Thorpe-le-Saint

My enthusiasm for the national side is poor at best these days - it would be the final nail in the coffin for me.

Are referendums ever truly representative? Of course not.

I'm gald you're finding it interesting dune; you'll be advocating a pay rise and protecting our pensions next.

Hmmmm arn't the armed forces a public sector outfit too?

We should easily smash this relegation outfit. 3-1/4-1 Saints

Hear no evil, see no evil etc etc

Onwards and upwards, but I feel sorry for the 2,000 who went up there and have to endure a day at work tomorrow knackered.

balls.

If we can keep it at 0-0 I would take that for the first half. After an Adkins team talk we'll win 2-0...

FFS, that is not what I said. I merely said that when it comes to fannying about at the back, we should just be getting ****ing rid of the ball if the risk outweighs the benefits. Anyway, lets bloody move on.

It's 0-0 to the sir throwing a paddy.

This is what I said, but we're wrong.

I think it shows how relativly sedate the game is if my comment on Kelvin's passing is the main talking point!

This may be the case, but as a professional he should have the awareness as to when the situation warrants a 'clearance' and when it warrants a short pass to midfield.

I'm struggling to remember when that last happened. What I do know is that it is the fourth game on the bounce that he has played that type of ball out of the box that has led to the opposition placing unecessary pressure on us. Don't get me wrong, he is a great keeper, just sometimes there is nothing wrong with a good old fashioned hoof towards Lambert.

ONCE AGAIN, Davis plays a stupid short ball out of the box. ****ing hoof it Kelv!

Nervous tonight, come on saints!

He has a hamstring injury according to BBC

TECHNICALLY they are meant to be only four year terms, but our 'constitution' allows it to be extended to five years. Not that anyone cares really.

YAWN!! Please go away and support Bournemouth because their chairman is lovely.

Calculators in exams? Dune is going to lose it in a second, he keeps telling me that exams are getting easier as it is!

I would certainly agree that in some cases you would have to teach individuals. There is one pupil who I teach for example, avid West Ham fan, thinks he is a bit of a Danny Dyer, so it is much easier for me to treat him and talk to him like 'a geezer' than to have constant battles with him. However, you do need to tread a fine line between teaching the individual and letting them take the ****. Unfortuantly I think we're going to disagree over uniform/dress; from my point of view their uniform should be immaculate: they need to learn that they need to do what their 'betters' (bosses etc in later life) tell them too. Funnily enough, we have had many whole staff meetings regarding the use of phones and there is a clear divide. Those teachers who are 23-35 realise the potential that smart phones etc have in the classroom yet it is the old guard that are refusing to move on the school's phone policy.

Where there any specifics in the show you took a particular dislike too?

As promised, here is my two-pennys worth: For me it was quite obvious early on that it wasn't a mockumentary, but for me this wasn't the big issue. The Head Teacher (was it a Mr. Goddard?) couldn't be faulted in my opinion, especially when that pupil made an accusation against this Mr. Drew and followed all procedures to the letter - as you would expect. Mr. Drew, while I can empathise with his enthusiasm etc, brought on the numerous conflicts he had by being far too sarcastic in his tone of voice. If he had let the students who were ranting 'run out of steam' or hadn't patronised those with sloppy uniform they may well have been more receptive to his requests. What did strike me though was the inconsistency amongst other members of staff that were not part of SLT. A case in point would be the snow ball scene where one member of staff is lobbing snowballs only to get one smack in the chops. The pupil promptly gets told off: hypocracy. If the member of staff didn't want to get hit, don't go throwing bloody snowballs. Also, the three members of staff who had the audacity to come in mid-lesson and wish Mr. Drew a happy birthday, I would have been livid. You're educating children for Christ's sake, cake can come earlier. What it felt it did do well in this episode, and hopefully there is more of it in the coming weeks, was show the potential barrage of abuse teachers are given by parents who cannot possibly conceive that their child has done something wrong. This is the main issue IMO, if parents don't respect the opinion of staff then pupils never will. Finally, I hope the rest of the public don't think teachers are looking for sympathy from this documentary; we all know what we are letting ourselves in for. What I hope is developed is this sense of empathy with the profession: we work hard in a difficult run-down environment and at that ultimately at the end of the day, regardless of pensions strikes/low pay disputes etc, our main aim is to ensure that your children leave school as respectable members of British society.