soundian

This is my current game. I'm using FM09 and I've been playing this one off-and-on for about a year now.

Dorchester Town

08-09 BSS 13th (I think I took over just at the end of the season, started unemployed and sunday footballer)

09-10 BSS 13th

10-11 BSS 7th

11-12 BSS 1st

12-13 BSP 4th

13-14 BSP 1st

14-15 L2 16th

15-16 L2 10th

16-17 L2 12th

17-18 L2 8th

18-19 L2 2nd

19-20 L1 4th (play-off winners)

20-21 CCC 19th

21-22 CCC 14th

I have a new stadium being built (cap 18,993 ready at start of 23/24 season. current cap: 6,604). Unfortunately this game doesn't recognise the difference between managed debt and total debt. Still making a profit but my wage budget has been slashed and I'm being described as "penniless" despite 3 million in the bank.

I'm going to see how far I can take Dorchester and then upgrade to FM12 (or 13, depends how long this takes before I'm sacked or crowned champ league winners)

I had to have a little chuckle earlier when news that Mick McCarthy had been sacked by Kilmarnock appeared on the screen.

Fuck sake. My save game corrupted, and won't load. I did a back up at the end of the 2nd season, but it's before the big fuck-off clearout and the 9 game winning streak. Massive manky bollocks. I fluked so many close-shaved wins where I had about 40% possession and rightly should have been spanked. It also took some serious persistence to flog some of the shite like Bebe too. Back to the pre-season for a player fire-sale.

Finding a buyer for Carrick without having to keep paying some of his wages was a cruel task. Nobody wants that sideways passing shithead

Rolling auto-saves FTW

Nothing says "rock and roll" like checking with the soundman if it's okay to 'fuck up' your pedals.

I'm sure Hendrix checked with the HSE guys and filled out the forms before setting his guitar on fire.

Think of it more as giving the sound engineer a heads-up that you're going to be taking your gear into previously unexplored heights of volume, so they can be prepared to back off the gain and protect the PA equipment if need be.

I'm also pretty sure Hendrix would have had

a) His own engineer

b) A manager with enough cash to pay for any damage caused.

Or, to put it another way, if you give the sound engineer fair warning your going to chunk up the signal, it's their fault if the PA gets borked.

I used to play multi-player games with Delboy. It was a bit annoying, as Chris has figured out, playing club teams because there's all the transfer,training, scouting etc faffing about to do. We settled on playing international teams and going on holiday in between tournaments/international weeks. You only really need to think about tactics and squad selection with the international teams so you can get maximum matchtime for your session.

Carling Cup is mine. Stuffed West Brom on penalties. I was winning 2-1, but Odemwingie scored in the last minute of extra time. The 3-1-3-1-3 formation is kicking the fuck out of everyone. They can't handle Rio, Vidic and Jones at the back, and Carrick playing through balls all day long. It's going to turn anyone over once Hazard isn't injured anymore.

I'm not surprised your 3-1-3-1-3 formation is giving people the runaround, I count 11 outfield players.

Try review>share workbook

There's an option there to allow changes by more than one user at the same time. You can't change the track change history option etc without enabling that so I reckon that's what you need.

This episode was brought to you by the letter F and the number 1.

people look at the population of the north east and assume that's all potential football fans but the north east of scotland must have one of the largest migrant uk populations in the country (relative to overall population), folk travel from all over the country to live and work here.

Try Edinburgh. OAPs and kids aside, you rarely hear anyone talking English on their mobiles on the buses here. Add in the English and Irish and it feels like Scots are a minority.

That was my first thought as well.

But if the vowel sound is the same, which is is in this case, then it is still a 'full' rhyme.

Unless I say Purple and Hirple differently to you lot as well.

The last vowel sound is the -pill at the end. It rhymes regardless of how you pronounce the hir- or the pur- parts.

What people are forgetting here is that it's the last vowel sound on the last syllable that's important

I came across this

Go straight to 2:17 and listen to SAF.

Fergie, "We're the luckiest team in the world. We were a disgrace of a performance.? Miller and McLeish won the cup for Aberdeen. Miller and McLeish played Rangers themselves. They were a disgrace of a performance. And I'm not caring, winning cups doesn't matter. Our standards have been set long ago and we're not going to accept that from any Aberdeen team. No way should we take any glory from that".

H I actually think Hearts might surprise Spurs who have yet to play a competitive game this season ...

You got that right. Spurs probably thought there might be a bit of a fight for the win.

If someone rhymed frothing with nothing in a song, I would question the lyrical content more than the rhyme.

They certainly rhyme though.

Both have -othing.

You can only really consider the -thing part, because you have two different pronunciations of -o-.

They do rhyme though, but the rhyme is on an unstressed syllable so it is considered "feminine".

Berwick is still at war with Germany - Berwick at War

That would be a bit more believable if he hadn't included a quote stating that Berwick has been in English hands for 5 centuries.

Some not so recent stsats about wages/turnover in the SPL and beyond here:

The Political Economy of Football | UK and World Soccer

Only up to 07/08 but the turnover and %wages/turnover make interesting reading.

2007/2008 season

Abdn: turnover: 12.9 mill. wage bill=5.93 million for 102 employees. Average wage 58.1K.

Dundee Utd: turnover 5.9 mill, wage bill=3.34 mill for 83 employees. Average wage 40.2K

Hibs: turnover 8.1 mill, wage bill=4.6 mill for 111 employees. Average wage 41.6K

Hearts: turnover 9.2 mill, wage bill not available but for 161 employees and 2005/2006 seasons wage to turnover ration of 97% probably make it pretty huge comparatively speaking. Romanov was only in charge for half that season but the wage bill ended up massively more per turnover than any other club. I make that a wage bill of 9.7 mill in the 2005/2006 season. The average wage at Hearts for that season was 88.5K. I reiterate: he was only in charge for half of that season.

yeah I misread the BBC website, can't even get online commentary, just reading the text coverage and Rangers have had a man sent off!

No the real season starts with Cambridge United against Wrexham at the Racecourse Ground on 13 August although Wrexham in some serious financial poo poo and it's rumoured the game might not go ahead!

Once your team appears on the football league show, I'll agree with you about when the season starts.

The real season starts on Friday at 7.45 with Hull v Blackpool. 'mon the Championship. Up the Boro.

I was just away to pull Del up on that one.

In other news

*snigger* Rangers have just had a man sent of for throwing the ball at a Malmo player. Big baby.

Yes, it's for a better front of house sound. Bought a new TV, an LG. Picture is smart but the sound coming out of the unit is a bit tinny. Got my HiFi right next to my TV unit with a speaker each side, so I'll give it a go. If stuff starts looking like a dubbed film, I'll invest in a proper surround sound unit.

Just mute the telly and you'll be fine.

Could be for banana plugs (which are usually just soldered onto the ends of speaker wire). Can't tell for definite from that photo though. Unless they unscrew and there's a hole in the middle in which case they could be binding posts for bare-wire speaker wire.

Looks like banana/binding post combo to me. No point having the hole in the middle for pure binding post, but it looks like there is some 'grip' on the posts as well so it doesn't look like banana-only either.

Sounds like the driver was corrupt, which is why I advised uninstalling and reinstalling rather than just upgrading.

@ca_gere

Even if it didn't throw the XBox offline, an IP Conflict error message would appear on the computer (and, I would assume, the XBox). It should throw it offline though, how would the router know which one of the two identical IP addresses to send the packets to?

Intermittent wireless issues can be caused by many factors but WAP and wireless adapter are the two main culprits.

In this case it had been narrowed down to the wireless adapter (assuming the XBox was wireless, which makes the router "known good"). Flakey wireless adapters are nearly always driver issues in my experience.

Assign a static ip to your laptop. Google it to see how it's done.

It might be trying to get the same ip as your xbox or something,

Nah, they'll both be assigned IP addresses by the router. If the router took a spaz attack and assigned the same IP address as the XBox that would throw the XBox offline as well.

This isn't a quick question. This is a long question. IT nerds assemble.

So, my laptop keeps partially disconnecting from the internet. The 'access' status just says "Limited Connectivity", and I have to disconnect and reconnect. It reconnects with no problems (though I have to do in manually, it never reconnects on its own like usual if it loses connection) but does the same thing again about 5 minutes later.

The laptop has a built in wireless receiver, and seems fine with an ethernet cable directly from the router. The xbox live is fine too, so I can only assume it's the built in wireless receiver?

Any ideas on how to fix it, other than always have it plugged in to an ethernet cable?

Sometimes it's a driver issue. Get the latest driver from the manufacturers website, delete the old one and install the new one.

I take it the XBox is wireless as well so if it has no issues that should rule out the other main culprit (the wireless router)

What's this thing?

It's in Bon Accord Terrace Gardens. I walk past it all the time but can't figure out what it was ever used for. The gate just leads to a staircase up to the next level, and the big arch is only about 2 feet deep. It doesn't appear to serve any sort of purpose as it doesn't have an "inside"! Any ideas? Old guys?

It's a terrace. The gardens were originally private gardens for the inhabitants of Bon-Accord Crescent (then known as Terrace) and this was a terrace where they could sit and overlook the gardens.

I thought that was the way it was run anyway. Take a few promising, fame hungry people, subject them to pressure and fame over the course of the series and see how they handle it, gauge public reaction along the way. Everyone else is there to produce "good" television, i.e. people with heart-warming stories, people with a hugely inflated sense of their own talent etc.

: Which former Aberdeen star appeared twice on the same episode of Top of the Pops?

Steve Archibald.