West Stand

http://www.liverpool-kop.com/2015/09/redknapp-on-liverpool-loss-of-suarez-sturridge-sterling-cuased-problems.html Calm analysis of Rodgers? Maybe!!

A shocking performance against a bullying, unsportsmanlike Everton, I don't think Oliver was any help, in fact I thought he was dreadful, that was the judgement of an Everton supporter I spoke to as well, but then........!!!

They have!!

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: America the only continent to progress from barbarity to decadence without touching civilisatio

In the Holiday Inn Sheffield already, the weather is overcast and even though we have driven through rain on the way up it has stopped now. Going with my son-in-laws brother who is a well connected Blades fan in hospitality. Must remember not to shout when we score!!

Please when can we have a decent referee?

Become an MP!!!

I'm going, son in law is a United supporter, so I'm going with his brother into the South stand, I won't count!!!

Good advice to Lallana would be to stop digging!!!!!

I've heard the same story. Allegedly the only thing which would have kept Pochettino happy, and then the others would have stayed, was to be given an almost limitless budget to spend on players he thought would boost the team. That was never going to happen as that was what Cortese wanted and he had then already been discarded!!

It has never been any good in the Itchen and it is made worse by shouting into the microphone, in fact I don't think I understood any of that which was said on Saturday

I enjoyed watching that . Interesting how folk can read into Adams conversations that he us off . He was up there four times . I'm sure Weston recent post should quell rumours being established tonight after the fourth watch If it matters, I am aware where Weston got his information as I know the same person, who is as close to Adam as it gets, and he told me at the last home game that all the players are looking for is Poch to stay and all that will take is a guarantee that there is £40m in the kitty to but in this summer. He also said Poch doesn't want a larger salary, if Poch stays so will the players but if they let Poch go it will be a different story.

There seems to be a surfeit of ‘experts’ posting on this thread who may in fact know a little . However if/when the flight recorders of MH370 are found, have they, these 'experts' stopped to think that it may still not solve the mystery of why and how this happened. Although, then, there may be available to the investigators technical, flight data and speech recording it may not give a definitive picture of what transposed. Even though it is possible with the help of technology to go back on the wire in the voice recorder and extract recordings of previous speech beyond the 30 minutes or one hour of the last period of flight, although it obviously gets fainter and fainter as one tries to recover speech from way back. As for ditching in the open sea…….. There are so many factors that make it extremely difficult that it has always seemed to me that it will be disastrous( and I’ve thought about it a lot!!!). The difficulty of judging the manoeuvre in ideal conditions is immense, for instance one would want to do it with the undercarriage up, so immediately the height perception the pilot has in his memory for a normal landing on land has to be ignore if one is the achieve a ‘smooth touchdown’. There is so much that can go wrong. One is recommended to land down the primary swell and across the secondary, that alone is difficult, et cetera. Of course with the ditching of MH370 it is being assumed that the person in control was handling the aeroplane, but say the automatics were in charge and one engine failed before the other then there is every chance the aircraft would have flipped upside down. Finally with a ditching I have always been told that the chances are that the water will kill forward momentum almost immediately, making sure that the airframe and its contents will experience between 11g and 13 g. I have been told that a human body, especially the bones, will turn to jelly under these forces. My view is still that I think, that some agency and/or government has information that has not been disclosed and for sure the pilot/pilots will get the blame, that is of course unless something really obvious and irrefutable is found/disclosed.

As the tone of this thread has changed I would just like to relate something I was told last evening by a Mandarin speaker whom I have known for more than 30 years. Apparently some Chinese newspapers are carrying a story which I have not seen or heard anywhere else, it is of course speculation. The theory they are promulgating is that because the Captain on MH370 was unhappy over the treatment the leader of the opposition in Malaysia, to whom he is related in some way, he hijacked his own aeroplane and flew it back towards the Malaysian peninsula keeping it in the air but negotiating, or trying to negotiate, with the Malaysian Government for the opposition leader’s release from prison. The Government would not negotiate so he continued flying southwards until the fuel ran out. As I wrote above this is pure speculation but is feasible and is as good as most theories being advanced. As for the references to ‘badger’s asses unless one has read the correct quote in the article on my website, written by another BA Captain and the best written on the incident, the whole story is that in 1982 the Mail on Sunday sent a couple of cub reporters to interview me on behalf of the Mail’s Air Correspondent. They were quite amateurish in their approach and kept saying ‘give us a quote on that’. I found them boring and when bored I can be flippant so when I described the landing into Jakarta on a very dark night, with no forward visibility except a couple of inches down the left extreme edge of my windscreen, no radio aids working, flying on three of my four damaged engines so I needed my feet on the rudders and I couldn’t reach the throttles if I wanted to see out, as I was dependent on Mark 1 eyeballs, when these idiots asked me for a quote I retorted I would give them a quote if they promised to print it, they said they would. I then gave them the quote ‘that it was like trying to negotiate your way up a badger’s ass’. They were amused but quickly said they couldn’t publish it. The story was syndicated however, without my correct quote, and the Daily Telegraph picked it up and their headlines the next day to the article were ‘Captain says that entering the volcanic ash cloud it was as black as a badger’s backside’. Well not only was it a pitch black night so we could see nothing I had not said this. However it caused my Dad who lived in this part of the world all his life and had farming connections to call me and ask me what I was on about as I knew that a badger’s ass was pink. Whole story but it shows how one can be misquoted.

I have been out all day watching my grandson play football, more pleasurable than watching the 'P team, although in the 1950's I admit to going to Krap Notarf on occasions, but then rivalry was not as vicious, Oh and by the way I first went to the Dell in 1946!!!' However to answer the above quote I have not changed what I have been saying throughout this whole incident which is that I have no idea what has happened as lots of things do not add up. What I wrote was twofold and separate. I can only repeat what I have been told and explained to me by an Inmarsat executive, that before a 'ping' is received the transmitter must have obtained a GPS fix which it transmits to the receiver before contact can be established, if that is not correct, and I will be very surprised if it isn't, then, unlike some, I will apologise but I pass on what I have been told in good faith. The second matter which is unrelated to the first was that it is my view that some government or agency may know something which they wish to keep to themselves for the time being, based on my experience could be so, it took me 11 years to discover the reason for happenings in 1982 because of secret surveillance by the US. Technology in 32 years has advance beyond my comprehension, so goodness knows what they are capable of now. Without a doubt the pilots on this aircraft are on a hiding to nothing. The poor pilot is always behind the eight-ball when involved in an incident. The attitude is usually 'you're guilty now prove yourself innocent' I think it is unlikely that these two are alive and will therefore get the blame, it is the easiest way out for the authorities. In my 15 years as Chairman of the BALPA Legal Committee we had many instances of this approach, which we had to defend, often with success.

I am!!

This has got a rather childish thread. Yes I do know someone at a high position in Inmarsat and he confirmed what I wrote, but it appears that some of you know better. I accept this as fact. As for my assertion that I think that some government/body knows something that they are reluctant to disclose is based on personal experience. I was involved in an incident in 1982 out over the South Eastern Indian Ocean just off Java when something happened which I didn’t understand. At that time we commercial pilots were unaware that the US had satellites monitoring that part of the world. It appeared that not many governments, if any, in that part of the world knew those satellites were there, let alone what they were monitoring. I found out some 11 years later, when the information became declassified, that we were monitored throughout the incident. This area is not at war but governments don’t want to let others know their capabilities so we don’t know what is being ‘watched’. It would seem more likely than not that somewhere evidence is not being disclosed to the general public and communication between governments will not be open. If I was being monitored in 1982 it would be a fair bet that MH370 was being monitored too by someone in 2014. On this basis I wrote that I think that somebody somewhere knows something that we are unaware off yet. It is my opinion to which I am entitled, others may disagree but sarcasm and rudeness gets us nowhere.

Thanks Ron I copy below a quote from an aviation forum which sums it up beautifully: 'The amount of known facts in the public domain on this issue is tiny. The media has misreported the facts and added huge amounts of unfounded speculation. As for the Malayasian authorities, they appear to be the modern day aviation equivalents of the Keystone Cops. Please do not make it worse by putting up more stupid ideas entirely founded on stupidity. It is perfectly clear who knows what they are talking about (there have been some excellent contributions from some) and equally clear when someone knows absolutely nothing.'

Dave, I have used Inmarsat satellite telephones on many occasions from all over the world and as you know we were recently in the Far East and used the Inmarsat satellite to call the UK. From what I am being told our telephone used the same system and procedure, and from the Far East the same satellite as received the 'pings', to communicate. On switch on the first message on the screen is 'getting GPS fix'. Until this fix is obtained the telephone is useless. When the fix is obtained it tells you that it is connecting to the network, one can then make a call because the satellite knows where you are in the world. I am also being told that the technology and procedure used by ACARS to transmit is similar to that of my satellite telephone, ergo that satellite must have had a GPS fix from the aeroplane associated with each 'ping' received. I'm sorry but I refuse to explain in more detail from where my information comes but it is very accurate information. I am still sure that some agency knows far more than they are telling the public/the other agencies and I still have no idea what happened so I am refusing many of the requests for interviews for that reason.

I don't want to disclose how I know that which I have stated is correct as the person concerned would be in trouble, but I say no more than he/she will be correct!!

The 'ping' comes from the aeroplane but before it connects with the satellite it has to tell the satellite where it is and this is done by transmitting a GPS fix. All of Inmarsat satellite telephones work this way.

After a lifetime in aviation and flying many hours in the Far East I have no more idea than anyone about this incident. Right from the beginning when asked what I think happened to this aircraft I have said that I have no idea although I can think of various scenarios and that I was, and am, sure that someone or government knows more than they are saying. I am still have no idea, but I do know that when one initially contacts an Inmarsat satellite the first question posed by that satellite is 'where are you' and it requests a GPS fix. Therefore as we are being led to believe that the 'pings' from the aircraft continued for some time after other contact was lost so it would be reasonable to assume that those GPS fixes are known.

At one time it had claims to being the largest village in the world!!! There was a pub, the Royal Oak, I think, in Commercial Road which had this claim written on a board outside on the pavement, but that would have been in the 1940's or 1950's. I left the area in 1963, but my parents continued to live there until they died so I was an infrequent visitor. Goodness knows when the claim disappeared but then there was no such area as West Totton!!

I spoke today and last week with the same person who gave Weston Saint his info, and there certainly is more to this, according to him, and he certainly does know what was said. It is much more than has been reported in the media but our informant doubts whether the facts will ever get into the public domain!! He has no wish to tell me or anyone what was said and I didn't press him. Adam is not too concerned and is not driving the issue. He said no more or less than that!!!

Just seen this for what it's worth: Simon Peach@SimonPeach Retweeted by Eurosport Transfers Despite reports to the contrary, seems #SaintsFC will not be bringing anyone in on deadline day.