benjii

Before December 10th? I have a quality weekend planned.

a) Steady State b) Infinite Expansion c) Big Crunch Please give your answer with reasons. Ta.

Who are they?

I think Barnard has a better touch and is probably a better goalscorer. I think Ormerod is faster and probably has better movement. I think, on balance, they are both exactly as good as each other.

Aye, thus proving they were overpaid in the public sector FFS.

So basically what the club statement said. Things weren't working and it was necessary to make a change. Hold the back page!

Is anyone able to translate this please?

Those comments made me laugh too. What precisely made this a "big game with a big crowd"? Cotterill seems to be as much of an idiot as Grant was.

Rather take bribery in the last year of a government than Labour's spiteful and abhorrent slash and burn.

I don't buy into the notion that SMS has poor transport links (save for, perhaps, the small number of people with mobility difficulties who might need to park at it). It is a 20 min walk from Soton Central and a 10-15 minute walk from numerous town centre car-parks. What do people want? A clear drive through to a heated, covered, concierge-serviced allocated space? A heli-pad on the roof? It's certainly much easier to get to, with more options, that many other grounds I've visited.

I thought it was typical Skate luck but it sounds like the ref redeemed himself at the end. Nice ban picked up for Lawrence too.

I love the way Warnock states his views and then says, right at the end, "but I'm not going to get into that"! Er...

Did anyone else hear more of this?

I'm not trying to twist anything, merely positing another angle for people to think about. My view is that raising money for people who need help is generally a good thing. I also feel the value of "remembrance" is somewhat undermined by surrounding it with militaristic pomp and circumstance which only underlines our propensity to keep subjecting people to the **** of war ad infinitum; unless of course you believe our current wars are just, in which case it makes perfect sense. That is the point - pure remembrance does not need mass ostentation which can only ever be inherently political. I'm not trying to offend and not saying people should not choose to participate in the appeal if they wish. And simply saying something is "politically correct" is hardly a devastating argument.

Aye. Charlton PLC owes loads of money. Charlton PLC can't afford to pay it. Charlton PLC has to sell its assets (one of which is the football club). The creditors accept that and don't exercise any rights they may have to appoint an administrator. No insolvency. It's basically just a sale of the football club and associated assets, just under distressed circumstances. Or at least, that's how it sounds.

I was waiting for the first "Nandos FFS" post! I agree though, it can't be premium nosh for athletes. Or can it? Chicken and carbs. Probably alright actually?

Dave Richards has come out of this looking like an utter ****-for-brains.

Wow. You're the man. May I blow you?

PPhhhrrrrrrruuuurrrrr.

Nutshell.

and they even saw fit to include the most predictable and witless headline imaginable.

No, I'm sick but not in Soton!

Our debt was to commercial lenders. We had no cashflow as we had breached our overdraft limit and the bank would not advance us anymore. This meant we were unable to trade solvently and we went into administration. This act would have also represented a default on the stadium loan. That is a completely different scenario from a few directors/shareholders offering to write off their debt in exchange for a transfer of assets into a new company owned by them. I'm not sure if that's what happened at Charlton but unless you know all the details then simply saying, "I fail to see the difference", does not qualify you to assume that there isn't one.

I can do some work from home if need be. I do feel like **** though and posting snippets of wisdom on here requires a fraction of the application and concentration that my job does!

Why? The British Legion are not a force for peace. They care for people who need help which, in itself, is a nice thing. The fact that those people are former soldiers doesn't make any difference - it is still a nice charitable thing and I wouldn't suggest they don't do good work. But, the displaying of a token is inherently jingoistic and has evident regimental connotations. There is no need for such ostentation and it does nothing to foster peace, which is surely the answer. Like it or not, parades, tokenism, totemism, ceremony are perpetuating acts and cannot be engaged in passively. That's not to say the Celtic fans were anything other than offensive and that their actions were "good" but the argument should not be brushed under the carpet just because it interferes with peoples' desires to show everyone how nice and charitable they are and be a part of something.