the Sunnylaw Jag

Full list of Berti's friendlies listed here. Scroll down to the bottom. http://scotlandepistles.com/the-dark-side/

Yeah I really should have waited for the Shit Managers thread instead.

No mention of Paul Le Guen as yet or even Berti Vogts.

St.Mirren's sack the manager, Danny Lennon and replace him with his assistant Tommy Craig! Cheap skates and it cost them.

I wasn't arguing that the display in Tbilisi wasn't the main reason for our not qualifying in this campaign but on a broader scale winning home games is vital too. If you look at WC 2014; had we beat Wales, Serbia and Macedonia at home never mind Belgium we would have made the play offs ahead of Croatia also. Of course, we might still have Levein as our manager; so there's always a downside.

At the start of any campaign one thing is nearly always true; win all your home games and the rest takes care of itself. I'm too lazy to go through all those campaigns but I'm pretty sure that too may have seen us qualify for the majority of them although admittedly it is the bigger ask at times.

It's hard to pick a particular highlight; I suppose the fact that we are sixth in the 2015 placings is an achievement in itself. We came out of 2014 in bad shape and looked to be heading for relegation or a play off spot but began to change things around and ended the season in 8th place and with the 4th best goal difference in the league. This season we have lost a lot of good players with Stephen O'Donnell perhaps being the biggest miss, along with Scott Fox, Conrad Balatoni, Kallum Higginbotham as well as Lyle Taylor. All of whom were big players for us but Tomas Cerny is a better keeper than Fox, Dumbaya has fitted in well in the right back position and Liam Lindsay is proving himself more capable in defence than Balatoni ever was. We still lack a creative game changer like Higginbotham could be, but perhaps we will find one this month. The team is stronger and more resilient than in the past and less likely to leak goals late in the game; in 2014 we had a total of 14 shut outs which is quite a lot for a bottom half team. So here's to an even better 2016 starting with a win at Parkhead.

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I think that was Chris Hemsworth in the Marvel movie Thor vs. Braveheart

At Firhill, it's normally around 6 or 7 with Booth, Lindsay, Bannigan, Lawless, Welch and Doolan all starting, however it can be supplemented with Fraser, Scully and others coming in too. Muirhead is departing after tomorrow and Stevenson is currently with Ayr United.

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Makes a change from being a Celtic feeder club.

Have added a few more and the full list of friendlies is included. And that is scary. http://scotlandepistles.com/the-dark-side/

Does it get any bigger? Well there's two minutes I'll never get back.

Of course it could have been worse they could have had their hand down the front of them and then sniffed it when they withdrew it from down below.

Surely you know that Silverburn is just a jumped up Pollok Centre with the same customers.

Ozzy Osbourne on Gary Moore "great guitarist but he has a face like a welder's bench."

Yeah I hate the fact that they don't give us advance notice of Christmas; they just wait until the shops are at their busiest and then whoosh It's Christmas.

Apparently Donald Trump is thinking of using this model for his great Mexican wall as he reckons it will cut unemployment too.

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Ray Stephen it was, who was signed from Dundee to As Nancy. Here's his small Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Stephen

Nope to that one too.

Nope.

The last time Wenger signed a Scot in a transfer, the player did very well for him.

That's cause Thistle don't get penalties. 55 games and counting and Doolan missed the last one.