Swampy

I reckon that's right too.

Tbh if you're looking forward to pretty much anything for five years it's likely to disappoint.

I am this kind of gimp but that's why I'm happy to leave Ibiza for folk who like to party all night. Folk who go there for a relaxing getaway are indeed doing it wrong. I went on a couple of party holidays when I was younger and basically if you're not more knackered than when you left - and I mean you're dying on the flight back - you are an irredeemable gimp. I'm far too old for this now. I've found myself not only relaxing poolside but doing so with a book. If I went to Ibiza with mates and did that, they'd have every right to drown me in the Mediterranean.

Smart in the sense that they'll have extremely high wage demands, but there are some very good players in the EPL and it's churlish to deny that.

The EPL=money thing can't really be overstated when clubs like Leicester are signing first-teamers from clubs like Inter. It's like the late 80s and early 90s when English players were ending up at clubs like Sampdoria (not even just Juventus and Milan). You have to acknowledge the role TV money is playing in squad-building when that happens. However, Barcelona and Madrid, even allowing for the recent changes to tax law in Spain, are still absolutely the top draw. There's no way the average player would go to City over Barcelona. I'm not actually sure where Bayern fit into this equation as they don't seem to go for players from England very much.

1) humor = funny 2) nah you don't

Originally this post had a different filtered word in it, but Dee Man shook his head and exhaled while backspacing. "Can't even call people sectarian slurs these days," he added, probably.

I wouldn't blame you if you did tbh

Are you reading what your fellow Dee is up to? He's mounting a spirited campaign to call people ****.

I was defending you! You're spot on with this.

Mr X might be a terrible moderator/person but denying Dundee fans license for sectarian outrage is a piece of benevolence for which he should really be thanked. The mask slips often enough for the 'derry boys' without the entire lexicon being permitted.

I didn't say the squad wasn't big enough, I said the exact fucking opposite.

I agree, 20 is about our 'natural' level because we're a strong footballing country with decent infrastructure. But put it this way - being a few places short is much less of an aberration than being 10 places high, as we were just a few short years ago. And at that exact time, people were still saying Scottish football was a laughing stock, it was dying etc. They always do, regardless of what's actually happening. It's for this reason that I don't worry too much about our ranking - it's going to ebb and flow, but the average Scottish pundit is going to be slamming our game regardless, while crowds remain pretty consistent.

Nice to see the passage of time hasn't dampened Mr X's enthusiasm for terrible moderating one bit.

The francs were just resting in his account.