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Impossible to say. I think he would have got us out of league 1 and on current showing would have done OK in the PL would he have got back to back promotions who knows? All a bit irrelevant really.

Detective trousers:suspicious:

I have no idea what Nigel is thinking....but I'm guessing it will involve a bus

What do we aim for now...the whole thing about the lower leagues is there something to aim for. In the football league I felt we had a chance of winning a league or getting to the playoffs, even if we had a **** season, it always felt like we'd have another shot next season. Realisticaly in the PL we're just trying to avoid relegation or hoping for a really good season to finish mid table we will never win this league or even get close to the CL places and every season will be the same.......and to top it all off I'm expected to fork out premium prices to watch us not be very good.

Why do people think they'll stay even if we stay in the PL? Apart from MLT how many really good players stayed with us during our last stint in the PL anyway...

from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20066101 Describing feminism as an "unfinished revolution", UK Feminista says urgent action is also needed on improving the representation of women across public life and pressing for full equality in the workplace and tackling violence against women. Do women have it that bad in todays society? Looking around my work place there are lots of women work colleges both higher up the management chain and earning far more than me today. Certainaly in the past woman didn't get the best of deals but in todays society are things still so unequal between men and woman? I'm totally surportive of tackling violence against woman (and children and men to be honest) but honestly I don't feel like I in someway have it better than most women I know.

Depends what you want from supporting saints I can turn on the tv most days in the week and see top players playing if that's what I wanted........ I don't. I want to go and watch saints play a good competitive game of football, ideally winning more than losing, with my kids, on a saturday afternoon (or the odd tuesday night), as cheaply as possible. The PL really doesn't cater for someone like me.

This to^^^ Gave up my ST this season...find myself less bothered as a result...

This ^^ I think the championship is better for fans.....I think the PL is better for players and chairmen

For what it's worth I'm half way between young and retired - I've got no idea what retirment will actually mean when I get there in 25-30 years but generally I'm in agreement with the rest of you I'll have worked hard to earn my retirement. I did find this bit taken from the article interesting though Prof James Sefton, of Imperial College, London, a former adviser to the Treasury, told the committee young people were effectively subsidising the older generation - and he could not understand why they were not protesting about it. "I think they should be angry. I think the deal they are getting is poor," he told the peers. "There are a lot of transfers going on within the system, from the young towards the old and I think awareness of it is very poor and I think eventually it will come out." He said research he was carrying out at Imperial College, with Dr David McCarthy, suggested "the current generation are very heavy contributors to the public purse, whereas previous generations have benefited from the public purse". This was mostly down to high house prices, high youth unemployment, rising public debt and the cost of education, added Prof Sefton, who is also a quantitative analyst at UBS bank. The older generation benefits from public funds, in the form of healthcare and pensions, but younger people have to rely more on "private transfers" of wealth, such as family money, to a far greater extent than in other European countries, he added. I wonder how those just starting out on adult life view the whole situation?

Yes but back in those days relegation didn't lose you 60-80 million and players earned something akin to a normal working wage...once football clubs make it to the PL feeding trough their chairmen will do anything not to lose their money.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20044862 Article from the bbc Retired people should be encouraged to do community work such as caring for the "very old" or face losing some of their pension, a peer has suggested. Lord Bichard, a former benefits chief, said "imaginative" ideas were needed to meet the cost of an ageing society. And although such a move might be controversial, it would stop older people being a "burden on the state". Thoughts? (I'm guessing peoples age will probably have something to do with their stand on this issue)

Putting aside the fact I can't stand the c unt I just don't see how Harry "the cheque book" Redknapp fits into the clubs suppossed aims (of bringing on youth, living within our means, etc). I suppose as a short tem fix to keep us in the PL he might work......but this would be his last job in football and I doubt he wants to risk relegation (and lets face battling relegation is what we will be about this season) as his final act as a football manager.

That's what I have the feeling will happen...if Nigel goes

yes I did

err no that's what I was getting at ............

It's amazing how few people seem to understand that..................Probably 99% of saints fan think Nigel has done a great job so far and is a nice guy. None of that is going to bother NC if he thinks we will get relegated.

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Just saw this article on the beeb http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19985608 "Our philosophy is that we want about 70% of our first team to have come from our own youth academy. It is our lifeline to survive against bigger clubs, and if we hit that 70% mark then it shows that doing it our way is working. Sounds like we need to tempt Mr de Boer from Ajax;)............... if Nigel gets the bullet from our own little wise guy. Honestly if Nigel goes I'm really expecting a foreign coach as a replacement.

Think you need to give these two a call................

Although drones lack some of the admiration guys like this get...Imagine how boring war films will be in the future:(

Drones are unfair compared to what? IEDs, suicide bombers, flying planes in to buildings, ethnic cleansing or conscripting child soldiers...............the idea that war in someway has to be "fair" is perverse. The whole idea of a war is to win it for some sort of gain and if you get into a war you win it anyway you can get away with. If we go to war with a country that has no tanks are we supposed to leave ours at home to make it more "fair"?

So next time they want some advancing warning of a quake and no scientist will give them one.......................will they wonder why? Will they get upset if the experts demand a full evacuation every time there is even a hint of a tremor just so the experts don't get jailed?

Yet another (ex)footballer who reckons there is still racism in football....it seems David James has been very lucky with regards to racism issues in his career Here, Richard Langley, an English-born Jamaican international who played for QPR, Cardiff City and Luton Town during a 12-year career in the Football League, writes about his experiences of racism in the game and discusses what should be done to stamp it out. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20028336

Not as good as Lallana..............need to sign better than we've got:)