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Thanks for the Heads-up Jim. Haven't seen that match since... well probably 1979. Time to set the recorder. Readers probably won't thank me for reminding them that, from my copy of Match Of The Millenium, I read that the very next time we played Forest at home, just a few months later in the top division, we destroyed them 4-1. Forest were also reigning European Cup winners, Brian Clough [no whinger he] said, Southampton were incredible. Better than us in every department. And with his usual touch of humour he commented on his ugly CB Kenny Burns incurring a broken nose during the match. So out of disaster, comes something good. Great character and a great manager.

When I saw this earlier today on the BBC Football website, I immediately remembered the name, but I thought he'd played before I started going down the Dell. Turns out he didn't. At most, I would have only seen him play twice though. But of course there was Football News and MOTD, so his name obviously popped up now and then. RIP to the fella. Likewise, I hope we respect the minute's silence. And then the respect has to end, because we have to beat them.

The srping equinox is in a few days time. I'll celebrate that. Plus the fact that the clocks go forward during the last weekend of this month. Yaaaaaayy..!!

I see Leandre Griffit is a free agent again. League One perhaps..?

Looks like I shall shortly be changing my ISP connection, as on watching an 8mb/s connection make nothing of BBC's iPlayer in HQ mode, while showing a programme of ever changing swirling landscapes, it made me realise that mine would have been stuttering every 10 seconds or so in standard quality. How the mighty have fallen..!

Smart and thrifty too.

Of course, if your Baldrick was able to consult his ancestor. The quite clever/non-thickie Baldrick, we may have a chance.

Hmm, but they're one division above, perhaps two, within a few months. Don't think that stadium's going to be built though. Sad really. Our stadium, their team. Solent City anyone..? I'M JOKING..!

That being to quietly drive the club into admin, despite all showing of efforts to the contrary, and with all the assets intact, so that he can pick it up quite cheaply afterwards. I doubt if it's RL's plan. Bet it's GA's plan though, and RL's in on it. EDIT: Oops, forgot the trademark , just to protect myself from the courts.

Not bad. Not bad at all. You're being a bit churlish Al. I also think, in its own way, it's every bit as good as the Honda advert. I didn't detect a virus. Perhaps you got one just before you got there.

I'm fighting the temptation to say: Something positive about Michael Wilde. So I'll contain it to something that I believe which is that, his intentions were honourable and good. But it has all gone absurdly sour. You should never have sided with Rupert, Michael.

Can't wait..! :smt015;)

Yes, milk is perfectly suited to this. Call me a traditionalist in certain things, but I reckon odd bits of progress almost don't need to be made. It's like the development of the plastic clothes peg, when the superior product was already there in the wooden one. By the way, how would one get a perfectly poached, fried or boiled egg with the yoke in the centre from the liquid..?

Yes in catering I can see the neccessity. But for the domestic market..? Do you know, I've never had a MacDonald's Egg Mcwhatever they call them..? I wouldn't knowingly step within 100 yards of one of their establishments, so it looks like that isn't going to change.

I suspect he's doing the whole job, but the bits you point out are the media news highlights, not the boring day-to-day-get-the-job-done stuff. Honeymoon periods are usually the classic 100 days, and the early review of an administration starts at 1000 days. I think he has a little time left.

Whenever I get a good idea, which isn't often I have to say; I usually find that after a good think through of all the stumbling blocks, there is at least the last one which suggests - it'll never catch on. Well this probably will catch on. But in all honesty, it really shouldn't. I mean, how little an effort is it to crack an egg, and what an already superb container the shell is for the contents..? I want the shells for my compost heap too. Bet the plastic cartons don't get properly recycled either. Annoyingly bad idea.

That's ever so slightly rich Stevo. This is TMS and you have been one of its foremost posters. I agree, it pushes the boundaries, but Hamster has kept it nicely inside the boundaries of taste, I think. If you still feel iffy, pop across to the Lounge, and give us the latest installment in the life of a VW Golf GTi.

And I think this thread has had its day.

Sure. It's a b/w photo of Ron at the Dell during a match against Man City. Tony Towers is, I believe the opposition player. I've edited the photo into a colour image. My avatar is a reduced and cropped version. Here are both - Just click on the thumbs:

Your wish, as they say.

Yep, this is true. And of course, the modern Maori are reclaiming many lands back that they consider were unjustifibly taken away from them under the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. In the face of modern attitudes and how people view colonialism, nobody gets away scott free. The Spanish for example, had killed several million Indians only a few years after the American continent had been discovered by Columbus. They had no objective to civilise [i.e. bring order to the native people in their own image and rules], but sought to plunder as much wealth as they could, in the most efficient manner. And if that meant several million died, then so be it. Against this comparison, Britain seems to come out fairly well, but our history in no way should make us think we were angels bringing milk and honey to desparate people. In most cases they were better off if the old world powers had left them alone. We often transported disease and rats, and nothing else. In a sense the only reason GB went to far off places was so that we could plunder as much as we could, but before anyone else did. For example, a lot of Indian princes personal wealths fell dramatically as several stately homes rose in good ol' GB. And let's not get started on the slave trade and sugar plantations. Out of this kind of superior colonialism came such well known ditties as Rule Brittannia and Jerusalem. I wipe a glazed eye, with the rest of them, when I hear... And did those feet in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green... but that's because I'm an incurable romantic, and it's a beautiful sounding hymn, but I know the difference. I know how it got to be. On the backs of people who didn't want us to be there. And yes, it was perhaps this country's fate to be the guardian that held back Nazi ambitions while the U.S. decided whether they were going to make some dosh out of the affair [sorry, I really don't mean to be cynical, certainly not to the people who fought or suffered] In that case, this country's wealth went down to sod all while US wealth went up very-nicely-thank-you. And nowadays the biggest, bestest country doesn't need to be a colonial power to have influence. It just has to lean. Even at a whisper it speaks the loudest. So what's my point..? In a history of opportunity and repercussions, it's the time, place and readiness that dictates what happens. And it's what a country does with that opportunity that defines it. You have relatively youthful westernised countries like NZ who try to act nobly, IMO. But they have the luxury of doing so, as they are not a really big player [sorry Seatbelt]. And then you have mega powers like the USA who could abuse their power far more than they do and get away with it. Perhaps they already do to their satisfaction anyway..? Nobody is completely right, and history, as they say, is written by the victor. Sorry, I've waffled so I'll stop there. Oh btw, the Moriori were driven out by the Maori. The last full-blooded Moriori woman died on Chatham Island while I was living in NZ, I believe. And before you say it, it wasn't my fault.

Are you referring to the Maoriori, Seatbelt..?

Rather entertaining thread this. I felt like I was there.

Found these if anyone's interested: The Friend I Never Met - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27megLOleQ Drifting - Tight Trite Night - As it happens, I made the mistake of going within 6 ft of Apple Venus Vol 1 this evening. That got played cover to cover.

Both had their moments IMO. I have several of their albums, and sometimes they hit the spot magnificently. Rarely listen to either nowadays, but when I do it is almost always a pleasure.