tom_widdows

It does help when you get into the Europa league qualifiers after losing in the champions league. That way you are put in a separate pot and generaly play the champions from the other smaller nations who lost out in the champs league, and have a much bigger chance of avoiding cup winners and 5th placed teams from Italy, Holland, Spain, Englandshire etc etc. Also the Faroes team got a bye to this round due to their opposition falling foul of Covid.

So the Swiss just effectivelly told their equivalent of UKIP/ Tory ERG to GTF and have voted to keep freedom of movement of EU citizens 63-37% The SVP (Swiss People's Party) are the largest party in the Swiss Government and have been pushing to 'take back control of its borders' for years and were pissed off in 2014 when their narrow referndum victory on bringing in Immigration quotas was rendered effectivelly worthless by the time the Swiss Parliament was done with it. I'm wondering if their citizens have been looking at the clusterfuck of whats happening in the UK and put some real thought into the consequences of their actions?

Don't think there is much going on with the new Stadium but found this are hearing about it on Off The Ball. FC Emmen's Stadium Entrance. They are sponsored by a Sex Toy Company

I'd like to think the players and coaches etc will use this as a learning experience Assuming that McKenna was set to be in the team but was pulled out about lunchtime today when Notts Forest came up with the goods the gameplan the team had worked on either completely went out the window or was dealt a significant blow and the inability of all to adapt to this is needs to be addressed. Yes it was one of the clubs top players but we were playing the team at the bottom of the league. How often do players injure themselves in the warm-up, and suddenly the tactics have to adapt/ change? On the other hand this may have been another example of team spectacularly disintigrating at home like when Ross County & St Johnstone stuck 4 & 5 past them a few seasons ago.

Can we really claim the Dons had a longer journey home that Motherwell? Stavanger to Aberdeen is just over an hour on the plane Motherwell on the other hand had to drive from Coleraine to Belfast (About 45miles I think and from memory the road between Coleraine and Belfast is a bit like the A96), then get the plane to Glasgow followed by another 30miles back to Fir Park. Back at Uni I remember a Norwegian girl and I would leave our respective flats in Aberdeen at the same time and even with the waiting around at the airport she would still be back at her family's house in Stavanger at least 30mins before I made it back to mine in the West Highlands

Connah's Quay Nomads boss has said he was told by the club to 'turn a blind eye' to any players who were showing symptoms before their europa league game last night. 3 players said they felt unwell but played anyway and are now self isolating. They lost the game but be interested to see if UEFA and/or the FAW take any action. Also wonder if Dimamo Tblissi would take legal action if they ended up having to forfeit their 3rd qualifying tie with KI (Faroe Islands) due to Covid?

And not even being ranked high enough to be seeded (Currently ranked 81st in Europe. Dons are currently 177th)

St Johnstone on a 1 year contract apparently

OK according to a certain Glasgow based newspaper, because the seeding for the playoff draw is based on the highest ranked teams in each tie the Dons are technically 'seeded'. Potentialy opponents are supposedly as follows: ?? Standard Liege, ?? Steaua Bucharest, ?? Granada, ?? AC Milan, ?? AEK Athens, ?? LASK, ?? Rosenborg, ?? Apollon Limassol, ?? Rostov, ?? Reims, ?? Rijeka Hope its a home tie

Just checked and Ill retract (for now) Ferguson had 42 games in europe for the Dons over 7.5 seasons (only 5 away wins but one was in Gothenburg) McInnes has had 32 in just over 7 seasons (7 away wins) However in Fergies time there were fewer games, fewer teams, and none of this seeding bollocks. First round you had the same chance of playing Bayern Munich or Real Madrid as you did an Icelandic team. 83 cup winners cup run was only 11 games. Had the Dons managed to with the 2018-19 europa league they would have had to play 21 games

If so it falls into the same cateogory as Christian Dailly, Darren Fletcher & Kenny Miller having more scotland caps than Willie Miller, Denis Law and Joe Jordan Way more european games played now than in the 1980s

Saw 'Bill & Ted Face The Music' this afternoon. Wish they had just left it with 'Bogus Journey' back in 1991 ??

Appears Ojjo and Logan are coming on Wright and supposedly Considine being taken off

Maribor will always be 'bottling it' to me. They were nothing special that season and were knocked out in the next round by a team from Azerbajin Yes there was the blow of the referee awarding a penalty rather than letting McGinn's goal stand but Rooney then misses and then the disasterous OG in the last minute to rub salt into the wound.

Administrators apparently looking for bids between £2.1million and £3.3million for Wigan. Thats to buy the club, stadium, training ground, and remaining players contracts outright but no one is interested. Dave Whelan supposedly used to pay £800k a month just to keep them afloat when he was chairman!

Or is it the recent history of the Dons bottling it?

Macclesfield Town have just been wound up by the High court with a debt of about £500,000. This included £190,000 in Tax and £173,000 owed to a former manager. Thats two clubs from the Manchester area gone in 2 seasons. Would have been 3 if Bolton hadn't survived by the skin of their teeth and possibly might well be given Wigan are still in administration At the other end of Englandshire Southend United have had their winding up petition over a similar debt adjourned again this time until the 28th October

After Life Highly recommend it to everyone and glad there is a 3rd season coming soon

Interesting end to the PSG vs Marseille game tonight

Supposedly there is a 3 year deal set up to start at the end of this season. As to whether this can be torn up should gerrard and co decide they made a mistake is another matter but Im presuming as he is on loan he isn't allowed to play against sevco this season?

There seemed to be a few stories about different players not signing short term extensions down south but Fraser seems to be the one most if not all of the cross-hairs have been turned on I keep thinking of Jimmy Bullard Signed for Fulham for 2.5million and 1month into the season gets a severe knee injury which kept him out for 16months. Fulham supported him throughout (as you would expect) but he only managed about 40 games in 2.5 seasons and supposedly when fulham looked to get him top sign an extension he demanded a massive pay rise. Hull then signed him for about 5million and on his debut he re-injured the same knee and was out for 10months. 3 months after he came back he did his knee again and was out for another 3 months. His relationship with Hull fell apart and he was told he was free to leave eventually having his contract terminated for an incident in a training camp. My theory is after what happened with Bullard football clubs may have started putting in additional clauses into player contracts (maybe due to insurance firms raising premiums) which would limit the medical expenses they would shell out on new players with existing or a history of long term injurues. Perhaps all future treatment would be deducted from their wages which the players (and of course their agents) would not be happy with. Only a theory mind

You do know that Coronavirus is the generic term for what this type of virus is? It is called Covid 19 because it first appeared in 2019. The following are also Coronaviruses: Common Cold Flu SARS Hepatitis C Ebola Rabies and of course two of the favourites of the Anti-vaccination lobby - Polio & Measles Do you believe those viruses exist? I'm interested to learn more about the theories and opinions you are posting here such as the apparent patent number for Covid-19. If you have seen this patent number can you share it with us including the description of what the patent is for. All the patents I've found which mention coronavirus relate to vaccinnes for the viruses listed above? Also can you elaborate on what you think the end-game for these lockdowns are and the suggestions of who are the people behind them. Also have you ever read any of Jon Ronson's books?

Toots Hibbert - 77

Build 'temporary' hospitals with hundreds (even thousands of beds) but at no point atempt to recruit hundreds of extra qualified staff to actually run them instead asking people to come out of retirement/ volunteer and then take staff from existing hospitals so in effect you have actually hindered the health service from doing their job Then when the beds go unoccupied (massive factor being you can't just dump sick people in a hospital bed in modified aircraft hanger when there are no nurses, doctors, porters etc to care for them) you get your little right wing backbench fuckwits to start using their lack of use as an example of 'how the NHS wastes money' to further the campaign to get rid of it and fully privatise healthcare. Eventually The likes of the Express and Mail will eventually pile on and the next thing there is another referendum asking 'the people' if the horrible wasteful NHS full of workshy overpaid doctors and nurses should be kept, or replaced with the wonderful, streamlined and efficient PHS. The morons will be sold on the idea of only having to wait days for a vital operation or physio as opposed to months/ years, an extra £200 per year tax cut, and that it will 'take back control' from all those horrible wasteful nae selfish health trusts who claimed they were underfunded but infact just hoarded money rather than spending it on facilities and staff. 50.1% for the PHS which is a MASSIVE majority and THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE and there will be cheering in the streets with union flags and bunting..... Then the reality will set in and lots who voted for it will say 'I didnt think it was a real vote so I votes for the PHS as a protest', or 'I didn't know it meant I'd have to pay £50 just to get inside A&E (£100 in London)' whereas others will go into extreme denial and even get aggressive towards NHS voters. Tory wet dream