone book him. For what it's worth btw, from where I was in the kingsland, I'd have given both their penalty and ours for the trip on Lallana. Lambert contributed some good target man play, and put in an awesome freekick that the goalie only just turned onto the post, but he really ought to have scored with the header over the bar, and passed on a couple of occasions when I'm sure he would have shot last season. In fact IMO if last season's model of Lambert had been playing we'd have won.

Well I started listening to it. Good on you for doing this mate, but you need to edit, edit, edit and edit again. Far too long and slow moving.

Wasn't there talk of them wanting over £2million for him? Even allowing for a bit of hype on the price he wouldn't be cheap. And even if we are supposedly still well off by L1 standards, can we afford him? Are there no decent Sheffield Wedneday players we can nick for a bargain price as they try to stave off administration?

I said almost irrelevant Eg transfer fee £30m for a top player ....wages and bonuses say £10 million a year for 4 years, ie £40 million. (that's alot less than Rooney is getting). Transfer fee might be recovered if sold. Wages won't be. So even a massive fee like £30 million is a bet of sorts, or an investment, that may be recouped or may even give a profit if sold on. Whereas the £40 million wages are a definite loss. The wages matter more. Ask West Ham fans how they feel about Redknapp and finances. Ask pompey fans if you can find one with a brain. There are an awful lot of people at clubs where Redknapp worked that believe in what you call a myth.

You can't have it both ways. You seem to be praising him for the transfer fees but blaming someone else for the wages. Ever since bloody Bosman ruined football's finances, wages and fees have been tied up together.

That is pretty typical Redknapp propaganda. Transfer fees are amost irrelevant nowadays compared to players wages. Redknapp leaves clubs skint because he overpays and gives players long contracts on those high wages ...and that's not even counting any alleged brown envelopes and the "odd" agents' fees. When a premiership player can be paid over £10 milion a year and be given a 4 year contract, then leave on a free transfer, transfer fees are only half the story at most.

The trouble is how do you address a loss of form in your best striker? Either you drop him , which will damage his confidence further and thus effectively write him off as a player for the season, at least --- or you continue to play him hoping he'll scrape a few lucky goals , gain confidence and return to form. The dropping option is only viable if you are so well-resourced that you can afford to abandon last season's top striker. We are not Man u coping with a drop in form by Rooney. We apparently can't afford, or can't find, a real alternative to Lambert as a combined front man and scorer, so Adkins has little choice but to hang on grimly and hope Lambert plays through it. Fortunately even an off-form Lambert is far from a passenger ,and in most games I've seen has made a positive contribution to general play, just not as positive as he would have done last year.

You know if you contact your local FE college you'll find they have all sort of adult literacy courses available. There's no need to be embarrassed.

As far as I am aware the rules summarised by BIMDAS have been universally acknowledged in Mathematics since the 16th or 17th century, when the index notation was first developed. It may well be that early Computing languages ignored this rule, but then that is Computing, not Maths. Computing is a world of its own, and of course only a very recent upstart one. It invented many of its own conventions because of the limitations of early technology and programming languages. However those conventions had and have no validity outside that enclosed specialist world, and by now have mostly faded away anyway as modern technology has caught up. Thank God that silly 1970's affectation of writing a zero with a line through it has declined for example. (Never heard of FORTH, but I had to learn ALGOL and a bit of FORTRAN btw. What a waste of time that was!) Anyone and everyone should indeed assume BIMDAS applies to any mathematical expression, unless otherwise specified. Certainly the OP should absolutely definitely assume that 4x^-1 means 4 times x^-1, not (4 times x)^-1. Makes a pleasant change having an argument over something esoteric on here rather than over fence-rattling and coin-throwing on the main site! Want a punch up behind the Kingsland over this? I'll bring the thermos flask if you bring the sandwiches.

See Dimond Geezer's post ..'o' for order as in power. They didn't explain that properly to you in infant school because you hadn't done powers by then! The modern BIMDAS is supposed to be easier to understand, with 'i' being index. But either way there is no imprecision. The rules of grammar of maths are just that ..rules ..clear and precise. They have never been superseded. Go wash your mouth out with soap.

Your description is a little more snappy than the one on wikipedia I see!

Not bad for an engineer! Nowadays mind you, they teach 'BIMDAS', Brackets, Indices, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction . I just assumed someone with the user name 'grandad' might prefer the old version! Either way the multiplication by 4 comes after the power, ie after the index/order. Quite why they've turned round the 'M' and the 'D' I don't know. It doesn't matter of course, as multipication and division are equal in rank, as are addition and subtraction. It's amazing how many cheap calculators (including the one on my blackberry) give the incorrect answer of 54 to the sum 4+5x6, as opposed to the correct one of 34.

Finite expansion ...because we will experience the heat death of the universe before it stops expanding. Namely (brief version) energy is conserved overall -whenever change from one sort of energy to another, some becomes heat energy ..eventually all is heat.

Then lightouse solved it for you correctly in the second post on the thread ie x =32/7 or 4 and 5/7. x to power of -1 simply means 1/x. The equation is just set out as an an unnecessarily complicated way of writing 4/x = 7/8, which => 4 =7x/8 => 32 = 7x => x = 32/7. This is not complicated stuff. I suspect that if you think it should be you are confusing it with dim distant memories of the much harder scenario where you get equations like 4^x = something. In that case you have to take logs of both sides. Whitey Grandad, it is not ambiguous because it only needs brackets if it does mean (4x) all to the power of -1. As it is written, it unambiguously means 4 times just x to the -1. Remember BODMAS ?

Are you really Donald Rumsfeld by any chance?

Wel I confess I care. The apalling results in the hiatus between Pardew and Adkins may well have cost us promotion. I'd like to know for certain who was to blame for that happening.

Agree ...although view is good anywhere in St Mary's. I wonder to what extent closing the Kingsland is self-fulfilling prophecy. It sends the signal that the club expect a small crowd, with a pretty crap atmosphere. Add to that the fact that the kingsland must have more ST holders than any other stand, so it is the most 'stable' fans that are being displaced, and it does not seem sensible marketing to me. Most kingsland fans sit near the same group of people each match ..people they only know from matches, people they get used to exchanging banter and opinions with, but not friends as such that could all arrange to buy cup tickets together. It does affect the match experience. Does it really cost very much to open up the stand?..genuine question.. anyone know how many extra tickets would need to be bought to pay for the costs of the stand being open? Are Hedgehog's sums right? (I suspect there are more cost than he lists.)

I understood that several cars parked on the garage forecourt were damaged as well ... cars belonging to Saints fans I might add. The sad fact is that if they are guilty, as in they were actually there and were doing what they are accused of, then they really can't complain if they get punished. Don't act like a prat, don't get arrested. ..not a difficult concept to grasp really is it?

Brighton's new stadium looks pretty, but really only because (like Bolton's and Huddersfield's) it has small corners under the curving rooves. Since that helps reduce its capacity to a fairly pathetic 22,500. That fancy roof design presumably also means it can't be expanded later. 22,500 shows they have no hope/ambition ever to be a top division club again IMO .... they're settling for championship at best. Personally, I'd rather have what you call bland.

Have you been watching the same team as me? Davis is clearly one of the best keepers around, and we are lucky to have someone as good as Bialkowski to cover. I'd be gobsmacked if we brought in a keeper in January ...(even more gobsmacked than I was when Pardew brought in a left back when we already had Harding and Mills.)

Let's see what team Adkins puts out for the game eh? That will be the true indication of its importance. (Allegedly) letting Fonte take a few days off and miss the game is not a good indication that we'll be playing a full first team.

I know I will get flamed for the parking point, but never mind £15 for a ticket, it would cost me an extra £10.50 to park in my usual place, since the parking season ticket doesn't now cover cup games like it used to before they put the price up, plus there's the infamous £3 booking fee, and I usually buy a programme so that's £31.50, for game where club isn't even opening all sides of the ground, and where Adkins may well play a few second-teamers. Yes I know I could get there much earlier than usual, find a free place to park and walk, etc, (public transport not practical from where I live) but to be honest, it's not exactly an attractive value-for-money entertainment package is it?

Now on OS, albeit hidden away http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2207495,00.html .Till end of December in fact , more than a month Interesting staement about max length of time for an emergency loan. I'd not seen that before Where does that leave pompey's loans?

Oh no! If he hasn't got his own teeth, how will we know how old he is?