Lord Duckhunter

It was len Shackleton, "The clown prince of football", seems like he was cross between Matt Le Tiss and Gazza. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1045604.stm

I dont know how true this is, but I was speaking to a Boscombe fan today and he reckons that the latest rumours are that Mitchell confronted the players in the dressing room after the game, getting quite abusive with them and blaming them. He was also threatening to cut their wages if gates fell any further. Evidently he was ****ed as a newt and slurring his words............... As I said, dont know how true, but the bloke who told me is a stright sort of guy.

This thread highlight's in a nutshell the problem political parties have around pensions. It was obvious to everyone 20 years ago, that there were 3 options open to us. 1) Retire later 2) put more money in your pension pot or 3) Put up taxes condiderably to fund the increase in life expectancy. All 3 look horrible on paper, so Govt's of both colours have put the discussion off, have fudged it and have generally played party politics with this important subject. My personally opinion is that Govt should fund a basic pension for everybody, paid at a flat rate and giving people a minimum standard of living. People then should decide how they wish to fund the "luxery retirement" that everybody seems to think is a right. Work later, save more, move in with your children ect ect. If somebody has spent their working life ****ing their money against the wall, smoking fags at £5 a packet, jollys to Spain and Turkey every year, then they may have to work to 75, or retire in a situation where every penny counts. Everybody is in charge of their own lives and their own future. I would rather work later and have a good time now, whereas somebody else may want to save and retire at 65.We should educate our teenagers now, that their retirement provision is down to them. Retiring on a great pension at 65, is rightly or wrongly not going to be given to you as a right, your decsisions over your 40+ years working life, decide your retirement.

I thought this Saturday . I really thought he would be class this season, but he hasn't started too well. I'm hoping it is the new partnerships and once things settle down he'll be fine.

Living in Poole, some of my mates go and watch Boscombe (whilst supporting other teams) and a couple follow them regulary. They all had an uneasy feeling about Mitchell, evidently he's given his son a job at Boscombe and nobody really knows if he's given the club money or loaned it to them at high interest rates to make money. They really want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his PR has blown all that out of the water. The "go and support Southampton" thing, really did hammer the nail in the coffin, because his "apoligy" was so weak. Sunday lunch time I had a couple and was talking to a Boscombe fan who I know slightly, but not well. He was saying that they dont expect promotion and understand that players are going to leave (they've had 30 years of it), but Mitchell is now making a complete and utter balls up of it. You can not expect a rookie manager to manage with all this going on, they needed a Ronnie Moore or Peter Jackson to steady the ship. Coupled with Mitchell's antics, they are really worried about the future.

It happens all the time, as most singers get older they struggle, particulary if they had a few "lifestyle issues". The real great ones are able to adapt and mantain a really high standard. Look at Rod Stewart, his voice is a pale shadow of what it was in the Faces. That's why I admire people like McCartney so much, to sing like he does at his age is unbelievable, particulary when he had no formal training.

Would prefer Chris Baird

I disagree with the original post, Johhny cash has a great voice, like another Country legend Willie nelson, it's unique and not to everyones taste, but it's a great voice that fits many many songs. Bob Dylan is an obvious one to me, but I'd also include 3 of my favourite artists kris kristofferson, Leon Russell and Robbie Robertson, who all have pretty average voices. The difference with some of the clowns around today is that Dylan, Kristofferson, Russell and Robertson wrote some fantastic songs, they also adapted their voices somewhat.As someone said above, it's just pretty boys and girls singing karaoke nowadays.

Surely if your tax was used for polititicans to waste, for work shy lay-a-bouts to buy new TV's and have foregin holidays, then you have a right to moan. If tax revenues was targetted at the very needy and welfare was a safety net only, then you would get to keep more of your own money. You could then donate more of it to causes close to your heart, rather than the man in Whitehall spending it for you.

Cheap point, that you could fit to any arguement. It's a bit rich people complaining about their benefits being cut "whilst half of Africa starve to death", it's a bit rich people complaining about the price of beer, the SFC ticket charges, The poll tax, the coalition Government or the price of petrol "whilst half of Africa starve to death". Perhaps we could all live on £300 a week and thank our lucky stars we dont live in Africa.

Spot on, How on earth did we end up with a tax system that takes tax out of someone's take home pay, and then gives them some of it back in the form of "tax credits" (which is just welfare). If people need welfare, then dont tax them in the first place.

Claiming that cutting the top rate of tax takes money out of the public purse is too simplistic. When Thatcher reduced it from 83% to 60%, more money was collected in tax. Tax rates should be set at a level that generates the most income, not as some sort of punishment for earning too much money.

Looks like he's been out with the Bullingdon Club again............

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Lambert and AL are on £25,000 a week. But there is no way that NC would give out this information at a Q&A session,IMO.............

That reminds me of a story I read, where another teams keeper posted on a forum, and reveiled who he was. To prove it the posters asked him to do something he doesn't normally do in the game, and so every goal kick he arranged to kick the post with his studs before taking it. This he did, proving he was who he said he was. The keeper then claimed that another player was also a poster , and to prove it, he would also do something he didn't normally do during a game.He asked what he should do to prove it, what did they want him to do that he didn't normally do, and the reply he got was "pass to one of our players". Cant remember which side it was, but it made me laugh.

I dont believe for one minute that any players wages were discussed, that's totally unprofessional and say what you like about NC but he does not come across as unprofessional to me........

Yes, but he was very unprofessional about it. He seemed to lose his rag with the supporters and undermined his manager somewhat.

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/A-Message-From-The-Owners-2522.aspx The owners have spoken

Mitchell is a right clown http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/9578747.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/9578747.stm I've only listened for 5 minutes and Mitchell is coming over as a right clown.

He had the chance to redeem himself at Rangers and Blackpool and scored the grand total of 0 goals. Hollowhead takes all sorts of waifs and strays, but not JB it seems. Living close by and giving 110% are irrelavant. Most of us fall into that category. If you cant r score a goal in SPL, what chance have you got? There are plenty of guys who've scored a hatful in the SPL or looked great, but struggled in England.We should not be a retirement home for explayers just because they love the club. If he'd never played for saints, not one person would want him signing on the back of his record the past 3 years.

If there's someone available within our price range and wage structure who wants to sign for us, then all well and good. Personally, I'm glad to see the end of signing people for the sake of it, or because they look good on paper. These people (Adkin's, Reed and Cortese) are professional's who know what they are doing. They'll have a plan B lined up in case of an injury crisis,they'll be looking at loan players and targets for Jan constantly throughout the season. The issue for me is if Lambert gets injured, because I think we can cover anything happeneing to DC. I've no doubt that the people at the club are aware of this and have loan options in mind if this should happen. There was no point adding to the squad with players that are no better than we have, who we will be stuck with.I'm glad those days are over............

Phillips is a better footballer and has kept himself in shape. He would have scored a hatful for Rangers and they would not have let him go. The past 2 and a half years he's scored 9 goals, got kicked out of Stoke after falling out with Pulis, didn't score a goal in the Scottish pub league or for Blackpool and is now without a club-That's why it's a no from me..........

Grace Slick was a decent singer and pretty fit back in her day.........