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Very rarely go out to drink now as it's far too expensive, except at the CC on a Friday evening when my son his netting, when I may have a couple of pints. I'll buy beer / pear cider / decent white wine when I see it on offer but don't drink on school nights & never drink to get drunk. Can't believe how much my wife & I used to drink before we had the kids.

Yes, for real.

Scraping the SSPs stop sport dead in it's tracks. Participation is down 75% in some areas, mainly rural/semi rural apparently. My nippers school, typical primary, has only one male teacher & he's gay & non sporting. The boys wanted to play cricket, football, rugby etc so using SSP bought in that coaching. That money was stopped & so has the coaching. You want success then it has to be paid for. If you expect teachers to do it then pay for their coaching badges & give them the time to do those badges. Where they don't want to give them the funds to bring in coaches. Gove doesn't rate sport as a virtue & by effectively scrapping the 2hrs participation he's allowing schools to do as they wish. He thinks it the place of clubs to do sport. I've met him twice & both times come away wondering what the hell he's doing running the Dept of Ed'. He's living in a total LaLa land of some utopian 1950s.

That's not his transfer budget, it's his total budget.

It depends on whether any of the teachers are interested in sports. In my experience city based schools are far more sporty than rural schools & schools with a younger faculty more sporty than those with an older demographic. My kids do loads but that's solely down to the sporty staff. My wife's academy have scrapped the lot as they believe it distracts from the academic & thanks to Gove are free to do just that.

I live in mid-Staffordshire & there is an established club in Cannock, which is only a 20min drive from me.

It would appear that this time every thing they say falls upon deaf ears.

Your ticket should be on your doormat today or tomorrow.

They cannot play any trialists. They cannot now make any permanent signings & the loan window for tomorrow shuts in a few hours & again they cannot sign anyone.

Yep.

The offer's were made on a kitty of £4m. That kitty is now £1.5m.

They even sent them to the wrong address.

It also means clubs opening their doors to kids & keeping the costs as low as possible.

It's a massive commitment by parents. My nipper already has football training on Thursday evening & Saturday morning, with matches Sunday PM & cricket on Friday evening & Sunday AM. Added to that is swimming on a Friday teatime. Daughters have gym on Thursday at different times, eldest goes cheerleading on Monday at 6pm & youngest has dance on a Saturday. My wife & I don't mind doing the running around as it means our kids are fit & healthy, are making new friends & growing in confidence which translates into success in the classroom. Added onto that is 3-5 hours a week where we are over the nets or playing football so he can improve. Certainly helping me keep fit!

Due to a TO glitch in the matrix they sent me an extra adult ticket. That was nice of them.

I'll do City by 3 clear goals I reckon.

Now it's all done and dusted how inspired are your kids to try a new sport or just to take part in any sport? My nipper has declared his attention to not only bat at number 3 or 4 for England but also to be an Olympian at Handball! He's watched it mesmerised & he starts training with a local handball club in September. Daughters have been less inspired but they do gymnastics, dance etc anyway & are that much younger.

Where did you read that?? *nevermind, just seen it on twitter.

Personally I think the FL will be all over them like a rash for quite a while & BC will simply run them on a shoestring until he's got his ££ back.

He's just a pr.ick. Always has been always will be. I feel sorry for his kids. God forbid they ever do anything less than perfect. One day, when some confused kid in Austria goes on a killing spree we will all know why.

Said to one of my Wolves mates on Friday that I expected AL to be at a top 6 club by the start of next season.

Tomorrow. The cannot sign anyone until they are out of admin & once the FL give them permission to. Forget all the lather from Appleton regarding building a squad, they are totally & utterly fu.cked.

Unless pompey come out of admin by 12.30 tomorrow lunchtime they can't be signed anyway.

BC will takeover next week IMHO. If he doesn't will the PST offer have to go to a creditors meeting & then the subsequent 28day cooling off period thus meaning that the transfer embargo remains in place until admin is exited??

I find myself currently indifferent. As long as my nipper enjoys himself then I've had a good season. Either way, other sports + cost means that this will be our last season as season ticket holders.