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The negatives, STEPHENS, not getting the ball forward quickly, JWP poor delivery, poor shooting and nowhere near quick enough or strong enough, Elyanoussi, the manager is wrong on this one and the fans are right, offers nothing, Sims????. Positives, Gunn made some last ditch saves, Bednarek and Vestergaard better than a three, The pressing was so much better. Valery much better attacking down the line and defensively, Targett was ok, is Bertrand not match fit yet? Hojbjerg and Romeu strong but Romeu needs to win it and give it quickly. Obefemi lasted ten minutes before he pulled up. IMO JWP should have gone at half time not Armstrong who is faster and a better player. Redmond was ok but found it difficult to get free. Either give Austin early balls into the box or don't play him. Elyanoussi gives less than nothing. £15m ? did nobody watch him, he is as slow as Targett and JWP. I remembered Long's cross to Austin in the last game, that's where we should play him and or Sims if Austin plays.

Qbefemi lasted ten minutes then another five before he went down. I thought apart from being undone by Stephen's unsuccessful impression of VVD, getting dispossessed when we are in no trouble then immediately conceding two goals is unforgiveable. With the momentum of early goals we were on the back foot against a rampant Arsenal. I thought this was one of our best games so far when it came to pressing the ball but we were too slow to move it forward. We looked better when we made the change to four at the back. JWP is still lightweight, he had a good share of the ball and gave a great service to the centre backs. His delivery was poor from dead ball situations and his shooting was poor. Elyanoussi had yet another forgettable game summed up with, was it a shot or a back pass at the end. Gunn was fine and saved a couple of certainties. Valery is improving all the time, showed much more willingness to run at defenders out wide.. Target had a decent game, denied by a good save. Bednarek and Vestergaard were better as a two without Stephens. Romeu was ok but two remarks, he needs to sit in font of the back four, left too much space, has a tendency to be indecisive if given too long on the ball, just win it and give it. Austin needs the balls into the box but we did everything but. It's hard to believe we were trying to score. Redmond was lively but ran out of ideas with that great chance just before Arsenal scored. Armstrong worked hard and was unlucky to be sacrificed unlike Stephens. I was hoping it would be JWP not Armstrong. JWP just bounces off and misses too many chances to tackle for me. Hasenhuttl made the right changes but one has to question Elyanoussi on the bench and why Yoshida didn't replace Stephens. Targett had a decent game but I'm wondering about Bertrand's match fitness.

FFS week after week Stephens makes massive goal bearing mistakes. Burnley, Cardiff now today he comes strolling out of defence like VVD then loses the ball and again two goals. The problem is he thinks he's really good on the ball. He needs to act like a defender, take no chances and get the ball out wide in the opponents half. We are going down if this bloke plays. If he does he needs one instruction, stop ****ing around and put your foot through it. He doesn't even like heading the ball.

I think there has to be just cause, besides the pilot's unions wouldn't take kindly to a heavy hand. I once laid it on the line to our very good MD (Who I played golf with) that he was looking at a bunch of long haul aircraft stranded around the world due to pilot sickness when some management tried it on.

That's pretty much the no brainer. Additionally a lot of pilots have a fair drive in to work. I developed a habit, if driving or flying, no drinking, ever.

I knew Bryn pretty well when he was at Stoneham. He was a really nice friendly person. I remember him at Saints with a half back line of McLaughlin, Parker, Elliott. RIP Bryn one of life's nice people.

Because nearly all pilots are careful about consuming alcohol too close to flying. It's usually the crew that pick up on the bad apple and thinking about self preservation do something about it. The limit for crews is a quarter of the driving limit. Random testing isn't acceptable any more than having a test before leaving a restaurant or pub etc.

Go to the Sky News web site. It is pretty detailed. It give a schedule of all the flights ordered by the McKay family as part of the arrangements before and after the transfer. It says that both Sala and / or N'Diaye were on several of the flights arranged and paid for by Mark McKay.

It seems the agent Willie McKay has issued a statement stating categorically that he didn't own or have any connection with any company that owned the aircraft. Sky saying he hired it just like a taxi and has no idea about legal requirements. So he's successfully, maybe, washed his hands of that. With aviation regulations pretty explicit not leaving any wiggle room there are interesting times ahead. A private pilot flying a single engine aircraft alone at night in icing conditions on a long over sea leg with a plane hired by a third party as a commercial flight is about as dangerous as it could get, unless there are maintenance, regulatory issues with the aircraft itself. I would think the insurance companies are rubbing their hands in anticipation of the accident report later on in the year.

A serious question deserves a serious answer. I'm pretty sure they play at AFC Totton's ground. They applied to join the Championship last summer but weren't accepted possibly through not having an adult team at the time but then neither did Utd but they were accepted. I think there is a pyramid arrangement and they are in a regional league fairly well down.

She was robbed getting out of a taxi in the early hours. Ryan was looking after his two kids. As reported.

I see that the owners of the aircraft which is registered by Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc according to the Mail have been removed or withheld from the FAA in what appears to be a concerted attempt to keep their identity secret.

Going down to 10 men after 72 minutes was a blow but I'm not sure the manager noticed because he did the same against Crystal Palace. Last week I defended Stephens because Crouch headed the ball onto his arm but his crass incompetent giving the ball away was ridiculous. The manager must take a great deal of the blame for today. If our tactics against spoiling physical teams parking the bus is forming triangles in our own half and passing the ball sideways only shoves the possession up to 67% we are not going to win many. Stephens was only still following the game plan. When you play four at the back the wing backs become full backs that didn't happen. We bring on a 6' - 4" striker with a good finisher plus Redmond, don't start me on Elyanoussi. Hojbjerg was all energy, no subtlety and atrocious passing, for God's sake shoot man when you get the chance, no, take two more touches and lose the opening. For goodness sake mix it up, maybe sometimes pass it to get numbers up and then play their game, stick the ball in the mixer and like they did fight like hell or get the wingbacks running out wide and get to the bye line with strikers and midfielders attacking the box. Passing for the sake of it, allowing opposition that want to funnel back and defend deep isn't going to cause them trouble. What's wrong with the original plan we were sold. Press the opposition and attack with pace.

Another issue will be the result of an inquest which I think will be adjourned until the final report is published. Then everybody will want to be legally represented. Manufacturers of aircraft, engines and equipment, pilots, operator, owner, and all associated businesses, insurance companies, all employing legal teams to try to pin the blame and some hoping for an unlawful killing verdict to open the floodgates and pin it on the pilot, owner, operator, charterer etc. It will not be about who did what, it will all be about who can sue who for what with the target being the deepest pockets.

I suspect that the insurance company are awaiting an accident report. There has to be at the very least a deep suspicion of a criminal act due to the use of an American registered aircraft/ownership, the qualifications of the pilot, the single pilot and not least the flight undertaken in a single engine aircraft at night plus who paid for the flight and related expenses and how they did that. Nobody has as yet cast any light on the report that the apparently regular pilot of this aircraft (video circa 2015) going through passport control, not going on the flight and maybe not even being there. This whole operation stinks. The agents and both football clubs come out of this badly. Hidden ownership of the aircraft is very suspicious because under US law only US citizens can own a US registered aircraft. I'm just waiting for an insurance company to come out and wash their hands of any claim.

I think even the insurance might be in question if this flight was carried out anyway other than completely legal.

I flew the BAC 1-11 for a couple of years, that had a similar system to push the nose down if the aircraft deep stalled because of the T tail. The test aircraft had a parachute to deploy if that happened. The aircraft got into a position that I think masked the air intakes on the engines. Ignoring the stick shaker or stick pusher is sheer stupidity unless it's a fault in the system. Much like flying a single engine aeroplane at night in icing conditions over a long sea leg.

Interestingly the Captain had a row in the crew room over industrial problems and was supposed to be in a foul mood not good with two relatively inexperienced co-pilots. The same Captain represented Capt Thain for BALPA in his problems with BEA after the Man Utd 1958 Munich crash. The Germans blamed ice on the wings and refused to change the accident report even though it was conclusively proved that it was slush on the runway affecting the relatively new nosewheel aircraft. The drag on the nosewheel increased by the square of the speed. The faster the speed the greater the drag eventually the speed stopped increasing and the plane ploughed off the runway. Unlike Boeings where a single flab lever sequentially when selected raises flaps then the leading edge slats. There are speeds to be attained for each selection. The Trident had two levers for flaps and droops so the droops could be retracted independently which is what happened with the speed too low.

Probably only the agent had a clue which type of aircraft was used by the two individuals. It probably never dawned on Cardiff what a potentially dangerous flight was being planned. As for the Mayday call. As reported, a relatively inexperienced private pilot flying an aircraft he admitted to being rusty on, at night probably in cloud, almost certainly if serviceable on autopilot. A competent instrument rated pilot with current relevant experience on type would have been constantly monitoring the instruments. A pilot without those skills and not experienced on the aircraft in those conditions may have lost control, not even knowing which way was up and what the aircraft was doing, consequently fighting for his life may well had no time due to complete overload to think. One night early in my career I was flying single pilot carrying a load of explosives for the oil rigs from Norwich to Stavanger in the middle of the night. I was looking out of the window on a beautiful black star lit night with no horizon. I then passed over a large fishing fleet below showing single white lights, all of a sudden I couldn't see where the sky was because the lights blended in with the stars. Visually I didn't know what way was up or down. I opted for the simple solution, stopped looking out of the window and went back to instrument cross checking and monitored the instruments until past the fishing fleet.

I don't know whether the a/c had de-icing boots or prop heating. Certainly photos pre accident I've seen showed a black leading edge on the wings and tail plane but that might just have been protective covering. The problem with boots if serviceable is that the ice has to be allowed to build up before operation. If used too early the boots cause a groove at the back of the build up so the pulsing doesn't break the ice free. I've flown the Fokker F27 and Bombardier Q400 which had boots. Breaking ice off was never a problem. The props have heating. Probably before your time BEA Trident PI crashed coming out of Heathrow, stalled due to premature retraction of the droops and went in with little forward speed.

Although they have found the wreckage it will be difficult to prove icing. They will be trying to eliminate initially structural failure or engine failure and if they find the bodies whether the post mortem shows up any health failure. Going to take a while before any report comes out. An inquest will look at it in detail and what the jury's verdict will be. It remains to be seen if there will be any prosecutions. I was part of the BALPA legal team representing the pilots at the Kegworth as a B737 - 400 pilot at the time. (M1 crash British Midland B737). The inquest was painstaking with QCs representing all interested parties and cross examinations going into all the details.

Echo says felt his hamstring could miss Cardiff game.

It was a poor game. Long is a ****ing idiot not going for the corner and going down. When we were ahead in the last minute we have to be ruthless. Throw ins down the line and concentrate on the corners. We play like a team with peanuts for brains. Crouch should have got nowhere near the ball. At least two players, as he was the target should have blocked him off. The penalty was nonsense because Stephens was facing the ball which was over his head, Crouch was behind him and headed the ball back onto his arm. Stephens never even saw the ball. Barnes made no effort to avoid the goalkeeper and took a heavy touch then just ran into McCarthy who was late rather than going after the ball he could easily have jumped over McCarthy.