Joensuu

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What a nasty meddlesome prat.

To be fair, the rubbish going around is only being spread by a handful of individuals. I'm not sure why they have an agenda against the club, but thankfully they are in a tiny minority. BTW, all the best to the new scholars.

Agree we would hold our own, and finish in the mid-table region with our current squad. Main problem I can see is a complete lack of pace, without Papa or Antonio (or better) we might find it hard to hit teams on the break. Were I Pardew I would be looking for a young (17-19) right back with bags of potential, a defensive midfielder in their prime (25-28), and a pacy winger with tidy ball control and an accurate cross (preferably one who could play up front if needed), and possibly a backup forward in the Lambert mold. With these four additions I feel we would be challenging for the Championship playoffs.

Saints will sign an unknown ginger player, who turns out to be fantastic, much to Turkish's disgust.

Sure both we and the Echo knew about Dickson before he signed... perhaps it's be bit soon to write off speculation?

Yeah, but I had to get a dig in against the nasty totalitarian blue-rinse press.

Both Dulwich Village and East Dulwich Grove get busy at rush hour, so I can see the school's point. There is also no way a 8 year old can be fully responsible for themselves - let alone take responsbility for a 5 year old at the same time. The parents should wait 3 of 4 more years, and the Daily Facist should keep its nose out of other people's business.

Best right back has to be either Lahm or Maicon.

I can finish early when it suits me, so it's not just your Postie, it's us skiving Private sector workers too. You're lucky your binmen work bank holidays at all. Mine don't, and we end up not knowing whether they will come as usual, or later that week, while sometimes they seem to come the day after they usually would have. Perhaps they have a different system altogether, perhaps they half the binmen get the bank holiday off, while the others have to work 14 hour shifts to cover them - then get a different day off later that week? Who knows? But it does seem a little mean spirited of you to be criticising workers getting up early on a bank holiday... I do hope they get generous overtime. As for your office, sounds like a lovely workplace. No paid lunch break, beautiful. Blocked websites, how, err Maoist. Are you allowed to tell jokes? Take toilet breaks (without clocking off?).

Of course all your staff work at 100% No time for coffee breaks in your office eh? No posting on online forums during work hours eh? And what hours is it you work again Lord D? Or is that a rule only your staff have to abide by? Sorry to shatter you're illustion, but whether Public or Private, few people work every day at capacity.

Or, perhaps because the benefits of many of those people who are 'cut' are likely to cost the government about the same as they previously did in wages?

Perhaps because workplaces aren't offering adequate incentives to stimulate/reward hard work. All but the strangest brown-nosing ladder-climbers tend to grind along at around 70-80% capacity except once of twice a fortnight when the brown stuff hits the fan. Also doesn't your post sound a little Stalinesque? You know, five year plans, working at 100% etc. Secret Commie?

JB, you make my 37 hour private sector week sound a breeze. Perhaps I should have joined the public sector to be worked a bit harder?

Just a hunch. Wondered if I knew you.

Not really sure, thought it was a possibly interesting tangent

Seen as he's sidestepped (overlooked?) my question, I wonder if it's safe to assume Dune's name is indeed Charles?

I've worked it out. Littlejohn 'accidently' said "1,116,841 working days", when he meant "1,116,841 working hours". One harmless not at all politically motivated slip of the keyboard... http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1786188

So Dune, is your name Charles?

Just a thought Lord D, but if someone in your staff had, say, a moderate cold, would you prefer them to stay at home, or ask them to come to work? Don't forget, they will be far less productive than usual, and there is an increased chance other employees will be infected. I would have thought many people get 3-4 legitimate minor illnesses each year, which might be best treated from home - why should this trigger and 'warning'?

Bit unfair IMO. Most of the teachers I know spend much of their leave on paperwork and marking. The amount of effort that's involved, and the level of training required is broadly in line with other private sector roles on c. £30k (say HR etc). Were the wage lower, we'd have difficulty recruiting quality teachers.

Agree entirely. The "all teachers over £30k" is well off the mark, as they start on what, about £21K (ish)? But the average for all teachers is probably around the £30-32k mark...

I don't really get that bit. They seem to be simultaniously predicting a drop of between '600,000 and 700,000' private sector jobs (over the next 5 years), while at the same time an additional 2.5 million new private sector jobs... As far as I can see, the private sector will lose jobs which depend upon government spending, but them mysteriously create new jobs out of thin air during unfavorable economic conditions. Where are these new magic jobs going to be created? Which UK industry is about to expand? Edit: Here's some more on those magic 2 million new jobs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/30/george-osborne-unemployment-statistics

You're a teacher aren't you? I could have picked from other souces... "all teachers, including those at nursery and primary level, earn above £30,000 - salaries which are substantially above the rates earned by civil and electrical engineers." "The average salary for a Teacher in the UK is: £30,889" "the average teacher's salary in March 2006, when it stood at £31,434 ... Teachers had a 2.5% pay rise in September, which if reflected in the average would take it to about £32,200 at present."