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The Russell catch-all transfer thread
Topic Started: Apr 20 2013, 01:07 PM (22,034 Views)
Setenza
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Naebody
Jun 23 2013, 05:41 AM
Yes, but what is EPL Commissioner?
I'm guessing its some high fantasy game, where people control a team, and do things like buy players, get a balanced squad, improve the team and beat rivals.

Complete fantasy with no resemblance to reality...
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Jun 22 2013, 03:07 PM
And what has the Hearts situation got to do with Johnny Russell?

I hate it when threads veer off at a tangent.

Mods, do your job and keep everyone in line, banning the persistent offenders, or I will have to find somewhere else to do whatever it is that I do on here. And that's a promise.

You will not hear from me again until you confirm you will do exactly as I say.
Says the Man who, ahem, posted this on page 21.....:
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It was nice of Spence to provide some free advertising for the two available footballing gentlemen in question, and especially useful to the agent of said gents whose job it is to get them new contracts.

The idea that Ibrox media channels is the best place to get accurate information about the club is laughable.
Apologies, I hummed and hawwed as to whether (catch-all transfer thread) covered other squad signings etc. Seems I was wrong, my bad. :fisted:
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It's all good, anything to liven up the most tumbleweedy close season in living memory.

Anyone know anything about rifle scopes?
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findus
Jun 24 2013, 04:08 PM
It's all good, anything to liven up the most tumbleweedy close season in living memory.

Anyone know anything about rifle scopes?
No but I did read this which you might find of interest:
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A forgotten war comes back to life
By Simon Kuper
In China, the Sino-Japanese war now looms so large that it sometimes eludes the party’s control

In Chinese video games (authorised by the state), players slaughter Japanese soldiers from the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-45. On the sets of Chinese TV dramas, extras playing Japanese soldiers get slaughtered every day. And in geopolitics, China is disputing Japan’s sovereignty over some uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea – and soon, perhaps, over Okinawa Island too.
The Chinese have rediscovered “their” second world war. Just as the conflict fades from memory in the west, it has become salient as never before in China. To understand the country today, we need to understand its long-forgotten war, argues Rana Mitter, professor of Chinese history and politics at Oxford. Remarkably, his new book is the first full account of the Sino-Japanese war ever published in English.

Perhaps 15 million Chinese died in the conflict, nearly 20 times the number of American and British war dead combined. Yet for decades China’s ruling Communists rarely mentioned the war. After all, it hadn’t particularly been their war. The Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek was China’s main commander. The Communist party acted as his “junior partner”, writes Mitter. Indeed, in Mitter’s account Mao Zedong is a relatively minor character, sitting out the war in the backwater of Yan’an. Occasionally Communist soldiers fought the Japanese, but during the war they also intermittently fought the Nationalists.

After Mao won the Chinese civil war in 1949, driving Chiang to Taiwan, he wasn’t keen to talk up the feats of his defeated Nationalist enemy. That’s why the long Japanese bombing of Nationalist-run Chongqing – China’s equivalent of the London Blitz – was quietly remembered in Mao’s day only by people who had lived through it.
Westerners all but forgot China’s war. Under Mao, China became a closed communist country, whereas Japan was a western ally. Chinese archives were closed. Few western scholars could read Chinese anyway. And so China became, in Mitter’s phrase, “the forgotten Allied power”. Westerners similarly undervalued the Soviet war effort until Russian archives opened in the 1990s.

Only in the 1980s did China start to commemorate the Sino-Japanese war as more than just a heroic Mao-led prelude to communist nirvana. In 1985 a museum opened in memory of the Japanese “Rape of Nanjing” of 1937-38 – a slaughter of up to 300,000 people that had never previously much interested the party because it hadn’t been there. Today Nanjing is much-discussed in China; rather more so than bigger massacres of Chinese by Chinese, notably Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
The post-Mao party revived the Sino-Japanese war, mostly because it needed a new ideology to replace communism. That need became urgent after the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989. In a dictatorship, Mitter told me, “There are two things you can do. One is to run the economy really well, and the other is to make people feel nationalistically proud. Nationalism is a very powerful button to press.” Similarly in Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic dropped communism for nationalism.

War talk had other uses for the new China. By talking up the shared battle of all Chinese, Communist and Nationalist, the party hoped to woo the Taiwanese. This hasn’t always worked. As Mitter says: “Chinese praise for Chiang has coincided with a severe downgrading of shares in Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, where he’s now regarded as a dictator who oppressed the people of Taiwan for many years.” War talk also sends a reminder to former western allies: that China, the new “responsible great power”, was with them when it mattered.

But in western countries, the second world war is fading into history. The Iraq war was probably the last time ever that an American president (with a bust of Winston Churchill in his office) would invoke shared Allied memories to cajole European countries into joint war. The European Union, built to unite a continent destroyed by war, has lost its sense of mission partly because the war is being forgotten.

In China, by contrast, the Sino-Japanese war now looms so large that it sometimes eludes the Communist party’s control. Many Chinese citizens show an anti-Japanese fervour that embarrasses the leadership. For instance, Chinese officials generally find Japan’s nostalgic rightwing prime minister Shinzo Abe (grandson of a suspected war criminal) a man they can do business with. But many ordinary Chinese get angry when, say, Abe makes tactless comments about the foreign “comfort women” used as sex slaves by Japan’s wartime army.

Microbloggers on Weibo, the “Chinese Twitter”, often refer to the Japanese as “dwarf bandits” – a wartime (and Ming-era) insult. Sometimes popular anger goes beyond words. Last September, violent anti-Japanese demonstrations were broken up by Chinese police with water cannons. Popular anger may also be pushing China’s new President Xi Jinping to hang tough in his dangerous dispute with Japan over the tiny islands in the East China Sea. Now some Chinese scholars and military officers are even claiming Okinawa for China. The Communist party is riding belligerent nationalism, but it is struggling to stay on the horse.

‘China’s War with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival’ by Rana Mitter is published in the UK by Allen Lane, £25.
In the US the book is called ‘Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945’. It is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($30).
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That stuff boils up now and again, usually when it suits the CCP to turn up the gas. Though your average Chinese person is much more aware when they're being fed propaganda by their government/media than your average western person is regarding their government/media, the size of the population means that there's always going to be significant numbers of harline nationalist citizens over and above the just ignorant. Most Chinese have never spoken to a foreigner, never mind a Japanese person, never mind actually visiting Japan. Most are too busy trying to survive, pay the bills, hope for a better future for their kids, much like anywhere in the world.

Talking about better futures, Thommo Jnr urges our patience this summer while we sort out getting in the 'right types'. Sounds good to me.
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I saw Simon Donnelly buying Ryvita in Morrisons in East Kilbride this evening.
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“Rape of Nanjing” of 1937-38 – a slaughter of up to 300,000 people

I researched this attrocity after watching 'The Flowers Of War'. This was a harrowing war with some of the most beastly creatures to ever grace the planet. You can't even call them human.
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I saw Simon Donnelly buying Ryvita in Morrisons in East Kilbride this evening

Sounds like a right fan dan. Everyone knows yer meant to binge on fats and salts in close season. And this guy isn't even playing. Sounds like a Gerry Britton wannabe. What next? A law degree and trying to get Garry O'Connor off the hook for being a brain dead, powder snortin, honey monster in a sharp suit. f*ckin ryvita.
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Conan the Destroyer
Jun 25 2013, 09:44 PM
I saw Simon Donnelly buying Ryvita in Morrisons in East Kilbride this evening.
Finally the close season springs into life.
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findus
Jun 25 2013, 05:07 PM
Talking about better futures, Thommo Jnr urges our patience this summer while we sort out getting in the 'right types'. Sounds good to me.
It does, but will be interesting to see who we sign (if anyone). 3-4 players is what we apparently expect to be going after, so that should help fill out the squad. I'm hoping it's not end of august free random released players scrambling.
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Jun 25 2013, 10:40 PM
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“Rape of Nanjing” of 1937-38 – a slaughter of up to 300,000 people

I researched this attrocity after watching 'The Flowers Of War'. This was a harrowing war with some of the most beastly creatures to ever grace the planet. You can't even call them human.
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I saw Simon Donnelly buying Ryvita in Morrisons in East Kilbride this evening

Sounds like a right fan dan. Everyone knows yer meant to binge on fats and salts in close season. And this guy isn't even playing. Sounds like a Gerry Britton wannabe. What next? A law degree and trying to get Garry O'Connor off the hook for being a brain dead, powder snortin, honey monster in a sharp suit. f*ckin ryvita.
Sorry, I didn't actually see him buy them but he was browsing them.

And to be fair, they're on special just now. I availed myself of a pack of the pumpkin seed and oats and one of the new cracked black pepper which I have to say, I was slightly disappointed with. Not as peppery as other peppered biscuits I've tried, and I've tried a lot.

What is significant is that he was in the same Morrisons that is frequented by Paul Wright who is now fat and drives a taxi rather than big Sainsburys or M&S Food down the road which I'd have imagined to be the very lowest down the supermarket hierarchy an SPL assistant manager would forage. No wonder Willo fecking Flood went to the Sheepshaggers!

He'll be in Aldi or stocking up on out of date beans in B&M Homes next. Be sure I'll let you know if I see him in there.
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Setenza
Jun 26 2013, 08:47 AM
findus
Jun 25 2013, 05:07 PM
Talking about better futures, Thommo Jnr urges our patience this summer while we sort out getting in the 'right types'. Sounds good to me.
It does, but will be interesting to see who we sign (if anyone). 3-4 players is what we apparently expect to be going after, so that should help fill out the squad. I'm hoping it's not end of august free random released players scrambling.
Brian Easton and Carl Finnegan. You heard it here first, unless you heard it where I heard it.

No, stop laughing, I'm serious.
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Conan the Destroyer
Jun 26 2013, 08:54 AM
What is significant is that he was in the same Morrisons that is frequented by Paul Wright who is now fat
Although you'd have to say that's not exactly a surprise of the 'Luggy getting fat after his career ended' variety....
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Conan the Destroyer
Jun 26 2013, 08:56 AM
Brian Easton and Carl Finnegan.
What?

No.

What?

If that's true they're best not announcing the signings at all, because the news is sure to knock a thousand off the gate. Just put them on the team sheet as "Number 3" and "Number 11" and make them play in balaclavas.
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Jun 26 2013, 08:56 AM
Setenza
Jun 26 2013, 08:47 AM
findus
Jun 25 2013, 05:07 PM
Talking about better futures, Thommo Jnr urges our patience this summer while we sort out getting in the 'right types'. Sounds good to me.
It does, but will be interesting to see who we sign (if anyone). 3-4 players is what we apparently expect to be going after, so that should help fill out the squad. I'm hoping it's not end of august free random released players scrambling.
Brian Easton and Carl Finnegan. You heard it here first, unless you heard it where I heard it.

No, stop laughing, I'm serious.
Let's just hope that McNamara hasn't heard it.
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Conan the Destroyer
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the.mule
Jun 25 2013, 10:40 PM
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“Rape of Nanjing” of 1937-38 – a slaughter of up to 300,000 people

I researched this attrocity after watching 'The Flowers Of War'. This was a harrowing war with some of the most beastly creatures to ever grace the planet. You can't even call them human.
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I saw Simon Donnelly buying Ryvita in Morrisons in East Kilbride this evening

Sounds like a right fan dan. Everyone knows yer meant to binge on fats and salts in close season. And this guy isn't even playing. Sounds like a Gerry Britton wannabe. What next? A law degree and trying to get Garry O'Connor off the hook for being a brain dead, powder snortin, honey monster in a sharp suit. f*ckin ryvita.
Sorry, I didn't actually see him buy them but he was browsing them.

And to be fair, they're on special just now.
Oh hud me back, Emirates are doing a special to the UK right now.

And who the fcuk is Carl Finnegan?
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