OttawaSaint

This is just too painful.

Gettin' desperate around here, so here goes: Rain in the National Capital Region of Canada, 8 degrees C....

fuller misses penalty, hits both posts and Delap hits bar with rebound. Goals from Delap and Higginbottom, Bale sent off.... weird

I had a massive bowel movement at half time of the Coventry game if that counts?

last day of BBQing? Why not BBQ all year round, nothing better than slinging a couple of steaks on the BBQ when there is 3 feet of snow on the ground. Stand your beer up in the snow to keep it cool. Good times...

best way to break 100 (or 50 on a nine hole) is to add one shot to every par. So now par 3s become short par 4s, Par 4s become short par 5s and par 5s become manageable par 6s. Shoot "pretend par" on each of these holes and you will have 45. - Don't go with driver off every non par 3 hole. Look at the hole where are the hazards what are your tendencies? If you slice and there is OB all the way up the left then hit a 5 or 6i up the middle and go for the green in 3 (on a par 4). - when shooting for the green aim at the middle of the green and not the flag. If it seems like a perfect 7i to the flag, take a 6i, chances are if you don't break 50 then you don't hit your 7i bang on every time. - practice chipping and pitching more than long game. - when close to the green if you can putt then putt, if not then chip, if you can't chip from where you are then use a pitch. Keep it in that order as the worst miss with a putter is way better than the worst miss with a pitch (flub, shank etc). - draw a line on your ball to help you line up putts, once you have read the putt, don't second guess yourself. - if you find yourself in trouble off the tee, don't go for the hero shot that will get you back in the hole. I have seen many players do this, "damn in the woods, hold on, if I put the ball back in my stance I can punch a 3 iron out through that 6 inch opening and onto the green". The result? you end up missing that shot (no wonder) and end up in worse trouble, then you hack at the ball out of frustration and end up with a 10 or 12 on your card. Just find the safest way out of trouble with a shot you have played many times and concentrate on that shot, get it back on the fairway and par or bogey is still possible. Good luck.

A few managers missing there. What about Gray, Wiggers and Sturrock. I believe that Sturrock started pretty well and the other two took an age to get a 1st win...

bollarks!!!

I don't understand why people think that those who moan about results prefer us to lose.

FA cup QF tie, kicking Le Tissier and escaping without punishment while Le Tiss was sent off for retaliation? That's why I hate that ****er...

The whole forum is an inside joke COYR

Sunny and 19C here at the moment. Leaves are starting to change colour... Hope this helps...

That is depressing, it really is...

Game over then I take it?

trouble is we were pretty prolific on the tv in the late 70s and early 80s. What is our record since the inception of the premier league?

surely when the Dell was all-seater we'd only get around 14,000??

My dog got sprayed by a skunk and bolted through the house, so surely I am due some luck....COYRs!!

That was his 13th last night. I believe Nadal won those 3 French opens and he was runner up. In any case, I think he is the greatest player ever to play tennis. I know Sampras had 14 majors, but I think Federer is better than Sampras was at his peak.

I am Scottish but have an English accent (went to school in England) but have never suffered any abuse like this, maybe it was your attitude that they didn't like. On the other side of the coin is that I have received abuse in England whilst wearing my Scotland shirt, but I just ignored it as being dimwits who will pick up on anything different about people to get a rise out of them and have an excuse to beat them up. There are people like that in every country.

Fair enough, but it doesn't mean that people should be racist or abusive towards him. You have taken your stance and that is fine, but it is those who are hypocritical about it that I am calling out.

Exactly, there weren't too many Americans complaining about Sampras' personality when he was winning. I can see that it sticks in the throats of a few on here that he is Scottish.

1549: "What on earth has happened to the pride and passion in the Scotland squad? What has George Burley done to destroy this?" gers-ham89 on 606 Not a follower of CCC football then...

Yes, now the realisation that I never really got rid of Burley is becoming apparent, as it probably is for all Scottish Saints. 10 minutes into our world cup campaign and we are likely out already. Hopefully England will fail miserably too so I don't have to hear too much about Scotland's shortcomings...

Wow, his buddies just cooly walk up to him and pick up his shoes (or whatever it was he picked up and threw to one side). One kid walks up to the railings, has a look, "hmmm nothing to see here" and just walks away. The only ones who seemed to react were the bus driver who stops and the runs back to the kid and the person who ran across the road from the other side. I have to ask thought....WTF was the kid trying to do in the first place? Crazy stuff there.

Wow, his buddies just cooly walk up to him and pick up his shoes (or whatever it was he picked up and threw to one side). One kid walks up to the railings, has a look, "hmmm nothing to see here" and just walks away. The only ones who seemed to react were the bus driver who stops and the runs back to the kid and the person who ran across the road from the other side. I have to ask thought....WTF was the kid trying to do in the first place? Crazy stuff there.