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I'm not being pedantic, I just don't see your point. Why shouldn't we have played Bristol City?

Agreed. Can we wait for these people to actually turn up before we take the moral high ground over them. BTW, saying things like, 'we need to improve,' 'Player X isn't playing well' or 'we need to sign another XXXXXX' doesn't count. That's just making a rational observation.

So you're saying we shouldn't have played there because one of our players picked up an injury at that ground last season. By that logic we shouldn't play any games at St Marys either because Barnard got a bad injury there.

Since when was the point of pre-season games to win easily? Games like this one and Ajax will provide us with a decent test, as opposed to those Swedish pub teams we beat 12-0 a few years ago.

Dalek is repeatedly telling this forum 4 + 4 = 9 Some people can't resist posting long winded explanations as to why 4 + 4 = 8 This is the bit some people just can't seem to grasp; It doesn't matter how right you are and how wrong he is. YOU ARE NOT WINNING He knows the answer is 8, he doesn't care. His life appears to be based largely around having utterly pointless and completely wrong arguments on the internet. It's quite tragic if I'm being brutally honnest. Please for your own sanity add him to your ignore list and don't indulge his tedious nonsense.

Clare Balding is a man. Watch out Gary.

The front 6 looks interesting, I'd go with this kind of formation - - - - - Morgan - - - Davies - - - - - Guly - - - - - Rodriguez - - - - - Lallana - - - - - - - - Lambert - - - - - - - - - It's flexible and suits the strengths of most of our better players. Guly and Lallana can play out wide and cut inside. They would also have more freedom to attack as Morgan and Davies can pull out wide and fill the space to help prevent a counter attack. Rodriguez and Lambert can swap around easily and Sharp, Lee and Guly could also play in the central role. Puncheon, Lee and Chaplow could also play on either side as well as De Ridder on the right. Cork and JWP can also play the deep central holding roles too.

Are they Skates playing 5-a-side or something? The mathematics of that team sheet doesn't look right to me.

Another rowing gold, fantastic!

They're probably only want £15m because it's Liverpool asking. Any other club and they'd probably say £5m, not that I know anything about him.

Last time I saw Bates he was haunting Bedford's Place on matchdays, that was years ago now though. I think Lee moved to Hull, claiming they don't have the internet there. The Ted Bates statue and Big Sam's phone threads were the best freds on here.

That day was the first time I ever saw an F1 car at racing speed and my first ever visit to Spa. A truly monumental occasion.

I met Baj once. Happiest day of my life.

I've got the whole forum on ignore, except for Just Mike.

This is the planned development for Fratton Park in about 3 years time. Weird looking stadium.

I'm all for it. If a young child doesn't respond to verbal argument, sometimes the only way to get your point accross is a short sharp smack. I think the line to be drawn is very simple; It should be painful but not cause any injury or marks to the child.

It's the Swiss cheese model they keep banging on about in CRM courses. Get a dodgy captain with a dodgy first officer in a dodgy plane at a dodgy airport *cough* Madrid *cough* in dodgy weather and things will probably go wrong. Ryanair is no worse than any of the more reputable European airlines. They've never done anything as bad as Kegworth or AF447.

Please tell me this is a joke.

You should be allowed to take an empty bottle through but I think the 100ml of orange will have to be in a seperate 100ml bottle. It's a weird rule, but you shouldn't have any issues taking an empty bottle through, I do it all the time.

Speedy boaring at Ryanair doesn't guarantee a row, it just means you get a chance to eat the best meat before the rest of the hyaenas arrive. Allocated seats wouldn't work with Ryanair, they rely on 25 minute turn arounds between flights. They rely on the mad rush of people trying to get seats together and queueing up half an hour before the flight.

If by keen you mean mandatory then yes. Your average new recruit at Ryanair will be £100k in debt and earning about £32k a year.

I will add that generally the training at Ryanair is very good and I wouldn't have any worries about 99% of their pilots. However what this woman thought she was doing taking off after colliding with another aircraft I'll never know.

No. They were approaching the end of a taxiway and trying to possition themselves around the 767 to an adjacent holding point. The taxi from the Ryanair terminal in Barcelona to the holding point of runway 25L is notorious for being very long, as you have to circumnavigate the whole of RW25R and normally are not allowed just to cross it. It's also a busy airport which often involved waiting behind 3 or 4 aircraft before you are allowed to depart. As such long delays are expected and built into the scheduled flight times. In any case, Ryanair's on time departures are judged on what time they push back, not what time they take off. If they left the gate on time, the time they take off is largely irrelevant.

He was worse for Chelsea, barely lasted a season and then vanished along with Mutu. I think the net transfer cost would be about £15m each after Utd sold him to Chelsea.

When we finish 2nd again this season and qualify for the CL, then maybe we can sign Theo. The problem is that by then Fratton Park will be an affordable housing development so I may have to renege on my promise.