Lord Duckhunter

People who say booze and cigs cause more damage may well be right, but that's beside the point. If they were a new "invention" then clearly they'd be prohibited, but they're not. Maybe the day will come when fags are, but it'll never happen with booze. Any prohibition will be unenforceable. Not being able to ban existing legal vices does not mean we should allow any others.

Personal issues , I just wonder what sort of personal issues get in the way of a bloke from London playing in Southampton. Larry David in the wonderful"curb your enthusiasm" uses personal issues to get out of things he doesn't want to do. Nobody is rude enough to ask Larry what they are. Personal issues for puncheon and he gets the forums backing, throwing his toys out the pram cause he's not playing and he's a knob.

Bearing in mind our chant of, "we sing our own songs" hadn't we better start rewriting all our songs instead of concentrating just on the new guys. I find our chants as original as the monkees. Any sort of originality would be most welcome.

I'm in Cyprus, watched srl notch weds from the same bar, so fingers crossed. Just heading up there now

Unskilled wages won't rise. Why on earth would they when there will be a influx of eastern Europeans prepared to do dirty unskilled work for more money than they can earn at home?

A summary of the article was; Loads of historic important stuff skipped and binned by previous regimes, rescued by staff. Old photos,contracts, some antique boat thing from 1948. Lots of praise for hall and others. All hnw individuals supporters bar one. One supplier would rather burn goods on bonfire than ever supply to them again. Horrific overspends on mobile phones etc, shop a shambles. Plus loads of sucking up to PST, supporters and players (all turned up at some fans day or some ********. Headline was "Portsmouth rescue heritage from bin."

Big article on my times for tablet today. Mostly favourable them, but one interesting snippet. It says charities to be repaid out of next months parachute payments, "correcting one of the shameful episodes". I thought the fans had rallied round and done that already, or was that another myth.

I have nothing against gays, why should I . They're just like anyone else. Not everybody fancies the same types. I think mrs duck is hot, some of you may think she's a *****r. Some blokes fancy blokes, some fancy fat birds, some fancy older ones. The way I have always looked at it, the more gays there are the less competition for the ladies (especially as a lot of them are better looking than me). I do however, have something against fry. He's about as funny as a dose of the clap and I dont buy this bumbling upper class John le messieur act. He says take the games to Utah. What if someone writes a letter about Guantanamo, where to next. We'll end up having all sporting events in Luxembourg or some other non offensive country.

I suggest that anyone who thinks we have a better midfield than man utd keep it to themselves when discussing football with neutrals. Cork is an average mid table premiership player (as is Davis) Wanyama hasn't actually played a game yet , Rudi anyone. Which leaves MS. Had a pretty decent season, MAY go on to better things, but Davie M didn't get the job by doing things like replacing Carrick with MS. If Carrick became available he'd linked with your Chelsea's and Arsenals, not to mention Spurs, Everton and others above us in terms of size and pedigree. If our midfield is better than utd's why is nobody seriously in for them. Do saints web posters know more than professional managers and scouts?

It's a great story, there aren't too many fairy tale's in football nowadays but this is one. I'm sure Woy is just picking him cause Carroll's injured, but if he can get some good training sessions under his belt, Woy maybe surprised how good and tactically clever he is. Do that and he may get a run out weds. Play with heart, passion and maybe knock one in,and he'll win over the fans. That'll make it easier for Woy to pick him again. I get the feeling Woy wants a big man option up top, Carroll's in the box seat, solely cause of his age, but Rickie's in with a sniff. If he has a great season and ends up in a world cup squad in brazil, wow that'll be a story even hans christian Anderson couldn't have written.

Clearly the site is going to reflect football supporters. Football supporters come in all shapes and sizes and have differing opinions. One poster's wum is another posters "good laugh". Some people will be attracted to the serious type discussion and others to the frivolous. You not going to be able to please everyone and a balance is pretty hard to reach. Personally, I like discussing music politics and other stuff with football supporters ie pretty normal blokes who aren't obsessed with the subjects, but have an opinion , often different. I would imagine a political or musical forum would be too serious, so enjoy a bit of chat on here. When it comes to football discussion I prefer memories, help (ie best pub) and the occasional moan. I'm not really bothered with in depth tactical or serious talk. But that's just me. I find some of the Muppets funny and others not so. If a thread gets boring I stop reading it. For the price of a pint and a half a year, I think its worth it. At the end of the day, how on earth can the mods please everyone who signs up? Because we all want different things out of the forum. When you look at some of the others around not606 for example , its just like a load of mates on Facebook all pressing the like button and having one big love in. This sites nowhere near perfect, but its not as bad as some make out. Why let people get to you, they dont know you, you dont know them. Put them on ignore and move on.

This isn't ****ing X Factor. What do you think NA & MP did, say "he's not good enough" without even looking at him, watching videos ect ect. What do you want, any player that played during our rise through the leagues given an audition in front of Les, MP & Nicola. He's had a chance, he's been a professional footballer for a number of years, has played for the club and trains with the club. The people who pick the team don't think he's good enough, that's it, end of, fininto.

Let's say here in the UK we followed Caroline Lucas and the sandal wearers advise fully. Let's say that us and our wonderful EU partners did exactly what she said 100%. Does anyone seriously believe it'll make a blind bit of difference. We seem to be wasting a lot of money on **** all, and guess whose getting rich, climate change scientists and the green lobby. No wonder 98% of them agree, they don't want to kill the cash cow.

Wasn't there once an ice age? Hasn't the climate been changing since the world existed? If we all lived in windmills, went round on push irons rather than cars, stopped flying, stopped industry and started wearing sandals , would the climate stop "changing"?

What if one of the other 4 games is postponed? it won't be our 5th game , but will be the 5th week of the Barclays Premier league, what should we call it then. I dont want to make a social faux pas whilst discussing football with collagues at work. I can't let saints fans down.

FFS, I've been a Muppet show lurker for a while, always good for a laugh and great for looking at pussy, particularly when doing shifts. But tonight ,ffs scoobs , how's a man supposed to get his kicks looking at that. What an ugly trout. I would obviously, but I dont want to look at pictures of her ffs.

Can't see the value myself, only 2 go down. I just can't see it (unfortunately).

Agreed, Euro camp pricey though. We've done them all key camp , euro camp, haven , eurosites ( gone bust now) & canvas. Best value for mobile are canvas. Montpellier to Spainish border the best area we found. Great hols with little ones, we took all 4 of ours, the first time the youngest was 4 months. I would stikl go, but mrs duck wants more luxery now there's only 2 left at home.Doesnt like the work, reckons its no holiday for mrs. kept moaning about washing up the plates ECT after BBQ's , ffs I did the hard bit, cooking and entertaining the surrounding caravaners. I miss it, great laugh and met some great families.

Has everyone not been charged a fee? I wasn't on first day, but my mate got one today and reckons he was .

FFS , he is a half decent player. Just because Redknapp signed him does not make £8 million too much money. What makes it too much money is the allegations hanging over him. IF and its a ****ing big if, we could negotiate a loan deal with an option to buy if he's cleared,and a cancellation if he's guilty, it would represent a half decent deal, or a free with a realease clause if found guilty, so he costs FA. Unless qpr do some sort of deal , they're going to get lumbered with him as as you'll be completely off your head to pay any sort of money for him.

No he's not. He's a championship player and they're a championship club.

When we were bringing up the Children my Mrs had a bank contract with the NHS set at 0 hours. She told them when she could work around my job and they scheduled her in accordingly. Had this type of contact not been available, she would have had no work and the NHS would have lost a damn fine midwife.

Kept doing that for me, tried about 6 times before it finally worked, so keep going. I also tried to pay on my debit card and it wouldn't let me. I know there's money in there cause it's payday. Worked with Credit card, so if you're using debit may be worth trying credit.

Agreed, Now could the 110 people in front of me in the queue **** off and try again later, I worked all night and need to get some sleep.

England- The Beatles. Scotland- Haven't a clue. Wales- see above. Roi-Christy Moore Ni- The undertones France- Serge Gainsbourg USA- Steely Dan , but just way too many. Canada- The Band (well 4 of them). Aus & NZ- **** knows.