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Now I'm sure this is an old question, and been done before, and is hardly like choosing one unknown band over a massive band. However, I was watching "I Love You, Man." and Paul Rudd's character asked the question and it got me thinking. My thought straight away is that I prefer the 'Stones, but I believe most people would at least say they prefer the Beatles perhaps without thinking about it. For me, the 'Stones win by a mile, now I have no doubt that the Beatles were a revelation for their time, as were the 'Stones, but the Beatles' music sound very, very dated now, of course so does some of the 'Stones stuff, or you can at least tell it is old(ish) but I feel their songs have held up much better in time. Songs like, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Gimme Shelter, Sympathy For the Devil, Paint It, Black, You Can't Always Get What You Want and Honky Tonk Woman are just absolute belters, and compare much better to the Beatles "big hitters".

Over to you.

I felt this would be wasted in RTBC.

Couldn't see this posted anywhere else;

"Club captain and Motherwell stalwart Stephen Craigan has announced he will retire from the professional game after Motherwell’s final game this weekend.

Stephen was offered a new contract with the club but after careful consideration with his family he has decided to end his playing career after Motherwell’s most successful season and concentrate on media work. Steven is currently discussing offers from various TV and Radio stations."
http://www.motherwel...announcement-2/

His performances have been dropping off for perhaps a year, but what a fantastic servant to the club this guy has been. Truly Mr. Motherwell.

Cheers Craggs.

I made it my mission to take Unterhacing back to where they should be; the Bundesliga


The club is widely known for playing in the first-division Bundesliga alongside its more famous cousins, Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich, for two seasons between 1999 and 2001, while the bobsleigh department has captured several world and Olympic titles. The team currently play in the 3. Liga, the German third division, having been relegated from the 2. Bundesliga in season 2006–07 and then moved into the newly created 3. Liga for 2008–09 following a reorganisation of the German league system.

With their return to the 2. Bundesliga in the 1995–96 season the club would begin a period that would see them earn their best ever results. They finished 4th that season, then slipped to 6th and 11th place results in their next two campaigns before securing promotion to the top-flight Bundesliga after a 2nd place finish in 1999 season.
They went on to surprise everyone with a respectable 10th place result in their inaugural Bundesliga season and also famously played the spoiler's role in deciding who would win the championship that year. Their first Bundesliga win came in just their second match of the season, with a 2:0 victory over MSV Duisburg at home. While struggling in away matches, Unterhaching remained undefeated at home in nine games before losing 0:2 to their stronger neighbours, Bayern Munich. Prior to this loss, they had earned wins at home in matches against highly favoured teams like VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund, beating them 2:0 and 1:0 respectively. They earned their first away win in the Bundesliga by beating VfB Stuttgart 2:0 once again.
On the final matchday of the season, visiting Bayer Leverkusen needed only a draw in Unterhaching to secure their first national title, but instead went down to defeat to the determined home side. Things took a sinister turn for Leverkusen when Michael Ballack scored an own goal that put home side ahead in the 20th minute. Their title hopes ended when Haching midfielder Markus Oberleitner made the score 2:0 in the 72nd minute. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich beat Werder Bremen 3:1 at home and were able to overtake Leverkusen on goal difference to snatch away the title. With a 10th place result, Unterhaching finished ahead of long-established sides Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04. They ended the season with the league's fifth best home record with 10 wins and 5 draws in 17 matches having lost only to Bayern Munich and 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Goalkeeper Gerhard Tremmel, defender Alexander Strehmel, midfielders Jochen Seitz and Markus Oberleitner, and strikers Altin Rraklli and André Breitenreiter – who scored 13 Bundesliga goals between them that season – were among the most memorable players of a team that impressed by its discipline.
However, the start of the 2000–01 season was a nightmare for Unterhaching as they would win only one and draw two of their first eight matches. While the team went undefeated in its next six matches, they were unable to maintain that form and at the mid-season break were only out of the relegation zone on goal difference. The second half of the season was just as dismal, and although they earned wins over local rivals Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich, their campaign would end with a 16th place result and relegation.
Interestingly, as the season drew to a close Unterhaching was once again in a position to help Bayern Munich win another title. Needing only to hold second-place Schalke 04 to a draw in their final match to ensure Bayern's win, Unterhaching held 2:0 and 3:2 advantages before finally succumbing 3:5 to Schalke. Bayern then had to make their own way to the championship with at least a draw against Hamburger SV which they only narrowly managed on a Patrik Andersson equalizer (1:1) deep into stoppage time.
Ironically, in the middle of their poor season, SpVgg Unterhaching would emerge as winners of the last ever DFB-Hallenpokal, an indoor football tournament staged during the winter break of the Bundesliga season from 1987 to 2001.

The club's struggles continued after their relegation to the 2. Bundesliga. Needing an away win in their final match of the season in order to avoid being sent down to the Regionalliga Süd (III), they instead went down to a 0:3 defeat to Karlsruher SC and finished in 15th place. They re-bounded the following season, taking the Regionalliga title, and making their way back to second division competition. Subsequently, 'Haching' has delivered poor results in the 2. Bundesliga, narrowly avoiding being relegated again in both 2004 and 2006 before finally dropping into the Regionalliga in 2007, finishing 16th in the table due to FC Carl Zeiss Jena's 2–1 win against FC Augsburg.

In the 2007–08 season, the club was never really in contention for a 2. Bundesliga return but did qualify for the new 3rd Liga. In its first season in the new, nationwide 3. Liga, the club was close to promotion, but a loss 3:4-loss against Carl Zeiss Jena on the 37th matchday earned them a fall from 2nd to 4th place, and a prolonged stay in the 3rd league.

In 2009/10 the club started well, but went down the tableau during winter. 2008/09's successful coach Ralph Hasenhüttl got replaced by the 1990-world champion Klaus Augenthaler, who led the team to a finish on a secure 11th place.

Excellent news.