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Kamberi, McNulty, Docherty and McGinn are all on the bench this afternoon.

Berra's on loan. Only way that makes sense is if Hearts are still paying a hefty chunk of his wage bill because Dundee can't afford him.

I'm under the impression Jamie Gullan was promoted to the first team as a drop-in replacement for Oli Shaw, so that makes three.

Not when you take into account that McNulty's come off the bench for most of those games and played about 660 minutes of football to Kamberi's 1300. Neither are startlingly great scoring rates, mindyou, but McNulty is scoring at a higher rate.

I do appreciate a considerate spammer who actively seeks out and spams a relevant, pre-existing thread to spam in. It's a nice touch.

He's injury cover, really. It does make a kind of sense. Jason Naismith has been knocked out through injury for six months. The remaining people who can play the right back position are David Gray (who is notoriously fragile), Tom James (who is shite), Steven Whittaker (who is okay playing anywhere *but* the wing) and Tommy Block (who's just a kid from the dev team who only switched positions a month ago and probably belongs on loan in the lower leagues).

I think you somewhat invited the 'racist' accusation when you expressed a preference for wearing KKK uniforms.

After seeing off the best team in Dundee, it's time for Edinburgh's finest eleven to take on their opposite numbers in Glasgow to determine the top footballing city in Scotland. Glasgow is too poor to afford floodlights so, per Lowland League requirements, BSC Glasgow play their football in Alloa. Expect plenty of goals, a "Glasgow" team's fanbase which is half-and-half locals from up the road and folks bused in from miles away, and for the TV companies to be squabbling over the rights to screen any match involving one of the weedgie teams.

Daily Express and Evening News are reporting it too, and it's apparently because he's reluctant to move down south again. It's no surprise to me, even if some folks here don't quite get it. Hell, Salford were probably only in for Berra because all the cheaper options turned them down too. He's overpaid, got a family to support, and on the last big wage of his playing career and isn't worth what Hearts are paying him. A free transfer won't cut it, he's got a transfer value that's well into negative figures. Hearts will have to pay someone to get rid of the alberratross, despite the protestations of some folks earlier in this thread. Danny Stendel merely saying 'Chris, yir a fucken liability and you shud git yerself the absolute f**k away from the team' doesn't actually mean he's going.

Whitty was immense tonight, to be fair - the official man of the match. He's actually still a pretty good footballer, unless you actually need him to get somewhere fast.

I suspect that the hints you're looking at aren't a straight import from Dutch and the Hanseatic League, but something that came to Shetland via Norse/Norn, and where there's a common Germanic language ancestor between the Dutch, Norse and Shetland languages/dialects (and where the feature died in most English/Scots dialects). One case like that is the distinction between formal and informal you (i.e. du/dee/dy versus you/you/your). It's something you get in Norwegian and Scandinavian Languages and Dutch and even in French (tu versus vous) but somehow it failed to leak into modern English, so that it's now only ever used to give the impression of archaic speech (with 'thou').

I suspect there isn't an objectively measurable 'big difference' between such accents, so much as your ears aren't tuned to west coast accents, the way they are to those from the east. It's probably just a function of how much exposure you get to folk from those areas, or perhaps how much exposure you had when your brain was forming it's language capacity. An American or someone from Kent might well have trouble distinguishing between someone from Ireland and Scotland (and I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between an Australian and a New Zealander), whereas someone from Shetland can hear the difference between someone brought up on various islands. To prove it, here's a Shetlander singing about how indecipherable he finds the Whalsay accent.

Wasn't expecting to see Rangers accept the accolade but it's a very welcome surprise.

I just want to see one or other team shamefully horsed. Not too fussed about which one. Sadly, both teams are putting on a respectable show.

Lovely reverse through ball from Glen Kamara.

He's ditching the players he had at as fast as the HMFC HR department can fill out the P45 forms. What you're looking at is it not working with a different set of players.

That was actually Boyle. I don't know how he managed that either. If it was Kamberi, I'd understand, he'd accidentally knock the ball out of play when trying a triple-bypass stepover with a double somersault but normally Boyle merely uses the fact he's twice as fast as everyone else to get past players.

I think we need another right back thus window. If Tom James performance in the first half is anything to go by, having four of them on the books isn't enough.

Previous editions of Dead Pool clarified that not only was picking a celebrity who happened to be ill allowed, but it was encouraged, as being good strategy. It's only disallowed if the illness is their main cause for them being famous. You'll find a fair few Dead Pool picks in there who are listed as being terminally ill, but obligingly got themselves famous first.

It's certainly mathematically possible in general. It's mathematically possible for every team in the bottom 6 other than the tail-end charlie in the automatic relegation slot to finish the season on more points than every team in the top 6.

While this thread is mostly a repository of terrible puns relating to the recently deceased, the ostensible primary purpose is the running of the 'Dead Pool' game, whereby P&B users choose a number of hopefully moribund celebrities at the beginning of the year and are awarded points if said celebrities actually die in the course of the year. The comment by mathematics is pointing out that comedic actor and TV presenter Terry Jones, who had just died in the last two or three days was picked by multiple Dead Pool players. Hope this helps.

Well in this case, the timewasting worked out perfectly at the end. The fourth official added a ludicrously low two minutes at the end, and the referee blew the final whistle as quickly as possible. It's one of those 'careful what you wish for' things.

Me too, especially if it means we can offload him to Inverness Caley for triple what he's actually worth.

He's probably just pining for the fjords.