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I think the 1-1 game in 2007 was when the Dundee squad had been ravaged by a flu bug and Rae played himself as a lone striker.I had to look up Mandela Effect to be fair but having done so I agree.
I'd accept in Cup terms we probably are a bogey team to Dundee. There's no doubt that Dundee are a far bigger club than Queen of the South. Notwithstanding this we've met three times in the last 13 years in the Scottish Cup, two of them you were drawn at home in and we've won them all. All in fairly bizarre circumstances and all of which you really were favourites for.
2019 - We were a division below albeit Dykes, Dobbie and Todd were on fire at the time and you were bottom of the Premier. You borderline stole a 1-1 draw at Dens and then Dobbie's hat trick beat you at Palmerston with one o/s goal from distance and two seized on short back passes!
2008 - The Cup Q-F when you contrived to make about 60% of your first choice eleven unavailable through being cup tied, suspended or falling through glass tables! We won 2-0. It had the 84 yard goal.
2007 - We were poor that season but were finding some form after Xmas. Snuck a 1-1 draw at Dens and then should have won the replay as we led three times but it went to penalties where BJ Corr had the 10 mins of his career and saved two to win it before going tonto at our own fans who had been criticising him all season and having to be dragged away. Don't think he played for us again.
Although we've lost three League Cup ties at Dens between 1988 and 2002, we also had a couple of wins at Palmerston in the League Cup too if you go back far enough including the infamous 6-0 where Gordon Strachan claimed before the game he didn't even know where Dumfries was!
Basically you pretty much always find bizarre ways to lose cup ties at Palmerston. The only time you've ever won a cup tie at Palmerston was a Dryburgh Cup tie in 1974!
In league games though there really isn't any bogey effect happening.0 -
I think he had a great game or two against us for Stranraer as well.All I learned from that post (other than revisiting horrible memories) is the reason I thought Barry John Corr was a decent keeper despite being hated by QotS fans.0 -
Should really have been back on loan getting some game time. Batshit how they've handled the 'keeper situation when you see that and then Gordon lining up against them.Also Conor Hazard was just okay for Dundee last season, Lennon is a clown for him being the Celtic number 1 at the minute.1 -
I was getting a haircut so stopped in a council car park at the back of the wee Sainsbury's (across from Mennies) on the Perth Road, it's been free for as long as I can remember. The main road is free for 45 mins as well but was full.
Come out to a £30 fine about half an hour later. Turns out that it's pay and display with the first two hours free. Was about to have a heads gone and blame poor signage but all clearly noted. FFS.
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On 25/11/2020 at 21:59, welshbairn said:
I wonder why he never pardoned Paul Manafort? He been released to home confinement because of Covid, but apparently they bent the rules as hadn't served enough of his sentence. Maybe he doesn't have anything on him.
At the time around his sentencing, the talk was that Giuliani had intervened specifically to make Trump not to do it. These were the trials that had Trump named as a co conspirator 'Individual 1 who serves as President of the United States'. If Manafort is charged by the state (which Manhattan DA is trying to do), he'll claim (and is already fighting this and winning through the courts in NY) defence under 'double jeopardy' - perhaps part of that process involved exhausting all the appeals etc. Maybe some of that reduces the heat on Trump and creates some legal defence.
I think Flynn is just an idiot who just got his reward of a pardon for being loyal more than anything else and didn't really tangle much with Trump.
I think all added up, the sentence Manafort got was something just under 7 years given some of the time served concurrently and being detained for nearly a year. For a very well connected guy in his 70s with tens of millions stacked away in various places and the crime he's convicted of being tax fraud, I would suspect that he'll find a way out without his pardon very soon, wouldn't be surprised if he never returns to prison.
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Mark Brown has 7 - Rangers, Motherwell, Inverness, Celtic, Killie, Hibs and Ross County
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23 minutes ago, Narey's Toepoker said:
Finding it really hard to find highlights of recent Dundee games - seems to be a lack of highlights on YouTube and the SPFL Match Centre (which promised highlights and full match reruns) hasn't been updated for weeks.
Can anyone advise as to how Dundee have been lining up formation-wise? I assume they've gone back to a back 4 with Byrne and Adam in centre mid. Is it 2 up front or 4-2-3-1? Transfermarkt has McGowan as playing wide right against Arbroath which surprised me.
It starts off as a 4-2-3-1. Adam and Byrne deep. Jakubiak on left, Anderson through middle and Gowser on the right. Mullen up top.
Gowser has played as a wide midfielder a fair few times under McPake. The idea is usually some weird diamond to force central midfielders on the pitch and we usually fall to shit with the whole defensive shape out of possession (think back to the game at Inverness last season).
Last week, that attacking 3 all roamed around quite a lot side to side with Jakubiak and Gowser getting inside and Anderson taking periods coming off the flank. Our full backs were also fairly high to support those three to let them move inside. We played some nice stuff in possession (Gowser was at his best and had a couple of brilliant through balls that should have been converted in addition to his goal) but there were a couple of moments in the first half where Arbroath nearly punished us on the flanks with the space we gave them.
Have a feeling tomorrow will go badly wrong for McPake, there's been a couple of improved performances but think Robertson will have a field day if we're setting up with the same defensive shape. Either 3-0 Dundee or 3-0 Inverness.
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Is it one device per ticket for Saturday? I appreciate that's a stupid question but bought 2 logins for the Brora game then afterwards noticed in the small print that 1 subscription allowed 2 devices.
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I'll tell you a story completely unrelated. Nobody will believe it but hey ho.
I was researching conspiracy stuff about a bit over 10 years ago. For a few months read all the stuff see what its all about.
So I thought you hear all about the Illuminati what the f**k is it aw aboot. Googled it, one of the first things that came up was a post on a forum. So I read it.
It was a guy who said something like he used to be a member of the Illuminati but he left or got kicked out or whatever.
And he wanted to share some news, he said they had recently elected a new leader. Said it was a kid who was 26 or had just turned 27, gave some info about him blah blah blah. It was a new direction for them, going with youth and he had big ideas to move things forward much quicker etc etc.
This was......2008 I believe btw. So anyway, he went into detail it wasn't vague. Even told you his name. Jared Kushner. That was his fuckin name. This is over eight years before Trump got elected, and who could have predicted that would happen.
Never forgot it, I'm not big on conspiracy stuff like that, I believe JFK but not usually stuff like this. But see if it was true, look at the fuckin position he's in now, with the power that he has. What a coincidence eh, and no way anybody could predicted that would happen. Of all the people in the world you could have chosen if you made that up, this guy, a complete unknown at the time, ends up basically in charge of the country in the most mental administration eight years later, having never had any previous involvement in politics. Amazing.
Kushner was running his incarcerated fathers company by 2008 and had completed the biggest real estate deal in history. Alongside that, he had bought the Observer and was a establishing a big name in journalism in NY.
He wasn't an unknown. It would be like waiting for one of Rupert Murdoch's kids to inherit shitloads of responsibility and then predicting that they might well be someone to watch in a few years.2 -
20 hours ago, 101 said:
My dad got one for £30 on eBay, but when he was speaking to a tyer fitter he said eBay is a nightmare for finding exactly the right type so I guess he got lucky.
Checked this morning and it was all a bit of a mismatch with the only one that I was sure would reliably fit being +£100. Ended up finding one similarishly priced to your dads deal when I checked in the afternoon, that had just went up, and included the manufacturers type jack so just went for that.
Bought it with the knowledge of what I was getting and didn't realise it could be as awkward to source myself, lesson for next time to make sure they get it in there before I do a deal.
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15 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said:
I'd say it's certain he's going to sign. Dundee have made sure his name has been slipped out before they put the training picture of him up.
They could easily have not used that photo.
And they could very easily just say that he's just here for facilities if that's the case.
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Just bought a car and it's come with no space saving tyre but the space is there for one.
What's the sort of cost I should be looking at for one? Put in the exact model no and found them for +£100 which seems to be taking the piss for me.
If I got one that was from a similar model but slightly smaller, would that likely do the job?0 -
Yeah that's it for me as well. Good quality cup of coffee, comfy sofas and some theatrics to welcome you. Would rather just have a straight talking p***k and sit on wobbly bar stools and a GP receptionist to greet on arrival.Would genuinely rather pay way more from elsewhere if a garage come out with all that pish.
I do feel for them though, obviously just bamboozle them at training days with all of this. Can see the genuine pain with the flatness at the end when it's not went the direction they were pushing.0 -
Weren't too many AC references tbf, a few attempts to try and explain how Peter Vardy operate and fit in a comment about their charity work but just zoned out by that point.Did they not give you we’re so different to AC patter too?!0 -
2 minutes ago, RH33 said:
Sounds like Peter Vardy?
Spot on
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Went for a test drive there at one of our national dealerships. Turned up and it was a model £1k more expensive than the one I'd booked but went along with it for the drive nonetheless. Drove fine but was filthy after the guy bragged about its cleanliness in the showroom minutes before (not that it really bothered me but just found it funny).
After it, I explained that the only way I can act on it would be if it was in the range of the model I'd originally looked at but thanked him and said he could be helpful on organising something on that front a bit closer and was open to that make and model. The guy went through all his financial talk giving it the whole nonsense spiel about "We sell 3 out of 10 cars at a lost" and some horrific attempts at demonstrating interest rate calculations for about ten minutes then kept 'going away to get something for me' and coming back to just try and reset the conversation. I was told that this is the only car in the world at this price of that quality and next month, there would be no cars in existence in my budget. Almost killed me with the no of figures and circular logic he kept throwing in.
Politely resisted each of his attempts and was looked at like I'd just taken a giant shite in the middle of the showroom. I appreciate it may not make sense for them to drop any lower on it if they fancy their chances elsewhere but fucking hell, the whole think was excruciating. Just being talked down to intensely by someone who has little grasp of numbers.
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On 27/11/2020 at 20:45, UsedToGoToCentralPark said:On 20/11/2020 at 11:42, harry94 said:So thoughts on this one all....
I own a 3 cylinder 1l corsa that's around 6 years old, I think around 35k miles. Always done me fine, minor issues every year with servicing an it's went on it's way. The most severe issue I can find in its history was when it was a couple of years old when the ignition coil pack went and caused a loss of power, the previous owner got that sorted the same day.
So at the weekend, I noticed a loss of power, not too dissimilar to that set of symptoms so I tried to book it into a garage ASAP. I went somewhere new because they had availability to address the issue soon and I'd heard they were decent. On the morning I went to drive it down, I couldn't get it started or jumped and had to get it towed half a mile from the RAC.
The moment I spoke to the guy at the garage and explained what had happened and going through what the RAC guy had shown me on his diagnostic and his speculation re the ignition coil pack, he was heading me down the road of it being something they wouldn't be able to deal with - "No error codes is strange and usually mean it's a serious issue that would have to go back to the dealer" -. After a couple of days, has told me they have nothing and an engine compression test has told them two cylinders have no internal pressure and it's past anything they can do.
I don't really have any reason to doubt them and there's nothing against these guys to suggest they are inept but part of this just doesn't feel right, I know improbable events do happen but it just feels all wrong to me that I'd get that talk very early and the really early warning re error codes just comes across as total bullshit to me, it may have been expectations control but I would have thought that an actual mechanic wouldn't have been too reliant on sensors.
So I'm down £50 on that diagnostic and potentially facing the cost of a new car. What would be the best economical decision to make? Ask my more favoured garage for a second opinion and pay for their time or brave a Vauxhall dealer or just make the decision now to completely write this off and try and salvage sell on value?Is it a 1L Turbo? What year and exact model?
On 27/11/2020 at 21:03, RandomGuy. said:Would be interested to know exactly what code the RAC got out the car.
The days of listening to the engine, adjusting the distributor/cleaning the points is long, long, gone. If you've not got a diagnostic system then you're massively unlikely to resolve an issue unless you've got a lot of experience with certain issues (e.g. VWs have issues with Coolant temp sensors/BMWs bring on every ABS light when the left rear ring is fucked).
If any 3 cylinder engine is misfiring without a code, theres a high chance its burnt out a valve. They're just a bit soft.
It is a Corsa S Ecoflex 2014 model. Mileage was actually closer to 45k. Bought it off a family member and was just a low powered runaround for a few years.
Got it to a garage I trust a lot more who have a good mechanic who always does me right. He had a check and thought the timing belt had jumped a tooth. Gave me the prognosis and we decided to chance it and try the new belt. The fix failed, he showed me the valves today and they were a state, around half of them had bent and one just shattered completely. Maybe my hearing is shit but the noise didn't really sound that catastrophic, just thought it was an issue with the ignition.
Quote for the new engine was something like £2400 + VAT and then covering all his labour obviously. He didn't fancy fitting a second hand one (and I couldn't be arsed going elsewhere) so he's done me a decent deal buying it off me for a few hundred pound so just going to move on and sort out something else. A bit of a b*****d as I've been waiting on a new job that's been delayed after my PhD so just down to one income with my partner so not sure what the financing will be like (or if anyone will even give it right now - seen a few with Arnold Clark and Peter Vardy) but car isn't 100% essential right now and have access to one for shopping etc so can hopefully put off to the new year. Something less weak hopefully.
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19 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:
More than £100billion. I think the starting pot is likely to be about a tenth of that, so a decade of restrained spending is needed to build it up, post independence as per SGC.
If they can do what you say instead that's a much more attractive prospect, but it requires some explicit policy that this is the aim. Not sure if they're there yet, I think because 2014 told them that a working class voter base was insufficient and they are still sounding out people in middle class jobs particularly around finance to see how many they can flip, and that is driving a degree of coyness while they are doing that behind the scenes.
It's an interesting topic, whenever I've tried to find papers on the issue, the whole negotiation settlement is kind of glossed over with references to inheriting debt meaning the cash reserves are developed from scratch. Not my area of expertise and I'm probably havering nonsense but I've never really found the debt inheritance arguments particularly persuasive, it's a good campaigning tactic but there's no real benefit in setting your neighbours house on fire, Osborne was all over the bailout for Ireland (and their banking sectors) instantly.
It's just hard for me to see the UK gov threatening to push a tangled economy into a fiscal crisis that could spill into their territory at the expense of contributions towards servicing debt that is in their name already, servicing hovers around the 5% of UK expenditure. Just set up some sort of mechanism where iScotland can pay into that pro rata with a bit of flex and we're all happy. A lot of the takes in the media are under the impression that the assets are just liquefied to pay all the liabilities up front which is blatantly nonsense.
It would be nice to maybe see the leadership sink their teeth into it but get the impression that they are just quite cautious with what they put out for the reasons you say.
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1 minute ago, MixuFruit said:
I can appreciate why they haven't attacked GERS, as they did indeed praise it when it was telling a positive story in the late 2000s and early 2010s. There are good reasons to offer a critique on the process but the general public don't have the economic knowledge to trust what they're being told. It's a place for economists to advise the government and the government to make policy but I don't think there are many votes in it. I as a committed independence supporter will vote for independence regardless of what GERS says, just as a committed unionist would do the same thing. It's possibly a thing to focus your messaging on interactions with Edinburgh's financial services sector rather than getting into the nitty gritty on TV when most people will just zone out.
They can't launch a new currency on day 1 because they won't have sufficient cash reserves to convert into this currency in order to collateralise a central bank. They've judged Sterlingisation (not currency union this time) as the least worst interim position but no option is without problems. Whether we ultimately join the EU and eurozone or not we will at some point need to have our own currency, it just takes time to set up the things we need to make that credible to bond buyers etc.
Re the establishment of a new currency, how much cash reserves are we actually talking about?
I know Richard Murphy isn't a specialist in macroeconomic policy but his interpretation was that in the post indy negotiations, Holyrood would obtain a proportion of the UK Gov and Bank of England's reserves and that would just be siphoned easily into the new currency whilst it is pegged to the UK pound in the early years with only a very brief sterlingisation interim period (i.e. not the years that the growth commission stated).
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https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/OverviewWhere do you get this level of detail?
You can play around with that and get case data by neighbourhoods.
The rolling 7 day test positivity rates are generally the best sense checks IMO.4 -
19 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
Jimmy Nicholl as assistant was a much better idea on paper than it turned out to be. I originally thought Strachan would be more hands on. And Andy O'Boyle would have been a massive coup on his own not only for his coaching reputation but also for the contacts we'd have been able to tap into.
I thought at the time that a successful team built around McPake would have been better than Goodwin on his own or Kenny Miller. Goodwin was by far the best option if it were just on his own but as he's proving at St Mirren, I don't think we'd have been a 100x better than we are now if we had him.
The manager I wanted last time round was Weighorst or Duffy (And I said at the time I expected to be slated for that shout) IIRC.
At least he was justified a job in some way working with NI, Rangers and St Mirren relatively recently whilst Mackay come in off the back of coaching St Johnstone's 20s and then that spell part-time managing Stirling. Nicholl may have been competent and playing a part but there's only so much that could do if the manager is so much out of his depth. Inclined to think he was good at his job for what it's worth but that's a guess, we had some horror shows last season but we never had a 5 game run as bad as this.
The O'Boyle and Strachan stuff was pretty disingenuous from McPake and the club, they knew what they were doing and were careful in the language they used knowing that it would create a misleading narrative.
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In all honesty, I never really saw the complaints made about his work rate etc and poor games. Below average finisher but brilliant hold up player and very smart in how he played the channels etc.The very one.
That's unreal. Had so much potential but cared more about his trying to look good.
Only really remember one poor game when he come back from injury under McCann in a home game V County and he wasn't fit. Just think his back issue had become too much, he'd suffered serious issues before arriving.
Take him out the 16/17 team and I think we're fairly easily relegated. The ability to hold a ball up with little in midfield and playing alone just took so much pressure off. Don't think the 7-0 game is near as bad if he's on the pitch.0 -
A rookie manager isn't going to admit that he's clueless and spends the majority of his time asking what someone else would do.
Strachan is heavily involved in everything that happens at Dundee footballing wise. There's hints of that if you want to see them. McPake has admitted, in the middle of conversations about different subjects, that Strachan is regularly consulted on things.
You won't believe me, and that's fine, I'm just telling you why you're stuck with a rookie manager even when McPake leaves.
Re the mentions of Strachan, I think this needs to be taken in context of his arrival at the club.
The club knew the optics of appointing another novice and made attempts to visualise the 'management team' at all costs, even before Strachan had a formal position, it wasn't even clear if McPake was manager or co-manager with Nicholl at the time of his arrival when you read the actual statement.
McPake's first interview was focused on emphasising that he had the approval of the 'auld heids' and 'advice'. It was the spin we were going for and drafted to alleviate fans concerns.
Having a technical director is very common for full time clubs and more likely the case than not. In our case, Strachan is on no contract and has dived into the academy stuff and there's never really been a suggestion from a first team player or management that he's really involved on that side.
I'm sure he's well trusted by Nelms and may well be the key person for major decisions but I don't think there's anything to suggest especially rare influence. Think we're full of shit and try to imply Strachan does a lot more than he does.
In all honesty, I would actually say we're probably giving way too much freedom to our manager and should have a full time technical director with one of their briefs being assisting on first team recruitment, as is the case in most of the top flight.0 -
2 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:
What sell on value?
Was assuming there is some sort of Manky Frankie mentalist who would enjoy hacking it to bits.
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2020/2021 Scottish Cup
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Why is this game in Kelty?