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Adkins is a far more successful manager than Merrington was. Bit of ego in there I think.

17 shots, 12 on target. Not sure what Merrington saw but dont see how 'more width' would better that.

$7 pm http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/player/LiveMatches/0,,10280,00.html

Fan on the board will sort them out. Far better than £30m.

Yep. Who names their daughter Madison ffs.

I wouldnt change anything unless I had seen the game

2-1 Saints at end

stupid move. just make it less likely we get genuine decvsions

That commentator is being a **** tonight. Has made several disparaging comments about Sharp.

getting a man sent off wouldnt be good for us.....

tried to claim a goal that wasnt his What a **** (commentator that is)

Got nothing to do with being a lefty either.

And Peurto Rico, Hawaii and the US Virgin Islands.

Look closely at the end. Am sure he is trying to hold his wig on. That hair is sliding all over.

Interesting, I never knew that. Makes sense of some of the argy bargy since.

Keep the contract. You'll need it when you split up again.

Like others am surprised he is dropping down to lg2. Maybe its because he has only played 24 games in the past three and a half years so has dropped off of other managers' radar. A good spell at Oxford will get him a lot more options f'sure.

I got bitten by a cat a year ago, did nothing about it and my hand swelled up like a grapefruit. Took two courses of antibiotics to cure it. Just fyi according to doc, in terms of nasties in the mouth, human bites are worse than either dog or cat bites.

If a service is delivered in-house by a local council or NHS you have three basic costs - staff, management and equipment / buildings - just as in the private sector. In order to have a chance of winning a competitive tender private companies need to undercut the existing inhouse council / NHS provider and all the other private bidders. In an open process this often means the winning tender price will be say 15-20% below the inhouse service. The public sector client now needs to employ contracts staff to manage the contract, people they never needed before. The private provider also needs to employ additional staff to manage the relationship with the client. By contracting out you are immediately loading on around 10-15% in extra cost (c5-7% on each side). To run this new service the private company needs money to take over the clients assets and provide working capital - they might be able to borrow this at 6%. Finally the private sector provider also needs to achieve a profit, say 10%, of the contract costs. Add it all together and the successful new private sector service provider needs to achieve cost savings of c46% compared with the inhouse provider to make the contract worthwhile. How do they achieve this? Well as a rule they dont. In the beginning they sack a lot of staff, bring in cheap unskilled casuals, cut back on cleaning and maintenance and service quality dives. The provider disputes these for as long as they can (whilst benefitting from the savings). So the client issues warnings and penalties. Eventually the provider says they cant deliver the service for the price promised, its uneconomic and seeks to renegotiate - threatening to walk away (and causing chaos) if no new price is agreed. There are times when contracting out is the right thing to doc - for cost, for expertise or for service quality. Too often however the driver is political and none of the promised benefits are realised

Get a speakers fee (which goes to the charity), accommodation and flight paid for. Would be rude not to

Back so soon? War off then? I thought you were off to eavesdrop on Iranians conspiring to smuggle the Lindsay Lohan spread.

Nah. Hes a fat bloke in his 30s trying to be cyber hard.

Am going to Singapore for work next week and wanted to go to Krabi for a few days R&R after - but couldnt get a direct flight. Booked Rawa Island in Malaysia instead.

Last time Princess Diana scored she died the next day. Torres better watch out.

Thats one of the most bizarre comments Ive ever read on this board. We're not at war, there's no issue of national security. The issue of whether somebody should report racist comments at a football match pales into insignificane to that. You wouldnt report a serial killer, kidnapper, serial drunk driver who had killed someone, terrorist etc just because they happened to come from Southampton?