Lord Duckhunter

Just heard on Talksport that Rangers have made 11 players redundant, and the rest face wage cuts. I didn't think they could do that, perhaps the Jocks are different.

Does anybody remember them? The Prefab four. Nasty,Stig, Dirk and Barry . Watched it again last night, and it is seriously funny with some great songs as well. A cast that also included John Belushi, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, George Harrison, Paul Simon and Mick Jagger. A Beatles **** take, with a Nazi Yoko, a one legged Brian Epstein and ending with a rooftop concert. [video=youtube;dZB-THUHyHY]

The Monkees were part of my childhood. The best manufactured band, bar none. How Simon Cowell and that Irish puff would give for songs like, I'm not your stepping stone, I'm a believer,and the aforementioned last train to clarkesville. Mike Nesmith's Rio is one of my favourite songs of all time. RIP Davy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bmcJSLuO8&feature=related

It's hard to compare and contrast teams over different eras, particulary as the rules, pitches and even balls have changed so much. I dont think we'll ever be able to have a team with the quality of some of Lawrie's did, but there's only 3 or 4 sides in England that could in future. We didn't just have good top flight players, we had world class players, and in the case of Shilts , KK & Bally 3 all time greats (ok maybe Bally and KK were past their best).We had a mixture of youngsters and fantastic players, and played a style of football that was a joy to watch. That said, this is a fantastic side for where we are now, where we were, and for the era we watch the game in. It has been a fantastic couple of seasons, and we have played some fantastic stuff. RL & AL are on their way to becoming legends, loved every bit as much as some of our previous greats. And Kelvin must be there already. If we go up this season then Nigel will join Ted and Lawrie as the only men to take us up to the top flight. He is on his way to being mentioned in the same breath as those two, and that is a remarkable achievement in only 2 short years at the club..

In Ballys first season there was a 5-4 at Norwich and a win at Newcastle in his first match.

If HMRC win the case, could they be classed as a prefered creditor alongside the football creditors. I am sure this used to be the case a few years back. Are HMRC challanging the fact that they aren't a prefered creditor or the fact that football creditors are?

What, not The Mail, another paper whose beliefs seem to offend the lefties. I suppose all those readers are ignorant scum bags as well. Which ever way you look at it, Murdoch is a genius. And no matter how offended they are by him, and NI, they keep buying his papers and watching his TV. The British people could finish Murdoch tomorrow. They dont, because despite what the lefties say, he gives the people what they want. That's the thing that really sticks in the throat of luvvies like Grant & Coogan.

Despite Murdoch being the bogey man it looks like the Sun sold 3.26 million copies on Sunday. The British people are obviously not as bothered as the great and the good about phone hacking, the Murdochs and "gutter press". I would love to see a reporter ask those luvvies Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan what they think of the circulation figures and what it means for their high profile anti Murdoch agenda.

Left wing-Loved on the BBC Right wing-Called an extremist on the BBC

I am still bitter and twisted about our relegation. Now with teams like Norwich, Swansea coming up and playing pretty decent football, I could have taken relegation, but WBA, Norwich and Palace were dog turd awful sides. It still grates when the old stat that only WBA have been bottom Xmas and stayed up, Bryan Robson the only man that kept a side up from that position GRRRR. They didn't stay up, we handed it to them on a solid silver bloody plate. I will never get closure for that god awful season, to see 27 years of fighting and punching above our weight chucked away with a load of lily livered gutless performances, with a Manager who couldn't give a toss and a chairman who thought he was jesus, was gut wrenching. Dont get me wrong the last 2 seasons have been great, but closure club wise, will come for me when the final whistle goes on the day we're back in the Premiership.

I told my daughter that I was now down with the kids and hip as I had a "download" of a modern band. Her reply was "they maybe young, but it's old mans music". LOL

The left wing has been blured by Blair's electoral con trick on the British public. New Labour realised after years in opposition that they need to sound tough on certain popular Right wing issues, like law and order, national security and low direct taxes, especially for the rich. They had seen that the the common ownership of the means of production, their vicious punishing income tax policy and their seeming weakness on protecting the Country had led to defeat after defeat at the polls. You ended up with the sight of lefties like John Prescott doing a complete about turn on many of the issues that brought him into politics in the first place. We now have the smae happening in reverse with Cameron picking up on popular leftie issues and trying to marry that with the natural centre right Toryism. It has always been a bit like that with Grocer Heath being a bit of a wet "one nation" Tory. My opinion is that this rush for the popular centre is the reason our politicans are so boring and politics so stale. They are focused on following focus groups rather than leading opinion. People like Thatcher& Foot had policies and principles and stuck to them, trying to take the people with them. Nowadays policics can be summed up in the line "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others", I think it was the Marx brothers. At a really basic level I would say that the left is about the state creating the circumstances where people can progress and better themselves, but actively getting involved and creating some sort of level playing field. The right is about the state getting out of people lives and allowing people to do the same. I always think that the left is right in principle and the right in practise.What could be fairer than a society where everybody has the same chances, where everyone is looked after and where everyone owns everything? It's just in real life it doesn't work.

At last I've got some music by someone who is now under 50, I think these guys are great,

I'm not a S/T holder.They should have priority for every away or cup game, regardless of how many they've been to previously. They have made a financial commitment to go to every game regardless of how we are doing. Take this season, they didn't know if we'd be bottom 3 or boring midtable, they dont know which games are going to be changed to some god awful Sky inspired time, but still committed a large wedge of dosh. So it should be S/T holders Followed by 1 point for a home game, 2 for away. Then go on sale to people with X amount of points. How far you travel, who we're playing, what day it is are all factors in what sort of supporter you are, but it's hard to quantify. There will be a bit of unfairness, but it's simple. It's certainly fairer than S/T holders mates getting first dibs.

Having watched the Utube special, I'm even more ****ed off with Lowe than ever before. Why didn't he get Stern John, Raisak, Sagonowsi ect to appeal on utube for us Saints to "Keep calm", where were Ruperts pleas of "One Club chaps". We didn't need to loan out our high wage earners, play the youth, or close corners of the ground. All we needed was a players plea and we'd have been ok..................

I saw this on the BBC news last night, it was a typical picece of BBC reporting. Right at the end the guy said, " have they made the bank safer, and therefore protected the British taxpayer, undoubtably yes". I then looked at a few facts. It is far now less reliant than it was on borrowing from unreliable providers of funds, such as other banks and big financial institutions. They have off loaded billion of £ worth of debt. It's retail arm, increased profits by 45%,insyrance from a £295mil loss to a £454Mil profit. It has taken a loss of £1bn plus Euros in Greece, It's Ulster bank is making massive losses due to what happened in Ireland, and it had to pay out £850 mil in misselling compo, sold to people years ago.None of which is of the present regime making. The whole picture is not black and white with RBS, and it being used as a political football is no good at all. Hester and his people had 2 goals, 1 was to stop the taxpayer from more exposure and then 2, was to return the taxpayers money. It has pretty much done number 1, does that not merit some sort of bonus, bearing in mind it's pay levels are a lot lower than other banks (the BBC say RBS's average pay per investment banker of £112,000 compared with £199,000 at Barclays Capital.) I liken it to a football manager asked to take on a job mid season with a team bottom of the league. First season the board want him to save them from relegation, the next season they want promtion.They wouldn't go back at the end of the first season and say, "you cant have your bonus, because although you saved us from relegation you lost a lot of games, and we cant reward failure". I'm not saying it's right or proper that in one year Bankers earn enough for me to retire on. But, the better the bankers, the quicker we'll get our money back. If you want the best, unfortunately you have to pay. If we left some bods in Whitehall to run RBS on civil service salaries, we'd never see our money back.

To be honest, it was defo both on the article. Maybe the bloke I spoke to messed it up (although somebody posted the same earlier in the thread). It's just come up on my history online with a booking ref, so 100% I only got Barnsley.

Local Radio is dire, Solent is well words fail me, it's like stuck in some sort of time warp. It's knitting pattern radio. Wave is not much better. I worked in the States during the 80's and local radio is so much better than here (I know there's obviously a larger "local" area) but it was diverse, exicting and different. ****ing hell, my Granny would like Solent & Wave.............

Just booked mine. Can confirm it is defo Barnsley OR Ipswich. They were really busy, so I'd get a move on if people want to be sure of making the promotion party.............

I agree, gave up my Season Ticket because I can only really make Saturday games, and there were more and more Sun games, particulary in Premierhip and a lot of midweek games when we got relegated. If we were playing Donny on Easter Saturday and not Skates I would be there. I've had to text round mates asking for 2 extra tickets . I had no trouble getting them, but that's beside the point. Most of the ST holders thought it was a bit strange, and some have had work collagues or mates who dont normally bother to go, pestering them already for tickets. Seems a strange thing to do, particulary as they seemed to discourage ST sales preseason. I guess it's just a simple and cheap option, with the added benefit of extra ST sales next season, I'm defo starting to think about getting my lad and me one and taking the hit or selling them on/giving them to family, for midweek/sun games.

This is a great idea, should use it more often in my opinion. Was going to go to Barnsley, but struggle to make midweek games so may not make Ipswich. Will defo do this even if I cant make Ipswich,£27 is worth paying to make the last game of the season. I'm not going to miss out on a potential celebration of promotion, just the the sake of £27

I just got a "good point" , but was so quick to post I forgot to use my Pompey name. Just posted as Storrie-Teller offering to help as well.

It was more a question of "what oath do you want to take"? rather than "Do you want to use a bible". We have moved on and I'm sure more and more people will not want to use the bible. In my case I thought ,"this book is meaningless to me, so swearing an oath on it is pointless"

They dont, I was a witness in a crown court case 2 years ago, and I was asked if I wanted to before I went in the box. I was given some sort of card, which I read from. It had nothing about god on it. I cant quite remember all the details, because it was a nasty case of racially aggravated assault that I had witnessed and I was ****ting myself. It was the worst 45 mins of my life.