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Indeed. There is a dangerous kind of simple-minded Power/Precision worship at the root of the massive fascination with pro football in this country, and sportswriters are mainly responsible for it. With a few rare exceptions like Bob Lipsyte of The New York Times and Tom Quinn of the (now-defunct) Washington Daily News, sportswriters are a kind of rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks whose only real function is to publicize & sell whatever the sports editor sends them out to cover.... Which is a nice way to make a living, because it keeps a man busy and requires no thought at all. The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph. Chris Jack meet Hunter Thompson.

What a c**t. I'd wildly celebrate his death. Top off, waving it round my head show of emotion.

No DABS at Dens. Thank you

The sport hacks, tv pundits and radio presenters/reporters calling the Premiership the 'SPFL' is a regular occurrence. Absolute riddys.

Put the pitchfork away. If you see objectionable content report it and leave it to the moderating team. Between us and Div we'll decide who gets banned. The guy was warned, it's up to him how he posts from now on.

I would guess that also, probably wanting to see how many people are going to say "Don't go Brian, we love you" but the general consensus seems to be "Aye? Cheerio."

Dan Seaborne signed two days before Thistle's season started and had an immediate impact. It's arguably better to sign late on and let a player have a full pre-season with the club he's coming from, than sign someone mid-way through when they're in between regimes. As Thistle have one of the smaller budgets in the league, they will find better value closer to the window closing. They're not going to be relegated by 1 September. It's worked before. I'm sure some will be reassured to learn that Scott Fox had a less than favourable pre-season debut (snatching badly at his kicking, letting in a goal low at his near post), then seemingly conceded a pen in his other game with a clumsy challenge. The comments about his wage and accommodation are scarcely believable though.

Outs Kyle Letheren Iain Davidson Kyle Benedictus Willie Dyer Jamie Reid Kevin McBride David Clarkson Paul Heffernan Martin Boyle Stephen McGinn (Likely) Jim McAlister (Likely) Craig Wighton - On Loan Ins David Mitchell Kevin Holt Daryll Meggatt Julen Etxabeguren Leanizbarrutia Nicky Low Nick Ross Rory Loy Kane Hemmings

You've spelled Deirdre wrong.

Chris Jack on Twitter when Rangers score- G-G-G-G-G-G-G-GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL When the other team scores. 0-1.

I assure you the above joke would have been a belter had this been 1991.

I'm being kind here by calling him a journalist, but the geezer that runs the 'Scotzine' fanzine. What an absolute simpleton. A foaming at the mouth, lunatic of a boy.

Some awfy long posts on this thread. Even Born_Hoopy's link is a TL:DR moment. Good reads and decent debate material here, just a wee bit long guys. Makes a change from some of the cr@p on the BRALT, though...... .

I've no clue what you're trying to say here, but I like it.

A locked BRALT may be a good opportunity to spin-off one of the major symptoms of malaise, and look at the facts without the usual partisan mud-slinging. Or perhaps not. Here's a take on the finances at Rangers, seeking to make some estimates on viability. I have disregarded everything that Dave King has had to say on the matter, and am using rough figures elsewhere. I am taking the end of July as the point at which the great majority of ST income has been received. In season 2014-15, the money looked like running out sometime around the end of October. A net surplus from the 2014 share offer of around £3m seemed to tide the club over for a couple more months. This is consistent with the initial Ashley loan, the Lewis Macleod money, the subsequent "first tranche £5m" Ashley loan and the 2 or 3 loans at £1.5m: by which I mean that each £1m appeared to tide Rangers over for a little under one calendar month. This is also reasonably well correlated with what appears to be the burn rate from recent years' published accounts. Last season's ST money, apparently starting from just about zero as evidenced by the bridging loans to get to ST time, seemed to be enough to cover about 3 or 4 months of operating. That seems just about right as the initial share offering money had covered the ST deficit for 2 seasons, and last season's ST income (and hence "ST months") could plausibly have been lower. So maybe each of the 2 previous seasons was financed at something like 5 months by STs, 7 months by the IPO. I don't claim the accuracy of some experts on here, but I do claim not to be pushing the figures in either direction, according to any agenda; and I further claim to have sanity-checked the rough figures using more than one metric. In rough numbers, STs appear capable of bringing in around £10m p.a; and again in rough figures, that covers around half a year of operating. But this season is special, because of the starting position of significant debt. Please note that I offer no opinion on what may happen to that debt, in particular not taking it as read that a liability will be converted into equity because that is what has been informally claimed in some quarters. I'm remaining sceptical without being cynical. 2012-2013 - STs plus (first) 50% of IPO - balance at end of season of about 50% of IPO 2013-2014 - STs plus (remaining) 50% of IPO (plus smallish loans) - balance at end of season of about zero 2014-2015 - STs plus rights offer, plus loans, plus player sales - balance at end of season of about £8m [DR] 2015-2016 - pre-season balance after STs, estimate somewhere between £1m [DR] and £4m, taking loan liabilities into account. I know I'm playing fast-and-loose with terminology and figures here; but as a rough take on it Rangers appear to have no money from the very start this season. It seems to take a leap of faith to believe that this money will appear when needed, and it further seems to me that this is the fundamental difference between the views taken by AIM (& ISDX), and the SFA: it seems that the former requires some evidence of ongoing funding, but perhaps the latter just really wants it to happen. I've tried to put some order-of-magnitude numbers in one place, to see what people think about the apparent inability of the club to generate the basic funds needed to continue in the coming months. Am I missing something on the financial side? (I know all about the claims of special treatment, and counter-claims of how loans will not be called in but instead money will somehow be donated; but that's not the scope of my question. I also think that sort of sniping is what tended to make the BRALT wearisome for any near-neutral.)

Beer Garden obviously, who do you think I am?

sjc has many good qualities. Being 'one of us' wasn't one of them

And certainly master of none

I'm a Jack of all trades.

He's guaranteed to have murdered at least one prostitute.

You must be gutted that you haven't goaded him into an argument!Give it a rest ffs.

I concur with your summation here. The worry for fans of the rangers, imho, should be that European football isn't going to make things all better. I may be misremembering*, but I seem to recall that some Scots clubs actually lost money through fulfilling European fixtures recently. Early round trips to eastern Europe don't come free, after all. It would seem that, with all due respect to Tedi for his sensible post, "European Football" will have to mean "later stages of European tournaments" - a much more distant prospect, which will require proportianately more rebuilding and "investment". As a benchmark, just look at how excited the green trogs get when their lot get into the CL group stages, then look at the different financial landscape celtic operate in, depending on whether they've banked those millions or not the previous season. No matter what, the rangers are some distance away from that (not exactly world-beating) level, and it's going to take years to get there. All the while, ibrox needs maintaining, and everybody needs paying. Plenty more pointing and laughing for the rest of us, then - as long as the new club continues to limp along, filling Ashley's pockets while emptying those of the fans. As for your perception that the rangers' fans on here are victims of some kind of gang culture, I'd argue that the opposite is true if anything. I've been accused of all kinds of bigotry and prejudice, had a poster suggest that I should kill myself, and had my family, from my late parents to my children, slandered as a matter of course. All by followers of one club. Others claiming the same allegiance, rather than pulling up their fellow-fans for reinforcing the stereotype of the moronic orc, gleefully joined in. Very few fans of the rangers are immune to this habit, and even fewer of them post in the likes of the BRALT. *Thanks, Hilary. Cracking neologism, that.

Are you a torn faced c**t? If not, then a career in train conducting isn't for you. In all seriousness, good luck mate.

Fuds who get banned and plead to be allowed back

At another assessment day today. This time for a job as a train conductor. Passed all the tests and have an interview now. Two interviews on the go now. After all the assessments and shit, I'm going to be devastated if I don't get offered a position at either of the places

Not very Box Office IMO.

Curveball

On the right side or left?

Aye it's a huge piece of attention seeking that isn't working out for him. His line about giving folk the 'satisfaction' of being admin on the site is pretty telling. He really thinks he's important. Also he threatened to stop work on the official site, despite that having nothing to do with .net. A monumental cretin. Folk should post more abuse on the thread to try and rile him up so that he actually does close it down.

A glorious day if true. It's probably just posturing though.

Topic Originator: brian Date: Thu 16 Jul 11:26 I think today is a watershed, I've had enough of the bullies, trolls, snide comments over the years on this web site. it looks like even a simple car sale on the Pars Trading Floor is no safe haven. so therefore I now announce that I intend to stop all my work on dafc.net and for the football club. I won't give anybody the satisfaction of getting onto admin as dafc.net forums, so they will also close. I would not trust you to behave with respect. I'm sure that will keep you happy now. http://www.dafc.net/index2.php?ID=3306&CATEGORY2=1-News http://dafc.info/forum/read.php?f=3&i=27629&t=27629 Outstanding.

Racist Dave out attacking the Asian guy in the team, no surprise there.

Last nights goals: Link.

Bert Tucuth.

And the Shite starts

Yogi > Holt > Houston > Pressley > May imo

Geography isn't Chris Jack's (writes for the Herald and Evening Times) strongest point. He was convinced that our friendly with Eastleigh on Tuesday was being played in London, despite it being hosted on the outskirts of Southampton at Eastleigh's home ground, in err, Eastleigh.

Spooky Tooth - Sunshine Help Me

Good post, Rocky and a decent thought from the OP and well worth considering. A Charles to you both. I'll read through it all tomorrow when I'm sober The disappointing thing is seeing 'the usuals' posting about Rangers AGAIN. Haven't they a team to support?

Just catching up with recent posts. *walks quietly away again*

Some Partick Thistle players earn more than soldiers. Like if you are outraged by this.

Cats shouldn't even be included in that sentence. Cats are fucking brilliant.

I've used Feliway spray. Used it moving house from Rutherglen to Inverness and it did seem to calm them down whilst driving up and in our new house too.

Worst of all are the scum that tried to use a real name as a user name and managed to spell their own-fucking-name wrong. Yours regretfully, Neil

Voluntary post referendum exile!

Children of Men. 9.5/10 Never seen this before tonight. Wow. Harrowingly believable. Its not an "enjoyable" film but it is a damn good one. Cinema at its best.