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Oh great. Just what we need when we're up against it and chasing a game - Guly.

Madness. For the second league game in a row, it's like a completely different team has come out for the second half.

Definite handball in the lead-up to that, but still no excuses for leaving him so much space to shoot - as per normal. It's getting depressingly predictable now.

I've just caught up on the whole series and I agree about the acting in that scene - absolutely brilliant, but I personally don't believe that's the best the show has offered so far. Claire Danes was simply outstanding in the final couple of episodes of series one. The way she depicted the mania and subsequent depression of bi-polar disorder was probably the best bit of TV acting I have ever seen.

Well if you enjoyed this one Phil then you should definitely get hold of the rest when they become available. I thought it was by far the weakest episode of the new series so far and very short on laughs compared to a couple of the previous ones.

That isn't exactly exclusive to Adkins though is it? When was the last time you heard a manager do a post-match interview and say "Yeah it was all my fault we lost. I got the tactics and the substitutes all wrong."? Can't really criticise him for behaving in exactly the same way as all other managers can you?

I don't really know what people expect from his post-match interviews. It's not like any football managers, or players, ever have anything insightful or constructive to say in these situations. They just rattle off a load of tired old cliches (kept plugging away, all credit to them etc...) just to pay lip service to the TV broadcasters. It's sometimes funny watching a manager losing it after a perceived injustice from the officials, but that's about it. I don't even pay attention to them any more - I get more interesting and stimulating conversation from my cat.

Oh dear lord - we are looking so sloppy and careless in possession today.

Total lack of concentration from Clyne there - yet another completely avoidable goal conceded. Getting pretty depressing now :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20074051 So an MP's report states that the goals of the military mission in Afghanistan 'may never be achievable'. Amazing it's taken them this long to work that out, given that most people with an ounce of intelligence have been saying it for 12 years. All those service personnel deaths for nothing.

Is that the actual truth, or is it just what you are allowed to tell everyone? I seem to recall reports of British ships and subs being involved in the 'shock and awe' tactic - firing missiles from vast distances away - but I accept my memory could well be wrong in that respect.

Yep, me too. The man is just a born loser.

No no no no no and no. The day that corrupt, saggy-faced pr1ck ever sets foot in St Marys again is the day I finally turn my back on Saints and on football in general. I honestly can't believe some of our fans actually want him back after last time.

No, we shouldn;t have stuck with Wotte because he was clearly the crap, cheap option in the first place. Adkins is a talented, young (ish) manager who I have no doubt will go on to bigger and better things, and I would rather he did it with us.

How do you know that? How do you know he didn't identify one or two decent defenders in the window but for whatever reason NC couldn't or wouldn't do the deal?

Honestly, you lot are f***ing unbelievable. Have you really learnt nothing from our last 20 years of managerial musical chairs? Are you really so ready to give up on a talented manager who actually wants to be here just because of one single bad run of results? Did anybody really expect we would be setting the PL alight this season? I'm f***ing ashamed to support the same team as you pathetic bunch of whingers. So what if Cortese does pull the trigger and sack him? What then? Anybody else coming in will still have the same squad of players to work with until January, and the disruption of changing managers, changing systems/tactics etc... will only result in us being in a worse position by then. We've all been saying for years that what we need is consistency. We need a manager who will commit to the long term to stabilise the team and move us forward. Managers learn from their mistakes and Nigel has earned the right to prove he can learn from his this season. Sacking him would not only make us more likely to get relegated, it would take us back to the dark days of Lowe et al when managers were shown the door after the first run of bad results and the cycle repeated itself. I really, really, hope we don't go down that route.

I expect that penalty was all Adkins' fault as well then, yeah?

I really, really ******* hate Mark Noble

Yeah of course because it's all Nigel's fault that our defenders keep switching off and making stupid errors isn't it.

He turned me into a newt! ......I got better.

Well after a so-so first couple, last night's episode (Lemons) was, IMO, the best Red Dwarf has been since series 6. It totally felt like RD of old. I really hope the rest of the series continues to be as good as this one.

Is there any way, I wonder, to determine at what altitude he deployed his 'chute? Because then he would certainly have the record for the furthest distance traveled in freefall even if it was a shorter time.

The speed of sound in air is variable depending on numerous aspects such as altitude, pressure, temperature. That figure is based on 20 degree air at sea level. I don't know if that means it would be faster or slower in the conditions he jumped in.

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