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Reply | Good luck son of pugwash
at 18:00 22 Mar 2025
Very sad.
Much love to those of you on here and elsewhere who knew and loved him.
Ar dheis dé go raibh a anam. |
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Reply | Introduction to the demon drink
at 20:56 21 Mar 2025
I was also a 'Guinness Child' John.
I was small and skinny, so a bottle of Guinness was prescribed with the dinner.
I got a bit of a grá for it, and soon I had to be minded when I was stocking the bar in our hotel or my mouth would be under the tap.
It couldn't continue like that, of course, and things came to a timely head when I was eleven and presented for my Confirmation. I'm not sure if it's the same now, but back then us kids had to promise the Bishop that we'd take The Pledge. The Pledge meant swearing off the drink until we were eighteen. And there'd be no discussion about it.
Except in my case.
Myself and the Bishop weren't pulling the best already as he'd vetoed my intention to take the Confirmation name of Luther. Now he was asking me to give up the drink, and stay short for the rest of my life. 'Twas a lot to ask of a man.
Come the day of the big event the whole thing went off amiably enough. I bumped into my Dad outside the church afterwards and we had a small chat, and he broached the question of The Pledge. I told him I'd dropped Luther but had kept the drink.
We walked over to the pub.
In Causkey's Bar, two pints of Porter arrived. My first pint.
But the Dad sat me back smartly and offered me a choice. I could have the pint with him now if I'd let him teach me how to drink it properly (above the Harp always, sip slightly over the lip, don't mix the white and the black), how to drink slowly (only two in the first hour, you can speed up a small bit after that, don't go near the top shelf) and to always stand my round. I'd have to give it up for a while. I could drink again when I was sixteen, and for the first year back on it I could only drink in his company. At seventeen, I'd be my own boss.
Or he could take the pint away now, and I could teach myself and see if I fared better in life for it.
I took the pint. We drank together. We were men together for half an hour.
I stuck to the deal until sixteen and then for a year I drank only with my Dad and his buddies. I was never drunk once as a teenager
Unusual parenting in different times.
I found out years later that it was the Mother's idea. Together, they decided that it should be a chat between two men. |
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Reply | Dave Thomas
at 08:47 20 Mar 2025
Poor Dave..
Thanks for the tip-off, Clive. |
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Reply | Vinícius Júnior buying Rangers?
at 11:53 19 Mar 2025
I think Rangers should buy Vinícius Júnior.
Am I the only one coming up with good ideas here? |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 15:30 17 Mar 2025
Very valid point.
Maybe on a (klaxon alert) pay-as-you-play deal? |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 15:15 17 Mar 2025
I think with ITK stuuf, we have to consider whether it helps our club or not to release it. Does it help Rangers for a poster on LFW to claim that Cifuentes has told someone who told someone who told someone that Cifuentes and Nourry weren't talking last summer? Or that Nourry is not trusted by those who've worked with him at Rangers?
Lassel's posting stuff on here that sounds right to some of us, but that's only because it ties in with other rumours that we've heard.
Also, Lassel's info is at least third-hand and - let's face it - we have absolutely no way of knowing how true it is, and why it would be leaked and/or spun.
After all, Lassel's source told him last winter that Cifuentes had actually been sacked. |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 15:00 17 Mar 2025
Agree with this. We were at our best when we had that kind of a mix in midfield.
Edit - would like to see Morgan more involved as well. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:00]
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Reply | Fast start meets fraught end in the battle of logic versus vibes - Report
at 12:35 17 Mar 2025
Thanks Clive, agree with all of that. Still disappointed we didn't play better in possession. Our main ploy was long throws, which was limiting and uninspiring.
Agree about their keeper, too. Saito's goal, while well-struck, was nowhere near the top corner and should have been saved. Thankfully, the keeper moved right just beforehand for no reason and took himself out of it.
Overall, though, a decent enough performance, and better than I thought at the final whistle. |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 09:03 17 Mar 2025
Will have to just leave this one, Gazza, as we see it completely differently.
I think that's a pretty damning two minutes of football, you don't. And I think it is representative of his poor play in general, you don't. That's fair enough. |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 23:09 16 Mar 2025
"Why do you think his 'work-rate and effort are inconsistent and questionable'??"
It's just my view, Gazz. I've watched him over years.
1) I don't think he shows enough for the ball when the backs have it, in fact I've often seen him hide behind oppo players.
2) He can (sometimes) be lazy tracking back. For instance, when my friends and I were watching the Boro game, we noticed the period between 47:20 and 49:20. My friends were at the match. I wasn't.
But we all commented that Colback is capabale of these periods where he simply switches off and trots around the place, and - put simply - can't be arsed. |
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