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Could Rickie be a top premiership forward? How do posters think Rickie might compare with the following proper big forwards we have had in the past at top level such as: Ron Davies Mick Channon Joe Jordan Colin Clarke Iain Dowie James Beattie I appreciate that some posters may have different views on the above list also. But they all beat Kerry Dixon or the Tin Man!

Lol.

Still got everything crossed though!

Firefighters... pah...

First time ever, kid in the youth squad with excellent potential!

Rickie is a leader and talisman all the time. McG is lazy and disinterested a lot of the time. And that's just on the pitch!

Phew. Onwards and upwards.

That was very funneh!

Liverpool offers to return public grant money for port proposal change of use as QE docks there. http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/9980-liverpool-cruise-terminal-candaign-builds.html

Lived in Manchester for 13 years. Apart from the rain I love it. Something for everyone to do. Nightlife is good, shops and city centre are great, posh parts and dodgy parts like most places. I'm typing this overlooking the Manchester Ship Canal in Trafford watching four swans and a heron less than a mile from the city centre.

Ken Clarke likes a Jag but far too left wing for Dune.

And me. Rose tinted glasses at work with too many posters.

Onions is definitely a winner, pickled ones work best for me. Add in cabbage/sprouts and a dark ale and I'm away.

Deal is done.

No thats it Big ships can and do stop there However it is just a Landing Stage at the moment with a tiny passenger facility The challenge will be to build a proper turnround terminal and there are rumours of a £23m investment More Grants anyone|? In that case, Soton has to work very hard! Not just against Liverpool, but to improve its own offering!

Most restaurants abroad include the tip in the bill, same as many of ours, so better be careful with the French, Spanish small print etc Dune.

Prescott was indeed involved although not the only one. If there had been more support from SCC and others in the area it might have made a difference with regard to Dibden Bay however. It was shot down by NIMBYs who outshouted the supporters. Soton won't prosper without new commercial shipping developments, both cruise and cargo. The modifications made recently to the railway tunnel at Soton and along the rail route to the West Coast Main Line now make it possible for the new larger containers being introduced across the world to take that route by rail but it's no good if the infrastructure is not improved at the docks itself as other ports will build better overall facilities and distribution links. The good retired people of the New Forest will never back that so Sotonians have to fight better for new development - for jobs and prosperity in the city.

The ships also dock immediately alongside the city there, with all the things Liverpool has to offer right on the doorstep. Here visitors have to jump into taxis and then face a drive through the docks and probably often straight out of Southampton and off somewhere else. There's very little, unless you like shopping, to keep them in the city. Southampton really needs to get a bit more imaginative with new buildings and with what it can offer...Liverpool's quite a good example actually! However that photo of Liverpool shows a fairly small cruise ship. Large ones can't get that far up the Mersey. The Liverpool cruise ship terminal proposed would be further out up towards Seaforth and Bootle I think. Which is an equivalent of Millbrook at Soton Docks.

The role of DPW is an interesting one as spy highlights. There is no doubt that they had cash flow issues until very recently and may still be suffering. As far as Thames Gateway is concerned their plan is that it will be a bespoke logistical hub for importers and distributors and will be built as such with direct access to the Midlands and beyond so definitely a threat to other ports if it comes off. I have been involved with the consenting of a power plant at Thames Gateway (a 900MW CCGT called the Gateway Energy Centre) that gained permission at the start of August so things are happening there. I fully agree with the points about Dibden Bay also. Soton Council look to have missed out there by not backing it sufficiently.

There's no doubt that Peel sees Pinewood as complementary to MediaCity, a northern and southern pairing. As well as BBC moving to MediaCity at the moment Granada also announced that they were moving in recently. The new Corrie set that is being built is on the opposite side of the Manchester Ship Canal (also Peel owned) to MediaCity and is being connected by a new footbridge.

Yes, very recently bought majority shareholding in Pinewood.

I don't like him. Bad attitude and not much more than a poacher. Rickie outscored him easily two seasons ago.

Sunday Times Rich List had him valued at £2bn last time out although I suspect there's a lot of guesswork involved there. JW is extremely reclusive and doesn't do media interviews. He is the majority shareholder in Peel Group which is thought to have assets of about £6bn. JW started the company in the late 1970s by buying a single redundant mill in Lancashire. Peel Group is split into a number of top-down divisions. They include Peel Ports, Airports, Environment, Energy, Development and Property. Each division is certainly expected to outperform the marketplace. Marquee projects include the Trafford Centre, MediaCity UK, Wirral Waters, Scout Moor Wind Farm, Port Warrington to name a few. There are about 40 large scale projects going on at Peel at the moment.

If Whittaker was making donations it should be revealed in party donation lists. However I doubt he is, as he is not interested in politics. He is another tax exile, lives on the Isle of Man and is only allowed in the UK about half the days a year. He generally flies in his chopper from Man to Barton Aerodrome near the Trafford Centre, where Peel is headquartered.

Believe me, no part of the Peel Group is a financial supporter to any political party. I am in the know!