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I rarely agree with anything you say Ender but the Grant Munro situation makes me mighty angry and I believe Butcher has possibly made the biggest mistake of his ICT managerial career to date In my opinion Grant should still be at the club and in the starting line up every week All i will say is that its a big risk Terry is taking to treat the local hero so shabbily dougal Good to see you back, Dougal. I happen to agree with what you say - not the bit about rarely agreeing with IHE but the rest of it. Have a green dot.

I hope nobody took my advice and went to the golf today!

Well that's just shocking. Perhaps the Board should tell the person who told the young lad this should be told his services are no long longer required. An announcement to that effect over the tannoy system at the first home match of the season might be the way to do it.

I'll be interested to hear how he gets on. I believe he's from my home town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.

Play suspeded for the day. I'm soaked through although it is bone dry at home on the Black Isle. The rain this afternoon has been most unfortunate but up till then it has been a first class event. Great course and top quality play. Should be a great finish on Sunday. If it is a fairly tight finish the lead could change quite a bit in the closing holes with the lay out of the course. If you are in two minds whether to go or not, my advice is to go, you won't regret it.

Why are you speaking to staff at a Premier Inn about fixing your Sky+HD box?

If you read 12th man's post you will understand why some folk have dished out the red dots. The system can be abused but there is a message on this thread that makes it clear that the mods are monitoring this and will take action if appropriate. Personally I will give a red dot only if I think someone is out of order with a post and not just because I happen to disagree with a point of view. I get the impression most folk do this to. I personally think that the system has been helpful in weeding out a few individuals who thought they were being smart but were just being obnoxious - the dots made it clear they were not appreciated by the majority so they went away. Having said that, I do miss Dougal's posts..

Prefer the women's beach sepak takraw myself. Particularly popular in the Thai resort of Phuket I understand.

Believe Russell Duncan also scored for County in a 2 - 0 win against Brora last week. The first of many, no doubt.

There would have been a pretty substantial offer on the table for Rooney. With him turning it down and no other more established players signed since Rooney made it clear he was not staying, there should be some reasonable money available to attract someone decent.

Depends on how desperate the woman who's paying really is. ...and how old and firm it is.

The rat's become a shrew.

Whilst I wish Adam all the best, I am disappointed he's opted for B'ham City. It's not so much that I am a Villa man myself, but because at Birmingham he will be playing alongside the odius Marlon King.

I have to say I'm tempted to go with Tau but I would like to consider Dougal's view on the matter before I cast my one and only vote. I can't believe that he hasn't discussed this at length with Florence and Zebedee on the Magic Roundabout. Where are you Dougal? We've missed you!

George Best was pretty small too. The thing is, you play to your strengths. If you have small skillful players you keep the ball on the deck, if you have tall strikers you play the high ball - if you have Andy Barrowman you go into the transfer market.

It's still on the website. Absolutely extraordinary statement. One shudders to think how many Hearts players would be in prison or sold into slavery were it not for the honorable Mr Romanov looking after the welfare of these poor naiive innocents.

Adam's profile is on the up as he has now made it onto an international list of worst misses of the season. http://eurofudbal.blogspot.com/

This is all very interesting and is a reflection of the unique status of the home nations within the United Kingdom. One the one hand nobody seems to object to the fact that there is "team GB" for just about every sport under the sun but yet there is this furore about football. If we obect to Scottish players being part of a UK team then surely we should object to the whole concept of a British team in the Olympics and instead have separate teams as in the Commonwealth Games. It seems to me that the only reason most folk object to Scottish participation in a UK team is the fear that Fifa will insist on a single team for the UK in all tournaments. This Fifaphobia is a pretty poor reason to deny the UK a team in the Olympics for a sport which we invented. I understand that fear but I don't share it. I can understand other nations questioning why the UK should have 4 teams and as the individual home nations are not independent states there is clearly a good argument for there being only a UK team allowed. But that being the case, one might argue, why has there not been a move to force a single team on us before now? Why wait for an Olympic UK team? The answer to this is that regardless of the political argument, a UK team would be stronger than any of the Home Nations on their own and therefore more likely to win things. If we were more likely to win things, other nations would be less likely to win and why would they vote for that? It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. Think of the stronger England teams over the years and add in the likes of George Best, Ryan Giggs, Denis Law, Kenny Dalgeish and Pat Jennings into the mix! Blatter can threaten and huff and puff all he likes but having team GB in the Olympic football competition will not lead to the end of the Home Nations as members of Fifa. Going ahead with team GB would give a number of important messages to Blatter and they are

And if he's not working on the catering side, he's pretty useful on the park as well

Whats that in fathoms? Or am I getting too deep. you might need a couple of meters to measure that.

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The problem is that the if the insurance company disputes the claim, it ends up costing them more in legal costs etc. And even when they win and are awarded expenses they rarely ever get them. As for the fraudster, if they lose the case they walk away scot free. It can be difficult to prove fraud in these cases and therefore there is no redress in suing the individual for false claims and again it is not worth the company going through the process. Hence they just pay up. It is similar with patients claiming damages in the NHS with massive claims being settled out of court because even where the NHS know they have a very strong case, mud sticks and they cannot afford to have clinical staff wasting their time for days at this sort of hearing. Sad fact is that the majority of honest, decent citizens have to pay increased taxes and insurance premiums because of the scum who claim what they are not entitled too. Of course, insurance companies could afford to pursue fraudsters through the courts if the lawyers weren't even more on the make than the fraudsters.

Kilmarnock's goal against us is the pick of the bunch. I know it is against us but it is a joy to watch. Had that been Barcelona in the Champion's League the media would never have stoped talking about. Good intricate passing movement, brilliant final ball, great first touch from Kelly and a sublime finish. They really don't come much better than that.

Having captured Munro and Duncan and got shot of Barrowman, County should be good bets for promotion.

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.