Is that for real..? Only there's a bloody great Hampshire [Boar] Hog, with tusks, statue standing in Winchester.
TBH...who knows. I heard it referred to the hogget which is plentiful on the South Downs and that the idea that it meant a pig was just a mistake. I looked it up just now and, although the writer talked about the pig, she added that it could also be from a hogget.
Don't think most people don't even know what a hogget is, but it's in common use in New Zealand when they're talking about age ranges of sheep [well, what else is there to talk about, after all..?] I first heard the term when I lived in NZ, and when I went to the supermarket there was lamb, young lamb, very young lamb, hogget, 2 year old hogget, mutton, old mutton, bloody old mutton, strewth, that's f*****g old mutton, and even rams balls, IIRC. Very little pork and beef. Definitely not really a chicken nation either. This is circa 1991.
that might be a bigger worry to him now. If he can get a transfer to a club where he is teacher's pet already, that might be more attractive than battling to get back in our team.
Really depends how long the teacher will stick around for the pet. The knives are already being sharpened and that Spursex chap knows what he is talking aobut when it comes to Saints! http://www.spurs.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=39708&posts=33
As far as the Spurs fans are concerned, they expected MoPo to revolutionise the way their team plays. He had no chance of getting the squad of highly paid primadona's to work their asses off like last seasons Saints player did. With the lack of progress on the pitch, his lack of ability in his interviews/press conferences and Spurs usual overly ambitious chairman means that the vultures are circling. Without a substantial improvement in results and performance I really can't see him surviving to January
Agree - he has the benefit of hindsight to help his decision. If Spurs are genuinely interested, he'll go. I'm 100% sure of that - players don't care about league positions as much as we'd think, I'm sure. Money first; and then a general playing for a bigger club (in historical terms). Will say a lot about Spurs' desperation if they do bid - as this is a player returning from injury with no certainty that he'll not get injured again, or be the same player - and doing it all with no pre-season or knowledge of Spurs' system - let alone fit into a very specific system as he did (after a while) with the Adam-Rickie-Jay axis at Saints. I would call it Levy's Last Stand - and not sure if Jay is the man to risk your position on. Though clearly Poch thinks it is the case.
Hmm.....look, if there's even an inkling that he's wanting to go, and we can get Kane coming the other way - sod it, let him go. We don't need more in the J-Rod position, but we do need more up top and I think Kane would fit that bill. Plus who knows how much his injury will have effected him (if anyone is a confidence player, it's J-Rod). So yeah, in a ruthless sense, I'd say that once again we could come out on top with that deal.
I still like Ings, if we can get him. If Rodriguez wants to go, sell him with thanks for a job well done, pocket the cash, sign Ings cheap/free. Everyone wins.
Agreed but if Poch is not there then why would he go to a failed regime when his mentor has been sacked?
