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John Blutarsky

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  1. When i telephone the Virgin media call centre they never give me a straight answer :frantic:

     

    With this, you might have answered your own question. Whatever the technical capabilities or bling of the box itself, they are a nightmare of a company to deal with. Having cancelled my telephone/broadband service with them in October 2012 they continue to send me letters with an ever increasing bill that they allege I owe to them, claiming that I actually requested to retain these services. So far they have failed to produce evidence of the request and respond to my email enquiries with something so obscure it must have been randomly generated by an automatic translator. They also have no viable complaints procedure.

     

    You have been warned.

  2. He is older but that doesn't make you immune to mistakes or getting upset. After the penalty incident he would have been hurting, then being bundled off the park would have hurt physically and McDonald should have been booked for what was a bad tackle. So he shouted a bit, not a booking to most refs. However if you book both for shouting McDonald should have been off too for the tackle and aggressive behaviour. Its easy to look hard done to when you've got your 'hit' in first.

    Since play was restarted with a free kick to Morton, I don't think the ref considered it a bad tackle. He let a few industrial tackles go unpunished for both sides so at least he was consistent.

  3. Heard that as well; this mob do everything on the cheap but seem to pay okay wages. Big gamble and one wonders what happens when they don't get promoted.

     

    In the unlikely event that they did, they would also have to invest heavily in a squad as most of their journeymen would be well over the hill for the SPL and I imagine that they will struggle to hold on to Tidser and Bachirou.

     

    BTW, I think the new format SPL has ditched the no. of seats rule, leaving it instead to the clubs to plan according to their requirements. Only 20 years or so too late for us on that score.

  4. When I seen Bannigan in our 3-1 defeat at Almondvale last February, I said to my dad "we can't get rid of him quick enough, he is awful" - haha oops, what do I know!!!

     

    You're in good company. I remember asking John Lambie what he thought about Graeme Dorrans whilst he was on loan with us. Lambie growled that he didn't have it and wouldn't make it at that level.

  5. i wouldn't say dundee utd are a much bigger club than us. they get like 4000 fans. we'd be the same in that division

     

    their average gate this season is like 7,500.

     

    other indicators over, say past 30/40 years, such as their domestic and european record and a well established youth system that has generated a fair amount in transfer fee income makes them significantly bigger than us.

  6. Shaggy was a true hero of mine as a player, I'm delighted to see him back at the club. The classiest player I have seen at Firhill - even in that duff loan spell under Campbell when he got injured and hardly played, I still remember him roasting Peter McDonald down at his own corner flag and strolling away into midfield with the ball. He probably proceeded to give it away and then get injured, but for maybe 10 seconds he shone a light on an otherwise dismal scene. Shaggy for Scotland!

     

    I met him a couple of months after his last appearance under DC when he got injured after about 10 minutes. I told him that he'd played more football in the 10 minutes than the rest of DC's side had played all season. He was a wee bit embarrassed but seemed genuinely chuffed with the compliment.

  7. 100k according to the mail. Highly unlikely that will a reliable source tho :-P

     

    Assuming it's the same multiplier that they use when reporting the number of immigrants illegally entering the country, apply it in reverse then we probably got about £500.

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  8. Jackie was always looking to get away to bigger things as soon as possible.

    Not sure if that's true but as I said on another thread from early Firhill has been crawling with representatives from other clubs. The media, old and new, has been awash with praise for our style of play.

     

    The risk from JMcN's perspective is that if he stuck around until the end of the season he could end up finishing second to higher spending Morton, being runner-up to high flying QotS and being tagged with having an away record achilles heel.

     

    He's also likely to have been made a very tempting offer by Thomson at a time in his career when his stock is high.

  9. Fair to say that we have probably had more scouts/managers of other clubs/directors of other clubs at Firhill these past few months than in the past few seasons. i expect that they weren't just reporting back regarding individual players.

     

    it's also inevitable in football that most managerial casualties start to occur towards the calendar year end. so, well done to this Board if they did indeed tie JM into an arrangement that brought some cash into the club.

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