EastleighSoulBoy

......will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

He is a cookie! Happy Christmas MB

I can't argue against your point mate. Unfortunately there is no other party that remotely resembles my political aspirations. So I diligently place my cross each time ( I tactically vote Lib Dem to keep the Tories out of Eastleigh) and just hope that should Labour get re-elected (I know I'm dreaming a bit here) they will undo a lot of their mistakes.

And that says it all really.

I believe you're taking the rise old mate! She can't do that yet, I'm all spent out on Christmas and couldn't afford the celebratory bender which my mate and I have promised ourselves since Orgreave.

Does it still stay sharp to the bottom of the glass?

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This sounds to me like a typical 'Tory Blair' move. Passing the buck to a private credit agency, which will pay the Government handsomely for the privilege of running the fund and take running costs off the Government list, and appropriately will shift any blame onto the private sector. And to think I helped vote these prycks in to power. If you think I'm turning Tory, don't hold your breath!

Which is why I feel that he has a backer, as Toomer points out, probably keeping his powder dry ready to do the bidding.

I've the feeling that he is driven by spite. He wants all the shares to crash and burn. Wilde, Crouch to lose their large wedge of investment. The likes of the ordinary people out there (who had the temerity to rise against him) to lose any say in the matter. Then for the backer to handsomely reward him, more than he has lost in share value, by a strategic placing on the board with many years income guaranteed. I have no proof at all, just a gut feeling which has grown these last 3 years. BTF, you posted while I was composing. You get the drift.

And with no sign, even then, of halting the descent in to the bowels of English Football. Should we be solvent that long.

I know what you mean, but there are many issues of far greater importance than the demise of this club. Two spring immediately to mind. I am starting my annual man-flu (always best to get it at Christmas, for the sympathy vote) and I have also run out of sellotape with several presents still to wrap!

+1.

I have been saying this for a long, long while. I have a hunch that he has, even in this climate, a backer.

Rupert is not listening and he will not. Rupert knows best. :smt044

In the bleak midwinter, all the fans did moan Forest, hard as iron,Saints had lost at home I can't even be ar5ed to change any more words.

Things are so bad that the Post match reaction thread remains closed!

Oh fecking dear!

Yup, basically a giant Faraday cage. Oooooops! Sorry DSM, I jumped the gun a bit! Link deleted

A lot of the 'night club clientele' were not actually Eastleigh people, but yes, their behaviour did give Eastleigh a bad name. Try the 'old Eastleigh' people, Ericofarabia seems just a tad younger than me and as an Ex inhabitant will tell you about the decent people of Eastleigh. The thing is that Eastleigh and it's night time problems is not an isolated problem and, as such, it's a massive shame that town centres across the country have become no-go areas inhabited by people who do not give one moment's thought to the consequences of their selfish behaviour. It's one thing to go out and have a good time, maybe even getting drunk, but what happens nowadays is beyond the pale.

Eastleigh has deteriorated since the motorway made commuting easier and the population was burgeoned by people moving in from out of the area. You'll actually find that people who I call 'old Eastleigh' are very much unchanged and still friendly and helpful. Those who have moved into the area owe no loyalty or allegiance to the town and it's people, hence it has become a shadow of what it used to be. If you go out drinking in the town (who'd want to, I hear you say) go into the Working Men's clubs or those pubs which are slightly out of the centre. That's where you'll find decent people and no drunken youth wanting to 'make you 'av it'! I had a drink or ten with Channon Windmill last night, Happy Christmas Pete, he has heard that Weatherspoons are looking at the Home Tavern! I'm not ashamed of Eastleigh or 'old Eastleigh' people, but I'm hacked off with the new Eastleigh people!

There are actually 4 fords which could lend their name to Chandlers Ford. They are all bridged, or culverted now. Leigh Rd, Winchester Rd (near the HSBC bank) and down near the Monk's Brook pub. Not sure where the fourth is located. Further tales tell of a French merchantman who stayed in the village, his name was Adam Le Chaundler. Ramalley, where the cemetery is, is named after Ramillies which is a Belgian or French (?) town and some soldiers are purported to have set up camp there. They planted wild garlic which still grows there to this day.

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Do you mean a person who hunts poison ducks or (more likely to me) a duckhunter who is poison? Forkhandles

Would it be possible that humans with 'ruddy red cheeks' could do that also?