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Since The Office Gervais is totally unfunny. Jo Brand is about as funny as Ebola and Lenny Henry is just pathetic . There is not one decent UK sit com , phoenix nights was brilliant and Peter Kay great, but nothing compares to curb your enthusiasm. Larry David is a genius.
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http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=60 These people helped me get off a speeding ticket . Just join the forum and they're very helpful .
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Rickie Lambert is a Southampton legend, one of the best signings in my lifetime ( I'm in my 50's). He was the best striker in league one and was always going to score a shed load down there. However, the goals he scored in the championship were priceless, to go through that league in one go is what launched this club back to the big time. The way be played in the premiership and the goals he scored were a bonus. Where ever he plays I hope he is sucsessful. Just cast your mind back to how you felt when he headed that one in against the jocks.
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If his conviction is quashed he will not be a rapist. He'll get stick at away grounds , but he will not be a rapist. He will be a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
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MP improved some of the players there's no doubt about that . Particularly drastic improvements in JRod and Lallana IMO , I'm not say they were poor before , but under him they were consistently brilliant . When the dust has settled and emotions aren't running so high , people may see that he turned those two good players into internationals . I also felt he coached the side well, everybody knew their role and responsibilities . Ron is similar , in that our players and systems look well coached. Ron has the edge on changing tactically , the Everton game was a masterstroke that Poch could never have pulled. I think the first team coaching set up is more superior now. The last lot were basically Poch's muckers. Now we seem to have coaches there , not because they're Ron's buddies but because they fit our club. Ron wouldn't have worked with Sammy Lee or Dave Watson if he'd been appointed elsewhere . It gives us a more rounded looking coaching staff ( no pun intended to Mr Lee) . That leaves Rons brother . I was in Portugal shortly after they were appointed and drank in a bar owned by a Dutch couple and a few Dutch guys went in there . We talked about football and the general feeling was that Ron was a so so manager,however there was a lot of praise for Erwin, said he was good coach . Obviously the early signs are that the mix we have is working perfectly. I get the feeling that Ron is comfortable in his own skin and has no ego. Which must make working alongside him a joy . Sammy Lee particularly seems to love the whole thing .
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I fancied it today when I saw their team , with no striker . The bloke wenger should be looking at isn't the keeper but Giroud. Would have been a different game with him in . They got in some useful wide positions but couldn't cross the ball as it had to be so precise for one of the midgets to head in. Great to win without Morgan. Victor was great and well played to Reed who got stuck in and ruffled a few expensive feathers. Well done to Yoshida as well, that can't be easy , coming on against those type of players and playing out of position. SD was his normal unsung tidy self , but my MOM was The Keeper. The Sanchez save was the turning point of the game . I thought support was great today as well.
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LOL , I love an ignorant statement calling others thick. " Most" LOL.
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Mourinho on diving - and what is the solution?
Lord Duckhunter replied to TopGun's topic in The Saints
Where did I say I have no concern over cheating . what I asked is why do people concern themselves with only one form of cheating. Is your " cheating panel" going to adjudicate on all forms of cheating or just diving. If somebody appeals for a corner, when they know its a goal kick , is that cheating? How do you prove it. Is leaving your foot in cheating, Morgan cheated on Sunday by deliberately breaking up a Chelsea attack, he got a deserved yellow card. How is his cheating different than other forms of cheating. If Forster pushes a shot round the post , claims he didn't touch it, and ref gives a goal kick, will your panel adjudicate on that. What about Fonte holding somebody at a corner , is that not cheating? It makes me laugh ,Chopper Harris can cheat by basically committing GBH on a forward, but diving is the lowest of the low. Surely most forms of cheating is too subjective for your panel. Which sports ban cheats for life? -
This is the thing that ****es me most off when it comes to clichés about Americans. English people making out we are so much more sophisticated than yanks because of the passport numbers.A passport many only use to go to turkey, Costa del sol , Majorca or another holiday resort . How many Brits would have a passport if they didn't need one to travel to Europe , particularly at £90 odd a go.
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Well , for one I'm not sure who these UKIP " chums" are. And , two, I would be breaking the law , not to mention receiving my p45 , if I gave the jobs to candidates based on their nationalality . HR provide me with candidates and I have to articulate the reasons for any rejections. Unfortunately , there was discrimination involved in the process , as French, German and Eastern Europeans were treated differently than Africans and Pakistanis , but we just follow the establishments rules.
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I lived in FLA for a few years in the 80's . I've always liked a few bevys and found it safer for low level alcohol type violence than the uk. Never saw much trouble and always felt safe even if totally polluted . Worked in a club for a while and we had no trouble at all, the doorman got no aggro even when turning away blokes with no Id . There never seemed to be the edge I've found on some nights out in this country. Now obviously my drinking habits and nights out are minor issues compared to shootings and the like, but the point I'm making is it's not a violent country overall. It's just that certain areas are horrendously unsafe for some and obviously the amount of guns and access to them , is horrific . It's very easy to say " take the guns off them" , but it's harder to do in practise. For many it is a human right , it stands for more than actually owning a gun. It stands for the citizen against government . They will not give up that right anymore than they'll give up the right to free speech . Try as you might you are never going to change that. Americans get a raw deal from some over here. I found them to be warm, friendly and good company, with pretty much the same arsehole %'s as Brits. So I would say in reply to the question posed, there's not a lot wrong with America .
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"Regional Racism" that's a good one Pap, hope Skates arent included. Somehow I doubt they are , " selective regional racism" it is then. Perhaps the jocks, sorry , our Scottish friends ,could start paying prescription charges and use the money for specialist Ebola unit. Until thats up and running Salmond and co could stfu about the English health service.
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I would. And I reckon with a bit of modification the old selfie stick could take some interesting photos in a dark crowded night club.
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We've had months and months of jocks running down the English NHS and what happens to the first sweaty with Ebola? They're carted of to an English hospital.
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Mourinho on diving - and what is the solution?
Lord Duckhunter replied to TopGun's topic in The Saints
I don't know why people get their knickers in a twist over diving . It's a form of cheating , but footballers cheat . Always have done , always will do . Ok , so in the good old days chopper Harris or Tommy Smith didn't dive , their particular form of cheating involved kicking people into row Z. I've never understood why diving in the middle of the pitch is a no no , yet appealing for a corner when you know full well you've touched it last , is ok. Players con the ref over hundreds of incidents every week. Personally , if some dumb ass defenders going to dangle a leg in the box and a forward makes the most of it, it's his own fault . Every team does it, it is now part of te game whether you like it or not. The only dives that you can police are the ones where there is no contact at all. Wherever there is contact it will become subjective as to whether the player could have stayed on his feet or whether the forward moved caused the contact first. Good luck with proving that one way or the other . Defenders go down easily to win free kicks,even when there's minimal contact , and there hasn't been a keeper since about 1989 that doesn't make a meal of a high challenge he losses . Is that the same as diving, course it is . Instead of apologising to Jose , the ref should have said " every game 22 players try to cheat me, if they stopped doing that I'd have got that one right. So **** off until you sort your own glass house out". -
I thought the atmosphere was great , real emotion at the blocks and clearances at the end. Maybe it was a bit too tense for songs but it was real raw proper football support. They were pretty quiet which surprised me as I thought they were great last year . The only thing that got to me was people leaving before the end. How the **** can anyone call themselves a supporter and then leave . I sit near the exit and there must have been 50-70 people leave before the injury time. I know people pay their money and can do what they want and they all have to avoid traffic / catch trains blah blah blah . But come on, even a neutral who loves the game would have stayed in their seats to see the end of that . It was finger nail, edge of the seat stuff , yet some if our " supporters " rushed off. That is truly pathetic in my opinion .
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would SRL have enjoyed the rest of his career more here?
Lord Duckhunter replied to Mr X's topic in The Saints
He'd have regretted it the rest of his life had he turned them down . I doubt Ron would have played him more than Pelle . So I doubt he would have particularly enjoyed it here this season . He should always be welcomed back , just not as a player . It's gone , over , the club have moved on . I'm just glad we got a few quid for him , because if he'd stayed here we'd have ended up with a high wage , diminishing return player. -
As the great Alex ferguson said "working hard is a talent". The performance he gave against Everton was one if the hardest working ones I've seen in 40 odd years of watching . He unsettled a pretty decent back 4 and was a major part of a great team performance . He was left out today, and here's the thing, I bet he didn't sulk or complain , just got on with it . I don't quite understand what sort of squad players you think we could attract to our club. I bet the players and staff appreciate the job he does.
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This is a great clip of a great song. Also features Bobby Keys who died a couple of weeks ago. The Xfactor generation don't know what they're missing.
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Half time entertainment - crowd reaction
Lord Duckhunter replied to manina-pub's topic in The Saints
Anything that keeps blokes watching and away from the loos gets my vote . That way I don't have to spend 10 mins queuing for a whizz. -
His mad dogs and Englishman tour was what rock and roll is all about. For those who haven't seen the film it is well worth looking it up or some clips on u tube. 40 odd musicians put together by Leon Russell to show case joe , plus assorted hanger ons and a dog . Absolutely fantastic film and album , with some great versions of classic songs , honky tonk women, something , darling be home soon, the letter , delta lady and of course a little help from my friends . The album is always on the iPhone and blasted out regularly . I read the other day that He was Unwell but didn't realise how seriously RIP
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So we've had Nigel,Poch, and now Steve Bruce all " failing to get the best out of him" . I presume Ron is happy to loan him out, so clearly doesn't rate him. How many more managers are going to bin him before people realise the bleeding obvious, he's not very good, was a waste of money and is over-rated?
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Hull fan on talk sport tonight , complaining about certain players just going through the motions and not trying . When asked to name names he said Gaston Is the worst
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Post-Match Reaction: SAINTS 3-0 Everton
Lord Duckhunter replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
Anyone who doesn't give Shane long motm is a serious **** wit. First half the man gave a masterclass in doing the absolute best you can . Toby was different class and well done to Harrison Reed. I realised today what a fantastic manager Ron is, he changed the shape and got a great result . Great Xmas present -
This just about sums him up
