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There are some right miserable b*****ds in here, and a severe reality check needed. Where to start with some of these ridiculous complaints? This was never The Night King v The Three Eyed Raven. Other than warging, which isn't TER specific, what has a TER actually done in a combative nature at any point? The Max von Sydow version was cocooned in the roots of a tree for f**k sake. The Night King wanted to kill everyone, he's death incarnate. But killing the Three Eyed Raven was one of his major prizes along the way for the reasons Bran told everyone only an episode earlier. The Night King also had to be defeated last night, there's only 3 episodes left and there's still a pile of stuff to resolve. He was never going to have 1v1 combat with anyone, he doesn't need to and would be stupid to do so. The Jon scene highlighted that. His arrogance of wanting to dispatch Bran/TER himself was his only weakness. The only other way things could have been done in my mind was that they somehow managed to retreat further south again and used Wildfire to burn Kings Landing and the entire army of the dead leaving him exposed. This way leaves plenty of scope for major characters to die in shocking story relevant ways though as opposed to just as cannon-fodder in a bloodfest. There are many deaths and twists and turns to come in the final 3 episodes and almost anyone could win still. Some of the other smaller complaints are equally as tedious - Jorah heard Drogon scream and flee, you saw him react to that and run off to where it came from as he knew Dany would be there. The Hound & Beric started off just behind Arya and kept following her direction as The Hound was specifically trying to save her. Also the ultra dark filming, although inconvenient for some watching in the wrong conditions, was part of the whole point. It's supposed to be cinematic and you were meant to struggle to tell who all was getting slaughtered where. That's not to say there weren't a few issues. The biggest one was the ineptness of the battle plan e.g. use of the siege equipment, using the dothraki/cavalry up early doors straight down the middle and ignoring standard battle tactics, not using the burning trenches as a funnel to a killing field, not having lit torches or trenches further afield like the Bolton's did at BoB (which would also have helped as reference points for figuring out where the dead were and what they were doing). Also, why not have Bran have a look early on with the Ravens so that they could see what the enemy were actually planning instead of just fighting blind then checking halfway through? Otherwise, it was obvious Arya was the one to kill the Night King before she met Melisandre. The giveaway had been that she'd been disarmed and running away for a while, when we all knew she had the infamous Valyrian Dagger. It was always going to come back into play at some point. All in all, it was an excellent episode IMO. It didn't have the big plot twists that some of the very best ones do, but that's because it couldn't. It was exactly what it needed to be.

According to Ray McKinnon: if you'd asked the NK, back in Season 2, he'd be happy to get so close to Bran with only 3 episodes remaining.

Killie fan with saved photos of a Rangers legend - imagine my shock

Good statement at a good time IMO. Allaying fans fears of them pulling the plug due to rumours, updating on the stadium - as they don't have to do it every 5 minutes ffs - and saying in not so many words that McIntyre is getting the bullet. WTF do fans want? They moan about lack of communication from the board, then get a lengthy statement and complain about it. What did people actually want to read that would've made them happy? It's easy to stick the boot in but credit where it's due IMO.

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We need to keep it up and leak the contents of the envelopes as well. Miles Storey will have written his team in a straight line down the edge but run out of space after 9 players.

Oh I already am. Your cringeworthy attempts are having no influence whatsoever though, and only serve to further justify that you are making a total arse of yourself on here....

REALLY......FUCKING REALLY. Naturally I've been at all the games involving the two teams and nothing more than the odd shout on the terraces has been of note. The pitch invasion was just pished lads on their first Friday night game away on the tele. You sound like someone whos just found out their Mrs has been shagging around and chucked you, but in a desperate effort to save face make it seem like you did the dumping reciting any fleeting encounters you've had of your own. MORTON are nothing to us, we don't care, we likely never will. In fact i'd go as far to say as I don't mind morton as its a good day out. f**k I thought Stenny and shire fans were bad for drumming up a rivalry between us.

Totally agree with this.......a few so called "better" players have gone missing this season when the game wasn't to their liking...a few more with the work ethic of McMullen wouldn't have done us any harm, and I agree he is not the finished article but would still be on my team sheet every game.

https://www.joe.co.uk/amp/entertainment/player-ratings-for-game-of-thrones-battle-of-winterfell-229662?__twitter_impression=true

Shots fired.

Been excellent overall imo. Not the tallest obviously but has great agility and knows when to come for crosses and when to stay. Shouts and moans like f**k at his defence which every good keeper should do. A bit of a penalty shoot out hero as well. Really hope he re-signs for next season

Amazed to see Cowden fans offering their well wishes here after the bombardment the Berwick lads have given them over the last couple of years. Too saft. Get the boot in lads.

McCall was saying on midweek Sportsound a couple of weeks ago that he was trying to continue the trend of turning released players around, like Rose, Smith and Shankland and he had make enquiries about a player that week....didn’t sound like someone who had decided to leave

I see why you've read it like that but I think you're reading it from a different context. On the manager front, it's more of a fighting statement to say that they had a process. On one hand, they have been called lazy and accused of no process with just picking the closest out of work manager and giving them the job. Now, they are now being accused of going all Moneyball because they've said that one of their parameters in the last appointment was experience which is just common sense for the predicament we were in - McIntyre had been effective short-term before and gotten County out of a somewhat similar situation so rightly or wrongly, it's reasonable to interpret that someone could have followed a justifiable logic and come to that decision. It was a much much much less mental decision than McCann and then little oversight, McIntyre hasn't been a help but that's where the real damage come. The share issue has come about with the stadium, there are tax breaks (US nationals pay US tax) for the holding company of the ground to have over 75% ownership of the club. This is where the share issue comes into play and they obviously want it in place before they make that level of investment. This is mentioned because it has previously come up and is considered as an integral part of the stadium process. The overall point though is quite simple, things are very depressing around the club and it's even started to spiral with rumours like Miller being appointed etc. What we really need to know right now is if the owners are committed long-term to the club, obviously this statement has no legal implications but I think it's welcome trying to come out and at least state that they are working on the infrastructure regardless of what else is going on. It's filled with some waffle as these things always are but it fills the void to some extent. They owners have been incredible with the amount of funding they've given us (without transferring it to our liabilities and missing tax bills... - £1.8 million in covering losses until 17/18, £650k in initial injection, £1 million on stadium site) and despite their problems, we'll never get that backing anywhere else. Football isn't an exact science but Dundee genuinely are in a much better place than we were before their arrival, the CEO they inherited couldn't even get a shirt sponsor and we couldn't offer contracts more than one season long. Part of the progress is maybe throwing money at a problem (they've wasted a fair bit) but in general, we do actually operate like an actual football club now. The 12/13 year olds in the youth academy are just reaching that stage of coming through now and we now are dominant over United at that level, it's fair enough to cite increased international recognition as something to be proud of and a sign of progress of some sort. If they plan to be here and providing consistent backing, that's really valuable in itself.

5-0 win for partick and a 5-0 win for us and win for ayr. Safely into 8th. Utterly MWI

Alan Forrest signed a deal to the end of next season, McCall who is apparantly leaving in the summer contiunes to start bulding a team for next season.

I look forward to the next time I am faced with a choice between progression for myself and my family versus "seeing my job through". Who wants to guess how that will go.

Brienne is still alive so that Tormund can get his nat king.

I don't doubt that Asghar said those things - it is more that I doubt anything material will come of it... and I note that it hasn't been mentioned since, so I am not getting my hopes up of Carlos Tevez playing up top at Tannadice next season. I only saw the highlights on YouTube, but the "defending" from Falkirk for both goals was laughably bad. Some good saves from Falkirk's keeper, right enough, who might well be worth keeping tabs on; I can't see him breaking into Wolves' first team any time soon (ever?) but looks to have serious potential. If we had 11 players in the mould of McMullan, I suspect we might have gone up a couple of years back. At the very least he had the stones to perform when he was doubted.

Spoilers ya fucking dick!!!!

Jon's dragon is still alive, somehow, despite being ripped apart by a dragon and dropping from huge height, head first, into the ground.. Same with Ghost, who, somehow survived getting swarmed by the dead. And Dany, who survived being swarmed by the dead from three sides with only Jorah in front of her, and her never having shown ability with a sword before. And Jon, who was surrounded by an entire army of the dead actually touching him, before, somehow, ended up with 200 yards of space l around. And who also survived standing in front a dragon for over 20 seconds, because it decides to set fire to him instead of trying to bite him, despite earlier being outwith bite distance, yet trying to bite, when an ice blast wouldve killed him. And Brienne and Jamie, who, somehow, survived being crushed against a wall by a swarm of the dead. And Ayra, who gets attacked by a swarm but survives because the dead are apparently able to push through a three inch strong door at the exact moment Beric is standing on the other side. And Sam, who was lying on a pile of bodies surrounded by the dead. Episode was good entertainment, but, as a plot, it was fucking awful. Absolute Hollywood pish with characters just escaping due to huge coincidences in terms of placement (Jon attacks the NK, exactly where Jorah is standing? And Jorah is somehow able to reach Dany, despite Jon being cut off from Winterfell by an actual army of dead, aye/Hound/Beric running down the exact corridor Ayra is in when shes about to be killed, Winterfell is meant to be fucking massive). 8 seasons of the NK being the big bad, and his death was genuinely laughable, a gust of wind in a White Walkers hair as Ayras runs past FFS the stakes are low as f**k now, you've had the entire world fighting for their very existence, a battle to decide the fate of every living being, and now we're meant to give a f**k about who sits on a throne over six, maybe seven regions? Nah. It's become predictable, with no threat to major characters, and weak as f**k "get outs" when things are going against the "good guys", absolute NAP Cersei is winning and some unknown weakness randomly appears to finish her off. Forgot to mention the laughable dead in the crypt pish. Can you punch through concrete? Why then, would having your skeleton fester in a grave for decades make you somehow stronger? I know they dont feel pain, but still, its just ridiculous. Add to that to the Dothraki charge scene in it was wedged in just for a cool moment rather than to make any sense.

Also regularly burned by Ygritte.

Spurs are shattered, are missing Kane, Sissono, Son and Winks, and their wing-backs aren't very good. I'm Kent Brockman and that was My Two Cents.

Don't mention that season! You'll just attract Vik... Never mind.

Granny Danger jumping between numerous Dundee threads on numerous parts of the forum trying to get a rise. Shame.

Wait, you're saying that counting Boyles appearances when he was 16 in an average, then saying that the games he's played in the last two seasons is cherry picking, might actually be statistical incontinence?

Get the feeling RandomGuy didn’t like that episode.

I can relate to why some people feel a little bit shortchanged, as fun as that episode was to watch. Hardhome and the Battle of the b*****ds were IMO still better scenes. Since Jon Snow's stabbing, only Hodor's death has held any real impact in the TV show. Beric's died 20 times already, so I'm fine with that; Ed's no longer on the wall, and the deaths of others like Jorah Mormont pretty much had no other purpose other than as meat for the grinder in the show (even the kid Mormont felt like lip service for going out in the most epic way possible). Anyone with any real contribution to make still survived. The whole point of being emotionally invested was the surprise factor that came with Ned's beheading or the Red Wedding, was main characters felt truly fair game. It's probably why I felt more in Hardhome when Jon Snow stopped a WW striking him with his Valeryian steel sword than I did at the finale there, because quite frankly I did not for a second think that Bran was going to die. I didn't think surrounded by hunners of WW Jon Snow would die, I didn't think Daenerys would even get a scratch and expected Jorah to get chibbed several times; I thought at Hardhome, Jon Snow might have died in that moment. In fairness, I was pleasantly surprised it was Arya of people, even the switch of hands was a good scene FWIW, but the ending felt predictable, and probably will diminish the tension of any re-watch. Game over. Time for the epilogue now. And it's three long episodes. Lord of the Rings were less cruel. The White Walkers were always supposed to be the big bad. Right from the first scene of the show, and as show when Hardhome happened, it felt like everything else in Westeros became irrelevant as it felt like the WW had arrived. So for it all to be settled in the space of one battle, one episode, when this was probably supposed to be a war, I can totally relate to feeling shortchanged. It was supposed to diminish the fight for the crown, and for it still has. If you've survived something like that, Shirley you're first thought is 'might try some of that living thang' rather than 'want my crown now'. I almost don't care who rules Westeros now, because in spite of whoever wins the crown always being a w****r, nobody other than Arya has really changed from the experience IMO. Daenery stills wants her, Sansa still wants everyone to leave her alone, and anyone else who survived is probably just happy to be alive until the next battle. P.s. Yes the lighting for the fight was shite, and I'll bet it was supposed to be scarier fighting an enemy you can't see, but the directing for it was terrible. You should still be able to follow what is going on, and that was a struggle. The execution was a let down for all the Sapochik hype. p.p.s The Dothraki were supposed to be hardest c***s in the game, and yet with fire swords they were still emptied in record time. My favourite comment from someone on the Guardian.

Enjoying the reaction to the new signing, great to see us getting our scapegoat business done early this year

Even before the battle I’m wondering if tormund is the only wildling left in Westeros? The remains of the Nights watch seem to have just disappeared too. Seems they have conveniently diluted these groups into a single figurehead in tormund/Ed. Night King and white walkers were pretty shite in the end. Most of their appearances across the full show have involved standing around looking badass but actually done next to f**k all. Also found it hard to believe that so many secondary characters survived the battle. Pod, Brienne, Jamie (can’t fight for shit these days), greyworm, tormund, davos. At the end when the dead all dropped there was about 5 c***s left and they were all named characters. Then Melisandre just walks out in the snow and snuffs it like she escaped from a care home. The lord of lights grand plan for her was to light some Dothraki swords that were ineffective as f**k, start a fire that held the dead up for about 5 minutes and give Arya a pep talk. Job done off you pop. Pish.

See that Dundee United have already announced the Semi Final dates.... How can they know that yet the QF is next week and fans are still in the dark!? Not that the SPFL give a shit, but in case they hadn’t noticed: Ayr and Inverness are not exactly 5 minutes away from each other. The first leg is going to obviously be midweek so most fans are going to have to put in a day’s annual leave to either travel to Ayr from Inverness or Inverness from Ayr, so a bit of bloody notice wouldn’t go amiss! Shambles, as per.

I wouldn't discredit your memory too much, you seem to be capable of reciting the balance sheets of Hibernian dating all the way back to the 1890s.

The only semi-credible battle commanders on Westeros in the new generation (i.e. not Stannis, Tywin, Ned Stark etc.) were Robb Stark (fucked up the politics though) and Ramsay to an extent by taking out all-comers in the North. Until that ridiculously contrived sneak march of an entire cavalry army through Moat Cailin before the Battle of the b*****ds of course - don't get me started on that. They should go back and remake the show from the start now, removing every single fucking tedious piece of nonsense to have occurred north of the Wall and replace it with more Varys, Tyrion and Littlefinger top bants. The magical undead is also by far the worst plot thread in the books so you can't even blame the script writers for it either, it's just a load of pointless drivel.

Full-time football, and linked with guys like Wallace, Wedderburn and Austin. Airdri£onian$ imo

[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] absolute pollution of a place (Linkedin). And to be fair, my job just now isn't too bad but I was "headhunted" (i hate that phrase) if you will, and received an offer from a company in the industry I've spent most of my years in, that was far too good to turn down. 75% wage increase, company car, laptop etc. An extra hour a day work but I can cope with that.

Have moved into the city centre so now gyming from 6am-7am 5 days a week! Had a Yoga class this morning after the gym first thing too - I know people have a bit of a "stigma" about Yoga (particularly people my age!) but it honestly is brilliant. The increased flexibility you get through your hamstrings and lower back through Yoga is undoubted/very noticeable and it is quite a refreshing/relaxing form of exercise too. I've been doing 1 session per week for the past 14 weeks and really enjoy it.

You're quite correct in what you say but we have to live with that as it is our biggest asset economically and it will be around for many generations to come, the Claire field alone West of Shetland is larger than the whole East Shetland basin put together. Right now the North Sea/Atlantic has the largest rig/platform activity in the world with 184 rigs. The demand for oil will continue worldwide for generations until a financially economic substitute becomes marketable, right now we will continue to hammer away on our plastic keyboards. The majority of Scots mainly in the Central belt are unaware of the revenue income from our oil which is being squandered by Westminster on the likes of London's 15 mile Crossrail project which is now nearing £20billion costs. We never see that type of money being spent on Scotland. As for the Firth of Clyde, not far from where AuA1 posts, it is known that there are oil and gas reserves in this area similar to Morecambe Bay, which would have been of great economic benefit to that area of Scotland if Westminster and the MOD hadn't denied drilling exploration due to the imagined detrimental effect it would have had on nuclear submarine access and egress. Portavadie was a prime example of the cart before the horse which resulted in failure because of the above.

I am almost willing to give it that title because of how I felt when I was watching it. It was tense as f**k.

Sort of agree but maybe not to the same extent, after each game I think players should be criticised or praised on their performances then leave it at that. At the moment though people are giving their opinions on what next seasons squad should be so kind of get it. Daily Spence and Donnelly discussion just goes round in circles. Football fans as a whole and supporters of all teams are fickle too there was times where some would surely have a red neck seeing what they said about guys like Gold/Wallace/Swankie and the way they speak about them now. DD hasn't had a great time of it this season but he was our top goal scorer and one of our better players last season, players are no robots and have good and bad years like everyone else Personally leave DC to do his thing and try get behind the players he's brought here, seems to kin what he's doing

Long live Stevie Hammell's cursed amulet!

Obviously we have survived the play off, and believe me there’s no celebrations. Horrible games to watch.

In Germany at tier 4, there are more promotion spots from areas with a larger population. If the west and east fully get on board, you could have the Highland League champion, the top two in the Lowland League, and the second bottom team in SPFL 2, play against each other for two promotion spots. Bottom team in SPFL 2 should go down.

Is that what you think you are doing here? Embarrassed for you.....

Further confirmation.

Surely there's every chance Raith could set out to injure Montrose players given that's your potential final opponents? That's if you're sticking to that ridiculous claim

Me? The 13th Duke of Windsor. Here? In my wife’s friends bedroom at 3 o’clock in the morning. With my reputation?

LoL Imagine being that shite, your club could only dream of appointing someone like Cameron, whilst choosing to stick with serial failure and massive "Riddy" Johnny Harvey. What goes around...etc....