tom_widdows

Watched 2 Aussie Rules games over the last couple of days. One played at the MCG to complete silence other than the players voices/ refs whistle etc. Another players at the smaller Geelong stadium but they either played crowd noises through the tannoy system or dubbed it onto the TV coverage. Whatever they did it really made a difference to the point I thought they had opened the stand underneath the TV cameras. Few suggestions that the crowd noise could be used at EPL games. I really hope they do and the same with the SPL when it returns

And he won it https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52993954

Nope

Appears the current record is held by Benfica (who took it from Bordeaux) when they played Kairat in the group stages

Their PR deflectors have stepped up a gear. Announced a couple of days ago they are selling off part of the car-park next to the ground for a housing project (wonder how the planners will respond to that given they could actually ask 'OK so where are you putting these parking spaces yer losing) and use the money to convert the office block at the back of the Copeland Road stand into a Seveco Museum and conference venue. As far as I'm aware they have been trying to sell or at least rent that office block for the last 8 years but no-one has touched it. Now its putting a B team into the lower leagues and they will supposedly buy 200 away tickets for each game (cash upfront ) and also fork out £1000 a match to stream them so the 'smaller teams don't miss out'. The other week they were allegedly top of the list of UK teams to go bust with closed door football. I wouldn't be surprised if the alleged 3million they paid for Hagi (notice it started at 5million and then went down each week) was a lie to try and convince their hordes they are actually capable of competing financially with Celtic and maybe even following their recruitment strategy. Difference being the Tic seem to be able to sign up young players for a few 100k and then sell for a few million. By no means an expert in judging players but something says to me if Hagi Jr was as good as his Dad he wouldn't be at Sevco.

The question for me is as Military trucks roll into washington DC (and perhaps other cities) will this be the point where the personal moral codes of soldiers result in the next american revolution? Its one thing to fire on enemy soldiers/ terrorist groups but to fire on your own citizens on the orders of someone who 6 years ago was essentially a tv personality is one of the things their great grandfathers, grandfathers & fathers were sent around the world to supposedly stop the likes of Hitler & Hussein and generations were raised to despise Stalin and the communist regimes. If the soldiers refuse to shoot the civilians and indeed the army generals say 'enough is enough' then they can look to the declaration of independence But then again thanks to the right wing and their ancient constitution some of those civilians they could be ordered to shoot at may have similar if not more powerful weapons then the soldiers. There are also the many 'militia groups' - which I reckon in any other western country would have been arrested as terrorists- who may side with Trump or even have their own agendas as a further factor. The closests the UK government has ever come to ordering military action on UK citizens was January 1919 in Glasgow. Should Trump (or whoever is actually in charge) choose to do what the Brits didn't then the morale high ground they proclaim over China, North Korea, Hussein's Iraq, The Taliban, Stalin's Russia, Hitler's German, Pol Potts Cambodia and so on is gone and will never return. Would Europe & Asia with the support of Mexico & Canada chose to invade the USA to intervene?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/rangers-celtic-top-list-at-22113286 oh dear

Seems the Daily Mirror and Guardian have found witnesses saying he effectively did a small tour of the local area. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/23/new-witnesses-cast-doubt-on-dominic-cummingss-lockdown-claims

As far as I'm aware a big aspect of the draft system is to ensure the top teams do not just take all of the best players and therefore just keep winning The team which gets first pick in the draft is the one which finished last/ bottom of the table whilst the team which finished first is the last to pick. For that to actually work you need to serious level the financial playing field and also completely revamp the league to ensure each team is made up of mainly 'home' players - One of the claims as to why the scotland national team is so bad is the best young scottish players are hoovered up by the Tic & Sevco and then left to rot in the youth and reserve teams before eventually getting let go. Some might carve out a career in the lower leagues but many end up quitting.

Release the evidence or shut it!

School and University (NCAA) sports play a massive part in how the draft works. Some NCAA games get bigger crowds than the NFL. Uni's make a lot of money out of it meaning it is in their interest to give scholarships to kids who would never get there based on their academic abilities. The additional advantage is while at Uni effectively being a professional sportsman you are getting a qualification which you can fall back on should the sports thing not work out. Now lets have a look at the school and Uni sports situation in Scotland (or even the UK as a whole).

DantheDon retains the title as nobody predicted the correct total for the record going on 'points per game' the final Dons total would be 57points (so close!)

Sportscene rewind was a decent watch this evening. Only seen highlights of the featured games on 'Team of the Decade' etc but tonight got to see extended versions which showed the matches weren't as one sided as they seemed in the old videos. Also didn't know Roy Aitken was sent off in the 1984 cup final.

Well its hard to leave them on buses and trains at the moment

Only reading a transcript from the Guardian but FFS the questions/ comments coming from the Tories compared to the opposition parties 1 Tory asks about a fucking steam railway 1 Tory asks what fuckwit thinks about the Hay-on-Wye Book festival going on line Theres people dying, people living on the streets, and others soon to join them and these 'elected' officials waste their constituency's questions on that?

That sounds like something from a passive aggressive domestic argument. Perhaps it was the last thing he heard before he headed off to Westminster this morning

There used to be a sign behind the bar in a pub back home 'Be alert! Britain needs Lerts' Sort of slogan I can see above a BJ version of the Kitchener poster. Guardian is claiming part of tonight's speech to the nation was recorded yersterday which hasnt gone down very well with the cabinet.

So apparently much like the 'brilliant' settled status application App, this new CV-19 tracing one will also have issues working with certain phones. Im looking forward to the tories releasing a public information film on Betamax & Laserdisc

Made it to 87

The downside of having children

Carrying on the testing bullshit https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5 Mainstream media complicit in 'celebrating' tory success. I wish I could say I'm surprised by YouGov's recent snap poll stating 50% of people would vote Tory if there was an election tomorrow.

Seems they are already backtracking on the 200,000 target. Wonder if that's a record?

200,000 tests a day by the end of May now. At the risk of being cynical this really is a primary school playground.