Lord Duckhunter

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Lambert and AL are on £25,000 a week. But there is no way that NC would give out this information at a Q&A session,IMO.............

That reminds me of a story I read, where another teams keeper posted on a forum, and reveiled who he was. To prove it the posters asked him to do something he doesn't normally do in the game, and so every goal kick he arranged to kick the post with his studs before taking it. This he did, proving he was who he said he was. The keeper then claimed that another player was also a poster , and to prove it, he would also do something he didn't normally do during a game.He asked what he should do to prove it, what did they want him to do that he didn't normally do, and the reply he got was "pass to one of our players". Cant remember which side it was, but it made me laugh.

I dont believe for one minute that any players wages were discussed, that's totally unprofessional and say what you like about NC but he does not come across as unprofessional to me........

Yes, but he was very unprofessional about it. He seemed to lose his rag with the supporters and undermined his manager somewhat.

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/A-Message-From-The-Owners-2522.aspx The owners have spoken

Mitchell is a right clown http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/9578747.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/9578747.stm I've only listened for 5 minutes and Mitchell is coming over as a right clown.

He had the chance to redeem himself at Rangers and Blackpool and scored the grand total of 0 goals. Hollowhead takes all sorts of waifs and strays, but not JB it seems. Living close by and giving 110% are irrelavant. Most of us fall into that category. If you cant r score a goal in SPL, what chance have you got? There are plenty of guys who've scored a hatful in the SPL or looked great, but struggled in England.We should not be a retirement home for explayers just because they love the club. If he'd never played for saints, not one person would want him signing on the back of his record the past 3 years.

If there's someone available within our price range and wage structure who wants to sign for us, then all well and good. Personally, I'm glad to see the end of signing people for the sake of it, or because they look good on paper. These people (Adkin's, Reed and Cortese) are professional's who know what they are doing. They'll have a plan B lined up in case of an injury crisis,they'll be looking at loan players and targets for Jan constantly throughout the season. The issue for me is if Lambert gets injured, because I think we can cover anything happeneing to DC. I've no doubt that the people at the club are aware of this and have loan options in mind if this should happen. There was no point adding to the squad with players that are no better than we have, who we will be stuck with.I'm glad those days are over............

Phillips is a better footballer and has kept himself in shape. He would have scored a hatful for Rangers and they would not have let him go. The past 2 and a half years he's scored 9 goals, got kicked out of Stoke after falling out with Pulis, didn't score a goal in the Scottish pub league or for Blackpool and is now without a club-That's why it's a no from me..........

Grace Slick was a decent singer and pretty fit back in her day.........

Would rather see Chris Baird back than JB. Was pretty hopeless for Hollowhead at Blackpool and now chucked on the scrap heap by Rangers. What's he going to add that RL & DC dont give us. Type of signing Burley would make, we've moved on now.

It's not a strange thing to say, Milliband and his family avoided some Inheritance Tax and his brother channels all non parliamentry earnings through "The office of David Milliband Ltd". The upshot meaning 20% tax is paid on those earnings rather than high rates of income tax.Perfectly legal, as I'm sure Philip Green's schemes are as well. You mention Barclays and Vodafone, yet The Guardians parent company use similar schemes to dodge tax.At least Vodafone don't put themselves up as the moral heartbeat of the nation whilst avoiding tax..........

What about people like Milliband? If we are asking Philip Green to stop his avoidence then surely the same should apply to him?

There is plenty of evidence that high rates of income tax stiffle the economy. If the answer to our problems was higher tax rates for the rich, then Thatcher wouldn't have needed to clear up the mess left by both parties in the 70's. The 50% tax rate was a purely political gimmick to appease the soak the rich brigade. When Heally tried to make the "pips squeak", we ended up in front of the IMF.

Tax aviodence by the Guardian's parent Company. http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/the-guardians-rank-hypocrisy-on-tax-avoidance/

In Mrs Thatcher's first budget the top rate of income tax was reduced from 83% to 60%, and the basic rate from 33% to 30%. The important thing about income tax is what it generates for the Govt. For years the lefties in this Country have used income tax as some sort of "fairness tax". Take the emotion out of it, and set the tax rates at a level that brings in the most revenue. Quite clearly if you tax the Sugars',Branson's and McCartney's of this world 98%, then they'll end up paying nothing. The 50% tax rate was a gimmick, a sop to the lefties in the Labour party who want the pips squeaking again. To the shame of The Tory's they haven't got the balls or convictions that Maggie had to reduce the burden. The working man is also taxed too much, how can we have a tax system that taxes someone and then gives him some of it back in a form of credits. If they need WFTC, then take them out of tax altogether. As for tax aviodence, it's not just the Phillip Green's and Lord Ashcroft's of this world. The "deed of variation" signed by David , Ed Milliband and their mother following their fathers death, reduced their inheritance tax liability to 60% from 100% on the property. He also set up "The Office of David Miliband Limited", any non-Parliamentary earnings are paid to this company, attracting 20% in corporation tax as oppossed to income tax.Personally, I can see nothing wrong with this lawful organsiation of his finances, but some people seem to have an issue with some minimising their tax liabilities, including many from the party he leads.

Agree with that, both must start next week. Personally, I'm not sure about the Lambert and Connelly combination, both are too one paced but it's hard because you can't leave either out.Hopefully De Ridder will streach defences a bit and create chances for them, because they can both stick it away............. Great support today, Leicester's was awful..........

Just got back, Thought the lads couldn’t have done any more second half. 2 different Leicester supporters complemented our side to me as we left, said we’ll be there or thereabouts. A bit of luck second half and we’d have won 4-3, great support as well.

Shilts, without a doubt............

Does anyone know what the standing situation is like. My nipper is going and he's not too keen on standing. If it's sit where you want and standing all game, I'll get there early and put him down the front. I went a few years back ( I think it was 3-2 defeat with Idiákez scoring a screamer) but really cant remember their standing policy.

Ever since Mrs Duck decided to retrain as a midwife in her 40's, I've been thinking to myself "I need to do something else". Having no real practical skills or a trade, nothing realistic jumps out at me. A few months back Mrs Duck suggested a driving instructor and as the weeks have gone on it's starting to appeal more and more to me. The last 20 years I've been managing people, coaching and feedback has been a major part of my job and I am willing to put the hours in and work unsocial hours. I've now started to tentatively look at this as a career move. On paper it looks great, working for yourself, ect ect. But, I'm sure it's not as rosy or as rewarding as the many ads claim. Does anybody have any knowledge or experience in this field, particulary if they entered the field later in life (I'm coming up 47). I would be interested in the pitfalls and failures and the reason behind those failures. The major issue I see is that having paid £20 for a lesson, I would want somebody who has been teaching driving for longer than 2 weeks. If I ever got up and established then I'm sure I could make a go of it. The limitted amount I know about it, I would think that provided you were good, reliable and professional, then it's all about generating customers, something that I feel I could do. I'm used to managing costs and the P&L side of business, so I'm hoping that I maybe a fit. I realise that it's not going to make me a fortune, but could bring some job satisfaction. I've started to research stuff on the internet, but there's just so much positive and negitive stuff on there, it's hard to see the wood from the trees. Any advise would be greatly received.

I dont have a clue whether exams are getting easier as I haven't seen a paper since I took mine. Having had 4 children my gut feeling is that there is more course work and more teachers teaching just to tick box's than there ever was in my day (and I'm not saying that's the teachers fault). I can not believe that our children have got brighter year on year, so have to conclude that the exams must be getting easier. I would suggest that today's children are no brighter than my generation, yet the exam results indicate that they are. If you saw some of the job applications I get from them nowadays, you really wonder if some of them went to school at all. I had a pretty **** poor education and a pretty bad attitude towards school,ending up with 1 O level and 7 CSE's, there was never any thought whatsoever of me going to Uni. Nowadays even with my lack of education I'd more than likely be off to study something and wasting another 2/3 years of my life ****ing it up, before entering the job market.That is the major change in education in the past 30 years, only the brightest and top kids went to Uni, now every Tom, Richard and Harry seems to go. Personally, I dont think that's a good thing, but others obviously think it is.

This has to be a wind up.