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weeyin

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  1. Glimmer or Grimmer with Wimmer? Take your pick...
  2. Early days, of course, but 0/10 to the "can the new man organise a defence?" question. Same Scheiße different Tag.
  3. I don't think we need the refugees from the locked SK thread hijacking this one. The line is drawn _________________________________________________________ let's move on
  4. Unless the ref speaks German, the new management team will be able to give him pelters without fear of a yellow card.
  5. It's true that it is often the older crowd that get involved. When I started going to games in the 70s, it was the running joke was that the old blokes in the main stand with their flasks of soup and travelling rugs on their knees that complained the most. There was more than a grain of truth to that. There was plenty of abuse from the terraces too, but that was usually aimed at players. I don't think the younger generation are exempt though, they just vent their anger in a different way - typically social media. Of course, for all of the above it's only "some fans". The fans you never hear about, which are the majority, are the ones that never post on here, are rarely on social media, and have recovered from any poor performances by they time they have watched the latest episode of Doctor Who and had their tea.
  6. I hope I never have to rely eyewitness testimony from some of the posters on here.
  7. I hope he does a big knee slide right in front of the Bois just to see the seethe on here. I have zero issues with any player celebrating a goal, regardless of who he used to play for. It's one of the joys of any footballers' career.
  8. Kettlewell living rent free in a surprising number of posters heads here. Do you remember what he was spouting off about when he was at Ross County? It will all be forgotten when he's telling everyone he wishes there was VAR in the Championship because that controversial non-penalty was the only thing that prevented his Partick Thistle team from making the play-offs.
  9. First season at Luton wee Al made 39 appearances. Second season at Luton he made 47 appearances in a team that won promotion to the EPL. He also won Luton's player of the month on multiple occasions. You can argue whether a player is EPL level, but I'm not sure those Luton stats make you "overrated". It certainly went went wrong in the last couple of seasons, but that could be due to multiple factors.
  10. As I've said before, there are many discussions you can have have about individual players. So many aspects contribute to their overall performances. In football forums, however, all those nuances are boiled down to "shite" or "brilliant". It's what often makes it so difficult to have any kind of conversation.
  11. It must be quite a talent to fool so many professional managers and coaches at different teams and different levels for 15 years.
  12. Maybe Miller can try that too and kick the ball away instead of passing it backwards to a wide open player.
  13. If we don't line up 6-3-1 then he hasn't being paying attention.
  14. Now he's been at Fir Park the Paisley scouting team will be snapping him up again in the summer.
  15. If we go with a high tempo, high press this game we better score 3 or 4 in the first half because we'll be running on fumes in the seccond 45. Of course it's early days, but looking forward to seeing the first few tweaks made.
  16. In my experience the overall percentage of eejits isn't much larger in the US than it is in most countries. However, the electoral college, and the senate seat system, gives them much more influence, and that is the root of a lot of problems. For example, every state gets 2 seats in the Senate. North and South Dakota combined have a population of just over 1.7 million. California has a population of nearly 40 million. The Dakotas get 4 seats in the Senate and California only gets 2. With only 100 seats in the Senate, that is a big discrepancy, The US politcal and legal system is way more complicated and nuanced than I understood before I moved here, but I quickly came to learn there is no "American way" or "American point of view". The federation very much makes it more like a continent of 50 countries than any single, unified force. If you take a trip from Hawaii through California to Idaho, Utah, Montana, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Florida, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts (not the most direct route), you are going to see basically 13 different countries in culture, law and politics. Of course it's the eejits that get the attention, but when you look at everyone who voted for Brexit, who believed staying part of the UK was the only way to retain EU membership, who voted for Boris, who kept the Tories in power for 14 years, who made Farage a Euro MP etc. there is plenty stupidity to share around. Sadly, much like the first-past-the-post system in the UK, the electoral system in the US suits the politicians more than it suits the electorate, so it's unlikely to change any time soon. We now rejoin the current programme that was already in progress.
  17. Certainly convenient for us, because when you resign we don't need to pay you off.
  18. If there was a conspiracy in place for SK to give up a 1 year salary pay out to join Thistle on a, no doubt, lesser wage, then it sounds like a plan cooked up by Pinky and the Brain. Putting the "abuse by fans" excuse aside for a moment, it felt like SK was running out of ideas for us and that was turning into frustration with everyone from the refs and the media to VAR and, of course, the fans. I don't think he was lined up for the sack, but the resignation didn't surprise me too much. He hadn't gone full "deer in the headlights" in his interviews, but he was heading in that direction. He was never going to be out the game for very long because that's just how football works. Whether it's at Thistle, Ross County, or some other club, it's odds on he'll have a new job by the spring.
  19. People talk about a bloated squad as if we had 30 fit players to choose from every week. In reality we've been struggling to fill the bench many weeks, and have to start whoever can walk over who's best. Plenty will be moving on in the summer, but we needed the head count to get us through the worst of the injury problems.
  20. I miss the days of Richard "that set the pigeons on fire" Park and Jimmy "were you at the game caller" Sanderson. My other Richard Park favourite was "the ship's come off the rails"
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