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Like putting £10 on Pique for first goalscorer at 25-1 you mean? Only a betting god* would think that was a certainty. *I have no idea what I'm doing.

Agreed, Fud is capitalised here too, I expect it's a last name. Also had £40 on Germany to win by two clear goals, so a bonus at the end! I might put it all on Wales to beat England. They won't fail with my run of luck.

I respectfully disagree on behalf of myself and BB.

Fuck them. Taking Rocket's advice to gamble more, I had £50 on a Croatia, Poland and Germany treble, which is more important (I had McGinn last goalscorer of course). 5-1, so hoping the Germans don't make a cunt of it.

Modric! Northern Ireland got what they deserved. McGinn might not get the opportunity to play at all judging by the subs made. Shame, but probably justified given a bit of a lacklustre season by his own standard.

Sorry, I meant tournament so far, not that bet! I won on the Swiss game earlier too (hence the £50 bet on a scorer).

They're (Savage) suggesting that Ward is in some way nervous based on one incident in the first half. Failing to take into account that he wasn't at fault at all and that the experienced defender actually got an accidental touch on the ball when trying to usher it back to Ward. Dicks. Anyway, I had a last minute £50 bet on Bale to score in the first half. Didn't have time to check around for odds, but 9-2 seems reasonable. I'm not a massive gambler these days, but I like to put £100 in an account(s) before the start of the tournament and just bet on stupid things along with a couple of "certainties". I'm £300 up so far, but I usually get bored and spank it on some ridiculous thing.

It wasn't worth watching. I didn't watch it like.

But more than happy to be on the side of Blair and Cameron? Seems a strange way to decide your vote.

But he wouldn't be playing for a championship side on his current wages, that's the point, and that's why the offer would be a lot higher. If he was on 3 times the wages, then the offer would be 3 times as much. The correlation between transfer fee and wages plays the largest part in the offering, rather than league a player plays in. That said, I'd expect a championship team to pay more for a championship player because he'd be proven in that environment, similarly I'd expect an SPFL player to receive a higher offer from another SPFL club than if they were signing from the Scottish Championship.

Murray tanks Wawrinka to go through to the final (first Brit in 79 years or some shite) against Djokovic. He's playing well. Even in the games he played badly, he turned on the style to win them. Should be a good final.

You'd have to be a cunt to vote for Hillary too though, so it's swings and roundabouts. I'd vote Trump over Hillary.

I'm not voting. I usually base my vote on whether or not the system is fair/correct and then if there is a candidate (or answer in this case) I'd like to vote for. For example, I didn't vote in the general election, as I think that by voting in that election you're saying that FPTP is a fair system - endorsing it. In the recent local elections, I voted with a big X through the paper as I think the system is fair(ish) but the candidates were all shite. This time, I just don't think the referendum should be happening at all. It's a sham, perfectly illustrated by the Conservative party forming sides. There were absolutely no policies in the Conservative general election campaign that relied on being outwith the EU and there are still none. That party should have split up prior to the election and fought on two separate agendas: Conservative In, Conservative Out if you like. These cunts are paid to make decisions on our political structure - that's the only fucking thing they can do. Yet we're supposed to make the decision for them. We don't need referendums for the EU, just as we didn't independence. We need a party to say "these are the policies in our manifesto, and in order to fulfill that manifesto we will be leaving the EU if we are elected". If they get elected with a majority then job done. If we leave the EU then the tories will be dragging us into a whole set of policies that were not even close to what they were voted into government on the back of - i.e. a set of policies that should have been presented as a separate party. My preference is to leave the EU, but for reasons that haven't even touched the debate (as you say, it's been horrendous) but I have no desire to leave based on the whim of a referendum. When a party appears that states clear policy, and why that policy can't be achieved via membership of the EU (sort of like what UKIP have done) then I'll vote for them. Until then I can't endorse this pish. Ahh, go on then, if I were hypothetically voting in this referendum, I'd put a big X through the paper. There is such a good case for leaving, but it just isn't being made and I don't think the structural political changes - unlike in the independence referendum - would be enough to sway the case for me, on the basis of future opportunity. I'll vote remain in your poll seeing as it isn't real, and that's pretty much what an X results in.

Yep, I don't think he should be in the national team either, but I only think that because I believe he's too old to see out the next campaign. He's definitely a better footballer than Grant Hanley. He's certainly the type of defender we should be looking at, and if there are no younger ones available then he'd be a good choice.

It was a great game yesterday. Great advert for the championship. Hibs worthy winners. I very much enjoyed the pitch invasion too, made for great viewing. I'd like to think that if the hibs had come up to our end of the pitch and started goading us, a fair few dandies would have run on to the pitch and had a go, so I can't really blame der hun for that part. It's the pathetic statements from Sevco that are the problem here. Completely absolving their own fans from blame and actively trying to drag down journalists and the BBC at the same time. Creating exactly the sort of victim mindset that'll encourage this type of behaviour throughout next season. As for the 6 players assaulted... at a televised game in a ground with 60K supporters, all of whom have camera phones, I've yet to see one photo or video of a Rangers player being assaulted. I saw Kenny Miller being approached, and he told the fan to calm down and he walked off the pitch without further confrontation. If such a photo existed, it'd be plastered across the front page of the record. I don't believe it happened. It's interesting that none of the players have been interviewed either. Hopefully I'm proven wrong, as it'd be very sinister if these stories were fabricated.

I'm going to go against the grain here and suggest that Greer is actually a decent defender. I'd take him for a season. Far more assured than Taylor, a good organiser and strong. Bit of an old cunt obviously, but I don't think that'd go amiss in our team. Perhaps even make him captain to ease the pressure on the others.

I thought he was using "adversarial" as a description of the journalism currently adopted by the mainstream, as in a criticism. Could be wrang, I'll give it another read the morn when I'm more with it.

Execution? Yass, that's the spirit min. Here's an article for ye. Good read. http://www.leninology.co.uk/2016/05/laura-kuenssberg.html

Apparently only a move was made, not agreed. Liverpool have signed some other 'keeper today (I think today) which means the loan is now definitely happening, but no confirmation of the location, with Ward favouring the dons according to rumour.

Daily hun suggesting Ward might return for next season. That'd be fucking awesome.

Ah well, happy to be proved wrong! I thought he was pish, but then I don't see him every week. Very similar to Church I thought, but perhaps marginally quicker, but a decent return and good backup. Can't see a future for Shankland now, he will surely be gone. As ED says, good that we're going about our business in a quiet, efficient manner. Hope to fuck we're getting a keeper though, Rogers doesn't look good enough and Lennox certainly isn't good enough to provide him competition. I'm not sure what the deal is with re-signing Lennox, I'm hoping that it's an uber-precaution in case we don't get our preferred number one choice in time for Europe or the start of the season (McGovern would be at Euros for example).

I think he's pish. Reminds me of Dougie Imrie. A skill-less battering ram. He's Darren Mackie. Although I've only seen him 3-4 times....

Aye, you're right, it was a big part though, Ward's confidence made it much easier on his back line. Brown was correctly identified as not being good enough and all I was suggesting was that was known for 6 months before the season began and should have been addressed. For us to lose Ward on the back of an administrative error, as it seems to be, was galling. The problem we have now is that not only do we have a good 'keeper to source and pay for, we also have to get at least one centre half, a midfielder, a wide player and another striker just to compete at the same level as we have been over the last couple of seasons. That's five players in one window. We're relying on a good strike rate on our signings, which hasn't been apparent in the last season, with only 2-3 out of 8 being good enough to be a first team starter.

That was a huge fuck up like. One I hope we've learned from. I was really concerned when we got Ward in on loan, because we'd had at least 6 months knowing that both Brown and Langfield were not good enough for number one. Unlike in prior years, we'd sorted ourselves out in every other area. Goalkeeper was the one position we had left to fill with a good starter, every other position had a first choice that was good enough to win the majority of games. Yet, we hadn't managed to scout one good goalie available for purchase that would be good enough and we were resorting to what seemed to be a risky, unscouted, loan (I'm going by the other loans we've made, where it's very much hit or miss, luck-based). That it wasn't made clear that it was imperative that Ward remained for the entire season suggests a blase attitude to the situation whereby Brown was actually seen as adequate if Ward turned out to be pish. I can accept the lack of alternatives in January, our coaching and scouting team weren't expecting to have to move quickly on a signing. We're in the same situation this season, as last, now. We've had 6 months to scout a new goalkeeper and we should have multiple options on the table. It's priority number one and should be wrapped up in days. We have a good backup in Rogers it seems, so that position should be sorted quickly. The problem is that we're now deficient in several other areas of the pitch as we let things slide in the last year. We're effectively 1-2 windows behind where we should be. We shouldn't have needed to waste our scouting resource on looking for a 'keeper in this window and the longer it takes the less time devoted to looking at other positions. McInnes needs to move quickly and decisively on 3 more signings, leaving us the remainder of the window to assess at least 2 others. To have only one signing from this season (Shinnie, and he was pre-contract, which makes it worse) making it into next season is an absolute failure and it shouldn't be underestimated how much that - and especially the keeper situation - will negatively affect us next season.

Hope Collin and Lennox just fuck off quietly. Highland league standard at best.