St_Tel49

Yes - but the fact that they both got out (remember the surprise that Mandaric left!) suggests that they were well aware that things were about to go t1ts up.

O'Neil won't take it.They had their chance with him but appointed Capello. I don't think that he will make himself available again - especially after the start he has made with Sunderland.

Well - they say that people look like their pets

I can only spot one attention seeker on this thread and it sure as hell isn't Dr Who

Ah - the old "remember that there are children in Africa who would be glad to have that" argument that parents use to persuade a child to eat what's on their plate. It is a fatuous statement for a parent to make to a child and just as fatuous for an adult to say it to another adult. You can't base your decisions on life on how things are for other people. As you so aptly showed yourself sometimes you have to make a change even if it is only to discover that what you had before wasn't so bad. As it happens, had I stayed doing what I was doing I would probably be better paid than I am now and could certainly look forward to a better pension but I have enjoyed what I do now far more and still have an adequate standard of living. The X factor allusion of only of relevance to people who spend their life wanting to be famous and not wanting to do a lot for it which is hardly what the OP was implying.

I sympathise hugely on this. I had the same crisis in my late thirties. In fact, I did make the change. My wife found it very scarey and we spent an academic year living on my wife's part time earnings and £40 a week + expenses while I took an Advanced Diploma to allow my career change. Fortunately for me, at that time inflation had severely reduced the mortgage as proportion of our outgoings and, through major economising, we ended the year with our financial reserves in better shape than they had been before or have been since. Whether I would take the risk now is questionable but on the other hand I remember even now the feeling of getting up to go to a job that I really no longer wanted to do. Life is too short to be miserable. All I can say is that if you were to do it you will need a deep belief that you will succeed. You will also have to target an area where there is a demand for the skill that you are learning - the only defence any of us have against redundancy is to have a skill that someone wants to buy. Your safest line is to retrain using evening classes. That way you can develop your skills and still be earning money. It probably also a good idea to develop a thick skin against barbs from bosses until such time as you can tell him/ her to stuff it. PS Adrian is quite right - you would have to expect some decline in pay in the early stages but it is worth it if the long term prospects are good.

I am very much a glass half full kind of poster but even I am starting to get concerned by our continuing inability to see out games. When we went 2-1 up last night there is no way that Millwall should have been allowed back into the game again - whoever we had on the pitch. There's not much point in saying that we did not have our best 11 out - if we are going to get automatic promotion we should be getting results from whatever team goes on the park. When we lost Lambert against Brighton - they did not have their best players out - and we should still have been able to see the game out to at least a 0-0. Plenty of other 10 man teams have done it and a team aspiring to promotion should be perfectly capable of doing it. Enough of the gloom - what's to be done about it. One thing is for sure is that turning on the manager and players will not help in the slightest. The best that we can do as fans is to get right being the team 100% (as we have done all season) and the least we can expect of the team is that they give us the same.

Answer his question -oh, I forgot - you never do!

I can believe that!

I suggest that you take your specs to the next game.

Beggars belief - doesn't it?

There are some people you CAN make snap judgements about

It was mehball who posted it so I assume that this is a rhetorical question.

This

The messenger should consider himself shot!

But always bear in mind that there is a fine line between open mindedness and vacant mindedness.

DO you know a lot of women called Colin?

Awwwh - Go on - its near enough

Voices in your head are a bad sign Alps!

Lambert's going nowhere and certainly not to Everton - they haven't the money to pay what we would want.

Only if you are Hypo

I am not convinced that this is actually a conspiracy theory - too much chance that it is correct - see definition according to St_Tel above

To me, the essence of a good conspiracy theory is that it is obviously fairly wild and off the wall - except to its adherents, but there is no way to actually prove it is wrong.

So just because I choose not to go along with your random postulations (any evidence for any of them btw) that means that I am easily pacified and not a critical thinker? H'mmm - note to self - you really must go along with all theories put up on this board and completely disregard the minor detail of actual evidence. Must do better.

I think that Woody Allen was more succinct - "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get you!"