EPL and British Football

scotscheese · Dec 31, 2013

PackerFan71 said:
Yepp

well if county is your nearest team, i'm gonna take a guess that you live near invergordon/tain area?

PackerFan71 · Dec 31, 2013

scotscheese said:
technically ICT amalgamated from two former highland league teams, inverness caledonian & inverness thistle, ther was a big hoohaa at the time about this as they were both kinds big rivals for this level of football

I remember that it was a bitter pill for some especially Thistle who quite rightly saw it as a takeover. I used to watch Thistle on the odd occasion back in the day.

PackerFan71 · Dec 31, 2013

scotscheese said:
well if county is your nearest team, i'm gonna take a guess that you live near invergordon/tain area?

Much further west across the water.

scotscheese · Dec 31, 2013

PackerFan71 said:
Much further west across the water.

hmm so either Skye, Lewis, Harris or north/south uist?

PackerFan71 · Dec 31, 2013

scotscheese said:
hmm so either Skye, Lewis, Harris or north/south uist?

Aye you got it Ullapool is the ferry port on the mainland, (Ross and Cromarty)

Scottwallace15 · Dec 31, 2013

mhnessie said:
O.K...again at the office until 1 pm and just to kill some time me and my colleagues doing a very traditional thing for this day and part of the country - having some "Berliner" together and wishing everybody good luck for 2014.
We had this before here in one of the other threads - people from Berlin dont call it Berliner, but we do
Its kind of a doughnut filled with marmalade and if you do have bad luck you get one with mustard, disgusting
But you dont know until you have tried it.

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that is evil, yet fun, sort of like russian roulette, but with cake instead of guns

Scottwallace15 · Dec 31, 2013

mhnessie said:
Aaah, thank you ! Teams with interesting names in there, hard for me to even spell it out correctly !
Clachnacuddin is a tough one
I only know Fort William because I've been there but I assume the other ones are small towns or villages ?

oh if you support hamburg, please give back rafa van der vaart, we miss that loveable dutch son of a *****, the one player in the past couple of years who kissed the badge and meant it

Scottwallace15 · Dec 31, 2013

scotscheese said:
i like this guy

can remember watching some videos ages ago of Aberdeen under alex ferguson

scotscheese · Dec 31, 2013

Scottwallace15 said:
can remember watching some videos ages ago of Aberdeen under alex ferguson

i was only 6/7 when fergie left to go to manure, i'm glad in a way as Aberdeen were definately punching above their weight back then, so i've never had the same expectations as some of the older fans. i am old enough to at least remember us being able to challenge for the league title and cup competitions, as i stated on a previous post it is now 18 years since we last won a senior domestic trophy. fingers crossed that this season will be the one, we're in the semi's of the league cup just now and are favourites to win it as celtic have already been knocked out, but knowing aberdeen we'll no doubt F*** it up

PackerFan71 · Dec 31, 2013

scotscheese said:
i was only 6/7 when fergie left to go to manure, i'm glad in a way as Aberdeen were definately punching above their weight back then, so i've never had the same expectations as some of the older fans. i am old enough to at least remember us being able to challenge for the league title and cup competitions, as i stated on a previous post it is now 18 years since we last won a senior domestic trophy. fingers crossed that this season will be the one, we're in the semi's of the league cup just now and are favourites to win it as celtic have already been knocked out, but knowing aberdeen we'll no doubt F*** it up

He was a talented coach with a good bunch of players the mix was right at Aberdeen, St Mirren were so stupid in giving him the sack ooops! Aberdeen used to beat the likes of Real Madrid and Bayern Munich..............i cant see that happening again.

scotscheese · Dec 31, 2013

PackerFan71 said:
He was a talented coach with a good bunch of players the mix was right at Aberdeen, St Mirren were so stupid in giving him the sack ooops! Aberdeen used to beat the likes of Real Madrid and Bayern Munich..............i cant see that happening again.

theres always FIFA

PackerFan71 · Dec 31, 2013

scotscheese said:
theres always FIFA

And Football Manager, i'm better than Fergie on that got 3 CLF wins. :eek:

Scottwallace15 · Dec 31, 2013

PackerFan71 said:
And Football Manager, i'm better than Fergie on that got 3 CLF wins.

scotscheese said:
i was only 6/7 when fergie left to go to manure, i'm glad in a way as Aberdeen were definately punching above their weight back then, so i've never had the same expectations as some of the older fans. i am old enough to at least remember us being able to challenge for the league title and cup competitions, as i stated on a previous post it is now 18 years since we last won a senior domestic trophy. fingers crossed that this season will be the one, we're in the semi's of the league cup just now and are favourites to win it as celtic have already been knocked out, but knowing aberdeen we'll no doubt F*** it up

so you've never seen Aberdeen doing better i'm guessing and i love a bit of FM14

scotscheese · Dec 31, 2013

Scottwallace15 said:
so you've never seen Aberdeen doing better i'm guessing and i love a bit of FM14

my first memory of aberdeen after getting interested in football when i was a kid, was us beating celtic in the 1990 scottish cup final on penalties, big Brian Irvine scored the winner and was therefore my hero until he retired. i was at hampden in 1995 when we beat Dundee in the coca-cola cup final, it was my 16th birthday and the last time we won anything

mhnessie · Dec 31, 2013

scotscheese said:
well our economy is really still tied into the UK economy. but there has been a lot said from the doom and gloom merchants about how scotlands economy wouldn't survive if we got independence. but i don't really want to get into this kind of thing cos a) i don't know enough about it, b) i hate politics with a passion.

with the oil industry in Aberdeen, then the local economy is always what they class as booming, house prices here are crazy, and i think we're in the top 5 most expensive cities in the UK to live

the best thing about living here is going for a drive for maybe 30-40 minutes and your out in the country right in the heart of whisky country, ye can't beat it

Thats interesting, didnt remember that the Scottish Oil industry is based in Aberdeen, what I still remember is that its quite a nice city because of all the granite buildings.

Btw - house prices in Hamburg are crazy as well, thats why I'm living a short drive outside of Hamburg.
Whisky country sounds good, have you already visited some distilleries, any recommendations for Whiskies I should
try ?

mhnessie · Dec 31, 2013

PackerFan71 said:
I like nessie, i make ones like those every day only we put caramel ontop instead. And cream instead of mustard.

I was lucky this time, mine had just marmelade in it PackerFan71. :tup:

And caramel and cream sounds tasty, why dont we have them here ?

mhnessie · Dec 31, 2013

Scottwallace15 said:
oh if you support hamburg, please give back rafa van der vaart, we miss that loveable dutch son of a *****, the one player in the past couple of years who kissed the badge and meant it

Nope, he stays where he is and dont be surprised that he kissed our badge too

PackerFan71 · Dec 31, 2013

mhnessie said:
I was lucky this time, mine had just marmelade in it PackerFan71.
And caramel and cream sounds tasty, why dont we have them here ?

They are really nice but deadly you would be too fat if you had too many. ill post a pic of them when i can.

Bundesbiers · Dec 31, 2013

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