Lord Duckhunter

FFS why isn't QPR included? When are the clowns going to start using the points? Cant wait till March, what are they going to have "supporters who purchased at least 8 tickets out of A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H games" "Supporters who purchased 7 tickets" Supporters who purchased 6 tickets" ect ect. What is so hard about saying Customers with over x amount of points?

What a depressing list. Top one was basically there because most of the nation had a collective meltdown. Second was a charity donation. IMHO Bohemian Rhapsody is the biggest pile of over rated shiete ever recorded.Mull of Kintyre is embaressing for such a great songwritter and performer. Wet Wet Wet, Boney M, Robson & Jerome FFS, even the great man Stevie Wonder's effort in the top 10 is his worst song. If an alien came down and looked at that list and listened to most of the shiete on the list, he'd think we were French, not the country that gave the world some of the greatest music ever produced.

Bobby Simone (Smits) was the best partner Sipowicz had, and he had some good ones. The added bonus of that period was the hot Kim Delaney as his chick. There were some fit officers in NYPD, but she was tops.

Spot on Dear Mr Hollowhead There is a centre back at your average championship club who isn't considered good enough to get near your average side. Could we have him back to help our premiership relegation battle as our defence needs strengthening

I wasn't a fan of the Jam felt they were over rated. That said his solo stuff was top quality , some of the best stuff of the past 20 years and streets ahead of Oasis and others .Saw him live a few years back and was a great show. Not an innovator as someone said, but there aren't many who are. When it comes to making music from 30 onwards I can't think of many better. Townsend, Richards and jagger, Macca couldn't make music into their late 30's/40's like he has done. They just became touring juke boxes. He's clearly not the messi of music, but he is a Paul scholes or Kevin keegan

I was disappointed when the fixtures came out as I did think we had a tough start. That meant our momentum from last season was lost. That said I am disappointed with results and the worrying thing is we are not getting any better. I reckon we are 6 points down from where I hoped we'd be. Meaning we need to win 2 "written off" games, the way we are defending that ain't going to happen. Mon we need to stop the rot 0-0 would be nice. 4 points next week is the minimum .

We are now getting some real pony on this thread now. Anyone who thinks one party or the other would cover this up is deluded. Equally delusional are people who believe ANY party would make political capital out of it.

Totally agree, the greatest cop show, bar none. Dennis Franz's Andy Sipowicz is the bset Cop ever seen on TV.

My Arsenal ones came open and the West Ham ones went to my brother's place instead of mine (his S/T is linked). They really are hopeless.........

Arsenal's defence is pretty awful, if sides get enough of the ball they get taken apart. Bit like us really, although sides obviously get more of the ball against us. I wouldn't hold Arsenal's defencive coach up as a good example. Bit too simplistic to take the line "X was a good defender, he'll make a good defensive coach". Any oldies on here who remember George Graham as a player will know, he couldn't defend for toffee, yet he drilled Arsenal's back 4 into the best defensive unit in the modern day game.

****inh hell, imagine the meltdown on here if SRL or Lallana had picked up an injury at Leeds and was out for 6 weeks.

Matt had the best 18 months of his career prior to Dave taking over, the fact is bally got more out of him,so you have confirmed my point. Had he remained in charge we would have gone down . As a pundit he's Ron Manager he needs to go

Dave took over a team that finished top half under bally with matt le toss having his purple patch,just avoiding relegation on goal difference was a poor effort and he was rightly fired. So as a manager he was pretty poor and as a commentator he is hopeless, it's like listening to my 75 year old dad waffling on . I'm not convinced it's not a Partridge sketch. Contrast him with people like Neville and Souness . He adds nothing and has no insights . What winds me up most is his co commentator agreeing with every word and the plums texting in. "I am sat here in new Milton listening and we need to do xyz " ....ffs

To be fair to the guy, he was fantastic last season. I meet a Sunderland fan on holiday and he was saying he couldn't believe we were promoted with "that clown in goal". I said he was great last season and after SRL the main reason we were promoted, he just laughed at me.

"Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc has no regrets about his refusal to shake hands with Rangers players - because he does not like them or their club." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7057835.stm I would love him to play in a cup game against the Skates.

Wasn't Grocer Heath a "confirmed bachelor" and keen sailer?

I remember when Bart was the next great thing, threads about how he could replace Kelvin and was the best young keeper around-how did that work out? AB is the number 1. It's better to have a number 2 ready to come on at short notice whose experianced. It's a tough job, as 99.9% of the time you wont be needed, but have to prepare like you are. That's better for an older guy. So Gazza is either number 3, or loaned out to get games with coaching staff keeping a close eye on him. Maybe a great season on loan and he'll be number 1 next season. He's not ready yet and the last thing we need is his devolopment hampered by being smashed every week or not playing.

The first goal was down to poor closing down and then down to Clyne ball watching and then getting caught back on his heels. Fox gets a lot of clog on here, yet Clyne has been directly responsible for a few goals this season and doesn't get half the stick Fox does. A Premier league full back should do more to stop that header, it was Bale not Andy Carroll or Ricky Lambert, he should have challanged a lot better, it was a soft goal. Second one , again we didn't close people down. Boruc stood up strong but Defoe scuffed it by him. Last season Fonte would have stood up and cleared that, but his brain was scrambled. As Gary Neville said the other night, when things are rushing around you, you need to slow your thought process down. Jos had the same at Arsenal, they panic a touch and that leads to slips and slight miss hits. Again, like West Ham I thought Davis and MS were good in the middle of the park, but lallana and Puncheon are not cutting it defensively. There was an instance when Mayuka chased back and won a tackle, this just does not happen with Punch an Lallana. I just can not see how we can continue to play Lallana & Puncheon as a wide midfielders and then expect our full backs to cope with Premiership pace down the flanks. 4-2-3-1 will work, but the 2 wide players in the 3 need to give the full backs some cover when we dont have the ball. Lallana and Puncheon just dont get back in position quickly enough. I would go with Lallana or GR in the hole behind SRL, with Mayuka, but the other flank then becomes a problem, which is maybe the reason Nigel plays JRod out there. For all the money we've spent on attacking players, we still have a lack of pace in wide positions.

How did Mick get on with his first spell in the Premiership, Sunderland I believe it was? First part season- unable to save them from relegation from prem. Second season-Failed in play offs. Third Season-Promoted. 4th Season- Sacked 16 points from safety with only 10 games remaining. It took him 3 seasons to get Wolves out of the Championship, compared to Nigel's one. At his third attempt , after managing Wolves for 4 years, you are correct he has proved he can stay up. There are Managers that should be rated above Nigel, but he's not one of them.

But there are almost no cuts: public spending in 2011-12 was £681 billion against £689 billion in 2009-10, Labour's last year in power. The public sector is 50 per cent bigger now in real terms than a decade ago. The Government talk tough but tinker around the edges, exactly what Darling would have done had Labour been elected. One day somebody is going to have to really make cuts, deep, meaningful ones and clear up the mess. The pathetic thing about Cameron and Osbornes approach is that they are reaping the negative public reaction to cuts, whilst hardly making any.They are seen as serial cutters, but there aren't anywhere near the cuts there needs to be or the public believes there has been.

The BBC are not being singled out because they are publicaly owned . The are singled out because many of the offenses sere committed on their premises, by an employee and it is alledged that other employees, knew, suspected or took part(the enquiry will hopefully find out). It also looks like they shelved a report to either protect the Xmas schedules or to protect the BBC. How on earth you compare that to papers involvement is beyond me. Had Richard Littlejohn abused kids on the mails premises, had other mail emplyees known or suspected,had the mail binned an investigation into it to protect sales , would you be saying the BBC was equally to blame ?

The only people who closed ranks were the BBC. You dont really believe that NOTW had enough to run a story, but refused because of who Savillie knew. You've just peddled that nonsense to have a pop at News International

What a load of nonsense. What bigger story would there have been for News International than this, to say they wouldn't run this because he was feted is just pony. . People seem to want it both ways. Respect people's privacy, dont print rumours, but why didn't you print this one? As Journo's move around all the time any rumours NOTW would have heard other outlets would have heard to. The BBC should be discomforted over this. Just like the BBC did with phone hacking, News International are just reporting this horrific story. Had this been a sky celebraty Eammon Holmes for example, would lefties be blaming the BBC for not reporting the rumours and then reporting the Sky cover up? Of course not, are you going to continue to dig at Murdoch over every single issue? Where's Coogan and Grant when you need them? I'm sure if it was Eammon Holmes they'd be telling us that The Murdoch's aren't fit to run a TV station. "Young girls in the Sky dressing rooms, how could the Murdoch's not know?"

If Harding and Hammond are the answer, the question cant be "how are we going to stay up".

You couldn't make it up.... I was wondering how the anti Murdoch brigade were going to get News International involved and here it is. It's not the "right on" wonderful BBC, who seemed to allow saville to commit his crimes on their premises and also appear to have put Xmas scehdules before proper investigative journalism, but News International's fault for not printing these rumours. Before any other leftie uses this issuse to return to their favourite pastime of bashing Murdoch they should remember that if Grant, Coogan and other leftie luvvies get their way, this sort of stuff will never come out. Perhaps the Daily Mirror should have hacked Savillie's phone and got the story earlier.