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No, can't see where he's said that. He's saying you should have to amass more than a 'small' number of votes before your collective voice can make a difference.

That may happen but the truth is we won't know for sure how true PR will affect the likes of the BNP's share of the vote. Some might say why run the risk of finding out one way or the other when it can be ruled out by not changing?

That hypothesis doesn't really need 'grasping' though. The Tory leader is chosen by the members in a FPTP election. All the MPs do is whittle the candidates down to the final two. A means to an end if you will. Davies and Cameron made the shortlist and then Cameron won the actual vote. It didn't matter who came first or second...a bit like us and Brighton you might say... ;-) Simple as that.

No, I'm not ignoring any of Fonte's credentials. He's a superb player and is within a hair's breadth of getting my vote. I just happen to think Lallana edges it. By choosing one player i'm not denying the quality of another. That is all.

Huddersfield Town will give Brighton & Hove Albion guard of honour Southampton didn't HUDDERSFIELD Town will give champions Brighton a guard of honour before Saturday’s big League I match at the Withdean. Seagulls boss Gus Poyet, whose runaway leaders clinched the title by winning 3-1 at Walsall two weeks ago, was annoyed Southampton didn’t accord his players that courtesy before their clash last Saturday. "In Valencia, with Real Madrid, you saw the way you should receive the champions," said Poyet, whose side are 11 points clear at the summit. Town manager Lee Clark, who is aiming to pip Southampton to the second automatic promotion spot alongside Brighton, confirmed: "We will give Brighton a guard of honour because I believe it’s the right thing to do. "They are worthy champions. The league table doesn’t lie and they have been the most consistent team in the division. They’ve won lots of games and scored lots of goals and all credit to them. "It’s not down to me to tell any other manager how to do their job, but as someone who likes watching football, the way Gus sends his team out is the way I like to see football played." hmmmm....Huddersfield trading with BHA? A Guard of Honour for a victory....?

Which is precisely why I went for Lallana....I have no brain

Sometimes.... ;-)

Have Pompey received one of these threatening letters from HMRC yet? Taxman 'terrifying' people to pay http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9461000/9461294.stm

Does anyone have Lallana's and Fonte's match stats to hand? i.e. games played, win/draw/lose percentage when playing, etc. Cheers

Anyone know what hotel the Huddersfield players are staying in.....?

Indeed. I can't see Brighton being that fussed about reaching an arbitrary number of points now that they've won the title.

I don't look at it from the 'number of games' played perspective. I look at the players' overall impact on our performances over the course of the season. By comparison, if Lallana came on for the last half hour of a game and scored a hattrick to secure a 3-0 win for Saints, who would get man-of-the-match? Fonte for helping to keep a clean sheet for 90 mins or Lallana for engineering the 3-0 victory? Lallana every time for me.

This. Anyone got the Football League's email address for post match complaints? What's the points penalty for fielding a weakened team?

Lallana. You can close this now, thanks

'Rooting' in the euphemistic sense...?

Not forgetting the fake company NAMG that was, allegedly, used to somehow hoodwink the board that a bid for the club was on the table. I never did understand that one...

I believe he's simply saying that had all the candidates been voted for by the members in a FPTP vote then Cameron would still have won. The whittling down process amongst the MPs simply delayed the inevitable result. I think.

Will do. Will he know who 'Viking Warrior' is in real life?

This is true. So, to recap, we can be 100% confident that Allen's plane being here that week was simply a coincidence?

Made me chuckle :-)

It's a reasonable hypothesis but how can we be absolutely sure of that? How do we know it won't actually galvanise the support of minority parties in the knowledge that their vote is no longer wasted? (I'm talking about true PR here, not it's miserable little compromise) Are there any stats we can unpick from other countries who have moved from one system to another?

It's about time the club published a seat-by-seat plan so people can book aisle seats online, much like you can at most theatres/cinemas. Ok, I know SMS is on a larger scale but there is precise seat booking software out there that would do the job. That is all.

I hate to burst bubbles (or any other dead pop star's monkey for that matter) but i can't see anything other than a Huddersfield win at the weekend.

Would the same apply for a truely proportional system such as PR? (which AV is apparently just a stepping stone towards....) Wouldn't true PR actually encourage more people to vote for these 'vulgar' minority in the knowledge that every vote truely counts? (I'm not necessarily saying that's a bad thing, just highlighting what I perceive to be an apparent dichotomy between AV ("keeps nasty minority parties at bay") and PR ("allows every vote for nasty minority parties to count")

Fret ye not. Verbs has already assured us the British electorate aren't thick... ;-)