Arizona

Lol, i gave a good "WAAAHHAAAYYY" when that happened, superb

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.

On yesterday's showing, his only chance of getting a game is if/when someone in a similar position gets an injury. I'm not convinced his style of play is suited to the new team ethos.

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.

Skacel and Sagnowski CAN be good players. IMO its not their ability thats in doubt but their mentality. They go off the boil too easily and produce little for weeks on end - and we cant afford that kind of inconsistency.

 

You might work on that with a young developing player on low wages, but if its still happening to players earning £8,000pw plus in their late 20s its time to let them go.

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.

Isn't that Mike Wilde?

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

FFS, BWP will be required this season. he always weighs in with important goals has quick feet can head and makes fat c*nts like darren moore et al look stupid. He might not last a whole game but he certainly makes an impact as a sub. He gained us some pretty valuable points last season. Coventry, plymouth, barnsley etc.

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.

I really don't rate him and would rather see us using younger players.

 

What did he contribute last season??

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...

coolio, see you there?

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.

Don't know why but Eau Rouge is my favourite name of all grand prix corners :confused:

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)

Fair point, though I thought a few crashes had been attributed to unexpected deployment of a reverse thruster?

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.

Can anyone actually remember the last time BWP made a difference to the result of a game?

I dont know what it is with Saints but we seem to be last in the pecking order when it comes to players.

Lets think for a minute.....We had the wrong Pele,the wrong Jesus,the wrong Van Damme, and we have the wrong Wright Phillips.

If BWPs was sold tomorrow for a packet of smokey bacon crisps and a carrot then we would have had a good deal.

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.

From what has been said in the news on this, and previous incidents I reckon this crash must have something to do with a reverse thruster activation. Whether something sheered off the left engine and wrecked the hydralics systems causing automatic activation of reverse thrusters, or the pilots tried to put it down after V1 and poured on the reverse thrusters (thus pulling to the right as left engine malfunctioning). Though obviously there are so many other things that could have caused the crash, and its normally a series of faults that leads to such events. My heart goes out to those on board and their relatives/friends. A truely awful thing to happen.

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.

Whatever people think of Kelvin, he is a better keeper at the moment than BB.Bart has been poor since his inital run in the team and his injury. Derby in the home play off he looked like a startled rabbit, and everytime I've seen him since he seems to get worse. Whether a first team run will be the making of him, no one knows, but he's not up to it as things stand at the moment.

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.

Arizona I dont know if you have seen BB play recently, but his confidence is shot.Hes a bag of nerves

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?

Lol. None of them fly DC-10s by choice now although there are still quite a few on their books. AA has 20, North West has 30 and Continental have 20. **** knows why.

 

Not sure about MD-11s but by and large they are more modern than MD-80s.

 

Quite a few veteran 747s still about and you can also add into the elderly active planes list some of the older 757/767s that are used regularly. US Airways has a quite large fleet of early 80s 757s in active service for example.

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.

Yesterday's crash sounded horrific. Apparently most of those who survived only did so having been thrown into a stream by the impact! Scary stuff.

 

 

 

Wow, I don't remember that one but had a good read over lunch...shocking

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111

 

This was the last plane I flew on, back in June, it was old, like a minibus, and was absolutely BRILLIANT

 

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.