duncan II

Not sure of tone of your post, i.e. if entirely serious or not, so apologies if I'm getting whooshed. But...No. this not true. Wouldn't want the northern and eastern contingent getting the false impression that everywhere in west central Scotland is like this. Just not the case. Parts of Glasgow, parts of (mostly north) Ayrshire, larger parts of Lanarkshire and a few others.

Just me who thinks this scapegoating of O'Donnell is a bit bandwagonesque? Everyone now jumping on the idea that he's simply not good enough, woeful even. I was at the game and, yeah, he wasn't great. But the whole team were poor. The other full-back was equally as bad and not one person would suggest he isn't good enough. I think we can do better than O'Donnell at RB but not right now. It seems like a witch hunt when he, and the rest, need support. He'll probably get booed now because everyone is getting in a frenzy about needing someone to blame. I hope we have better options at RB soon, as I hope we have better options at centre forward and centre midfield and goalie. But O'Donnell is a decent player who has achieved much at club level, consistently playing well for the third best team in the country last season. I'd say back off and give the lad a chance.

I genuinely believe this to be the case, too.

Good to see the Geordies honouring their strong Dutch contingent from over the years with their strip. Rudy Gullitt's time in charge definitely worth celebrating.

Well, if not biased then at least unprofessional. In the pub the night before refereeing a big game?! Unprofessional bigoted hun.

Jota / Jimenez. Mon the Wolves.

See, I thought he was okay and a decent, steady defender. But not sure Malky can be classed as right up there.

Jordi Cruyff and Paul Dalglish were two of my favourites. Both immense, incredibly talented and underrated. awesome.

# the second craw fell an broke his jaw, fell an broke his jaw, fell an broke is jaw-aw-aw-aw... # etc

Sat upon a wall? Probably craws. Was there another nearby rubbing its jaw?

You say that, it's not that simple in reality. Not everyone is the same, not everyone has the same reactions to food. I have ulcerative colitis. I can no longer handle many fruits and vegetables. And different people with my condition have all sorts of varying experiences with different foods. Sometimes when I'm flaring, for example, the unhealthiest food is all I can handle. It's a fucked up condition and it has fucked up my life. Things ain't black and white. And there are all sorts of variables.

That's nonsense. Players are not like that, voting for their 'mates'. Give them some credit. I've played for several teams and players' player was always valued as it's the vote of your peers. Those who value your contribution on the park most.

You certainly are, Stanley. Mm-hmm.

Aberdeen a disgrace. Anti-football of the utmost. McLean an utter joke.

Fewer. And all Dawkins was agreeing to was the likely assertion that a historical fella called Jesus existed.

Dr David Kelly, Robin Cook, Willie Macrae. Which of these, if any, were murdered? I have suspicions about Kelly in particular. The more I read about Macrae the more it stinks too.

It’s true. But it’s worse. His missus is French Canadian and leaves him signs throughout the house. “Ramie, ferme la Porte”; “Ramie, ou est la chat” etc .

Fair enough. It's used as a derogatory name here but appreciate you know terminology better there.

Albeit a William Wallace opposed to Quebecois being independent and referring to them in a derogatory way as separatists.

Think it was c65 million years ago, the end of the Cretaceous.

There's just too many laughing smileys that quite clearly don't reflect the total angst going on in your soul at how your opinions are going down. I'd give it up. It's Xmas, brother. I realise that's really patronising so apologies. But it's a total car crash!

Thanks, that's cleared it up.

If I was Chripper I’d stop trying to talk football tactics and just enjoy it for the entertainment.

I know this could be unpopular but I genuinely don't think you can get away from the fact that Lennon's background as a Northern Irish Catholic is a major player in all this. Yes, he is clearly passionate, sometimes aggressively so, but so are plenty others. It is a thing that's always there, a dam waiting to burst in certain supports, and when he shows his passions, it erupts (mixing my metaphors). No, not everyone who gets wound up by him is an anti-Catholic bigot, clearly not, but it's there looming large as an issue. It needs called out, this is an opportunity to properly tackle this.

It was a penalty in my opinion.