ChiThistle

Aw crap! So we’re going to lose Fitzpatrick to Aidan County?!?

Month or so ago, his PCA was announced. Big target, great signing IMO.

And, at least in US media, his pals Doohlan and Erskene….

18 days in, this seems like the perfect update to me. Thanks for this.

To add to that, saying “no update” is preferable to not saying anything. It’s the difference between nothing happening and someone falling asleep at the wheel. Also, does TJF have a formal charter or mission statement? Questions about what to do with membership money are more easily answered when you can tie things back to a document. I know the TJF page has an “our aims” section but maybe codifying that is a good idea?

No kidding. $450 just to get there. And $850 if I want to get home!

I thought McCall said he would be on vacation for a bit and resume the recruitment effort afterward?

True. I initially had the word “odd” instead of “unique” and forgot to remove it.

What was so unique about the first-ever World Cup hat trick?

My one (very minor) pet peeve with the online process is for PTTV live stream. Even though I have a profile that remembers most of my information, it ALWAYS prompts me to select “Home” or “Away”. One of these days I’m going to select “Away” in the hopes I get a “YOU F**KING TRAITOR!” pop-up.

Is your browser blocking pop-ups on the site? A “pop-up blocked” message in the upper right ?

Jeezus I hope the English teams’ offers are a sight better than Rangers….imagine Jack trading his cow for magic beans and then having to return the beans when he’s done planting them.

Wait, is it two people experiencing the problem or just one? If one browser works and the other doesn’t, I would consider the following: 1) Is your version of Chrome up to date? Does your “working computer” have a newer version installed? 2) Are you using (or have you recently installed) any Chrome browser extensions? You should be able to check by clicking on the three dots and there will be a section that shows you what extensions you’ve installed. You can try disabling them one by one to see if any of them is the culprit.

We have this satire newspaper in the US called The Onion (no, it’s nowhere near as old as the great wars), and this discussion makes me think of one of my favorite headlines of theirs:

I would be pretty upset if this transpired. Not only a young, talented player but also one in a position where we consistently lack young talent. Makes you wonder if an academy is really a good investment if the goal is to develop maybe 1-2 super talented players and then sell them off at a pittance.

I am pretty sure the word describing the antithesis has been around longer than “fanboy”…. That word is “hater” and I believe it’s still gender-neutral. Although I’m now singing a version of Avril Lavigne’s first hit: “He was a hater boy, I said see you later boy…” and I do NOT like how it’s sticking in my head.

Uh oh, is he in trouble?

It used to refer to male fans of nerdier subjects like comic books or Dr. Who. It’s evolved a bit and now is used to denote any male having a borderline romantic obsession with a topic or person. Used in a sentence: “The Marvel fanboys from ComicCon got into a fight with the Ian McCall fanboys. No one was harmed, although several calculators were broken and Gerry can’t find his asthma medication.”

The weekend will of course be spent getting the custom made jackets, determining future initiation rituals, and drinking the blood of a goat.

Yeah I’m behind the board as well - just calling this out as a gap that probably needs to be addressed - especially if TJF is trying to demonstrate its legitimacy as the preferred vehicle for share transfer.

Possibly opening a can of worms here, but were voters notified about the candidate who withdrew so they would not vote for that candidate? Or that those who did vote for him could change their vote? Or was it stated going in that if a candidate withdraws, any votes for that candidate would just be discarded? Seems like simply discarding had potential to change the results, given the count.

Lewandowski?

Did he replace a keeper whose surname is an anagram of his own?

I’ll throw one out there: What 3 players are the only ones to win the Premier League Golden Boot with two different clubs?

Do we know whether Gary Caldwell sang “Take a Chance On Me” when he finished his PowerPoint?