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Massa's near miss with the Force India, or Kimi running over hos own mechanic?

P45 for Ferrari's lollipop man I think.

Can you think of any moments where Saints came so close to scoring, or it was disallowed, but you would have gone mental if they had scored. For me a few that stick out are: Danny Higginbotham's overhead kick against the Skates, which was disallowed for offside because Chalkias had gone running out to the halfway line. Niemi hitting the bar with that volley at Fulham. Beattie having one disallowed for offside in the cup final, then having an injury time header cleared off the line. Skacel putting an effort over the bar in the playoff semi, about 30s after Rasiak had scored.

Fast passing with creative, attacking midfielders moving forward to join the attack? Of all the old school players we had last season, I'd have said he was best suited to the new style of play. I guess we will find out if he stays and gets selected. Hopefully he will get to show off his skill in midfield again, although having read reports on the likes of Holmes and Lallana, compared to Surman, I think LB looks more likely.

I am still trying to figure out when exactly Skacel is supposed to have performed badly. In the playoff season he was our joint midfield goalscorer with 4. I don't think any midfielder has scored more than that for Saints since MLT in the late '90s. He was also second only to Bale in the assists chart. Not my favourite statistic as it can be misleading, but he did provide a lot of creativity that season. Last season at LB he was also pretty solid. The only poor performance I can remember was Colchester at home, when he had just come back from injury and was clearly unfit. Yes I know Stamina was far from his strong point, but how many box to box for 90 minutes, creative genius's do you find in the CCC? Different players have different strenghts. Viafara, probably on similar wages, couldn't pass water, but I don't see many comments about him underperforming that year.

No, you're thinking of Saintmarc. Accoring to Google: "Mirac" est le nom traditionnel parfois donné à plusieurs étoiles So there....

Haha. Just got back home and seen the result. F**king brilliant!!! :D

And cost us a lot more. Coventry you say. He scored once and missed about 6 other really decent chances. A decent striker would have put a couple of them away. There were games like Charlton away and Burnley at home, right at the sharp end of the relegation season, where he just didn't get his a*se in gear and we dropped points. He also only scored 2 goals from the bench last season. Both of them at Barnsley.

What would you like from a midfielder playing half a season at LB? Anyway, he did score a crucial goal when we beat West Brom, so we would have been 2 points worse off without him. Mind you, 2 points off our final points tally wouldn't have mattered. It's not as if we'd have been releg... oh...

Depends if I can get that Friday off. If not I will go to qualy and try and meet you some time afterwards. Friday is cheaper though. Will keep you informed. If I can get there on Friday, I'm going to try and get a spot near Malmedy maybe for the first one, then wander round to Pouhon and possibly Blanchimont later on. Eau Rouge is probably my favourite corner in F1, altough it's a ***** to try and get it flat on a PC game. Sadly getting it flat is all to easy in real life and has been since the mid '90s. Before that the really good drivers could make up loads of time in there. For names, I think Pouhon (Spa) deserves a mention too. I also like Raidillon, Blanchimont and Bus Stop (all Spa) The Swimming Pool (Monte Carlo), Maggots (Silverstone) and 130R (Suzuka)

There was a Lauda Air 767 which went down somewhere in Asia in the '90s when one TR deployed and and the ac broke appart in flight. There was another aircraft which had a TR deploy on take-off. May even have been an MD-80, can't remember who, when or where. It is possible, but witness' reported seing flames from the left hand engine. Not something that would occur if the reverser opened. Even if it did, the aircraft would pull to the left very sharply, whereas the Madrid plane came down to the right of the runway.

He hasn't scored since Burley left, the last time was ironically against Plymouth in about February.

F*ck it, I'll fly over from Frankfurt, rent a car in Stansted, drive down to Southampton and take him to Plymouth. I'll just have to be careful not to brush past him, or he might fall over and start waving his hands in air.

Tickets are 50 euro for the Friday Practice sessions and 75 for qualifying on Saturday.

Very unlikely IMO. Loss of hydraulic pressure wouldn't cause reverse thrusters to deploy. If it did the reversers would open as soon as the engines were shut down on the ground, which they don't. It is also unlikely that asymetric reverse thrust would cause the aircraft to veer off to the side upon landing. Yes it would cause a yawing moment to one side, but the pilots should be able to correct that, or at the very least close the reverser if they can't.

People say that about the playoffs, but Davis was hardly any better in the second leg. He really should have at least parried Darren Moore's goal and there was at least one instance where he completely missed the ball and Baird headered it off the line. Bart conceded a header from a set piece, from a badly marked Steve Howard, and a penalty. Neither of which you can really say he was at fault for. He has also never put in a performance like Davis did at Hillsborough last year.

I'm not that fussed for a cup run. Remember last season when we beat Leicester and Bury at home and all the idiots came out of the woodwork, saying they hope we get Pompey in the next round because we will beat them.

Recently, as in his last competitive game, which would have been Posh in the cup IIRC? I heard he did quite well against the Hammers in pre-season.

I've missed your infinite wisdom these last few months Gary...

Thinking of nipping over there for a couple of nights and a few beers next week. Has anyone been and can say what it's like, reccomend any decent bars etc. and things to do during the day?

Sure I remember reading NW retired the passenger DC-10 in service worldwide, last year. Even the MD-11s have been sold off, mostly to cargo airlines. Aeroflot cargo opperate a fair number of both types. I can see them taking off from my bedroom window quite regularly. When they are empty they climb like a missile.

Thanks. Will email them. Just hope I can get that Friday off work.

Looking at possibly getting tickets for the Friday practice sessions or qualifying at said event. Can't find a way of buying tickets online without buying a full race pack, the cheapest of which is about eu300. I have been reliably informed that you can buy on the day. Was wondering if anyone had done this before at the Belgian or other GPs and knew how much it cost.

I don't see how so many people are drawing the conclusion that Bart isn't good enough, based on 2 games a year ago behind a truly dreadful defence. Seriously, Makin and Bennett Mk 1. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. In pretty much all the other games he has played for us, he has been absolutely fine and looked better than Davis in many of them. I don't have a problem with Davis in goal, but in an ideal world I'd have shot of him long before Saga, Rasiak or Davies iif we need to save money. Forecast... I just don't get it. Why spend money on a 'keeper from a Prem side when we already had Davis, Poke, Bart and Pernecky. GK is the one possition where you can bring in short term loans and get away with it.

The Brittern Norman Trislander. Production ceased in '83 according to wiki, so that's at least 25 years old, possibly older. 72 produced and (touch wood) no accidents to date.