Micky

Thanks for that - it's actually refreshing to get it 'from the horses mouth', one of the best's post I have read in the lounge for some time.

I also believe that HM Forces are afforded some 'leaway' to discriminate anyway, due to the operational side of thier job role - I may be wrong but I'm fairly sure that is the case.

Let's just say that it's not gonna be a contender for the 'golden thread' forum....!!!

I think we'll need a plan 'b', just in case:

I don't normally read your posts, but somebody else prompted me to this time. Go on, I dare you, go look in the mirror and read those words out loud - see if you can see any blinkered people. 'kin hilarious.....

This. Well remember him asking all the questions that nobody else wanted to, or had the balls to. He may have upset many of them - but he was absolutely correct in his appreciation of the club. For me the more Claridges and Savages on pundit teams the better. That said I still think that Aunty Beeb will gag most of the more intersting stuff that they want to say.

Exactly, so if there was enought doubt that he had to be tested prior to the duty, then he surely shouldn't have been entrusted with a loaded weapon. Given your post above, I wouldn't issue you a pea shooter, let alone allow you to board a nuclear submarine ffs....!!!!

Agree - he should be punished. But how would you test somebodies sobriety to substantiate that they are fit to be issued a loaded weapon? If there was any doubt whatsoever, don't give it to him - the fact that they thought there was a possibility should have been enought to prevent the issue.

Where on earth did you get that from?

Are you bored. Or are you somebodies plant. Or are you just plant life?

Do we actually have to take sides, or can we be adult about it and acknowledge the great contribution that Matt gave to the club during his time, whilst also acknowledging Nicolas current contribution. In recent years, both have effectively 'saved the club' in different ways. Time to shake hands, go to the bar and get the beers in.

Server was awesome here Baj, blink and you miss the fact that it's refreshed already. Can you slow it down a bit for old guys like me who can't keep up...!!!! Can't win can ya - damned if you do, damned if you don't. Seriously though - top, top service here. Tks.

Good result - win your home games, get something away - can't argue with that tbf.

Good result - win your home games, get something away - can't argue with that tbf.

Damn.... this servers slow..... Shouted downstairs for beer 5 mins ago and she still hasn't bought it up....!!!

Now, I'd take 3 points.....!!!!! commmoonnnnnnnnn/!!!!1

I'd take a point....

3...! So far...!

This is actually a very good point - if you look at our goals conceded, we are halfway down the league. At the moment our strikers are keeping us where we are, we need to tighten up at the back.

Did well for us, hope he can do a bit of a 'David Wetherall' at Bradford City. Memories - Valley Parade - first ground I took my first son to.

Great result for us tonight - but we need to do a job tomorrow.

So basically you agree with me, we could occasionally 'knock on the door' ala the two clubs you mention - what chance have either Fulham or Stoke of winning the Premier League Title? No lack of ambition here, as you like to call it - just a realisation of true expectations.

Thanks for that. Very good of you to assume budgetry control of the club based on the owners wealth. Yes it is a factor, but, again, just because our owners have billions does not mean that the budget will run to that. I know it's difficult to understand - but if they were going to give us the same backing as the billionaires at say Chelsea or Man City, then you would probably have seen just a little more activity in the transfer market this season. Hence making us much bolder this season, perhaps. I have not said that the situation will be the same as the last time that we were in the top flight, but neither do I think that (in my lifetime) we will be serious contenders to winning it. All I have pointed out is that many have tried, well about 40 to be honest, but most have failed, many have come nowhere near to winning the league. There is little competitivness to the overall aim of a league system i.e. to finish top. As a result, and largely because of financial gain, most teams that make up the league are there not to challenge for the ultimate prize - but to take the biggest wedge that they can. But then again, what do I know, I don't have the faintest idea.

Errrr hugely...!!! Since it started 19 years ago only 4 different teams have managed to win it - and one of those teams has won it 12 times..! Yes there is the odd giant killing - but at the end of the day, the giants have alway prevailed (ok Blackburn maybe the exception - but even when they won it, much finance was pumped into the club). So if your competitive nature is to win the league then I totally disagree - there is virtually no competition. Man Utd will win the league this year. If on the other hand you want to compete, just to stay in the league, then yes - there is an element of competition about that side of the league. And it probably speaks volumes about the league that this is very often the most 'interesting end' of the league to most fans. I am indifferent to promotion really, as I quite like the idea of being in a real competitive league, with a real chance of achieving as opposed to being an outsider with very little chance of competing. That's not to say that I wouldn't welcome promotion, but unlike some here I think we are some way off the Champions League just yet, and appreciate the different levels of investment needed to make that happen. Premier League - fantastic, yes it is a super level of football, but it has been manufactured at a price that most clubs just cannot afford and are really only ever going to be also rans.

Where is the competition in the Premiership?