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I think you're forgetting Craig Curran could also win a foul pretty much anywhere he wanted.

I haven't watched the Lions much this year but I can now confirm, we won't be getting the #1 pick this year. No way that Lions team are going to pick up 2 wins from here.

It's all about execution. The Rams plan isn't a great model to follow, but they've done it well. You could argue Bill O'Brien was trying and horrifically failing at doing similar for a while by spending all of his draft picks too. Stockpiling draft picks should be a good way to build up a team, but many teams do an absolutely dreadful job of it too. Every GM thinks they're a genius, but if they're genuinely good at their job then there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Hours to go until the trade deadline. Will Watson get his move? John McClain at the Houston Chronicle (the guy who gets spoon fed by the Texans) claims Watson's trying to settle the claims so that he can move today.

That's nice of them. It's a thoroughly horrible experience at the best of times anyway.

It's a temporary ban at the moment. Essentially I've given him a time-out in the corner. Nothing has been deleted, except the "thread title" of his new thread which merged back into the Dundee Utd one. It was a lovely attack on myself and Forfinn.

Well that took a turn.

Of all our championship residing former forwards Brian Graham would be the one that would most comfortably step back up to this level again. Brian Graham > Jordan White Billy Mackay > Alex Samuel Edit: Also, P&B > OTB. Burn it, burn it now.

"Shall I go down one step, to cut out that rusty beam?" "No, no, it's perfect. The dim lighting, the shadow from the flash, the rusty steel. Just perfect."

The Adams' situation became toxic because there was two of them, and the relationship with Roy and some of the players became an "us" vs "them" mentality. I would happily take either Adams back, just not both of them.

Probably a more succinct version of what I was trying to say.

This is my view. Also, let's be honest here, he's not just one rotten egg in an otherwise perfect industry. As Yoda pointed out earlier, the game is rife with racists, bigots, homophobes, sex offenders, violent offenders and the like. And that's just the ones we know about. There will be many in the game similar to Mackay, he just happened to be stupid and careless enough to get it put out there. He's done his training and counselling, and the anti-racism campaigns are on board with him, but he hasn't publicly shown any contrition or proactively tried to atone. It's difficult, I always prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I'd rather it wasn't my club welcoming him with open arms.

9 years. You can tell because the development of the East Stand isn't quite finished in the background.

So you're saying if you make a bad choice, your best option is to double down on it instead of trying again?

Ah, the perennial flawed question. Only in football do people seem to think you need to know who you're going to give the job to before advertising, interviewing and actually knowing who'd be interested - or in fact before there's even a vacancy to fill. I don't know who we should get in instead, because I don't know who'd apply and how they would come accross. It would be the height of stupidity to keep Yogi just because hypothetically without conducting any actual process that there's no obvious name.

I'm concerned by people thinking we should keep Yogi. Truly mind-boggling. We need a full rebuild and some want those to be Yogi recruitments? Shoot me now.

If I could be arsed, it's the type of thing I'd actually be well into doing. Love me some home cooking for big groups. And I always make pretty much everything from scratch.

The other half is staying up with me this year, which justifies making more food options IMO. We're also going to have a chunk of it for dinner beforehand too. So this year we're making (all from scratch): Coconut Shrimp Chilli (mainly for Loaded Nachos) Homemade salsa & Guac (for Nachos) Loaded Nachos Polenta Chips KFC Style Chicken Blackbean Tacos Then of course we've got in pretzels, M&M's, Pringles, beer nuts and I can't remember what else from our "box of shame" that we've hidden away since New Year for a healthy & dry January. I've also opted for Bud Lite this year. We're going to take the dog up a snow covered mountain first to earn all of this...

I liked how in his interview after the Titans win, he apologised for swearing (he stopped himself halfway through saying "ass") then not 5 words later said "shit" without noticing at all.

Oh, I agree with pretty much everything you've said. It's just this point that's stuck with me, and how depressing it is that we finally found our guy and then proceeded to f**k it up quite so spectacularly. Maybe Caserio will do an outstanding job and get us back to being competitive again soon, but it feels like going for the guy we tried to get last year means no change in direction whatsoever and our downward spiral will continue even further. I do feel like we could see the squad completely gutted. Watson, Tunsil, Watt, Fuller, Mercilus... I don't think anyone's off the table.

I've got to say, the last couple of seasons have not been fun. There's an argument to be made for us going scorched earch and full rebuild, but teams can get stuck for years waiting & trying to pick up a QB the calibre of Watson. Look how many attempts the Browns have had and Baker's still not exactly top 5. It's a huge risk. It's just depressing that the Texans have yet again fucked something up. Hopefully Casserio and Watson can get on the same page despite Cal's best efforts.

I was thinking "I did this not that long ago". I was right, if "not that long ago" was 2013...

I fear I've just been downgraded to being a less frequent poster. I never even noticed we'd got this far into the season without a Last Man Standing (blame @Swarley) More worryingly, I've gone a whole season so far without posting a Nicolas Cage gif