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Oh well, in that case... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dog [cue... Crowman]

Amazing isn't it..? What with all the reporting of murders and other crimes in the media, you think fortress GB was under siege. But actually, it is mostly made up of people just going about their fun and business.

Me too. Dave would be the perfect person the advise Wembley, and that mudpan of Stamford Bridge [or have they finally sorted it, after all these years..?], as well.

Looks like you put in one of those shifts where people actually appreciate their technical support/troubleshooter staff, every once in a while. One question though. Why do people still use McAfee..? Is is cheap or something..? I've never known it to do anything other than to eventually screw up, and that was years ago. A barge pole and don't touch with are phrases that spring to mind.

Absolutely. Glad you saw it as it was intended. Don't tell me you took seriously though..? :shock: I don't get the Fight Club bit. I'll even had a couple of glasses of wine, and I still don't get it. My metaphor was courtesy of Douglas Adams.

Ill Met By Moonlight What..? You say..? Watched this film late last night. It features Dirk Bogarde and Marius Goring as the main stars. It's an acquired taste, but one I believe is worthy of cultivating. It's about the capture and kidnapping of a German command officer [Goring] on the Island of Crete, during WWII, who is shipped away to Cairo, as a strategic, propaganda and morale exercise, thought up, and executed by the intelligence leader [bogarde] and Cretan Island resistance. A British film, and played very low key and quietly, with a little twinkle in the eye, so to speak. There are no intended funny's, but you can't help but smile occasionally. The acting is a little uneven, IMO, but generally the actors just play people, if you get my meaning. There are no overplayed heroes or villains, just a re-enactment of a true event. Modern Hollywood, of the Tarantino, Scorcese brigade, wouldn't have a clue what to do with it. Where are the endless f**ks, the gunfights, the romances, the bad people who end up dead..? Well, there are a few dead people, but this is wartime, after all. It is all quietly done without fuss, and as usual with a British film, all the better for it. All in glorious black & white, I might add. Acquire the taste.

Good post that is off to General Sports.

A lack of £120M would make Markus Liebherr say [in English]... Oh..!

Slick..!

I've been sent a link to some very good photos of the eruption. http://www.swisseduc.ch/stromboli/perm/iceland/eyafallajokull_20100416-en.html

Anyone who puts his/herself forward as a candidate to be a mod automatically makes his/herself ineligible. Besides, there are normally quite enough mods, except on matchdays recently, when the members have had to organise themselves a match thread or two. And that won't do at all.

There's no way I'm even beginning to wade through this thread, so if anyone has already posted this, then I apologise: Pompey debt reportedly close to £120M

Obviously, I can't speak for your personal preferences, for instance, you may like to buy new. From an environmental perspective, buy a good secondhand smallish, economical vehicle and run it into the ground, or until it gets within sight of costing you more to run than it is worth. Then recycle it.

Thanks Ponty and BTF. Just been to the BBC news website. Should have gone there first to check. All day, I have been working outside, and not a single jet or turboprop to be seen. Just a few low flying piston engined aircraft. I get on the bike to come home, drop into a mate's to say, Hi, and they open the airports without telling me. Pah..!

It's my understanding that all UK airspace is still not OK for jets and turboprops..? Then why did I see, at high altitude, just 15 minutes ago, a very rapid moving object, with one central white light and one blinking white light forward in the direction of travel..? I thought... hmm, ok, didn't know you could see satellites with blinking lights..? Then the object changed direction, by about 30 degrees to starboard. Cute..!

OK. It just struck me as a thread one would discuss during the close season. 2009/10 isn't over yet and it appeared to me that we were carrying out a bit of a post-mortem on it. Carry on. EDIT: I notice a couple of insults flying around betweeen posters. Keep it civil peeps. Ta.

In a sense it is predicting the future, because if AP could go back and then, looking forward, change the situation, what would he have done differently..? Probably not, but you never know. It's not something that we can do anything about now. We have had the occasion and pleasure of the JPT competition, and you could say we have had to pay dearly for it, by dropping points, with an unsettled side. But the club, manager and players wanted something tangible from this season, and they've got that. We may get something more. Let's put it another way though, if all those teams above Saints had kept winning like, for example Norwich, then Saints wouldn't even be in with a sniff of a playoff place. However, if all those teams above Saints had had a typical League One season, for their current placings, then Saints would probably be right amongst them. It's all what if's..?

I really don't know. Predicting the future is difficult, and even looking back isn't that easy, on this occasion. Put it down as a what if... and let it go.

That quip from WGS about Claus is old and well known. Even Claus would've known all about it. It was true though, in Gordon's time. It took Paul Sturrock to get Claus to score.

After the article, someone wrote: RIP, old timer. You've earned it. I couldn't have put it better.

In answer to the original question; no, of course Ricky isn't in the same class as Matt Le Tissier. Only a fool or someone who wasn't old enough to have seen both players in their prime would think otherwise. However, during my time of supporting Saints, Ricky is one of the few players to have been given the famous number 7 shirt and worn it with distinction with practically every game he's played. So he joins an exclusive club which includes Paine, MLT. Keegan and very few others.

I looked at the thread. Yes, there were a few who wanted AP out. They are entitled to their opinions, however knee-jerk or unreasoned. The biggest chuckle I got was from Dalek2003 who, whilst not anti-AP, is still banging his Glenn Hoddle drum, after all these years. He doesn't mention Hoddle by name, but it's clear who he means. Please, please stop it, for all of our sakes, and your sanity. Get over it mate - it really isn't going to happen.

No bloody thank you. We wouldn't want Motty's bloody tones all over that goal. It was Gerald Sinstadt.

On form, if we get there, we do. Even if we don't make the playoffs to compete, we still do deserve to be in those playoffs, which we'd probably win. You can't blame a team for a -10 start. They are only a collection of well managed players, not the club itself.

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