Thorpe-le-Saint

I know you can't get to these games but you really are wide of mark here. Granted the first half was ****, but we dominated the game for the second half

Deserved the point, could have got all three really but we paid the price for a **** poor first half. I hope the ref sees that third goal and is ashamed. Everyone but him and the lino saw the foul!

Don't confuse patriotism with nationalism. There is a difference between wearing an England shirt and flying a flag during the World Cup for example, and marching through the streets chanting "Muslim scum" or whatever

Until you see it for yourself I can only give you my word. Marking is more scrutinised now than ever so that needs to be dismissed. Plus, I would be happy to send you my findings for the O-Level papers I studied for my MA. However until someone categorically proves it either way, I guess were stuck in a cycle of purists and optimists.

Anything below a C is considered a 'fail' really - D,E are I suppose "low passes". F, G, U are categorical fails.

I see the exam papers ever year. I've seen every GCSE paper from our exam board since 1998 and the questions are not getting easier, it's as simple as that. That is not to say they're becoming more difficult, but they are certainly not getting easier. Furthermore, when I was doing research from my MA thesis on representations of WW1 in the 1960s I went to the AQA archive to study how the war was represented in the JMB exam papers. IMO, only the 'special papers' that potential Oxbridge candidates might sit were any more difficult, the regular GCE questions I would expect my top set year 9s to have a really good go at.

Hold on, your beloved Conservative party want pupils to study more history and georgraphy alongside English, maths and science due to their IB scheme - now get out of that one Perry! Furthermore, you know as well as everyone else that history is not an easy subject which is why record low numbers of students are taking it year on year. Stop trying to get a rise out

9th 'paragraph'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14661746

The BBC have reported today that pass rates for GCSE dropped for the first time in years. Now while this is good news for the "Exams are getting easier" delusional brigade on here, what is even more concerning is the increasing gap between the performance of boys and girls. For example, with regards to passes at A* or A, 26.5% were girls while only 19.6% were boys. What is interesting is that the gap at A-Level narrows between the two. No doubt the media will whip out the old "maturity" cliche, but surely it comes down to the teaching of boys, the attitudes of the child/parents and society itself. What is causing this seemingly ever growing laissez-faire approach from young men towards education? While we're at it, well done to anyone who got what they needed to get into Sixth Form, there were some very happy students at my school this morning. The department I worked in last year (English) achieved 85% pass rate while the school itself achieved 64% 5+ A*-C grades including C or higher in Maths and English - which anyone who knows anything about it will agree, is bloody good for a state school. A lot of self-congratulation this morning amongst the staff: normally I'm wary of such things, but this year, with the education cuts, we deserve to pat ourselves on the backs.

"Saints fans: We've always got SOMETHING to moan about!"

No, get rid at the earliest opportunity.

I hope the defence cuts don't see you out of a job because you'd be ****e at stand-up

Using oil is a necessity of modern living as you well know. I'm not happy about using it, give it another 5-6 years when my salary finally reaches £30k plus and I'll be buying myself some hybrid motor.

"Move on and hope for the best?!?" Have a day off will you please? It is a shame the first half of your post is quite staggering because I agree that we could do with signing a striker, but I don't see why we need to go breaking the bank for one.

So what if they do? The price of oil keeps reaching record highs they'll be fine if for once the West didn't cast it's all-knowing shadow over the Middle East. This is the 'naivity' you mention: my constant hope that for just once, the West would stop being a right bunch of ****s. By Christmas I imagine that Libya would have held elections, the West won't accept them and we'll fund another bloody civil war to get the 'oil-friendly' guy into power - probably someone in the mould of Batista I reckon.

I don't think many people will give a **** about your investments to be honest. Hopefully Libya becomes a fully democratic state with free and fair elections and if the will of the people elects a party that doesn't have the West's greed as it's primary concern then none of us should lose any sleep because after all, this is what we all wanted wasn't it? A Libya free from Gadaffi? Or, much like Iraq, were our true motives hidden from us all along?

While you were away, were you able to work out those easy peasy A-Level maths questions?

Have people's tickets arrived yet?

Jesus Christ! What lunacy.

Meh, a has-been. I for one am glad the club has moved on from this gut-churning past we had.

My low/mid twenty grand wage is (judging by the cars my mates drive, the watches they wear etc) one of the lowest in my peer group I would imagine. In fact only now is the Masters degree actually having any tangible benefit at work. This isn't a moan by any stretch, but it goes to show that for graduates who can't abide the thought of teaching or other public sector jobs there are high twenties/low thirties jobs out there if you go looking for it and like to work hard when you get there.

He was no Deppo

Already this feels like a 'massive game' and it's only the fifth game in. If someone offered me a point up there on Saturday I would bite their hand off, but what I don't want to see is people on here Sunday morning if we lose is the same old pessimistic nonsense. Plenty of teams who will finish in and around the play-offs will lose at Leicester.

But I thought A-Levels and degrees were worthless?! Now you're confusing me. (Just so you know, the current year nine pupils - thirteen to fourteen year olds - and all subsequent years will have to stay in education until they are eighteen.)