Secret Site Agent

OK, let me lay it down for you. My source is Turkish. His source is the Echo. I cut and pasted the item from the Echo into here. I had a little joke with you. I put the LOL on the end to show I did this for fun. In my own professional opinion I'm guessing it is related to a thing called 'Future Proofing' which means that, as an extreme example, putting on an Asbestos roof back in the 80's when you know that Asbestos is going to be banned in the near future. So a change in spec means a redesign. They may even be looking at making it a Passivhaus, which is a type of construction that doesn't need heating or lighting because it's design incorporates a lot of insulated materials and strategically placed windows and skylights. Hope this helps.

Problems with the structure would NOT lead to a contractor being removed from site. It's very difficult to remove a contractor from site and normally requires a lot of time and perhaps dough. If there was a problem, they would write to the contractor, give him a time frame to resolve, and if he doesn't, then get it resolved by someone else and charge the contractor for it. The same with any professional if they are at fault, that is why we carry Professional Indemnity insurance. It's normally the other way round with a contractor walking off of site, but here he leaves himself open to the same charges. Yep. That NEVER happens. Try attending a meeting involving a government department. When the brown stuff hits the fan, everyone blames everyone else. Contractors blame the Designer/Architect, Designer/Architect blames the client., Client blames everyone especially the contractor. And the problem with clients, (and some of the poor devils on Cowboy Builders) is that any change COSTS MONEY!!!!!!!!!! You may think you can change the size of the fencing, Mr Bloody Client, and you think just because I haven't put it up yet, it's not a problem. But if it takes 6 weeks to manufacture, 2 weeks to deliver, I ordered it 8 weeks ago and have to pay for it, so does the client, who don't like that.

Hey it's alright. According to my sources, it has been agreed to pause the process whilst details of a specific aspect of the specification is confirmed. I can't reveal my sources, (see Turkish post 166) but once this aspect is confirmed, the works will continue. Sorry, had to bite. My guess is a change in the offing to allow us to still be at the top level for training, so they are having to have a rethink regarding changing the spec to make it Futureproof. Plenty akers will be involved, as stopping work mean paying an agreed 'standing time' for the machines and workforce. And I can't see that coming out of SFC coffers unless it really is a client change, and the Risk Register identifies it. For the layman, this means that a flat schedule of rates will be paid daily to the contractor for his plant, and his men SHOULD still be paid, but at a flat rate, which is hard as if they were getting say 50 hours/week, they may now only 37.5 - 39. And standing is a regular occurence, more common than not with a lot of newer schemes using more innovative processes, as the cost of rework is normally much higher than just waiting to do it correctly first time. I have been stood down in the past for a specificational glitch for concrete for a central reserve barrier, (to do with the stuff in the concrete that isn't cement and water), stood down because of a change in the waste regs due to us tendering a job before april to remove a carriageway with 0.1 % tar bound material, which was below the trigger level for contamninated, and going to remove it when the job started after april to find it was now classed as contaminated, (this cost 200k and, you guessed it, you loverly boys paid for that mistake.) I've also been stood down because of Badgers, Newts, Dormice, and a microsnail (Desmoulin's whorl snail, which didn't stop the Newbury bypass strangly enough). I'm on stop now because of Asbestos cement sheeting used as permenant formwork, which wasn't identified at tender stage. unfortunatly I must exclude myself from the argument over builders and Architects, on account of being a Civil Engineer. Wish I had got involved sooner, to clear this up. Perhaps NC should employ a decent company to provide it. We'll do it for a fee, modest of course, and ensure the job is future proofed.

Leighton baines for me.

A cross between Benny Hill and Mick Channon. Although I have a slight posh accent when in that sort of company.

I'm glad to see him back too. Sent from my desktop using my pointing digits and a logitek keyboard

In answer to Wes,I think it's the otherway round. If you see the clip where he's talking to the guy in the bar when they are on holiday, ( and go to 3:36) It's just like that.

I'd like to see him scoring regularly, getting 28, with Rooney on 20, and a big broohaha about him not being picked for England.

Yes, I saw that on the stream and wanted to check on MOTD. He grabbed Clynes arm, called him '****ing ****' (which is easily decernable on TV) and tries to throw him back. I'm going to send a letter to the club. Another self deluded drunk with power, bullied at school, **** himself who doesn't realise without the players, no fans, without the fans, no stewards. I bet he's a traffic warden, or a Highways Agency Traffic Officer, or a PCSO in real life. On the up side, I believe that Lowro deliberatly avoided the subject of Ramirez, or somethignlike this would have happened. Lowro: That Ramirez on his first game start definatly made a difference. Redknapp: Yes his movement and passing made the difference today and changed the tempo of the game for the goal. Line-Acre: Yes. Didn't you say that Saints would never sign him. L: Don't go there Gary. Line-Acre: NO, do you remember you said they wouldn't sign him. You were quite specific about the fact that they wouldn't sign him, yet here he is in Red and a hint of White. L: Look, I just weighed up the facts, ok. They are a tin pot team who haven't got the money to buy a player at 12 million. Line-Acre: but they have. L: Well, they must be heavely in debt then to pay that much. Line-Acre: They're worth about 5 billion. L: Yes, 5 million won't ........ Line-Acre: I said 5 BILLION. 5th richest in the League. R: 5 Billion??????? Where's me phone, HAS ANYONE GOT CORTESES NUMBER? I've got to open Rosies account again. L

I can finally start watching MOTD. Puncheon, the great enigma, if only he can now play like that for the full 90. Talk of his goal being given as an own goal, i hope not. Yoshida looks the real deal, very impressed and let see him with Jos bolster up the defence. Clyne I am impressed with especially for his goal. Ramirez, what can I say. Speechless. And Richie Lambert. Why is he not playing for England. Good positioning, good goal and pushed us onto the win. The Season........... has.................... ..........................Started.

I Hope Nige hasn't made a booboo. I hope Munyaka Munyaka Styling scores a beauty.

Were playing much better this half, but at 3-1 shouldn't take the foot off the gas. Worked last time

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Were playing much better this half, but at 2-1 shouldn't take the foot off the gas.

NA had better have a good Half Time talk up his sleeve. Perhaps we should just go to hoof ball.

****ing ******

Our manager in million years time will be Zarxon Quarxs, a Beetleguisian born to parents in the Tau Cti region of space. Zarxon originally stars as a winger, on the books at Starshine Accademicals, before spending a couple of years at Bluxnox united, before finishing up at Dagenham and Redbridge. He'll have a minor international career, playing for Wales, due to Grand Parent links and has a pretty good run with them in the Milky Way Cup. After a nasty tackle during a game against Plobnaxy Athleticals in the spiral arm league from Jimmy Case Clone #1138 which will brake his metatarsal, he is unable recover from nanobot treatment and goes into coaching. After a spell as fitness coach at Bristol City and Young Boys, he becomes manager at Tripoli Radiation Bowl United, where he succeeds in taking them to the top of the United African Confederation League. He spends two seasons at Lazio before taking over the reigns at Southampton. Zarxon is in his second season a million years from now, after taking over from the animated corps of Rafa Benitez, and Saints are fifteenth in the Apple Ipod Premiership, after promotion from the MacDonalds/Coca-Cola/Tacobell/KFC Championship where they came second to Acrington Stanley. They lost at the weekend to Manchester United, although their manager, Alex Fugusons Head suspended in a jar of Sarsons Vinegar, claimed that we put up a good fight, leading them 2-1 for most of the match, before losing 15-2 in the 33rd hour of extra time. He is under pressure though to preform, both from the Chairman, the Ghost of Nicola Cortese, and the Saintsweb Quorum of nine. but things are looking up as Zarxon is looking to sign Rudi Skecel like blob of intelligent protomatter from Orions Gate, according to the football pundit Matt Le Robotissier. Harry will still not have been manager again, and the DFS sale will still be on.

We are three years into his five year plan, I would have thought he was happy to wait until then, as long as the plan is in place and progressing. As a business man he does understand that you have to speculate to accumilate, and with us two year early to the prem, we can't get instant success unless you buy the whole first team of Man City and Chelsea.

Do you mean Craig Noone of Cardiff, but he's only 24? Or do you mean John Noone, former Southampton Council councillor and SFC steward?

Didn't see it, but Dave Merrington was impressed and believed we played better in the second half with him out there, among other things. Certainly sounds like what we need. If we can just get a few def that install the same amount of hope.

+1 for me. I feel that we have arrived in the Premiership too early and we just aren't prepared. It's nice that we have, and we have spent a few bob to try and stay here, but for me, not bothered if we don't as this will give us a chance to continue consolidating and return anew, better prepared and with a team who can preform together, just like the one we had last season, and the season before. We know what our failings are, and I do believe we are trying to shore those up. We have the problem that what we can offer at the moment is players a season in the Premiership with us, and then relegation, from the look of it on paper, so the lack of other signings although we have supposedly tried, (those that we know about, I think there are many we don't ) are just introducing us to fielding 11 players, of which only 7 or 8 are a team, with 3-4 stangers who don't know how to fit in with the rest yet. Throw more money and the ratio of team players to strangers increases. I think the solution is loaning of players at this stage, definatly for shoring up the defence. The advantages would be that they are looking to be in the shop window to prove what they can do, which may overcome the 'strangers' problem a little quicker with exceesive zeal, but is not a solution in the long term, just enbough to get us to January. But I would welcome the Championship again for next season.

I agree. we want to be unique and not look like another team, bring back the Sash. Wouldn't even need an away kit.

My personal opinion is that why should we have spent the 12m on other areas, when we could spend 12m and more on other areas.

No, sorry Stu0x, you fail once more miserably. He has information on the event which is already happened, so should be calling 101, NOT 999. I don't think he witnessed it and tried to phone 101 whilst watching it, isn't that right, corky.

Mine is because......... I was a site agent at the time And when I was in the Army my last command was a liaison between the Intelligence Corp and the Centre for the protection of the National Infrastructure. Which equalled a lot of coffee drinking and drawings and driving around to meetings and eating a lot of cake.