Colin M
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What time is kick off by the way?
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I should be available for a game on Monday if you are short.
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The Tomb of the Cybermen
I remember reading the novelization of this one when I was a youngster - I think I'm quite likely to get it as I remember loving that. I think the Cybermen were my favourite baddies as a kid.
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Thanks guys for the suggestions - I will probably pick a couple of them. From my own browsing, Genesis did seem to be held up there as one of the best.
I own The Five Doctors which I got a couple of years ago as I remembered loving it as a kid.
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Depends what you are looking for,
personally for one story for each Doctor I'd go with, (bearing in mind that not everything is available on DVD and in the case of 100+ eps from the 60's only exist as audio)
- The War Machines
- The Mind Robber
- Carnival of Monsters
- City of Death
- Earthshock
- Mark of the Rani
- The Curse of Fenric
People will come up with different lists dependent on what they like, I'd take The Seeds of Death over The Invasion or The Androids of Tara over anything from Hinchcliffe but people would tell you that I'm insane for doing so.
Thanks
Just looking for good ones to start watching really, I would have watched it as a kid from some of Tom Baker's time up to McCoy. Have never taken the time to go back and rediscover it.
Just reading about Earthshock, I remember vaguely the last appearance of Adric and being pretty heartbroken at the time!! Looking at the dates I would have been 5 years old, but while I don't remember the detail, that character and his death have stuck in my mind.
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What would the people of P&B recommend as the best Who DVDs to get from the old series?
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Andrew weatherall.
I've got that tin, 3 great mixes on it. Always loved the Derrick Carter one.
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Pienaar was exceptional last night, up there with Hibbert, Fellaini, Jags and Jelavic for me.
I am maybe being hyper critical of Pienaar, I wouldn't fault his application last night, just felt that creatively he can be better than that - although against Man Utd it's harder for a player to impose himself on the game as much. He's a player I rate highly and I'm glad he's back at Everton.
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I thought Hibbert was the MOTM there tbh, he was absolutely immense and didn't put a foot wrong all game. Fellaini was great too but Hibbert edged it I though.
Hibbert was terrific. Jagielka had some great interventions too. To be honest the whole team put in a great shift. Only really Pienaar disappointed me at times, but that was more in an attacking sense, where he can do better.
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Fellaini was absolutely immense last night, a deserved matchwinner. Great team performance all round.
Everton have a strong settled looking team this season and are adding to it nicely. If they can continue their good start then they'll have a great year.
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Do you expect to ever see a conclusion of this investigation?
I don't.
It's as if the SFA have decided to tell Rangers they need to get some titles stripped merely to placate the bloodthirsty mob - whether they should be stripped or not!
And that's one of the most incredible things about this saga and how it's been handled - actual corruption aside (I laughed as I typed that), the authorities and it seems the SPL clubs have at every turn, got it spectacularly wrong when trying to follow "what the fans want". I am sure that many want to see Rangers suffer and die, when what everyone wants is merely to see them treated and dealt with in the same way that the rest of us would be.
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True. But given the stage we have reached, I don't think there's any avoiding it. I have no idea what the punitive response to the EBT nonsense is or should be, but given that it doubles with the ostensibly unrelated financial problems and the fact that nobody really wants to kill Rangers FC for what they've done, it's hard not to make a special case here. It doesn't sit well at all, but it is what it is.
This is where I disagree - if the consequences of their actions should result in "the killing of Rangers FC" then that is what I want to happen. It simply should not be acceptable that there are some clubs (or in this case, one club) who we cannot apply the rules to. If that is the case, then the game is rigged from the start.
However - I think that as serious as their misdemeanours are, relegation and stripping of titles would have been a sufficient punishment for me. By that token, I will be content enough if they are allowed to get on with it, so long as there is closure given if they are proven to be guilty.
I don't think it needs to be treated as a special case - it's that the default position is that we need to find a way to let them play before determining punishments that is a problem. The outcome of the EBT investigation was deliberately shelved (perhaps in the hope it would all go away on its own) and that was ridiculous. I understand why the SFA feel they have to act in a certain way now, but it's really only because they've made a monstrous fuckup of it all in the first place.
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Indeed. And the negotiations over the punishments stick in the craw too.
Can only assume that the SFA know that despite all the bluster, trying to apply the newco punishments for the misdemeanours of oldco would be open to legal challange - so to have them contractually agree to it allows them to carry on. Because otherwise as you suggest, there should be no negotiation, they should either be admitted or not, and if they are, the appropriate punishments should be applied (assuming due process is followed to determine their "guilt", of course).
Scottish Football IS a collective endeavour, but we have learned that for many of the key people involved, that extends to treating it as a partly pre-defined format where we have teams that win and others who seem to merely participate to facilitate those winners. It feels like no matter how much fans have achieved so far, the game here is going to be tainted forever unless we can removed the Old Firm from it entirely.
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And it's all over and done with. Surely?
I think the biggest issue with accepting this line though, is that assuming guilt over the EBT/registration/undisclosed payment saga, a continuity-happy Rangers almost certainly should not be playing football at all this season as suspension would seem a minimum punishment for such misdemeanours, and should consider themselves lucky to ever be allowed to play football under the SFA umbrella again.
Which makes the current plan to find a way to "let them play" while also placating everyone else as much as possible via sanctions hard to stomach.
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My club is defined, for me, by the people who support it and the people who make it what it is, and have done so over the past hundred and more years. That's what matters to me about the club, not its registration at Companies House.
I think that's something most of us would relate to.
The problem is that you can't really apply rules and regulations to completely abstract concepts.
As problematic as defining "the club" by a transfer of SFA membership is, I'm prepared to run with it - in essence, what Sevco wants to be really is still "Rangers". But a reluctant acceptance of this should come on the unshakeable condition that there is some closure achieved by the correct procedures over what has occurred with Rangers over the last ten years or so.
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Very possibly. But it shows the problems in having clubs that have no concept of PR, when issuing statements.
For no one to be able to say to Gilmour and Cameron - "look, you can't say that" is a problem.
This will be a stain on St Mirren and ICT for a long time to come. It won't be forgotten. Some Falkirk fans still hate Gilmour for his comments about Falkirk 10 years ago. Personally, those didn't bother me, as I thought he was in the right.
I despise him and Cameron now though. I'm not sure whether I'll end up goign back to watch Scottish football in the future, but I certainly won't give a penny to either club whilst Cameron and Gilmour are still there.
Gilmour has used "scaremongering" tactics in the past to reasonably good effect. Most notably when we needed council planning permission to rezone the land at Love St to make more off a sale - he got tremendous buy in from the fans to support the stadium move in general, largely by indicating we would be kaput if it didn't happen. Only the other week he was telling the world that the club would definitely be sold to overseas investors this summer if the CIC plan didn't come off. It played a part in galvanizing numbers of fans who were undecided.
I suspect there was an element of that in his statements at the weekend, to try to scare people into coming out to support. His comment about the SFL clubs was embarassing and disgraceful though. If it was an attempt at "PR" it was a shockingly ill advised one, I'm sure we'd all agree! I don't mind his view that SFL1 for "Rangers" was a decent outcome, he's entitled to that view, but to try to pin blame for any of our own problems on SFL clubs was scandalous.
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I think they were an ill thought out "Come on then" to the fans, trying to push their support into backing the club for listening to them. The timing was poor though!
I think they were genuinely shitting themselves to be honest. I think they bought into Doncaster's scaremongering, which (hopefully) will turn out to be working on behalf of Sky etc to try to honour existing deals. Now that we (think we) know what'll happen, the reality may not be so bad.
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Fans have already achieved a lot during this saga. Can we drive Craig Burley out of our game now? For Scottish Football to flourish guys like him need to be removed.
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So, SPL contracts require Rangers in the SPL in 2013/14..... so SFL1 literally needs to be rigged for Rangers to win it?!
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Celtic x2 and Rangers x1 reached the CL last 16, both OF reached the UEFA Cup Final, national team reached a Euro 2004 play-off, we qualified for U19 Euros and U20 World Cup. Won't satisfy the "when we were great" brigade, but equally, it's not really that shabby for a nation of 5M of our sort in the modern footballing environment.
It looks like Rangers were cheating and had a significant competitive advantage to "achieve" these things. Best to stop crowing about it, I'd say.
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If there are 'wealthy individuals' behind this would they not be better going on SSN. Can't remember what Brown was like as a player but I hope it was better than he is as a spokesman.
Indeed - after watching that, I'd be taking my chances with Chuck Green and co.
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B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but....... we are the people?
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Might it now benefit Rangers to vote no to joining the SPL? My understand of this would be that it would be an SPL disciplinary charge, that wouldn't apply to them if they played in the SFL. Might Rangers now be a no vote?
They are presumably also in breach of SFA rules over the contract issue. So it might be a choice - accept you have no history, or take the punishment (which should be severe).
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It was a dismal showing on my part. I may be available to relive the horror next Monday.