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We're you blootered when you wrote this? He's shite and has the heart of a pea. A fit again Forrest and a happy Fraser would be smashing. We could play my beloved 4-5-1. (Homer Simpson drooling gif)

I agree with that. The descent itself wasn't a misstep. Plenty predicted that. I personally don't think it was done that well, but in the context of the entire cavalcade of shite writing it's sma' tatties. Jamie giving it "I never really cared for them anyway" line made a joke of his entire story. I'm not sure how much Martin had to do with the plot beats. I want to slate D&D for eliminating the Night King, having Aria kill him and Bran being king, but I have a feeling that Martin had a hand in some of it. The Night King was the most powerful and fascinating antagonist in the whole thing and they had him killed by someone who just switched dagger hands. Very. Slowly. As has been said before. f**k off. Anyway. I thought the most GRRM ending would have been the Night King sitting beside a recently Weighted Danarys. Either that or an alive Jon Snow. Or Tyrion. It didn't matter at the end tbh.

The thing about that though is it becomes too much of an opportunity for Deus ex machina if she can become just anyone and would be unsatisfying and a bit too "mission impossible". She had the thickest of thick plot armour too and was ludicrously unkillable. I think that her list should have been part of her character arc. As a child she was motivated by revenge, hence the list. She then goes to train as a faceless man so that she can then enact her revenge. While training she learns humility and service to something greater, so let's go of her childish need fir revenge. She then stays to further serve and train others. Arc complete. She was cutting about with nothing to do when she came back. And she killed the night king, with whom she had no previous connection. f**k off.

Never heard anyone humming, but that's probably because I'm whistling so loudly. Laudable behaviour, imo.

I still don't like to be reminded of the relegation playoff in 1996. All other relegations have been inevitable and deserved (including the one you mentioned), but hearing the name Brian Welsh lowers my mood. I know many Scotland fans who are still sore about the Italy game in 2007. It sounds like you don't understand what stories and fiction can mean to people. The anger is more like irritation than anything else. There isn't anyone organising protests about it, but people investing in stories, especially fantasy worlds, is a beautiful and powerful thing. It involves the vulnerability of allowing others to take you on a magical journey, off on an adventure. It is important and, like in any relationship (for that is what we have with the creators and characters) we want that trust to be respected, and the world and stories to be treated as important. Benioff and Weiss didn't honour the world that much (too much thick plot armour, too many characters being stupid) and rushed the ending as they wanted to move on to other things. Martin giving it to them was a mistake. So aye, not verge of tears territory, but proportionately rattled .

Thanks for that. So perhaps there's barely a fag paper between our leagues then. The OP of this particular debate was saying that ours is much better but his supporting evidence was rubbish. I seem to have been talking pish about their league being better if the coefficient isn't too different.

Aye I reckon he's afraid that if he comes out and says that there will be no more books then it's over for him, so he has to keep posting deadlines that he'll never meet (while getting pissy at fans for criticising this) or distracting people with "look, some of those dragons you like!!" or "remember Jon Snow? Here he is again!!(cue applause)" type projects. I think you're right though. He doesn't have the energy, and he might not even know how to finish them. Perhaps one day Brandon Sanderson will get round to finishing them. Nobody will care by then. To the bit in bold, studios seem to be staffed by children these days who go into full blame and deflection mode when their projects aren't popular. Toxic fans, trolls and misogynists/racists are terms frequently wheeled out to gaslight those who know shite writing or disrespect of the world and lore when they see it. I suspect that "toxic fans" (i.e. those who care the most about the world and lore and don't want to be treated as mere customers) will be blamed if either of the spinoffs fail to take off.

The writing and acting of Homelander is incredible. He's a panto villain in that he is obviously awful, but I love seeing him on screen. I know he's capable of absolutely anything and that scene he had with Maeve when he dared her to show the video ("I want to be loved, but if I can't, then I'll be geared") was spine tingling. Aye the boy who plays him is obviously having a whale of a time doing it. The cast is perfect. Esposito is one of my favourites and I pure fancy Victoria Neumann. Aye I can't wait to watch the next episode.

Amazing how worked up people can get about a TV programme. You're on a forum for folk who get worked up about men booting a ball around a field. Sit Doon with that reductive pish. Studios in general and GRRM in particular have been utter shite at reading the room. They seem to believe that because people loved GoT that they'll love any content related to it and should just consume it without question. I stopped giving much if a shit in series 6 but series 7 destroyed any lingering goodwill and patience towards the series. It's remarkable how a cultural phenomenon could go from being ubiquitous and beloved to loathed or forgotten so quickly. Martin seems more interested in conventions and daft wee side projects than putting in the spadework to finish the books. He also misunderstands his relationship with fans. Fans have invested in the world and story he created, not in him or the GoT brand. Fans don't give a shit about prequels now when he flubbed the series (TV and books) so badly. Having a Jon Snow series makes little sense. His character stopped developing after he was resurrected and he was just so badly written from about series 6. But TV series are seen as franchises now and viewers seen as mindless consumers who should be satisfied with the dopamine hit of mere recognition and nostalgia.

Gretna getting to the 2006 Scottish cup final meant that the Scottish first division was every bit as good as the SPL that year. This is the logic you're employing here when you use Rangers' appearance in the final as some sort of indication of superiority of the league in which they play. The Austrian league is better than the top tier in Scotland by any metric not requiring a time machine. Their top team is better than our top team. Their third best would comfortably beat Hearts. It's been pointed out that their coefficient is better than ours. You doubling down with such verbosity is a sight to behold.

That's an outstanding post mate, thank you. Lots to dip my toes into, that's for sure. Thanks a bunch for taking the time to do this.

I was so focused on the "low and behold" that I failed to first of all notice the "should of". Nice

Your linguistic fastidiousness is making you bias against alot of words. You'll have to re-sign yourself to being exposed henceforth to several examples, pacifically in the SPL forum. Have a lovely day amigo.

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I think it's the way forward. I might start doing that for home games too

Didn't mean to quote you but my phone won't let me delete, although it is germaine to my overall point. Obviously it's generally easier to play against 10 men (in theory, at least) but we were beginning to dominate and put together some lovely play in the last third. I felt that a goal was inevitable, whether the man got sent off or not. The sending off is being seen as a separate event when I think it can be viewed as a result of this attacking superiority. I only joined after 25 mins, but we were winning everything in midfield at that point and starting to get into gear. They were always going to resort to fouling so a card for them was an inevitable consequence. It was a good performance from a tired (apart from McGregor, who never tires apparently) squad.

Absolute state of this. It's "I've never been Clarke out and am still urny". Sorted.

Oh don't get me wrong. I'm still in a huff over the Ukraine result.

Gordon. Souttar Hanley. Tierney Patterson Gilmour Calmac McGinn Robbo. Armstrong. Adams.

After this window I am increasingly of the desire to have our players play in any league other than the English top tier. It's a league that relies so much on athleticism that our players were exhausted by the end. Hanley is a rapid defender but was outpaced by a sloth like Yarmolenko. Granted, the lack of doping controls will have been a factor there, but he looked fucked tonight too

We were utter shite in Eire and against Ukraine, but we did what we needed to do tonight. I wonder if other nations who win 4-1 away from home have as critical a support. Probably tbf. E.T.A the defensive shape was a bit funny, but we were hit by injuries/marriages so had to put out what we could. It's an international at the end of a hard season. If we'd beaten Eire we probably wouldn't be nitpicking this result.

Their centre forward is, thankfully, dugmeat.

A bit unsporting of these Armenian fellows not opening up a bit more at this stage.

Piece o piss lads.

A lot of hysteria on this thread. It's an end of season game and, sing it with me, there are no easy games in international football. Our midfield have looked very tidy and even before the sending off a goal for us felt inevitable. John McGinn channeling Jamie Dolan (one for Jags fans over 30...and Ayr fans) to get the boy sent off was both embarrassing and wonderful shithousery.