Ken Tone

It's approximately 43 years since I last did any serious training. That makes me only about 87% fit right?

Sleeping giant

Looks as if front row wil be blocked http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23004880 And I'd only just got used to it!

Good job you said. I immediately thought of one rhyming with "punts"

An excellent author -- unusual in working in 2 genres under almost the same name, one as Iain Banks and one as Iain M. Banks. I recommend his books to everyone. His death at only 59 has robbed us of many more that he would have written. I read 'Surface Detail' only a few weeks ago -- what an extraordinary imagination!

To be fair, I suspect we'd have a different view if we were Bristol City fans.

Maybe, if it is made of second hand material from the rag and bone man?

Exactly. You need to be careful and clear about what is formally a redundancy payment as such, and what is merely part of a package related to redundancy. It is only the first 30k of an official redundancy payment that is tax free... ie additional compensation for being made redundant, not payments in lieu of notice, or indeed any other contractual obligations that your employer is bound to make.

Exactly. Bookies' odds aren't just about the likelihood of an event happening; they also take into account number of bets made, because that affects their possible losses. Plus supply and demand affects price anyway...why offer long odds if enough fools are putting bets on at short odds? So if, for example, enough people put bets on Nigel Farage becoming the next prime minister, the odds would be fairly short, even though it is highly unlikely to happen. Portsmouth having probably the biggest fan base in L2 now that Braford aren't there, means that they will have more deluded fans betting on success than any other L2 club and that in itself will make them favourites.

You're probably right, but will he still be that good when he is 37? Remember, no one signed him after he left Saints until the skates did -- presumably because of his injury record. If I were managing Bournemeuth etc I'd have offered him a very short term deal, maybe only a game by game contract, not a 2 year one. Sounds as if he's interested in moving into coaching and the skates have promised him the opportunity during his time there, so i suppose he might see this as an investing in his career development phase of his life , rather than an earning big money phase.

And it's a 2 year deal, so he'll still be getting paid at 37. Gives him some pocket money!

Ever heard of the Hawthorne Effect? Sounds like it might well have applied here. Any change can produce good results -- for a while !

Nor me , but then neither did I see the coming of Pardew's or Adkins's sacking

So exactly who are "the trust that owns the club" ?

Why are so many people saying almost safe? We are mathematically absolutely safe. Wigan can only catch us if they beat Arsenal and Villa, and if that happens villa can't improve their goal difference to catch us. It's between Wigan, Sunderland and Villa only

maybe?

Call someone from Sunderland a Geordie, and you're going to get in an argument. They hate Geordies as much as we hate skates. Sunderland people are call mackems.

Mackem, not Geordie

I always used to feel sorry for that poor fan, but if he will support portsmouth .........

which game is that then?

There is a certain irony in this drivel having the American spelling of 'licence'

Proper beer that never gets too cold!

I'm going to do a sponsored "slob around" fortnight, where I take no exercise, eat cakes and drink beer, albeit rarely at the same time. Will you sponsor me please? I promise it is not a new hobby for me.

Security in the sense of escape risk, maybe, but he'll need even higher security for his own safety in prison as someone who has molested a 9 year old girl, than he would need as a rapist. Hardly a lesser crime in those terms. Look out now for pleas that he is too old and frail to go to prison at all. There's no hint in his lawyer's statements of being bullied into admitting a crime or similar. Not getting at you, DPS, but I find it hard to understand why some on here appear to want to still believe he is innocent in spite of his admission to several serious offences, not just one.

Are they realy complaining that the prices are too high? I thought they looked a bit low myself. How else do they expect to generate enough income to cover even a £1.1 million wage bill?