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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.

So the Brightons. Leicesters and Burnelys are seem as being more ambitious and better bets than us? Jeez.

Brighton? £2.5m? Bloody hell.

Can we please dump this bus b*ll*cks. I have a lot of respect for what Adkins has achieved but some of his statements make me cringe and the bus thing was the worst of the lot.

Just been watching the "highlights" again and it is strange how U2 came across. Larry Mullen seemed very disinterested in the after concert interview and that cam through in their performance. One thing that really grates. It is an awsome festival yet the bland one dimensional people they get to do the links from Radio 1 turn it into amateur hour.

Like Diana who, in Royals circles was attractive but in reality was average, the media hype up anyone in public life who has one iota of sex appeal as being "special." There are better looking women in my office but because Pippa has that "Royal" thing going on all of a sudden she is special. Strange that no one took a blind bit of notice of her before her sister got the royal sh*g of approval.

There is an awful lot of b*ll*cks spouted on this thread. I have worked in both the public and private sector and I can tell you that life in the public sector is so much harder nowdays. I manage 14 people, I work 10 hour days, I have trouble getting leave because I can't get staff to act up for me, I earn less than the national average wage, there is no overtime available so I don't get paid for the extra hours I work, my office is undermanned and those who do come in end up going off sick because of the stress, there is a pay freeze, there is no opportunty for promotion. No I didn't go on strike but after reading this thread I wish I had. I am earning half or what I did ten years ago with more stress to do what? To serve the public. The very public now who are saying that the public sector have got it easy. What you have to understand is this. You want your bins cleared, your children taught, your streets safe from crime right? None of these things actually create a cash flow. They are dependant on Governement funding. They are essential for the effecient running of our society yet those in the private sector think they are paying too much for these services. The truth is that they are not paying enough. I don't agree with strikes but the people who went out yesterday have got a grievance. If someone signs up for a contract they expect that to be honoured. The Government can't suddenly change someone's pension scheme after 20 odd years of service. Where does that happen in the public sector? I am all up for equality. BUt that applies to both sectors. You want change fine, but for new starters not people who signed up for a package years ago.

Abolutely, and while they are at it they can standardise the pay and perks too so a massive pay rise for me with a company car, mobile phone and laptop. We do live in the real world mate and trust me, the private sector pays better and offers better perks - unless you count free paper clips as a perk.

Thi is quite chilling and will, if made law, make homes less safe not more safe. More householders will end up injured or dead. It will not deter burglars but it will ensure that they go on jobs tooled up. I can't believe the quote about encouraging little old ladies to stab people. Unbelievable.

You cite one case. Do you know what actaully happened? Why do you think someone who breaks into your house is remotely interested at getting at your children? Confrontation is "highly likely" if you decide to chase the villian. And why whisper. You want the bloke to hear so that he knows the cops are on the way. Most people have moble phones if not cordless phones in the bedroom. You can go on making excuses all you like but if you really want a fight vote for dear old Ken Clarke and you will be sorted. or maybe even dead because the chances are if this bill gets passed burglars will start to carry knives and guns.

I read the case files ever day. Come and talk to our lawyers. You start from the assumption that people who break into your home are intent on doing you harm. They are not, they just want to steal things from you. That is not an offence punishable by death.

Its got nothing to do with shouting. It comes back to using reasonable force. LIke it or not, if you stab someone to death the court is going to take some convincing that is reasonable. You need to justify taking a life compared to taking a telly.

Blimey, reading some of the stuff on here I must be missing something. It seems it is wonderful working in the public sector. Makes me wonder why half of my staff applied for the early exit scheme recently.

When I saw Simon Charlton walking along the touchline at Selhurst Park I thought he was one of the ball boys.

Really, go look at the records and see how many burglaries end with violence between the two parties. The last thing they want is to get nicked and most are more scared than the people they are robbing.