badgerx16

The drinks are on you then ?

You should know by now that on here you are not allowed to put statements in their full context - you have to cherry pick and edit to create an 'agenda'.

We're a provincial club, and most media pundits hold that view - a suitable peg on which to hang such tags as 'plucky', 'honest', and 'hard working', ( hopefully we've moved on from 'struggling' and 'relegation threatened' ). To my mind Saints are of similar 'size' to Stoke and Derby, so do you think Stoke haven't won as much as they should have ? Certainly Derby did well to win their 2 league titles in the 70's, but their recent history isn't much to write home about.

I'm trying to gauge how we measure 'a club our size' - is it catchment area, years in the top flight, or financial clout ( hence the Dell reference ).

How do you define this ? Are we bigger than Middlesborough, ( 1 cup win ) ? QPR, ( 1 cup win ) ? Or even Hull, ( no major trophies ) ? You need to remember we have spent at least half of those 100 years in the lower divisions, and most of our top flight years were at the Dell.

How many similar threads do they have on Man Utd forums ? Or after yesterday, Man City's ?

Or just give GS his own sub-forum. .

This, this, and again this.

And impressed a watching young filly

3 gardeners planting a rose in an elderly woman's garden - Doug dug the hole, and after Russell had rustled the lady's bush, Phil filled it in.

Whilst you might settle on a settle in Lancashire, you would be in Yorkshire if you were to settle in Settle.

Guess what happened when Ben Doon met Phil MaCafferty.

Shepherds crook - who'll fetch the sheep now ? Nicholas Parsons - windy round the cassocks.

A running man bumped into a girl, and bowled a maiden over.

It's no mere trifle.

http://www.redundancyexpert.co.uk/overtime-calculated-redundancy-pay.html "Overtime will only be included in your normal working week hours if your employment of work stipulates that you have to do it as part of your job. If you are doing overtime of your own accord than it will not be calculated into your redundancy pay." Presumably your employer has published it's VR scheme and agreed it with the Unions.

If you look at what many might presume to be our first eleven, how many goals would you expect from Boruc, Lovren, Fonte, Schneiderlin, Wanyama, and Davis ? If Osvaldo had delivered on his supposed potential he'd be in our top 2 scorers.

Why, with a team where the primary goal threat, and at least half of the outfield team, is English. How many other PL teams have English players as their principle 3 attackers ?

Joined the LGPS on my first day - 18th Nov 1982. Still paying in.

As I stated above, Russia's position is that it is protecting it's interests and the ethnic Russian majority from a western instigated coup against the democratically elected Government of Ukraine. The broader picture almost certainly includes continued access to naval and air bases on the Black Sea.

But both Kruschev and Stalin where working on the basis of a unified USSR - an independent Ukraine wasn't a consideration in the 1950s, that only became possible post-Gorbachev. As for the democratic vote - the last election in Ukraine elected a pro-Russian Government, and the Crimea is due it's own vote in a couple of months - when the nearly 2/3rds ethnic Russian majority will get their way.

Did he use them for halal chips ?

Because their view is that they are protecting ethnic Russians from a western induced coup-d'etat that has deposed a legitimately elected ( pro-Russian ) Government. Russia's constitution enables them to take any action necessary to protect ethnic Russians wherever they may be.

1 Chelsea 28 19 6 3 52 22 30 63 2 Liverpool 28 18 5 5 73 35 38 59 3 Arsenal 28 18 5 5 52 28 24 59 4 Man City 26 18 3 5 69 27 42 57 5 Tottenham 28 16 5 7 37 33 4 53 6 Everton 27 13 9 5 38 27 11 48 7 Man Utd 27 13 6 8 43 31 12 45 8 Newcastle 28 13 4 11 37 39 -2 43 9 Southampton 28 10 9 9 38 35 3 39 10 West Ham 28 8 7 13 31 35 -4 31 11 Aston Villa 28 8 7 13 31 38 -7 31 12 Hull 28 8 6 14 30 35 -5 30

I ask again, what would you want them to do ?