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Playing a dangerous game looking that far forward. What he's worth is what he's worth today. He could lose form or he's always just one injury away from being the player he could have become. If we were offered silly money this year it would be a massive gamble to hang on for silly money plus one in the following year. We don't 'need' him under our model, cheaper replacements are always available and once he has reached the level where he has out-grown us and we have received a suitable (derisory) offer he will be on his way. cf Mane, we cashed in, some would say a year too early but we've got the money in the bank and the world hasn't stopped turning without him.

Boring, nothing to see here, unless you're new to this story it's been done to death umpteen times before.

Keep up, I doubt Hants CC has employed a binman or a roadsweeper for 20 years, it's all privatised, the council commissions the contract, the contractor employs the staff. Not sure where the figure of 34k came from? I've just had a look and I found a figure of 9,500 FTE employees, mainly employed in children's services and in adult care. In Dorset (a smaller county/population) the number of FTE employees has fallen from 5400 to 4200 between June 2015 and June 2016 according to their online documentation. Numbers of people employed by councils has fallen drastically due to privatisation, 'cuts', and not least acadamisation of schools. Not sure where the EU angle is in all this but a council like Hants prob employs fewer than 200 full-on beauacrats/administrators (to oversee local taxation, public spending, public health, civil defence, planning, what's left of education, adult care, children's services, waste disposal/re-cycling etc.) so the EU figure of 24000 to administer 28 countries is probably not excessive.

We had Van Djk, Virgil van Dijk, Our more retarded fans just didn’t understand, He was much too good for us So stop making that chuffing fuss And learn to love the Southampton Way. Repeat.

I remember a time when we would have taken the positives, not got too high, not got too low, drawn a blue line under it and moved on. Forster's best game of the season Bertrand's best game of the season Cedric's best game of the season Long looked fit and quick Clean sheet against the free-scoring league leaders Boufal looks like he could be a player that gets bums off of seats We've played Utd/City/Arse/Dippers, we now have a run of games against teams around us and below us, hopefully we will pick up enough points to keep station in mid-table and progress in Europa. Hard to get excited about watching us park the bus at home but I'll cut Puel some slack, he really lacks a cutting edge so suicide to go toe to toe with Liverpool.

Suggest it's a neocon Govt trick to get 13 months tax per-year for every car that changes hands during a year...... resistance is futile, this is just the sort of stroke to expect from a gov that purports to be on the side of ordinary hard-working families. I wouldn't try and be clever with it, this has been the law for several years now, your car is technically untaxed (even though you have paid!) and you 'will' be fined if you are caught on a number plate recognition camera without tax.

Saving himself for Saturday, I woz hoping for the full 90 tonite, plus extra time. Still time for Hendo to suffer a career ending injury tho.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/15/whitehall-struggling-to-cope-with-scale-of-work-arising-from-brexit-vote No plan and the three brexiteeers fighting like cats in a sack while we watch them throw millions of pounds of public money on the bonfire. Who knew?

None so blind as those that will not see.

We'll be fine. There's no way that could Trump remember a code that must be between 8 and 16 characters long and contain at least one upper case letter, one lowercase letter, one numeral and one special character, unless it's > .... boom.

How much exactly do people think we will get for a broken Jrod? Unless a championship club is prepared to offer regular football and pay him silly money he will run his contract down with us and then retire, sad, but it happens.

Is that 3 at the back, or Romeu at Centre back?

Who will be first to mention Thursday football? No excuses today, second goal and we win the game.

Have they got a boycot on? How much are their tkts?

Not really his duck though is it? Today's the day somebody else breaks his duck for him. 1-1 (Tadic assist!)

Why do people post carp just to make a point? The ref spoke directly to their keeper in the first 5 minutes and again later, he spoke to their captain about timewasting in the first half and he gave the hurry up sign several times at throw-ins. He also indicated to their keeper take a goal kick from where he had it on the right of the six yard box rather than walk over to his preferred side on the left (never seen that before, not sure it's technically in his power to do that but it seemed to work ok!). Despite all the refs faults and what you think of the Inter team 'time wasting' as such wasn't a factor in that game, I would suggest the ball was in play every bit as much as a regular PL game. If you want to see real time wasting you should have been at the away game!

Genuine question, what does this 'stat' actually mean? I'm guessing it's 'the largest number of votes cast for one cause or party'. Which is unsurprising on it's own terms (the largest electorate ever, a binary choice rather than multiple choices, a topic that a lot of people felt passionately about etc) and for those reasons alone, it's essentially meaningless. It provides no reference to turn-out (we've had GE's with bigger turn-outs) nor to how close, or otherwise, the vote actually was. I think we would now be in a far better place as a country if the referendum had been a) binding and b) with a threshold of 60% of voters needed to trigger a change. We now have the absolute worst of all worlds, you have to wonder how (why?) the 'advisory' part was ever left in; supreme arrogance/out-of-touchness from Cameron that they wouldn't lose or that the 'establishment' has never had any intention of leaving. If it was left deliberately left in for a reason (to cover a close or inconclusive result and/or to ensure that due processes were followed and that any leaving was subject to proper parliamentary scrutiny) then that is surely exactly where we are? Listening to question time on the way home last night was genuinely scary, panel and audience!

Thought the ref did well (!) to keep a lid on it second half, I was expecting a bloodbath with loads of diving, cheating, simulation, time wasting etc and a couple of red cards thrown in too but he managed to keep a check on most (some) of that and actually produced 45 minutes of full-blooded, flowing, cup-tie football. Plenty of give and take from both teams, and a real throwback to how football used to be played. I think on balance most people would prefer the less physical, more athletic, modern version of the game but looking at the crowd's involvement last night there's definitely a market for the retro ale-house version too! Loved it, great atmosphere and hopefully the melts on here who keep moaning about rotation and playing our 'strongest team' will just melt away. Anyone care to say what our strongest team is at the moment? I would suggest without a horses for courses approach that factors in fitness/form/recovery/current opponents/upcoming opponents etc it's impossible to pick a 'first team' which is exactly as it should be. Puel starting to put ole RK in the shade, he's getting a tune out of Yoshida and JWP, he's unearthed a diamond in SM and he's involving Reed again, good times.

So we are basically back to where we started ... an advisory referundum!

Took the words out of my mouth, just seen this on the G and thought 'Wowzer, that's a biggie, lets head over to the old EU thread'!

Cheers.

WPP?

Slightly over-doing it to say we played 'well' yesterday. To beat Chelsea we need to have everybody at 8's and 9's and for them to have a bit of an off-day, the way they played yesterday the result was never in doubt from their first goal onwards. As it was we had most of our players at 4's and 5's, we looked tired and leggy with lots of slow possession and lots of poor decision making and quite a few unforced errors, obvs we did play well in short bursts but no real penetration or end product. The 'well' bit was that we stuck at it, rode our luck, and didn't get hammered! Could easily have been 0-3 or 0-4. Chelsea were very good, we had a collective off-day, didn't really see that one coming. Hopefully we can get back on it on Thursday but the fans need to be patient, a gritty 1-0 will be a great comeback from Sunday.

Clearly 'no cheques will be written', he might as well have gone on the telly box and said no paper bags full of cash will be handed over. Any subsidy/cross subsidy will be hidden well off the books, to the benefit of all involved (on both sides) and so that every other exporter in the country doesn't claim the same privileges. Best-case scenario is we now have ministers going around offering sweetheart grace and favour deals that are not on the public record and not subject to any democratic accountability, not much cause for concern there then. Alternatively we've had a word in their ear and made it clear that May has no intention of a hard Brexit and we will be (paying a levy) to stay in the single market: huzzah, we will be Norway! So which is it then?

Going old school tonight, that bloke from Solent and whispering Dave, takes me back to the SaintsPlayer dayz!