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Why doesn't he get a start???

Why doesn't de Ridder start?

Went downhill rapidly after that first great album.

I was sorry to see Pards go as I thought he was doing a decent job for us. Still it has worked out well for both him and us. I am sure Adkins is thankful for the set up AP left behind and has gone on to build on that. Good luck to both managers (but I hope we stuff the Toon when we play them).

My partner has just recieved her Orange bill. WE couldn't get her phoned connected until the last couple of days of the holiday. She then sent a couple of texts and made a couple of calls. Didn't go near the internet but still got a £70 charge for data! I am in discussions with Customer Service at the moment so fingers crossed.

No, no warning at all. Mind you, I was in Turkey and they are not part of the EU!

Just in shock Bridgey. I have paid my usual amount and am contesting the data bill. Thanks for the info Huffton. Wish me luck!!!

You are right Pancake. I am a smart phone stupid user. I only got one to check my emails now and again and have never bothered with the small print - my bad - but should I be £3224 out of pocket for a service that the phone, not me, used just because I don't understand how the damn thing works? SUrely there should be a cap or at least a text warning if the use starts to exceed normal use? It is a bit of ajump from £30 to £3000. The nice lady at Orange said that they could help me spread the payments. Thanks. The bill was 10 times the price of the bloody holiday! Stupid or not, this seems like a licence to print money. I read that another guy wrcked up a bill of £8k on his laptop and some other sucker downloaded a TV programme at a cost of £31,500! There are loads of us stupids out there and we should be protected. If my credit card spending changes I get a call - simples. Jackanory - it is one thing to update you on the costs, another to bill you for data you dont even know you are downloading!

Thanks for the feedback guys. The first amount of £600 was from when I was in England and the updated £2600+ from when I was away in Turkey. As part of my package I have 500MB a month and never use that amount. This data roaming thing is a complete newbie to me as I thought I was covered by my download package. I and not an IT geek and tend to press loads of buttons until something works so could well have left the roaming button checked. For all the bloody update texts I get from Orange you would think that I would get one warning me to turn the bloody button off!!!

I have just received my monthly contract bill. It is usually around £29. This one is for £609!!! It seems they have charged me for data roaming although I used the same amount of internet time I always do. Worried, I checked online to see where I was with this month's bill. £2644.77 so far!!! Jesus. No one has texted or called me from Orange to tell me that I am racking up my bill. Has anyone else had this problem?

Matt Cardle has an awesome voice and will do well. Kelly Rowland is easy on the eye too so not all bad!

He may not have cut it as a a manager but is a decent coach.

Louis Walsh should be dumped. He seems to chose the "novelty acts" rather than pick people who might actually have a chnace of winning. Thank goodness that oriental tart had the decency to pull out. Sami and Jade were two of the better singers this year but both were dumped by the judges. Crazy. A poor crop this year. No Matt Cardle or Leona Lewis amongst them sadly. Stll that attention seking tart Kitty will be good for a laugh if nothing else.

When Frannie was playing they didn't get the kind of money they get now. It looks like he was craeful and inested in property. Apparently he rented a place to NC and NC refused to pay the rent because of something or other and they are now going to court.

I am sure Adkins is thankful for the platform that Pardew left him. Good luck to both of them.

It's is great that we are doing so well but there are issues like why did we apparently land do many of our transfer targets, what really happened with Pardew etc that l'd be interested iin hearing about. Top or bottom of the league it doesn't make anyone imune from answering questions or critisisms. By the way, a huge well done should go to the manager for our ggreat start to the season.i

Good to see that free speech is alive and well on this board. Just because we are doing well doesnt mean we can't have this debate. If it was Lowe it would be fine. What a bunch of hypocrites you are.

Pardew certainly laid the foundations but since Christmas Adkins has done an amazing job. Long may it continue.

I think it is the vocal harmonies again. I do like harmoniesbut not Queens or ELOs. I also thought that The Stanglers were a far better band than The Clash and that The Jam just rehashed The Who, The Small Faces, The Kinks and The Beatles whilst Paul Weller rebuilt his career on the back of Steve Winwood.

This won't be popular but Queen. Bought their first few albums but now can't stand their music. Can't be doing with the multitrack vocals and the ghay guitar sound. ELO too, although I didn't like them in the first place.

Loving the logic that something can only exist if it has been on YouTube.

Possibly hedging his bets and decided on the other fella who was also didn't sign in the end. Oh well, there will be another at some point.

Black Sabbath at the Hammersmith Odeon (as was then). Total carp. Also Deep Purple at Wembley Area with some bloke called Tommy Bolin on guitar. Also total carp and I think he died soon after. Not fit to tie Ritchie Blackmore's shoe laces.

And to think that there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when we "lost out" to Coventry. Hindisght is a wonderfull thing but even at the time SISU didn't seem a great option. Happy days. At last.

Good point! I expected CMS to sign for a "bigger" club but hey ho. Brighton huh? Go figure. I am disappointed that we have not brought new blood in as I do believe we need 2 to 3 quality signings if we are to move up to the next level. Still, we do the same every year. Whilst other clubs bring in new players, we either sit back and wait or don't get involved. AS for ambition, well it would be nice to have some decent new players coming in now but we still have a few weeks left before the start of the new season.