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And his biggest star, the one you didn't see more than two dozen golfers beating last week, had a mare again this week, tied 123 and MC. You know your shit or perhaps you know you're shit?

Butch was a great coach, past tense. His son Claude the Fraud is an unfortunate moniker however.

The tucking in of the polo shirt under the right armpit as Justin (Just Out) Rose does, exclusively him, is counterproductive. That's an opinion. We don't have the data to prove this or otherwise. Do any of you have an opinion on this unique idiosyncrasy of his?

These three mutants will be gone soon. I'd never heard of any of them before but if they got kicked oot the hat and within two weeks of posting here they've made their positions untenable, they'll not be a loss. If these expert psychologists could find it within themselves to apologise for their grotesqueness and start again, I'm sure they would be welcome. By weak cunts who can forgive and forget, which will never include me.

Forgot it was on. Wow. EIGHT at Camp Nou. Hilarious. Wot wuz said?

Coincidentally my book mark is last years fixture list: - And it's the same fixtures EVERY year. Will you now concede you're an ignorant bastard?

Sorry, every second Thursday at SAGC. But we were members of the Thistle Club, St Andrews too which played once every two weeks on the alternative Thursday so it was literally a minimum of twice a week against our handicaps. Get fucked you fucking arsehole. Speaking of wives, did you like your mate's reference to mine? In his first post to me on here? Is that your level?

I am a member of the St Andrews GC. Have been for 20+ years. In the year my daughter was born, I was playing all the time. Given that we had competitions every Saturday and every Thursday, plus the occasional Sunday and medals right through from 1st Jan to the Medal finals in late October, not to mention the Opens and other counting events we played at county and national level, 50 is not excessive. Some of my mates were north of 80 and 90. Some of my imaginary pro clients are north of 100 and I think Graeme Storm's 122 might still be the record. It was the most a few years ago when I last looked. Now that I've made a cunt of you again, comedian boy and speaking of wives, do you have one? Or is your sadness on here indicative of a grave sadness in your personal life? Why else do you post like a cunt pretending to be something it's not? The clock is ticking. I already said you've had your fun and you will fuck off.

??? The case is closed. Get out of that, comedian? He will screenshot it if you don't. I have never come across any of these three children in the past, not that I remember. We should be flattered and honoured that they seek to target us. Fucking arseholes.

Let me attempt to predict the future. Do you remember the Wolf's premonition outside the wreckers yard towards Vincent and Jools? You and your two AFC Chat sidekicks are going to fuck off. I won't put a timescale on it because we know that "internet stubbornness" is a thing. When people don't fit, when they have zero to contribute, when they start to annoy people with their sickness, they know themselves they find themselves out of their comfort zone. Speaking of wives, your attempt at stand up comedy was priceless. Notice how none of us came back at you to tell you how utterly tragic and pathetic it was? That's the difference between the children you've grown up with on the hat and the real world. We just let you do it. We didn't even laff AT you. It was pathos in extremis. Your resilience is admirable however. I thought you morons would've fucked off by now. Maybe there is hope for you yet?

But you do post with an assumed air of moral superiority. And you do post with an assumed air of intellectual superiority. And you do like to assume the position of advisor to the rest of us on here. Which makes you a fucked-up cunt in my book. Plus, how sad do you have to be to pretend to be expert in areas you're not, as you've done at least twice in the last couple of days, once of which you've admitted. Fucking whack job indeed.

Nobody in their right mind would've run with that headline.

This season coming will be my first visit to Elland Road. Should be an interesting experience. The fans LOVE their team. Doubt I'll be seeing that Edmondson crock though.

Between Giroud, Abraham, Pulisic, Hudson-Odoi and others, he's really spoiled for great talent up front. Interesting how he dropped Jorginho a few times - an ever-present under Sarri - a brave move given he plays for Italy but was unpopular there when he first came because he was the unpopular manager's blue-eyed boy. Kante a class act there and if he stays injury-free, can be very influential.

As I sold 11 x Dacia Dusters this morning, a used Mercedes S600 (cost more than the new cars!) and took an order for a new Audi RS, the sales manager gave me the afternoon off. Got my feet up looking forward to watching 8 hours of golf. The Audi buyer was an oil wank. Hope he gets laid off the day after I deliver it to him. The problem I have with the Sky commentators is manyfold. McGinley hacking it round this week is disappointing as he's taken a place that keep out dozens of golfers who are fighting for their careers. What really gets me is that they refer to him as a stats expert and he's clearly not, as he has obviously invested very little in the field of performance measurement. But everyone is an expert in this game, eh? He has been banging on about bounce-back-ability for over a decade now. He reckons this stat - which we do NOT offer on my platform - is a good indicator of mental strength, the ability to follow a dropped shot with a birdie but it's not at all. If you consider the 13th at Carnoustie, a narrow-greened par 3 where every golfer is happy with par. This hole yields loads of bogeys and worse and is followed by the 14th, a two shot par 5 which is normally the easiest hole on the course. Similarly the road hole on the Old, the 17th is followed by a drive-able par 4 and again, so many of the field follow a dropped shot with a pick-up. That stat - only in Amerikuh (and I think they may have even dropped it now) - is much more to do with course layout than mental fortitude. Another thing that annoys me greatly on Sky is that they pretend that "Boxy" (winner of the fifth major by the way, his only win) is some sort of expert at predicting the cut and he gets it wrong more times than not. Radar is my fav on Sky but even his fancying "going down the left wing" at 15 yesterday made no sense to me. It's a hole every single one of you golf fans will remember from the Ryder Cup but at 280 yards (going at it straight rather than the dogleg), with 3 Wood, with a helping breeze as Radar described, none of them were hitting Driver even. He's always going on about "he'll fancy this" with regards to pitch ins, which never happens of course but at least this is valuable coaching instruction that can be borrowed from him. Unless we see the possibility of holing it, even from 30 or 40 feet with a putt, it generally won't fall. It's more about the mind rather than the mechanics. Radar's got a great attitude. Sarah in real life is absolutely stunning by the way. Saw her on the first hole at Troon (when Stenson won) and where I thought she was a bit plain-Jane from the telly, she's got superb aura.

Hrmph ? I reckon it's one of the toughest mental examinations there is. Used to be addicted to playing it - 50 medal rounds during the year my youngest was born, not including bounce games, match play events and team matches - but more happy watching it getting done properly these days and like all habits, we fall in and out of them. Haven't played since Panmure in December and turned down an invitation this week to play Troon next week with one of my pro clients I invented in my multiple personality imagination. Missing being out there though. Carnoustie was so good last week for a couple of days but this year will be the first time for over a decade I haven't been to the best course on the planet, the Lytham Trophy having been cancelled. On girly matters, what do you think of Yoga? The new mat that my wife ordered came today and I tried it for the first time during lockdown when daughter 2 was home and showed me. It's fucking tougher than it looks. I refrained from doing a down dog as my postie asked for. He's ST at Pittodrie and is always giving me pelters about Cove.

Not bad though eh? Got to do something all day sitting in my car showroom.

Another prediction. Hagestad and Gupta (ranked 500 in the world) will meet in the semi of the US Am and the winner of that will win the final tomorrow.

Grant Forrest another Scot with a big chance and I hope Bradley Neil breaks through in the next 18 months. Working hard just now and on top of the freaky talent that he has, great combination ??

Horsfield this morning posted 64 including 2 x 6's, the second one a triple at 17 so he took twice as many shots at that par 3 than he did at the next, eagle at the par 5 last. In November 2018 I was presenting to all the coaches in England and in response to the question of who to look out for to make the next impression on the European Tour, I said I really liked Sam Horsfield and Aaron Rai. I kept it English (good politics) and the latter won early in 2019 but Sam is the real deal. I prequalified my answer by acknowledging that predictions in golf is notoriously difficult (but great fun to do) so here's my latest; by the end of this decade, Morikawa will have won more of the 39 majors than any other golfer. I'll go further, he will win 3 x more than the 2nd or tied 2nd best. From Scotland, Bob MacIntyre and Connor Syme the next to kick on, very different golfers but great talents. Hope Craig Howie and Euan Walker can step up. Can't see anything in the UK amateur game just now that are good enough to break through in 2021 or 2022 even with Ruben Lindsay and Conor Cough being the best prospects from Scotland and England respectively (but too young just now and lots to learn).

One thing I've observed from Lampard's first season is the randomness of his team selections. You never know who he's going to play and the only consistency is the inconsistency of his starting line-ups. Yes he's spoilt for choice in most areas but I reckon he must be deliberately chopping and changing in some sort of delusion that this will benefit the team rather than understanding the value of settled partnerships. I know he's popular at "the bridge" but I reckon 6/10 max for his first year. They dropped too many points needlessly which I wasn't sad about. Having visited there for the first (and last) time in Feb 2019, I wish the club ill which doesn't feel right because I love most of their young and extremely talented players, just like I rated Willian.

Willian to Arsenal is an interesting one. Always rated him and couldn't believe how sparsely Sarri used him last season. It took a while for Lamps to give him regular starts and even then he didn't play him consistently and failed to get the best out of him in my opinion. Wish the boy well. Great footballer.

I can't imagine that the SPFL would have jurisdiction to hand out bans over this matter. Nor should they. This is a club issue and a wider social issue. If the police aren't charging them with anything then no crime has been committed. Of course they need disciplined but this is an internal club matter and the authorities can fuck right off.

1. Absolutely. As someone with extensive recruiting experience, it's almost always a gut feel about the person and the personality that makes for a successful appointment. We need a relevant skill set and experience - to varying importance depending on the role - but how well the recruitment process is planned out can never reveal the ATTITUDE and the DESIRE (for which we can substitute or add hunger and ambition) of the candidate. Miller was a sore point, I still have the letter from Milne in response to my letter to him from the week in which Alex Miller was appointed 2. I would prefer the football manager to manage the players. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't get how anyone can complicate what should be a very simple job description. The club already spends more than enough on sports science and scouting and S & C and everything else that the modern athletes benefit from. These should be support functions for the person who manages the players, not roles that he himself should perform.