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Rob W

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  1. Rob W

    Champions!

    Well I don't think we 'd have done it without RAFA - 2 points a game is a hell of an achievement
  2. We can't be relegated..................... Unless Mike A is found to have bribed every referee this season...........
  3. Typical pattern - run of good results and he's God, the next manager of ManU, England and a shoo-in for a knigthood then there is the "reversion to the mean" as the statos put it and he's s***
  4. Rob W

    Relegationometer

    you know in many other business's (or Italy) you would come to an "arrangement" with some people to ensure we stay up - might be a few grand out of next years PL money but......................
  5. Both keepers showed excellent distribution as well
  6. Good match - a lot better than lower league football used to be - no Route 1 at all Good turn out at the "Globe" opposite Baker St. Tube beforehand - loads of flags and banners Shields had about 6000 spectators, Glossop around 3500 all on the N side lower tier New Wembley is better than the old pile - much better sight lines and seats but the choice of beer (Carlsberg or Tetleys) is grim - plus for some reason the men's bog at the east end looked like a converted Ladies (ie mainly sitting) with a vast queue at half time Glossop played something like 4-1-3-2 and Shields 4-4-2 Main difference from the upper leagues was the way players never held the ball at all, and when they'd passed it they stopped; very little choice for the man in possesion First half was pretty cagey - Glossop looked slightly the bettter side but neither keeper had a lot to do Second half they scored from a corner after SHields had looked pretty good - started to get a bit desperate but by 75 minutes the Glossop guys were tiring badly - so were some of the Shields team but they were fitter overall and got a deserved equaliser late. By the time we were in extra time people were out with cramp all over the field - it always used to happen in FA Cup Finals in the 50's & 60's - unfit players, very grassy pitch after a season of playing on mud-heaps. At one point Shields had 5 guys streched out and Glossop three Shields got a really well worked early goal and after that it was just a matter of hanging on Really good day out, lots of singing (and a minutes applause at 17 minutes observed by both sets of supporters) - the fittest team won
  7. I'm going with some mates from Shields........ anything has to be better than being at SJP
  8. yeah - but we never do it do we??? McKeag, Fat Freddie, Ashley - lots of talk about a boycott but still 50,00 suckers there every week.....................
  9. I think the evidence is that, whatever people try to do for him, it doesn'twork Do we have the right to bang him up somewhere so he can't continue or do we leave him to kill himself by inches Its just horrible, horrible, horrible
  10. there is a really good correlation between gross spend and winning in football................... and we don't spend and we win nowt ..................
  11. don't expect him to spend all his cash but surely encouraging a Cup run would be worthwhile - he gets the extra gate money and we might even win sommat (and I'm old enough to remember the last time we did win a trophy) We might even like him them - as it is he just tells the manger to make sure we're safe - totally pointless TBH - and is thought to be total s*** by thousands of people
  12. Jeez _ I hope it's better than the game at Villa Park this season - one of the most boring I've ever attended - a real foretaste of the whole season tho'.........
  13. from the Beeb - he can just tell them to take a running jump....... Summoning powers It's been confirmed by the high priest of Parliament - Westminster's powers to summon witnesses before its select committees and to punish any accused of telling fibs, are weaker than most people realise. As the continuing phone-hacking row and, now, the evidence given to the Treasury Committee over interest-rate fixing demonstrate, there is a very real question about what MPs on parliamentary committees can do, when they are not satisfied that they have been told the truth. This paper by the Clerk of the Commons, Robert Rogers lays bare the threadbare nature of Parliament's powers even to summon witnesses, and the extent to which the sanctions available to MPs are out of date, or inoperable under Human Rights law. At some point someone, perhaps a banker, perhaps a News International staffer, is bound to refuse to play along. What then? As the paper makes clear, there is no reliable power to compel witnesses to appear before select committees, still less to punish deliberate lies told to them. Even the much-touted solution of requiring witnesses to give evidence on oath, thus making them liable to penalties of perjury, is fraught with problems. To be sure, the Commons has the power to send the Serjeant at Arms to bring in a reluctant witness - but, as with many of its powers, it now runs the risk of appearing heavy-handed, or worse, plain silly. Picture the Serjeant, in full regalia arriving to apprehend a witness, only to face a stand-off, perhaps on live TV. Imagine how MPs might appear to the outside world if some offender was brought to the Bar of the House to be admonished - told off - by Mr Speaker; who, by tradition, dons a black tricorn hat for such occasions (which dates that whole procedure a bit). It last happened to the journalist John Junor in 1956 - and, as Mr Rogers says, the Commons might look like a lynch mob if it tried that now. And then, in this non-deferential age, there's always the possibility that the victim might seize the moment and answer back - with the whole incident an instant sensation on You Tube. Remember how George Galloway thundered back at a US Senate committee. There's some talk of a Privilege Bill to clarify the powers of Parliament; but again, it is far from straightforward to come up with a system of punishing people who refuse to give evidence, or who lie, without giving the courts some jurisdiction over the proceedings of Parliament (a taboo since the Bill of Rights in 1689). And, as the convoluted process for dealing with the phone hacking witnesses (see earlier post) demonstrates, the handling of these cases has to be fair, allowing "defendants" a real chance to answer the accusations against them and even turn the tables on their accusers. To be sure, the reputational damage that can be done by a parliamentary hearing may be far more painful than any penalties at MPs' command - ask Rupert Murdoch or G4S. And there are very few incidents where a reluctant witness has not, in the end, appeared before a committee. (The exception is Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods, who did not agree to appear before the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee in March 2011 to answer questions about the takeover of Cadbury - although other Kraft officials did give evidence.) Parliament does need the power to compel witnesses to attend, and it does need some sanction when it believes it has been lied to - and these things are surely not impossible to arrange. The US Congress has a robust attitude towards perjury at its hearings, and the Scottish Parliament and Welsh National Assembly both have clearer powers than Westminster. And if we're about to enter into an era of parliamentary investigations of the powerful, in the City, in the media or wherever, clear and robust powers will be essential. But MPs need to be very careful what powers they demand or they could end up sounding like King Lear... "I shall do such things...What they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth..."
  14. "Considering the World Cup is, at the moment, the most watched sporting event in the world by far I'm surprised they are jeopardising it for some Qatari loonbags and a quick buck. " teh answer, my friend, is in the last 3 words of your post
  15. 30 points by January and Ashley will sell anyone he can.....................
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