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Thats what Ive been thinking. According to the stories it looks like we've got more top players than them. MP out etc

Apart from anything else Australia is a member of the UKUSA Five eyes agreement and have access to the most sensitive intelligence. If there was a GPS fix they would know and would act on it - not least because China would know we knew.

He isnt correct. He has misinterpreted what he has been told.

The satellite which picked up the plane was Inmarsat 3-F1 which was launched in 1996. Its geostationary and does not require a GPS fix. It is located level with the equator in the centre of the Indian Ocean and where it overlapped with another satellite was where the breaks in the published arcs were. It does not cover the far east, which is covered by 3-F3. This guy probably has the planes location right (imo).

Lets face it Ottery's grasp of when next Tuesday is fairly hazy. Its probably safe to assume no-one from SW is stalking him.

Agree. Properly thought through talks in the summer is plenty early enough.

Till at least the end of next season and possibly the summer - more than a year in any event.

touche

I travel to the US for work and have vodafone so use this. Its still not cheap but cheaper than their hideous usual roaming rates. The data cost is reasonable for emails but still mounts up if you use the web a lot. I got stung for £800 for data during a five day trip to Singapore last year. personal: http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-monthly/travelling-abroad/ business: http://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/shop/phones-and-plans/working-abroad/index.htm

You can tell which clubs are buying which players by looking at their body language. Wanyama is going to Hull.

Not really. Russia wants to dissect Ukraine, annexe the parts where they have managed to successfully establish a Russian majority. Britain as a whole would probably like to get out of NI and unite Ireland but the majority want to remain British and you cant 'disinherit' people.

Its pretty simple - they have 8 pages or so to fill every day and a paper to sell - so they present every enquiry or aspiration or even a scouting trip as a deal in the making. Its not made up, its just bigged up. It gets lots of attention from the fans of the 'buying' club and 'selling' club. Job done, another journo has his salary funded.

Its just one big, long extended family fight as far as I can work out You should read P J O'Rouke's take on it in 'Holidays in Hell'. Its really dated now but a funny read.

Thats turning history on its head. The name Scot came from the Latin term for Irish raiders of Roman England, who later formed the Dal Riata kingdom in western Scotland - which is why Gaelic is spoken there now - its wasn't the language of the 'original' 'Scots' - the Picts. Much of the Scottish 'settlement' of northern Ireland was ethnic Irish returning 'home' - hence the similarities in the names with slightly different spellings. And the army was deployed to NI in 1969 to protect the Catholics from the proddies, not the other way around. The Russians deliberately settled areas with their own people in order to be able to quell resistance and expand their empire both in Soviet times and before - just as the Chinese are doing to Tibet and Eighur.

Thats Russian media disinformation - they're being told Russians are in danger and being murdered, attacked etc but oddly no evidence or individuals interviewed. Neither media 'side' come out smelling of roses from this bit some of the Russian coverage is laughable.

Not doubting you but I thought it was the other way around. The satellite wasn't hearing from the plane (because the system was disabled) so was sending out a handshake ping. If there was GPS data Inmarsat wouldnt have published the arcs and a week wouldnt have been wasted.

You don't put really valuable cargos on commercial jets. Its like putting £10,000 in an envelope with a 2nd class stamp.

No hes a bin man in Eastleigh. I guess Fonte doesnt reckon Sam will make it.

Yeah but more homo erectus than Mel Gibson.

I thought it was quite pointed when he and KL were photographed stood next to the colour crest when Ralphy was appointed.

10 days on and none of it makes much sense. The only thing practically ruled out is mechanical malfunction. Doubling back, flying low, avoiding radar sounds more like a flying nut playing out his sim game in real life, but who knows.

That thread didn't teach you anything then.

Do we really need an Owner, Chairman, CEO, Director of Sport, Les Reed and Head Coach? Seems one or two posts top heavy to me.

Thats a bit unfair Pap. She's added a higher resolution image now.

It all looks pretty legit and scientfically validated too https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/445475973891235840/photo/1