on another topic even the labour party are on to this new nike england shirt with no st.georges cross on it but some odd badge that looks like nothing like it on the back. we must be the only country in the world who tries its best to get rid of their own flags. imagine the yanks doing this to their stars and stripes.

I wonder just where these shirts are being manufactured…and the profit margin.

In sweatshops in India, South East Asia and China where the wages are about £10 a day

Wonder what they pay per shirt, call me a cynic.
It’s no good people going on just about the cross, but shouldn’t they be made in this country too.

Ask Mike Ashley about prices he has loads of experience about shopping abroad. That's why he has struggled for many years financially. He even had to sell his beloved Newcastle United to pay his energy bills.

It's a good point you make regarding shirts etc being made here. I would happily pay say £5 or £10 more for a shirt made here because it would help jobs etc and stop this sweat shop crap.

Currently the England shirts are £125 for the Euro shirts, you would pay £135 for one if they were made in the U.K. ? I think you would need to stick more than £10 on them as well.
I have bought 2 Real Madrid kits here in Thailand, shorts and shirts for my 8 year old U.K. Grandson, all the logos, good quality, Bellingham and the No. 5 on the back, £7.50 each,
There is a good chance they will have been manufactured in the exact same factory as the ones they sell in the U.K., it’s just profiteering on a huge scale.

Real Madrid? Why?

guess that could be very true. for an england shirt you can more or less buy all the three pools new shirts for next season. comparing to the amount of england ones that will be sold thats a drop in the ocean. in theory they should be cheaper than a club shirt as they,ll sell more than even man.u do. rip off britain, and some are still shocked these things are still happening.

Politics Snowy Politics

Even you don’t believe that…have a word with the bairn Jamie… :laugh:

An 8 year old who uses the internet, probably has football games on his X Box etc and is familiar with what’s going on in the football world nowadays, his world doesn’t revolve round the Premier League.

he needs to be put onto the straight and narrow if he does not grow up with a complex by ignoring the premier league. could easily end up a poolie with a life full of doom, gloom and regrets.

No idea about his interest in football are, my daughter asked me to get them, he goes to rugby for kids on a Friday night. My daughter goes to a few of the Pools home games with her mate.

Real Madrid looks like a good idea for the lad after seeing that shambles last night. It could be a lot worse for his long term health if you tried to get him to support Pools.

Couldn’t we change Pool’s name to….. Get Real

No we should get real and stop spending our lives following a very silly dream.

Flavoured Vapes ..just another way to get kids addicted to nicotine now fags are dying the death, hook them and you’ve got them for life

That's pools for you

True, but they get steam out of their mouths and we goe it out of our ears

wish vapes had been around when i started smoking as i doubt i,d have bothered then with either.

I can’t see you liking strawberry and peach flavour……kids make more steam than the North Yorks Moor Railway.

do not eat strawberries or anything of their flavour. they,ll have cheese or garlic ones next to really piss me off.

How about alcohol flavours.

How about just having alcohol.

Her in doors won't allow you to start drinking again after this amount of years.

Last drink 2014 in Portsmouth. Never missed it really.

Last drink 2014 in Portsmouth. Never missed it really. [/quot

I have tried a few times but being a Poolie drives me to drink. I either need a drink after watching the crap on show or I celebrate the odd good win with a drink.

Don't really want to cause you problems. But after 3 days of " should I tell you should I not tell you " I have decided to do the right thing and spill the beans. On Saturday night I witnessed Ratboy & Gazza in Ward Jackson Park passing a large bottle of whisky between them. I know you won't believe a word of it but honestly I am just telling you what I seen. Please don't shoot the messenger the lads got problems Snowy real problems.

He’s trained to do that, he opened the first canine booze suppliier business in the town.
When you saw him he’ll have been doing his party trick, gets them drunk on one bottle and refills them personally from his own bladder till his customer passes out the little capitalist tinker.
That’s why we took Ruby on to increase capacity…..Gaza eh? Were the police there by any chance, plus TV and press as well … although in all fairness I told Ratboy to wear glasses and a Hitler moustache to confuse the authorities.

So that would make Ratboy the first bootlegger hound in town Gaza did tell me he was "pissed " and strangely Ratboy burst out laughing.

I’m more concerned at our lass going round her beloved too big and too unwieldy garden mentioning to me her bulbs are late this year…..haven’t got the heart to tell her Ruby our new recruit has systematically dug them all up….Her mate told her the wet winter was to blame. Mind she is a retriever.
Mind I’ve stopped her peeing near me two apple trees.

Yesterday afternoon driving along Seaton front I saw a man in his 50’s dressed like a teenager on an electric skateboard, zooming along.
My Dad always said kids who tried to act grown up too early always regress in middle age ( he used language more ‘industrial’ though than ‘regress’)
Here was proof, we really are going backwards.

What’s the problem with what the fella was doing, don’t be so judgmental, the fella enjoys being out and same as you with your dogs, he wasn’t doing anyone any harm was he ?

You really think that behaviour is normal I am out of here

If I said I passed Adolf Hitler wearing a bra and panties riding along on the back of a giant tortoise while picking his nose with a Stanley knife and playing ‘I did it my way’ on a mouth organ you’d have said exactly the same thing more or less. I can hear it now……What’s the problem with what the megalomaniac cross dressing, mass murdering genocidal maniac was doing, don’t be so judgemental, the evil monster enjoys being out and about and same as you with your dogs, he wasn’t doing any harm was he….?
Wasn’t you on the skateboard was it.

I've got to say Jamie you do ask for it.

That's another fine mess you got yourself into Jamie um um

Snowy I could have predicted your comment, if it was Hitler I would have called the Police and have him arrested for carrying an offensive weapon, Stanley knife. Eas the skateboarder doing you or anyone else any harm, live and let live, Snowy you want to get out a bit more, get yourself a passport, and see how people live in other parts of the world and what they get up to, there are more extreme events than older men running round on skateboards.
I suppose you have the same opinion of older men playing walking football, fellas trying to relive their childhood.
Snowy get sat in your chair, put your slippers on stoke your pipe up and watch reruns of Dads Army.

Ask for what Derwent, sticks and stones comes to mind, I don’t like people being judgmental more so when they criticise others when they don’t even know the person or they do some thing different from the norm.
You can take any ‘hobby’ up in later life, what’s age got to do with it ?
Older men play walking football some well into their 60s, keeps them active.

Fine mess in what respect, I never lose any sleep over what anyone says about me, you sound like you have the same judgmental thoughts as Snowy.

for somebody like me who refuses to dress like an average 77 year old does i have to agree. if i was a woman i,d be classed as mutton dressed as lamb but i do not give a toss. at least it saves my lad some money on clothes when i pass stuff down to him. never wanted to get old and have not been in practise for it years like some including a king we have now got.

Exactly my argument I don’t give a s** , I am in my 70s with what people think about me what I do or about my dress sense although the thong does get stuck in my bum in the hot climate.
My granddaughter has just turned 15, she has what I thought was a boyfriend turns out it’s a girl, so what her life, if she is happy so be it.

I have my very own opinions and my opinion of you is you put yourself out to be shot time and time again WHY

Every one is entitled to their own opinion but I can’t remember where I have been shot down, enlighten me, btw your quote took a bit of deciphering obviously you weren’t top of the class in English.
Everything I post on the Bunker is based on fact, because posters don’t agree with me doesn’t me to say I have been shot down.

Once again attacking people and trying to put them down Why do you believe you are superior to the others on the bunker

Looks like you weren't top of your class in English either

I have this picture in my head of a Iggy Pop lookalike wearing a vest with the" I Love California" on it,Snowy?

It wasn’t a pretty sight, even the dogs looked. You aren’t far off though, more Jools Holland but unfeasibly tall.