alpine_saint

Suddenly dawned on me today just how much of a refuge for bleeding heart liberals TSW is... Apparently basic literacy, basic numeracy and dealing with low levels of pressure are no longer important

The real test for kids is life. How well they deal with real-life situations. Whether you and Bexy like it not, prospective employers are disgusted at the literacy and know-how of kids leaving school with no ability apart from parroting curricula, and are fed-up at the costs of not finding the right people or having to re-train them in basics.

And it all frequently broke down at crunch time last season.

Thank f**k Gove is reversing 20 years of dumbing down. Giving kids "well done" pieces of paper as they leave school semi-literate and adding A* grades to "try" to still distinguish the bright kids was a ridiculous load of half-baked b*ll*cks, as was the postivie discrimination in the examining system changing from tests to coursework that has left thousands of boys washed-up with no future.

I am wondering if part of Fonte's sh*teness this season is lack of understanding/nervousness with Fox and Hooiveld. Will be interesting to see in the next game if he strikes up a good partnership with Yoshida. Here's hoping... Looks like we are stuck with Fox, sadly.

Its all you've got, isnt it ?

But hes right though. Look through the squad list. We have f**k all PL expereince, just loads of theory on the players we have being good enough.

Blaming the fixture list for our poor standing after 4 games... Wonder what excuse we'll hear after the Villa and Everton games...

That's the spirit !!

Wow, now I get sh*t for other peoples threads. FWIW, a few of us were saying stuff about our defence from when the Euros finished; no hindsight whatsoever.

Sounds like his bottle's gone.

Probably the most positive thing to happen today. Pity there is no-one to partner him.

I am not calling for his dismissal, but I am predicting relegation now due to being so far adrift by January. Your comment was unnecessary. The texter is correct though about the defence. Reading tore them apart, FFS.

Give it up, DPS. We had a perfect window and the club did all they could, apparently.

Not even on the bench, otherwise I'd stick him on, goal or no goal from Fox.

Yes, because its all my fault we have no defence and are being butt-f**ked by Arsenal, isnt it ?

If you say so, pal.

And were utterly w*nk against Wigan Spot on.

BBC having is "update Saints scores" problem again...

Only because they are either asleep or punch drunk at being 4 up in the first half.

Not playing today. Not getting into any arguments just to provide pain relief to happy clappies. Today is all about coming to terms with the fact we cannot compete in the PL and probable relegation.

Shaw's not even on the bench. He could have got half a game'e experience. If it werent for the window, some of our players would be playing their last game today.

Nothing. We are stuck with what we have until January.

It will be all over by then.