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OK only 1. Bristol Rovers at SMS. Would go to many more if I could fit it around family and cycling commitments. Hasn't helped with folks living in Blandford as opposed to Winchester as they did in the past. Wanted to do Walsall but sold out. Interestingly our recent trip to SMS was prompted by teenage daughter's wish to go to West Quay as it has a Hollister shop. She was torn between the designer gear and her first trip to SMS. This time Hollister won, but she wants to go next season. i can see a few more games on the cards, plus Reading and probably Watford away.

Nervous enough to change into my somewhat disturbing alter ego MAMIL (Middle aged man in Lycra) and head out on the bike for 30 miles around the Berkshire countryside at around 3 o'clock. should get back around the time the game ends.

RIP our 'Enry'. Never thought you lost the Bugner fight!

Not really. for those of us who were there it was a momentous three days, but it's a bit like hearing stories from my parents and grandparents about VE Day. Significant historically, but it was 12 years before I was born, and I'd soon tire of hearing the same old things over and over again. Maybe we could have a Saints 1976 thread where the 'oldies' could reminisce? Being in your early twenties and expressing this view doesn't make you any less of a Saints supporter than anyone else on this board, older or younger, I just hope we all get to enjoy the sweet smell of success at some time in the next week. believe you me, you won't forget how good it feels.

I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. this is something very close to my professional heart and amidst the rant I probably haven't been explicit enough in what I was trying to say. What I was trying to convey was that the burden of responsibility in dealing effectively with behaviour in classrooms lies with classroom teachers. Of course it is the responsibility of all individuals, both adult and children to conduct themselves appropriately and to take responsibility for their own actions without excuses being given and accept appropriate sanctions. This is one of the fundamental premises of a 'Behaviour for Change' programme I run in school. You would however be amazed how often relatively minor situations are escalated into something far more serious by adults. This usually happens when they personalise problems in the classroom, hold grudges or indeed as the OP intimated make assumptions as to how a young person behaves based on other factors which have little or no relevance to the individual.

Nail hit on head. I manage an Inclusion Centre which is beginning to morph more into a PRU Pupil Referral Unit for our school. All too often I have to work with young people who are denied access to education within the classroom due to a variety of spurious reasons that really boil down to the teacher (Let's not forget they are the adult here) disliking the pupils with which they have had issues with in the past. Much, but not all of the time, the issues are of their making and not being prepared to modify their behaviours towards the young people only exacerbates the situation. These young people are not in the main two headed ogres. Violence towards our staff is phenomenally rare. Most of the students I end up working with are rude; some are occasionally abusive (usually directed at the situations they find themselves in that they are unable to deal with, not at the teachers); the majority engage in low level misbehaviour which because it is challenged in an inappropriate manner by adults often develos into something much more serious. As a parent I would agree with the sentiment that young people should not be allowed to disrupt or interfere with the education of others, but there needs to be recognition that the burden of responsibility for behaviour in classrooms lies in the first instance with the classroom teachers. If they abrogate their responsibilities and merely 'pass the buck' (most usually to a Head of Year/House) they undermine their own authority. Rant over!

Valley Parade circa March 76 came with crumbling terraces, rusty crash barriers and s h i t segregation hence flying Party 7's. If I remember rightly most of us didn't bother with the exits but left the ground over the corrugated metal at the back of the Spion Kop terrace which had been trampled down. Eastville, the former home of Bristol Rovers was a dump also. An elevated section of the M32 was very close to the back of an open uncovered terrace with a similar corrugated metal back to that at Bradford.

Heresy by SJ Parris. Seeing if her work stands up to Shardlake novels and also Conquest by Stewart Binns, basically about Hereward the Wake. I do enjoy my historical fiction.

hey Dune you might be a right wing T W A T but this made me LOL

Bailey the Scouse *****, because he was responsible for Ossie and I think Stevie Williams being sent off away at Blackburn the last time we got promoted. Got dogs abuse in the thrashing we gave them around Easter time. I believe the modern way to describe this is...LOL

CWC game at the Dell against Olympique Marseille. For atmostphere and noise alone the quarter final against Anderlecht. The Dell was so noisy it made your ear drums vibrate.

It's right up there with Uncharted 2. Thorougly enjoyable and immersive game. Playing Crysis 2 now but just cant get into that in the same way as ME2. It pulls you in with its storyline and it stands up as a third person shooter withs strong RPG elements. Shame that I wasn't able to play the first game but the comic has kind of filled me in on the back story. Really enjoyed the Overlord and Lair of the Shadow Broker Missions. Looking forward to ME3. It's going to be a stonking end of 2011 with that and Uncharted 3.

Coming to the end of Heartstone now. Have enjoyed all the Shardlake novels, this one particularly so. I agree with Pugwash, Sansom portrays Portsmuff as a right s h i t h o l e. funny how things never change!

collapsed on beach next to the Red Sea, bit of snorkelling, reading etc.

I avoided the board tonight, largely because anything less than a win was going to result in the utter ****** that has been posted by some. i've got three posts per day but I might just go for the infraction. Alpine you are one fookin weirdo T W A T

The only good'un' is dead'un'

sounds painful

they certainly did.

What you doin here you gay t w a t. Yeah I bit. lol Why is this ***** constantly allowed to post on the main board?

Afraid to say I kind of agree with the Gooner here. Not being one for making snap judgements etc. but we can't paper over the cracks any more with this Scouse physio. NC proper manager in now! this result has got me right p i s s e d off.

R.I.P Very sad. A great player for us.

A mate showed me the best bit of singing heard recently on youtube yesterday. It was what sounded like the whole of Parkhead singing 'I just can't get enough.' at a recent Old firm game.

FWIW so do I. The problem is unless we're ripping up trees in the process it doesn't count for much in some people's eyes. There are times when I do wonder whether I support the same team as the majority of the drama queens on here.

I'm assuming that Lard, ALWAYS and Badger are at Hartlepool to tell us we are 'poor' grim ans ****e.

Here's something which sums up, exactly what is wrong in the public sector. I am a senior member of staff in a school. To raise achievement something both Labour and the Tories want us to do we have a programme of Saturday, evening and holiday revision sessions. Staff are paid for their time. I am not going to divulge how much but this is not additional money in the budget, it is money that is already there and has been earmarked for this. A member of staff, with what I would consider an appalling absence record is currently at my school earning extra money as I type this, having been absent sick from Wednesday morning onwards for which she has been paid in full. Am I right in thinking there is something wrong in that?