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Zorro

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  1. I wish someone would hurry up and give rangers the tanking they so richly deserve. The fawning sycophancy from the BBC towards them is just nauseating. It’s bad enough on Sportscene but do we really need it during their coverage of the Championship too? Watching the Arbroath v Raith game, and they have to shoehorn a mention of them in. Apparently Ian Murray has taken a leaf out of Philippe Clement‘s book by making changes to his team. Not only that, but it’s paying dividends because they’re top of the league just like rangers. Who knew Philippe invented making changes? It made me wonder why no manager had ever thought of doing that before or why clubs had more than eleven players? I think they’re absolutely average and that’s what made losing to them so disappointing, because we created by far the best chances. I don’t even think they’ve improved by much since Clement took over from Beale. I just think Celtics levels have fallen off a cliff this season. Listening to the experts you’d think he was better than Klopp and Pep combined.
  2. I don’t understand your reasoning here. If we look at the Vanguard class of nuclear submarines, which imo Scotland would have absolutely no use for, it has an estimated lifespan cost of between £200 billion and £230 billion. That’s a hefty chunk of change to ferry “paperweights” around. We don’t need aircraft carriers with F-35B jets either. Currently we contribute to having them. Our share could be better spent on other areas of our defence.
  3. He also had Nick Griffin behind him here.
  4. For me the only important factor is that he’s jumped to block the cross. If he has enough time to do that, he has enough time to get his arm out of the way, and despite what some commentators have suggested, it has made his silhouette larger.
  5. I’m conflicted by this result. I can’t stand George Galloway, but I loathe Keir Starmer. On one side you have a self absorbed, lying, opportunist, hypocrite, who condones war crimes. On the other side you have a self absorbed, lying, opportunist, hypocrite who supported and saluted the courage, strength, and indefatigability, of dictator who also committed war crimes. Both are vain but only one of them goes on sunbeds and wears a hat to cover his baldness. It’s like being asked which s**t sandwich would I prefer.
  6. How many Russian bases are in Sweden or Norway?
  7. When you put it like that, it’s hard not to feel sympathy for athletes caught up by these external pressures to succeed.
  8. I miss the days when Aberdeen managers got sacked after getting beat by us. I hope they bring it back after the cup game.
  9. I vaguely remember reading an article about the higher than average rates of depression among professional cyclists, which was being attributed to the rampant doping taking place in the sport. I can’t recall which specific drugs they were referring too, but it doesn’t seem a stretch to suggest similar patterns would be likely amongst sportsmen following similar doping practices.
  10. It would be crazy not be carrying out routine testing when you’re investing so much money in a player. If you take Liverpool as an example, their tests are so stringent that they were able to identify previously undiagnosed asthma in a whole batch of their players. I find it hard to believe that Man Utd lag behind in this area.
  11. My number one fear is that there doesn’t appear to have been any contingency planning to deal with comets/asteroids now Bruce Willis is out of action. I was reading there that we only have 58 loaner trident missiles from the US Navy. Given the cost of each missile and the apparent 100% failure rate, would it be a cheaper and more cost effective deterrent, to build a giant catapult to fire ferries at any potential threat?
  12. Yes. Especially when they waited eight years between the first and second failures to see if there was an issue. You’d think after a failure, ensuring that it was a one off problem would be a matter of urgency. I know if my brakes failed on my car, I’d get them checked out asap, and they’re only to stop my car. It’s not like they’re supposed to protect me from space aliens, terrorists in small boats or the Russians from invading.
  13. I was surprised nobody had mentioned our nuclear deterrent appears to be about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395.amp
  14. I suppose it’s a gamble whatever you try. Plenty of teams would have had someone lying behind the wall to block the low shot. Maybe that puts a wee bit doubt in Taverniers mind, and he lifts the freekick just a wee bit too high to avoid the jumping wall. It’s all ifs and buts though.
  15. Watching the highlights (yes I’m a masochist) I’m surprised the wall doesn’t jump at the freekick. I’m not saying they could have blocked it, but they might have.
  16. I find it difficult to believe this wasn’t happening when he played in England. According to some report Premier League players are almost never tested for evidence of using testosterone. I can’t even remember the last premier league player who tested positive for any drugs. If Pogba had any sense, he’d have sneaked away before providing a sample and then claimed he’d just forgotten about it. An eight month ban is a lot better than four years.
  17. Can you pay at the gate at Dundee? I can’t see a mention of it in the ticketing information, although it does say there are alternative options to arrange collection, if you can’t attend Rugby Park in person prior to Saturday.
  18. There have been games against the old firm I’ve dreaded. There have been games I have seen it being a free hit against them. Tonight feels different. This feels like when David Sole lead Scotland out against England for the 1990 Grand Slam. There was a quiet confidence evident in that slow walk out at Murrayfield that day. You could just tell that they knew they had the tools to do the job. That if everyone did their job we would upset the odds. This Killie team grows more like that every week.
  19. I actually think rangers will change their formation tonight, towards a more traditional 4-4-2. They’ll be expecting us to sit in a low block, and because our pitch lives rent free in their head, they won’t want to get bogged down on a “dry”, “sticky”, “slow” & “bobbly” pitch. I expect them to go pretty direct, play for knockdowns and second balls. Corners and freekicks will be another area they’ll hope to capitalise. Personally, I’d go for the same formation again. Tell Vassell and Watkins to work their socks off closing down and running the channels, because we’re subbing them off early in the second half, for Stewart and KVV. The only change I’d be tempted to make is Watson for either Donnelly or Polworth, to add more energy in the middle.
  20. He makes a fair point. I wouldn’t want to watch my team being outclassed every week either.
  21. There isn’t a Labour speaker. The speaker is supposed to be politically neutral. It is his inability to fulfil this basic requirement of the roll, which has brought his ability to continue in his position, into question.
  22. There absolutely was issues in the Labour amendment. As I posted above they wanted to strip out the suggestion Israel was guilty of imposing collective punishment on the Palestinian people, and that Israel should retain the right to defend itself by blowing up hospitals, targeting refugee camps, killing and maiming children, and destroying places of worship.
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