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Clearly Dimitar Berbatov Pretty sure that's Julian Speroni in the distance over his left shoulder anaw.

Toleman/Benetton/Renault/Lotus/Renault/Alpine must take some beating. Jordan/Spyker/Force India/Racing Point/Aston Martin - close, but no cigar.

My post probably sounds like I'm much more judgemental that I am in reality. It's not my intention at all to belittle or berate anyone, but it's not easy to put that across in type. I had to make some serious decisions about my own career for the sake of mental health, so I totally get where you are coming from in that regard and I completely respect your decision and choice to do what you are doing. Is great that you have a supportive family, because one of the reasons I am no longer with my ex is that both she, and especially her family made it quite clear to me that I had 'let them all down' and fallen short of expectations by refusing to continue in a post that was rapidly killing me. I suppose where I really am is that I don't understand people who have this as an ambition and actively seek to do it from the moment they leave school, them complain that they are up shit creek when their partner and cash cow suddenly decides they are no longer interested in maintaining the status quo. People who opt to do it in circumstances that allow for it is fair enough, provided they are aware of the potential consequences, and you appear to be going into it with your eyes wide open, so good luck to you.

Big fan of 3 2/3rds myself. None of this new fangled decimal pish.

When you win the toss, put the opposition in, and they promptly skelp you around at 4 an over.

Possibly why I find it an odd proposition, because despite being 50+ myself, my own mother, and every other woman in my family of a similar age or younger kept a full-time job throughout their entire lives, regardless of having a working husband and children or otherwise. I've lived with a woman for decades, been married, both of us worked, both of us had short periods where we were between jobs. That relationship ended amicably after decades, which just confirmed for me what I've always thought, namely - 1. Relationships are soluble, all of them, and they can come to an end rather quickly no matter how invested and committed both of you are, so people who are convinced their relationship is 'forever' are, at best, naive. 2. because of 1, it seems to me that anyone who willingly gives up their own financial independence to live on the earnings of another is being hugely irresponsible, especially so when it means that after years and years your skills and knowledge are so degraded that you'd be looking at stacking supermarket shelves, (not that there is anything inherently wrong with that, it's purely a point about income), as your likely best means to feed yourself, and also, once you are no longer in a relationship with someone, even someone that you have known, loved, and trusted implicitly for years, the dynamic shifts considerably. They are no longer your 'partner' and owe you absolutely nothing, so I can't understand why people are shocked that a former partner who they always maintained would 'look after them' suddenly has zero interest in being generous and giving them anything more than the bare minimum they are legally obliged to. I wouldn't say that I 'worry' as such that it might happen, more that I think it's a total abdication of personal responsibility to yourself to voluntarily put yourself in an extremely vulnerable position, especially if you do it outside of the legal status of marriage because you could quite feasibly find yourself out on your ear after decades with absolutely nothing, whether you are male or female. Again, as much as I see the attraction of a relatively leisurely life and as much as I understand how many jobs are utterly soul-destroying, I think you owe it to yourself to ensure that your future is as protected as it can be from all contingencies, rather than just adopting a head in the sand attitude to what could, conceivably, happen down the line just because it's convenient at the moment. If you are fortunate and have the legal protection marriage affords, you perhaps have an ownership stake in a property with enough accrued equity that you would still be able to afford another home in the even that your current was sold and the proceeds split, you have significant savings, a career that you can carry on at home irrespective of time required to devote to childcare, could conceivably afford private childcare should you find yourself a single parent, or you are just enormously independently wealthy and will never actually need to work to support yourself, then I can see why becoming a stay at home parent might be attractive, but people who choose to do it outside of marriage, or perhaps when they are young and have skills that will not stay relevant with passage of time, have no savings, or go into the relationship with nothing and expect to be kept in their relationship-state standard of living after it ends, or actually set out with the intention of finding someone to be in a relationship with who has the means to 'keep' them out of sheer laziness, no, it's a total abdication of personal responsibility, and I can't muster any sympathy for them when it predictably ends in disaster.

That is odd, but not as odd as what the hell he was doing receiving a short goalkick from the keeper.

The thought of sitting around on my arse all day with nothing more than a few household chores to do is appealing, but the prospect of giving up my career to be financially dependent on someone who can change their mind on a whim is a total no go. I've never understood women who do it, and then somehow act like they had no agency when they find out the husband has been shagging someone else and she's going to end up homeless, jobless, skint, and lumbered with a screed of bairns, so there's no way I'd ever put myself in that position. People who think they are safe just because their relationship has been solid and predictable to that point and 'they'd be decent if we split up' are delusional.

Yep, this. English, and most of Continental Europe's player contracts run a month longer than Scots, plus I think we'll likely be signing players right up until the end of August anyway. I'm not worried in the slightest yet.

Yeah PC. You can pick up ACC for about a fiver now.

I like Assetto Corsa Competizione for my racing fix. The physics are much improved over the original game. I still play GTR II/GTR Evo/Race 07 as well, because despite being prehistoric it's one of the few driving sims where the setup changes actually do what they do in real life, so if something is not right it's usually easy enough to diagnose and correct, and you can make small tweaks to Diff etc just to suit how you personally prefer to approach certain tracks. Rfactor is decent as well, it's creaky as hell nowadays but I still play it for the WSC 1970 mod and stuff.

Is this thread intended to be for, or about, weirdos?

Bit odd they discouraged him from kicking because of his build. There have been plenty of successful 6'+ kickers down the years. I can only think that's possibly down to him having enormous feet, because the size of the contact spot with the ball is hugely important and that must be difficult if you wear like size 14's or something. Less so with Punting because the ball is reclined backwards so the contact patch is much larger in any case.

Mad considering there used to be squares at both ends of Dawson Park. Played for Kingsway a few times in the main bit of the park, and I'm sure it was either Forthill 2nd's/pick-up team or Grove Academy who used to play on the pitch at the far end. Incidentally one of the two venues where I've witnessed a boundary fielder header the ball for Six

Luncarty in Perthshire used to be similar. Absolutely certain it was Luncarty. Local Fire Station's yard was situated almost entirely within the boundary and you could basically nurdle it for Six. Similar story at Rossie Priory if the strip was on the 'coo field' side of the square. Flick it off your hip about 30 yards for Six. I turned up for a midweek match in Montrose once to find the 'outfield' hadn't been cut in what must have been weeks. It was an artificial wicket at the time, so no actual square, just the strip itself then a 4 inch deep carpet on either side that continued all the way out to the fence by the road. Being a midweek game it was the height of summer when the grass grows about an inch in a day. Any time the ball pierced the infield there was an inquisition to figure out where it had gone, helpful spectators pointing in the general direction from about 50 yards away, batsmen must have had a record number of all ran 4's that night. Just a total farce from start to finish. Got to the point where nobody was actually trying to hit the ball hard, because you got better value for your shot just tickling it into a gap because if you lost sight of it for a moment you had no idea where it was.

Back in the day, Father would wake us up an hour before we went to bed, beat us round head wi broken bottle, make us lick t'road clean wi tongue... etc etc

Freezing cauld showers and wheeching dog dirt off the square were the one constant. They council rendered the lower-most pitch unplayable by deciding to cut the strips perpendicular to the direction they'd always been. That was a belter. Cannae beat cricket on a 1 in 3 slope in Kirriemuir for tinpottedness though.

If i had off the scale wealth i'd put millions/billions into scottish cricket just for a laugh. You'd never see a return on it money wise, but having seen how financially tinpot Scots cricket is at all levels despite it being arguably our #2 sport, it would give me an enormous sense of satisfaction to know that more teams had proper kit, better playing fields, sight screens, a bit of actual coaching and so on. I walked past Leith Franklin playing a match the other day on a council pitch that has a concrete and tarmac path running right through it. Its not in the outfield either, from one end the Point fielder is usually on the opposite side of it from the batsman. I saw some sights in terms of shitty playing conditions back in the 80's and 90's but nothing as ridiculous as that. Beggars belief that there is so much enthusiasm for cricket in Scotland yet its played in 3rd world conditions.

For a moment i thought that was 4 metres x 4 metres and thought "yaaaaaasssssss!!!!!!"

Tangerine?

No if he's another weirdo red sock advocate. The club needs to issue a formal STATEMENT on this IMO. There should be a special section in the main stand for all the loons who like red socks so they can all sit together and indulge their bizarre fetish and leave us normal, right-thinking people in peace.

Good professional job

That deep outfield by the boundaries looks like it's made of concrete and razor blades. No chance I'm diving about on that

UAE were just starting to get something going and Khan throws away his wicket. Should wrap this up from here.

Not much in the way of contribution from Jack Jarvis. Mibbe time to give Victor McDade a spell in the side?