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  1. On 10/31/2023 at 5:14 PM, Scooby_Doo said:

    Halloween wis Friday.

    I forgot to add, although it should go without saying really, that anyone using the term 'Killieween' deserves a visit from those fish that swim up your pisher and dig their jaggy bits in so you can't pull them out again.

  2. 6 hours ago, Thebigguy68 said:

    So he’s just pect then. 
     

    DM is the best Scottish manager in the league and the best we’ve had in 20 years. We should be begging him to extend his deal or he’ll be off to a bigger club.

    This is the problem with trolling - you need to keep a track of your own horses**t otherwise you look daft.

    Your post last night on the other thread said he was the second best manager in the last twenty years. Now he's the best - presumably the first trolling attempt didn't get enough response?

  3. That is the part of his game that just keeps him away from the big money move.

    Every full back he comes up against shows him down the line, sometimes embarrassingly so, yet he rarely takes that option. Even if he did it now and again, it would give the full back something to think about and he'd have more joy overall.

    It felt like today he was making the wrong choice every time, but you have to credit his perseverance, he kept going and was unlucky not to score and ultimately played well overall.

  4. On 10/23/2023 at 8:09 PM, skygod said:

    He would only look daft if he was a fluent Afrikaans or Xhosa speaker, which is unlikely.

    The explanation given why “white side” might have been said also seems implausible.

    Curry mentioned it to the ref but didn’t make an issue of it after the match, nor has the RFU complained.

    Only the media seem to think it’s a big deal and, sickeningly, have even speculated about the furore if roles had been reversed.

    The word I had read suggested was 'windgat' - Afrikaans slang for a blowhard or boaster. Could have sounded like what Curry suggested once you apply the accent. It was also suggested that the 'c' word isn't used all that much in SA as it is here.

  5. There's something very different about the men taking part in Scotland's Warriors Premier League - every player is overweight.

    In fact, it's a condition of participation. They must have a waist of at least 38in (96cm) or a BMI of over 30, making them clinically obese.

    The final match of the season last weekend saw the Ayr Eagles take on Corstorphine Dynamos Goliaths for the coveted league title.

    But for the 500 men involved in the league - which includes teams like Monster Munchen and Alloa Unathletic - the trophy isn't the only reward.

    Gary Thorn, the league's founder and chairperson, told BBC Scotland News it was helping players lose weight and improve their mental wellbeing.

    "We know for a fact that this is actually saving people's lives," he said. "We've got guys in our team who have openly said to us that they wouldn't be here without the football.

    "Guys are getting fitter, guys are getting happier. They're making new friendships, new relationships and new experiences for a lot of people."

    He added: "My own club, the Denny Warriors, started three years ago and that was all about getting men out and about, meeting new people, reducing their isolation and improving their physical and mental wellbeing."

    But when they wanted to turn competitive, they found it hard to find opponents who were playing at a similar level.

    "We didn't want the guys to get disheartened," he said, and from there the Warriors Premier League was born.

    Fast forward to August 2023, and 12 teams are coming to the end of a highly competitive season, with just three points separating the top three teams.

    The teams competing for the league trophy at Townhead Park in Cumnock on Sunday were level on points, with the Eagles only slightly ahead on goal difference.

    Stuart Chalmers is the team captain and centre back at Ayr Eagles, the only Ayrshire team in the league.

    His amateur footballing career was hindered by two bad knee injuries which, combined with working a desk job, led to both his fitness and mental health taking a knock.

    "Growing up playing football and always being part of a team, I missed that environment so the chance to get back out on a pitch, back with a good bunch of lads again and back playing football again was great," he said.

    Stuart said that for men like him, there's often a lack of opportunities to get back into sport.

    He added: "There wasn't really a level for myself and my teammates, this was a chance to get back on the football pitch and back playing competitive football again.

    "Your confidence goes down, the confidence in your body to be able to perform, and run and keep fit, it hinders you big time.

    "The slower pace this team choose and the league choose has made it far easier for me to come back into exercise than any other environment.

    "It's the only league in Scotland where you need a pair of scales," Stuart joked.

    He said there had been occasions during the year that pre-match weigh-ins had been called if a team was looking "too slim".

    But players aren't punished for losing weight. Teams are also allowed to field four players with a smaller BMI, as long as they are over 30 years old.

    Craig Leitch, a midfielder for the Corstorphine Dynamo Goliath, said the league had helped him find the confidence he lost during the pandemic.

    He said: "Coming out of Covid I was finding it tough to reintegrate back into normal society, trying to get back to where I was before. It was quite daunting going to the first training session.

    "I had thought about wanting to play football again so I had been looking at teams in the Edinburgh area and when I saw it was specifically for guys that were carrying a wee bit of extra timber I felt like that suited me.

    "The support network has been brilliant, I've only known them for a year, but I've got some of my best mates in the team. It would mean a lot to us if we could win it, but it would hold a special personal satisfaction for me."

    On the day, it wasn't to be for Craig's team with the Ayr Eagles coming out on top, winning the game 3-1.

    Next year, the Warriors Premier League is set to introduce a championship league, welcoming about 10 new teams to the fold.

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-66638656

    It's mentioned that the Appin Warriors league is expanding to a second division and a cup, the Copa del Weigh.

    Ayr Eagles are the current champions, anyone know if there is a team in Killie?

  6. On 8/12/2023 at 2:42 PM, gdevoy said:

    Based on the laws of physics the battery performance simply must be temperature dependent. So I am beyond sceptical about claims the range is not limited in low temperatures.  That means electric would be less suitable in Scotland that down south. But then again they seem to have really gone for it in Norway where it is clearly a lot colder than here. I have no idea how they overcome the range issues.

    A friend of mine had a Ford Mach-E, and the worst range he got was 130km. In minus 24, in Canada.

    It would be fine in Scotland.

    I must say, it gives me a tickle reading back through this thread to see the mental gymnastics @gdevoy goes through to belittle electric cars.

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