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Landed a Vampire wheels up as an experiment on a rubber mat on a carrier. Presumably to jack it up and then fly it off. I think the damage to the a/c put an end to that idea.

My wife was worried about the effect of an out vote because of the effect on the jobs of my son and son in law. My son works for Mercedes and my son in law for BMW. I asked them in front of my wife what the effect on them could be, significantly they both laughed and said do you really think that Mercedes and BMW plus VW etc never mind all the other German manufacturers plus their equivalents in France would for one tiny second allow the German government to jeopardise their profitability by not doing a deal ASAP. The strength of the out vote is that there are a lot of people that will vote out and unusually all of them will vote. There are a lot of people that would vote to stay in but some of them won't bother to vote. The more the opinion polls and the in supporters bang on about the in vote winning, plus the government machinery and the political parties doing the same it will end up with a complacency bubble resulting in a mediocre turnout but all the outers will vote. Unfortunately for the in vote, it's the don't knows, don't care and too thick to have a view that are most likely to not vote. I think there are a lot more out voters that really care than in voters in the same category.

If Cameron and the stay in part of the government lose they have to resign and give way to the leave part of the government to negotiate any deals. In my view there is no way than anybody who is supporting the stay in result should be allowed to take part in any subsequent negotiations with the EU. I personally think there are a lot of people who are going to vote out who aren't making any noise at all, just waiting for the opportunity to burst the political bubble that they despise. People from all political persuasions.

Charlie Austin is superb the way he made runs off Long in the short time he was on, anticipating the breaking ball. There is a real pair in the making there. I have little time for Pelle because he wants to be spoon fed and is utterly selfish especially with his constant moaning. He doesn't play in the channels like Long, Austin and Mane and his central positioning and lack of runs reduces our cutting edge. We should use him as required and get the best price in the close season and replace him with pacy alternative. I watched Juanmi in the under 21s the other night and he looked no better than his rare displays in the first team.

Well worked goal. Nice cross field ball from Davis to Cedric back to JWP first time into the box and Long headed down which beat Fabianski. If a goalkeeper comes out fast into a crowd stretching and gets two hands on the ball but can't hold it as a player simultaneously heads it, I can't see a foul, looked a good goal to me. Very solid although I prefer Cedric at right back. I suspect Romeu's yellow card made Koeman's decision to sub him in case of another. Yoshida does seem to attract controversy. Looked like he was fouled but I've seen them given. One can see the effect of Forster, It looks like the defence have absolute confidence in him. Very efficient performance.

Looks like a blanket defence with the Statue of Liberty up front.

I've given up on referees. They can't even penalise blatant shirt pulling and holding in the penalty area whilst hypocritically penalising the slightest touch or hold elsewhere. At free kicks, except near the goal they are allowed to be taken instantaneously but near the goal they perform their time wasting ritual. In both events if the players don't immediately retreat they should book all encroaching within ten yards, always allow the player to play the ball immediately from the right place except for a penalty and again immediately book any player who doesn't retreat ten yards if an immediate restart is stymied. As for shirt pulling immediate booking and a penalty. Within a month there would be no holding and no need for the referees to hold play up. The Leagues and referees just don't have the balls to apply the rules because the bleating would be ridiculous. The same for players challenging referees. There would be a few short sided games but properly warned in advance there could be no excuse and the game would be drastically improved and probably a lot more goals scored.

Match analyst.

What makes them think he would choose WHU over Saints. It sounds as though his family life, now being able to live in Bournemouth, had a big influence and he jumped at the chance, rather than wait for his contract to run out and cash in as a free agent. I personally think if Saints were in the frame WHU had no chance of signing him.

4-4-2 as Boxing Day. I suspect he has one eye on Saturday.

Waste of money. My daughter gave me a Fitbit whatever, cost a lot. I drive round in my Golf buggy, play about eighty shots at the most, walk a bit on the greens and because of the vibration over the golf course it credits me with over ten thousand yards plus about twenty sets of stairs.

At last the Sham Scam Cameron stitch up has been published. As was predicted choreographed meaningless agreements without treaty change that mean three tenths of **** all change, attempting to con the people as they did in 1975.

Open up your PM and we can have a chat. Can RUs PM?

Small world. Nothing to be sorry about. I think we played in the same Sunday team about 1962 ish. You lived in either Burlington Rd or Newcombe Rd, I think I used to pick you up but I'm not too clear on that but I certainly remember calling at your house.

I played a few games in a team with Bobby after he retired. A gentleman. Playing with him taught me a lot. Norm, does the name Bainbridge mean anything to you?

RIP Tommy. I remember Tommy well. Scored regularly, good in the air, played in the high scoring teams mostly in the third division. An old Saints player and I can't for the life of me remember who, told me that Tommy used to turn up at the station with everything in a paper bag for away matches. It was probably one of the Stoneham ex Saints who I used to play golf with.

SFC Ltd continued to trade and settled it's debt in full. The Administrator of SLH Ltd quoted change out of £14m to settle and own everything including the stadium.

The EU is a mess and is going to get worse. I'm out. Conned to vote in in 1975. I'm not going to make the same mistake again.

He didn't have the operation until 24th November, that's only nine weeks. Koeman said last week early Feb to start training followed by U21 game/s.

CA had a full weeks training at QPR before signing. In his interview.

It's easy to see why signing Austin was a no brainer. He was absolutely brilliant being the only player who didn't go for the ball but checked out and was in exactly the right place with loads of time to finish. I'm betting the MU defenders were scratching their heads. It's what natural goal scorers do. What a snip for £4m. The team were very confident and solid. Everybody played well. We created the three best chances and generally clamped down on Utd. The changes stabilised in the tiring stage and gave us the legs to finish it off. Mane didn't look too pleased to be taken off in his audition game but Austin showed why. Tadic for him put in a very good shift and looked knackered by the time of his substitution.

Ted Bates didn't really play 2-3-5. His two full backs played either side of the centre half and the left half (Cliff Huxford) was defensive. The right half paired with the inside left with both scoring some goals, the centre forward paired with an attacking inside right (Reeves and O'Brien) both goal scorers with mostly Paine and the flyer Sydenham wide. Exhilarating to watch. Bournemouth under I think Freddie Cox were the first team to introduce a pure 4-2-4 in the late fifties. Saints were much more compact as the full backs went forward and the wingers came back. Later the team evolved with O'Brien, Chivers, then Channon and Davies playing as strikers. Paine and Sydenham were a constant and Burnside and Melia joined, Wilmshurst and Ian White came in plus Tony Knapp at centre half followed when we were promoted by amongst others McGrath, Gabriel, Walker, Fisher, O'Neill etc but he still played the same way although not so prolific in the first division.

Austin had a weeks full training at QPR before signing and trained with the squad yesterday so he is nearer fitness than generally thought. I am presuming he will start on the bench for us on Saturday with half an hour planned. I'd like to see the same line up at OT playing three from Clasie, Romeu, Wanyama and Davis with Long and Mane up front.

When QPR were trying to get Charlie Austin to sign a new contract a the start of last season it was reported that he was on £38k a week. It was his refusal to sign that led to the present situation with his contract running down. IMO he probably is on a par with our highest paid players.

Not strictly true, If his grand parents were born before 1923, Ireland was part of UK, so everybody born in Ireland were British citizens. My father was English, my mother was born in Ireland before 1923 so was a British Citizen with Dual nationality which I also have. If Long wanted he could claim a British passport although I couldn't see why he would but he would be able to have dual nationality.