Lord Duckhunter

What a bunch of plums, particulary the bloke on the push bike. People must lead pretty boring lives if one of the highlights of their year is watching people riding horses down the road. .........

I think it's great that the locals went out of their way to give Lambert and his family a traditional Scouse Xmas.

The limits are fine, a zero limit would not make it any more stright forward as there would be a lot of challanges around food ect. There would be more and more legal challanges with people claiming they didn't know X or Y had alcohol in it. At the moment the limit is set at a level where there is no defence, to be over the limit you must know you're over or on the border line. The issue is the enforcement of the present laws. I've never understood the "Xmas clampdown", there should be a clampdown all year long. Drive past a pub and the car park is pretty full, are all the drivers on soft drinks or keeping to the limit? I doubt it. The police should set up road blocks regulary from routes away from popular pubs. They should do so in the morning as well. I get the impression that the police turn a blind eye occasionally,not wanting to check on certain occasions. The other thing that needs stronger action is the law around accidents and deaths through drink driving. The thought of running someone over and killing them, stops me from drink driving, how could you live with yourself or enjoy Xmas knowing someone is not with their family because I ran them over/crashed into them on the way home from the pub, makes me get taxis. Surely a 15 year sentance for casuing death by drink driving will persuade others as well. I speak as someone who loves a drink and thinks pubs are one of the greatest inventions man has ever made, so I'm hardly a member of the Temperance movement .

My mates a Huddersfield supporter, he reckons Rhodes is going nowhere because the board are scared Clarke will walk into another job if he does. I think the guy from Cov looks like a good bet, they're in a terrible financial situation. Still wont address our lack of pace though. I've no doubt we've got targets and if they're a sensible price and available we'll get onboard. I've got a feeling it'll be a unknown or someone from abroad. I doubt very much that NC will get into a bidding war over some of the "names" being branded about.

I was dissapointed with harding conceding the corner in the first place as I'm sure that he could have knocked it for a throw instead. That said, Halford could have thrown it in long and they scored from that. I didn't think Guly's defending is as bad as people are making out. Yes someone like Franny may have put his head in there, took one for the team and cleared it. Guly isn't that sort of player, and neither is Adam, Morgan, De ridder or David Connolly.If Guly let us down it was not finishing the chance when we were 1-0 up, that's what he's in the team for, not throwing his head into defensive situations. Just did not want to lose, especially after the last 2 results against them.Could not have contemplated another defeat to them. Would have taken a point before the start, so can't complain too much. Come the return, I think we'll knock 3 or 4 past them at our place. Saw my Skate mate last night, could say to him "top of the league", "17 points clear of them", and all he could say was he was happy with a draw.

People like Ashdown, Huhme, and Denis MacShane are being wheeled out by the BBC to give us their views, despite being totally wrong about Britain staying out of it. It like Ian Branfoot being asked by Solent to do the saints games on radio.

Kelvin has to play Sunday, even if half fit.Anything else and were ****ed.......... We have to nurse Kelvin through the next 3 games and then get someone in on loan as cover for him.We have to face facts. We are going to be involved in some big games in the next few months. Saturday was not any where near the tension levels that'll come as we arrive nearer and nearer to may,yet Bard blow it. He blow it so bad that I'm afraid for all Adkins kind words, they're just that, words.He can not risk him again, until he's gone out on loan and shown it was a one off. Harsh, of course, but the prize is there for the taking and if you're not up to it, you're not up to it. It wasn't about one mistake, it was his overall performance.It was one of the worst displays I've seen from a Saints Keeper in 40 odd years, in a run of the mill home league game.

We had schooling that gave the brightest kids from the poorest families a decent education, but our political masters abolished them.

Exactly....... Why should I get rid of my hard working, easy to manage Poles, and replace them with people forced to work, who dont really want to? It is not my job to install a hard working positive attitude into workshy wasters. That's the job of their parents and the education system. If I had a choice, I'd even replace some of my English workers with more Poles.I've got blokes who do the bare minimum, wont do O/T because it effects their WFTC and keep moaning at The Poles that they're "showing them up", with their hard working attitude.........

No way, my Poles were the best workers I had. Willing to work any hours and do as much O/T as I could throw at them. My Company would suffer if I had to get rid of them and give the jobs to English people who were forced to do the work.

There's only a limitted amount any Govt can do. Govt job creation schemes are expensive and rarely lead to long term sustainable jobs, unless they are jobs in the public sector. The public sector is already too bloated but it should have been dealt with during the "boom years". In my opinion the time to make efficiencies and to cut public sector jobs is when the private sector are creating jobs. Labour bottled the reforms needed, when there were jobs in the private sector, and the coalition now have to do it when the outlook is bleak. My personal opinion is that Labour mishandled the boom years,even more so than they mismanged the bust.Welfare needed sorting out and Frank Field was brought in to do so. They had whopping great majorities and are the only party that could have the political ground to do so. They completely and utterly bottled it and seemed more intent to be permanently fighting the next election, rather than do what was right.What we see now is the result of years of an overbloated public sector, a generous welfare system that encouraged people to stay at home, and the lack of political will to sort things out. 5 years ago, I had full time job vaccancies that paid just above the minimum wage. All I could get to work these jobs were Poles. There were no English people applying unless they were complete and utter drop outs.This was mainly down to them loosing their benefits and being just as well off on the dole. I bet there are some people in the area that have been unemplyed for 5+ years, that are now blaming the recession. Now the Govt's hands are pretty much tied together. There is no other way, except for creating jobs with Govt money. Doing that brings us round and round to where we are. It's really sad for the hard working people looking for work now, but they are the inevitable casualties of a failed system.

Must be mine, it's OK now, but a bit slow.

It's gone down now

He seems to have declined mine as well. I really wanted the answer to Mr Pete S, asking him to get some players in and gamble for the top flight.

I've sent 2 in as well.

My obsevvations were that Cameron did ok. The question to Red Ed of "what would you have done", is clever and simple. It takes the sting out of any questions.These things are never black and white, but the "would you have signed" will play well with most voters. It is a win-win question for Cameron, and the type of tactic that Blair used to use to such good effect. Cleggy did a Gordon Brown and vanished, pretty poor form, particulary when a weekend opinion poll showed 49% of Lib/Dem supporters back Cameron's stance. Again shows how out of his depth Cleggy is, you have to man up in these situations. As a person who wants to withdraw from the EU I was glad that the Tory loyalists behaved. All this bulldog, Churchillian ect referneces are embarressing and put voters off. They gave Cameron an easy ride and realised today was not the day to push him.

My boy has just come home from school well exicted. Seems that Gus Poyet & The Premiership trophy were visiting local schools in Poole today. He said that Poyet was great, signed his football and had a chat with him about Saints. My boy told him that he was a supporter and at the Saints Brighton game. Poyet said, Saints deserved to be top, and will go up. My boy also asked him if Adkins left would Gus like to manage Saints, He's reply was " I dont think so". His mate then said "what about Chelsea"? and Poyet replied "absolutely, yes tomorrow if possible". He said Poyet was fantastic, so perhaps in private he's a decent bloke.

All this nonsense over the past few days has not changed the one important fact in all this. The Euro is still ****ed. There were fiscal rules written into the maastricht treaty, that were fiddled by The Greeks, or just ignored in the case of Germany and France. The Euro will never suvive in it's present form. Where we are heading is the worst of all worlds. Poor countries hamstrung by the rules and unable to set their own policies or devalue to promote growth, and Germany unwilling to underwrite the debts of the Eurozone. It's all very good Cleggy and Red ED rallying against Cameron, but they aviod the simple facts. Had the economic conditions been different both would have had us in this useless currency. Both have refused to rule out joining in future, and the majority of British people are nearer the Tory's view on Europe than theirs. Had Europe listened to people like Redwood, IDS and Bill Cash in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess. Europe is in this mess because it made a political decision, supported by some useful idiots like Clarke Hestletine and Patten, along with all the Lib/dems and most of the Labour party to embark on a journey which would lead to this inevitable car crash that threatens the world's economy. Instead of slagging Cameron off, the French, German and other Euro nutters, should be holding their hands up, apoligising to their peoples and asking the UK's advise on getting out of this mess. They got it spectacularly wrong, yet put their head in the sand and try to give advise to the people who got it right, bizzare.

To be in the EU, or to be out of the EU........There's only one way to find out.....................FIGHT..............Sory I mean referendum.

Personally, I dont think 32,000 is enough and should be looking around 40,000-45,000. Whether it';s finacially viable to spend that much money to add 8,000 is something the club will obviously look at. By increasing the away attendance and having a sensible pricing policy I see no reason why we couldn't get between 32,000 & 40,000 for most PL games, and sell 40,000 for about 12 of them, but that obviously depends on who is in the Premiership and other such stuff. Take Boxing day for example, we sold 32,000 for Exeter, so would sell 40,000 for say Fulham. If Reading, Skates or Brighton were up, that would possible sell out. Add the Man U's, Chelsea, Spurs, liverpool's to the mix, plus important relegation battles or hopefully Europa league battles and it does become viable. Obvioulsy, nobody knows for sure, and I dont quite see why people are getting so hot and bothered about a little bit of ambition.

The X-Factor is actually more democratic than The EU. You get a vote, and even if it's the "wrong" vote, you dont get told to vote again until you get it right.

Spot on. The best way to sum up what's going is “The euro is the disease, not the patient.”, wise words from Roger Helmer MEP. The Euro is just not credible without a bona fide federal Europe. I'm sure deep down the Euro nutters who support the EU know this. The Euro is just a stepping stone towards that goal. They'll grab more power this time, and when the crisis blows up again, they'll grab a little bit more. Every single thing Europe has done in the past 40 years has been about creeping towards that goal, but without frightening the horses into a referendum.

You've got to laugh at someone who complains that Mail readers are d..ckheads and then in the same post writes "the jury is still out on the Euro". Even Jacques Delores has said it was "doomed to failure", perhaps he's a rabid right wing Mail reader. The Euro nutters you speak of are surely the people that went ahead and rammed the Euro through and threatened the World's economy? Brown was for the Euro in principle, it was just the timing he objected to. The people who were proved right were the people who were opposed to it in principle. Were against it, full stop. Not the people who supported it for Europe and supported The UK's entry when the cycle was right. They were wrong and have been proved wrong.

Who are the loony right then? I presume you mean people like Redwood & Bill Cash. People who read The Telegraph and The Mail. In other words the people who were right all along about the Euro.These were people who were against The Euro Full Stop. Against Greece, France Germany, Ireland joining a single currency. How on earth did previous PM's like Major, Blair and Brown look after our interests? Looking after our interests would have been spelling out to the nations of Europe that a single currency was unworkable, our interests would have been served by holding back our money until they abandoned the idea, of threatening to withdraw from the Eu until it was shelved. How on earth was our best interests served by smilling like happy ****ing idiots, while Greece, Ireland, Spain Italy and the like signed a death pact?. We went along with this stupid proposal, just a long as we weren't in it (although some wanted to be). This has gone beyond the stage of whether the UK should have joined the Euro, it should never have been put in place in the first place. The UK's best interests were for there to have been no Euro.Only the "loony right" as you call them (with a few notable Labour supporters) were against the whole thing from day one.