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alpine_saint

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  1. All we seem to have to offer is that if you are a kid, you'll get regular games. You wont be covered in glory or earn loads of money, just the chance to show what your're made of to secure your big move to the Premier League. A stepping stone, basically, perfectly summed up by those comments about Schneiderlin off to L'Arse at the end of his contract.
  2. What on earth was relegation then, FFS ? A forgeone conclusion beyond his control ? How you can say the "downhill" is only since relegaion is utterly bizarre, but truly in keeping with a Luvvie.
  3. Rather than sneer like an arrorgant tosspot, how about offering an opinion as to where you think it started ? After all, we had been doing the tight-rope walking act you infer for so long, someevent must have caused the loss of balance that caused the club to fall...
  4. 1. I hate Burley, yes 2. Loads of Scots get off big-time on England losing. Cut the high-and-mighty craap with me, Sonny Jim.
  5. Nope, not answering them again...
  6. If I am not permitted to say when Askham sold up to get his filthy lucre, turn us into a PLC and bring Lowe, then I would have to say this too. We were at a massive cross-roads, riding high, getting media attention, and Lowe did this. And its been downhill ever since.
  7. Seems to me that this is more evidence of the Napoleon complex we saw emerge in Burley with Rasiak. So long as he is visible as boss, sod the actual results and perofrmances being achieved..........
  8. Second or third ? Your posts become a blur of monotony after a while....... LOL at SOG ranting about me biting. I'm not the one posting sermons...
  9. England are one shade of shiit-brown away from Scotland and I've never suggested otherwise, so I dont get your point. Why you think being an "international manager" means you've somehow "made it big" in life, I really dont follow. And I dont get you arrogance in referring to it as a "fact". Especially as all the worlds best managers are managing clubs....
  10. How someone can whinge about abuse whilst posting craap that contains so much himself, I'll never know. Pretty low blow to post someones name too - losing your grip, are you ? Never mind, at least SOGGY house-hold economics/tightfistedness means we only get three of these per day, though why you choose to spend all three stalking me, I'll never know.
  11. I enjoy Scotland-under-Burley making a hash of things more than England winning..
  12. And that has what to do with the UK's colonial past, exactly ? And as I've tried to point out in my original post (which you've chosen to ignore) about the work he did, to accuse him of being "one policy" is complete bolllocks. Even the Guardian obituary admits his rehtoric had toned down in recent times. But no, its's better to latch on to ambiguous comments made 10-15 years ago and get all pious and uppity, isnt it ?
  13. Dont recall anyone (including Haider, tbh) claiming that people should be "kicked out", only that limits should be set on the amount allowed in... Oh, and what a totally unconnected and irrelevant anti-colonial rant that was...
  14. Been saying it for ages : How can a team be expected to play with drive, passion and direction when being prepared for a game by a person that most likely comes out in the changing room with the same, repetitive, tedious, uninspiring and demotivating drivel/excuse making in advance for lackof performance, that he does to the public ?
  15. Even the Scots are not stupid... To answer the point, I would say Glenn Hoddle. Who knows where we would be now if Spurs hadnt come knocking ?
  16. I must have dreamed about the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties then........
  17. Spot on. I never knew the EU was a loony-left club that can punish countries for returning right wing governments. Besides, the Thatcher government was so right wing it makes Haider and his noisy little rabble seem like Vladimir Illych Ulanov (Lenin) and the Bolsheviks. I never saw the EU sanctioning the UK. Wonder why ? Could it be the old Austria = Nazi stereotype so espoused on here by the likes of SadOldGit ???
  18. What sloganising rubbish. Austria has some of the toughest Holocaust/enciting Naziism laws on the planet, as David Irving learnt. If Haider had once advocated the installing of a dictatorship, he would have been prosecuted. He played within the rules of and respected democracy implicity. To argue that Haider and the Freedom Party threatened Austrian democracy by participating in a coalition, and therefore EU sanctions were deserved is complete arrogant nonsense. But hey, you keep referring to events that happened 70 years ago, why dont you ? You havent a clue what you are talking about. I live here and will be the first to say Austria got away with its role in the Holocaust (compared to Germany), and that amongst the older generations the lack of remorse is shocking. But using that as justifcation to dismiss Haider's right in the democratic process is laughable.
  19. I would really like to take issue with you on your hysterical rhetoric, but then you'd probably exercise that knee-jerk tendency you have of banning me. However, are you claiming the EU can say "F**k Democracy" if it turns out a result it doesnt like ? Ridiculous.
  20. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/11/haider-obituary
  21. Aye. Hence the absolutely absurd spectacle in 2000 of the EU bringing sanctions against Austria, one of its OWN members, because the democratic election and coalition-forming process brought Haider's then party into government, even though he QUIT the party leadership in order to facilitate the forming of an acceptable coalition with the OeVP.
  22. Wow, so much ignorant ****** spouted on here.... I live in Carinthia. Joerg Haider was an extreme populist who liked grabbing the headlines, winding up the members of the two big centrist parties in Austria who have carved up power and all positions of responsibility in Austrian public service dishonestly since WW2 at the cost of achieving any economic or social progress for the people of Austria, and he revelled in causing chaos. Yes, he made some dubious comments in the past, but most of them were blown out of all proportion by his political opponents. He was also not helped in this respect with his family's historical involvement in the 1930's German Nazi party, but again this is sifting facts to support the political objective. He worked tirelessly to promote the interests of the people of Cartinthia, and over my 11 years of association with this region, brought about drastic changes in social policy that were so popular and drastic that they were quickly adpoted by the Austrian national government. He was the first administrator in Europe to introduce the idea of paying new mothers an allowance for the first 3 years of a childs life to allow the mother to stay at home, bond with the child, and improve the financial lot of new families. He also introduced a voucher system to give parents a kick-start in September to handle the "back-to-school" costs. Thanks to him, I only pay 20 quid a month for my younger sons private kindergarten, the rest paid by Carinthia. Because of these initiatives, he was exceptionally popular in Carinthia, and in the recent election his BZOe party got 40% of the vote here, compared to 11% average for Austria. I can assure you all (though you choose no doubt to disbelieve me), that he campaigned the last election purely on a protest vote against the SPOe/OeVP coalitions that have strangled Austria for 60 years, and on social issues. He didnt even intend to stay in the leadership of his party, he was just a celebrity leading candidate - he wanted to continue serving his region...Yes, he had forthright immigration views, but it is interesting to note that parties in the rest of Europe (including the UK Labour Party) often have more right-wing and radical opinions than he espoused in the 90s. He was simply ahead of his time in this respect. However, he barely raised these issues in the recent election, he left the mud-slinging and shiit-stirring to the members of his ex-party, the FPOe. No doubt this post will have me tarred as a Nazi (if I wasnt already), but I am compelled to try to put the record straight. I have witness speeches of his first hand, and I found him to be charismatic and deeply concerned with the lot of the average Austrian in life. Maybe the UK has needed a bit more of that recently.....
  23. Not really funny though, is it ? I for one admire the bloke's determination for coming so close..
  24. Got any chocolate ones ?
  25. Surely, with a two week international break, if he is not fit to play in our next game, the end is nigh ?
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