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    Rugby Union

    in All Other Sports

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    1 minute ago, honestly united said:

    They said jsut before the match that they had swapped around the colours for the first time ever so home team gets first choice

    The slow death of the game which started when France stopped playing with brown match balls 

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    Nations League Draw (Thursday 5pm)

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

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    I think we have been pretty spoiled for ticket pricing in recent years and up until last campaign there was a good few Saturdays in there too.

    But 30 quid a head for a load of midweek games and 2/5 being dugmeat friendlies isn't very appealing.

    Particularly with the ticket for a major finals achievement unlocked. 

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    World Cup 2026

    in Misc Other Fitba Chat

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    2 hours ago, JS_FFC said:

    Is that right? They were saying the other day that if Dallas was selected it would have been the first indoor World Cup final. 

    They're both right. I think they mean without any cover as opposed to a fully closing roof.

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    Pavement Parking

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    I have " some" sympathy that town planning over the past 40 years has been moronically copying America with out of town leisure parks, amalgamation of schools and living in a horrible soulless suburban housing scheme where you have to jump in a car as soon as you leave the front door is an indicator of getting on.

    I'm lucky to live in Scotlands best city where our barely adequate bus network is enough to exist alongside most places being a less than hour walk from everything worth going to.

    The only good thing about the death of the high street is that city centres should be given over to being residential areas again.

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    Dundee United 23/24

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    8 hours ago, Aufc said:

    Football clubs are businesses but they are kinda unlike other businesses. People involved in football clubs make decisions that they wouldn’t ordinarily make in their day to day businesses. 

    It’s in the same in the lower leagues. I would say the majority of the clubs in the lower leagues are pretty unsustainable and rely on individuals putting money in. However, there is no FFP in the lower leagues. I think there would be an unofficial percentage for playing costs to turnover but I don’t think it’s ever enforced. I would think the championship clubs would all be ok as the attendances and prize money are decent (Dundee Utd perhaps not due to their large cost base). League 1 & 2 clubs I would question how sustainable they are. 

    How many L1 or L2 teams have gone into administration/liquidation?

     

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    Midlands League

    in North Pyramid

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    5 hours ago, CaspianChris said:

    What's required for the licence to be granted?

    That's not something I am familiar with.

    There are ground regs eg floodlights, changing rooms for teams and officials, covered standing etc 

     

    A lot of people seem to think floodlights = license 

     

    Loads in the background that most folk don't consider around legal, healthy and safety, safeguarding and all sorts of other compliance 

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    Midlands League

    in North Pyramid

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    If the league have any sense of theatre they will organise a Saturday Wednesday double header.

    Re licensing: nothing official but moves afoot and I'd anticipate Broughty would have the physical infrastructure to achieve licensing in time for end of 25/26. 

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    Learning a new language. How did you do it?

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    1 hour ago, VincentGuerin said:

    Listening can be tricky, but there are ways round it.

    One is to find listening material on topics you know. Sounds obvious, but if you know what they're talking about as a concept rather than only because of language, then it's easier to follow. Things like football podcasts in the language you're learning are good because you know what they're saying.

    If you know Bayern got beat at the weekend, then you know what the conversation is about and you aren't working as hard to follow it. If you know Real Madrid are looking at signing a player from Dortmund, then following a conversation about it is a job half-done before you start. If you listen to a news story that you already know in English, you get the same benefit. In Italian I'm finding watching old football matches and current weather and news reports useful for this reason. But if I just put on a radio documentary about an unfamiliar topic, I'd be fucked.

    When it comes to speaking and writing, it's all about habit and vocabulary. Never learn a word as a word. Always learn it in a phrase. This is where my missus' wee stickers work well. Don't learn the word "table". That's not much use. Learn the phrase, "put that on the table for me". You're learning so much more, and that way you build fluency much faster.

    I tell my pupils to watch weather forecasts given its one of the basics you will cover anyway, you get used to repeat phrases and you can see what they are talking about.

    And you get a new one free every day 

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    Learning a new language. How did you do it?

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Depends what you want it for. You then need to practice that skill as much as you can. You don't learn a language as one skill. You learn to read, write, speak and listen as 4 distinct skills.

    In my experience the order of difficulty is.

    Listening - you are not in control of content or pace. It's jumping in the pool and needing to swim.

    Speaking - you have some control but the pace needs to be there

    Writing - You control the pace and topic but maybe don't have sufficient vocabulary

    Reading - This is the easiest as you will recognise words and phrases but you might not have had the skills originated  them yourself.

    You could make a case for swapping Reading and writing around given the control thing.

    With that in mind, if you can't immerse yourself, listen to podcasts and radio in the language you want. There is simply no substitute for hearing pacing, pronunciation and emphasis.

    These days there is bound to be online conversation classes but speak to the dog, trees or Allah to ensure you practice speaking out loud.

    2 hours ago, Ross. said:

    Children’s books. Also, watch movies you have seen before with subtitles on and just read the subtitles, or watch movies in that language with English subtitles on. 

    If it works for you then great but in my experience of learning and teaching you will completely tune out of a language if you are reading your native language.

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