ShaggysBeard
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1 hour ago, DeeBairn said:
Thats the post i replied to originally. A Dunfermline fan mentioning a falkirk player, and nothing else. What are you doing here? Obsessed.
Livingston*
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20 minutes ago, Senor Bairn said:
That Williamson heading away as well now from that great 4th Placed 2017/18 Pars side. Shame when the little sides do well they have their team picked apart by the big boys. Real shame.
Craig Sibbald.
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13 minutes ago, Poet of the Macabre said:
I guarantee if Falkirk brought in Durnan and Devine then most of the Pars fans crying about negativity would be ripping the pish out of Falkirk fans on here. 100%.
Exactly.
Got to take other fans opinions with a pinch of salt.
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I don't mind people having negative attitudes to signings. I'd find it odd taking opinions from other sets of fans with anything more than a pinch of salt. Apart from seeing them in the odd game here and there I can only go on what they have done in their career.
Danny Devine has played over 100 games at the level above where we are, to me that's positive and promising. Especially when you consider he made a move between Premiership clubs, so at least two clubs at that level thought he was good enough for the level above what we are playing.
Mark Durnan had a successful spell at QotS under our current management team and won himself a move to the Premiership where he made himself a first team regular. It's all positive.
I'll suspend a real opinion on them until I've seen enough of them playing for Dunfermline.
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9 minutes ago, dundeeunited83 said:
Durnan is a good signing for yous, got a lot of stick from united fans, but he’s solid and wins a lot in the air, it’s when he starts to think he can pass the ball it’s gets a bit worrying but all in all he’ll do a good job for yous 100%
Sounds like it could be describing Callum Morris.
In fact, it's probably a decent general description for 90% of centre backs at this level.
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Be interesting to see what the preferred centre half pairing will be. Williamson and Ashcroft will be first choices, Longridge/Martin battle for the left back position and Devine/Durnan battle to partner Ashcroft.
Goalkeepers and defence completed I reckon. Just need about 5 midfielders and 2 strikers now.
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I imagine it comes down to wages, which is absolutely fair enough. Losing players to clubs in similar positions to ourselves is more concerning than the need to replace said players.
Realistically they shouldn't be overly hard to replace. Dundee Utd fans I wouldn't imagine to be jumping for joy landing the striker and winger from a team that barely managed to put a glove on them last season. McManus is more of a problem to replace, his workrate and defensive work so high up the pitch offered a different approach and set up that the management no longer has and a player like him is hard to come by.
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Anyone caught The Adventures of Abney and Teal?
I find myself laughing away at it.
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9 hours ago, welshbairn said:
This place is turning into Mumsnet.
I love mumsnet.
If my marriage ever goes tits up I reckon I could do some damage on mumsnet.
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Really not keen on the Hibs strip.
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16 minutes ago, staggy4life said:
Rumours of Declan McManus signing for County? What is he like? I noticed he won POTY.
I've never seen a striker cover so much ground at this level. The defensive work he does high up the pitch is incredible. He won POTY while only scoring 7 league goals. That tells a story about his game.
If the rumours are true it will be a blow to Dunfermline, especially losing him to direct competition.
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11 minutes ago, DeeBairn said:
What's the deal with his brother, I thought he'd have been going up with Livi? Has he fallen out with their board, are you guys paying him a small fortune, or has he just shat the bed at the thought of playing at a higher level.
It was a strange interview with him after signing. He said he had an opportunity to stay with Livingston to play in the top tier. A matter of seconds later he said that that is where he wants to play football and that Dunfermline is a club that can get there.
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I'm just flicking through. Looks like the same old rhetoric of Falkirk fans claiming every player leaving Falkirk to go elsewhere is murder.
Morris exploring options in England is a blow. At the age where he needs to now or it probably won't happen for him, hope he does well.
Seen Jackson Longridge play a few times and fairly pleased with him signing. I don't know much about Louis Longridge, but about as much as I knew about Declan McManus a year ago, so who knows.
Interested to see AJ's solution to replacing Clark. Is there any need to? Can Smith or Ryan fill the gap?
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9 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
I never experienced this tbh. Possibly because I'm not really a man's man and had always wanted to have kids? We never lost any sleep either which is maybe why I found it an easy transition. We're at 19 months now and she's starting to tantrum when she doesn't get her own way. The past 2 weeks with this starting have been the most difficult stage I've experienced. She's given us an extremely easy time before this.
I am probably being guilty of taking my own experiences and generalising. We had a difficult pregnancy with my first; he's a twin though his twin never made it to term and we had emergency rushes to London hospitals and that. He was delivered healthy but slightly early and tiny. He's now 5 and absolutely thriving in everything thankfully.
My second was as you describe.
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On 11/05/2018 at 19:06, Wardy said:
Wife is due 8 weeks tomorrow...still not hit me yet that it’s happening...wish me luck P&B..
I used to lock myself in the toilet pretending I was shitting just for some time to myself. I highly recommend this to all new fathers.
If we are being brutally honest the first 3 months are horrificly bad, but then it's fine and eventually it's enjoyable.
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13 hours ago, Honest Saints Fan said: yes you did!
So any advice for going from 1 to 2 folks?
I've about 20 months between mine.
I thought it was fine, you end up going to one on one parenting and it's no hassle really.
They are 5 and 3 now and the eldest keeps his brother in check a lot about behaving; my eldest is a stickler for rules and routine. They tend to keep each other entertained mostly nowadays which often make life easier.
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On 09/05/2018 at 13:44, DutchBorderer said:
They probably increased the RRP every season, if I had to hazard a guess.
But hey, where did originality run off to? The Netherlands and a number of other National Teams have the exact same motif on the sleeves, and Puma has done a similar thing for Marseille (see a bit higher up in this thread). The button on the colour looks horribly out of place, seems like it's a change for the sake of change (I mean, consumers are stupid but you still gotta throw them a bone in order for them to buy new shirts each season).
EDIT; Puma gets close to perfection for Crystal Palace (taking over from Macron), but they went way overboard on the fade. The away kit is a welcome return to the iconic sash, just a shame about the dotted red on the shoulders;
I agree with all your points on the City shirt, the buttoned collar looks very out of place. But it looks to be a move away from the skin tight football shirts which I am all for.
I think the Crystal Palace shirt is terrible. I always think Palace's colours are to vibrant it looks like a comedy football shirt. I think the same about Partick Thistle.
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It's a common misconception that Ryan Williamson cannot defend. He can. He's just an extremely proficient attacking wing back and so his defensive game gets overlooked.
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I watched the start of the Coppa Italia but the wife came home and had a moan. It's no a game I'm that into to argue too much.
Watched the highlights later on, 2 howlers. Everytime I have read about Donnarumma he has been described as some sort of superhero. Be interesting to see how he recovers from big errors in major finals.
Over 100 games for one of Europe's top clubs before you're 20 probably suggests he's strong enough to cope with it.
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16 hours ago, DutchBorderer said:
Bit of reminiscing back to a time before Lidl and Aldi too. Strip's bowfing though, looks like a toddler tshirt.
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That Dundee Utd one is quite smart
On 25/04/2018 at 21:20, Broomhill Ultra said:
Quite lovely. Black ‘underarm stripe’ not visible.Black underarm stripe?
If this was just solid colour it'd be a tough one to beat for new season strips.
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I think it was probably the best World final we have had. The opening red and clearance from Higgins to pull back to 17-16 and then the break from Williams in the final frame. 85 had drama, this had high pressure quality and drama.
2002 was probably the closest with Hendry and Ebdon exchanging frames from 14-14
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You'd still need to play as if on reds and if you pot the free ball, you'd then take any colour in the next shot as if you had just potted a red then you would be back to the lowest colour on the table.
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4 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said:
While we are doing rules queries.... you are on the yellow but snookered... but have a free ball after your opponent fouled. You nominate blue, totally miscue... it bounces off the cushion and hits the yellow.
Foul or no foul?You wouldn't be playing the colours, free ball has to be following a foul and therefore first shot of the visit. So you would always play red.
Basically you can nominate a colour which effectively becomes a red for the free ball. So you could nominate blue and play the blue onto a red potting the red, that would be perfectly legal.
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Walking Down The Halbeath Road
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Car crash of a thread this morning