Scarlet Pimple

O.K. maybe I will try again. My last attempt to post here resulted in the post disappearing. Penalty--not a penalty since the Motherwell player had lost the ball completely without hope of recovery before Munro had tackled him. Perhaps not a dive exactly since Munro got his legs under him and he had to fall over.But a prety soft one none the less. BBC standards in both Sports and general News reports online are rarely checked for grammar or spelling nowadays and I deplore the former icon of excellence going downhill alongside all the other baloney in society these days. Sometimes they even miss out words so that you have to read the sentence again just to try to get the gist of what is intended. I don't blame the reporters but their reports are just not edited for correctness anymore.

Well, more and more often these days even the BBC news and /or Sports reports are written but not checked for spelling , grammar, etc. This does sadden me since this would not have happened in the good old days. I am not having any problem viewing the highlights of the ICT matches on the BBC Sportssound links. You DO have to have Real Player in place to view them, however, since apparently the BBC have nott yet got round toodoing a deal with Windows and do not use the latter's Media Player for broadcasting steaming video. About the penalty at Motherwell-in my view the video clearly shows that the guy had lost the ball without any chance of recovery prior to Munro hitting himso how could it be a penaty. Does that mean if a player who does not have the ball at his feet falls over a divot in the penalty box then it is now a penalty? I think the ref was very quick to give the award. Better luck nexzt week. Has anyone got some comments about the overall performance of Niculae ? :029:

Stick to your guns Scotty and don't take some of these huffing and puffing remarks too much to heart. Sit tight mun. You are doing your job and your word "goes" regardless of who disagrees with you. If it continues to get close to abusive just ignore it. You are the boss and some of these newcomers on here must learn that. :012: They are trying to goad you into doing what you consider not to be a correct course of action so don't allow this to happen. These petulant critics themselves are taking things altogether far too much to heart and are now allowing this whole issue to become a personal crusade instead of merely a jousting commentary of differing opinions. Mr McAllister is not by any stretch of imagination a kid, whether he is 20 or 30. He is probably the biggest kid I have met in a long time and when I stood beside him in Burnaby, B.C. he towered over me and he should be able to hold his own in any SPL company. However, a reporter in the Herald referred to him as " so and so substituted the industrious McAllister". That having been said I would like to learn whether there are other posters on here who agree with that comment. If so maybe he needs just a far better service to improve. And in any event good luck to the 20-year old "kid".

Eh? :029:

With friends like these who needs enemies...eh? Gretna?--may be more like GREET-na soon? (as in crying) Hoch Hoch. Oh Rowan , you are indeed a naughty boy ("Backstabbing little C." :015: :015:...Ha! Ha!

Or bolting to escape the shot? LOL :001:

Well, well, who would have thunk it? Top marks for vision to Hibs--this site is huge. Imagine five full pitches and a synthetic pitch up to FIFA top standards for International matches. Plus the top rate facilities and all due to be in place and finished by the end of 2007. I wonder what all this is costing them? :022:

Wasn't Craig Gordon one of the rebels that angered vLADIMIR? In addition to getting his 9 million pounds it looks for once , by getting his desire to shed Mr Gordon, that Vlad will be quite happy at the end of the day--3 teams now after him. Villa to put up more money up front than Sunderland though...intriguing :014: What is really surprising that Vlad does not seem to want to keep him at any cost. You would think since he seems to be so ambitious that he would want to keep the very best players to keep him in contention. Adfter the dfefeat by the hIbs where is he really going with all his changes et all? I wonder if he has already shot his bolt .......... :symbol_question:

Except that he never plays him (Morgan) :007: there--or any other place?

YES-THE LOG-IN IS THE ONLY THING THAT OICCASIONALLY STILL THROWS ME A CURVED BALL. ONE GOOD THING i NOTICE NOW, HOWEVER, IS THE QUESTIUON--DO YOU WEWANT TO BE LOOGED IN FOREVER. aNSWERINHG YES SOLVES ALL THE PROBLEMS AND YOU ALWAYS ARE LOGGED IN WHENEVER YOU ACCESS THE SITE. :022:

Noted :021: Scotty I use Shaw cable for TV and Internet access. There has been some talk here in B.C. that Rogers and Shaw are going to merge. Probably inevitable. aNYWAY THANKS FOR THAT i WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE sETANTA WEBSITE FROM NOW ON. sp

Colin Samuel played well yesterday. So did Toronto Other team L A Galaxy were better than their record states and were stuffy, quite determined, passed well in midfield but could not burst a paper bag when it came to putting the ball in the net. Good defence though--worked very hard to keep out a very hard working Toronto team Big crowd--what was it 20,000? the streamers etc--what a mess --really seemedv to get the players upset too., Wrapped in streamers when tryingf to take a corner? I don't see the point in them--what a mess that goalmouth and that end of the park was in. Time to vacuum the stuff up once and for all. just my opinion of course :016: O-O was not very inspiring but Toronto did play with verve and enthusiam but lacked that final topuch. Great work effort though. Good luck with your team Scotty.

In his interview CC's main complaint was the lack of effort and passion by a lot of the players. That's not very inspiring--since the Caley thistle team in past years has been NOTED for just that--spirit. Something that has kept them afloat . Being overseas I could not get the audio report of the game so am not in a position to comment but the consensus of the reports on this site is not encouraging. Even sounds like a bit of a shambles and if it is then bringing in Marius Niculae is unlikely to change it overnight. O.K.--one swallow does not make a Summer, ket's see what happens....eh? :rolleyes02:

Barry Robson scored today. :clapping03:

In the Dundee United game against Aberdeen today defender Flood, on loan to D/U from Cardiff City, earned a first booking for a high challenge on Lee Miller then was sent off for a DIVE following a challenge from Jackie McNamara.. Does this mean that the flood gates are about to open on Divers ? Diverse comments are welcome at all times on this site.. :003:

The C'astle may not be appropriate since after the 0 - 3 "doing" today by Rangers can you honestly say that there is a Fortress Longman still in place? Time to draw up the portcullis to regroup and repair the parapet crenellations before we rename the team :004:

Well, IHE , here is one fer you...LOL A report just in to the Hall at Fort George handed to me by Mz Moneypenelope states that Flood of Dundee United was sent off today against Aberdeen for ....DIVING. see separate thread. :33:

The craic is the fact that Mr Rowan Alexander was turned away from Fir Park at the entrance. He said that he had turned up there to "do the job he is being paid for--i.e manage the club". However, it appears that Brooks Milesome and the club Directors have a different view of his role now or in the future since there is comment on a recent BBC report from Brooks that "a settlement is being worked out"--no subsequent updates about this it seems. I mean , if a settlement is being worked out why would Mr Aleander show up for work other than to stress the fact that he and his lawyer are making a point that he has not yet been given formal notice. I think that Brooks iis now feeling the finacial draught --evidenced by wholesale clear-outs prior to the start of the seson of older players, some of whom have been classified as not fit for SPL duty in terms of ability. Good luck Gretna--you are just experiencing your :010:teething problems

Rangers have a different team this year and this could be a severe test for the Caley Thistle team. Four at the back to prevent an early goal surely is a must. But if ICT can get their nose in front this could lead to a fine result provided every member of the team plays to their potential and Charlie gets the selection right from the word "go". However, I do hope that the team is fully fit and can last the 90 minutes....hmmmm. C'mon Ict. On fire... :burning:

Oh well I can see that no one is available to inform me about broadcasting on Saturday to overseas punters. How come the rest of you punters draw a response from Charles but not the poor old Scarlet Pincer (oops, sorry, that's my uncle). The fact is that only the Motherwell game is going to be broadcast overseas tomorrow Saturday, 4th August, 2007, so Scotty you and I might as well live on Mars .... Quite an impressive line up of commentators too, I see..... :022: Maybe I will try the chat room instead but 4.30 a.m is indeed early out here on the West Coast of Canada to be getting up.

Sophia Kerosene in Glasgow? --was he whispering fiery protestations of passion in your lovely young ear or sumpin? I will have to have a word with him-- "K, don't protest, just put her feet to the fire, be a man of action and sweep her off her feet once they have been suitably warmed-up (er..so to speak). Ja? " Chas Bannnerman complains about my French, LOL, but he has not yet heard me sing "The German Officers crossed the Rhine, caught the French girls and drank their wine etc"... and your sentences always intrigue me= so this is not a complaint.. :015:

Yes, Scotty, I never tire of watching the match from 2004. And yes I had a very big lump in my throat also as the helicopter was flying in with the cup. I have a video of most of that match but it is in Pal format not suitable for north America. Do you have one too? Very funny thread. And the last video was superb. Rankin's goal matched anything I have seen in ages. Sigh--that was great! :021: S.P.

The BEEB---huh? I emailed them a note asking if the game in Inverness is going to be broadcast on Saturday to Overseas listeners since their Sportsound website does not have a single reference to date about the ICT versus Rangers match. Surprise, surprise, they ignored me and did not reply.. Can any one on here please advise about Overseas broadcasting for Saturday? :33: Thanks S.P.

So long as Sophia keeps on saying "unlike Queen Victoria I am amused" we can overlook her journalistic references. My reply is "you are awful...but I like you"! Of course. Sophia it would have been most inappropriate to quote the real name of the reporter as Kheredine Idessane since the Pimple Organisation does not rely of reporters to glean their news, only home grown talent honed and nurtured at the "Hall" in Fort George and who come up through the Pimpernel Organisation ranks. More scoops later--stay tuned to this frequency..... :016: :sillywave:

Charles Anything for a laugh, Mun! ...sniff. Actuellement, Curly was the bane of my existence.A mean-spirited man as I saw it then. In the fifth year at the Academy I elected to take French for a second language to get a Lower--but not full time. He was not impressed and since there were only five of us in the class, all smarty pants including the Dux of the School, Curly one day decided to inform me in front of the class that I would not even get a lower viewing me as not out of the top drawer in his class so to speak and therefore not worthy of his superior attention. Good job for me I was a worker.....hmm. I studied his face carefully since I was at a very formative and sensitivestage of my existence and consequently learned from this artful studying how to sneer in total disdain at the expense of another , inflicting maximum contempt and hurt for no particular reason at no expense to himself. Not much later I sat the exam and passed with flying colours; and that was the end of my involvement with Curly the Cute. My French has remained spotty since then but life's lessons are not all in French as I learned fully that sad day-- there you go mCharles--top that story if you can. :012: :004: