Sergei Gotsmanov

It is highly dangerous to start locking people up for saying things that just make them look like tw*ts. Will we one day get locked up for saying something that somebody else does not like. It is a slippery slope. I look back at that poor guy from Southampton that was locked up for sometime for starting a riot in Southampton during the August riots. He cleary wasn't being serious but the police had to justify having 400 officers (I think it was as many as that) scanning social media sites.

Stability and continuity makes for great teams.

If you do that BTF then the jobs end up in China and India.

and why was it he didnt have ash trays at his house?

I support Southampton because they are my local club and most of my community support them. This is more than just a business. You treat people right.

Good business my arse. What are the PR implications for this shabby way of treating Southampton stalwarts.

To not recognise Ricky Lambert would be offensive. For me he will score 15-20 goals this season and that is more than anyone else English.

Is it mostly French people that you know? Is that you are so sensitive about how they think about us? No chippeness as in 'resentful or oversensitive about being perceived as inferior'

I worry that the police may have just gone and arrested the local oddball as they always seem to do. They appealed for a a white or a grey van and this chap has a blue Landrover discovery - if there were witnesses then surely they could see the difference. I think the playing outside bit and the response from the local community just shows that there are parts of the country where people do still feel safe howver misguided that turned out to be.

Gemmel that is a good assesment and I hope too that you are correct. We owe a lot to Cortese lets hope he is running the club's finances with long term and not a short term vision. What does slightly alarm me is that what we spent on transfers this season is almost the same as we spent on building the stadium.

How many fanatical Royalists do you know? This is not the 17th century. Most people just like the tradition, the fact it gives us an identity an excuse for to join together every so often, we don't doff caps. Your comments just expose your chippiness. I am sorry you are so anxious about how the French feel about us. Why don't you read up on your history and ask yourself what we should be thinking about them?

I would be unlikely to vote for labour but I would never rule it out. What I think is the unsaid issue is how he shafted his brother and how that plays with the public. There will always be a price to pay for power but I would never compromise my relationship with my family.

My Grandmother left me £500 and I bought a Greyhound that used to run at Wimbledon. Brilliant entertainment.

That is actually very clever

As any stockman will tell you, higher stocking rates inevitably result in increased disease rates. Nature throws up disease as a natural mechanism to keep populations down. I would far rather have less badgers which are healthy than a lot of badgers that are full of TB. Working towards a healthy badger population should be what everyone should be unified on.

Now it is just a thought but was he the player who got a Saints player sent off eight years before? One of my first games at the Dell (I thought it was Stoke) and one player was getting serious abuse and my old man said that he had had got one of our players sent off while playing for Blackpool or Blackburn when the incidence happened? I am probably not being very clear!

I found that quite interesting particularly that the physical symptoms of TB in cattle are rare. I still think that the core of the argument is that a smaller badger population is key to having a healthier one. I also saw this on that site; http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/23/badger-cull-vital-bovine-tb?newsfeed=true

Is that really a long term solution to the problem. Ultimately it is in the interests of Badgers that the issue is addressed. We should be working towards a healthy cattle and badger population. Badgers are victims of TB as well.

They are a lot rarer than in England and Wales and that is responsible for the varying TB rates. The badger population has exploded in England and Wales in the last few decades and inevitably when you have overpopulation you have more disease - hence the parrallel jump in cattle with TB. Last year 26000 cattle were slaughtered yet one of the key sources of the disease the Badger is left untouched. What is the point of culling one without the other? I am not a scientist but if that is what they are reccomending then why ignore it and continue to sit on our hands. This is crippling the industry and those communities that rely on it. I don't accept that it is a political decision because ultimately it will always be deeply unpopular with the public. It is quite emotive. I would subscribe to the suggestion that if you have a 'healthy' badger population then by culling them all you are doing is exposing yourself to newcomers that may have disease. Maybe badger populations need to be 'managed'. I think that by allowing badger numbers to expand unchecked this has other implications for other populations. I would again suggest that hedgehog numbers have been hit hard as have bees.

So bascally if you have a lot of badgers then you cannot move cattle to where there are no badgers.

So then Badgerx16 how do the 'controls on the shipment of herds and veterinary screening' vary from England?

If I remember rightly, our first year at SMS we got 26500 for it. We have made qwuite a lot of progress.

Not that sad. I did the same. I suspect they are over priced but over a season that is a lot of revenue.

33/1 to be top premier league scorer. I think there is some value in that

But Badger, they would not get TB so much - like in Scotland. That is the whole point of the cull.