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    And what battle is that? The battle to commit suicide as quickly as we can by continuing to hand our enemies the ammunition to kill us on a plate? It's all very well for young guys to flex their bravado, pump up the testosterone and fire from the lip about how tough and non-compromising we should be. Meanwhile, back in the real world, some of us have got a football club to take care of. And we can't do that if the knuckle-dragging neanderthals in our support scare away 21st century marketing and business opportunities by making us a poisoned brand with their droning out shit about the 17th century. Doing this is not smart, it's not tough and it's not being loyal or supporting Rangers; it is being criminally stupid by continuing to play into the hands of those who want to kill us.
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    I edited them out because I agree with them, it was the description of him as cowardly which I think is unfair. No doubt about it, he was under-prepared and that is incompetent, no matter where you go - but especially so coming to a club of our size, but just because he decided that it would eb a mistake for him to stay doesn't mean he's a coward. We also have to remember, that PLG left with dignity intact and didn't hang around to be sacked and claim compensation as he could have done. And as for Murray's claim that he would have supported PLG, if you're asking me to believe the word of David Murray or Le Guen, I'd believe the Frenchman every time.
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    bit harsh, no?
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    I think it's a truism that if you have more than three players from one nationality, you run the risk of splitting the team.
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    I'll be honest; I used to love listening to them in the early days. The banter was great and sometimes the guests they had would have you in tears - and fair's fair, some of the best were Celtic guys from their 9 in a row period - but every week was something to look forward to. Their remit was to lampoon and ridicule Scottish football (this was before Scottish football decided to take that job in-house and do it themselves) and in particular the Old Firm - and lampoon they did. As a Rangers fan I always accepted that, as the country's biggest club, we were there to be mocked -and that's as it should be- and I was always the first to, well, maybe not laugh, but nod my head in knowing acceptance when they got tore into us, if and when we deserved it. Only, there was always an undercurrent of something not being 'quite right' with the show. Like with Jim Davidson; supposedly a comedian, but something about him makes your skin crawl when he started to talk about 'Britain' or political corectness or foreigners. So it was with Stuart and Tam when they talked about Rangers or women In the case of Cosgrove it was his all consuming hatred of us, which he was able to mask and pass off as "anti-old firm" banter (except that he never seemed to include Celtic, oddly enough) until the early part of 2012, when he felt safe enough to take off the mask and let his bigotry loose, accusing us of everything under the sun until the Big Tax Case decision left him exposed as the tit he is. In the case of Cowan, it was his overly frequent put downs of a) women's football and b) women. Those of us of a certain generation - or maybe I'm just stupid and it's just me - thought that the battle for female equality was one which had been fought and won, and that any residual pockets of resistance were to be found in the local golf club, Conservative Party or outdated religious institutions and would soon be mopped up and eradicated. It seems not. I must admit to being genuinely surprised at the level of his contempt for women and in this day and age, I can really only put that down to something freudian. Seriously, if you have so much contempt for women, that's not a character flaw, it's an illness. In either case, neither Cowan, nor his blow-hard buddy Cosgrove, has any business being funded by taxpayers of whom an overwhelming majority are either Bluenose or female.
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    Alternatively, you adopt the budget airline model and sell tickets more cheaply the sooner they are purchased.
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    well, you were half right
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    I'd imagine Neil will be writing to the SFA asking for clarification.
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    The largest non ex-SPL ground would do me, no matter where it is. Or Rugby Park. Killie at least didn't vote against us.
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    Ach, tell us something we don't know! Seriously though, once you start looking into this stuff it becomes clear that the "European Project" is not a political agenda, but rather an acceptance of what has always been true and an attempt to codify it; i.e Europe is a family - and notions of British exceptionalism are just nonsensical. Whether the Ukippers like it or not, we are European and always have been. And there is a cultural element that transcends even the language. I know a lot of north Germans and Dutch very well indeed and there is a certain 'something' that I haven't yet been able to articulate that connects us in ways that we are not connected with southern Germans, southern English or Scandanavians. It's hard to define, but "a socially responsible egalitarian morosness coupled with outstanding engineering ability and a tendency towards strong alcohol" is as close as I can get". By the way, as long as we're on the subject: Your English? It is freakishly good for a foreigner. Do you have a native speaker parent - or are you just a linguistic Rain Man?
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    aye, but it's about more than just the starting eleven. Ideally, for each position you want a first choice, a back up and a youngster learning the position.
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    English is essentially a germanic language (from the tribe of the Angles who spoke Aengelisch which developed into English, with some French words thrown in. The French words came from the Normans who were, of course, the masters of the germanic peoples of England. For example, we have two words for cow/cow meat. The Norman masters didn't farm the animals, just ate the meat, so a cow (Kuh) which the Germans farmed becomes beef (bouef) which the French ate. This is not unconnected and very cool: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f54_1337075813
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    Great post dB and it really clarifies what McCoist is doing. If we take 1990 as the "perfect" date for a player to have been born (given where we are on our rehabilitation road), it looks like Ally is building a very well balanced squad indeed.
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    Quite. This "attack in the street" has been suspiciously devoid of detail. I have no evidence, but I would place a hefty wager that if it did happen (and personally, I doubt whether it did) it went something like this: Scene: A leafy suburb of Dundee. Enter stage left, Spence and his wife getting into or out of their car. A couple of neds drive past in a souped up Corsa; one leans out the window and shouts "Haw Spence! Ya fanny". Job done and Jim gets to be the victim of an attack - and the story changes from one of the abuse of public airwaves for personal vendetta and deceit to one of alleged persecution and intimidation.
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    Excellent work, D'Art. A lot of us owe you a lot of thanks for keeping at this.
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    I think TE is alluding to Black's bet of a draw with EStirlingshire as betting against his team (to win). Black is not only painfully stupid, his continued presence at Ibrox is a permanent signal that low standards will be tolerated. Can anyone image, for a second, that Alex Ferguson would have accepted any Man Utd player betting against the team?
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    The housing you see around you has little or nothing to do with architects, mate. Very few of these noddy houses will have had any architectural input whatsoever; they're just mass produced boxes that have no relationship to place or context and will never have seen an architect at any point in their lifespan. British building standards (both English and Scottish) are about the lowest in Europe and there's nothing that architects can do about it. The people you want to be looking at are a) developers who cram as much shoddy housing in as tight a space as possible to minimum building standards and b) government which allows these crap standards in the first place. There are a lot of very good architects in this country; I love this company's work for example; http://www.wtarchitecture.com/
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    This is a great result for Black but a terrible decision for football in Scotland. How can anybody who bet against their own team to win get almost the same punishment as someone sent off for violent conduct? Shocking decision. Do we know whether he bet against the team in any of the games he was actually playing in?
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    Tbh there wasn't a great deal of movement from West to East, at least in the period immediately after the wall came down. What there was, from anecdotal evidence (I was living in West Germany at the time and a fair amount of my work involved 'refugees' from the DDR) was West Berliners, with West Berlin jobs and West Berlin incomes, renting property in East Berlin - and by doing so boosting their monthly disposable income by about 30%. The big movement was East to West, where (much like the Poles, Hungarias etc in Scotland today) you had qualified people, lawyers, engineers, accountants, working as cleaners and shop assistants, just so they could live in the West. And, also, so that they could buy bananas. Seriously; for 6 months after the wall fell, you could scarcely find a banana in West Germany - the Ossies were buying them all up. Remember, too, that most people (i.e. the 90%) if asked to give their life stories, don't really have much to say - so those that do, are a fairly self-selecting group. The DDR was, by all accounts, a drab place, where people lived drab lives - and, no kidding, you are the first person I can ever recall using the word 'interesting' with regard to the old DDR - although, they did have a cracking national anthem, it has to be said.
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    Ahem...NSA anyone? Edward Snowden? Too much George Orwell for you, m'lad, or maybe not enough. Animal Farm was intended at dB's lot, but 1984 was aimed squarely at us in the West - and lo!, has much of it not come to pass? In my experience of the DDR, the people were more frustrated than afraid. They could get West German TV and radio and had frequent, albeit not unhindered, contact with friends and relatives in the West, so they knew how we lived and the freedoms we enjoyed. But, 90% of them were like 90% of us - and just wanted to go to work, come home, have a beer and spend time with the family - they had no more reason to expect a 3AM knock at the door then you or I. The difference was what happened to that 10% of 'troublemakers'.
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    excellent read, 26th btw, "Bhoy in Corduroy" is that yours? Brilliant, if it is.
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    I've never understood those Rangers fans who say they don't support Scotland - it's like not supporting your family. However, I've never had as hard a time supporting any Scotland team as I do with this one. I have no problem with Scott Brown, Mulgrew or Maloney - but I look at McGregor, Whittacker and Naismith and I just want those fuckers to lose.
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    He was only ever going to be a footballer with that background
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    Lad's a big bluenose it seems
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