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Martin O'Neill left Villa because he couldn't see them progressing with the signing restrictions and selling the best players. Liverpool look as though they lack something teamwise and look like they need another overhaul. Unless somebody comes in and gets them in the top four they will be gone in the search for instant success. I think there is a bit of the poisoned chalice about both jobs. Lawrie McMenemy comes to mind with the Sunderland job. Pardew could be a target for LPL.

Standout, Davis at Leeds.

I'm saying that if Schneiderlin/Cork or Hammond sit in the middle we will be picking the ball out of our net regularly and will struggle to get out of our half. Anyone who thinks Richardson and Fox are going to have the pace and freedom to do what they did in the Championship is living in cloud cuckoo land.

Silly cow just doesn't get it. Just pay the ****ing bills and don't spend what you haven't got.

Because it is more than likely we won't score as many goals in the Premier. 45 is the average for a mid table team. The defences will be better and the forwards will find it harder so we will need goals from elsewhere.

The linesman got it wrong, Tevez hit Barton, so should have been sent off first. Barton retaliated and also should have then been sent off. I think if both of them had been sent off, Barton may well have not been so incensed by the unfairness of the one sided decision, and not kicked off. This poor decision may well have decided the result, consequently the championship.

I don't remember Davis so I can't comment but we need a central midfielder that can get beyond the strikers and attack the penalty area adding some goals.

The whole bloody house of cards will collapse in a heap in the fullness of time. We would probably be the first out and Germany and France would have to pick up our tab. The Eastern Europeans will end up the trigger for the collapse. No collection of countries ever worked for too long even under force of arms and this won't either.

He played for the development team.

I wouldn't argue with you as you were there. The SBS eye witness in the tender said that the safety boat was tethered and pulled down but not under as the attachment broke but the three crew were tipped out then one was nearly brained by one of the outboards as the boat crashed back down. He said he went back to the shore in the tender whilst the search was going on with Huk? the NCO that survived. I presume that was where he got his underwater information. He also said that the diver was also trying to tell the two (Chris & Jim?) to get back to the chamber but was snatched off by his communication lead tautening as the sub dropped so made for the surface, but he had a proper air supply. Apparently the three had a fresh water excursion the day before but nowhere as deep and no problem for them. That was interesting because he described a technique for recovering at night canoes or boats on a 100 ft line stretched from the bow of each craft with the sub's sonar tracking different frequency transmitters in each craft. He described it as difficult for the sub and the craft although there was guidance the angle of approach was anybody's guess. He was supposed to be picked up one night, the sub spotted them on the sonar but made a parallel approach and passed a yard or so away but the rear pax jumped and initially tried to catch the periscope but fell off. The sub left them there. (off Isle of Arran)

I'm not sure the club will want too many season tickets at a discount. They are pretty sure to nearly fill the stadium especially for the premium sides and nearest competitors at full price. They will probably make more money by keeping the season ticket numbers as they are.

A NC signing. I understand the first time Adkins saw him play was the first half v Leicester. Also the last time!

Lot of varied experiences on here. It's very interesting reading. One of the SW members is the Captain of the BA 747 that lost all four engines in an eruption over Java in 1982 ish. He reads but doesn't post.

Airline Captain. Just read a lot. I did a four week round the world trip with an ex SBS engineer and ex SAS catering operative. The SBS guy Joined the marines and trained as an engineer was eventually invalided out with frost bitten feet in Norway, went back to engineering. The SAS guy was older and working for a catering company at Heathrow. He was very twitchy about his address and photographs. We used to spend the evenings chewing the fat.

The report I had was from an SBS on the tender above who was waiting for the three to finish then join the sub. He saw the inflatable pulled down but the rope mounting broke before the thing was pulled under. Apparently the first out went back to warn the two coming out but they didn't understand in the dark, so as he had no air he went for the surface, then they were blown off before they could plug their bottles in because the sub reached 110 ft and blew the tanks. The suit inflation bottles at that depth were almost empty because of the pressure at that depth so they weren't able to regain positive buoyancy so sank to the bottom (220ft ?) Takes a really special type to do that. The recess apparently in front of the conning tower and contained pipes etc which were moved to make room for a team to squat breathing from umbilicals, I understand the turbulence was unbelievable.

I like Tom Ince. He looks a real tricky pacy wide man and two footed.

He is out of contract and free. Won't be coming here.

Basically he is a good keeper and very comfortable playing from the back and decent on crosses. We are going to need all that in the Premier. I think he is a high earner though.

I heard somewhere that Green is out of contract and does not want to resign.

Was that the boat that had the deck modified to provide a recess that a team could ride in outside, breathing air from the sub. Used after helicopter drop to sub outside radar range, then transit to target (ie rig)

Understatement of the year, you'd need a deathwish to do it.

At the start there was nothing like this just a diver and bottles slung on the hull. Originally just the standard one at a time use of the escape hatch but then modified for five to use. I believe only on the D/E boats. Two drowned in Loch Long many years ago when the boat sank rapidly and pulled the guard boat tethered to the periscope mount under, but the rope broke. One SBS managed to make the surface but two sank due to all the equipment attached and negative buoyancy as the bottles didn't have enough air to inflate the suits. I think they added lifejackets to inflate and get them to the surface after that.

Because of most of their debt being football creditors they can't do administration. A big part of the £37m owed to Sheff Utd is due shortly. If they don't go up this could be too much for Gold and O'Sullivan to pick up.

SBS have been doing underwater exits and returns at periscope depth for years. Their training seems more hazardous than the real thing due to the possibility of suddenly encountering fresh water areas in salt water sea lochs causing the sub/operatives to lose buoyancy and sink rapidly, causing separation and loss of breathable air, possibly leading to sinking to the bottom. Several fatalities have occurred that way.

He had nothing to do with sorting out Totton's ground he came in after that, Phil Shepherd, Norman Cook etc sorted that. He ended up part of the problem at Totton so things didn't work out there, much like the previous sponsor who ended up at Eastleigh.