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Bit of a difference between driving down for match and having to drive down to get a ticket for a game that you then have to drive back down for!

The lass I spoke to said they couldn't be posted because we might not get them! Strange then that's how they send out my season ticket and away game tickets.

If you want to take advantage of the ST payment an you have to go to the TO in person as you have to sign the DD forms. So, season ticket holders, like me, who live 160miles away can't take advantage of it unless we drive down and pay £40 in petrol to do so. Sometimes I wonder about the thinking process at Saints.

Sounds like my 9yo when he realises he's wrong.

Still, we'll still be alive after your private sector schmucks have worked yourselves into an early grave or frozen to death in old age due to not having a decent pension so it's not all bad.

A very valid point. Long by himself illustrates what is available in you look hard enough.

He's not worth £3mill. Not yesterday, not today and not tomorrow.

Got to be a better than option than being slumped in your pi ss soaked cacks waiting for death.

Care to show me where a NPC club has paid £3mill so far for a striker? No, thought you couldn't.

As no one is paying £3mill it's clearly is overpriced. Crazy money and no way should we be paying it.

Totally.

Since you're clearly hard of thinking I'll point out a £3.25m bid for Billy Sharpe. Idiot.

They'll be an increase this year as the rush to beat the tuition fee rises kicks in but the trend in maths and sciences is down, down, down. That's why they are introducing a £20K golden hello for maths and science grads with a 1st. Massive shortage of MFL as well but as with all things some areas are more impacted than others and if you're a tough secondary up here then you are seriously struggling.

My wife worked out that, with the proposals as they stand, she will work 6 years longer, pay an extra £21,000 into the pension fund and receive £110,000 less over the course of her retirement based on her living until she's 85. Fair to say she's not 'kin happy.

Which is why we are fast running out of maths and science teachers and struggling to attract decent ones.

I understand that some extra green hat wearers are heading down for "training". I'll assume some of you chaps are doing the same?

Anything that helps reduce our reliance on imported gas and oil should be welcomed, be it green or not. Energy security is right up there with terrorism as a danger to the UK.

Agree 100%.

Amazed to see all the local grammar schools on strike. Their staff are about as removed from the militant types as you can get!

I'm left wing but their dispute was insane considering their colleagues at Gatwick were still working despite being on lesser deals.

No, your previous owner still has a charge against it until he's paid.

I understand what you are saying but people, for years, were saying it was unsustainable. A very wealthy banker type who posts on here was saying it from at least 2005 onwards. That's why Osborne's call to follow the Irish model was so insane and I can be smug enough to say that I said that on here at the time. The problem was that people didn't want to hear because so much money was being made. History is littered with bubbles, from Tulips to the South Seas.

Trust me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have something already behind me and the wife's pension as well but I if they're going to f**k with my T&Cs then I'll bail. Irony is that my plan is one running a very hefty surplus and is projected to do so for a very long time! It won't if we all bail out and the tax payer has to whack more in!

No, but it's because of those that the High St banks are being forced into building up their cash reserves to ensure that their casino operations can operate under the new reg's. They are paranoid about bad debt. Why? Because some clever sod discovered bundling up sub-prime mortgages and selling them on made money and BOOM, sub-prime lending frenzy followed by huge, massive crash. Caused by the banks and their greed.

I agree totally with your later point but disagree totally with the former. The banks won't go anywhere because the bankers don't want to. The want a world city and London, like NY, gives them that. Even the tories accept it that's why the banks no longer use that threat. Even Boris scoffed at the idea! In addition, I would suggest that the banks are actively damaging enterprise.