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Villa score!

This has got 0-0 written all over it

Pelle close!

Friend giving free kicks for perfectly good tackles

Is this Flynn fella any good?

Morecambe 1 Pompey 0 [emoji38]

West Brom 1 Leicester 0

West Ham 1 Stoke 0

Most positive start to a match thread ever

Swansea game ends in a draw. Get a win today and we're pretty much out of sight of 8th.

One sentence at a time one assumes

Yep, looks like a 0-0 to me

Yep, Koeman has confirmed this set up

@southamptonfc Koeman on changes: "It's about freshness. I spoke to @Nathaniel_Clyne yesterday. It's just a rest for the player." #saintsfc Koeman: "I was very happy how @MayaYoshida3 came back from #AC2015 and we know @AlderweireldTob can play at right-back." #saintsfc

@bigadamsport Am informed Hull are abandoning their 5-3-2 & are playing 4-4-1-1....although Bruce has named 4 centre-backs in his team #saintsfc #HCAFC

Said the poster who wrote off Fonte because he had a poor run of form in the Championship

Swansea 1 Everton 1

Penalty to Swansea

Swansea 0 Everton 1

I agree, large private companies often suffer from the same 'kingdom making' syndrome as public sector organisations. So, if large companies and public sector organisations both suffer from the same malaise, what's the solution? Maybe the public sector should only outsource to 'leaner' private companies that are under a certain size and who can demonstrate that they haven't succumbed to the pitfalls of large company mentality? That said, there will always come a point where these leaner/smaller companies drift into large company bad practices as they become more successful and inevitably bigger. (victims of their own success etc) Despite the 'raving capitalist' persona I often paint on here, I'm not blind to the failings of certain parts of the private sector. I simply believe that both sectors have a part to play in all aspects of life and its about finding the right balance rather than being dogmatically for or against one or the other.

It was only a matter of time before the Tories started mimicing the other parties when it comes to being vague about funding.... That said, given £8bn is only a measly 0.27% of UK GDP I'm sure they can find it from somewhere....

Nail on head right there. I ended up having to quit my role as an IT project manager for a bank because it's almost impossible to manage people that don't challenge what you're asking them to do. Whilst I was able to 'self-challenge', due to coming from a technical background, you still need people that have a natural tendancy to question what's being proposed for projects to be successful. There's no place for blind compliance in the IT industry (as well as elsewhere no doubt). I'm currently in the software testing sector and almost without exception, the offshore/onshore resources we deal with have zero problem-solving/trouble-shooting instinct or skills which means whenever they hit a testing error they either bat it straight back over the fence without any preliminary diagnostics or mask the problem altogether by removing the validation checks that are failing so that the test(s) pass. Aaaarrrghhhh...... Yep, been there, done that, got the t-shirt, etc. I've sat in on conference calls where I've put the phone down afterwards and have no idea what was discussed. It's not for the want of trying or putting in the effort to understand, its simply impossible in a lot of cases. That thought has often crossed my mind. Now I'm on the supplier side of the industry, I'm torn between tearing my hair out at how much 'our' industry has gone down the pan versus rubbing my hands together with glee at how much more work is out there, for software suppliers such as my company, due to the lack of depth of knowledge that now exists on our clients' shop-floor!

Fair point

Boris waiting in the wings is precisely why the outcome of this election is a win-win for Tory supporters

I suspect he was referring to people in 'developed' countries when he came up with the quote. (He was actually quoting someone else as it happens). As with all sound bites, there can be elements of truth and elements of flawed logic sitting side by side. What he's really saying is that if you don't ever try to better yourself then you will never succeed in doing so. Which is stating the obvious somewhat, of course.