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Not to be facetious, but there's still plenty seats on the Megabus.

Anyone seen much of the boy Wilson at Rangers (not fir long by the sounds of it)? I know he's only 17 so I'm not expecting him to play now, but how good a prospect and what type of striker is he?

The ironic thing about a lot of American flag botherers is that they tend to breach the flag code a lot. You're not allowed to wear it as clothes, which is one in the eye to all the stars and bars hot-pants/tank top crowd.

He played for Daewoo Royals in the 90's I think. Edited to add my pttgomn. The way that pages load in this forum grinds my gears. I'll click on a page, but the adverts take a second to load, so I daren't click on anything (and the "unread posts" marker fucks off out of view) and just when I think it's safe to click on something, there's another loading of adverts and it shifts under my finger, so I find myself clicking on a fucking advert or a topic I didn't want to view. Maybe this is our dear leader @Div's way of getting us all to pay for the no adverts version. It may work as I'm slowly morphing into the angry fella from Chewin' The Fat.

Aye I guess I was thinking of the South East and you did say South West. Having visited the deep south (and it's northern chum, Montana) I wasn't remotely surprised by Trump's popularity or election. The patriotism is jarring there and it almost seemed like the south were overcompensating ("no secession to see here!!") with it. Every building, every house. All main streets. Mississippi was the weirdest, given its weight of flag shagging while having the confederate flag in their state flag. Southern England is heading that way too, but since 2014 it should be said that there are more saltires flying in gardens than there were before. It's perhaps a different flavour of patriotism, but we shouldn't get overly complacent and kid on that a'body is just a "civic" nationalist.

When was that D? I cycled through the southern states in 2014 and I was quite shocked at the amount of flags on display. It had dialled down a bit after I crossed the MD, but the southern flag shagging was intense.

This 100%. It's leakfast.

Exactly, and there wouldn't be a transfer windfall large enough to be able to change the competitive environment of Scottish football. And to the second point, the quoted article read like a propaganda piece. The fella is complaining because he can't create the footballing hedge fund he wants to and is framing it (as capitalists throughout history have always done) as backward people standing in the way of progress. Obviously there would be a short term giggle at Rangers fans crying into their pints if Ashley took over, but it would have been a terrible thing and would have cemented our league's status as an absolute joke. They would have been a feeder club for Newcastle and their identity as a club would have all but been erased (insert obvious joke here). I wouldn't wish that on any fan, but less altruistically it would threaten all of our clubs. When I heard that we were going to become a feeder club for Barnsley I was ready to pack it in. I couldn't support a club whose raison d'etre was now to provide players to fucking Barnsley. AC Milan or a La Liga outfit might change my mind, but certainly not fucking Barnsley. That's a massive riddy.

"How's you?" is quite a common question to ask and is, I find, easy to make sense of even if the conjugation is a bit avant garde for my tastes. I've never heard it just barked at somebody though. You're right, that makes little sense.

Aye there was nothing in that article that backed up the notion that this shyster could end the duopoly of the Old Firm. Taking the team with the lowest budget in the league to 5th is no mean feat, but I think Livi managed that a few seasons back iirc. Nobody would suggest that this was a harbinger of any type of regime change. He didn't say why increased transfer revenue would make the league more competitive. You're getting money, but you're losing your best players, and often to the very teams you're trying to beat to a title. Also, I'm with @Luddite in feeling a bit queasy when people start talking about football as an opportunity for strategic investors. I'm also glad that the SFA (or SPFL) stands in the way of people having a controlling share in multiple teams. Rather than being stewards of one particular team and in service to the fans of that club (stop laughing, fellow Jags fans) they would be making decisions for their whole portfolio, and your club might be 3rd or 4th in importance behind a more "profitable enterprise" (boak). I remember when a similar organisation was close to taking over Thistle and there was chat of turning us into a feeder club for Barnsley. That's what we'd be signing up for with these types of investors. I think Scottish football can definitely be marketed better, but the purpose of this has to be for the benefit of clubs, supporters and communities. I don't want it marketed just so that we can attract some sportswashing arseholes or capitalistic opportunists.

Some cereal winners there.

I had a dream last night that we were 6-0 up on these chumps by half time. I scored an absolute beauty where I chested it down then volleyed in off the underside of the bar. In the real waking world I'm utterly shiting it for this game.

I guess it's about the shared context. If I was massively into puzzles I might want to hear about someone else's sudoku game .

I agree that the desperate negative reporting of him is prejudiced based on class and race. The statement I was disagreeing with is that "the Barclays is hoaching with racism" which I took to mean top level English football was hoaching with racism, which seemed a baseless take.

I haven't checked, but given the last bus to Aberdeen in a weekday is 11.30pm I'd be e surprised if there was not a similarly timetabled bus to reekie.

Unlucky chaps. Shite way to lose. Ramsey's pelanty was shameful, frankly.

Turning into a decent game now. Only took 90 mins

Any chance we'll see Roofe soon?

You're welcome.

Fuckin hell.

Goldson continually firing his long diagonals to big Scott Wright instead of playing a wee short pass to Ryan Jack in a bit of space was getting on my nerves there. That tactic makes absolutely zero sense.

This is utter shite from Rangers. The diagonal balls from Goldson are embarrassing. Aribo looking like an utter jobber too.

Rangers need to change something here. Frankfurt starting to turn the screw a bit.

Is it just me or does lundstram not actually touch him on the head?

It's not on any kind of plain iirc. E.t.a. beaten to it by @EpicMike .