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I would think it customary for the Chairman to introduce the new manager to the press at the conference. For him to sack Adkins and appoint the new man and allow that new man to attend his own press conference when he doesn't speak English is gutless. People seem to think that because he came in with Markus to buy the club, that he's beyond reproach. He isn't. The fact is he's sacked a popular, decent man who did a great job for us, at a very odd time, then replaced him with someone who can't speak directly to most of the team, then allowed the poor sod to attend a press conference on his own. That is cowardly. It may be true that thus far he's done all the right things, but the law of averages suggests he'll get one wrong eventually and if it's this one, it'll be Pochettino that pays the price, not Cortese.

For sheer awesomeness Bay Area legends Y&T put on a phenomenal live show that usually lasts nearly 2 1/2 hours. I've seen them on every UK tour apart from last year and in Dave Meniketti they have one of the most underrated guitarists in the world.

I saw Black Sabbath at the Gaumont and they were dire. Ozzy Osbourne was so out of tune and it put me off them for years. The support band blew them offstage, the only time I've seen the support band get an encore. They were Black Oak Arkansas. Honourable mention to Judas Priest at the now renamed Mayflower. Just a noise that me unable to tell one song from another.

I've not tried that, but I have mounted the image in Daemon Tool and it worked fine, so I don't think it's the image that's the problem, but until I get a new batch of DVDs I won't know. At least you've given me another option to try though, cheers

I've come to the conclusion that the disks are faulty. Tried the ISO on 2 machines running Windows 7 and an older one running Vista and they all reported errors. I'll get some others and try again

Weird one, but I've been trying to burn an ISO file as an img using both Nero and DVD Author Plus. The disks report they have completed successfully, but will not run on either my PC, Laptop or DVD player. I've burnt the same image on both PC and laptop and I get exactly the same result. I thought my DVD burner was knackered originally, but I've copied files to both CDR and DVD+R and they play, but the image files won't, so clearly there is no problem with the disks or the burner. Both my machines are 64bit and I've never had this problem before. I don't know where to go for advice tbh. Oh and I've checked that the image works properly in Daemon Tools

Duh! just seen the sticky. What a plonker

For the last couple of years I've been using Eset Internet security, but last year I noticed that all my attempts to update the virus signature file were blocked, and whatever I did it was quite obvious that I'd got some kind of malware or virus infection and I had to start from scratch again. I couldn't get rid, so I reformatted and started again. Yesterday, whilst watching the match on a streaming site, the same thing happened, though I can't be sure it was the site that did it, but whatever I did, my machine was blocked from downloaded AVG free, system restore, and in the end I decided to wipe the disk and start again. Just wondering what other people use? I don't see any mileage in renewing my licence with Eset if I still get infected, albeit rarely. Bitdefender comes out well in a net survey, but Amazon users say it freezes their machines too often

I think it is important because the policies the Chairman employs reflect on the club as a whole. I've never met Cortese so the information I have about him is either third hand or from former employees who left because he is not pleasant to work for. Of course, this could also be because they weren't pulling their weight, or doing the job properly, but equally, when so many people leave the club in quick succession, then something must be wrong. How many marketing managers have we lost in quick succession? On the other hand, you cannot deny the progress we've made as a club since he came in, but certain policies such as the photographic issue a year or two back, and the poor treatment of former players (not referring to MLT), the paying for parking, the ST credit issue, the programme sellers and many others show an authoritarian attitude that reflects badly on him and the club. I want to like the club from the top down, of course it's primarily about success on the pitch, but as a fan who lives a fair distance away, I do feel I've been pushed away and the club doesn't seem very bothered about the fact, and if I don't go, they know someone will go in my place. I feel for people like Paul Nicholson more than me, but if I had been treated the way he had, I certainly would keep my cash in my pocket

These days that is not true. The definition of a "hate" incident allows third parties to be offended and report incidents to the police even if they are not the victim. If they as a third party deem an incident to be racist or motivated by prejudice then it will be treated as just that.

Anyone got a stream that will work on iPads?

Exactly the point I was going to make until I read you'd got there first. I was wondering today if we had perhaps gone up a season too early. I know Norwich went up twice in successive seasons, but they weren't in administration etc. Mind you, we haven't been relegated, but our team was full of very good players for the divisions we were in and the policy of evolution not revolution seems to have been done from the front backwards, and the window closed before the defence could be sorted out

I feel I'm being driven away from the club as a fan. I don't want to be a customer, I want to be a fan, but with the cost of tickets going up, and the ticket surcharge I feel that the current policy is designed to fleece every last shekel from us, and that family club feel has gone. There's nowt wrong with being professional and businesslike but the club has to realise that it is not a global brand, it is a provincial football club with a loyal but limited fan base and they need to investigate ways of encouraging us, not driving us away. Some recent policies, particularly the programme seller issue is nothing short of shameful.

Sorry but what a pointless thread

It's easy to sit behind a keyboard and say Adkins got it wrong innit? We are going to lose many more games than we have done in the last 2 seasons because we lack experience at this level. We have to adjust and learn from each game as we go and make SMS a fortress to win our home games to stand a chance of surviving the season and staying up. I didn't expect any points from yesterday, I didn't expect any points in any of the first month's games except Wigan. Every manager makes tactical mistakes, many fans think they know better, the fact is they don't. He has to pick the best team and formation available to him as he sees it. Some of us will agree and others will disagree, but it's his arse on the line, not ours and by and large, Adkins is and has done a fantastic job.

Hansen is a miserable tosser, but he was a good defender in his day. However, I don't believe for one minute that the analysis is done by him, he's just told what to say by the editors I guess. Having said that, yes he's right, we've shipped too many goals already, but do I think it's curtains if we lose our next 2 games? No I don't. Apart from the Wigan game, we've had a very difficult re-introduction to Premier League life, but I think we are more than capable of competing. The danger is that like last season and the season before, where winning was a habit, losing can also be a habit as confidence drains from the team. If we don't get some sort of result in the next 2-3 games, then I would expect Nigel to go, but I hope not, he has been fantastic for Saints, but he wouldn't have done his CV any harm

Such a shame. I'll never vote Tory again either. They've decimated the armed forces and the police and they line their own pockets at our expense. I was a lifelong Tory voter and now I despise them

Considering it was right outside the gate, very difficult not to fall in there.

Cost is the issue of course. I've seen many pictures of decomissioned ships that have been bought by various trusts for preservation, and then the cost hits. The video is of HMS Bronington, once commanded by Prince Charles. I've seen some pics of her interior too, and the cost to refit her would be astronomical, so she lies rotting up in Birkenhead, funnily enough, next to HMS Plymouth which has just had a fund launched to try and preserve her. I served on one of the Ton class ships, and they were fantastic. My old ship was Hong Kong based and was decomissioned in 1985, then sold to be a floating club/restaurant and then burnt out completely in 1991 http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tca2000.co.uk/c-ms-wolverton-7%2520sm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tca2000.co.uk/deathwolverton.htm&h=489&w=650&sz=93&tbnid=Hfsijmj69-yhYM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&zoom=1&usg=__GqXIOisHBm8q0-bgT51nPNkpgCA=&docid=31JF-oWcZ7l5jM&sa=X&ei=-IpMUPLzMYm-0QXojYFA&ved=0CDwQ9QEwBA&dur=453

No Steve, a book has never been in my thinking. The events happened 30 years ago now and would take a whole lot of research for such a project to happen, combined with the fact that I never once actually saw anything. Our ship was usually protecting Hermes at the far edge of the exclusion zone, but that doesn't mean we didn't see any action, just that when we did, my action station was below decks in the communications offices. It was Alacrity that sailed between East and West Falkland to search for minefields so that the chosen landing spot for our land forces was able to be used. We sailed in from early morning to reach the islands at dusk then go to ultra silent mode, which is the equivalent of the old irish mine detector joke, but our ship was exactly that. If we hit a minefield, then at least they knew where the minefield was! I vividly remember our ship shelling Stanley airfield on the first day of action and we came under attack from Argentine Mirages that dropped a bomb, which sailed between the main mast and funnel, but below the copper wire radio aerial strung between the two of them. The Yeoman asked the young Tactical radio operator on the bridge deck if he was okay and to try and keep calm. He responded with "I'm looking for somewhere to hide" Our Captain actually did write a book "Call for Fire", the first half of which was Alacrity's story of the Falklands, and the 2nd half was his recollections as Commodore of the Royal Navy ships active during the Gulf War. It's well worth a read, but don't know how available it is now. I found it in a bookshop down on the Barbican in Plymouth

I served aboard HMS Alacrity during the Falklands war, and prior to that I was on HMS Coventry, so I was deeply saddened when Cov was lost. I remember typing messages to the radio ops on Sheffield just after she got hit by the exocet missile, and they thought at first that the ship would survive, but a major design flaw in the Type 42 ships meant she really stood little chance as the ship had a single firemain (a water pipeline for fire fighting) and that was in the centre of the ship where the missile hit, and once that ruptured, they had to try and rig a portable pump on the arse end of the ship and run hoses from there. We were also in convoy with Atlantic Conveyor when the missile was fired. She was not the target, I believe the Hermes was, but because all the warships fired co-ordinated chaff blooms, the missile deflected from its path and picked up on the nearest radar target, the Atlantic Conveyor. We steamed alongside as the poor sods were abandoning ship so that some were at least able to climb over the rail onto us, but many lost their handholds due to the fire and fell into the water. I'm not sure how many lost their lives and how many we picked up all in all. We were well briefed by our Captain, Chris Craig on just how potent an enemy the Argentines would be and we were under no illusions that when the sh!t hit the fan, we would lose ships, aircraft and men. What was a surprise to me was the fact that of all the modern ships that took a pounding, we lost them all. The older ships that got hit, all survived. The reason for this was that they cut corners to save money and the end result was that ships were lost.

To be honest, I usually wait until you get the flyers through the post or stuck in the paper. They are always having offers. We bought a 42inch Sony by doing just that at well over £100 off. We have an LG 32inch LCD too, but otherwise, all our other tellies are Sony. Richer Sounds has always been a fairly decent source of stuff for us, but the LG I bought was on offer in Sainsbury's and we only went in there for cheese, or something

Cheers I will try that

Further update on my question, it appears the common denominator in the CDs that this happens with is that they are on the Warner Bros label. It only happens in Windows 7 but I can't play, nor copy them on either of my machines that have Windows 7, only my wife's Vista laptop. Don't know if this problem can be over ridden, but I'm learning all the time!