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I agree with the first two points but The Flying Squirrel has been a different animal this season. You'd be nuts not to want him back. Thank f**k Boyle had quality around him so he could: come deep into central midfield and pick the ball up; breeze past one player before skipping past a swipe from a second player; strike from more than 18-yards out [across the goal & through the defenders legs] to score with a precisely drilled ball into the bottom-right corner. Decent effort shown by Boyle, thanks to the quality of those around him... A well-worked team goal.

I’ve said it before on here, and I genuinely believe it, Rockstar by Nickleback is the worst song ever committed to record and should be considered a crime against humanity.

When football players make a heart symbol with their hands when they score. Doing so should be a red card offence and should also result in the goal being disallowed

When Steve Clarke chose to accept the Kilmarnock job three weeks ago, his dad, now in his 80s and still living in Saltcoats, said to him: “Are you crazy? Why don’t you just go and enjoy your retirement?” But that wasn’t an option. The zeal which has driven Clarke on for more than 40 years in football is still active. The new Kilmarnock manager, even after all these years, remains elusive and almost an unknown quantity in his home nation. It is 30 years since Clarke left St Mirren for a £400,000 fee to join Chelsea, where he enjoyed 11 prolific seasons. We saw him on TV, we read about him in the papers, he got an occasional cap for Scotland, but still many Scots asked: “Just who is Steve Clarke?” I just like to get on with my work and be left alone. I don’t need headlines His image then took on near-mystical aspects when José Mourinho, the new hot thing in European football, plucked Clarke from his youth team position at Chelsea to be his assistant back in 2004. Suddenly this reserved, understated Scot was a confidant of the greatest coach in the modern game. “I don’t go around throwing my name about, I’m not into self-publicity,” says Clarke. “It is pretty rare that I’m even doing an interview like this — it’s not something I do very often. But I understand that, right now, maybe I’m a hotter topic in Scottish football, just in coming to Kilmarnock. But I don’t put myself forward. “I just like to get on with my work. I think in all the jobs I’ve had, the people I’ve worked with will all tell you that I’m a good, diligent worker, I’m professional, that I do my job properly. That is enough for me. I don’t need the headlines and I don’t need to be bummed up. I just like to do my job and be left alone.” Clarke is now 54 years old. You have to be of a certain vintage to remember his playing days. He was beloved of Chelsea fans: strong, reliable, never shirking anything, a regular for over a decade at Stamford Bridge. A few seasons ago some Chelsea fans voted him their greatest ever right back. Today Clarke has forged his reputation as a coach, but he has some surprising thoughts about that. “I don’t want my career to be defined by what I’ve done since I stopped playing,” he says. “My career as a player means a hell of a lot more to me than my career as a coach or manager. My playing days were my best days. “I’ve experienced nothing to change my mind on that — and I’ve had some great times as a coach. But I wouldn’t swap one minute of my playing career for the times I’ve had as a coach.” The misapprehension persists that, back in 2004, Clarke was in with the bricks at Chelsea and that Mourinho merely inherited him upon his arrival at Stamford Bridge. The truth is somewhat different. Mourinho had asked to speak to all the club’s coaching staff in his search for an assistant, including Chelsea’s youth coaches such as Clarke, and then took a few weeks before announcing that the Scot was the one he favoured as his number two. It was quite an elevation for the quiet Ayrshireman. “I’d always had my own ideas about coaching,” he says. “But when José came in to Chelsea, not only did I feel he reinforced my ideas, but he took them to a different level. Working with José was an education. “He was different from the way most British managers worked. He changed the mindset of most of the coaches over here. He came in with a totally different way of playing and a totally different philosophy. He showed more attention to detail, he was very meticulous, even in his training sessions. I think he raised the bar. “Everybody commented on it. I think even if you spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson he would tell you that, suddenly, Chelsea had moved the goalposts with José’s arrival, and Manchester United had to respond to it. “We worked well together. Wherever José has gone he has always wanted someone from the club there working with him, someone who knows the club well. So I think I was important to him in his early days in English football. I knew about the league, the players, the style of play. But he was a quick learner.” In the years since a seemingly endless sequence of No 2 jobs came and went Clarke’s way — at Chelsea, West Ham and Liverpool — but when he did finally get the No 1 gig in 2012 at West Bromwich Albion his star shone briefly before his sacking. In his one full season at the Hawthorns in 2012-13 Clarke took West Bromwich Albion to their highest Premier League position — eighth — before Romelu Lukaku left and the team ran out of steam. “We were as high as fourth at one point, but to finish eighth in the EPL, I would class that as almost akin to lifting a trophy,” he says. “That was not the norm for West Brom. The expectation there was simply to stay — survive — in the top flight. So I felt I had a really good start to my managerial career.” Having been sacked by West Bromwich the following season, Clarke then took on a disastrous situation at Reading, where he lasted 12 months as their manager. The team was in upheaval and wages needed slashed. Yet he took Reading to within minutes of an FA Cup final in 2015 when a disastrous goalkeeping error by Adam Federici cost his team against Arsène Wenger and Arsenal. Suddenly, following a second sacking, Clarke’s reputation looked damaged. “So I took time out,” he says. “I needed a period of reflection. I can’t really control how people judge the job I’ve done as a manager in the two positions I’ve held. But what I’ve always had are my beliefs and principles about coaching, about how to make players better.” I don’t look at the environment, I look at the job. The challenge of Kilmarnock appealed to me After life at Chelsea, West Ham United and Liverpool — where he was No 2 to Kenny Dalglish — has Clarke had to adapt to the more humble setting of Rugby Park? “Nope. I don’t look at the environment, I look at the job. I was attracted to this job. It’s a challenge on a different scale from what I’ve been used to, but that appealed to me. “It doesn’t feel small. I’m still the manager, I’ve got players to look after, I’ve got staff to look after, I’ve got games I need to win. “The size of the football club doesn’t matter to me. The challenge is there, it is the same job, giving you the same problems, requiring the same solutions. Hopefully, it will give me the same enjoyment, but I’m sure there will be the same disappointments too. That’s the life of a football manager.” But surely, I suggest, you have to adjust, from working at Chelsea or West Bromwich Albion, to working at Kilmarnock? The players, for one thing, are of inferior quality. “No, the adjustment will have to be on their [the players’] part. I work the same way and I’ll apply the same training drills. But, if my Kilmarnock players apply themselves day in and day out, then they will get better as footballers. “My goal right now is to try and get three points on Sunday against Hearts. Then, medium term, just keep us safe in the league this year. After that, it is about speaking to the board and, hopefully, trying to build a stronger Kilmarnock FC in order to move forward, on and off the pitch. “It is important for me to engage with the fans. The other night against Hibs they were magnificent — they won’t always clap us off after a 3-0 defeat. But I think they enjoyed the way we tried to play. I want to build up the crowds here and, hopefully, entertain the Kilmarnock public. “I remember Kilmarnock crowds in the past of 14,000 or 15,000. I know it has been a tough time in recent years for Kilmarnock and parts of Ayrshire. But if we can coax some of them back, and put a smile on their faces some Saturdays, that would be a good thing. I want to help this club to grow again, maybe try to get it back to where it was 20 or 30 years ago.”

This is a disgraceful slur and I have never been inappropriate with anyone. ** 60 seconds later ** It has come to my attention that some people may have taken my honking of certain body parts and singing "GET YOUR TITS OUT FOR THE LADS" when they entered the room as being harrassment. I apologise if anyone was offended and hope a line can be drawn under this matter as it was literally months ago, when I think we can agree was another era in terms of the relations between men and women. ** another 60 seconds later ** Following revelation of video footage of me being pissed on by three Lithuanian ladies while wearing my "HARD BREXIT NOW" singlet and nothing else I will be resigning from everything. I'd like to be left alone with my family while I undertake the long task of clearing out my hard drive in a long overdue housekeeping exercise unrelated to these recent matters.

NIce to see you defend Katy Perry. She has her knockers....

Just been reading through the last couple of pages and would like to change my nominations. 1 JMo 2 JMo 3 JMo 4 JMo 5 JMo

Fucks sakes Miguel Get something posted up. This is hell.

She'll accept any old shite she's offered by her family. In ohr last bit she accepted tea/coffee holders and a kettle from her sister. They were purple. Purple! Look totally out of place in our basic magnolia decorated kitchen with brown cupboards. She also accepted a rotten canvas picture from her dad's pal which as soon as I saw I knew would never go on the walls. I told her it was rank and asked why she accepted it to which she moaned at me and said well she was offered it. As predicted it sat in a cupboard for 5 years and any time I went to chuck it she complained. We've almost been in our house a year now and she's still at it. I came in the other day and there was an ugly green thing for storing the wee one's toys. It didn't bother me but I knew for a fact if I had purchased it she'd have put it away in a cupboard. Her mum gave her it so it's obviously fine! I walked in a month or so ago and there is a cup rack thing in the kitchen. I ask where that's come from and again it was her mum. I said we had cupboards why did you take it and yet again was moaned at. My issue isn't her taking stuff. I'm all for a freebie. What pisses me off is she is so picky about how the house looks and if I mentioned buying something or an offer I have received for a piece of furniture she'll moan/refuse politely. Yet she'll accept any old shite her family offer even if the stuff is totally out of place. Drives me fucking nuts. The reason I've wrote this just now is because she's at work and that cup rack was sitting starting to gather dust as it's obviously never been used. So I've just launched the fucking thing into the back garden.** No fucking more!! She won't even notice it's gone. ** As we've been renovating we have stuff in the garden ready for the skip. I'm not just some manky tink who chucks his rubbish in the garden.

that is easily the worst post in P&B history.

You mean it was a Catholic Church?

Don't know if it was this email that did it "Good Morning ***** Any chance you can drag someone away from studying tomorrow's Melbourne Cup form and get them to post today's quiz on-line. Many thanks Eednud obo P+B Super League quizzees" but it worked. Was thinking maybe I shouldn't have bothered but 3 good guesses gave me 6/10. Knew Hajj, French and Looby Loo, guessed Hilary Hahn, Depouty PM and Elvis' age. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/mind-games/quiz?quizId=8083&sectionId=1

Don’t you ever listen to The Pixies again.

Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice

Cream - Rollin' And Tumblin'

Kerr's loan has been a terrific move for both parties thus far. He largely looked a cut above a lot of the defenders in this division so far, certainly in our team, the most composed player that isn't called Stephen Dobbie on the ball. Despite the criticism received on here when it happened, the decision to punt Dowie and Higgins has largely been justified so far. The back four defend corners better and actually look like scoring from them too which hasn't been the case since Durnan left. Martin has largely been protected which hopefully can build his confidence back up Fortunately for us he's probably needing a full season at this level to iron out the little mistakes that would get punished in a better league like the odd slip here and there, along with last week's penalty. But for 19, he's certainly the brightest defensive prospect i've seen in a while. Kane, you can take it or leave it really, he's a handy option to have but he isn't worth bringing back that strange midfield diamond/433 just to accommodate him or get ahead of Dykes/Lyle on form. Even Old Man Dobbie is doing a better job of closing down in the last fortnight with actual scoring as well. Personally I'd rather use a loan on a player that we will use more regularly like a winger seeing as Danny is presumably dead and McFadden probably won't last a full 90 or be able to do a midweek double header. Alternatively a central midfielder that is better for breaking stuffy teams down than Rankin/Jacobs.

Audience - House On The Hill

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun

@Miguel Sanchez FFS make it stop

Where is my statement incorrect? Potter never got 3 points at tfs, neither did jeffries nor has johnston. Did I ever at any point say they had to have played us .? Anyway 49 wins to 34 shows you guys have been bossed by us throughout scottish football history.

That's because you are a cretin.

Christ on a pedaloe.

cake to muffins Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach

Too slow - went Baker to Cake Cake - I Will Survive

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

Wouldn’t be a conundrum for me. I’d still support independence and still think Trump is a c**t,

You wouldn’t know anything about that, you don’t need to put any effort into making yourself look like a moron.

Timing is everything.. Should have known after praising our much improved defensive performances that something like Saturday would be just round the corner. The defending for all 3 goals was absolutely appalling and a real hark back to some of the shambolic displays we we’d become accustomed to last season. Kipre goes awol for the 2nd and the 1st/3rd are basically the same goal. The 3rd marginally worse due to the fact we actually allowed Gardyne time to control the ball and pick his spot inside a crowded penalty box. Said on the match thread I was unsure about starting both Bigi and Tanner as I was worried it would upset the solid spine our season has been built upon and I do think there was something in that. Specifically the players he dropped- Bowman and Campbell. Two guys that ultimately set the tone for our style of play and there were badly missed in that 1st half. We barely laid a glove on the County midfield and their back 3 absolutely strolled it 1st half with Moult struggling to do the ugly stuff Bowman does so well. By the way Bowman was immense when came on, within 5 minutes he’d won a few headers, ruffled up their back 3 before scoring a cracking header and suddenly we made a game of it. His turn in the build up to the 2nd was superb as well. But aye, tinkering too much with the spine of your team that’s been so successful thus far probably not a great idea. Not that I was unhappy to see Bigi and Tanner start, they probably deserved to in all honesty, however I’d argue the two guys benched were probably the worst two he could have picked from the spine of the team(maybe Hartley aside).

Moving Hearts - The Storm

The Dead South - These Boots

Have we ruled out the possibility the police just stumbled upon footage of Kill Bill vol 2?

The prayers must have worked, someone got better. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41880511

If you can't appreciate Pink Floyd music probably isn't for you

I'm quite glad Aston lost the dance off as his dance was inferior to Mollie's, in past series they judged it on who was the best dancer overall in the dance off whereas it should be based on that nights performance .

Martha Reeves And The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street

In utero is an incredible album.

I'll be able to see Claude Monet's "The Magpie" when "The Clours the Musee d'Orsay" exhibition hits the Art Gallery of South Australia from March-July next year. Apparently 65 works including Monet, Manet, Renoir and Cezanne will be on show.

What a cracking atmosphere in the Kilburnie Penicuik game who needs senior when you can have that.

Don’t listen to him, he’s a confirmed anti-cyclist who claims that he holds talks with the Scottish Government about transport policies. He is well known on this site for his anti cycling views, quite why he is on the cycling page is beyond me. I do believe once he accused me of cruelty to my child because I took him to a Pedal for Scotland on closed roads. Your child was with responsible adults who had devised a plan to provide maximum care whilst travelling on a public road. The man who stopped you was obviously in the minority as other drivers acted with courtesy and consideration to fellow road users like yourselves. Please continue to teach them road manners and good behaviour to other traffic and how to be road aware.

Gerry And The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey

The Merseys - Sorrow

I see that article seems to be purely based on trawling through Twitter looking for any Tweets to back up their story. When you look at the Twitter users selected and have a look through their timelines they're either thick as shit or the sort who just constantly Tweet all things negative about the club they claim to support.

Soggy Bottom Boys - Man Of Constant Sorrow

If everybody in church had a gun there may have been less fatalities. #packapieceforjesus

Love a wee maths based riddle. It's 2002, right?

Imagine not wanting Martin Boyle when your club employs Randy Wolters as a professional football player

Found in the toilets of Stirling Uni last week...