Thistle_do_nicely

That's gutting, hope he can make a full recovery. For the run in... try out a back five - Mitchell GK, Neilson, Aero and McBeth at CB, Milne and McMillan as wingbacks and rest Fitzpatrick for a game or two, which at times he looks like he could do with tbf? Something wild like McMillan further forward (but then Williams is out too and we're also limited at right back so would probably be weaker there which isn't ideal at all, don't think Zander fits there)? Shoehorn Robinson in there and then juggle about the midfield a bit (also just noticed Bannigan hasn't made the bench the last couple of games either...)? Legit not sure; will be impressed if Doolan can stumble on something that works but aye its a pain, especially before a particularly tough match. Are emergency/out of window short term loans still a thing

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/15454fa2-a791-4df8-961f-292c43788773 Cant find a quality video of this unfortunately but aye. Hipsterism at its most pretentious.

i get you. Livi papped us out of the cup that season too im sure, they were legit just better than us over the tie. Failing to score in the home game, leading and then Sammon having a penalty saved late on to set up a possible grand finish (damage already done by then anyway tbf). It doesnt rankle the way the County game does, conceding and then making an arse of the kick off to concede immediately. Also now remembered losing from 1-0 up to late winners, 2-1, back to back against Hamilton and Dundee..... bloody Simon Murray.

Losing the playoff final to County on penalties last season. Losing 2-1 at Firhill x2 against Rangers in the same season, last minute winners for them both times. Brutal. Losing both legs of the playoff final against Livi, think we went 1-0 up in the tie too.

Bloody hell. Got away with that a bit, but fortunately Inverness were largely toothless. Think we really didn't know how to play it once Inverness were down to 10, made them a lot more focused on not losing the ball cheaply & they kept playing for free kicks to launch and pin us back, whereas we became ridiculously slow/ponderous. Lawal was excellent for Inverness, really sharp wee midfielder.

Oh, I vaguely mind reading it years ago on a recommendation! Little dry at times but also cool & semi-historical, will give it a go.

I had a look and honestly expected far worse if I've seen the same goal this is referring to. It's poor positioning, caught in two minds about whether to try to play as sweeper keeper or stick closer to the line, but it happens. I've seen that Barkas at Celtic concede worse through bad positioning on Sportscene iirc. It's on TV because its a cup final, watching and then getting snobby/elitist about it just seems a bit weird and mean spirited to me.

Yep - occasionally pop into Tesco near my work for the odd meal deal, and the nearest food places are Subway, Greggs or Burger King around Central Station. edit: by comparison the odd sandwich, crisps and diet drink feels positively healthy. Would be nice to have places serving stuff thats a bit more wholesome but even at that the bulk of the cafes are either extortionate or still cater to folk that just want something fried and tasty. Can't blame them tbh. Pretty sure the likes of Sprite and 7-Up are already advertised as being low calorie & per can they're not far off, say, an equivalent coffee with milk in it. Feels pointless, unless its more targetted at high caffeine content shite like Red Bull / Monster which still... well, doesn't feel like this is targetted enough if thats the end game. Quavers per bag are advertised as being fairly low in calories per bag and all. The bulk of the crisps & chocolates you can get on in a typical meal deal are, I suspect, already low calorie thanks to shrinkflation anyway (unless you're actively hunting for the best value price-to-shite ratio)

Noted on the poll it specifies "viewers" and "watchers" - got to suspect that figure is skewed by armchair fans who'll just lap up whatever EPL shite they're being served.

https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/bowel-cancer-rising-among-young-adults-in-europe/ Not necessarily what she has, but there's an awful lot of high profile cases of fairly young folk dying from it that, while tragic, hopefully can result in others getting screened. If one person sees that Kate has it & gets their symptoms checked out off the back of it then that's good enough for me. springing to mind are Deborah James, Jeanette Maus (video game actress), think a Dons player developed it too a while back. Frustrating, as its preventable if its looked for early enough.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5863108/antonio-cassano-sex-food/ The Sun, yuck. arguably doesn't qualify but going by this he hated training for football & vastly preferred food and women to being a professional player. #TopLad #Banter etc. Nile Ranger another seeing as the article mentions petty crime, was involved in all sorts while still playing professionally, think he ran a credit card scam or something

Interesting - suspect the rumour grew arms and legs from the odd comment like this https://www.skysports.com/football/news/2232817/kahn-sick-of-football not the same thing as actively disliking football, really; fighting chance its just a common occupational hazard to end up jaded if you feel like you're being overworked no matter what you do. Arguably why Klopp is leaving too if he's to be taken at face value.

Think Oliver Kahn has spoken about not enjoying football & it just being a job to him.

Kinda this pretty much. Aye, I actually had a pal look at an intermittent check engine light a few months back and it came up with a fuel/air mix code, but it kept going away. Car was due its MOT in September anyway, was hoping to go trouble free til then. Problem is its been running just fine so I've not bothered my arse up until it became properly unignorable. Annoyingly the white smoke is something that I have clocked occasionally but thought nothing of...

Cracked manifold, apparently. New one to me, Dad is already suggesting potholes have fucked it...

Yeah, had to look this up a while back. Wills are still very important but theres kind of minimums set out as legal rights. https://advisingfamilies.org/uk/information-portal/family-matters/legal-rights-scotland/

bumped/paraphrased from Alan Partridge, but stretches of road which alternate from a 40mph limit to a 60mph/70mph limit. Timing the acceleration and braking to technically stay perfectly road legal but absolutely booting the car from 40mph - 60mph. Exhilerating. edit: The stretch that goes from 50mph - 70mph around the Erskine Bridge. Oh baby. (this may explain why mine is needing in for a repair imminently tbf)

Sacked in the Morning is good to listen to while drifting to sleep - can make of that what you will, I'm aware that may be damning with faint praise but it was generally decent, if forgettable.

mmmmmmmrhm afaik performance enhancing substances *can* be used safely - with supervision etc. - but they'd all be taking it right to the limit in order to be competitive As poor as anti doping might be, the fact its not legitimised presumably stops most players/athletes from ripping the arse right out of it. (presumably) Bit uncomfortable as and when any athletes taking part do a Benoit or end up dropping dead in a sauna in their 30's

the shitty consolation Morton managed to get actually came from a short throw in anyway

Wondering if anyone has any quick ways to tell what a fault might be on my car (will get it looked at soon but just even if i can brace myself in case it might be something pricey) - 1.6 turbo astra petrol, 52k miles on it - out driving yesterday, first ive noticed this. Lots of puddles/surface water, but i dont actually think i went through any prior to it starting, maybe exacerbated it, idk - no warning or dash lights - basically: the car runs more or less as normal, but at idle theres like a chugging noise started coming out of the engine and an occasional fairly high pitched kind of trill when its in motion. When the engine revs the chugging sound goes away - turning the engine off it now makes an unearthly screeching noise It went away when i started it up again today but came back after a couple of minutes of driving. Not sure. Fan belt/loose bearing? Did open the bonnet and the sound is coming kind of near the driver side tyre i think.

Yep. I know we're unlikely to go up but there's an uncomfortable thought if/when we get promoted to the top tier that I'm not going to bother my arse for a season ticket, and its pretty much solely due to VAR being a complete shitshow. edit: would also suggest that Rangers going into the 3rd tier was largely off the back of fans of 99% of clubs pointing out that if their club were liquidated there wouldn't be any clamour to get them back in at as high a level as palatable. If enough season ticket holders, even say 10% of regulars make genuine threats to withhold money then clubs do listen, because its i) very hard to replace that income and ii) once gone its hard to encourage them all to come back. Another edit - that's broadly going to be the best way to do it. Get enough names together across clubs, get them all to email the club when it comes to season ticket renewals that they're unwilling to fork out £300+ to go and watch games with any sort of VAR system. If they decide they'd rather cater to broadcasters/us being a pretendy tinpot English Premier League/referees humming and hawwing about not being able to referee UEFA or FIFA games, so be it.

Just remembered - what was Imrie (w**k) playing at when he went ballistic at the guy in the main stand? Just being a wee p***k as per usual, presumably annoyed the ball wasn't coming back quickly enough? Again - to reiterate - he is a complete cock, and I am delighted we ruined his day. Alan Archibald (good guy) didn't bust him open hard enough tbh

Safe now, hurrah! Arbroath away never feels like a comfortable fixture for us, but they've been the league whipping boys so theres not a better fixture *cliche klaxon* on paper for us to get back to back wins. McBeth & Aero at the back looked good, werent worked too hard by Morton but hopefully can be a good wee partnership for the run in. Glad we were (generally, Morton goal a 2nd phase from a wide free kick?) a lot more solid at set pieces too.