benjii

Did the club give an expected completion date when they announced the plans? Can't remember.

I also like their policy of starting the profile of the Saints players with an adjective where possible. Such beauties as "swashbuckling" put to good effect. ps. I was looking over someone's shoulder; I don't purchase programmes. I'm nails, me.

Play the strongest available 11 and change things on Saturday if we must. I can't believe the number of posts/threads on here today talking about dropping people.

Ps. There is a Ben Elton novel called "High Society" which considers this. Obviously, it can only scratch the surface of the debate but it's a good read.

These!

No.

Saw something very similar. Some skanky looking baldy in a tracksuit with a pikey earring barged into a Saints fan outside as we left then tried to start a ruck. The guy he barged into was just really surprised and didn't want anything to do with it. The dirty northerner was determined to have a go though but some big lad stepped in and pushed him away. As it happened, it ended up being quite funny as the dirty northerner realised he was going to a get a pasting from the bigger lad if he didn't fook off sharpish. They were really bad losers though. Surprised because they're not exactly ripping the league up. I guess one season of relative success has gone to their heads.

Unless you're a disgruntled ex of some sort you'd have to be mental or silly not to be grateful for Cortese and optimistic about the Saints.

I have added you to my list of sensible/intelligent forum members.

He is a ****e pundit though.

Rusty to begin with but clearly a decent player and looks ****ing hard!

Yeah sure, I just mean that without him we wouldn't have been able to shake up CM to such good effect.

This match highlighted how much we need to keep him, or at least bring someone else in, as Schneiderlin was awful. Hammond did an excellent job trying to run the midfield on his own but once Chapters came on we were far better.

Exactly right, spot on.

FFS, we just beat a fired up team away 3-1 and yet you still get people on here demanding change and singling out people for criticism unfairly. Have we won 5 out of the last 6 or something? Unbelievable. For the record, Puncheon played well yesterday. Our worst performers were Lambert and Schneiderlin, who was awful.

I have no difficulty imagining that at all. Still no excuse for poor table manners though And it's not necessarily irrational is it? Sometimes appearance will tell you a lot. It might, in certain circumstances, be rational to act on what it tells you and it others it might be rational to ignore what it tells you.

It is indeed a very tricky issue. Some crimes are so awful that you feel there can be little complaining about carrying out an execution but I can't imagine anything much worse than being condemned when innocent.

The first paragraph just doesn't stack up. All crimes are proven "beyond reasonable doubt". But putting that choice of wording aside we could say instead, "those crimes where there is no doubt whatsoever that the crime happened, where we can all be happy that there is no miscarriage of justice". The challenge then is to write down what the test will be for establishing that. How it will be determined in practice whether the criteria are met. If you can't do that in such a way that will never result in a case on the boundaries, in shades of grey, then you must accept that there is always a risk of executing an innocent person.

But isn't the same true of any custodial sentence, or indeed any judicial process? If it is true that the amount of money you have has a bearing on what we might call your "judicial success" then the same logic can be applied to the application of any sentence.

Doubt very much that it is him. I spoke with Franny a few weeks ago and he seems to be a very nice guy. Whatever his personal feelings about our club at the moment I can't see him depositing these little rant-droppings on here.

Massive

I disagree with the death penalty too but I don't understand the logic of your first reason. It's not a reason to oppose the death penalty at all. If you believe the death penalty is "right" then the mere fact that some people might be able to buy their way out of it shouldn't stop it being applied to those that deserve it and can't buy their way out of it. Better to execute only relatively poor people than no people at all; if it is deserved.

Exactly. Well done Boj.

There is no absurdity at all. You are saying: "I am the sort of person who will make an effort, who will fit your organisation. I have had a decent upbringing and am not a silly little jump-start with pompous delusions of trailblazing who will embarrass you in front of all you consider to be important."