Lord Duckhunter

I really don't know what's happened to the BBC's political output. Newsnight is a pale shadow of its former self , "This week" is childish in the extreme and QT is pathetic. The Daily Politics is a great show , but even Sunday Politics is slipping downhill. Why they keep having people like Nick Watt and Toynbee giving us their wisdom . Andrew Neil is fighting against the tide on those programmes .

As one of only 3 Mangers to get us promoted to the top flight , he will always be a legend to me. Of course he's not Ted or Lawrie, but the championship season was one of the most enjoyable I can remember in 40 odd years of following the club.

The whole programme is now a ****ing joke. Why on earth are the BBC giving slots on it to people like Brand,Janet Street Porter, Piers Morgan and Joey Barton. Robin Day will be turning in his grave. The audience is full of plants , the old bat with the stupid hair was a political activist and the bloke with the stick who shut Brand up was the brother of a UKIP mep. It used to be a programme with serious politicians and political commentators.Dimble is hopeless, it needs a rebrand . I'd get Andrew Neil to host, get serious guests and get the audience to ask the questions then STFU, I don't want their ****ing opinion. As for the show, it was pretty pathetic. Dimble lost control and Brand was out of his depth. His Wolfie Smith tribute act lost its gloss after a few minutes. The biggest debating point of the week was the torture claims, but it wasn't debated. Obviously they were just looking for conflict between Brand and Nige with the 3 women patsys. The most telling thing was the advert for a Brand BBC3 show aired straight afterwards. He was on the show because the BBC have decided to invest in him. The sooner this corrupt organisation enters the real world the better. Having Brand on does the left no favours. Let's have some serious lefties on, not someone who acts like a 17 year old student.

I was talking to some Swansea fans after the game at their place last season . They said he had got too big for his boots and they were hoping to see the back of him .

What's was Rupes up to?

It was and Carra gave him some clogg after the game

Sterling has missed 2 sitters and Liverpool have defended poorly. Of course they deserve it.

Lallana poor defensively, he used tho do that with us during our first season back up. He got back in to double up on the wide man, but doesn't actually affect the play. Seconds earlier he played a great ball for Sterling to miss a sitter. That's football lol. Tactical genius Brenda's keeper dives out the way. Good call Bren.

I'm looking forward to him playing in a 3 with Glen Johnson. It should be a disaster, but you know what footballs like, it'll probably work and Brenda hailed as tactical genius. Fingers crossed its a screw up.

It's the interchanging and movement that's lacking . The front 3 play in straight lines , which makes it easy to defend against . Pelle and Tadic should watch videos of Adam and Rickie from last season . Pelle got a pretty decent touch , but doesn't seem to move the centre halfs out of their comfort zones , and create space for runners to arrive late . Long has the movement , but not the technique . As we saw with England and when he played down the middle J rod isn't the same player unless he's interchanging and coming off the flank and interchanging with others, so I'm not convinced he'll make that much difference in this set up . I really think we underestimed the way MoPo coached the forwards last season . Going forward I'd suggest if we're going to play Pelle, then the player in the further forward of the midfield 3 needs to be a more attacking player than Steve Davis and one that will get in behind them and move the centre halves a bit. More of a 4-4-1-1 than a 4-3-3 . I know it's getting dangerously close to Dave Merrington 2 up top territory , but we are easy to defend against at the moment

I thought listening to Merrington was bad enough , but reading some of the comments on here are doing my head in. We are amongst the also rans that inhabit the region of 7-15 in the premiership along with your Stokes, Swansea's , West Hams and Newcastle's of the world. Never really in danger of going down , but no chance if top 4/5 . Teams at that level will always lose the occasional game at places like Burnley and will have runs of defeats. Who remembers losing to Cardiff, Norwich last year? Why don't people just calm down and chill out. We have a quarter final at a 3rd division side, we have a home fa cup draw and have enough points in the bag to stay up easily , oh and we're 5th in the league , above spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal. Let's win at Sheff and then we'll have a two legged semi final to look forward to. That'll make a nice Xmas for me, even if we lose to Everton.

Don't be a plum.

Some guitar solos are ott in my opinion. My favourite guitarists are people like Robbie Robertson , JJ Cale , Steve Cropper, willie Nelson and George Harrison . I feel their playing wasn't showy the way some other guitarists are. If I had to choose favourites it would probably be Robbie Robertson in "King Harvest", JJ Cale "They call me the breeze " and I do like any. Number of John Fogerty guitar solos, fortunate son, down on the corner and up around the bend , the stand out ones. Two fantastic guitar players who never get mentioned in these things are Stephen Stills and Glen Campbell. I don't know if it's Stills or Neil Young or even a mixture of both but CSNY' s Woodstock is a great guitar track.

Best by a country mile is Roy Wood & Wizard. Hates are Band Aid, Last ****ing Christmas , and that Greg Lake shiete

The lovely Penny is on question time tonight.

Graham Poll wrote that it was a red all day long and the ref had a good game. He said amount of contact or even no contact is irrelevant. Swing an arm like that and its red. End of.

I'm sure everybody who leaves early will be able to justify it, but I don't buy it. Maybe the odd one or two need to get the last train, but most routes will have trains running late enough to stay till the end and still stroll to the station to catch one home. Avoiding the traffic, WTF is that about? Is getting home half an hour early more important than watching the last few minutes of your team trying to equalise against the biggest club in the country. Why not just stay in and watch it on TV and avoid all the traffic? Although I don't do it, I maybe understand if we're winning easily or losing by a few. But anybody who walks out with the game still in the balance, can't be that passionate about the club or football in general.

Shame that the sending off is going to give them an excuse, when they've simply been outplayed even when 11v11

Lol at Townsend and that other plum. " Sort of thing you see 30 times in a game" . Bollards you don't see guys swinging arm like that 30 times a game .

Lol

I guess the problem is toe rags who don't want to work and shysters working in the black economy and then claiming. They must make people jump through hoops to deter wasters. Problem is the genuine needy can fall through the cracks, although I'd be amazed if this women with the hospital appointment didn't have previous. I just can't believe someone was so insensitive as to dock her just for that. I find at work that my staff who take the most time off for kids illness or taking kid to A&E tend to be the ones who are off sick most, cars breakdown more and tend to be the first to clock out. My gut feeling is that even if we gave everybody on welfare an extra £100 per week, within a year we'd still have as many food banks and still have similar numbers using them. Throwing more money at welfare can not be the answer.

Thanks for that. The answer is clearly to pay welfare from day one ,rather than food banks. Is it inefficiency or government policy that delays payment for so long?

Exactly. 6 points from the next 2 , and the whole thing changes again. Realistically, we haven't got the squad for top 4, but we can match last years finish, even if we lose to all the top sides.

Tax credits and the minimum wage trap people in poverty. Of course they were designed to help the poorest , but as per usual once politicians try and rig the market the unintended consequences are worse than the problem they're trying to cure. We've ended up with a situation where large multi national profitable companies have their pay roll subsidised by the tax payer. I have minimum wage guys working for me who have turned down promotions and O/T because they'll be no better off as any extra money comes off their tax credits. We have no incentive to put our wages up because tax credits and unskilled EU migrants ensure our vacancies are always filled. As for food banks , if people want to run them or donate to them, that's up to them. However I won't be doing either. We have a welfare state that pays people enough to eat whilst they're looking for work and tax credits, family benefit ect means people in work get enough to feed themselves. There are obviously people who fall through the cracks of society or who are ill, mentally or addicts , but generally I don't accept that people have no other option than food banks if they're claiming the correct amount they're entitled to. I realise that view won't be popular, but surely the debate should be around what people consider to be a minimum standard of living . Is owning a mobile, a TV, or even a car a right that people have or are they luxeries that should go to leave more money for food. What about fags and booze, should people be expected to stop smoking before using charity to feed themselves? I'm interested in what people think are basic requirements and what people feel are luxury items they should only have once they've been fed , and housed.

You wonder why political parties use spin, its because mugs like you fall for it.They take a semblance of truth and twist it favourable. She was not bought up in a council " flat" . Maybe social housing, but her dad was assistant secretary general of the united nations, it was hardly a working class battle out of poverty. Her brother is a free lance photographer who did some work for a charity that got poor people into construction. Hardly the jobbing builder she tried to spin to the press. Guido Fawkes had her number good and proper over that bit of spin. She also sent her kid to a selective school out of her constituency, despite opposition to selective education. What a surprise.