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Just checked Conrad Balatoni's Twitter account - he's in Oban! So whoever the trialist is, it isn't him!
Thats where he's telling the jam tarts he is
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The government should maybe look to Norway on how to run a health service, we have a decent health service but we pay up to a point. Every year we pay for the first £150 worth of health service whether in doctors fee's or prescription charges, but not emergency or operation charges which is free, kids are free. The idea behind this is to stop time wasters clogging the system. We pay slightly higher taxes 36% on normal wages and 50% approx on overtime and bonusses and work till 69, but we get a free state pension which is good plus your works pension. You can opt to leave early and as long as you have had 40yrs employment your pension is full. Yes we have a low unemployment approx 1.1% for stavanger and 3% for the country, this is down to a number of things the oil business for a start, plus working week is 35hrs, holidays are minumum 5 weeks, we have national service which takes 1 yrs worth of labour away and thee school system starts late and finishes later which opens more positions. The norwegian DSS (NAV) is very active at getting people back to work with job placements and proper training (including help towards degrees), keep the people in work you increase the amount of revenue you bring in from income tax and decrease the amount you pay out in benefits
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Guns dont kill people siggie, rappers do!!
Now the games like shooting and Biathlon, live bullets are used. However, this is not very good. Firstly, there is a danger of accident. Secondly, in many countries, including Japan, it is very difficult to get live bullets.
In the Olympics and other competitions, beam rifles should be used. Beam rifles were invented in Japan where gun-control is very strict, and good for sports.
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is he not also a football agent??
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So.... are we opening the Main Stand then?
Think we should open the bing for picnics seeing as its the summer
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1985 or 1986 Benny Rooney was in charge, I'm in primary5 never been to a game in my life. Doing a science project in school on the friday showing how plants drrink water so were using food colour and daffodils and we move on to the red food colour, the daffie turns red and yellow and my school teacher asks if anyones dad is a partick thistle fan "Mine is" says me so the teacher says i can take it home and maybe my dad will take me to a game (my dads not been to a game since my younher brothers been born as my mum had to work part time on a saturday afternoon to make ends meet and he looked after us), so take it home and ask, my dad clears it with my mum and myself and my brother are whisked off to firhill on the saturday. Its the 2nd last home hgame of the season and on the bus i'm starting to panick incase me or my brother lose my dad in the big crowds that you get at football matches (remember i have only seen games on the telly and in those days it was cup finals and internationals) well there is about 2200 at firhill and we go to the main stand, I was engrossed immediatly. Game ends nil nil but i loved it. On the way home i ask if i can get a scarf next time "Oh i have one in the house but its a wee bit old, but it'll do you for now and we'll get you a new one if you keep coming", its a 1971 cup final scarf that i still own. We go to the next game the last game of the season which also ends nil nil, i thought you only saw goals on the telly, still remember the absolute joy and the hugs the next season when i saw my 1st jags goal, and i also got braver and would go down to the enclosure to see the players warm up and get my programme autographed as the players came back up the tunnel, don't know how many Kenny Watson autographs i have, think i was on 1st name terms with him by the end of the season.
They were happy, simple days when you felt part of something, the product wasnt great but there was a togetherness about being a jags fan, a club that only a select few got admitted too and now i felt part of it. My granda who was from Raeburry street and had been watching the jags since before the war was so proud we were going to firhill.
And the 4th generation of the family made his 1st appearnce at firhill when my wee neephew came along with his dad, his granda and his uncle.... he thought Pee-Tee was great as was his hot dog, hopefully the addiction to the club has started
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Mccall brought stability to the club when it was needed, helped to install a youth policy (although others gerry etc have probably had more to do with its day to day running than him) which was long needed and aquired a couple of good signings that we made alot of dough from when we really were desperate for money and for these parts i think we need to be thankful, on the downside his tacticts were worked out by the oposition very early on with no back up plan, some very dubious signings, mixing up a working team by insisting on playing loan players which must have sucked morale, his lack of time at the club away from match day or taking training was worrying and when he decided he wanted to go to dundee we shouldnt have renewed his contract as his heart was no longer in it. So success or failure, who knows
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Heard this at the weekend from a former rangers player i know well who is still back playing in the spl, but only time will tell
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Back towards the end of the 90s when i used to go on 2 and 3 day benders at the weekend had been doing my usual sparkled saturday night in the sub-club having no sleep in 2 days and more booze in my system than i could even contemplate now. I sort of remember meeting some girl who at the time in my fueled mind must have seemed tidy (well anything with a pulse at that time of night was a bonus) my last recollection was gettin in a taxi with her and her mate. Woke up next afternoon in a strange bed in a strange house with this bird beside me who i had no idea what her name was or how the hell i got there (and didnt look that tidy then!!), but she knew my name so wasnt 100% awkquard, but i make my excuses need to leave, maw's cookin dinner or what ever i used to say why she makes me coffee, hastily gulp it down as i have the comedown from hell and paranoia is kickin in especially with the blackout of how i got into this flat... so ask her wheres the closest bus stop or train station "i think your better gettin the train" says she, gives me directions, about a 15 min walk she says, as i come out notice i'm in nurses quarters in some hospital but pay no attention to the name. So i start my walk keepin the head down "just want to get home". Station comes into view.... Its F***in Manchester oxford road train station, i have about 3.50 on me and my mobiles dead. Had to skip onto the train, sit on the bog on the train (well both of them needed to change at york), jumped the track at central. Still to this day no recollection who she was and how the f*ck i got there, but i stopped mixing absenth with nosebags
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Some of the top Norwegian teams use and will also be using it in europe if they were to qualify, football needss to get its act together with the product on the park and messing about the customers, and itch either going to be summer football or artificial surface, hopefully enhancing the standard on the park and eliminating cancellations and re-arrangements of fixtures
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It very easy to say stick to a budget but very hard to actually do. We already have the lowest full-time budget in the league, sticking to budget means going part-time and that brings the very likely prospect of relegation.
well maybe by taking the money that punters want to give to the club may help see here
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The way that I have taken it is that the shortfall is in this season's budget so the £100,000 is needed for us to break even.
I really really hope that is the case instead of the running out of cash to run the day to day business and having a significant loss
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Survive. Just survive. Not reduce debt, not increase any budgets, just to make sure that we don't run out of cash to pay wages and the bills.
Think of it like this, the club credit card is maxed out and the repayments need made, but there's still food to be bought , the leccy to be paid for and the council tax too. In order to manage to do all of that, the "hole" of £100k needed plugged. The directors have tapped some of their mates, but are saying that they can't do that again.
So yet again our financial guru has set a budget that is pure fantasy. Is he an accountant at his accounting firm or the cleaner
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Let me get my head round this..... this 100k is a shortfall needed to allow us to run or to make us break even this year.
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I have a Tim-style shirt, QPR's 3rd.
I have not got one, but I would not hesitate to wear Donegal Celtic's shirt.
Your scottish is certainly improving, i know folk in london who don't know what a tim is.
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All the above posts in reference to this....
When I typed the above, I was thinking more of some dodgy snack bar or shop. Don't know what in my post makes you think I was blaming the facilities at the Club. In fact as someone else alluded to back in the thread, I heard it was due to new rules owing to health and safety (or whatever it is these days!) that the new Stadium Management company brought in, so highly unlikely it is something at the Club.
We have a stadium management company??? How much does that cost us and does it make us any money, i havent heard of the ground being utilised any more but someone prove me wrong
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I heard recently that the players now have to bring their own lunches these days. Previously the Club made up the lunches providing the players with the right kind of dietary needs.
So it cant be the food the Club are providing, but maybe it's down to what or where it's being prepared in?
Reminds me of the days of trigger eating uncooked pot noodles, much to lambies annoyance
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Not a big motorhead fan, but having just watched it. It has to be the best rockumentary ever, fantastic film and the guy is a legend
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2 weeks on and still no update from the trust on what actually happened at the AGM with the exception of the brief statement on the Jim Alexander situation. Now you hold the 1,000,000 shares for your members, so why not report back to your members in a prompt manner, you are quick enough to post when Dacvid Beattie has posted something to upset you in the programme. 2 weeks for an update, the UN can get a resolution for war in less time. Don't expect a renewal from this member.
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Probably a more considered and ethically viable plan than PropCo...
I'll mail it to the powers that be then
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I don't know too much about the ins and out of the legalittys of this but lets say come april we are safe with 4 5 weeks to go (safe as in more than 25 pts away from bottom 2 teams), one of the board does a fantasy feasabilty study into say new pie stalls and charges the club £8 million, he is now our biggest creditor (80%) debt), call the administrators in and accepts 6p in the pound. The bank gets 60grand for a 1 million debt, the director wipes it off as bad debt and hey ho we have no debt!!! Is it that easy???
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There will be no further penalty applied by the SFL. That was the one thing about Dundee's appeal that was successful.
None will be needed if HMRC wind the business up
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Im pretty sure that will be passed. That guy Jackson would be trying to postpone if he knew it was going to be rejected. They still have a month to 'negotiate' before the further penalty is imposed for still being in administration.
Also, is a significant amount of the debt not owed to guys like Melville who are happy to write-off their investment in Dundee as an expensive mistake? Dont be surprised to see Dundee let off with this tomorrow & comfortably escape relegation
Don't think mwlville can afford to write much off as he's being chased for several millions from his old company cosalt, amongst others
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This is what I was getting at in my post in the other thread. Shareholders have done this, not the current BoD. And the only reason I can think of for this is a personal grudge.
Is there any legal recourse that the club (or anyone) could use to reclaim the shares from TH and BMcM, given the documentary evidence suggested by FT above? (I'm refusing to use your new forum name, the old one was much better...)
To an extent i agree with you, but the current BOD are still employing Hughes's company to do the books run the ballot etc and using him and cowan at hospitality on a saturday.... his shares were for free, his company apparently took (or are taking) a wage out of the club. He is no longer one of the custodians of the club so hand your shares back and disappear, your financial mismanagement has taken us to the brink if not beyond
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Save you the typing big man