CHAPEL END CHARLIE

To my way of thinking there doesn't seem much sense in him coming here at all if he didn't have real a chance of playing. I suspect that Redknapp has probably gotten assurances from Adkins that the boy will get a proper chance to show what he can do here.

The 'mood music' on this one tells me it's not going to happen, and we should move on. Time will tell I suppose.

Really ? Both the player and his manager are now on the record now saying it's not going to happen, so I think we can put this one to bed - until the summer anyway.

Top CV for a youngster - Im very much looked forward to seeing if he's as half good on grass and he is on paper.

So we can give the old girl a Jubilee gift she'll love and create desparetly needed jobs in our shipbuilding industry building a showcase ship that will travel the world showing off what we can do ...... and its going to cost everyone in the country the princely sum of £1 each. A bargain.

Speak for yourself ! Doctor Who has gone steadily downhill ever since he took control and Sherlock does nothing for me either to me perfectly honest. I say this as a life long fan of both. This king has no clothes.

When a article like this contains at least two serious factual errors it hardly inspires much confidence. 1- This is not just a navy programme, the F-35C will be operated by a joint RAF/RN force, with a 60/40 split between RAF and RN aircrew. 2 - We certainly have not spent anything like '£5bn' as yet on this type. If memory serves UK spending is c £1bn on our share of JSF development costs so far, but we've yet to place a main production contract. Leaving aside a sloppily written article, it is disappointing however that a glitch as potentially serious as this has not been identified during this aircrafts protracted development phase. One can only hope the 'fix' is relatively straightforward and quick.

From the little I've seen of Hooper I'd say he's not one of those gifted strikers who's going to beat 5 men and slot it into the corner of the net Thierry Henry style, nor will he get you spectacular goals from outside the box very often. Unlike Lambert he scores mainly with his feet rather than his head and while not outstandingly pacy over a distance, but he's quick enough over 5 yards ... and boy does he sure know how to finish. We haven't had a 'fox in the box' like this for many a year, since Saganowski in his pomp perhaps. The reported £7m transfer fee is a hell of a lot of money at this level, and there's always a element of doubt when a player comes from a league as limited as the SPL, but Hooper's quick feet and Lambert's mighty heading might just give us a fighting chance of survival in the PL - should such a enviable situation arise of course.

Yes please.

Even with a total loss of modern navigation aids (which seems unlikely) any competent bridge crew should still be capable of navigating their ship safely using a chart and compass if all else fails - as sailors have done since time immemorial.

Super 3rd goal from Morgan - you'd think he possess all the technique required to do that kind of thing on a semi-regular basis, kinda like Matt Oakley did for us back in the day. Unfortunately he's been here long enough to conclude that Spiderman goals will probably remain a rarity. I see Norwich appear to have found themselves a goal scoring midfielder ... As for the red card - given the very real possibility of David Connolly emerging from that incident with a broken nose (or jaw even) it seems a reasonable decision to me, but there again I'm not entirely unbiased when it comes to my team.

Well any programme that dares to include a statement quite as unlikely as this should prove to be of excellent comedy value at the very least. I look forward to seeing it, but only because I could do with a good laugh.

You can fit ships with all the wonders that todays technology can provide, such as truly accurate charts, precise inertial and GPS navigation, high resolution Radar systems ... etc but the human factor often intervenes. I fully expect this incident will all boil down to yet another case of human error. Most modern airliners have advanced avionic systems that can actively prevent pilots from endangering the flight safety of their aircraft. Rare as incidents such as this are, the consequences can be tragic so perhaps similar technology will find its way aboard our shipping one fine day.

Braveheart ? Well as a Englishman there's something deeply objectionable in it's crude anti-English bias and a overly fastidious care for historical accuracy is a crime it's unlikely to be accused of, but compared to what the Germans (and Red Indians for that matter) have had to put up with from Hollywood over the years we've gotten off easily I suppose. As for it's highly impressive battle scenes. these are in my opinion the most horrifically savage portrayals of medieval warfare I've ever seen committed to film. For that reason alone, this film surely does not deserve a place on this list. I'm not looking to pick a fight but just to expand on our difference of opinion, I also thought that Blair Witch was (in a era dominated by mainstream 'slashers') easily the most interesting horror film to emerge for a generation - or more.

I so hope you are right after at least 6 sub standard performances, but it's worth remembering that Forrest have been struggling of late so only time will tell on that. A excellent result (and just as importantly performance) nevertheless. Well done my Saints !

As a Conan Doyle fan I feel like I should really like the BBC's Sunday night drama 'Sherlock' - but I just can't get into it for some reason. Benedict Cumberbatch (as Holmes) is an inspired piece of casting, so perhaps this versions failure (as I see it) is down to a scriptwriter who is perhaps not quite as brilliant as his reputation suggests. I might also add that the annoying (over)use of on-screen graphics and the obsession with contemporary gadgetry also irks this viewer somewhat. But maybe the real problem is more fundamental, as well written as they undoubtedly are, these are in truth hastily written short stories intended for immediate consumption, they are not 'high art' (like Shakespeare for instance) that can be easily adapted to any time period. To me they really need to be put firmly back in their original pre forensic science, handsome cab, and 'Bradshaw' world to make much sense as compelling stories. And there's always the ghost of Jeremy Brett hanging over any attempt at Holmes of course ..... God bless him. Still about a million times better than Guy Ritchie's dismal movie versions - all copy's of which should be burnt.

I share a similar fear of heights so well done ! .... and it should go without saying that I'm insanely jealous. The story goes that the magnificent sheer drop down to the Arges River far below the castle is the last sight Vlad's first wife ever saw as she threw herself off the battlements rather than accept capture by the Ottoman Turk army, who treated their prisoners little better than The Impaler did. Vlad had had the ruined castle repaired by inviting his noble mates and their family's (the 'Boyars') around for a shindig only to enslave them all and force them into brutal hard manual labour rebuilding his castle - and if they didn't like it they could go to the stake like so very many others did - Nice chap. A dark chapter in European history for sure.

I've just finished reading 'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova, which is a meticulously researched, and quite brilliant, novel dealing with the Dracula/Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) legend. In the book one of our heroic historians spends a memorable night at Castle Poenari in darkest Transylvania, a site closely associated with the real historical Vlad. Anyone who finds this tale as interesting as I do, may care to take a look at what 'Dracula's Castle' really looks like today. http://www.draculahistoryandmyth.com/my-visit-to-castle-poenari-draculas-castle-part-1/ Wow !

I know a couple who have 5 boys with 1 more on the way. What some people will do to have a girl ... and everything paid for by you and me.

There are plenty to choose from and I must admit I'm sick to death of the endless steam of Hollywood superhero movies - which are basicly the same story repeated ad infinitum. But the only time I've ever been forced to walk out of a cinima half way through a movie was when I went to see Ocean's 12 a few years ago - so far up its own arse its boots were tickling its overrated chin. George Clooney owes me a fiver the git.

You've clearly never heard this then: In spite of this crime against music, he's still a bit of a hero of mine.

Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys Band - different class as a certain ex-saints manager might say.

I'm just getting into 'Cold Granite' by Stuart Macbride, which is yet another grim Scottish crime story in the mold of Rebus or Taggart except even darker. The story revolves around a police manhunt in the granite city of Aberdeen for a serial killer who prays on (and horribly mutilates) very young children - which I'm sure you can appreciate is a pretty hard read at times. Even so I can't put it down.

History is Bunk - or was that someone else

I detect a fellow history fan in our midst ! If you go back in time as far as Edward I ('The Hammer of the Scots') Scotland was so irredeemably divided that Edward was called upon by the Sottish nobility to arbitrate on their royal succession - which he took to confirm that the King of England was thus their feudal overlord to which they must pay homage. This directly led to decades of bloody cross boarder warfare that cost the lives of countless thousands on both sides, and which still scar mutual relations on this isle to this day some might say. Perhaps one of the greatest 'might have beens' in all of our long history occurred during this critical late 13th century period when Margret Maid of Norway, who (to cut a very long & complicated story short) was the heir to the Scots throne, was betrothed to wed Edward's son Edward of Caernarfon (the future Edward II) only for this 7 year old girl to tragically fall ill & die in the Orkney's while on her way from Norway. On such accidents of fate the course of history turns, and were it not for her untimely death then we might well have had a United Kingdom 400 years before The Acts of Union and the whole course of British History might have been radically different in ways it's quite impossible to know. But I better stop wittering on about useless history lessons or I'll get told off again ......