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Bottom line, we cant/don't compete with wages/big club status. Players will leave for more money/bigger club. On the upside there are plenty of decent players who will play for us on the way up.

We do have these CB but not to the same extent as the USA.

Sarnia, it is worth arguing because we all need to understand where each other is coming from.

Jesus, how cr@p is This Week? I have heard about TV dumbing down but this takes the biscuit. The Page 3 issue was just embarrassing.

Funnily enough my wife said she looks like an ex Page 3 girl!

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Looking at QT tonight and listening to the nice man from UKIP it occurred to me that The Sun really isn't being true to itself. If it was it would be supporting UKIP. The following programme has been interesting. A "model" fought her corner supported (given the premise that turkeys don't vote for Chrismas) by former NI employee Andrew "Brillo Pad" Neil. At the end of the day, there is no reason whatsoever that it is okay to put sexual images in a family newspaper. The key word here is "family." On a higher note, the vast majority of people in this country choose not to buy or read The Sun.

Actually I think guns are cool and used to love shooting an air rifle when I was a kid. I can see the appeal. I can also see that they are very dangerous and in the wrong hands, as they often seem to be, they cause so much damage. It is hard for someone to run amok with a knife and kill loads of people but so easy with a gun. Guns also go off accidently even when people think they know how to handle them and innocent people lose their lives. No banning guns will not stop violence, but it will stop people being shot.

Wasn't a bad start to his career with us though was it

Tabloid newspapers are just that, newspapers. Newspapers are often delivered to people's houses and the people in the house - usually families - read those newspapers. Jazz mags are called things like Playboy and Men Only. There is usually a hint in the titles that said magazine contains, erm, adult material. The Sun has always marketed itself as a family newspaper, as does the Mirror. To be fair to the Mirror they didn't go down the topless bird route (if they ever did I missed that). The Mail and Express are also tabloid newspapers. Many of the old broadsheets have also shrunk and aren't really broadsheets any more.

What are we praying for? That he is badly injured?

Not a fan of Koeman then? And wasn't Toby carrying a knock?

You have not been following the thread then? It is not a question of stopping them getting their boobs out for cash - it is whether a national daily family newspaper is the place for their boobs in the first place.

Page 3 is not the only place girls can get paid for getting their boobs out.

I am not saying that my daughters have body image issues just from Page 3. They are bombarded with images from all forms of media. Obviously the Page 3/ lads mag type is slim legs and waist and big boobs. I don't know about you but I don't know many, if any, women with bodies like that. These are the images that are presented as want men find sexually attractive. This is the benchmark. This is also unrealistic. Re body image, you will probably know that anorexics think they are fat when they are not.

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It would be good to hear from more of the girls on here.

For all of our American Saints supporting friends on here I apologise for the hard time given here. People do generalise and I am sure you are not all psychotic gun toting maniacs. It is hard to understand the obsession with guns that many of your countymen have. Growing up Charlton Heston was a hero of mine as he was in all of the epic movies at the time. That all ended when he delivered that speech about removing his gun from his cold dead hand (or something similar). Indians are no longer a threat and although someone mentioned bears, I have not seen any of those wandering down 5th Avenue or Rodeo Drive in my visits. You need to give up your own weapons of mass destruction before there is another massacre in a school or Mall.

Was taken to "supper" at the Savoy many moons ago and he was sitting on the next table. Creepy looking guy.

Yep, you are dead right. Many of their readers do continue to buy the paper despite rather than because of the boobs and that is why Page 3 has lasted so long. If Page 3 ever threatened to hit Murdoch's bottom line you can bet that it would have been ditched years ago. I am sure those that like the paper but don't agree with Page 3 just turn the page and ignore it which is a shame. Thing is if you want boobs there are far better products to look at whereas Heat is all about gossip. It is like, me like to look at a fit bird so we will chuck one in every day to keep them happy when they have finished reading about last night's match. It is just such an odd thing to add to a daily newspaper. The Sun likes to be known as a newspaper not a jazz mag so fine, stick to news, gossip, TV and sport and leave the sexual images to those who do it so much better than you and who sell on the back of sex.

Banning plays into the hands of those who the word wimmin and slag off political correctness. The issue is also wider then just Page 3. As has been mentioned, there is a far greater threat with the widespread access to porn on the internet. Despite the rights/wrongs of Page 3 it is dreadfully out of date now and you would like to think that those people forming policy at NI would take the view that they should be treating all of their readers with more respect in this day and age.

Hasn't Bruno got some ridiculous buy out clause?

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I don't think that there will be a shortage of work for attractive young woman who are prepared to take their clothes off.

They are all funny and engaging but I did hear one make a comment about her size (she is an and her lack of boobs. She is only 18. Her mother (my ex wife) has had quite a lot of plastic surgery (not that she needed it) and I just hope that hasn't sent the wrong message.