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I think my favourite blink and you’ll miss it player (although he was there for a few years) was Franck Escalon, just oozed class. The thing about all Coopers teams was they were just built to attack, you just never knew what you were going to get. Well apart from when we played Caley and it was always going to be 3-0 with Iain Stewart scoring.
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On 07/04/2024 at 12:14, silver said:
Dreadful season so far-again. Cant even be bothered to watch the highlights on sportscene. Wouldnt be surprised if we are 7 points adrift from 10th by the end of next weekend. Play offs it is. Is DC the man to take us forward? its a no for me.
LOL
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26 minutes ago, sergie's no1 fan said:
Hoping Brophy doesn't join the same club as Alex Bone and Steven McGarry in scoring for County against us.
Anyone else I've missed?
Alex Burke scored against St Mirren, but joined St Mirren afterwards. So wasn’t an ex player scoring at that point. I’m sure there are more.
Marcus Fraser and Yohan Arquin scored against us playing for you guys.
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11 hours ago, Trogdor said:
@ancientnoise & @Caro-Kann need put in their place. With the natural order being restored next season.
Interested to know if some of the old guard might return? @DeeTillEhDeh @Ludo*1 @eindhovendee @Ziggy @Loki Far too many good chess players support Dundee... an odd correlation. That being said, Scotland's first Grand Master was from Dundee. Anyone know who that is?
I will have to give that a hard no, I was full on Tetris Effect mad playing that much chess. I did have two boards set up at home with each league game and in my lunch and break I would be practising moves.
Plus putting all that practice in and still getting beat by you was disheartening
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Anyway for the appointment of Don there was no one really else to consider. Thought it would be Derek or Don last time, so there is only one choice now. A good opportunity for him and hope he does well. Understands the club and has attended matches since he was kid. Being ballboy at our record win against St Cuthbert Wanderers.
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4 hours ago, bunglebonce said:
Putting it out there that I'm not comfortable with speculating about someone's condition or otherwise on a public forum.
Totally agree. To be technical we are all on the Autistic spectrum. To be diagnosed with ASD you have to test high in three different factors. Social interaction is only one of those.
I have undergone autistic testing and scored highly in the systemisation and routine aspect, but low on the others. If we all took a test we will find that we all share traits associated with ASD, but at no point would anyone be close to being diagnosed with one factor.
If anyone is interested in autism and finding out more can look up the work of Simon Baron-Cohen (cousin of Sasha).
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2 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
Neilson only takes jobs where he’s got the biggest budget in the league - Hearts/United in the Championship.
So you’re saying he wait until the end of the season before taking it?
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Quite possibly the worst appointment in Ross County’s history. Since that interview against Dundee it’s been an utter car crash.
it started pretty well to be honest, the team looked remarkably more solid and cohesive. Then BOOM. He fucked it.
In his last tenure there were issues with Grant Munro, Paul Lawson, Mikey Fraser, Sean Higgins etc but he just hasn’t changed at all.
So what name will Roy pull out of his tombola now? His only other signature move is steal someone from Caley.
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That’s definitely the best use of a hand since Diego Maradona.
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5 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:
@Loki watched any good films today?
I watched Groundhog Day. I forgot how good Bill Murray is in it. Listening to Sonny and Cher and having to meet Ned Ryerson everyday would drive me insane. A very good film, and quite possibly Egon Spengler's best work as a director. 8/10.
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55 minutes ago, peasy23 said:
Pleased for Sinner, seen it often that a player beats Djokovic/Nadal/Federer but puts so much into it that he loses his next match, and for much of yesterday that looked like being the case. Did really well to dig deep and turn it around.
I think it was a combination of Medvedev just being unable to continue at the level due to running out of steam and Sinner coming into the match.
No one in history has ever been on court as long as Medvedev in his Australian Open run. Much like Murray his exertions in getting to the final probably robbed him of the chance of performing at the highest level.
Edited to add: Sinner deserves much credit for just sticking in there and believing that he would do it. Once he broke in that third set, it felt to me like the many matches Andy turned around. The I’ve got you now moments.
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Medvedev becomes the only player in history to lose two Slam finals from two sets up. Now has lost five slam finals from six.
Sinner was superb in the end, he couldn’t cope with Medvedev’s disruptive brilliance and then took Medvedev’s legs away much like Novak has done to so many of his victims in Australia.
He was absolutely ruthless against Novak and has been incredible the last six months. That was the first ever completed slam match where Novak never made a break point.
In the women’s side Sabalenka is just relentless. Her mental demons are just slowly disappearing, and her pressure on Gauff after what happened at the US Open was great to see. It’s difficult to think that two years ago she would double fault fifteen times a match.
Andy Murray returns to action tonight against Benoit Paire. Probably the biggest waste of talent tennis has ever seen. He’ll be wanting to put behind his awful display at the Australian Open.
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It will be due to waterlogging rather than being a frozen pitch.
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I’d imagine Adams was emotive as he hates losing, and can be one of the biggest whiners ever. So a large part of that interview should be taken with a pinch of salt.
However, having seen what he does many times, he is angling for a bigger budget to be given to him in January. McGregor would have heard him loud and clear and will no doubt give him more money.
Comments were over the top but I thought he was slagging the squad he has inherited.
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On 09/11/2023 at 07:30, TheScarf said:
I've been having a think about his career. Am I right in saying he only beat any of the big 3 in a grand slam match 4 times?
Nadal in the 2008 US Open SF
Federer at the 2013 Australian Open SF
Djokovic at the 2012 US Open F and the 2013 Wimbledon F?
I'd have to go and check but I think that's it.
He beat Nadal in Australia before Lendl came on board the first time.
The thing people forget when comparing head to heads is that even when Murray wasn't playing well he never really had a shock exit apart from maybe Kevin Anderson in US Open 2015. He worked and grinded out through the field until he met the big three. Nadal and Federer were out there losing to Fognini, Seppi, Berdych, Tsonga, Muller, Ferrer, Darcis, Rosol and Stakhovski before they were seeded to face Murray. In 2014 he went 0-9 against them. Murray has only played Nadal once off clay since 2011, usually as he couldn't get past a jobber.
Two of the most surprising things about Murray's career - he never played Federer on clay and he never played Nadal being coached by Lendl.2 -
On 22/01/2023 at 22:25, Loki said:
If this was any previous manager Roy would fire him at full time on Saturday, and scramble for players on the Monday to turn this around. With either Chipper appointed as interim manager or he will fire up the Derek Adams klaxon. I fear he may be too invested in this appointment so the window will close without him being fired.
Called it.
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1 hour ago, Sensible Soccer
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The pitch is fine, as has been reported. Not sure what the relevance of fields and your car park are.
It's raining yes, but nothing too bad. We'll have matches played in far worse weather, due to strong winds.
It was just used to indicate how much rain had fallen over the morning, and surface water was being retained. This has lead to local flooding.
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That’s the road between Strathpeffer and Dingwall closed due to flooding.
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16 minutes ago, Hendo said:
when the trains are back on, and the weather on the way up is fine.
That’s all well and good but the rain where the game is actually taking place isn’t fine
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2 hours ago, Sensible Soccer said:
Mental, I've been out this morning and it's a great day for a game of football, the SM team are in Inverness and the pitch is perfectly good. Match called off due to police intervention & bad weather in Perth.
If this is how we are proceeding, how are we ever going to get through any winter?
Surely fans can decide themselves whether to travel or not due to conditions near them.
I am assuming you don’t live in Dingwall, as it’s been utterly pishing down all morning. There is surface water on the fields near me, and also anywhere the drainage is a bit slow.
The car park where I live is a miniature Loch. With the forecast to see rain fall until after 6pm even if the game started there isn’t any guarantee it would finish. And then you potentially could have travel stopped for travelling fans on the way home.
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It's a free flowing game of Rugby and Scotland have played well to bury their hoodoo against Ireland and they lead 45 - 28 on 77 minutes. Both teams have got four tries and have secured bonus points. South Africa are going to win the group on points difference, and Scotland second due to head to head. What's to stop Ireland just conceding another try? That puts us top on points scored, and SA out on head to head.
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3 hours ago, Leith Green said:
This thread reminded me of something really strange I saw on Saturday morning - I was walking through Cameron Toll shopping centre and saw a guy walking toward me in a Ross County top.
Not that strange, you might say - although maybe the first one I have seen in Edinburgh outside of a match day.
The odd bit was, as he got close to me I noticed he had a tattoo on his left arm...................and it was the Hearts badge !!
I would have taken a photo, but he went into a quiet shop, not busy enough for an "undercover" photie.
Wierd, eh?
How old would you guess the person was? There is a time frame before County came into the SPFL where people would have a “big” team and attend County games. So it would certainly be more common for 40 odds and above. Still a wrong ‘un for sure
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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:Feels rare for teams to survive this kind of start. If we lose next week v Livingston, then we're approaching one of the worst starts to a season for decades.
Apart from Ross County who do it every season. Seven points already is going against the script.
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Pretty good win for GB in the Davis Cup to go through to the finals that will be played in November. The draw is on Wednesday I think and could be drawn against Serbia or Italy.
For me Novak has been the GOAT since he won all four in a row playing perfect tennis. As his physicality has declined he has adapted his game more and more. He’ll still be in a good place to challenge for all four next year too. Should wipe Court’s 24 from the record books.
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The General Ross County Chat Thread
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Home to Aberdeen, then home to Motherwell, away to Livi, Home to Hibs and then away to Saintees would be ideal for our five. Hibs and Livi hopefully downed tools by that point.