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I think 2 semis in the same season would be asking too much, so I'll settle for just 1 and fingers crossed might go further.

He says it's a 'learning curve' I wonder whether he will be sacked? I'd be surprised if he wasn't but Hearts seem to be quiet about it. Although, what he did was disgusting, I hope that if he stays at Hearts, our fans won't resort to the chants that the likes of Goodwillie, McGregor and Imrie have suffered in the past. Yes, he's been convicted and proven guilty, but I hope when we go to Tynecastle, our fans will sing about our own team and not concentrate on the lives of others - no matter how bad or disgusting. I know the songs will be thought up across the country, but i hope we can be better than that!

A viral video could quite easily be sent to clients and potential clients, loaded up onto websites etc etc. Its also cheaper to make a 90 second video than print off hundres of packs for clients ICT could quite easily do something like this as long as they get someone who says "Matches, Packages" and not "Matcheees, Packagees"

If only we could offer a decent mix of one and two year deals we wouldn't have our entire squad up for grabs come January.

OOPS! I was hoping that you would not see any of this overseas but I suppose someone had to out it and it has been the main talking point on the news ever since. Shocking is not the word for it. It was not the main bulk of the well-over 100,000 fans that started drinking in the early afternoon downtown when the pubs gleefully opened up to rake in the hordes of doubloons. Nor, indeed, was it the fault of the majority of those fans who had come downtown to either see the game in the stadium or watch it on the big screens peacefully and joyfully. They were as sad as anyone else that all the effort and work was for nought as the Boston Bruins clearly demonstrated on the night that they were the better team.However they were not to blame -directly. Bostons's goals were not as brilliant as their goalie, Mr Thomas, aged 37 (!!)--anything but. The Canucks goalie should have stopped the first speculative shot but failed, the second was a scrappy effort that just trickled over the line in a goalmouth scrum, the third was due to a very hard-working Bruin never giving up and doing the wrap around the net on his skates and then jamming it in at the lower corner of the net stanchion while Luongo got tangled up with another Canuck and just could not reach out in time on his belly to catch it. The fourth was a score on an empty net from distance by another high flying Bruin past a despairing last ditch attempt be a defender to stop it whilst the goalie was sitting on the bench having been pulled in order to send on another attacker to try to salvage something from the game. All of this could easily have happened at the other end of the rink had Thomas not been superb--needless to say he was handed the :Conn Smythe" trophy as the star of the playoffs. The standing ovation he got from all the fans in the building was Richly deserved. Knowledge put very well. Passes that were not made to a teammate, passes to opposing players, shots that never completed because a Canuck took his eye off the puck and fanned on it.Etc. They simply did not match the Bruins ultimately in all these skills plus they were taking too long to decide when and how to deliver a pass whilst the opposition were doing the simple thins very well--get the puck up the ice into the other team's end and skate after it. The intensity was not there and the Bruins had learned that they must up their game or lose. And they did this at every level--passion, intensity,hard battles along the boards, great hard accurate passing. They really did well and it was so disappointing as we watched the frustration of our team mounting as they failed time and again to even get a chance of scoring. Yet they started well, pinning the Bruins back in their end for the major part of the opening period. Did they have bad luck? Sure! Several times.- -a bad bounce at a crucial moment, a desperate, tiny touch on the puck by a Bruin whilst the stick was about to crash it netwards with an excellent chance of scoring, a goalie who stymied them every time when it looked easier to score. It got so that in the third period I thought that truly they never would score against Thomas and that was a sombre, sad moment of realisation that the game was really over before half-way through the period. The riot started with a relatively small group of drunken hooligans turning over a car with no police around. Thousands of people had thronged downtown during the Olympics amidst a great joyous feeling for all, resulted in no trouble whatsoever, and the cops thought that this was again going to be the scene. However, there were hooligans who had come downtown with mayhem in mind not just to have a good time.No police showed up so they burnt a car, then two cop cars parked nearby and so on. Fences were torn down and used as missiles against other fans and still the cops did not arrive in force.In other parts of the city looting and fires were also happening a nd the mayhem raged on whilst far too many decent fans just stood and gawped making the job of the police even more difficult. They then brought in a dog or two, started throwing pepper spray canisters (not tear gas by the way), four horses with Mounties on them, and finally managed to get th\e crowd to move on. The problem then was that the Skytrain stations were so packed with people trying to get out that the trains could not cope and the busses had refused to come into the city centre. Patrons of the local Queen Elizabeth Theatre who had many children with them were too terrified to come out and therefore were stuck there until much later in the evening, and so on. The riot squad then appeared but generally just stood off because the crowd still was so large that it was completely impossible to do anything constructive. Fault?-the police had badly miscalculated. Then there were the hooligans who donned black masks who clearly were not there for a good time but were hell-bent on causing serious carnage, disruption, trouble,looting and huge damage.The Mayor of Vancouver threatend "These people will be held accountable" How, Grigor? How many bystanders ? Most of them had either a sickly, incredulous and nervous smile on their faces or were smiling--especially the young girls and boys who clearly had had far too much to drink. How to control this?-Find the culprits and make an example of them.These are not just drunken kids doing stupid things but self-indulgent, evil criminals so a rather lengthy jail term and a $10,000 dollar fine each plus serious controls on their movements within the City boundaries for at least five years, etc., may help. If the police beat the sh--t out of their fat, slobbery buttocks too I would favour turning a blind eye--let them never forget,I say. And implementing serious measures so that any huge crowd downtown will in future be in strict blocks and patrolled by countless heavily-armed riot police or crowds banned altogether there for the foreseeable future would also help. Oh, and closing all pubs and taverns before midday on the day in question too. Draconian? Well, this is pre-planned anarchy from wasters which is extremely damaging to property, lives and the Tourism Industry, etc. So send any suggestions to Christy Clark, Premier, The Legislature, Victoria, B.C. Canada please. ....soon!

Not only do the HN report on the story they publish the email address for applicants. Good touch HN. Just p!ssed off I'm offshore :irritated:

Hmmm....yet somehow he managed to just about save us from relegation when most would have given no hope upon his arrival, win promotion at the first time of asking and secure a 7th place finish in the SPL (narrowly missing out on top 6). I'm not going to argue with your rating of individual players, that's largely opinion and we won't all agree....however, some would have been signed with a view to being starting 11, some would have been seen as squad players and one or two were perhaps reluctant signings but needed due to circumstance. They may not all have been superstars, but they got the job done and that's what matters.

:rotflmao: MUPPETS

The signings I am looking for are further extensions to the Butcher and Malpas contracts. They are contracted to the end of next season only. A clear commitment to the club from the management team makes it easier for players to show some level of commitment. When you look at how few of the team have contracts beyond the end of next season the future looks far from clear. The Board should ensure that any player or member of the management team they really want to keep should never be on a contract of less than a year.

This should be the nonsense threads now, I'm ******* sick of going to read an update to be met with this trype

Away to St Mirren