alpine_saint

did you read it ?

Saved u 3 months of nail-biting.

Lets get this out of the way... The fixtures coming out today have at least in my case caused the scales to be shed from my eyes. We face some tough matches over the 8 months of the season. We have an excellent young manager, who has delivered back-to-back promotions and now has a summer to prepare for the rigours of the season. Does anyone have concerns about his ability ? Me, I am watching ths space closely, but am not concerned at this stage. Lets see how the transfer activity and pre-season goes.

Oh, one last point that actually triggered my ire on this occasion. Look at the thread title. It infers Charles is somehow the best soldier in the army, when actually he just struts around with loads of gold braiding that he hasnt earned by anything more than accident of birth.

Sorry, you'll have to point out to me where I insulted stokers. My point was clearly missed on you, it seems. I was taking the p*ss out of the "guard at the gate" syndome which, you, VFTT and TDD apparently suffer from - that you know everything about the services even though I reckoned it highly unlikely that your roles allowed you to have such an overview. I simply used stokers and powder monkey as examples. I called TDD a cook a few weeks ago, but said nothing about cooks being tw*ts or something. Fine, you have some experience with the recruitment programme through your postings, so you have partly qualified some of your comments - accepted. Now have a similar courtesy back and demonstrate a bit of respect over my comments about my AIB and just accept that although I am a Monarchist and supported of the Queen I also find Charles's ego explosions tiresome and think we will have a weak, arrogant and vain King at the unfortunate time when the Queen will pass away.

Fair enough.

I wondered if this would be picked up on here. Its not me, I'm afraid. But I do live in this area of Austria.

Its a perfectly valid question to aks now, since he has no PL experience. But most fair-minded people think actions speak louder than words, so are watching the transfer activity over the summer and the first couple of months of the season closely.

What, so you can try to trip me up on my memories from quarter of a century ago ? No thanks. And Viking W*nker questions my integrity...

I took the AIB back in 1985 or 86, I cant remember. Any anyway, I havent given any details for you to be suspicious about, so I am afraid you are talking out of your sphincter - again. And your comment about stating I have no integrity or leadership skills, based on my posts about Football, just has to qualify as the most ridiculous attack on me every posted on this site. Nice one..

sounds like the sort of stunt Sky would pull.

For what, FFS ? I just think the obsession with PFC is so pointless. They are on the brink of extinction, we are on the brink of the Champions League. The battle of wills has been won, its over.

Sorry, you havent a clue. Embarassed for you.

And ? Whats the point in his promotions, really, apart from making him look even more ridiculous in some sort of Idi Amin type way ? I have never read about George VI doing this with Elizabeth.

And you and some others are still bitter about it ? I think its safe for us to move on now

Really, who cares ? Why are we so fixated by them still ? We've left them far, far behind. And maybe they dont even get the chance to fulfil thos fixtures anyway.

Just starting to sink in about the mountain we have to climb next season. Careful what you wish for - you may get it.

And why is that then ? Are you captable or articulating your reasoning ? A pity you've decided to join in with the other squaddie/bootneck morons. People who judge others based on internet posting are w*nkers. The stuff I posted about the AIB and my own feelings are the facts of the situation. And I am entitled to think that the arse-kssing round Charles is ridiculous and makes Britain look stupid.

I expect this post to disappear soon due to copyright issues.

Cant make my mind up if I wanted a few easier teams at the start to build up a bit of confidence for the new era at SFC, or if that would have been the worst thing in the world in case we lost them... We're a shoe-in for the first televised game of the season, I reckon.

Jesus, talk about baptism of fire.... Could be playing major-league catch-up/relegation battle in the first month. Premier League c**ts.

Yes, because you can tell a whole lot more about a person from a few internet chat-site posts than an experienced group of officers can from 2 days of intense evaluation, cant you ? From my perspective it suggests a pompous streak to your personality. But then the general tenor of your posts tends towards lecturing others, I find. The comment about me having performed sufficiently well that under normal circumstances I would have been offered a place at Dartmouth was part of my official feedback from the AIB panel, so I really dont get the point you are making. Who knows if I would have been a good officer or not ? Not me, not you, and not the other ex-service w*nkahs on here. And I havent claimed that I would have. It is for me a sad regret that circumstances prevented me from finding out. I still think as a UK citizen I have the right to comment on our armed forces, and imo I dont like the Prince of Wales being handed ribbon after ribbon without having done something to earn them. It smacks to me of a banana republic mentality. Deal with it.

Deary deary me. Talk about a Freudian slip there. So now we know moonraker despises officers, and I suspect Viking w*nker and VFTT are cut from the same cloth. All officers are chinless wonders, apparently. And an officer is "stupid" too, needing only 2 A levels when I seem to recall that actually a direct entry Engineering officer needed a Batchelor Honours degree in engineering, let alone the MSc that I did in addition, that had a recruitment office on my last contact with them begging me to re-take the AIB even at the age of 32.... Oh, and if a member of the AIB team tells me my level of performance merited a Dartmouth place, telling me it was never tested is a bit of an odd comment, since it seems I already proved my ability. But again, apparently all officers are chinless wonders...