posted Aug 5, 2008

No idea how this one took of so famously drj.

I guess I've just got magic in these fingers.



As for the footy, not got Sky unfortunately, so internet feed is the best I can hope for. Fingers crossed, cos quite fancy seeing what us Hearts boys 2nd and 3rd favourite teams get up to (tongue firmly in cheek)...

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posted Aug 5, 2008

I agree with the main post. If they were doing their job to a good standard then sure a pay rise is justifed.

The standards though have been dropping these past few years, bit of a cheek to be asking for a rise.

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posted Aug 5, 2008

Bottom line, Monkey's get paid peanuts in the circus and this should be no different.

Two bob league anyway.

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posted Aug 5, 2008

That was a slightly unnecessary comment, do you not think Tevez?

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posted Aug 5, 2008

Possibly, however it barely makes up for the amount of "English bashing" that seems to go on and lets be honest, the standard of the SPL does appear to be dropping quickly.

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posted Aug 5, 2008

Didn't see much 'English Bashing' on this thread? Anyhow, there's 51 million of youse, surely you can handle yourselves?

The standard of the SPL would surprise you. Cheap foreigners have been replaced by talented kids. I'd imagine not many folk down your parts would have heard of guys like Hutton and Gordon until they made multi-million pound moves...

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posted Aug 5, 2008

This thread does throw up one very relevant question.

DID MIKE McCURRY ACTUALLY GET PAID FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AT TANNADICE - for which Craig Levein got fined today for telling the truth.

OK. OK I'm paranoid.

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Sir 22GamesEInARow (U12621845)
posted 22 Minutes Ago

Didn't see much 'English Bashing' on this thread? Anyhow, there's 51 million of youse, surely you can handle yourselves?
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I live down south (doing missionary work, you understand) and I can be as sure as it is possible to be without actually seeing them that 51 million do indeed "handle themselves" on regular basis.

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posted Aug 5, 2008

comment by Sir 22GamesEInARow (U12621845)
posted 1 Hour Ago

Didn't see much 'English Bashing' on this thread? Anyhow, there's 51 million of youse, surely you can handle yourselves?

The standard of the SPL would surprise you. Cheap foreigners have been replaced by talented kids. I'd imagine not many folk down your parts would have heard of guys like Hutton and Gordon until they made multi-million pound moves...
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Perhaps not this thread and I admit you made me feel a bit bad, because all the way through this you have had constructive debate, but on another thread today, then well what can I say, the bitterness and jealousy is unreal when at the end of the day both countries under achieve to a degree.

regarding the standard, then I get to see my share of Scottish football, yes there are some decent kids, Motherwell have a few, but you still do have the very cheap imports and except for Hutton (great player) and Gordon (Hmm...not worth 9 million, but still young jury is out) then there is not much of a Scottish influence on the EPL except for SAF. I am just not sure the standard is as good.

Anyway back to the point, I think the ref's are right to try and get a bit more money, especailly when they see what their English counterparts get, however I do agree, there should be more accountability. Nothing worse than a ref who waves you away unwilling to spend 20 seconds as to why he gave that decision, complete and utter wind up.

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posted Aug 5, 2008

what happened to the saying 'for the love of it';I bet there's a few housewives that could spend their saturday afternoon blowing a whistle for a grand especially if there's a wedding coming up.

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posted Aug 5, 2008

Based on the performance of Rangers tonight I wish the powers at be had held out on the pay rise and we had a strike, don't know if I can watch more of that.
Was it just me or were they that bad that Broadfoot looked one of our better players on the night

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