Lord Duckhunter

Actually, I do believe it. As does Nick Robinson, although he claims it's 27% 5. The Rich Pay More Than You Might Think "The top 1% of earners - just 300,000 people - pay 27% of all income tax. Of course, many people believe that the rich should pay more, but identifying who's "rich" - and getting them to stump up - is fiendishly difficult for our politicians." That's what he said http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15843746 http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2107031/UK-Budget-2012-Top-1-earners-contribute-income-tax.html

It's important to some, season tickets could be returned over this..........

I think you'll find that the winter fuel allowence point was a very small % of my post. So it's hardly "all about" that. As an aside, why should the super rich be entittled to winter fuel allowence?

We are redistributing vast wealth already. How much do you want the top 1% to pay, it's already a 25% of income tax. Have you learnt nothing from the last time we tried to tax them until the pips squeaked.Talking about "political will" and upsetting the wrong people, is just rollocks. Anyway how do you define rich.Property, pension pot, wages (which are taxed already), shares, luxery goods owned? Do you really believe it's as easy as Cleggy makes out to collect this "time limited" tax?

Just sound bite politics from Cleggy. Trying to tax wealth is a very complex and very complicated thing, as well he knows. Do you tax people's pension pots, if not high earners will just put more into that. If you do you end up catching Doctors, senior police officers and in some cases head teachers in that trap. hardly people we consider the super rich. If it's just aimed at the super rich like Paul Macartney ect, well we could start by taking his winter fuel allowence of him. Poor bloke could put another jumper on if he's getting cold. These super rich will pay millions of pounds to run rings round the chumps at HMRC. To make it "time limited" is crazy as well. I'm no finacial whizz, but I'm sure I could delay payment of this until it went, maybe paying myself less whilst it's in and more when it's out. I'm sure there's some tax accountants licking their lips at the thought of the fees they'll earn. I despair at the rich bashing in this country nowadays. Most of them are hardworking, risk takers who generate money and already pay millions into the coffers. The top 1% of income tax payers account for nearly 25% of income tax take, far more of a % than they did when Healy taxed them at 80%. We seem to band all the "rich" together and then blame them for all the Countrys ills. Yes, some rich people behaved in a terrible way, but just as every man on benefit is not a benefit cheat, every rich person didn't cause the crash. I am seriously going to chuck a shoe at my TV the next time someone's on TV saying "I didn't cause the crash, why should I suffer". Most of the super rich didn't cause the crash and maybe they earn stupid amounts of money, but to lump them all together and believe we can wave a magic wand and somehow get loads of extra tax of them is deluded. It's unworkable and Clegg knows it.

I went to a 30 year one and it was ok. At first I was worried that everybody would think "look at that fat baldy loser", but as the night wore on, there were a lot fatter a lot balder and a lot of people in even worse jobs than me. Some of the chicks were minging, they hadn't aged well at all. By the end of the night I quite enjoyed it and was glad I went. Some bird came wandering round asking for everybodies contact details, "what for?" I asked "for next year" came the reply. I said "you're having a laugh, give me a call for the 50th year one and I'll come along" (fingers crossed I'm still about). My mate was even more scathing told her, "There was a reason I didn't contact you ****s in 30 years , I'm certainly not coming back next year".

4-4-2 has a place in the modern game and can be used at various times. Chasing the game against Wigan is not one of them and they passed us to death. NA obviously wanted Sharp & Lambo upfront, but should have gone with 3-5-2 in my opinion. If Man Utd have carrick at the back sun, I would go 4-4-2 early on and chuck it in the mixer a bit.

I cant think of a fairer system, apart from a couple of tweaks. I've always felt it a bit unfair that S/T holders who didn't travel away (and you'ld be amazed the number I've met) would be guanteed a cup final ticket if we were lucky enough to get there. This method acknowledges S/T commitment by loading the games on, but takes into account the non S/T holder who travels to Wigan ect this season. As people have mentioned the issue has been brought to head purely because the Arsenal game was so early on. To address this the club added extra points onto the Man C game. I think that they should have done something around tonights game, but understand they didn't sell the tickets. Does seem a bit bizzare that someone could go to watch the reses tonight and not be able to get to Arsenal. Maybe it was complicated but I would have liked to have seen 5 points added to each year in the past 3 people had a S/T. Season ticket in both League 1 campaigns and Championship 15 points, that seemed fair to me. At the end of the day, had the first game been Man City at home there would have been 32,000 ish there. I doubt if there's more than a hundred people who really couldn't make the City game and couldn't get Arsenal tickets. I've been following Saints for 40 odd years and I've yet to miss a match I set my heart on going to. By hook or by crook most that really want to will get in to Arsenal somehow (although it may be in the home end, cost them a bit more).

There is one glaring unfair part of the procees that nobody seems to have mentioned. Tonights game. Surely somebody who is going to travel up and watch a reserve side against a League 1 outfit, deserves some points towards future games.

Or they could have got a City ticket and not used it. OK, so £75 maybe a bit pricey for an Arsenal ticket, but I was expecting £45-£50 anyway. I'm kicking myself now. Two of my mates are going to a wedding that day, so I didn't get them tickets. Once I was in on the system, I could have ordered them one each and then flogged them on here. Meaning that they would get the points. Am I out of order wishing I'd done that??????

I think NC should interview all S/T holders and pick out the bestest 3,000 for Arsenal tickets. We could have some sort of Saints exam prior to the interview to weedle out the JCL's. Personally, I think the fairest system would be bald, middle aged, overweight people and their mates and family first.Followed by everone else. But even then you'ld have a load of skinny nippers complaining that it was unfair. The club just cant win in these situations.

My understanding of it was the queue was a queue to get onto the web site (or the "My account" part of it), even if you wanted to update a family member or buy Man utd tickets you would have been unable to log into your account. I dont know if people not able to buy Arsenal in this window were able to log on, but I was placed in a queue before I had put my log in details into the site. I dont see how they knew I could buy tickets before I'd done that, so assume the queue was for any account transaction.

I'm no IT whizz, but surely they just press a button to allow ticket sales. it then becomes hit and miss as to when you get logged in. The "queue" was not really a queue as we know it, but a way of stopping the website crashing and managing the procees. Surely allowing people to log on and wait defeats the object of having a "sell" start time. Is there any other event that sell tickets at X o clock, but allow a queue to build up prior to that for internet sales?

I finished work at 3am this morning. Are people are suggesting is that I should be able to log on at 3am , go to bed for till 9am, get up and be one of the first in the queue. You couldn't do that with a phone line.

Easy for me to say as I got one, but I didn't think there was much else they could do. They said they were online from 9am, so you cant really have a queuing system that starts at 5am in the morning. If it was phone lines it would be the same. Pretty fair ststem all round, but does end up in a bit of a vicious circle. The ones that went to City will always be points ahead of everyone else and now the ones that weere lucky enough to get through today, will be the same. Shame they didn't allocate points from the day NC walked into the club in League 1, because there must be some loyal people who just couldn't make City due to Hols or work ect. I guess they had to start with the points somewhere.

Try your junk box, maybe in there.

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I have a feeling that "error locking seats" is the new "it has not been possible to connect you"

Keep retrying over and over if you get "error locking seats, I did about 20 times and got through and got them in the end.

Best youngster I saw was Steve Williams, but he didn't go onto great things. George Graham ruined him, in the modern game playing for Arsene Wenger, he would be a automatic place for England. I saw Souness at Boro and Steve Williams was as good a player, just didn't get the right move imo

In my opinion there is a lot of nonsense talked about Lambert/J Rod. Had we not signed J Rod, there would be lots of bed wetting over having a back up for Lambert. NA has a scouting system, a coaching team and the benefit of seeing him day in and day out at training. We have the "benefit" of watching him twice, once away at the best home side in the Country. ****ing hell, why is everything so black and white on here. It's a squad game nowadays and J Rod adds to our squad from last year. He's a young player with potential and being English we had to pay a premium for that. I certainly would rather see players like him in our squad, than some old has been picking up one last pay check. As for systems, I want to see 2 holding midfielders in the away games and home games against the top sides,a 4-2-3-1 . Adkins knows a bit more than me about it, so I'll trust his judgement. The main thing is it doesn't matter what system we play if we give away soft goals. If you look at it, we've conceeded 5 and haven't made the opposition work too hard for any of them.

Respected Dutch football expert Marcel van der Kraan said in the week that Saints "walked away" from the deal because their "were too many fingers in the pie". Those were his exact words. Either he lied, or you know more about it than him. No offense, but I'm going to go with the man who makes his living out of Dutch football and being right a lot more times than he's wrong.

Marion Jones never failed a drugs test (her A sample was positive but not the B), but after following the same procees as they have with Armstrong ( collecting witness statements ect) she cracked and admitted her guilt. I dont know if he was doping or not, but just thought it was worth mentioning that never failing a test, is not a guarantee you are not a cheat. According to an expert on Talk sport this morning, there is allegations that he failed one in 2001 but it was hushed up.He claims that USADA, have evidence of this. He also said that Armstrong would have had an oppurtunity to answer this eveidence but has thrown the towell in. Surely an innocent man would fight these accusations, I find it strange that a man who has battled in the toughest race of all, has battled a serious illness, will give in without a fight, when faced with accusations that will ruin his whole reputation.

Sky Sports understands Portsmouth are lining up a move for Blackburn midfielder Amine Linganzi. Portsmouth boss Michael Appleton is looking to bolster his threadbare squad and has targeted a move for Frenchman Linganzi. Linganzi joined Blackburn from St Etienne in January 2010, but has failed to establish himself at Ewood Park. The 22-year-old has only made four first-team appearances for Rovers and he is well down the pecking order in Steve Kean's plans. Linganzi, who had a loan spell at Preston in January 2011, could be tempted by a move away from Blackburn in search of regular first-team football. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11688/8014207/Pompey-look-at-Linganzi

#soldalie What was the lie he was told- "you will always play, and even if you get a serious injury just let us know when you are fit and we'll put you stright back in".