Lord Duckhunter

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.

You can't watch a BBC program without a BBC ****** trying to get you to watch a shirts BBC show later in the week/month . Not one person supporting the BBC has explained how it won't continue to survive without tax payers being forced to pay for it. Surely it's so good people will pay . Perhaps deep down they know its pretty much like any other and not a patch on sky. The BBC wants to act like a commercial media company but not conform to commercial free markets . Having to have a licence to watch state owned tv,whether you watch it or not belongs in soviet Russia not a modern 21st century democratic country

It's worse than that. Imagine reading the Guardian but still having to pay for the Sun.

If the BBC is as good and as wonderful as people are making out it'll have no trouble in raising revenue after the digital switchover is complete. It could be on a subscription basis, donations (it's so wonderful I'm sure you'ld all pay), or adverts (they could switch over from the stupid BBC adverts with no loss of programme time).

Did Labour set the minimum wage too low? How do you propose we keep wages in line with the cost of living, impose a price's or a wages policy?

If the BBC is so good, so impartialy, and so "much loved" then it would have no problem raising the licence fee from subscriptions would it? All you people that love the BBC could pay your fees and watch it as much as you want. I could make a decision whether I wanted to watch it and pay for the pleasure without the threat of jail hanging over me. I find it bizzare that in this day and age people are prepared to accept a TV Poll tax, not for watching the BBC, but for owning a TV. And that we are a nation that puts its "subjects" in jail for not paying the said poll tax. I would say "ideological extremists" are people who impose their will on others, and put people in jail who dont conform. Not people who believe in choice and taxes that should reflect peoples ability to pay.

Do people really think the result would have been different,would our centre halfs defended correctly,would we start tackling instead of running beside people. Nigel had a game plan to use rl as an impact player , had we defended right it may have worked.it wasn't the forward line that aas wrong . Had jrod missed a few people may have a point,but he did a pretty decent job . We are in the top flight and Lambert is a massive reason for that, but he is not that good that he's undropable.

We were told Fat Sam was a crap manager that wasn't good enough for Saints. Now there's posts saying Redknapp had no input into Spurs' last couple of really good seasons. There is no point in getting rid of Nigel and then repacing him with another bloke with no or limitted top flight experiance. 2 weeks ago I would have said "keep him", now I'm on the fence. We need to win 2 out of the next 3 and stop making the same mistakes over and over again for him to have any chance of seeing Xmas in the job IMO. Replacement should be someone who can grind points out when we're playing badly, someone who can set a team up to be hard to beat and somebody who commands the respect of the players the minute he walks in the dressing room.Benetiz ticks all 3 boxes, yet some of the experts on here dont seem to want him.

90k would be a fat cat if he was a Tory & £2mil house would be a "mansion" if "Dr" Cable gets his way. To quote Red Ed, you're "sticking up for the wrong people"

Ask him why Cortese signed him but plays him out of position.

Spot on. When I went to school their were 2 coloured brothers in a school of 900 odd pupils. That was it. Now my lad has a Turkish friend, a Polish one and one from puerto rico. We shouldn't pat ourselves on the back too much though, look at parts of Scotland and NI where relegious intolerance is just as bad as any Eastern European racism.

The first thing he should do is set the wheels in motion for a vote on an English Parliament. It's a disgrace that the Jocks and Taffs get devolved powers that are denied the English. Scottish MP's could vote for increased perscription charges in England, knowing that their voters wont have to pay it. There are whole areas of life that Welsh and Scottish MP's can vote on free from the constraints of having it impact their voters, that's a funny sort of accounability. Labour thinking that they would always have a majority in Wales and Scotland, were quite happy to let them govern themselves. Not the English, god forbid, they might vote Tory. Can you imagine the outcry from the sweaty's if Maggie had devolved powers to England and not Scotland during one of her landslide Parliaments? If Tory MP's sat in leafy Surrey could vote on Sweaty health care that didn't concern their voters? Yet us English just sit there and take it. If Cameron was so concerned about the UK, so concerned with fairness, then he needs to adress the situation. Because the lack of fairness towards the people who sign the cheques will cause more tension in the Union that a rable of Bravehearts wanting to govern themselves.

What about slappers jumping on the band wagon, where's it going to end? What about this women? She was so traumatised by her affair with Peel, that she wrote to him asking for him to open her new bar. She said she was 15 but " he didn’t ask and I didn’t tell him.", before adding "I don’t know if sex was expected but I went along with it willingly." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9603959/John-Peel-got-15-year-old-pregnant-after-meeting-at-Black-Sabbath-concert-claims-woman.html The poor innocent girl, "Mrs Nevin went on to become a bunny girl croupier at the Playboy club in Park Lane in the 1970s." She looks so innocent at 17 in the pic. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216453/John-Peel-got-pregnant-I-15-Woman-claims-month-affair-DJ.html

Which was oringinally in the Daily Mail, or Hail or Fail or whatever the lefties call it. Normally a Daily mail article receives abuse on here, obviously packaging it up and repeating it in the Guardian makes it "interesting".

Tours were like roman orgies, with women being passed from band member to band member, loads of women. Do we really expect 20 something year olds to check id's before each penetration?

Nobody is saying anything of the sort, certainly not me. What I am saying is that a perk of the job as a Rock star in the 60’s & 70’s was groupies hanging around. As I said on an earlier post my favourite singer Richard Manuel used to get the roadies to go out into the queue of waiting girls and take their pictures. Richard would then decide who to “invite” backstage. Did he also ask the roadie to check id’s? I seriously doubt it. If he then banged a 15 year old without realising, does that make him a peado? Maybe he owed the girls a “duty of care”, but the guy was an alcoholic and heavy drug user, I doubt it ever crossed his mind. Would I want my 15 year old daughter given a rock star a blow job, of course not. But, then I wouldn’t want her doing it at 17, 18 or 35. Your argument seems to be, if she’s 15 and her birthday is midnight, you’re a peado at 11.50pm, but not at 00.05. My opinion is there is a massive difference in a star taking advantage of a groupie he fancys who turns out to be 15 , than in a man doing so on the basis that she is 15.