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I'd still be worried. Several players, especially Delgado, in the past suffered because they played matches for unscrupulous countries with the help of injections and ended up with career ending injuries.

I don't know whether it's been posted here but SportsnationHD.tv has been resurrected for those that only want specified events. The Sportsmania.eu current subscription covers both until it expires then a choice has to be made. For me it's a no brainer I much prefer the multi choice and continuous channels on Sportsmania. Those with a lifetime subscription always get both.

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He was walking home wearing a Saints shirt after the Liverpool match. It was mentioned in the article in the Echo. I Knew him well, a really nice person. He did a lot of window work locally. Anybody know how he is getting on. He was only 50/50 after the attack, fractured skull etc.

The Cougar belonged to a mate I flew it occasionally . It's now at the bottom of the channel. A PPL wanted to take it to Jersey on an IFR day and was refused entry permission so opted to fly around the Isle of Wight instead. Unfortunately he decided to fly at low level not far off the coast but the visibility was a goldfish bowl. He inadvertently descended and hit the sea and crashed. He got out ok but unfortunately the aircraft sank with his wife unable to get out. It was never found. If he had known about low flying he would have had a little nose up trim set so that the aircraft would climb rather than sink if his attention was outside. Another part time instructor was Tony Farrell who was also at Hamble and flew Mosquitoes during the war. There was also another part timer, I can't remember his surname, Christian name Eric, owned a Garage at Stockbridge and flew Mosquitoes. There was another ex Hamble part timer Jim Collyer who was in the RAF at the start of the war, tragically killed when the tail came off the B707 freighter he was flying for Dan Air on the approach at Lusaka in 1976.

I can't remember whether the 321 (stretched 320) had a buffer on the tail to absorb damage. I flew the B767-300 which had a hydraulic buffer. The B737-400 had a basic buffer. Although over holding off with power on could cause a tail strike I find it difficult envisaging how an aircraft could land on it's tail without the tail breaking off, ie. stalling in. Most tail strikes I have been aware of were over-rotating on take off. The aircraft was Irish registered and certainly flown by Tui/First Choice/Thomson possibly one of the original 321s of Air UK Leisure/Leisure International which went to Air 2000 then First Choice after the Unijet takeover.

Time for technology to confirm the few vital decisions as in Rugby, who cares if it adds another ten minutes if the decisions are right.

He looks to be a better footballer than anyone else in midfield. He is adapting and has improved each game so far. His penetrating pass to Pelle is an example of what has been missing for years.

I thought it was Davis but it looked like Wanyama pulled something off his arm after being sent off, although I didn't see him hand it to someone else. Wanyama was captain v Villa.

Bournemouth changed the game at half time injecting energy and raising their tempo pressing the ball and penning us in. Losing Fonte didn't help as nobody was leading. Again like the Leicester game the forwards and midfielders were lethargic. We needed some aggression, not stupid late tackles and got in their faces. I also felt that playing the ball up to a pressed Pelle unable to hold the ball up didn't work. Mane and Tadic just faded out of the game. The midfielders, Clasie and Davis playing passive covering with Wanyama only a tackle from a red card giving Bournemouth too much space. Romeu is more combative but we needed Tadic and Mane to up their work rate defensively and help out. The two full backs also mostly waited for the game to come to them. The whole team were just trying to compact and hold on. The first half was great, all the ingredients missing in the second half. We need to scrap when we are under the cosh. The first half was easy but when teams up their tempo and press us back like Leicester and Bournemouth we need to change tack and hit on the break, put the ball in behind them and get runners behind them very much like the Davis goal but in different circumstances. If we can't keep the ball like the first half we have to exploit the space behind their back four and quickly expose their frailties putting them back under pressure and change the game again.

Koeman says only injuries are JRod and Long. Thought I saw Wanyama at the back of one of the gallery pictures.

He managed to turn the game on it's head when we were losing at Anfield. There is no doubt he is a very clever footballer. There is also no doubt he has underperformed for us though I was glad he was around in our first season in the Premier. Provided he stays fit I would like to see him regularly in the present team at some point in each game as he gives us something different to Davis and JWP. He also picks out a perceptive pass. It's a shame Mane isn't playing tonight.

You are spot on. Good job it was Ramirez on the back post, Neither Davis or JWP would have had a prayer.

I put Mane for MOM but came up as Tadic. Gave it to Mane because of reading the Ramirez header and losing Milner for our equaliser.

Clasie looked much improved from last week and had a decent game. Well done to Ramirez, a great leap and a well directed header over Mignolet for Mane. Only one game suspension served by cup game. Back four very good, caught out for the goal, no pressure from midfield on Milner, VVD played Benteke onside but great header same as last Villa game at SMS. A good result, Stekelenberg was a big difference from last week. Soares had a good game however Juanmi needs game time as very much off the pace. He needs game time, maybe Wednesday.

I still can't forget how Villa turned us over at SMS with about 1/3 possession by keeping quick forwards up on our defence, playing the ball in behind us and breaking quickly. It seemed to me the way to play against the high pressing possession game.

Single left click on the table.

Terry Paine from Winchester City by a country mile.

Maybe his now poor kicking is making him want to pass short but his ability, slowness, judgement and desperation to pass to somebody more like anybody irrespective allows other teams to pen us in as they close down quickly.

I get the feeling that Davis is picked because not to pick the club captain and players chief fixer is seen as more of a problem than picking him. Possibly his display yesterday may change that. Either way Gazzaniga should be picked as he is a better all round keeper than Davis.

Gazzaniga performed fairly well when he played at the end of last season. He has looked good in the U21s. Davis is in Premier League terms nervous and incompetent. Gazzaniga could not have done worse than Davis yesterday remembering that his unnecessary poor pass to Van Dyjk allowed him to be closed down before his hurried sloppy chip forward that Dyer received for the first goal and scuffed clearance for the second. His short play at the back is akin to Kamekazi. Gazzaniga is pretty good and confident in possession and kicks well. The defenders just appear nervous whenever Davis is in goal.

Read it again, I said Pelle should have gone wide and Davis hit the ball over him and miss out their centre backs by hitting the ball wide not over them.

Given a two goal start we shouldn't have lost that. Leicester might have pressed us pressured our midfield but we contributed royally to our loss. Leicester pushed up and compressed us in the middle. What did we do, spent the whole game dropping the ball in short and being outmuscled and losing the ball almost immediately. Van Dyjk's sloppy pass leading to the first goal was just one of many. Huth and Morgan are pedestrian bruisers, Davis spent most of the game hitting his goal kicks at them. Pelle as he did against Swansea should have pulled off towards the touchlines and Davis should have tried to put the ball beyond him. We have to change the way we play to counter the likes of Leicester. Time and time again we played short and sloppy and ran up against a brick wall. I don't like it but for this team the way we played should have been to turn them and put the ball into the space behind their full backs not play short but force them to run back. Our defenders should have gone route one instead we played into their hands. Kelvin Davis was like a rabbit in the headlights looking to play short for him is a nonsense and invariably caused us problems. He should have been looking to miss out Morgan and Huth not drop it into Pelle in the centre of the field. A self inflicted result. It's all very well being a great guy but it's a goalkeeper we need. He hasn't been good enough for years.

Saints should just make it plain to both clubs they won't be selling the players. We don't need disruption mid season. If the players/agents kick off so what.

Great cross field 30 yard diagonal run and cracking first time shot in off the far post from outside the area v Reading in last U21 game. Yet to be replicated by JWP or Davis.