Lord Duckhunter

They had the best pitch the best app and even the birds thought they were going to lose. However, even I was thinking "this is too British". It was obvious that Sugar was giving them a big hint with "this is going global". In my opinion it was a lot better than the bird's one, but could see why theirs was more popular even if it was crap. The funnist part was before he announced the result, the birds were all saying they didn't like theirs ,and the blokes were all saying what a great idea they had. They then statretd to back track and blame the bloke with the idea, whilst the birds were all hugs and kisses.

He answered the questions that were put to him, but couldn't get a word in edgeways because of that clown Osman. People can listen and make their own minds up, but to twist what he said into "no praise at all from Lawrie" is a joke. Had he been on there going on about the clubs achievements during his period, he'd have been slagged off for blowing his own trumpet. He was spoken to by Keys and Grey a few weeks ago via the telephone. The show received so many listeners emailing and texting the show asking to hear more from him, that Keys at the time said "we need to get him in".I heard the original show and the phone call to Lawrie. Some Southampton supporters maybe bored with the old stories, but clearly some football supporters aren't. I doubt if there's one neutral who listened today who thought "strange how Lawrie didn't praise Southampton".

I've always thought the the membership scheme should be on a similar basis. Charge £50 for membership and then get £5 off a ticket for your first 10 games. It'll stop people becoming members just to get tickets for the big games.

Keys was asking how a sleepy back water club got to sign KK.

Keys was just being a pratt. I dont understand what the "no praise at all from Lawrie" is supposed to mean, perhaps you could explain.

http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/listen-again/episode/31438 If anyone wants to listen to it.Click 11.00-12.00

His idea of the orange juice came across well on the You're fired programme. He had the costings and margin all sorted out, had he of shared this with the others and talked Sugar through it in the Boardroom, he may have survived. In fact had they juiced enough oranges and got them on sale earlier they would have ****ed the task.

A wage cap is unfair on the teams in the lower leagues. There was no wage cap when Fulham were going up through the leagues and no wage cap when Wigan were. To have an arbitrary point where you bring a wage cap in means that they have had the advantages of a rich owner spending extra wages for promotion, but not letting other clubs do the same. How can it be fair that QPR gain promotion this season spending what they like on wages, but then saying that Reading cant do the same the following year? The football creditors rule also got some unfair one eyed bias from Sugar. It was put in place to ensure that Clubs received the transfer fees all the time. It protects other clubs, particulary ones further down the food chain. Without it a club entering admin could mean a domineo effect with other Clubs following suit. Lower league clubs rely on the revenue that comes in from transfers and if there's a chance they'll only get 5p in the £ the whole system will collapse.Clubs pay transfer fees in installments and the selling club need to rely on the fact that they will get 100% of this in future years. Lower down the leagues clubs cant afford to pay all monies up front, and clubs can't afford not to receive 100% of it. The rule was put in places to ensure that they do. There is a case for just having the Football Creditors rule for other clubs,and not players, but if that was the case agents would steer players away from clubs that were struggling and as that is about 60% of the clubs there would be chaos. Abolishing it would also lead to more clubs taking the Skates approach and gambling with higher wages, if it goes wrong they could only pay 1p in the £ My view is that any change should be to reinstate HMRC as a preferred creditor who gets paid in full.

I had a Season Ticket for about 15 years before 4 children and shift work made it impossible to continue. I never ever thought people without Season Tickets were less of a fan than me, and I never worried about how many games people had attended. I dont know where all this obsession with Season Tickets, or how many games people go to has come from. In my eyes if you're a Saint you're a Saint. ****ing hell, it's been bad enough supporting the club for the past 5 years, without our own fans turning on each other.

Exactly. Sugar makes me laugh, he goes on about football being treated as a normal business but then wants to cap wages. If someone told him how much he was allowed to pay Nick Hewar, he'd tell them to **** off.

All this pony from dave Whelan about wages as a % of turnover got on my nerves. He took a 4th division club to the Premiership on the back of his £100 million investment, but now wants to kick the ladder over for other clubs. Now he's in the Premiership he wants to stop the Rochdale's, Walsall's and Boscombe's of this world from doing the same thing.Wigan couldn't afford to pay the wages they do, on the back of their pathetic gates,but it's ok because they've got the Sky money. Had someone followed this "Whelan wage cap" 20 years ago Wigan would still be in the 4th Division.

I hate the Skates as much as anyone but get a little bit uncomfortable with all this "they should have gone to the wall" and quoting the Sugar programme. I got the opinion that Sugar was talking about any club that went into admin, and we need to remember that we did some year before the Skates.Scudomore's defence of the leagues position that clubs are part of the community and that all should be done to help them with breathing space and stay afloat, sounds good when talking about us or Plymouth, but bad when talking about The Skates. There can not be "good" admin or "bad" admin, depending on who you support. Like it or not the Skates were subjected to the same rules we were and the same rules Crystal Palace were. At Palace the HMRC had to settle for 1.9p in the pound, should they have gone to the wall?

Well said..., what on earth did people expect them to do. They have spent years and years telling us that Parties have to work together, that they want a new type of politics,are they then expected to turn round and say "we only meant with Labour". Clegg said time and time again he would work with either party. Had they not gone in with a coalition, 6 months down the line we'd have had another election, and a Tory majority.

It could because the reforms are not in the coalition agreement. However, my feeling is that the Torys wont be pushing this too far because of that. If they do leave early, how can their next leader (who wont be Clegg) say that he'll deal with any party and that the Country needs parties to work together. The Lib/Dems can only govern as part of a coalition, if the first one fails, they wont get another chance. They have to make it work. They can not oppose anything in the agreement without Cameron making it a confidence issue and if he losses seeking a mandate.

I agree. I've been very lucky in having a Mrs who hardly drinks and always keeps a sane head on her. Many times she's taken the Kids home whilst I've stayed at the bar socialising. Had she been a bit of a artist herself, we may well have done some stupid things.

If they want to commit political suicide they can. Provided the Tory’s stick to the coalition agreement they are bedded in for 5 years. They made a big play of this being a 5 year plan, have spent 40 years+ telling everyone that we need parties to work together. The only hope they have is a buoyant economy in 5 years time and the chance to say to people that they curbed the Tory excess, and took a lead in bringing about a recovery. There can be nothing worse than them abandoning the coalition on the back of poor local election results. History has shown that when the party with the most seats asks the British people for a mandate with an early election, they tend to get it. there is no way the Lib/Dems want an election now, they’d end up with a handful of seats. If they withdrew the Tory's would limp on with a confidence and supply agreement, before going to the Country. Provided the Tory party stick to the coalition agreement, the Lib/Dems can not turn round and say “we’ve changed our mind”, they will pay a massive price for that.The Tory party aren’t stupid, they’ll stick to that agreement however much Cable and the other clowns try to manufactory splits.

Lib/Dems fight Labour seats to the left and Tory seats to the right. The two main parties tend to stay between the centre and their core base.

Unlike Labour who had a manifesto pledge not to, won the election outright and then went ahead and broke that pledge. Dont you just love the double standards of Labour attacking the Lib/Dems over this.

What complete and utter rubbish. Do you really believe that the people are so simple that they dont realise that the Tories are the major party in this coalition. That the Tories gained seats on Thursday because people are so simple they blamed the Lib/Dems and not the Tories. The Lib/Dems have lost the anti Tory voters, that for some unknown reason seem betryed by the fact that they went into coalition in the first place. When people put their X by the Lib/Dems did they not understand that Nick Clegg said that he would talk to whoever had the most seats. Are Lib/Dem's so simple that they didn't realise that this could be the Tory party? Clegg was asked time and time again before the coalition who he would deal with, his answer was "whoever has the most seats".Why therefore are they throwing their sandals around in a fit of temper. If anyone is using Clegg as a human shield it is the Sandal wearers who are getting cold feet about being judged on their performance and their promises. Dont forget Clegg didn't enter into this agreement against the wishes of his party, but after activists overwhelmingly backed it at a special conference.The parts of the Country that backed Tory party on Thursday, did so, not because the Lib/Dems were their human shield but because they backed their policies and know what they stand for. People vote for the Lib Dems as a protest or as an alternative where their party can't win, so it's no surprise they are polling so low.. They've been begging for a share of power for years, now they've got it, their not up to it.

I cant believe people are surprised about this; The Lib/Dems have been the most unscrupulous of parties for a number of years, saying different things to different voters at every election. They run a completely different campaigns and stand for completely different policies in Tory areas than they do in Labour areas and always have done. They fight the dirtest of any party, witness Simon Hughes' disgraceful homophobic attack on Peter Tatchell all those years ago (described as the "the dirtiest and most notorious by-election in British political history" ).Surely it's obvious to everyone that once they got into bed with the Tory they would lose left wing support, just as much as if they had got into bed with labour would lose right wing support. I'm glad they've been shown up for what they are, a rabble who will do anything for power. They were a protest vote, but now they're in power have lost the only reason for voting for them. They'll now tear themselves apart over the coming years, with some joining the Tories, some returning to Labour and the sandal wearing rest, ending up with a dozen MP's in our 2 party system.

I thought the Walsall players were great, going up into the stand with their supporters.

Apologies if there has already been one of these, but I’ve yet to see one. Having spent all of my adult life watching Saints in the top two flights I have thoroughly enjoyed our spell in League 1. Whist glad we got out pretty quickly and not wanting to stay a moment longer, I am glad I’ve watched the club at this level and meet some great supporters from clubs I never thought we’d be facing in the league. Highlights for me were, obviously yesterday (and the Walsall fans were great), Boxing day sell out against Exeter, the JPT and the great Carlisle fans, and our head to head run in with Huddersfield. There is more to football than the Premiership and apart from some numptys from Boscombe and Brighton the League 1 supporters have been friendly and knowledgeable. What are your highlights and do others feel the same as me.

The one thing I have never been able to get my head round is why they didn't take the children out with them. I have 4 children and have been abroad with them every year. There is nothing unusual about taking children out in the evening on holiday. We used to give them a sleep in the afternoon so they would be awake later. Either that or we had them asleep in their pushchair. There is 13 months between my youngest 2 and many time's they've slept in pushchairs by the table or in a bar, the Europeans are quite used to youngsters out and about late and we never ever had any comments or people looking at them.My take on it has always been the same, we go on holiday as a family and that incldes drinking and eating in the evening. I am not saying that they deserved what happened, of course they didn't. And I've no doubt that they spend every waking hour regretting their actions.However, a part of me is uneasy about the fact they left 3 young children on their own.

It's not perfect by any means, but I'm yet to be convinced of a better way. Certainly telling me that MP's would work harder or not fiddle their expenses is not the way and is quite frankly insulting.The adantages of a constituency system is that each MP gets 1 vote and therefore the people of Cornwall's MP's vote is the same as the people of Chelsea and Fulham. Without this link I would be worried about the long term implications of parties having to tailor policies to win the South East of England and forgetting about some of the other regions. The first thing that needs to happen is other Countries MP's stop voting on English matters that are devolved to their own Parliaments.

I hope they gave him a plastic glass to drink from, because he can't keep hold of anything.