Lord Duckhunter

Why did the Labour Govt pay child benefit to bankers and CEO's of FTSE 100 companies? None of the lefties seem to mind that, but as soon as the Tories come up with a solution, their suddenly all on the side of families struggling to make ends meet on £1000 a month.

By taxing someone at a higher rate of tax, the system is basically saying you're better off than most. The better off should not receive benefits in the present climate. The interesting question to the Labour chancers who will jump all over this will be "if you return to Govt, will you give this benefit back to higher rated taxpayers?" You can bet your life that their next election campaign wont include pledges around giveaways for people on nearly 1,000 a week. Would you rather the black hole left by Labour was filled by taxing people on less that £44,000 a year more?

For whatever reason we have a threadbare group of forwards, so he has to play week in week out. If we had a decent replacement on the bench there would be an arguement for leaving him out. He has been really poor this season and there is no signs that he's getting any better, I thought his general all round play on Saturday was below standard.I've no idea what the problem with him is, but it's the Managers job to sort it out, or leave him out. The first thing NA's needs to do is get another option in on loan because at the moment his hands are tied. It's just a question of hoping Lambert comes good, and that can't be the way to run a promtion campaign.

He brought in Simon Clifford (the bloke whose just employed Gazza as his Manager)

No Family benefit for people who pay the 50% tax rate. The thing I can't understand is why we tax the poor and then give some back in tax credits. Is it not beyond the scope of modern computors to work out a system where they dont pay any tax in the first place. If you get £25.00 a week WFTC, why not just knock £25.00 off the tax they pay? Perhaps we could then save money by cutting the number of people needed to administer the WFTC.At the moment we're taking tax off people and then giving some back .

"We've got more points than you" is the worst chant I've ever heard in nearly 40 years, especially as its Oct 2nd.

I thought Lambert was pretty poor but took the penos well. Hammond and Barnard were our best players with Fonte and Lallana just behind. Special mention to Seabourne as well, who went about his work in an unfussy way. Had Lambert been firing like last season would have been about 5 or 6, as they were really poor.

Because there all coming out of the woodwork and Boscombe's "always been their second team". My little lad's sunday team was full of Chelsea and Man Utd supporters, 3 of which now turn up for training in Boscombe kits some weeks .For some reason there is a growing hatred of us around the Bournemouth/Poole area, which unuseally seems to have grown the worse we've got. The Harry Redknapp stuff accelerated it a bit, as he is considered a god round here, with the local paper almost hero worshipping him. I've lived in Poole almost 20 years and I never used to get this "scummers" nonsense from the locals, the past 6/7 years it's been a lot different.

Some of my mates are going in a mini bus up from Poole. They are Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U and a West Ham supporter. Of the 14 going only 2 are Boscombe supporters and none are Southampton supporters. It's people like them that are boosting the attendance.

I've never really been in the know about anything but I do know a bloke who works for a press agency. He never really deals much with football, so isn't the source of much football ITK's. (Politics is his special brand of knowledge/rumours). He did tell however tell me that a guy who does know a bit (dont know who) told him that Pardew was being touted around other jobs by his agent and this was the start of his demise at saints. I never posted it because; 1. I dont know who this "other" guy is and 2. You just get loads of abuse. However, this fits in with what you're saying, so could make sense.

http://www.firstchoice.co.uk/holidays/kos-holidays/helona-beach/atlantica-club-porto-bello-beach/ Best holiday we've had in the past few years. My 2 are 9 and 11. Food is top quality, staff unbelievable and plenty of stuff to do by pool or on beach. Only downside is there's not a great deal going on in the evenings for adults, apart from stting around drinking the All inclusive drinks. Mix of Italians, Germans and English and we met loads of nice people.Relaxing and cheap considering the quality of the food. Depends on what your 14 year olds like, there are plenty of sport and games going on, but no discos ect in the evening, just a fews shows which maybe a bit young for a 14 year old. I got it from trip Advisor, some of the best reviews I've seen and it didn't let us down.

This fixture is jinxed for me. My best mate is a Town fan and in the 30 odd years I've known him we've hardly ever played them. As soon as we were relegated it was a fixture we talked about, but last season my sister in law got married and this season I've got to work. Still I suppose it means continued stick for him, the only 2 fixtures we have been to together was a Matt inspired hammering in the League Cup at The Dell, and last seasons 5-0.He's gutted two of the worst defeats he's seen his side suffer (and he's in his 50's) and he's had to endure me taking the **** all the way home, and for weeks afterwards..........

Mitchell is as dodgey as they come. His Company is called Seven Developments for a reason, the six previous ones were wound up, owing ordinary people and business' money. Ask anyone in and around the building Trade in Poole and they'll tell you all about Eddie Mitchell.

Mitchell's a wide boy whose not to be trusted.

Lets see what Pardews next job in football is. With such a great win ratio and having done such a great job at Saints, it can't be long before a large Championship club comes calling, if not an under achieving lower Premiership team.If however he cant get a job and no decent club will touch him with a barge pole, what will that tell us?Will people still waffle on about his win ratio and how well he did?

I think given the resourses that Pardew was given last season, Paul Lambert would have taken us into the play offs.If Chelsea were given a 10 point deduction and still didn't make the Champions League spots, would their Manager be praised for doing a great job. Or would he be picking up his P45?

Was Lawrie out of his "comfort zone" when he arrived from Grimsby,was he not at a job with "no pressure on his shoulders"? How would he cope with our star names as he'd only dealt with players with "little pedigree and ego's."? Thankfully the board didn't take your approach, and they decided that a good young Manager who'd done some decent things with a smaller club was the way forward.

I think Marcus and NC always wanted the club to be self financing, but believe that they spent the cash early on because we were so far behind the 8 ball. They walked into a shell of a Club and spent to bring in a decent first team squad. That achieved the plan was for us to stand on our own 2 feet, rather than to continue to chuck money at it. That's my opinion anyway.

Red Ed was also a close confident of Gordon Brown's and Gordon promoted him to Chairman of The Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers. So he was giving Gordon plenty of "Economic advice", not forgetting he was the man who in the main wrote the last manifesto.

I thought we had it bad the last few years, with the rise of the Blue Few going hand in hand with our demise, but that's nothing compared to what LFC supporters have had to endure. 20 years ago they had won a dozen more titles than the Manc's and now look at it. Comaperd to Man Utd and their glory supporters, give me Liverpool any day of the week. Proper Club and by and large decent supporters.I think it's sad what's happened to them, but fear it could be another 20 years before they win another title.

With every week that passes Antonio just gets better and better. Strange that he was on the bench a lot of the time and can't get in the Reading side. The way it's going, him and Papa will be up there with Shearer and Wallace this time next year.

****, need to read article slowly before taking the ****. Do you think Storrie-Teller was invited.

WOW, MM's really pushing the boat out. "That didn't stop him taking around a dozen of his former employees for dinner at the Pizza House in Hilsea, to say thank you to them for the work they did while he called himself their boss". Pizza Hut, what a tight wad...................

I was my Mrs' boss. In the age old tradition ,I used my position to take advantage of her.

I think that by and large it's pretty good. Enjoy some of the topics in the Lounge as much as the football and the Election forum was great. I get the feeling it's populated in the main by "normal" people, therefore discussions on things like bands, Politics,films, TV ect ect are quite interesting as the discussions are not bogged down by bores completely anal about the particular subject. £5 is nothing really, but can see why some object to the priniciple of charging.