Lord Duckhunter

Huddersfield deserve to go up, but it would be better for us if Posh did. If they lose CMS and Boyd, that will be one relegation place sorted (not that I think we'll be near the bottom), I would rather play Posh away than Huddersfield, but we'd beat the both at home.

Redknapp Snr has always been the same and still is. Look at the way he undermined Darren Bent, with his goals they may have made Champions League this season. He seems to want to slag players and freeze them out to convince the Chairman he needs to spend big. It was a disgrace that we went down that season, as WBA were utter shiete. Whoever had the crazy idea that Redknapp could work for Lowe and then alongside Woodward must need their head testing.

I remember seeing an interview with Sir George Martin, he said that Abbey Road was such a great album because they realised they messed up Let it Be (or Get back as it was originaly known as). He said that although it was never said everyone including him knew it would be the last time they worked together and therefore wanted to go out on a high.There was a tribute to Sir George that aired on BBC 4 the other night, and he came across as quite upset, even after all these years, about being "frozen out" of the Let it Be final production. It could have been a great album, but if you listen to Sir George that may have meant no Abbey Road. Such a shame the film was so sad in parts, particulary when Harrison and Macartney go at each other. They could still work together and have fun even as late as '68. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBelmO65J4

You cant beat a pint of Tanglefoot. Although I am starting to worry I'm turning into some sort of fairy. I'm starting to prefer botles of Peroni or San Miguel to my normal Spitfire or Old Speckled Hen for home drinking.

I've been listening all day to Let it Be...Naked. What the album should have sounded like before that idiot Spector trashed it. [video=youtube;qR-SlkUgCRg]

Mrs Duck did the same for me when I was on 6 points, so I'm hardly in a position to condemn Huhne however much I cant stand the bloke. However, I am not an MP elected to the body that passes the law and I can't afford a driver to ferry me about if I lost my licence. IF he did it, Huhne is finished as an altenative to Clegg, which leaves Tim Farron in the box seat. He has called for an in/out referundum on the EU, so it could be a win win all round. That Clown Huhne out of Govt, and more pressure to allow the British people their say on Europe.

Spot on, 100% correct. We were stiched up by Grocer Heath and the rest of Euro loons, and have been for far too long. We'll never get a referundum of course, because they're too scared of the result.

Another thing which was special about Bally was the way he turned himself from a "fetcher and carrier" into a class one and two touch midfield Maestro. I'm slightly too young to remember him in his Blackpool days, but my old man couldn't believe how his game changed over the years. Lawrie used to say that in training he would play 2 touch and then 1 touch, Bally would call out "what about 1/2 touch".

I have a mate who is a media photographer, he reckons if Redknapp gets the job, some of them will go after him. The Sports journo's maybe in his pocket but people like Mihir Bose and the serious investigatory guys are going to be gunning for him.

The best Sir Alf story is the one Rodney Marsh tells. Evidently Sir Alf didn't like Mrash's style of play and told him in the dressing room before the game "Mr Marsh any of that fancy stuff and I'll pull you off at half time", to which Marsh replied "that's great , we only get an orange at Man City".

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.