Lord Duckhunter

And now the Lords. They think it's all over, it is now ...... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm pretty sure we had 4 in the starting 11 for a friendly in the 80's . Memory a bit hazy, perhaps someone else can remember. Off the top of my head , Shilts, Mark Wright , Stevie Williams and David Armstrong. Maybe wrong and dreamt it . Any other old fossils help? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I bet your defined benefit pension hasn't been ****ed around as much as mine has. I wish mine had been ****ed around with, rather than closed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The simple fact is we are spending more money than we earn. We have not cut enough to pay off the deficit or get our debt down. Stop trying to pretend we have. You may want us to continue to overspend and stop cutting, passing our debts on to our kids & grandkids, that's your opinion. But don't try and claim we've had massive cuts because we haven't. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

But it's our generation that will howl with outrage if we try and address the issue. People like to portray pensioners as little old ladies burning their furniture to heat their homes. Some are poor but a lot are doing ok & better than ok. There was nothing wrong with defined benefit pensions. They were part of a decent companies working conditions. Gordon Brown made them unaffordable and therefore made the next generation of pensioners poorer( unless you're in the public sector ) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If our scouting department can't get some in who is "half as good as him" , then they all need sacking. I reckon VvD in nets would be half as good as him, so it shouldn't be too hard. The hardest thing won't be replacing him, it'll be finding a buyer Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's not a question of seeing it as a mild form of austerity, it's a fact that it is. What would I do? Plenty. Slash foreign aid for one. Welfare is too thinly spread. The triple lock on pensions is unaffordable. Winter fuel allowance & other pensioner perks should go for all but the poorest. Child benefit? What's all that about in the modern world? A family can be on 50k a year and the state pays them money each month for having children, madness. Welfare should stop being seen as something you pay into and therefore are entitled to get something out. It should be an insurance, a safety net. We should judge whether we are a caring society by how many people live without government handouts, not how much we spend on welfare. The majority should get a basic pension (paid for by NIC and based on contribution) access to a decent health service and then that's it, no more state involvement unless you've temporary fallen on hard times or are permanently unable to work. The problem is once people are addicted to hand outs they won't give them up. Look at the fuss made when millionaires child benefit was taken away. My old man was wealthy enough to retire at 55. In 1989 his endowment paid off his mortgage and left him with 18k. He had a final salary pension that nearly 30 years later is paying him over 20k a year, yet he gets winter fuel allowance. He gets a free TV licence, free bus pass . He got child benefit for me and my 2 siblings his whole working life. FFS, my kids and their kids will be paying the bill. Spending more money than you earn today,is stealing money off the next generation. In peacetime it's quite shocking what we're kicking down the road for them to deal with. It's funny how little the caring , sharing, PC generation care about this , they don't give a flying **** about lumbering the next lot with our debts. Pretty selfish behaviour, if you ask me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"Forster's name is being whispered at places like Everton and that is enough for Southampton to become a little edgy." A little edgy, ****ing jumping around trying to contain themselves more like. If we can off load him this summer for any sort of reasonable money , it'll be a master stroke. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The pie eater from Sutton was on a par Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good set of results for us . Everton aren't really catchable,and even if we did an early start to next season beckons 7th place club. West Brom & Ham losing good news for 8th. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If they're going up I'd rather they did it in 3rd than via play offs. Imagine the nauseating coverage of a Wembley win and the Portsmyths that will be born that day Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Don't be a chump where have I said there hasn't been cuts . There hasn't been big enough cuts and we've had the mildest form of austerity imaginable. Pinkos like you fall for all the pony chucked about. We haven't had anything like the austerity the Irish suffered. Debt is going up, we are spending too much money. You maybe happy with that and believe all the pony about austerity, but I'm not and I don't. Deficit deniers like you are quite happy running up bills for future generations to pay off. In peacetime our debt is shocking and needs reducing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"Club for a fiver", brilliant film . Legend that is John Sitton. "Bring your dinner" Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's because we've just got 2 basically social democrat parties. We haven't had a Tory Government since Maggie & a proper labour one since Callaghan. The pinkos have taken over. Osborne's deficit reduction plan was just Darlings, but it suited labour to shout about cuts . This suited the Torys because the great unwashed believed they were cutting, and were fiscally responsible , when the truth is the complete opposite. We've been conned, we've had a tiny mild dose of austerity, certainly nothing anywhere near what was needed. We haven't even got inflation to shrink our debts and our growth is pitiful so we can't grow out way out of it. Our generation is handing a poisoned chalice to our children & their children Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When are we going to get a Tory budget. Lower taxes, smaller state & lowering debt. As for the NI issue. Isn't it time NI & income tax was merged. It's just goes into one big pot. Of course the reason it won't happen is because OAP's vote & OAP's don't pay NI, whereas they pay income tax. Can't have rich pensioners facing a tax hike when they vote in great numbers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have Sky, BT & a ST. I go to about 10 away games a year. I use kodi to watch about half a dozen away games that I don't go to or aren't on sky/bt. If those games were on via legal subscription I'd buy it. The premier league need to move into the 21st century . I very much doubt attendances will be affected by putting every game on live via a subscription . Games on tv are sell outs week in week out & people watch streams and watch sky , why would that change and start affecting live attendances ? Banning streams won't make people go to games , because they'd have gone if they're wanted to or could of anyway rather than watch a stream. I doubt there's one person who'll say " now it's not streamed, I'll go to the game " . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Only Mings knows whether he did it deliberately. In a court of law it would have to be proved beyond reasonable doubt, in an FA hearing it's the balance of probability. If you look across social media , radio & TV most ex pros & ex referees felt it was deliberate. The problem is if you start judging incidents on the pitch with beyond reasonable doubt, lots of serious incidents will go unpunished. There has to be an element of "we think he meant it" Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nobody is writing him off, but we had all this "clearly has talent " pony with Gaston. Talent without application & mental toughness will get you nowhere in the English game. I am not writing him off, but can you honestly say we won't still be discussing him in a similar way in a years time? You never know the Swansea game could become his Villa game. And if you read back through the Redmond threads I was one of those backing him , and took stick for it. Redmond worked hard and was up to it physically, I'm not sure Boufall is Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It was an impact injury, he will recover 100%. Some of you need to stop being such old women. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

**** me its Gaston MK2 He's been really disappointing, no excuses , he needs to toughen up and start producing. He has not looked "class" to me YET. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good job Palace didn't think like you or WGS and went for it against league champions Liverpool in '89. Having got beat 9-0 at Anfield, they took them on and beat them 4-3 in the semi final. Perhaps they should have played for a narrow defeat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

C) he's shiete Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I read an article where Lawrie said it was Peter Osgood, getting him in gave him and the club credibility and led to him signing all those other top top players slightly over the hill. My list would include Shilts, who was world class at the time and our keepers hadn't exactly been that before. Keegan obviously & Bally who had a great impact on the club, particularly with Steve Williams. Jimmy Case had a similar impact with Mattys generation. More up to date I'd say Lambert & Jose. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Isn't "Community club of the year"the equivalent of "Clubman of the season". Awarded to the useless twt who can't win anything meaningful so is condescendingly given a made up award. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk