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Aladdin

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  1. 1 minute ago, Granny Danger said:

    Delighted with the point which we probably didn’t deserve based on the performance.  Liam Smith has come on to a game and Niskanen continually looking dangerous.  I wonder how long Levitt will be out this time.

    Courts needs to have a word with Watt.

    I don't think Watt and McNulty work. Watt looked like he wasn't interested in linking up in the second half and threw a huff, trying to do it all on his own.

  2. 2 minutes ago, virginton said:

    Ukraine can't join NATO though so long as it claims territory that it has no practical sovereign control over - that is to say, a monopoly of force.  There is absolutely no chance of Germany for example signing up to revive the ghosts of 1941-45 on that basis. 

    A frozen conflict is enough to effectively bar Ukraine from membership. 

     

    1 minute ago, welshbairn said:

    Ukraine wasn't about to join NATO, it would require the agreement of all 30 members which wasn't going to happen, It's like the fiction that Turkey was about to join the EU and flood Britain with 80 million immigrants.

    I agree, I simply meant concerns in abstract. There wasn't any realistic possibility of Ukraine joining Nato but the West didn't want to capitulate to Russian demands over who could and couldn't join.

    Which makes Putins actions even less justifiable given the concern was not realistically going to come to pass.

  3. 12 minutes ago, Detective Jimmy McNulty said:

    Some quite strange dismissals of NATO expansion and Anglo-American military adventurism here like they're not a factor.

    Whilst you can just about understand Russian concerns about Ukraine joining Nato, doing the thing that makes Ukraine want to join Nato isn't really the right way to go about resolving said concerns.

  4. I wouldn't say a TRT prescription is the equivalent of anabolic steroid abuse.  It just pumps the test levels back up to where they would have been aged 18-21, a world away from the stacks pro bodybuilders and some athletes are on.

    Vlads just a jacked white boy who honed his muscles doing judo with bears in a Russian forest.

  5. Although the more conspiratorial among us would believe this was the outcome the US wanted, hence attempts to bait Russia into a conflict, it is a bit surprising Germany has taken such strong action when, essentially, Russia probably hasn't yet overstepped the mark in terms of resolving this diplomatically.

    Very unclear if Putin is playing 4D chess or if yesterday's press conference was a Kevin Keegan-esque heads gone and he has completely miscalculated the situation.

  6. 2 hours ago, Pat Boon said:

    Excuses in early then? Pitch had nothing to do with how the game played out. Thistle were superior today. One strike won it for United who were totalky outplayed.

    Going...

    1 hour ago, Pat Boon said:

    Injuries? More likely to be committed by the twin thugs Edwards & Butcher on the oposition. Pitch was the same for both teams knob end.

    Going...

    1 hour ago, Pat Boon said:

    Yes, yes afterwards ya fud

    (Heads) Gone.

  7. Graham isn't Baresi (or Mulgrew) with the ball at his feet but he seems to do the basics of defending well enough.

    Hasn't shown the flashiness of Neilson but, in his 3 and a bit games, hasn't yet been completely caught out like Neilson has at times.

    Certainly enough shown by both of them to be optimistic that we have home grown replacements for Edwards and Mulgrew in time.

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