Merrick's Marvels

It's not his responsibility to fund anything. But as someone with an interest and a degree of expertise in town planning and regeneration, he's entitled to suggest alternative uses for the zoo's current site if in his view, and it's a view worth respecting (though not necessarily agreeing with) given his knowledge of the subject matter, there are better options than housing. To suggest you can't object to the zoo becoming flats, or any other planning proposal for that matter, unless you have the funds to pay for an alternative is absurd. I'm sure you can see that, so can only assume you just don't like Ferguson. Which is fair enough but just say so.

As if the last two and a half thousand pages doesn't prove what a bunch of oddballs (to put it mildly) they are, we now get this! Official confirmation. You really couldn't make it up, the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving. Truly, our cup runneth over with hilarity and, boy, do we love a glass of schadenfraude.

I completely disagree but there we are, that's life ? As others here have said, he's not actually a natural footballer. He's an athlete with a well developed physique for his age who happens to play football. So he's just not my type, I'm afraid.

We sell because we can get a better replacement, in the current market. Maybe more than one. Players who aren't learning on the job and who can fill a specific role immediately - what is Semenyo? A winger, a wide forward, a centre forward? Right here, right now we don't have the time to wait and found out, given the mess we're in. In a way, he would be a victim of our circumstances if we decided to sell him, although moving to the Premier League would hardly be a hardship. Personally, I'd sell because I find the idea of Semenyo ever scoring 10-15 goals fanciful in the extreme.

Yes please. Goodbye, good luck. Not saying he won't have a career, he's just not what we need right here, right now.

"half"????? say that in Nottingham or Stoke, do they?? wake up, you deluded morons - this city is ours, now f!ck off out of it

I wanted to reply Bournemouth, Norwich, Brighton, Fulham... but there are a lot of sh!thole places in the top two divisions, aren't there? So basically, we're fooked and might as well give up?

Martin Scott man of the match on his City debut. Nigel Pearson in defence for the visitors, Danny Wilson their goalscorer. In fact Sheff Wed scored both the goals that day.

Stop getting my hopes up.

We both know football doesn't work like that (well, at least 9 times out of 10 it doesn't... ).

Just out of interest, and because I've never heard this before, why were these pubs considered "Blue".

Thanks

Black armbands aren't a tradition in rugby but I trust the death of John Pullin, announced today, is marked in some way. Bristol captain. England captain. British Lion. World class player. Legend. RIP, sir.

I'd be confident of a convincing Shrews win if Cotts was fit. Sadly, that seems unlikely. Would give Wilbs a chance of more heroics, though!

Only 9???

You should have seen Dallaglio play - constantly offside at ruck and maul while simultaneously telling the ref how to ref. T w a t (not when playing for England though, obviously).

Not quite but virtually a second string pack and also without their 2 best backs. Wasps at full strength, I think. All teams do it - occasionally "sacrifice" a fixture to rest key players. It's a brutal game these days.

Indeed, this thought occurred after the Clermont game. The disparity between Mr Lansdown's two "products" is startling, isn't it

Tom Ritchie doesn't know either, I can tell you that for sure.

You've clearly not seen the goal they scored at the weekend then - we'd have been delighted with that one. I'd agree they've been more successful in recent times with a basic style than when attempting to play "properly" - Dobson was a disaster following on from the thugball hoofing of Jabba the Hut Francis and I suspect the already legendary Garner went wrong by trying to play "too much" football with the resources available to him. I also have a gut feeling that Tisdale, if it's he, will do just fine there.

Agree entirely with all that. Just can't stand any sport where the best team over the course of a season - and Exeter have been - need to subject themselves to an additional knock out series in which they might not be "champions" after all. Seems to be against natural justice, that's all. Believe me, I've no great love for them - I was there the night they beat us to win the play offs even though we'd won the league by 4 points and, if memory serves (but might not), we'd beaten them home and away in doing so. Not the best night out, that one. I respect what they've achieved since then, certainly, although the way they play bores the arse off me.

Exeter best team. Just give it to them. It's like asking Liverpool to go through a play off system last season to be confirmed as Champs. Ridiculous. And all just for bloody TV.

They'll probably write a letter of complaint to someone about it. T W @ S.

LEGEND. End of. And the skill he displayed in scoring that try (eventually disallowed) was unreal too.