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Realistically he only has 12 months left on his contract. We may get a much higher figure if a bidding war starts up, but 500k for a player we only signed 6 months ago would be pretty incredible for a club like ours. Even if it would be impossible to replace him with a like for like goalkeeper.
A bidding war is a bit of a myth. He will have his price that St Mirren are willing to sell him for. It won’t be a case of teams offering £50-£100k more to be first in the pecking order. They will meet the fee and then they would negotiate with the player (which is where the bidding war might take place).
I recall people suggesting the mythical bidding war for Turnbull. It just doesn’t happen!1 -
Craig Samson is the worst goalkeeper ever to have played the sport.
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I’m sure your tour guide will have a good list of the things to see around Delhi. The obvious things like Gandhi’s House, India Gate, Red Fort and Humayuns Tomb will all be on the list.
Jama Masjid Mosque is worth a visit. It’s in Old Delhi and it’s great to see the difference between the two parts of the city. Be prepared to leave your shoes outside at the gate and be bare footed walking around the place. I can’t recall if they made women cover their heads, but I would advise women to wear a long sleeved top as a lot of places will expect them to be covered. I may be recalling this wrongly, but I think it was the mosque that gave me a blanket type thing to wear as a skirt as I had three quarter length trousers on and they wanted me covered.
I visited quite a few tombs whilst in Delhi, but I think it was Safdarjungs Tomb that stood out the most. Defo worth a visit.
Couple of other things. Be prepared to pay “White man prices” for entering any of the tourist spots. Generally only charge the locals about 10Rs (about 12p) but will charge tourists about 250Rs (about £3). Not very expensive, but they fair hike it up compared to the locals prices. Some places will charge you separately for a camera. I had a proper camera with me, but not sure how they manage it with iPhones and such likes these days.
For Agra, Taj is the only place worth visiting. As mentioned elsewhere, see it at sunset from the fort and then get in for sunrise. You park up about 500yards and will be carted to the taj on a golf buggy. They don’t allow vehicles within a set distance of the taj. It is breath taking. Possibly the most amazing experience from my travels. Get out of Agra as quickly as possible!
Jaipur is a decent city. “The Pink City” and you will see why (although my wife said it’s Terracotta [emoji23]). You have the huge lake that was used to film one of the James Bond films. They were looking to renovate the building that is in the middle into a hotel. That was about 4/5 years ago. Unsure if they actually proceeded with it. Amber Fort is worth a visit and you get some amazing views from the top. You can take an elephant ride up for about £10. Worth it for the experience but it’s not the most comfortable ride. I never done too much else in Jaipur as I was tired from the previous days in Delhi and Agra. Your tour guide will almost certainly take you into one of the local shops, which they will no doubt say it’s their cousins or such likes. Depends if it’s your thing or not, but they will rip you off.
When selecting hotels, I would suggest sticking to the big chains (Raddison, Hilton ShangRaLa etc) as the smaller chains are touch and go. Raddison Blu in Agra is very good! If you have a fair amount of disposable cash then consider staying in Oberoi in Agra. It overlooks the Taj and the views are meant to be out of this world. I looked at it but I am sure it was about £500 a night, which ruled it out for me. Eating wise, the big chain hotels are very westernised and will cater to your tastes. The food is not spicy in India so wouldn’t worry too much. When eating out and about, you will see all the usual fast food chains. I would avoid any of the street food places as the quality of the meat is questionable at best. Also, you won’t see beef on the menu anywhere. If it’s being offered then it is likely buffalo or similar. If you do order a curry, if in a western place then it will probably be chicken breast, but if it’s not westernised then me prepared for chicken to be on the bone. Mutton was popular on the menus, but it wasn’t really to my liking.
Be prepared to encounter some of the most awful smells and you will very likely see rats and such likes about the cities.
India is an amazing country. People are very friendly, but they may come across as rude. They have no concept of queuing and will push in front of you as if you’re not there. You will see a lot of poverty and begging around the cities. Quite often they have some physical disability and will play on it to get money from tourists. People think India is really cheap, but it’s not really the case if your a tourist and sticking to more western places (hotels/restaurants). It’s probably slightly cheaper to eat and drink than the UK, but not miles cheaper. From memory, a main course would be about £8-10 and a bottle of beer about £2.50. They heavily tax alcohol in most states and anything imported will cost you a fortune. Sula is a brand of wine that is made in the country. Not as heavily taxed but it’s not really the best. Any imported wine will set you back about £20 a bottle, which you would pick up for £4-5 here. I can’t really the lager that I was drinking in the north, but it was Kingfisher that was the main brand when I was living in the south. Budweiser was available as well as some other well known brands. It’s all bottled beer and I cannot recall seeing much draft beer or offer anywhere in India. They love their whiskey in India, but same issue with tax making imports expensive. Some of the local stuff is actually ok. They also take their smoking laws pretty seriously in India, with pretty much the same laws as the UK. Cigs are cheap and about £3 a packet.
Ill probably add some other bits and bobs as they come back to me. You will have the trip of a lifetime. I will go back one day and do it again myself. I love hearing about people going out for a tour and I’m extremely jealous! Let us know how you get on.0 -
I’ve stuck on Livingston to be bottom (8/1), Dundee United to win Championship (5/2) and Cove Rangers to win League 2 (9/2) as a treble.
As has already been posted in here, the Livi to finish bottom odds look a touch on the big side.
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Does your work offer any sort of sharesave or equivalent? I started paying into one immediately when I started working at 16. It comes out of your salary so you just get used to not having it. Fair builds up over the years and so long as the share prices doesn’t tumble, you will make more than you would in any high street savings account (by some distance).
I’ve always put something away, even now with my wife back at university full time, I still put away into my sharesave and other investment. Just tighten up a little more elsewhere to compensate.
You need to have a long term view. You ain’t going to have the house deposit overnight, but will be worth it in the long term.1 -
I done the golden triangle whilst living in India. I’m currently sitting on a sun lounger in Dom Rep. I’ll ping you over the places I visited when out there. A few hidden gems that I wasn’t aware of that our tour guide took us to.
One thing I would say is get in and out of Agra as quick as possible. The place is a toilet (even for India).
Food isn’t spicy at all. Big hotels will all cater for western pallets.0 -
Sammon is a very good signing for League 1 level. Whilst he had a poor season with us, he has a reasonable level of ability if you play to his strengths. We punted balls to him in the first half of the season, which isn’t his game. He never got a sniff in the second half as we had a settled side that was doing well.
Cracking signing for Falkirk, if it is indeed happening.0 -
Spotted that Livi are 8/1 to finish bottom (compared to 2/1 or 3/1 for the other main contenders).
Seems quite a big price for something that is a reasonable possibility.
I mean that with no disrespect, just seems a bit on the big side.0 -
Well generally you won't find beef on many menus there anyway. But yeah, it makes you think twice about it after you've seen those poor buggers.
One of the first thing I did anytime I stepped foot out of India was have a burger. Whilst I found a western butcher, the closest you could get was buffalo. Whilst an alternative, it wasn’t brilliant!0 -
Looking at the footage there, I take it Long went off injured or such?
Johnson wasn't in the starting XI but Hylton was clearly still on the park given he scored and Scott seems to be there after Johnson gets his 1st.
I believe Long limped off very early on. No idea of the severity.1 -
My grandad was a Scottish referee in the 40s/50s/60s and retired after being at the ‘66 World Cup.
Got a shedload of memorabilia from that era, including a ‘66 World Cup Final programme. Not stuff that I’m looking to part with. Also got a programme from the Hampden European Cup Final with Madrid and Frankfurt.
Really should get round to getting it all valued but not sure I would bother as it’s not stuff that I would sell.
Brilliant fun reading through it all and reading up on it.0 -
Do they send you an invoice/email before they take a payment out every month? If they don’t they can’t take more than the agreed amount with you as you are then entitled to claim it back.
Think they have to inform you at least 5 working days before the direct debit is due. Sounds like a fairly simple task but I imagine they can’t be arsed doing so
I get email invoices but I never normally look at them. The DD comes out my account I use for bills and is so small that I never really notice it coming out. I just wait for the angry email and repeat every quarter!
The company seem pretty poorly run from an accounts perspective. I was due to pay them £100 upfront, that is refundable should I move house. I never actually bothered paying it for a couple of years and was never chased for it. I ended up sending it over when I was settling my last quarters under payment (despite them still not chasing me for it).0 -
My fees are tiny compared to what is mentioned here, but the incompetent mob keep collecting a lesser amount via direct debit and then come shouting the odds when I am in arrears (by about £15 a quarter, not exactly going to be dragging me to court!). Told them multiple times to take what they are due via the direct debit each month, but they still f**k it up.
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I assume that Scotland is the only country in the world where you have to specify that a pizza has been oven baked.
It's the only option anywhere else.
I don’t believe other countries have discovered the delightful deep fried pizza [emoji23]
Pizza Hut / Dominos are rotten.0 -
Smoked Sausage & Haggis from my local Chip Shop. The oven baked pizzas are out of this world!
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You boys love a good clusterfuck of a summer. Hope you get Goodwin though, i’d be keen to see how he’d do stepping up.
I agree. See if he can’t make the step up at St Mirren before we poach him once SR leaves...0 -
I said to some mates a few weeks ago that I thought we would be sniffing about Lafferty. Absolutely no inside knowledge, it was just a hunch due to Robinson’s connection to him through NI and also his brother in law taking up the youth coaching role.
Maybe one of them decided to start planting the rumours around [emoji23]
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I got over the Turnbull to Celtic move quickly after the bid was first accepted, which was more than a week ago. As a fan, I would have always preferred him to go south to avoid playing against us, but the cash Celtic were paying was a good bit of business for us.
Good luck to the lad. He signed a new deal in January when he could have picked up a bigger signing on fee by signing a pre contract and moving for buttons. He signed that deal, with the agreement that if a good offer was made for him then we would accept it. £3m is a massive amount of money for us.
The amount of people losing their shit over the move is cringeworthy. I’ve seen everything from wishing him a broken leg to not renewing season tickets as it’s Celtic he is going to. Maybe I just don’t take things so seriously these days!
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If you allow your football preference influence your political preference (or vice versa) then you shouldn’t be allowed to attend football or vote.
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Every time ive been in India.Best bit of advice i got was go to a shop get 5 litres of bottled water then grab some food go back to your digs and let nature take its course.Just keep drinking the bottled water to flush yersel out and 24-36 hrs later yer good to go
I had the shits for approx 6 weeks when I first went out to India. I was getting all my meals cooked for me. I assumed they were buying from the right places (as I was giving her the dough to be able to buy from proper butchers) but turned out she was buying from local markets. I ended up getting the wife to buy food and cook, within a few days I was absolutely fine and never had it again.
The food hygiene practices in certain areas of India would give you the fear. A Scottish lad I worked with came home to find his maid defrosting a block of a dozen or so chicken breasts under the hot tap. Turns out she was doing this daily, removing one breast and refreezing the rest of them and repeating over and over...
I love seeing the programmes about the street food in the likes of Thailand, however I’m a lot more fussy now when eating abroad after living in India.0 -
If you’re going to be truthful, but constructive then fill them out. If you’re going to use them as some attempt to give someone an undeserved shoeing then just don’t bother filling them out.
I’m sure if you explain to your gaffer that you intended to over exaggerate their incompetence then they would be fine with you not filling it out.
You could also not be a shitbag and sit down and give the feedback directly to management...1 -
The simpletons are biting all over the place on Twitter. I also believe that one of my tweets has been used on a Celtic blog [emoji23]
It was good fun after a few pints yesterday.
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I’m not convinced that a “bidding war” is something that actually happens.
I reckon it’s more likely that we have a price and whoever meets that will then be allowed to negotiate with the player (if they haven’t already through the back door).
He is almost certain to be sold in this window. If we get in the region of £3m then we should be pleased. Whilst he is an outstanding talent, a club our size struggle to command large fees due to a number of factors.0 -
I get a car allowance via my work. I have been leasing a car through that scheme for almost 4 years, but I am getting dicked stupid with tax.
Looking to take the cash equivalent and buy a car. I’ve bought a couple before from Arnold Clark, but reading a few bad tales in here.
Where else can you go for a reasonable deal? I appreciate you never really get a good deal when a buying a car, generally the best you get is a deal that doesn’t completely rip you off!
I know next to nothing about cars!0
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He had been on loan at Notts County. My mate is a season ticket holder at County and wasn’t particularly impressed by him. I’m sure he lost his place in the side.
I thought he looked decent when thrown in, but doesn’t look like he has kicked on.