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Red Label

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  • Birthday 03/29/1966

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    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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    Attending World Cup finals.

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  1. Goosebumps.... Can't wait till Veltins Arena on the 12th of July.
  2. Also need other forms of it, such as a "bibberism"
  3. "I say, who's that on the grassy knoll up there..."
  4. Hanley's main development area is judging the flight of the ball. It's his Achilles heel. Too many times he mistimes his jump. WGS needs to get big Alex McLeish in as CB coach - his timing was impeccable, generally cause Wullie would shout at him if he got it wrong Mind they used to be last in from warm up cause they were practicing doing clearing headers between them - Wullie throwing the ball up for Eck...
  5. henry george, on 20 Nov 2014 - 02:31 AM, said: "England played a high pressing game and we always suffer when that happens as it tends to highlight our lack of technical ability." Spot on. This has been a classic England tactic against us for years. And generally works too...
  6. There is a misconception that we don't get crosses in. Maybe in the past aye, but not now - especially with Robertson and Anya hitting in out-swingers from the left and Maloney and Mulgrew hitting in in and out-swingers from the other side, especially free kicks. I think that Rhodes would have had at least two against Ireland. No way he would have missed all of the three great chances we had http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMEWpyv-MkE - Mulgrew's header from Maloney's cross, Fletcher's complete air kick in front of goal off Maloney's nice cross in the first half and Martin's miss from Naismith's cross in second half, when he went near post when the far post was wide open. JR eats these type of chances for breakfast and as neither Fletcher nor Martin were involved in the build up for their own chances, so therefore a requirement for the striker to be involved in link up play was not necessarily true, which is most folk's seemingly main complaint about Rhodes and would be true if we weren't playing in as many good crosses as we currently are.. Add in the fair few other cut backs and rebounds off the keepers in both the Georgia and Ireland games that fell into open space with players standing watching, stock still on their heels and showing zero anticipation; add some headers that sailed over or wide from others (and neither Fletcher nor Martin were able to get positioned to get on the end of them). After watching Rhodes against Australia (ok a data set of only one, but the YouTube compilation of his goals shows his natural finishing ability and knack of being in the right place and the right time and his U21 goal scoring record), I am not buying that he could not play and score goals in our current formation.. And as we cannot seem to keep a clean sheet for more than 30% of games, we need to be scoring goals, and more than we currently do. We also need someone that the opposition fear and make them use up defending resources on that dealing with that fear to leave room for others (Naisy, Anya and Maloney). To be fair, Fletcher is doing this part well, but he should be scoring those opportunities that he's missing currently as well. As others have said, JR and Fletcher vs Gib could see something akin to Boyd, Faddy and Miller's demolition of the Faroes a few years ago. (Actually I just watched that on YouTube and that keeper must have been on a bung!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7F5nFqrtzI. ) WGS needs to get JR back in the squad, if not the team.
  7. Do as Neil says (Young not R) - http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2014-11-18/neil-young-calls-for-starbucks-boycott
  8. Three great sounds - Maloney's boot making contact (doof), the ball hitting the onion bag, and the crowd roar. Magic!
  9. Red Label

    Rip

    RIP; thoughts with family, friends and all who witnessed this tragedy..
  10. I see the Hootsman sourcing story ideas from the tamb again http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/two-scottish-roads-among-most-dangerous-in-britain-1-3592916
  11. Culture! That reminds me of a cracking Yes Prime Minister episode when Jim questions why tax payers money is used to pay for culture for the sole benefit of the "Establishment" (who could afford it themselves) and not on football, as his local football team is heading for the wall .... Jings,... clever programme that...
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