benjii

Apart from the strikes, which are retarded.

But when they did have to play a good team they beat them comfortably and played better than anyone else has all tournament.

The new company will have all the rights, obligations, assets and liabilities of the old company. It will make no difference.

I seem to remember Steve Claridge giving Surman an "8" for pace though so I tend to take these with a pinch of salt!

We have way more than £750k to spend if we want!

There were a few crusty old bourgeois socialists amongst my uni lecturers but they were pretty chilled out and at the end of the day the primary aim of many of their pupils was to get out into the capitalist world and rake in some serious money so they could hardly participate in that and maintain a pretence of authenticity. Some of my school teachers were old-tie, tally-ho what what, damn good thrashing, showers in the pavillion and down to Monty's for trebles all round types but they were respectful of differing views too.

iI am so glad that my teachers were, on the whole, not politcally zealous.

They are easily the best team.

:vuvu: "For he's a jolly good pink-jacketed militant, and so say all of us". Etc

Generally, I am a fan of black kits. They make you look well 'ard.

Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio, etc.

Because he's unpleasant, myopic and insecure?

Tell me about it girlfriend! Wow, he is ein uber-stallion.

Richardson is stacked. Glad we're signing beefcakes like him.

No offence taken, Ben.

Red Army is wrong.

Yep. But so what? He also pays more for food as a proportion of income. And energy. And road tax. And tv licence. And beer. And football and everything. That's because he has less income. Unless you want everyone to haev exactly the same as everyone else (which I suggest is a tad unrealistic) then you have to accept that some people will be worse off than others.

Intelligent response. 10/10. Seriously, what could be fairer than everyone paying for an equal share of local services? Why is it fair to make someone pay more just because they have a nicer house? Unless that house is packed to the rafters they will not be producing more rubbish than anyone else. They won't be using the local school more. Or the hospital. Or the roads. Or occupying the police's time Or etc.... The only thing that would be fairer would be to abolish a mandatory tax and levy charges based solely on usage.

Cortese clearly has a strategy that invovles transforming the club on numerous levels. That will take time and is not an easy thing to do. It will involve change. Some people don't like change. Maintaining a healthy degree of scrutiny is sensible; adopting contrary viewpoints and/or being a gobby f-wit purely to get attention is not. How anyone can be unhappy overall with the job done by him is quite simply baffling. If you are then you're probably better off supporting a team like Eastleigh or Winchester which will accord more readily with your old world view of things.

I imagine the benefit of membership will be priority over non-members for matches where tickets are in high demand; the same as it always used to be. There will be some away matches where it will be difficult to get tickets. Maybe also one or two home games where being a member will give you piece of mind and avoid entering a late-in-the-day scrum for tickets, although that will depend on how we're doing/who we're playing etc... It was £20, the last time the scheme existed IIRC. I'm not sure it would be worth £20 but I would probably pay a tenner for suitable away priority. Anyhoo, we shall see when it is announced.

Thanks ART. Think it's been around for a while though?

Moulded studs if you can get 'em definitely. Also, I would go for a traditional soft leather pair as some of the new styles and materials don't seem to offer much ankle support which is probably not great for a nipper. Having said that, kids' joints are remarkably resilient ! I think it's odd that girls are forced to play football though.

I agree that is massively unfair. The council estate dweller no doubt uses far more public services so it is a bit odd that the millionaire should have to prop up his lifestyle.

I've just emailed the ticket office asking when membership details are going to be released. Will let you know what I hear.

Poll tax = fair. Council tax = mental.