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And you are a part-time underpaid teacher? Did you neglect to say "and the daughter (son if you are a boy named Sue) of the chairman of the Bank to the Court of King Caractacus"?

Yep, he deserves a medal for putting up with that standard lamp.

He clearly has so much more vision that the rest of us. So why doesn't he show us just how visionary he is and not post them in the first place?

If only you'd shed that ray of light earlier...........

Teams looking relegation in the face in Jan may well pay over the odds for a proven goal scorer, and many clubs over the years have bought out of sorts (or fading) goalscorers based on their previous record hoping they will return to form. Jan can be a good time to get a good price.

Even if you are right, how long do we wait until he becomes really effective? And more to the point, if we put him on the back-burner, will he wait? Horses for courses - he's not what we need right now, and NC will be mightily unhappy if we fail again this season. Also I don't accept your point that CM somehow needs to be physically more developed - I remember young forwards who had to compete physically agains Norman Hunter and his ilk, and young defenders who had to do the same against battering ram centre-forwards. If they are good enough they are old enough. He doesn't do what's required in this division, so he's a luxury we can't afford.

The bold bit is exactly the point - and I'd agree with you if only he could add the creative part.

He might be just 21, but the really good players do the business at that age. As people have said he's not a great defensive midfielder nor is he effective in supporting the front man/men or getting beyond them, can't shoot, his heading is poor, and his tackling erratic. In some teams, especially in leagues that allow players lots of time on the ball, he might look good, but if it isn't what we need to get out of L1, he ain't gonna hang around waiting for our team to be shaped to suit him in higher divisions. It would be better both for us and for him to go - somewhere where the pace of the game suits him more.

And if the banks owe £500 billion, WE have to keep THEM going.......... Dead right, the more you owe the more you get away with.

I suppose a wee bid for a magazine that took the p*ss is appropriate.

Good man, Ron. I'm amazed you still have any copies. And only 12p. A bargain! And the great Bill Tidy used to do some of the cartoons.

Yeah, I thought you might react to that bit!

Is this some kind of school excercise in modern poetry?

I don't agree at all. The side failed at critical times last year. We were poor at the start of the season under Pardew, we were dreadful under Wilkins, we've been nursing injuries all season. The style of play prior to Adkins this season was often lump it foward and hope. Thinks had to change and Adkins has been trying to find the missing keys to a somewhat fragile temprament in the side and under-performance. To do that you have to change things around and if players don't deliver what is asked for, change again. That isn't unnecessary tinkering, its just what a new manager in this situation HAD to do. If players don't like it, tough. If players always win the day that's a recipe for complacency and worse. Most people on here want to see some transfer activity in January, but will you see that as more unnecesary tinkering of an already perfect side?

Anyone remember the alternative football magazine FOUL in the mid 70's, a kind of football Private Eye? The editor (Alan Stewart) was a war zone journalist who sadly got himself killed by a land mine in Eithiopia or somewhere like that. A few other regular writers (e.g. Chris Lightbrown) went on to write for The Times and similar papers when FOUL went out of production. Now that did have stuff worth reading. It did feature some full page local stuff on Saints, Poopey and Bournemouth.

That's what I call great value, 4 different games for just £25.

He has a problem in the pelvic area (Barnard not finbarr), which to me says hernia.

One watched Saints, the other watched the match.

Oh noooooooooo. We need an unproductive, non-header, poor tackler just in front of the back four to play a holding role.

It's too late I know, but........ Wotton losing his teeth on the pitch... and finding Viafara's.

probably something to do with the city having the worst statistics for hospital admissions for being pi**ed at the age of 10. We start destroying brain cells early, we do, we're tough.

Yes, and then he becomes a cymbal for the rest.

You can't come on here and talk sense, it's just not what one does.

He's at the back of the best treatment room probably, the club striker no doubt.