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Not after he was skinned twice by Rory McAllister as he scored both the Heid's goals in a 2-0 win over Falkirk.

Unless they have moved the goalposts, it's worked out on distance usually, although the competition players will verify that. Incidentally, Graeme McDowell who hinted at the course being too easy.................sank a 15 foot putt for a nine at one of the holes, aye, easy right enuff Graeme. They are all easy if you hit the fairway and green in regulation, therein lies many an amateurs problem. Taken from wikipedia which may be near enough:- The key factor for classifying the par of a hole is the distance from the tee to the green. A typical par-3 hole is less than 250 yards (225 m) in length, with a par-4 hole ranging between 251 and 475 yards (225?434 m), and a par-5 hole being longer than 475 yards (435 m). The rare par-6s can stretch well over 650 yards (595 m). You normally find that a par five hole would have a smaller green as you would be expected to be near the green with your second shot, thus making the third approach to the green a short pitch (hopefully) The issues at Castle Stuart as I understand it from a scoring perspective is that the fairways were too wide at the driving distance and too generous, ie, the rough was not very heavy and the bunkers could have been more intrusive. However, take yer normal Jack the Lad round here and he will probably return scores in the nineties. These guys are experts, in fact Luke Donald is the current world number 1 and he made it look easy because he was at the top of his game.

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Great news, a star is born. It's the first facebook birth I have been present at, I feel quite emotional now wooohooooooo

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I notice that Elgin City have some information on yesterdays friendly on their site Forans overhead was a great effort.

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Cheers guys for all the updates and a great summary from ubern, especially as it was nearly five in the morning

You need to see him before making comments on him. To be honest he must be the smallest footballer in the world, that is no disrespect to him as he is obviously very neat on the ball. That is not heightist or whatever, that is fact. It will be tough for him in the big boys game, but if he has the determination then he will survive. Good luck to him. George Best was a giant compared to this lad.

Murray blows a Gasquet He simply blew Dick away after a struggle to win the first set, but after that Murray was in charge. Good win for him, onwards and upwards.

First set to Murray on a tie break, but he has made heavy weather of it so far. He upped his game when the tie break came along and breezed it, but he struggled on Gasquet's serve up until that point. Could still be a long day for him if he does not stay on the ball.

It's fine, it'll do the job, I'm liking the black shoulders and the striped necklines.

Stock cars everywhere.

OK, nobody interested in the tennis then, I'll start my own thread. Wimbers already started, rain and roof already deployed and Murray through his first test after a jittery start, but once he opened up Daniel was punished to the full. Murray on again today, rain allowances, hopefully another safe passage through to next round. If he keeps the heid maybe he can take out Nadal in the semi's, plenty of tennis before then though. Strawberry and cream.......yummy yummy.

Fantastic performance by Rory, broke plenty of records doing this, no, smashed plenty of records. He is too good a player and person to let that Masters meltdown get to him.

I'll take my same three shares please. I'm for Shane as our number one choice, localish lad comes good. I will pay the local debt collector when he/she makes themselves known to us.

What's with all the Duff bashing. I doubt he is as bad as some are making out. Yes he was taken to the cleaners a couple of times last season at RB, but he was not alone there as that wee Honduran sprinter tore him a new one. I beieve he is a better midfielder, more composed than some and less wasteful, unfortunately not always, but he does seem to get singled out for unfair criticism at times. Should we not be getting behind our players until we have sufficient evidence to shout them down. I'm thinking of the likes of Stratford who it became increasingly obvious that he was not the type of player we required in the engine room. We can all have off days, even weeks, but he deserves better than this from some of his own supporters surely. Duff is going to be one of the players that you either love or hate, no middle ground, a sort of balder Russell Duncan, it's going to be a long season for him, I hope he does well. Still, each to their own.

Looking good so far for young Rory. 10 shots clear after five holes, it could be a golfing masterclass.

Black and white and read all over.................

Young Rory making a great bid for the US Open after his disaster at Augusta, good on you loon. He has made a terrific start and is going well in the second round so far, -4 for today after thirteen holes, which puts him at -10 so far. Keep it going young man, and maybe this time there will be no

Good story scarlet.

Aye, in an ideal world that would be the bees knees ICT Paisley, unfortunately it's not always about us and other persons/clubs/fans come into play as well. What was that saying............You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not please all of the people all of the time.

The contract is a two way deal, the players or more importantly the players agent have some input in this. A lot of players only do 1 year contracts with clubs of our ilk, it offers them the chance to move on when the time comes, or stay should that option be offered to them. We should be thankful that we get them signed at all on whatever contract. We are never going to be the big draw that some clubs are, we will always have to make the most of what we get and so far we seem to be doing ok on that. I get cheesed off every time I see someone post that why did we not offer more than one/two year deals etc. It's a big world out there and life is not always that simple, live with it or jump ship.

or 6ft 1in depending on which website you look at.

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