Lord Duckhunter

Hardly the unions fault???? If the unions had no intention of striking we wouldn't need to think through a "strategy". We would just fill up when we needed fuel.

I was listening to the press pass on talksport the other week and debt was being discussed. The general opinion was that rich foregin owners were a bad thing if they loaded debt onto the club, ala Man U, or wanted their money back in the end ala Gaydamak. They all seemed to think that putting money into the club for equity was fine and the only way to go. I'm a bit ignorant about these things, but is that what's happened here? Am I right in assuming that if things go tits up, we wont owe ML's family £33mil they will just lose that money?

I see tomorrows Question Time is from Skatesville. Thank god Penny's not on it, otherwise we'd have a question about the poor local football fans. I still think one of the inbreds might bring it up............. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f8ppv

Since about Nov I've been thinking if we can be top going into April we'll go up. Would like to see Reading start to blip a bit and ease the pressure a touch, but we couldn't dream of a better situation.

Isn't that the Andrew Davies who played for us, says he's been sent off 3 times this season now. I liked the way the bloke commentating said "the ref's lost complete control" like he's supposed to do something about it, it's hardly the refs fault. On Talksport the local media guy said the ref sent the 5 players off in the dressing room after. Crawley and their Manager have little class and like to wind people up.

Want QPR to stay up as my Mum's family are from Ealing and all support them. One of my Fav away games. I wouldn't mind seeing Wolves drop ,after doing a Lowe and replacing MM with his right hand man. Would like Wigan to go as Dave Whelan is a ****. Keeps banging on about wage caps and clubs living within their means. Had they done so, they would still be in the 4th Division.He now wants to pull the ladder up and stop other teams doing the same. Blackburn, Steve Keen is a crap Manager. I feel sorry for their fans, they remind me of our Branfoot campaign. The press keep banging on about how Keen has proved them wrong. The fans get a bad press, but Keen is still crap whichever way you look at it.Would like to see them go down and prove the supporters right.

I've never wanted my team to lose any game the past 40 years, and I'm not going to start now. Players aren't going to throw it, they dont have a hatred of rivals like supporters do. Any poor performance will be because the jobs done, and they've taken their eye off the ball, nothing else. Them sending us down was a myth anyway, we lost, had we won we would have stayed up. Dennis Law's back heel didn't send Utd down either, while we're on the subject.

We already pay enough to our MP's and parties without spending anymore. As their expenses claims still show, we are paying eye watering amounts of money for things that every other working person has to pay for themselves.Why should the hard pressed tax payer be forced to shell out money because our political parties are incapable of regulating themselves and keep selling themselves to the highest bidder. These greedy bastards will find other ways of fethering their nests,even if the taxpayer funds them even more. There are rules in place, there are anti corruption laws and all donations should be published. If the parties acted in a correct manner and donations were just that, then the tax payer could keep their hand in their pockets. The arguement for state funding seems to be that unless they get it the parties will have to prostitute themselves and have policy influenced by large donors. The more they do that, the less they should be trusted with our money, but bizzarely the reverse seems to be true.To stop corruption lets give the corrupt people our money

How do you explain the **** up he made at Wolves then?

I cant see what the issue is, Kelvin deserves to be number 1 next season. It's strange it's even being discussed. Personally I think the number 2 keeper should be an older guy. It's a real tough job to train all week and then sit on the bench (provided Nigel picks a keeper) with little prospect of coming on, but having to be ready for the 1 in 100 chance that you do. If Nigel thinks Bart will replace Kelvin in the end, then he needs to go out on loan for a season, maybe to Boscombe or someone like that. You need a good solid pro as a back up, not a youngster with lots to prove. The odd Cup game is not enough when you're talking about the Premiership. I would be worried if Kelvin was out for the rest of this season and we're flying, I dread to think what Bart would be like at Old Trafford or Anfield.

I'm all for people leaving early, if more of you did it I wouldn't have to wait so long to get out at the end.

I have 35 Saints tattoo's. I wear a stupid red and white top hat and clowns feet. I am covered in badges and die my hair red and white. I only bath once a year and arrive at the game 10 mins into the match as I'm getting ****ed in the pub. I'm so focused on the game that I p**s myself where I stand if the games on. Not only am I the bestest Saints fan, but I am the bestest in the world.

Firstly, well done to the Murdoch press for exposing this. Secondly, donations have bought influence in the past, Bernie Ecclestone will tell you that. But, perhaps in this case cameron is a "pretty stright kind of guy" and it was just a meal. Thirdly, They're all at it, whether it's cash for Questions during Major's time, cash for honours during New Labours or now this. Because all political parties get greedy and cant seem to behave themselves why does that mean the taxpayer has to fund them even more ( I believe they get some funding now)?

John Lowe .

Last time we were promoted into top flight, we finished 2nd and Spurs 3rd. We stayed up for 27 years and Spurs have been up there ever since. Bolton won the league and lasted 1 season before being relegated. I'm sure they'd have swapped their "league win" for 27 years.

Yesterday and at Millwall, in fact the only games I've missed in the last 10 were Hull & Ipswich. Not that that's got anything to do with anything. I still dont understand why you feel that having a Season ticket should guarantee your mate priority over other non season ticket holders. It wasn't as if there was any loyalty system in place for Cov tickets. It was on the web site, buy Barnsley or/and Ipswich and get Cov one at the same time. Some of us did this and have Cov tickets, the rest go on general sale.

But there are already laws in place that are nor being enforced. It is an offense to serve someone who is drunk, there are anti social behaviour laws which cover drunk and disorderly. I would even bring in laws regarding public consumption like some states in America have. If drink is so bad that we have to raise the price, why can we buy and drink it around the clock? Extending the licencing laws causes as many issues as cheap supermarket drink. If we wnat to encourage people into bars, then lower the tax on pub's that close at 12.

An interesting article here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15265317 I tend to agree with most of what she says. As I've got older I've had a more European approach to drink. I've always loved drink and in my younger days I would go out with the sole intention of getting drunk. Now I go out to have a drink and sometimes drink too much.There is a subtle difference, and I also try to act as sober as possible whilst half cut. It was strange but when you're younger there is some sort of badge of honour with being drunk. At 21 if someone had said "I saw you staggering down the road last night", I would have felt quite proud, now at 48 I would be a bit ashamed. I've always tried to bring my children up with drink around. One of them hardly touches a drop and another gets hammered every weekend, so there has to be more to it than the family enviorment. Alcopops dont help, when I was young you drank a few pints and were then sick. These drinks means youngsters can go on and on drinking. I used to drink in pubs where the landlords would keep an eye on you. They knew we were underage but would step in if we'd had enough, same with the older locals, they would tell us to go home once we'd had our fill. Try doing that nowadays and you'ld end up in a scrap. Putting the price up is a bizzare policy, when every other policy has been about relaxing the laws. The message seems to be "drink is so bad for you, that we've set a minimum price, but provided you can pay it, you can drink all night". Surely the long openning hours have as much bearing on behaviours as the price?

But tax take also doubled once the highest rate was lowered, proving that it was more of 1, than 2. The emotion should be taken out of tax rates, they should not be used for hammering the rich, no matter how much people want to. It should all be about how much money they bring in. If lowering the top tax rate to 30% brings in rich people from abroad, stops people like David Milliband & Ken Livingstone avioding it (with perfectly legal income shifting schemes) and raises more money for the State, then surely we should do that. Setting tax rates based on anything other than what £'s it generates is stupid. Labour bought the 50% rate in for the last 57 days of their 13 years in charge. It was a purely political trap they hoped the Torys would fall in to. Is that any sort of way to set our tax rates.

Bercows wife is an old trout if you ask me, but Gordon clearly wants to do to her, what he did to our economy............

So your mate should get priority over everyone else, just because you have a Season Ticket?

Interseting watching This Week last night. During his annihilation of some young lefty Andrew Neil brought up this fact; When the top tax rate was 98% the richest 1% of the population paid 5% of all income tax raised. When Lawson dropped it to 40% the richest 1% paid 30% of the income tax collected. (It is now 27%.) He also said that tax take doubled and in some years trebled once rates were lowered. Lawson's lowering the tax rate led to the richest paying more into the state, yet the Labour party kicked up such a fuss that the commons sitting announcing it had to be suspended.

Cable said that the 50% rate was "largely symbolic" and as Dune said earlier was mainly used by Brown/Darling to box the Torys into a corner. The dropping of the rate to 45% is the Torys doing exactly the same thing. It is symbolic and designed to nod towards lower taxes. Labour for all their protests will not go into an election promising to raise income tax. Even for the rich, tax rises are electrol suicide. Osborne has been quite clever in delaying it for a year. Some people will defer wages or bonus to pay at 45%, and this will boost the take next year and reduce it this year. He can then come out and show figures which will show 45% brought more in than 50%. I fully expect it to be reduced back to 40% within 2 years. The whole tax arguement is looking at things from the wrong way round in my opinion. The rates for everyone would be a lot lower if Govt's stopped wasting our money.Everyday in our lives we look for value for money, yet we hand money over to the state and it wastes it over and over again. We seem to have political classes that look at tax from the point of view of "how much can we get away with taking off people, and still get elected". The rule of thumb should be, "what's the minimum we need to fund the things a state needs to do?".

What my wife cant get her head round is the timing, when she needs to go she goes. I dont know if it's just me, but I like to try before going to work, and before going out just in case I get called short.

My old man always used to go into the toilet with the paper, same time every day. I think it was the only peace and quiet he ever got. After about 25 mins he would emerge from the toilet and with the rest of the family sat around eating breakfast would say, "anyone want a read". Nobody ever did and it put me off reading the paper for years. As soon as I was old enough I used to buy my own paper.