shurlock

Again worth looking at our spending in the 2011/12 promotion season. Would hazard a guess and say that with our relatively small squad, lack of legacy investments, tidy transfer dealings and decent attendances by championship standards, we went up by spending comparatively little -and that had FFP been in operation, it would have bit harder on other clubs, giving us an advantage.

Exciting, blood and thunder game but lacking quality. Neither of those team's performances worried me that much. Don't mind a liverpool win tonight.

Many sectors have training levies -indeed there used to be a nationwide scheme in the UK. In effect, this is a central pot into which firms are obliged to pay, with funds then disbursed to support training and development. Many smaller firms have been traditionally exempt from these levies or received a larger share of them relative to their contributions - in effect, creating a form of redistribution. You could say there are philosophical parallels with the way in which is TV deal structured.

Those songs took off at away games when you were probably on here or cooking a Valentine's dinner for your mrs. As I say, songs that were of their time and had their desired effect.

Of course, it's relevant - it's simply an extension of cross-subsidising nonprem clubs and not letting simple supply and demand decide allocations.

You mean investment?

Which was of its time and certainly wound up wham fans - well the "you used to play football" chant did anyway. Then again, you wouldn't know. You don't go to games.

Thats what my Leicester mates say as well, though I got the impression that many were upset with the news. Other than a few excited remarks in the summer, your owners have done a good job. They actually learned from the Sven experiment and have been remarkably patient with Pearson when they could have quite easily given him the boot after your mini-collapse in the second half of the 2012/13 season (you still sneaked into the playoffs, mind). Agree- would trust him to get you back up again should you get relegated. As for his antics, isn't that pretty much par for the course? If anything, he's been remarkably restrained in front of the national media, compared to his treatment of local, admittedly s**t-stirring journos like Ian Stringer.

Nice one, you Trevor.

No worse than if the tories had won an outright majority, as many adherents of FTTP wanted from a governance perspective.

As to instability, not sure the number of parties really matters as much as i) the number of dimensions along which policy is debated (in mature democraries, that's no more than two, -market vs state intervention; socially conservative vs. socially liberal, though it can increase during major crises) and ii) the bounds within which policy is determined (no party with sufficient clout really endorses a return to the nineteenth century nigh****chman state just as nobody advocates the socialisation of the means of production). The likes of SNP and Plaid Cymru complicates i), adding a third, non-reducible dimension to the mix, though ultimately they hold broadly centre-left views with a tinge of liberal nationalism. The challenge of getting parties to cooperate and compromise is vastly overblown in my book.

Nonsense. If laws weren't passed, perhaps its because their benefits werent spread widely enough - presumably Lord Hailsham's elective dictatorship which itself is destabilising is more your cup of tea. Mature democracies know how to negotiate and compromise without the threat of banana republic civil wars. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/elective-dictatorship-democratic-mandate/

When we had choices, he wasn't picked the majority of the time - under NA and MP, he slowly but surely gave way to other players as the season progressed. Only under RK has he kept his place in the team; then again, we haven't really been in a situation where we've had to pick three from MS, SD, VW and JWP. Chelsea home was the exception and JWP was a sub. At other times we've accomodated all four by shunting one of them on the wing but that's before either Mané or Elia arrived.

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Pearson sacked.

Yep agree.

Wham got a taste of their own medicine. Draw suits us fine.

Basically same old Wham - don't see much of a passing game from them. Biggest difference is that they are direct by hitting balls down the channels rather than to a central target man.

Think you're a bit confused. Citing our ineffectiveness from corners -assuming you're correct- is hard to pin on JWP. Others were taking setpieces while he was out for three months through injury.

We could have taken QPR to the cleaners, esp in the first half. So much space in behind them, compounded by the confusion between their CBs. All it needed was one ball. Wouldnt even say the ball had to be perfect or that creative - just played earlier by the midfield.

That's what a £38 ticket got you yesterday.

We were singing it yesterday with Targett (after his injury). Personally I hate the song.

How have we taken only one point off this bunch so far this season?

Another gash ref who set the tone for his performance by not booking whoever cynically hauled down Elia as he was breaking in the first couple of mins.

No it isn't.