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They are striking when people will be travelling for Easter.

Fair point, but given his usual negativity and the fact that his comment followed a post about the Tranmere result is was an easy mistake to make.

Communication works two ways depending on who is doing the talking and who is doing the listening. There was a time when there were a pot of people with their fingers in their ears singing "La la la la" because they didn't want to hear what was being said! The key element here is money. Mr Cortese has the luxury of having working capital whereas his predecessor "didn't know where the next pound was coming from." As long as ML provides the funds, any half decent CEO should have a fighting chance of talking this club forward.

You really need help mate. So once again you can't enjoy a win over decent opposition, preferring to keep rooted in a poor performace (which by the way even the best teams have at some point in a season). Tell me Alpine, when you lost your virginity was the only thing on your mind the first girl you tried it on with and got knocked back??? In recent weeks we have beaten Norwich away, Walsall, Huddersfield and Leeds....and you drag up an old result against Brighton. Jeez.

You realy are a plonker of the highest order Alpine. The whole point is that you constantly have a view about something you not only didn't see, but were hundreds of miles away from. And that view is inevitabley negative because that is what you zone in on. Whether I am in "Currently Maidstone" or anywhere else for that matter I leave stuff like that to people who saw it. For example, you say "that bad" about the ref at Tranmere but you personally have no idea how good or bad he was other than from what some others have posted here. MInd you, when Pards had a pop at the ref you called that an "excuse"?? So then, what was it? A poor ref or an excuse? And does it depends who calls him a poor ref???

I work for a government agency. WE have to save £500k a year for the next 3 years. 90% of our expenditure is on salaries therefore we are losing staff hand over fist. Fixed term appoitment staff who run our archives have been released meabing we have no one in our archives. My workload will double. The salaries are very poor. Unite need to look at the calender. It is 2010. What might hav emade sense 40 years ago doesn't any more. If they want to look after the needs of their members they should work with BA to reduce the cost base and make the company more efficient. This will have the opposite effect. Unite will lose and BA will force through their changes come what may. I worked for The Times Newspapers when the management decided they had had enough of the unions and they shut the paper down for 11 months (this was pre Murdoch). BA are now at the point where they will do what they have to and that means destroying Unite.

Yep I agree, but it seems an odd thing to come up with at this stage. Be interesting to hear what he has to say.

I seem the officials saying not so long ago that they wouldn't strike over Easter. My children are flying back (or were) from Spain for the Easter holidays and this strike will affect them.

Can you blame them? There are losing a fortune everday and have to cut costs - which in terms has a knock on effect for staff. The strikes will lose the Company another £25m to £30m a day and will probably mean that passengers will chose other airlines in future (as there is planty of choice). I was told the other day that I will have to do two jobs for the same money from the end of the month because we can't afford to recruit. Sadly for their members, the officials of Unite are living in the past. Their actions will mean more jobs losses for their members. THe BA management are playing hardball now. There are plenty of people looking for work and BA can cut their costs by bringing in new motivated staff who wil be more than happy to work under the new conditions.

IF there is plenty of spare dosh rattling around in the bank then perhaps it would be better spent on the players? There is nothing wrong with St Marys and we are not going to need more capacity until we get two promotions.

Perhaps it was a misunderstanding and he is moving to a bigger stadium......... in Milan?

Ah Ronnie! It took longer to sign him than his actual career with us from what I remember, but what a quality player!

You don't seem to have a problem slagging off Northerners, so what is eaxctly the difference between someone from the North/Scotlandand a "Johny Foreigner" as you so quaintly put it?

Pot Kettle Black

Yep, he was a great liitle player. Shame is career ended the way it did with us but that's life. Like you, I prefer to remember his golden moments rather than the sick notes. Proof if ever it was needed that that are gems out there that don't cost a fortune if you look in the right places.

When I was a kid spinach was boiled to within an inch of its life and tasted foul. Nowdays, with onion and garlic it is the dog's danglies

Surely it is the am of every club to do as well as possible and to finish as high in the table as possible. To listen to the odd person on here you would think that the team talk would go something like this, " Well lads, we lost to Tranmere so finishing in the play offs will be harder this year, so just go out for the rest of the season and trot around and save yourselves so next season." Surely every club is ambitious withing their ability to compete? Every manager wants to do well? That is waht makes sport so compelling, that everyone is out to beat everybody else. That also means that clubs are not going to roll over and play daed just because we are the mighty Southampton FC. I have no doubt that Pardew's ambition will be to make the play offs if he can and to finish as high as he can. As any manager would.

And what exactly was your comment about Northerners the other day Alps???

And your posts aren't "petulant"???

Sadly the impatience won't stop when we finally go up. The expectations in some quarters will be instant promotion again. Didn't someone once write something about taking time to smell the roses...and its not the arriving it is the journey?

I don't know about clear favourites DD, but certainly strong contenders. I shall be interested to see what happens in the Summer transfer market. I still think we are a couple of CCC quality players short of being a Leeds or Norwich next season. I would be very surprised if we weren't top 6 for most of next season though.

Another thing I don't get is the hatred directed at people who are just doing their jobs? Where does that come from? I can understand the frustration, but when one regular poster said he wanted to "lump" a recently departed manager you do have to wonder what goes on in these people's heads. At the end of the day it is just a game. If you can't enjoy if for what it is perhaps you should find another outlet for your frustrations?

There is something unholy about the "Premiership", hard to put it into words but it just seems to have lost its soul to cash. I want us to get promoted but it wouldn't bother me if we stayed in the CCC. I just find it hard to identify with all of these foreign imports, as good as many of them are. The CCC seems much more like I remember the good old Division 1 to be like.

Nothing wrong in being a Happy Clapper and enjoying supporting your football club. Surely enjoyment is what it is all about? However some people seem to have certain issues which they seem to excercise through there association with the football club and will always turn anything positive into a neative. I agree with the earlier poster who say rightly that it is not their opinion that is the problem, it is the way they express it. I would add that it is also the fact that they constantly look for something to be negative about that I find draining and, well frankly incredibily tedious. Even if you do put these people on your ignore list you can't avoid their posts because other people repsond to their posts and you see the quotes. It had also gotten to the point where even if you don't read the post you know exactly what they will be saying!!! And all for a fiver too....

Lighten up Alpine and get a sense of humour for goodness sakes. Aferall, if you can't laugh at yourself you might be missing the joke of the century!