Cet Homme Charmant
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Garrity pulls one back
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1 hour ago, vikingTON said:
A result which had nothing to do with Stenhousemuir at all and everything to do with the Beirut port disaster style event unfolding at Cappielow.
Also true, but even taking into account the scale of the collapse in the previous few months, a 5-2 (?) humping at home to a team that had been relegated weeks earlier took it to a whole new level.
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2 hours ago, The Bewilderedbeast said:
Playing an already relegated team can often go tits up. They already know their fate and any nerves have gone and they can play with freedom.
Indeed, in the last home game of the now infamous League 1 season when we completely imploded and chucked away a massive (15 point?) lead, we played Stenhousemuir when we were still in with a shout of at least 2nd placed promotion, and they humped us (5-2?), despite being already relegated weeks earlier. I had booked the trip over for the game months earlier when to all intents and purposes it was going to be presentation of the League trophy. D'oh!
I don't have a lot of luck with making trips over for matches, the last one was the ICT game that was postponed in October despite it being a beautiful autumn day that was perfect for football.
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I'm also struggling to understand why Muirhead gets so much stick on here (and going by the comments, also from some in the shed). Without his 11 league goals so far this season we'd be deep in a relegation battle right now, rather than pushing for a play-off place.
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54 minutes ago, capitanus said:
Last time I was in Belgium was in 2008 and the two most popular beers in the local pubs seemed to be Jupiler and Maes. I wasn't all that keen on Jupiler but Maes was nice.
Yeah, Stella Artois, Jupiler and Maes are the three most popular cheap-and-cheerful 'everyday' beers. The relative popularity of them is very regional, here it's very much Stella Artois followed by Jupiler. You'll actually find it quite hard to get Maes on draught here.
Jupiler I can take or leave, it's not unpleasant, but I just find it quite bland. Since you were in Belgium they changed the Maes recipe and made it slightly stronger, like Stella Artois and Jupiler it's now 5.2% abv. It also has a slightly more malty taste. Like you I prefer Maes to Jupiler, but of the three of them, my favourite is Stella Artois.
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3 minutes ago, irnbru said:
Wot?
Aye, that was very harsh.
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Happy with that, but on chances created it could and perhaps should have been more comfortable than 2-0.
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Brew of choice for the 1st half
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9 hours ago, TRVMP said:The liquor store round the corner from me has a decent selection of Belgian beers but for obvious reasons specializes in local stuff in the few shelves it gives over to beer*.
*This is another issue: spirits have to be sold in liquor stores, which close at 9pm and all day Sunday. Beer and wine can be sold anywhere, all day (not quite 24 hours, I think it's 1am it stops now but I'm never up that late to check.) So for really obscure beers you need to order it specially or go to a specialist store, of which there aren't many because even Walmart now has an excellent selection. My local supermarket has a decent selection of imports and every style you can think of - including tripel - brewed locally here in Texas. I don't mind a Belgian-style ale a few times a year but on the whole I find them very sweet and heavy, definitely something for sipping, preferably with food. The rough American equivalent in terms of strength and craftsmanship is IPA; American tastes tend heavily towards hops and resin. I've grown to really enjoy these.
Here's the beer selection from my local liquor store, or 'offy' as I still call it
As well as enjoying Belgian beer, I'm also an avid collector of the gasses. Drinking a beer in the wrong glass is a hanging offence here.
Edit to add: The Heverlee glass in the centre was actually purloined from Greenock Cricket Club, the beer is only sold in Scotland and Ireland. It used to be brewed here in Leuven, but I believe it's now brewed under license by Tennants.
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Yeah, the very strong Belgian beers are most definitely for sipping, at most I'll have two bottles in an evening. Surprised you find them sweet though. There are some sweet beers of course, Leffe is probably the most famous, but I find most of them to be quite balanced or tending towards slightly bitter. Everyone's palate is different of course.
The real art in brewing strong beer is preventing the alcohol from overpowering the flavours. The strongest beer that I've still found drinkable is Kerel Kaishaku at 15% abv. The claim they achieve the strength while retaining the taste by using a mixture of traditional Belgian beer yeast and Japanese saki yeast (hence the Japanese sounding name that's just made up). Definitely not a beer for the traditionalists (the tag line of the brewery is 'untouched by monks', ha!) but I really like it. No idea if it's exported to the US, but if you do come across it I suggest you give it a try, it's pretty unique. I'd be curious to hear what you think of it.
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2 hours ago, capitanus said:
€20 = £17.10 / 10 = £1.71 per can/bottle with seems okay I suppose, except its Stella Artois which I'm not overly fussed about.
Also bear in mind, this is on-draught bar prices, not supermarket bottle prices.
If you're talking about the UK brewed Stella Artois, the reason you're not overly fussed about it is perhaps explained in the video above. Even Belgian brewed Stella Artois is nothing special, here it's a cheap 'everyday' beer, but it's pleasant enough. But there are a plethora of much nicer beers that are stronger and more expensive. This is one of my favourites...
https://www.sintbernardus.be/en/brewery/our-beers/stbernardus-abt-12-en
I've never seen it in the UK, but it might be available in specialist shops. If you do come across it, I highly recommend it, it's really nice.
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Just spent a very enjoyable few hours after work having some Stella Artois. Myself and a colleague had 5 330ml Stella Artois each for the princely sum of 20 Euros. So 2 euros for a third of a liter (although this was in a jakey pub in the suburbs, it the city centre it's probably double that). And that's for the proper big boy 5.2% abv stuff.
Everything in Belgium is ridiculously expensive, except beer which is obscenely cheap.
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16 hours ago, TRVMP said:
Stella was 5.2% and has been decreasing ever since.
Stella Artois brewed here in sunny Leuven is still 5.2% abv, it's the Stella Artois brewed in the UK and maybe also elsewhere that's watered down. Here's a wee video highlighting the difference between the two...
Edit to add: Never a week goes by without at least one person asking why it's called 'wifebeater' in the UK
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On 3/20/2024 at 11:53 AM, Mr.Blue said:
He's an attention seeking fanny.
Was he not charged a wee while ago for alleged untoward shenanigans up a close? Did it ever go to court?
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14 hours ago, The Bewilderedbeast said:
They seem to he happy to deal with non issues, but as we discussed on here a couple of times, they seem to home in on easy targets.
It's almost like they have "to deal with SOMETHING " to justify their existence and the more mundane that something is the better they like it.
The ironic thing is, the less they have to do, the better they're doing their job. Weird that they don't seem to see it that way,
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On 3/20/2024 at 11:15 AM, Toby said:
Big game for San Marino against St. Kitts and Nevis in Serravalle this evening.
Tonight’s the night.
Alas, it was not to be.
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23 minutes ago, Cappiecat 1.2 said:
Is that DOT turning up for training wearing a suit?
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This pic just turned up on my Facebook page. Not only was Rob Rensenbrink (second from left) a great player for both Anderlecht and the Netherlands, he also had a keen eye for spotting and coaching 37 year old talent from works leagues. What a guy!
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34 minutes ago, Mr.Blue said:
Totally agree. Really refreshing to have an update of that depth.
I do wonder what the future holds for the ground. I know it's a struggle to get the safety certificate every year. Something will eventually have to give. Great to hear we have support from local business people such as dalrada, hungry squirrel and fanbase who have an interest in the club and the community. In a really tough financial climate that has to be appreciated.
Yeah, the comment about Cappielow rang alarm bells for me too. It's clear that giving the old place a lick of paint every couple of years is not going to be sustainable for much longer, and at some point in the not-too-distant future it's going to need significant investment for upgrades. It's hard to see right now where the money for that is going to come from.
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52 minutes ago, Toby said:
Big game for San Marino against St. Kitts and Nevis in Serravalle this evening.
Tonight’s the night.
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On 3/19/2024 at 11:28 PM, SassenachTon said:
Sign him up. Immediately
He'd only get a start when George is injured. He's only 22 though, so lot's of potential for the future. I'm sure Dougie could make a player out of him.
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1 hour ago, TRVMP said:
.....given my largely anti-immigrant politics in the US
I've probably asked you this before, but how do you reconcile that belief with the fact that you yourself are an immigrant?
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21 hours ago, HamCam said:
I understand your position and think integration into your new life is a real positive but you acknowledge you still 'feel' Scottish.
Unless you've lived abroad as long as I have (28 years, or 30 years if you include the 2 years I lived in England), it's difficult to explain why I no longer feel Scottish.
I've already given the reasons for the growing feeling of detachment since the 2014 independence referendum, followed by the subsequent political events in the UK. Other factors are simply the passage of time and the weakening of family ties with the deaths of close relatives. So when you add all that up, pretty much all of my sense 'Scottishness' has now dissipated. Nowadays, when asked where I'm from, I say I'm Belgian. Unlike TRVMP it's not because of any sense of national pride, but simply because it's factually correct as I'm a Belgian citizen and it's been home for the last 17 years.
I guess it's down to a feeling of belonging, and because both myself and Scotland have changed so much since I left in 1996, I no longer have any feelings of belonging. On the increasingly rare occasions I do visit Scotland (typically nowadays it's only for funerals and the occasional Ton match), I now see it through the eyes of a detached foreigner.
Like TRVMP I still follow the Scottish football team and will also be rooting for them in Euro 2024, but that and of course the Ton are really the only emotional attachments I have left. So while the football may still be in my blood, Scotland the country no longer is.
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Match Preview/Thread - Ayr United vs Morton (9th April)
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Airdrie 2 up at Kirkcaldy, not a good night so far