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18 hours ago, 2426255 said:
Fair play to him for resigning - pretty unusual in modern times. I stand by what I've said throughout, I like the guy even if it hasn't worked out well. He's straightforward and honest, no mucking about. When he came to the conclusion he wasn't the man for the job, he took the honourable course of action and stepped aside.
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Bob's putting has always been hot and cold but this is something else. Completely losing it just when he moved to the States full time is brutal timing. Get Pete Cowen in for some lessons!
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68006183
Nick McPheat trying to be funny, explaining "tinpottery" and hastily throwing together some crowdwanking and stale tales - before us fans get to vote on the "Ten Biggest Clubs". Top quality licence-fee funded content!
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9 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:
Bump.
Anyone except number 8 please.
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40 minutes ago, Boghead ranter said:
There was a bit I caught last nighg where he used "big big" 3 times in under a minute.
Yes, that's the only superlative he seems to know. "Kenny Mac" is a big, big irritation on the radio and a big, big waste of the license fee.
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8 hours ago, johnnydun said:
It's not me, it's you.
Very strong, 'Ross County were shite before I joined, you can't blame me.' Vibes.
Contradicting his recent comments when he was hinting he hadn't done his homework and if he'd known, he might not have taken the job - now the line is he knew how difficult things were at Ross County Football Club and isn't surprised. As ever, he delivers his "not my fault" message with that trademark smirk on his eminently slappable coupon.
Brings back strong memories of Gary Caldwell's dismal time at Firhill when he was coming out with things like "I played for Scotland, I can't relate to these championship-level players".
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3 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
All 3 surely?
Yes. Hibs, Dundee and Partick Thistle.
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7 minutes ago, OhnononoGeordieMunro said:
Bit more nuanced than that mate. If you look closely I'm sure they are deliberately aimlessly kicking it in the general direction of Miovski in the hope that it bounces off Soutar or Goldson and ends up in the net. Tactical masterclass and just wait till it pays off.
That analysis...
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Wow. Someone at Ibrox pulled the plug on the Sportsound feed when that went in!
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On 05/02/2024 at 20:04, DiegoDiego said:
The only reason there's any religious connotations with the word *** is because Rangers and The Rangers have consciously fostered a religious identity in the club/company, to the point where anything negative whatsoever said about them can be claimed to be a result of sectarianism.
They have been the ones encouraging this, not the rest of us.
Interestingly, the historic H*** were very successful for around a hundred years - especially against their Roman foes - but ultimately their power, prestige and civilisation (such as it was) collapsed and they sort of liquidated themselves, leaving very little trace (although some successors claimed continuity to give themselves legitimacy).
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50 minutes ago, lichtie23 said:
Hopefully plays sawgrass as well
He's not currently in the field for Sawgrass (only qualified so far for the Open this year - no elevated events or the three other majors):
However, he just got in this week - come on Bob!!!
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16 hours ago, tarapoa said:
He's also got previous with McInnes (who apparently dislikes him a lot).
Remarkable stuff. The smirk on Warnock's face at the end rounds it all off. Would be good entertainment to see some needle between him and McInnes now that the bold Neil is up here.
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16 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
He’s 5th reserve for the Phoenix so he obviously wants to play but doesn’t actually qualify. Infact the other reserves are all DP World Tour guys which is making me think this “full card” is a bit of a sham and they are at the very bottom of the pecking order. You even have sponsors invites and old duffers in the field before them.
I’ll assume based on that, that these guys have no chance of featuring at The Players etc unless they win one of the shitey events somewhere down the line.
Yeah, I just saw that info on the Bob Mac tracker on Twitter. Don't know who runs it but at the start of the month they were expecting him to play Phoenix. As you say this shows that the full card isn't really that at all - the DPW guys must be way down the exemptions list to not be in a 132 player field! I'm not surprised he doesn't fancy the Monday qualifiers either, given his form atm.
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On 03/02/2024 at 11:49, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
Bob not playing this weekend or at the Phoenix next weekend. What events does his card actually allow him to compete in? Seems a bit counter productive going over there if he’s missing all the better events.
Very surprised and disappointed that he's not playing Phoenix as you'd expect Bob to enjoy and thrive in that raucous atmos. Either he doesn't qualify (unlikely as he has a full card and his world ranking is still decent - Pebble is a small field) or he's maybe decided his putting is so calamitous that he needs more time to work on it?! Think I read somewhere that he'd flown home after the last event?
Just checked and this Hootsmon article had him likely playing Phoenix in terms of early season plans - so looks like a mysterious change of schedule:
MacIntyre is wasting no time in making full use of his new status. In addition to the Sony Open in Honolulu, he’s also teeing up in The American Express and Farmers Insurance Open then taking a week off back in Orlando before the WM Phoenix Open, Mexico Open, Cognizant Classic, Puerto Rico Open, Valspar Championship, Houston Open and Texas Open all look set to be on his early-season schedule. “Well, you have almost been given a golden ticket and, for me, it is like a free shot at the PGA Tour,” said the Scot. “Go and get your card secured up by August and then come back to the DP World Tour and then, hopefully, you play well and secure that card.”
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1 hour ago, Dunning1874 said:
It's always felt likely that Uncle Neil would turn up as Morton manager eventually, but the job isn't going to be available any time soon so fair enough and very interested to see how this goes.
The interim appointment until summer approach and that being Warnock just seems a bit of a weird one from Aberdeen's perspective. If you're doing such a short term appointment and have no intention of keeping this manager in place into next season, why go and get such an established and presumably expensive name like Warnock when any bang average jobber should be able to steer Aberdeen comfortably away from the bottom two - they're not really in any danger of it as it is - and compete for the top six? I do understand the thought process of not wanting to tie down a manager long term when you're reviewing everything off the park and not wanting a manager who's not compatible with whatever structure you end up with off the park, but you could easily end up in the scenario where, like Robson, your interim appointment does so well that you can't justify appointing anyone else and you end up in the same cycle.
It's hard to see how a long term process can end with a better idea than wads of cash convincing Alex Neil that he does want to come back to Scotland after all, but he's likely going to get another English job before the summer.
Agree with all this - it's very short-termist from Aberdeen and unclear why they need a big name at presumably a high cost to try to finish in a respectable position, with 3rd gone. Bit surprised Warnock seems to be taking it, as he's basically semi-retired and like you, I thought if he took any Scottish gig it would be Morton, which is closest to his Dunoon stomping ground (he can see Greenock from his favourite rain-lashed boggy Argyll golf course).
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1 hour ago, LuboMoravcik said:
Shinnie and Devlin are a pair of cheats.
Taking the 1-1 draw which should have been a Celtic loss well, I see.
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This is an extremely pleasing result, well done the Dandy Dons. You were unlucky not to win. Celtic should have had a man sent off, so there is clearly some kind of conspiracy going on in their favour IMO.
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1 hour ago, The Moonster said:
Garcia deserved both barrells tbf. He was acting like a spoiled child the whole time and continues to feel entitled to absolutely everything.
Nah. Sergio is petulant, spoiled, badly behaved and frankly seems a bit unstable (that has always been the case, all through his career, and hot-headedness is one of the things which made him interesting) but he is also Europe's greatest Ryder Cup player of all time, and deserved some respect based on that, if nothing else. When he left for LIV (a bad look, I agree; LIV is rubbish and he did it for the money) he was not only fined and condemned by his peers but was essentially cut off/ghosted by Rory on a personal level, even though Rory was best man at his wedding. Rory now suddenly says no one should be fined after all, LIV players should be eligible for the Ryder Cup, and the two of them appear to have made up when Sergio reached out. Rory must be a poor judge of character (or have been totally blinded by PGA Tour zeal) to have gone from close friends/best man to hating Sergio for going to play golf somewhere else he didn't approve of.
I don't think Sergio deserved all the slagging. I do agree with you that the guys who went to LIV first, basically as a final huge pay off late in their careers, copped far more heat than Rahm, Hatton or Meronk are now. The latter are still stepping away from proper tour golf and bagging masses of Saudi cash. Meanwhile, the European / Dubai Ports tour is a hollowed out shell and the golf world is in flux.
Hopefully this is all sorted out soon and a unified approach with various different backers can be agreed. The politics of it all are so, so boring at this stage.
PS Sergio winning the Masters remains in my Top 3 favourite majors along with Lyle '88 and Stenson '16 (another LIVver - boo, hiss, etc.).
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12 minutes ago, Ro Sham Bo said:
I have to laugh at McIlroy's backtracking on LIV now that some of his mates are signing up.
He's in an impossible position given how things have developed but yeah, having to admit to major u-turn now as he wants Rahm and Hatton on his RC team is a honking look. No one should be fined for returning to Rory's tour(s) now. He obviously thought he could give Westwood, Garcia etc both barrels because they were too old for his future RC teams.
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11 hours ago, Ignoramus said:
Pavon looks like he’s about to win the Farmers here which shows what can be done for Bob as he was a solid DPWT player for years who had a good year and is now about to cash in on a good week in the States. As said, his putting was already a major weakness and it is one which will be even more harshly punished over there with those courses.
I don't think the week-in week-out PGAT courses have more difficult greens than the Euro tour, and Bob has been an excellent putter in the past (e.g. his two Masters appearances on genuinely scary greens). The worry is that he has lost it just now to the point that it's a liability so everything depends on if/how fast he can get that touch back. If he can't do that soon then he won't make cuts and this will be a single season in the states.
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DA pre-match today:
"we've got players making their debuts for the first time"
"you can't deal with the past"
"football's simplistic".
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On 21/01/2024 at 21:45, Stylish Kid said:
Yeah.... I mean Bartley basically has criminal conviction in "not being a nice guy"....
Two wrongs don't make a right (Tam was forced to apologise on air for his attacks on Bartley from his BBC pulpit, albeit in a mealy-mouthed insincere way) and there's quite a lot of background with Eilidh Barbour and others walking out of Tam's staunch pal's off colour "comedy" routine at that awards event.
On 24/01/2024 at 22:09, Stylish Kid said:Nah I think there's many things to criticise (mainly his now-weekly snidey comments about women or some other marginalized group you aren't allowed to joke about), but use of the word "raker" is absolutely fair and good to use
Aaaaahh, OK. Cool...
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30 minutes ago, Brian Carrigan said:
This is another field where the top league falls drastically short compared to the lower leagues. A bunch of homunculi compared to what we have down our ends.
- Josh Rae -
- Adam Corbett - Tom Lang - Craig Watson - Robbie McIntyre -
- Kris Syvertsen (legacy pick) - Joe McKee - Robbie McNab - Andy Murdoch -
- Ouzy See - Brian Graham -
Read it and weep, uggos.
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Greenock Morton v Motherwell
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Just caught the end of this. Great result for Morton. Cappielow looked great on telly. It'd look even better with the big crane lit up in the background.
Kettlewell looks like de Gea going to a Halloween party as a half arsed Dracula.