alpine_saint

I dont think its a cheap point at all. Without the Scottish votes, the Tories could pass English-specific legislation without the Lib-Dems. This coalition has brought the West Lothian Question even sharper into focus. Its called being hoisted by your own petard. The Scots bleat about Tory UK governments with no Tory MPs in Scotland, but then why should not a Tory English majority decide English issues ?

Well, I havent said it. But there are few posts on this thread that allude to it. I have no idea what our wage strucutre looks like, which is why I just think we should get the players that can fulfill the roles we need with little consideration of their cost. After all, promotion is supposed to be worth 90million to a club, and not even Billy Sharp would end up costing us that.

I am of the opinion NA has done a great job to get us promoted. That run at the end of last season was incredible. However, most of the ingredients were already in place for him. Last season is now history. This season is what matters. He's got us into a great position for a double promotion, but I fear the campaign is faltering, and I want to see the right decisions at the right time to get it back on track. I dont see this happening, currently. I find it strange that people keep saying I am clueless when all I am doing is focusing on the now and the immediate future, and not dwelling on the past.

But in the meantime Scottish MPs could just abstain from voting on English issues to demonstrate a separation in the national interests. Sorry, you are using legaleese to justify the unjustifiable, imo. Which probably comes about from the fact your political affiliation is on the left and the left is screwed on English issues without Scottish votes at the moment.

But in the meantime Scottish MPs could just abstain from voting on English issues to demonstrate a separation in the national interests. Sorry, you are using legaleese to justify the unjustifiable, imo.

In all fairness, the urgent need wasnt there the way it is now. Surely its simple demand-driven economics ?? As for your comment about it sounding fact, when you asked the question you quoted my post "If I were a pro footballer". Surely its hypothetical nature is clear from the words ?

Whats wrong with a murderer feeling the same terror, panic and helplessness in their last moments as their victims felt ?

Jesus, its a hypothetical discussion backed up by an impression some have that NC is somewhat strict with control of the wage structure.

It would also be demoncratic. And I am talking about Scottish MPs not voting on English education bills, for example.

But that is what it is like in the stands !! Isnt it in a way reassuring that the match thread reflects events in the stands too ? You cant go round punching whinging old duffers in the stands at SMS who experess a negative opinion you dont like - why can you do it verbally on here ?

I dont think we have made a new one since the summer, no. The point is, if I were a pro footballer instructing an agent, and Saints came-a-knocking with their recent form threatening to knock them out of an automatic promotion position, I'd add a few Ks to my weekly wage expectation too.

The reason why we have gone after Lee, in my opinion, is because his wage demands arent inflated by familiarity on the English football scene

I'd like to know when Scottish MPs stop voting on English laws; the "West Lothian Question" I know the HOC is investigating a law change about this already, but the Scottish MPs could actually voluntarily stop if they were so high-principled about independence...

So you dont think that the ill will between the two parts of the UK is on the increase ?

What a pathetic attempt at twisting the discussion.

Well, I wonder where NC is going to find the sort of quality players we need, that are naiive enough to accept low wages even though its is painfully obvious how critical their addition is to getting our campaign back on track.

You mean the having-your-cake-and-eating-it solution ? I bet they do. We fund their uni places (how peverse is it that a student from Bulgaria pays no fees, but one from England does??), their free prescriptions, and many other things to boot, and they just slag us off. Cameron is spot on. You're in or out guys. Pity he wont give the UK the same choice about the EU.

Dont blame me, I used to be a big fan of the union and call myself British, before the racist Pie-Face started whipping up anti-English feeling north of the border. The final straw was hearing about grown Scottish men smacking a kid and a disabled bloke in a wheelchair, both of which wore England shirts, in some part of Glasgow or another, during Portugal 2008. I also remember watching England v Argentina during France 98 with an insufferable large group of Scots, resplendent in their ginger wigs, Scotland shirts and kilts, with Argentinian flags painted on their faces. Sod the fact they killed 255 British servicemen a few years before with an illegal military incursion into sovereign British territory.

Good draw, I reckon. Might be a tough game, but emminently winnable.

You've been saving that post up for years, and I've given you the opportunity. mea culpa..

Considering what the last two PMs (both Sweaties) did to this nation, I reckon we should let them govern themselves and laugh from a distance as they try to do it without English money.

Wouldnt mind Manyoo home again, considering what last years result did as a shot-in-the arm to our confidence and performance in the League.

I reckon Cameron is doing the right thing, taking the initiative. 1. Set them an in/out straight choice, none of this independence-lite sh*t where they have their cake and eat it too - all the benefits of a Union and none of the responsibilities. 2. Force the referendum for this year or early next year so Pie-Face cannot set it for the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn (the last time the sweaties won) and ride home on a wave of nationalism. Seeing Camerons action as positive is of course contingent on being a Unionist, which I am not sure I am anymore. Part of me yearns to cut those whinging scrounging f**kers and their Barnet formula free once-and-for-all.

Either that or suffering from bad tooth decay.....

The only clinically proven benefit of gum that I have read about is reducing plaque acid due to the enymzes present in saliva, the production of which is stimulated by chewing gum.