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He reckons McGhee can turn Mackie into a decent striker by teaching him how to make best use of his pace. Shouldn't this have been done 10 years ago? I'd rather give someone like Paton or Maguire a shot through the middle instead of sticking them out wide. Hopefully the reported signings of O'Brien and Marshall will help this.

Either that or it was evident that he wasn't very good when we had him on trial.

That's the end of that then: http://www.honefossbk.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1585:lynspiller-til-honefoss&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=88

http://www.sketchysantas.com/

Fair play to him, would be all too easy to fall into a pit of bitterness and blame everyone else, hope he does manage to rediscover the form he once had and get back to a higher level.

From what I heard, he was far from match fit. We should probably be addressing why some players are being criticised rather then why some aren't.

They are, this is over and above existing commitments

Nah, the match ball is only available to corporate guests, it's a strip or something that goes to the punters in the stands I think.

It's more the glaring holes in his story that is creating this reaction. He's said the club have been back in touch with him, but makes no mention of what they said. From personal experience, we had a table last season at a corporate function in the RDU, guy at our table won the raffle for the match ball. When his ticket was pulled out, he went up, got a picture taken with a player, then the ball was placed in a carrier bag and handed to him. Before this guy had his picture taken with the ball, it must have existed at that point and he's failed to explain how the ball came to be removed from his possession.

Gary Caldwell's Twitter, worth a chuckle: http://twitter.com/GaryCaldwell5 "Gary doesn't shower in the morning. I wake up smelling of success, why wash that off? Straight to breakfast." "Not many people have a carvery for breakfast...Not many people are Gary Caldwell." "Off to China Buffet King; "eat what you like for £9" - Gary Caldwell's going to eat their cutlery"

Ifil sent off for a stupid kick at Samaras after he'd won a free kick. He lost his markers for both goals too. Not a great display.

This guy does a daily blog of what he's had for lunch, some of it is hilarious, some disgusting, some both: http://pretaranger.blogspot.com/

The two Huns in the pub here have left at half time

Predictably, he's pissed off both Levein and Scott:

Bagshaw wasn't it?

Jamie McAllister. How he's played for Scotland is a complete mystery. One of the worst left backs I've seen in a red shirt and that's saying something.

If only the internet was as widely used back then. Can you imagine the level of backlash there would have been in those 5 days? We might have been spared the useless cunt.

Symonds has gone too. I'll be amazed if Renault are on the grid next year. The team itself is still going to get punished.

Another young striker lined up, this one from Canada: http://newsdurhamregion.com/sports/article/134618

5 second Google search found this: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/aberdeen/2009/03/06/dunfermline-fans-don-t-worry-me-but-their-players-do-says-aberdeen-boss-jimmy-calderwood-86908-21175243/

That's not exactly how it was. He was asked a specific question about it and said he was disappointed by the nature of it. A calm and reasonable response to the question I thought.

MiniJC passing off someone else's opinion as his own? Surely not?

Well that would certainly explain a lot with regards to the quality of the buildings put up by his company. One thing that doesn't add up for me is that we signed the likes of Severin and Smith on big contracts at a time when we didn't have a high level of revenue. Since then, we hit the jackpot and earned millions from a UEFA Cup run, the proceeds of which we were told would be invested in the playing squad over 3 years. We should at the very least have the wages earned by Severin, Smith and Mair available to strengthen the squad if we assume the Europe revenue that has been deferred is swallowed up by the fall in TV revenue.

Looks like Angela's going to be clocking up some major overtime.