JackFrost

Don't change a winning team!

This depends on the extent to which you do it. The minor tweak here and there or where you have one of your better players returning means you can.

If however you do it George Burley style and drop your best performing players for the sake of it then it definitely applies

15 points, 14 games, back to over a point a game

and with us at home to Peterborough and Pompey away to Palace on Tuesday there's every chance the gap will get even wider very soon

1 Follower. Says it all, really.

Is it Richard Chorley?

If it is I haven't seen any OPEN LETTERS TO NICOLA CORTESE on it yet

I did. I typed that on my phone, i guess the predictive text thought i meant that electric inventor guy!

 

But yes it is in Oklahoma well done. I only know the place from doing route 66. They said it was the oil capital of the world.....

I do agree with you there is no way they'd set the next GTA purely in Nottingham.

The only way I see it remotely possible is if their planning a transatlantic theme and it's going to feature a British city or two as places you unlock as you progress in the game. Say have sections of 2 cities in the USA and sections of 2 cities in the UK making up the 4 zones that make up the entire map

2 goals conceded in the last 5 league games

oh and 15 points ahead of the skates

2 goals conceded in the last 5 league games

oh and 15 points ahead of the skates

If you mean Tulsa, it's in Oklahoma

Now that googlemaps exist they should try and do part of a real life city/large town and replicate it exactly and set the game within it.

It'd be handy if you were going to somewhere in the city in real life, just gotta stick on GTA to work out the best way of getting there

If Mike is part of SISA that puts their membership number up to what? 4?

San Andreas is amazing.

 

The PC version has got a very decent modding community if you're interested in getting even more out of it.

 

There are a lot of "stunts" servers, where you basically fly/drive about doing whatever you like.

 

Even more bizarre is a mod where people just go about being citizens! The coppers are real people, as are the villains. I had a quick look and ended up getting mugged outside Los Santos airport within the first five minutes.

What made me laugh about San Andreas was that the environment was so brilliant and varied that a lot of myths got invented about UFOs and Bigfoot appearing in the game. Then the mods came along and it became reality. I think there's a mod where you start in Back o' Beyond and hunt and kill bigfoot. You only get about 50k for doing it but it's the novelty of it. San Andreas just had everything. The variation of the environment where you had mountains/deserts/cities/countryside et. worked brilliantly whereas GTA4 was just 'a city' and it got monotonous

They tried to make GTA4 more 'realistic' which I thought was the wrong direction. The whole point of GTA being to go around a city doing whatever the hell you wanted.

I've actually got back into playing San Andreas now and it is brilliant even now. The last one was a let down for me.

Bring back the flying and the army

UNKLE - When Things Explode

If Pompey hire Sven that would be the cherry on the cake for 2011

Wonder what the odds are on him managing Pompey now?

That would be funny as hell.

Perfect for them, a vastly overrated manager who would demand a big pay packet. You could just see the Russians falling for him

Chaplow is a bit like Paul Wotton with quality.

At his best he is absolutely immense and against Man U in the cup we saw that players like Anderson and Darren Fletcher couldn't get in the game for most of it. Just needs to produce it consistently which he is starting to do.

Fergie's heaviest ever defeat as Utd manager?

Sweepstake on how long it will take Fergie to blame the referee in his post match interview?

Whilst I was watching the program I'd got distracted by something and initially only heard the commentators reaction to which I naturally looked at my TV. All I saw was 3 bikes crashing and a helmet bouncing along the track. You tell immediately it was a horrendous crash. This may sound stupid but in the heat of the moment when the accident took place I wasn't sure straight away if it was just a helmet bouncing along or it was a severed head inside a helmet.

I don't know if the BBC had any control over the pictures or whether they were showing what Malaysian TV were showing but I thought them cutting to a shot of what I'm guessing was Simoncelli's girlfriend crying her eyes out straight after the accident was out of order.

They actually did show one slo-mo of the accident about 20 mins after the race was stopped

He also had a tough start in life and I suspect can't handle being famous.

Marco Simoncelli came off on the first lap and was hit by Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. Simoncelli's helmet flew off during the crash.

After initial reports of Simoncelli being concious they've just cancelled the race as Simoncelli is in a "critical condition".

Hope he pulls through.

I see our old friend Simon Gillett got Doncaster's equalizer

Ironically, because I left the lap top in the car and this was taken and subsequently found in the getaway car, it linked the car to the crime. Had he simply broken in and got away, it would have been more difficult to tie him to the scene.

 

Yes in hindsight, calling the police and shadowing seems like a good idea, but with little girls tucked up in bed, the Neanderthal instinct and red mist come in to play and you don't think at all really, you just act. Well I did anyway.

 

They have the car and have interviewed the owner (a girl) and apparently a couple of blokes have been pulled in.

 

Top marks to the OB in their handling of this as they normally come in for a lot of stick.

Yeah it's understandable. Until it happens to them a lot of people don't realise what it is like to have someone invading their house, their private, safe area and everyone will react in different ways. I'm lucky that I've never experienced it even if I have seen the best and worst consequences of it.

If they've got a good idea of who it is and they've already pulled a couple of blokes it's looking good

Yes, well it is strange this morning. Two years ago, my wife had a stalker and as a result I installed CCTV, enhanced locks and a burglar alarm with a panic button. I have recenetly had an extension built and the CCTV and alarm were turned off. Obviously, it is time to get them switched on.

 

 

 

Luckily my two 6 year olds slept through. The wife is shaken up, naturally and this morning I went down to game, set and match to buy a bat. White male, 25-35, medium build.

 

 

 

Yep, lucky.

 

He took the laptop, sat nav and hands free telephone thingy from my car (which was unlocked). He then went through my garage (which was unlocked) round to the back. He then levered the doors open with a crowbar and got in. This is when I woke up. I shouted down the stairs and he ran outside. I ran to the back door after him when I should have run to the front to cut him off. By the time I had got round to the front, he was away in his car.

 

The Mrs rang 999 and Chichester despatched two cars and so did Bognor. It was one of the Bognor cars that spotted someone speeding and gave chase (at this point there was no connection). The guy dumped his car and Bognor Police found my stuff in it. Apparently he has form and they know who it is, so it looks like he will get some justice. The downside is the old bill are keeping my stuff for evidence, so I won't get it back for a while.

 

Thankfully no-one was hurt and I guess I will lock everything in future. The security company are re-activating the CCTV and alarm as I type.

 

You never know how you will react in these situations, you predominently go on instinct. I guess the adrenaline is still pumping so I guess it will catch up with me later.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and it won't occur to a lot of people until it's happened to them, but as soon as an opportunist robber finds a car unlocked on a drive or a garage the vast majority will fancy their chances at finding something else unlocked. . . If they'd have both been locked it'd have deterred a surprising amount of thieves or potential thieves who'd have moved on to the next property. But like I say if it hasn't happened before it won't naturally occur to the majority of people who live in quiet, low-crime areas.

Being an ex-copper I'd always recommend trying to call the police immediately (as soon as you are aware of an intruder) without disturbing them, shadow them and see if you can lock them in a room or as a last resort try and stop them getting out. If successful they've hung themselves with the maximum amount of rope when the coppers turn up. Key thing also is to know your enemy. No one wants to be going to defend their property with a baseball bat and find their up against 4 blokes with knives.

But glad to hear you and your family are all ok. It's highly unlikely the bloke will be back but the coppers should have advised you security wise, although sounds like you have a lot of it already. Keep everything locked up with decent locks and with the CCTV/alarms you'll be fine.

But with security generally the main problem is with a lot of people is simply attitude. The amount of break-ins I investigated where the occupants couldn't be bothered/didn't think it necessary to shut/lock windows/doors at night was simply staggering. I'll never forget one break-in I investigated about 6-7 years ago when a family went on holiday and left their house unoccupied, deliberately left big windows open (including ones in full view of the street) "to make sure the house was aired and it was ok because their terrier was guarding everything"

It's not just concrete anymore. That changed in 2001 after one of US sport's biggest names, Dale Earnhardt, was killed after hitting the wall at Daytona. Nowadays every oval used by NASCAR and Indy has to have this. However, this played no part in Wheldon's tragic death as he went airborne and was killed by the imapct with the catch fence not the wall.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safer_barrier

I remember Earnhardt's death because that's when they were first bringing in the HANS device and Earnhardt was one of its biggest critics. He refused to wear it as they weren't compulsory back then.

Sadly they reckon the HANS device would have almost certainly saved Earnhardt's life.

He has a face that fits the locals at least!

I'd definitely settle for Dowie.

The man who once described Clinton Morrison as a "top quality PL striker"