Whitey Grandad

That usually works.

I saw what you did there.

Just pretend that you were planning a surprise... and hope that she doesn't read this forum.

I have always said, on the whole you shouldn't generalise.

I was talking about this to a welshman the last time that I was in the area and he said that if you opened the pits now you'd never get anybody to work down them. 'The youngsters just don't wanna know' he said (in a welsh accent). Do you think that Health and Safety would let us ever open them again?

I'll never forgive that Swindon player who crocked him pre-season.

I don't normally post without checking anything out (including climate change ), and I did say that all sources of power have their problems, but nobody pretends that wind power is the answer to our energy problems and can never provide more than a fraction of our requirements. Nuclear fission power, with alll its horrible drawbacks, is the only possible solution for the next 50 years or so until possibly fusion reactors become viable. Having said that, we do sit on 400 years of coal deposits, and if only we can develop effective carbon sequestration then perhaps we could use those.

I read recently that part of Storrie's remuneration (40% ?) was a bonus related to the profit on player sales. Now that they can't sell any more players he is prepared to take a cut (40% ?).

Wind power is only viable with the enormous subsidies that distort the energy market. All methods of power generation have their problems but wind power is never going to be anything but a small part of the solution, and at a hideous cost to our environment.

No need for the abuse. The govenment has dithered for over 10 years and everybody knows it.

Aren't they usually finished by then, or thereabouts? Good question though.

If that's true then it distorts the whole 'fair competition' business. Couldn't club A, having played Pompey twice and won, lend them some of their best players so that club A's rivals would have less chance of picking up points?

Thanks Gingletiss. There's a couple of points there: 'No one wants to see the club go under.' Er, excuse me! :smt039 The young lad three weeks short of getting his redundancy might like to know that he needs to add his period of notice to the amount of time that he has worked there.

So what happens for the FA Cup final?

Let me ask what may seem a stupid question... With all the player sales over the last year is it conceivable for them to have made a trading profit whilst still being in debt? If so, will there also be a bit dollop of corporation tax due?

Oh dear. We're not bitter, are we?

She'd done her job and was past her sell-by date.

45% I believe, of the proceeds after matchday costs. 10% goes to the FA pot for distribution.

I'll ask me mum. She knows everything.

Thanks for that. Is it really 2011?

So how would he compare with, Churchill, say?

Technology's not the answer. What we need are better refs. Saturday's ref might have had his view blocked by Schneiderlin but he should have been better positioned so that it wasn't. I'm sure that the assessor will have mentioned it but it won't help us now. Our forwards' mistakes were more significant the the referee's.

A bit like Mike Riley's first premiership game at Leicester when 'we was robbed'.

I suppose the only other indirect free-kick offences in your own area must be dangerous play and anything which needs a yellow card, such as dissent or unsporting behaviour. Not many people know that you cannot score an own-goal straight from your own direct free-kick or corner kick, nor that you cannot be offside from a goal-kick.

So all that can save them now is a huge injection of money, or their players volunteering to take massive pay cuts. Any chance of that?