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bought by Chelsea in 2018 for £70m £5m for a back-up keeper ( very good deal, was on loan at Bournemouth, played 35 games). But, how the hell do we ever keep up? Lucky if we spend £5m over 5 years.

I didn't say sole motivation; I said it's a weak point to debate on (I'm paraphrasing myself). But actually, on many other Ann threads, many other posters have listed it as her main reason for loaning Hearts the money. Only reason, not explicitly, no. Main reason, yes.

4th. We finished 3rd in 23/24. They were 12 points behind us, but 9 points ahead of St. Mirren in 5th.

Looking at the training camp footage, he’s shed a barrowload of weight and looks in the best shape of his life. Just praying he’s been very unlucky with injuries and that’s behind him now. If he’s a proposed regular starter he’ll be captain IMO

Standard for recruitment companies to be paid by the employers. LS would just demand a higher wage to cover. Better Hearts dealing with the agents

Damn you RED was wanting to see how much Vlad had read the thread

Again. You’ve either completely misunderstood the tie up with JTA and how it will work, or you do understand it and disagree with it (fair enough if that’s the case but that’s your hard luck because it’s happening You used Penrice as an example. Let’s say we sell him this summer for our valuation. The revenue from that allows us to sign a replacement left back who JTA projects will increase in value. Obviously we won’t spend all the Penrice money doing that so whatever is left might buy another prospect or it can go into a pot. 18 months later you sell the new left back for more money than you got for Penrice and you now have enough money to buy a really good new left back and a new goalkeeper (which we’ll need sooner rather than later) You do that all over the pitch, selling for profit every time and bringing in better players everytime. To make that work properly, the turnover of players has to be frequent. Very few will stay for more than 2 years And that’s how you get to a stage where you can MAYBE challenge the OF. It’s not going to be this season and it’s not going to be with Penrices, Kabangus Baningimes and Dhandas Penrice IS one of our best players, but he’s not, and neither is anyone else from last season, the standard that challenges the OF. Celtics last 3 left backs are miles ahead of the Penrice standard and on top of that they just re-signed Tierney. That’s the mountain that has to be climbed here. When they start showing interest in our players, you’ll know we’re getting closer. At this moment none of our players would make their bench. Rangers ? Who knows what’s going to be in that particular box of chocolates once it’s opened

Correct. Good post.

I was very drunk in Arcachon one evening. Very drunk.

Yes please

Well played sir

Joy every time. Fantastic.

Double post.

Went to see 28 Years Later yesterday. The first 99% of the film: 7/10 The closing scence: 11/10 - Hilarious and terrifying in equal measure.

Wouldn't say it was brilliant, but the time passed quickly. Pitt is good value as always, but the storyline would get knocked back by some daytime TV melodramas.

Nice. Not as nice as the sunset topless photoshoot I chanced upon on Oahu's North Shore back in 2004, but nice nonetheless

Almost as good as...

He's a bellend.

Yeah, I thought we'd all agreed the last time

Found loads of stuff over the years. From dugs to power tools. The dugs, I always found their owners one way or the other. The last major thing I found was a case with a cordless drill and driver set in it ( Makita). I was driving along in my work van and this body job contractor van approached me from the opposite direction. It had a roll up door on the back and the guy had obviously not closed it down all the way. Just as we were cab to cab so to speak the case fell out the back. I quickly did a uturn and picked it up tyen proceeded to try and catch up to him. Unfortunately he had too much of a head start. I then took it to the closest cop shop and handed it in. 3 months later the coos called and said it was mine. No one had claimed it. Had it for 10 yrs at least now. Never kept anything of value that I have found. The odd bit of change etc but that’s about it. Just the way I was brought up.

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140 now. 131.

One Hawaiian sunset and one Hawaiian moonrise! Taken by moi.

Kent was poor this past season. Halkett if fit would be captain material. Takes no $#!t. Kent on the other hand thinks he’s better than he is. Played for Arsenal don’t you know. Far too casual for the last defender position. JMO.

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