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Congrats :021:

Yup, mad foreign name, "proper" footballers hair, maybe he'll even take to wearing a headband as he skips past defenders. Already a good signing, I'd say!

Go on Michael - second start, second clean sheet!

Was he fighting his dog? Another gem from the BBC website! Can this be beaten for an opening paragraph? "Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock says he has no sympathy for Paddy Kenny after the goalkeeper had his eyebrow bitten off in a fight."

From the BBC site: The former Everton and Blackburn striker was unhappy that Rayner and referee Andy D'Urso failed to award his side a spot-kick when QPR defender Marcus Bignot tangled with Carlos Edwards in the penalty box. "It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems," said Newell. "This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism, for the politically-correct idiots. "She should not be here. I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than that." Two points - first, surely you don't have to be female to make bad decisions and, second, what was he thinking?!

"mighty football club of glasgow... slain by the humble highland club"?! :puke03: Who cares - it's only rangers. The next two games (home) against Falkirk and (away to) St Mirren are more important than the glasgow circus sideshow!

Try Tommy the bird man from the town centre. Think he's in possession of a couple of highly trained, child-threatening eagle owls!

No, no, no, no, & a blo*dy silly question to be asking.

Tesco is evil. We must stop them in their bid for world domination.

And Bayne DID make a huge difference :clapping04:! How much happier did Dargo seem after he came on? Would like to see him in for Wyness from the start against the Jam Tarts.

Great result! Just back from the pub and managed to convert a few more Japanese folk to the cause. Munro - that was brilliant! Dodds, Dargo, Blackie, Tokely, Rankin, and Bayne all did great :notworthy01: :notworthy01: :notworthy01: Ah, totally pish*d now...

Will reserve judgement on the official site for now - there's no content to comment on! The one thing I'm jealous of on the Aberdeen site is the 'Red TV' section. I really, REALLY, hope we get around to offering a subscription service for match highlights. I'm sure it would pay and, living abroad, I'm desperate to stop saying things like "SOUNDS like Caff played well today" :017:!

Why not someone from eastern Europe? I'm a little bored with try hard, 'honest' professionals at the moment. Would gladly swap a Bayne for a wildly inconsistant, silky, enigma-within-a-mystery-within-a-conundrum-type player!!! He should preferably have long hair too.

What's up with their badge? Tiger/jungle? House cat/watermelon?! Definitely a nice place for a holiday though...

Yes, the staff have always been very kind and helpful, and they do work in trying conditions (portacabin, customers like my dad etc. etc.). But the shop website needs a serious overhaul. Living in Japan, I don't have the luxury of trying different sizes. I pre-ordered a shirt based on the "upsize your selection by one or possibly two sizes" advice, but frankly, who knows what I've ordered?! How hard is it for Errea to simlpy state a chest size?

Basically, for every fan that wants to buy a new shirt before the start of the season and can't get hold of one, the club are loosing out. Not only does it create bad feeling among supporters but I'd imagine there a lot of lost revenue too. How many fans at pre-season games, kids with parents and so on, will have wanted to buy one? I've also been checking the online site regularly and, one week before kick off, they're gearing up with mouse mats, balloons, and home socks and shorts that we can't actually see. When you log on and the first thing that greats you is "Pack of ICT baloons", its starting to seem all too appropriate.　

I'm almost sorry we chose Italy rather than Turkey for our tour now. I would have paid good money to see that!

We're definitely not going to be short on midfielders next season, but it looks like he might offer something we don't already have. Seems like he has pace and wants to take defenders on - might get a few bums up off seats and give us something to get excited about.

Another good news day. Congrats to the club for finally completing the transfer and nice to see us bringing in a good young player. Forget about the price tag, just want to say good luck John!

Kandy's an excellent place to be, was there for New Year! The 9th will actually be the 10th for me in Japan, so will get up bleary-eyed at 3am to watch, then off to work Monday morning for a 9am start. Can feel the headache coming on already... (Edited 'cos, like a big eedjit, I was looking at the calendar for June when I first wrote this)

Ah, no, it's definitely worse.

Although it looks like it's made of plastic, hooray for the stripes! Do you think they'll be changing the shorts and socks? I'm guessing (hoping!) that's not the final design...

My trusty wall chart informs me that Spain will win it. After knocking out Brazil in the quarter finals, England in the semis and Argentina in the final. :017:

Apart from the need for cover in an injury crisis, the biggest argument against reducing the squad is that players will become complacent. If a player's going through a bad patch of form, he can relax (to some degree) knowing that the manager would be unlikely to rush in an untried teenager as his replacement. With the squad size that we have there will be fringe players who don't make it, but players who believe they're good enough will want to stay. And of course the manager will keep those that he judges the best for his system. Without wanting to sound too much like an evil Tory, 'competition' and 'choice' seem to be good things in a squad!

Was wee Joe to blame for Celtic's financial collapse in the early 90's? Ex-Rangers star caught in racist remarks shocker? Hmmmm (strokes chin), the truth is out there... More importantly, is there anyone we should try to poach now they're in total disarray?