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Little Fires Everywhere This was absolutely brilliant. It's a drama starring Reese Witherspoon as a stepfordian mother of four and Kerry Washington as a struggling artist single mother who moves into a property owned by RW's character. They both put in riveting performances, but the show is stolen by the younger cast who knock it out of the park. It plays like a drama like Dawson's Creek, The OC or One Tree Hill, but with real grit, sincere emotional weight and characters who are well written enough to be highly flawed but engaging and sympathetic. Washington's character is a spiky bitch at the start, and she's a bit hard to like, but the way the story unfolds you start to not only understand the choices she makes (even if we're shaking our heads as it's the wrong one) but to root for her too. Witherspoon's character is a mother who wants everything to be perfect, and her descent into wicked stepmother mode is almost Shakespearean. She looked like she had a pile of fun with that character too. She was fucking awful at times, but I was absolutely hooked. The racism theme is mostly handled well. It explores white saviourism and how too much privilege (and not enough adversity) stunts character growth. It can get a bit on the nose at times and there were a couple of times I felt like I was being preached at, but this is a small gripe. It is set in white suburbia during the mid 90's, at a time before BLM and "woke" (the original meaning, not the milquetoast rainbow version derided nowadays) became part of the lexicon, so we see the beginning of the new political correctness and the anxiety of white bourgeoisie at the realisation of the necessity of lexical reconfiguration. This is only one of the themes explored in this series, and it's interwoven sensibly and congruently. Two of the main characters are black, after all. The acting and writing are both superb. The emotional tone of this doesn't leave a huge amount of room for humour, but there are moments of levity. Joshua Jackson essentially reprises his role from Dawson's Creek and he's an excellent foil for the more highly strung and controlling Elena (Witherspoon). I was shocked how much I absolutely loved this and how my emotions got the better of me many times. There was even a moment where Elena experiences an unexpected defeat and I was giving a hearty GIRUY to the screen. E.T.A it's one series wrapped up over 8 episodes. As I said earlier, this was fucking brilliant.

Neymar. I know this seems an odd shout because he is still excellent and one of the best in the world. The thing is, if he was around in the 90's, he would have been considered the greatest of them all. The man is a flair player to his bones, but in the current era that is coached out and players are expected to contribute more to the team, or to get the ball forward quickly and efficiently. Back in the 90's, or even the early noughties, he would have been given free rein to just do magic, and he would have been unstoppable. The modern obsession with stats and numbers means that Neymar will get sidelined in conversations around who is the best of his generation, simply as he hasn't scored enough goals. For those of us (absolute da's) for whom football is about beauty and magic rather than stats, Neymar would have been lauded in an earlier era.

That's an awful error by the GK. Goalie seems to be the only position where, even at elite level, the drop-off in quality between the first choice and second choice is sizeable. I'm thinking of that clown who was in goals for Man City last week. Hickey seemed to do fine according to the highlights. He seemed to get caught under the ball a few times but he'll learn from that. He's had some season.

This would be absolute bliss tbf. In European terms we'd find our level. It would mean that clubs here would have next to nothing to do with the Champions' League, but would instead more realistically aim to go further in the conference league, or reach the Europa group stages. I'd be grand with that as the champions League is fucking boring. The other thing that would excite me is the possibility of real innovation and creativity. Without Sky the SPFL could have kick off times based around the needs and wishes of supporters. Without the OF we could change the voting structure and, with fan ownership increasingly prevalent, governance could be more democratic. We can but dream though.

Not having this at all. He was a smashing right back for us. Not the best period for us but he doesnt deserve inclusion here. I also think you're being harsh on Fulton. He was fine with us. Juan Seba McBride is a wonderful blast from the past though. He wasn't awful, but Collins bigging him up hilariously meant he could only fail. Colin Stewart deserves his place. I feel awful for him though. Do you remember him having put in a few consecutive error-strewn performances and in the next game he was visibly shaking in goals? Me and my cousin were yelling for Campbell to sub him. It seemed a cruelty to keep him on the pitch. Gk- David Klein, Gary Gow. DF- McGinty, Kenny Brannigan, Denis Connaghan. CF- Jorge Cadet, John Gemmil. I can't think of any other shite as my tired mind has blanked that finnish lump who played up front for us during the Campbell years.

Am I going nuts or is this not true? It was Keown that formed the partnership with Liam Lindsay, rather than DD. Could be howling put my arse though. E.T.A. Cerny was fine in our relegation season.

Not true, but probably not in the way you think. Les agiteurs du chapelet tend to imagine that they are somehow forbidden from joining the masons by the masonic lodge itself, but it was in fact Pope Clement XII that banned catholics from joining the masons (masons being proudly secular but spiritual) in his 1738 papal bull entitled in eminente apostolatus. Until 1983 any catholic joining the freemasons would incur an automatic excommunication. Nowadays they just can't receive holy communion as joining the freemasons is considered a grave sin. You probably knew that, but I only found this out recently after years of listening to my auld da' and his catholic persecution complex.

Mass didn't switch to English til, iirc, 1972, so this can't be true.

The fella what wrote Peer Gynt? I'll have to re-watch that.

Thanks for not only posting the video, but taking the time to ensure that it started at the bit where he was asked the Gilmour question. I appreciated that. To the bit in bold, I know that this is something Tuchel said at the end, but I'm wondering if, at this stage in his development, that's a realistic expectation, especially if the club seem to be utter dross. It sounded more like a challenge, something to aim for, rather than a condition of getting back into the team. Assuming that it is a requirement, how would you go about judging whether he makes Norwich a "better team"? Dean Smith obviously thinks he makes them better otherwise he wouldn't keep putting him in the team. I honestly can't be arsed doing the leg work to really look at this though, and it would be quite the rabbit hole of stats, numbers and then questions of interpretations of said numbers. Sounds like you could be doing with something to occupy yourself though.....

I suppose it isn't a "true" home game in the sense that there won't be a corresponding away fixture, as in a two legged knock-out tie or group stage game. I'd be grand with us only giving Ukraine 1500, so I don't have a great issue with us only receiving 1500 for the smaller Stadio della Cardiff City.

Well done lads for voting against VAR. It's fucking astonishing that your club are the only one that seems to value "fan experience" as massively important. Cheers for trying.

The players a) drive and b) don't live at pittodrie .

Ooft. I like it

I'm already looking forward to the construction of the 100,000 seater Maryhill Maracana to accommodate our half of the weegie support. I hope we keep the voting structure as is. Wouldn't want our absolute stranglehold on the Scottish game to be threatened by uppity Embra clubs or that disagreeable lot from the North East.

Not sure why you'd be expecting a Jags fan, or indeed anyone, to have the answers you seek on why the current Airdrie manager isn't "part of the conversation" on the Hibs position. Given all the Mark McGhee posts I'd be fucking ecstatic that anyone was engaging with your query in anyway seriously . Hoping the Klinsmann shout is valid. That would be bonkers, but brilliant.

Given that Fergie got rid of McGrath who, like Best was a raging alcoholic, but had more of a work ethic, I wouldn't agree with this. Can you think of any such troubled geniuses who Fergie rehabilitated? I reckon the increase in focus around mental health generally would be more conducive to the likes of Best than just Fergie, so you might be right overall. Great idea for a thread, although less of the obscure initialisms please (I don't watch nearly enough non-scottish football for that). Scott Paterson would have been immense nowadays. Ball playing centre halves were like hen's teeth in the noughties, and sport science would have sorted his hip out earlier so he wouldn't end up at the Jags () and retiring at 29. He'd end up at a hipstery German outfit like Frankfurt or Mainz, before becoming an Ajax stalwart. I fucking fancy him.

Bateman, Shirley.

I just had a look at Thiago's highlights reel from last night that had a'body on here purring. I reckon Gilmour can get to that level. He wasn't going on massive runs, or making great tackles. he was making himself available and then playing beautiful passes. Gilmour can get to that level if he keeps working hard.

My ex's aul' fella is a huge cricket fan. Perfect sport to watch with a hangover tbf. Also, he used to occasionally turn out for Inverary cc and the slap up feed they'd get at "lunch" sounded epic. It's the part of cricket that's a big plus for me. Golf is absolutely one of my favourite sports to play. Folk who are just in to football are ftw imo.

Aye I don't know why that is or what you do about that. Anyone in youth coaching on here have any insight? And I hope you excuse the pedantry, but you find it incredible or you are incredulous.

The ASV is already a top class community sports complex, and is just a hop, skip and jump from the beach. The idea of having a hulking great football stadium right by the beach gives me the fear. Litter on the beach is already a problem in summer (blown from the promenade) and with the windy autumn and winter we get this would be a year round problem. The "cricket pitch" is popular with families and folk with dogs. I'd hate to see that go. I know this sounds like nimby pish, and it is. I live here, and love it.