Lord Duckhunter

That's how I feel,but to come away with 4 wins and a draw from our first 5 is unbelievable especially with our previous starts over the years. For me Saturday was vital, home game that would have really dissapointed us had we not got maximum points. Even if we suffer a defeat at Leicester, it will still represent a fantastic start to the season..........

Like him or hate him, Reed has a far better footballing CV than Woodward. I dont think that anybody is disputing the role that Woodward carried out, it's just that he wasn't qualified to perform it, and certainly did not justify the huge wages he was paid.

Of course specific skills can be transfered from one sport to another, but that is not what we are talking about with Woodward. He was Director of Football, he was earmarked and talked about becoming a Football manager and was not just confined to his specific knowledge. had Woodward been brought in to coach some of the skills that are shared by football and Rugby (and paid accordingly) then there wouldn't have been an issue.

Andy Flower has done a great job with our cricket team, and has certainly turned them into hardened winners and changed the mentaility of the team. If NC was to appoint him to the SMS coaching staff, then quite rightly the men in white coats would come and take him away. The only difference between him and Woodward, is that Woodward likes to blow his own trumpet and somehow manages to convince people that sucsess in one sporting field, can be transfered directly to another. If that was the case, perhaps we should have made Brain Clough chairman of the England selectors for the 1976 West Indies series, perhaps we would have made them grovel after all............

Coulson's severance pay was a benefit related to the time that he worked for NI, it was just paid out in installments after he left. Once Tom Baldwin starts drawing his NI pension, is he not doing the same thing. Receiving income from a benefit earned whilst working at NI, even though he no longer works there?

I'm sure Tom Baldwin is in the same boat with a NI pension, should he resign?

Income and severance terms are not the same

Harry seems to have done ok without Clifford's fantastic training method since he left us. Clifford, on the other hand..............

Double Fantasy -John and Yoko. Years I waited for a John Lennon album, then he goes and gives us a Paul McCartney one. Yoko's stuff on there is pretty good (for her), but his stuff is just middle of the road pap.

My present employer didn't know the Severance package I got from my previous employment and quite frankly it's none of their damn business. Had Coulson been receiveing money for work he did for NI, whilst employed by Cameron, then that's a story. I would have thought that Peston would have known the difference between wages, and Severance terms.

The biggest loon's were the saint's fans that thought Lowe was onto something with all this nonsense............

Get Back-The Beatles King Harvest (Has Surely Come)-The Band Lazy days-Flying Burrito Brothers Roll away the stone-Leon Russell Fulsom prison Blues-Johnny Cash

I was abroad at the time of the riots, so missed a lot of the coverage. The punishments do seem to be harsh and whilst I am all for harsh sentances, they should be for 365 days of the year and not just because the media and politicans demand them. Had these sort of sentances been handed out for years and years, perhaps our young people might have thought twice about riotting, perhaps they would think twice before committing the anti social crimes that blight some of our neighbourhoods. These sentances are just a token jesture to the hard working honest people of this country, 6 months down the line we will be back to ASBO's and cautions as if the riots never happened.

Only read books on holiday and just finished my normal 4 in the 2 weeks I'm away. Great book was "Bill Graham Presents; my life inside rock and out". Born a Jew in Germany he was smuggled out of France to the US, the book takes us from him being a orphan immigrant to becoming the foremost Rock promoter by the time of the helecopter crash that killed him. Through the 60's and Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Doors. 70's with the stones, Led Zep (who come across as complete ******s) Dylan, The who ,the Last Waltz and punk rock. Live aid and U2 came later, it's really a who's who of the history off rock and roll. It really is a "warts and all" account as Graham seems to fall out with loads of stars, and some speak ill of him (the book is quite strange in that the story is told in interviews from the people who were there at the time, as well as Graham's accounts). It has everything from the Nazi's killing his family, to trying to run business whilst standing up to Hell's Angels, Police chiefs and some of the biggest stars that have ever walked the planet, I found it a great read. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bill-Graham-Presents-Life-Inside/dp/0306813491

£25 for me and £7 for the nipper great value, should be able to sell out as many as they'll give us................

https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome I used this service, it's cheap,Govt run and pretty good, they'll advise as best they can on the phone. I didn't need to attend court because the other party didn't respond to any correspondance from the court. The case found in my favour and it went to Bailiffs. I ended up with nothing because the Company went bang and were a Ltd Company, so you have to weigh up whether it's worth it. I ended up about £300 out of pocket, but the cowboys ended up closed down and unable to rip others off. The advice MCOL gave me over the phone was that a Company that intends to keep trading will always settle, whereas if the business is on it's last legs you may not get anything. However, they (MCOL) will follow it through right till the end.

Agreed, The major difference is that Barclays and Norwich Union are commercial lenders, they factor into their rates the chances of being knocked, they take a commercial decision when they lend money. The tax man and charities dont. When charity and HMRC get knocked it has the knock down effect of less money going to local people in need, when the same thing happens to NU or Barclays, it just means less profit for a private company. Completely different.....

There is a Govt run scheme MCOL where small creditors can claim online through the small claims court. I did it once for a car engine, and all the claims go through Northampton court. It maybe a small creditor taking that route. https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome

There was a guy on Sky (terrorist expert) saying that in any other Country he would have been shot dead, even if he did try and surrender. He said that it is typical of the peaceful nature of the Norwegians that he wasn't....................

We do seem to copy others chants/Songs, The Lambert one being a prime example. We also seem to have let Stoke and Spurs take OWTS off of us. A concerted effort is needed to get that back, because it used to boom round The Dell. Forget the politics, but the Swing Lowe was good, original and quite clever bearing in mind the Woodward/rugby link.

Wasn't there a campaign to get the subs a medal, and they were given special ones a couple of years ago? If so, it's a bit of a shame he's selling it, I guess the price wont be too high, so perhaps the club may make an offer. My opinion (which will be unpopular on here) is that the only medal's that really count were ones awarded on the day. Yes, it was wrong that only the 11 players on the day got one, but that was how it was in those days...........

This is one of the most soulful songs I've ever heard [video=youtube;gzIAiyxS-nk] And despite having a nice arse, she goes and completely ruins it. Just compare the 2 vocals, they are a million miles apart......... Another ****ing joke is Sting's version of I Shall Be Released..........Richard Manuel would have turned in his grave after that one.

Joe Cocker-The letter. Willie Nelson-Song for you. Gladys Knight-Heard it through the grapevine. However the best cover in my opinion is Leon Russell's "Jumping Jack flash". Mind you, he's got a pretty decent band to back him up.

I would put her in the Janis Joplin box, good but not great. Jim Morrison was great and Hendrix a genius, you can't really compare her to either, as sad as her passing is. Luckily this is a pretty isolated case nowadays, years ago there were whole bands ruined by drugs, and many many tragic cases. People like Clapton and Elton John not only broke their habit's but are helping others to do so now..............

A Woman Scorned, and all that.........