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You need to ask somebody who has been placed on competency measures - many retire or leave because of it, others are shaken up and improve, a few go into denial and either get sacked or scrape by. I taught for 35 years and, although most of my lessons were fine (according to OFSTED 'Excellent' in some cases), I know that there were some sub-standard ones in there too. Likewise a weak teacher can produce the goods sometimes...

If that were the case then they wouldn't have Competency Measures in place.

An OFSTED inspector explained it to me by likening it to food. A satisfactory lesson is meat and two veg - a good lesson is the meat and veg with a pudding - very good has a glass of wine with it - excellent would be Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. An unsatisfactory lesson would be beans on toast - no harm in that every now and again but if you have it all of the time then it will not do you much good. A poor lesson - the toast is burnt and the beans are inedible.

You don't remember rightly so you can now calm down. Some of us were refusing to put him in the B Team as a striker because he had to be in the A Team as a midfield player - by the system that StL used if he had been put in the B Team in one position then he couldn't be considered for the A team in another.

Without Paine, Davies would not have been the force that he was.

Possibly - I have been involved in taking two teachers through competency procedures. For one the shock was beneficial and she sorted herself out so the children (not kids - they are young goats) had most of the year salvaged. The other one did improve marginally but Ofsted inspectors seemed to find him 'satisfactory' and he carried on - I suspect to do more damage...

The teacher is taken through 'Competency Procedures' - he/she is informed of the problem officially, given help/training as necessary, set clear deadlines to improve, monitored and, if the problem is not resolved by then, he/she is sacked. It can take up to a year though and involves unions reps, county council advisers, etc..

Well this was on Fratton Faithful... Apparently a millionaire with connections to a business in Portsmouth is interested in taking the club over if the CVA goes through (meaning that any appeal goes our way). Mike oxbig said 'we will see what happens in my talks with Andrew in the next 48 hours, hopefully there can be a positive outcome for both sides' after he flew to London to meet the Portsmouth administrator. his business partner, hugh jass, went on to say 'the club has massive potential and is confident a deal could be sealed' as well as 'the club must be stabilized for 1 or 2 seasons and then we can progress with the fans from there' Interesting names...

Indeed it was. Kanu had just given them their greatest moment in over 60 years and the ground wasn't even half full!

That's true. In which case, how about the 30 000+ crowd that went to the Dell the Monday after we won the cup compared to the 7 000 which 'filled' Fratton the Monday after they did?

Oi! Some of us go back much longer than that!

A video of their glory days - rather surprised to hear the commentator continuously refer to them as 'the Navy' and 'Pompay'. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2010/may/13/british-pathe-archive-portsmouth-1939-fa-cup

Didn't HMRC at one time say that they would agree to the CVC on the proviso that Pompey was wound up and reformed as a new business within nine months? Is the latter still happening considering HMRC didn't support the CVC? If Pompey do 'start again' as a new company, does that mean they will escape any possible penalties? Am I turning into nickh?

I can't remember seeing this posted... http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2010/06/15/portsmouth-why-thursdays-creditors-meeting-means-so-much-to-so-many-not-least-the-helpless-fans-150602/ I understood most of it!

How do you work that out?

I may be wrong but, as an administrator, isn't his job to get the club into a viable position? If he were the liquidator then he would be working for the creditors...

Goal keepers not wearing gloves.

Just carry a Lilo and tell everyone you are Sampson and de Lilo.

I'm confused - it says that if the CVA is accepted then they exit administration. Don't they have to find someone to buy them first?

Fitzhugh Fella, who started this monster, has only posted 128 times!

Copied from Wikipedia... On 27 March 2010, it was confirmed that Blissett had signed to Hemel Hempstead Town as a coach.[7] I don't know what he got up to in May though...

Could be - I know that to put up a banner across the road in Southampton requires you to have £6m worth of insurance (at least it did ten years ago)

Quite a few ex-Saints seem to be in the running. The blue few will be so happy!

John Metgod's freekick was pretty good too...

Perhaps they won't pay the taxes...