Survival Nick? Last nights result had me checking to see if we can still make the play offs!

Shouldn't you be sticking to just watching East Lancs at Alexandra Meadows or does football and cricket exist under different codes in your world?

Where did you get that rubbish from? We paid approx 1.5m for Dann. The 6m deal reported in the press included his wages over the length of the contract. It was reported like that at the request of Birmingham City who didn't want to anger their supporters.

More like it's simply down to the money taken out of football by the players, their agents and the massed ranks of assorted hangers on. There is a cold wind blowing when clubs can't afford basic priorities which benefit the supporters, the club and indeed the game itself for the sake of paying some bog standard Joe Ordinary a kings ransom.

Interesting to note that Huddersfield have won more times away than at home.

I'll look forward to that. I'm quite partial to piri piri chicken I must say. However if it's hallal they can forget it.

Good report PB. You really should do a timeline cataloguing the events over the past two years and have it pinned on the mb for reference by any journo / commentator who is sniffing around to criticise the supporters. There are still plenty of numpty's who think we were horrible to poor little Stevey.

Whose going to bang their bloody heads together?

Funny how much and how little we know about one another when it actually comes down to it. Quality poster Kelbo. Sudden death is always a deep shock so my sympathies to all his family R.I.P.

Serves us right for telling the narrow backed buggers.

Unusual for them. Personally Nick I find it best to stay home on public holidays.

Barley.... the land that time forgot! I once went to the Barley Mow once to eat their mixed grill and earn a badge for finishing it. I must say it wasn't that difficult at all bear in mind I was prob still growing at the time. btw Do they still sacrifice children there to make sure the crops grow?

Could prove to be the end of a beautiful relationship gumboots.

Here's a deal for you all..... I recently took up an offer of 'Tastecard' for a free month. It's useful for 2-4-1 offers or 50% discount at a number of restaurants around here (best imo being the Mytton Hall). Their website offers annual Tastecard membership at close on £80 but as my month was coming to an end Tastecard emaileds me with an offer to purchase one at just £49.99 which seemed OK for people who travel on business or eat out frequently. However one week later and another emal had it down to £29.99 and that price matched every year forward. At this point I gave in and signed up cos even the first time I used it I saved over 20 quid. I'm intrigued though to know just how low they will go to get someone to sign up.

Unfortunately that is the truth of it.

Golden rule for you Tom that we all have to find out for ourselves...... never eat a Khyber sober!

Your board name suggests that you will have..... and worse!

Quite right too. Only knowledge I have of Belgian cuisine is that unlike us in the UK they are partial to horsemeat and see no wrong in eating it whereas we would never even contemplate it...... hallal or not!

Happy Birthday Nick. Quite right to make the most of it....... unfortunately it's all downhill from now on.

Indeed so Tom..... but just how profitable must chinese food be? Don't know about jellyfish but the main ingredients for those other 'more unusual' dishes will prob be free. Nothing wrong with them of course but the likes of Swarbrick and Johnson in Goosnargh and other large scale poultry and duck meat producers would have been paying money to companies just to get rid of them to zoo's, mink and maggot farms and landfill ..... until the chinese got wind of it.

I'll bet he doesn't get a bill! Am I right BnW?

Go figure with this Paul..... Trading Standards.. http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/cgi-bin/shropshire/bus1item.cgi?file=*BADV604-1001.txt Beefburgers only need to contain 62% beef whilst "Value burgers" only need contain 47% beef! So when the packaging was printed as long as the beef used comes from Britain and Ireland it was OK and printed in good faith even though 53% will be made up of various other cheap fillers. (Lets not discount cross border trading here with the Republic which goes on under the radar. Lets also not lose sight of the amount of growth promoters still widely, but illegally used in Irelend.) In Tesco's case I'd make the assumption that they in keeping with other supermarkets of course have driven the price paid to their suppliers down so much in what is a rapidly inflating marketplace that their suppliers have 'cheated' in order to survive. Lets rem that the pressure is on the big boys, last quarter figures showed Tesco had made a loss for the first time in years and all the major supermarkets have readily admitted that they have been steadily losing market share to the likes of Aldi/Lidl/Netto etc since Labour led us into deep recession . Couple this to the fact that all supermarkets hate dealing in fresh meat and fish. It's a short shelf life and it's much lower profit margin than other things like frozen ready meals which they just love to sell. They see provision of fresh produce only as a necessary evil and something that they have to do in order to provide one stop shopping for Mrs Housewife Supplier... "Please Mr Tesco... most of our business is with you and beef prices have risen astronomically and we are losing hand over fist on our deal so please can I have some more money?" tesco..... "No. Go to hell. If you put your prices up you are sacked and all that packaging you have had to buy will have to be binned" Supplier.... OK. Sorry Mr Tesco sir. picks phone up.... "Jerzy ... my friend. Hows the weather in Eastern Europe? Do you still have a few tonnes left of that cheap meat you were offering me last week? The world of the supermarket is murky to say the least. And as Sec of State Owen Patterson MP has shamefully admitted many times this week the Food agencies in which we place our trust to monitor our food are only concerned with health issues. i.e. if it doesn't harm or kill you we don't particularly care what it is or what is in it. Like all things in life the answer is for everyone to place trust only in themselves and never to trust completely anybody else! btw it seems this message is hitting home. I went to my usual butcher this morning and he told me he's run off his feet all of a sudden and Sat he completely sold out!

No. Truth is that because of stringent production regulations, ruthless supermarket purchasing of cheap imports we can no longer feed ourselves. Off the top of my head I think we are down to approx 25% self sufficiency in pork. However in the cheap 'value' foods horse obviously has been seen as a route to profit. UK producers have had to adopt stringent welfare and production procedures with pork as well as poultry meat and egg production. Battery cages and pig farrowing crates have been outlawed across Europe but unfortunately many of our EU members have chosen not to implement the changes as we have done, preferring instead to give their agriculture a cost advantage. Level playing fields do not exist across the EU.

Sounds good TJ but I doubt you'll get that again at that price now that meat is being subject to stringent D N Neigh testing! Here are the fatstock market 'deadweight' prices for cattle last week.... http://www.eblex.org.uk/markets/deadweight_cattle.aspx Cow price info which (should) constitute most mince and beef for manufactured food products are at the bottom of the page.

Nice..... "It (Horse meat) came from abattoirs in Romania through a dealer in Cyprus working through another dealer in Holland to a meat plant in the south of France which sold it to a French-owned factory in Luxembourg which made it into frozen meals sold in supermarkets in 16 countries." Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive......