Pre-Season Friendlies

[Sutton_blows_goats 4,719]

Pre season results mean nowt. Some managers purposefully won’t play the strongest team or the exact style they would play on opening day as it gives the opposition some intel to work off.

 

Clement hasn’t played the strongest available XI in any of these games IMO you will see about 4/5 changes for next week. Ridvan, Balogun and Sterling (if fit) will start.

 

Its just about fitness and experimenting.

[Rousseau 10,014]

8 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

Fleetwood got scudded by Fleetwood? 😳

He meant Hearts were beaten by Fleetwood. 

[compo 6,576]

37 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

He meant Hearts were beaten by Fleetwood. 

Ah dear old Fleetwood I once seen a beautiful big motor launch in the harbour red white and blue it was and the thing was called Celtic strange name for a boat in those colours 

[yuddie 1,418]

3 hours ago, Rousseau said:

He meant Hearts were beaten by Fleetwood. 

Aye, I've corrected it.

[Gonzo79 14,498]

Whole day of sightseeing in Berlin today and the highlight was the old US Cold War station on Teufelsberg, which is now derelict and full of graffiti (some amazing, some not so much).  When I visited the WC before leaving. I noted some recent scribbling....WATP and FTP.  Seems I wasn't the only Bear who visited this amazing place.  

 

I made it to Bowie's old apartment too.  

[Idisi 433]

8 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Whole day of sightseeing in Berlin today and the highlight was the old US Cold War station on Teufelsberg, which is now derelict and full of graffiti (some amazing, some not so much).  When I visited the WC before leaving. I noted some recent scribbling....WATP and FTP.  Seems I wasn't the only Bear who visited this amazing place.  

 

I made it to Bowie's old apartment too.  

And the locals let you escape with your scalp from the Alter Försterei and East German territory? 

[Gonzo79 14,498]

4 minutes ago, Idisi said:

And the locals let you escape with your scalp from the Alter Försterei and East German territory? 

Some of the fans in the ground looked quite annoyed about Rule Britannia and 10 German Bombers being sung, enough so that quite a few large security staff were called in and some of us got a Polizei escort from the ground.  The few fans I spoke to outside the ground seemed in good spirits.  

 

The pronunciation of Union was a constant source of amusement (sounds like you're singing Onion Berlin).  

[Idisi 433]

17 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Some of the fans in the ground looked quite annoyed about Rule Britannia and 10 German Bombers being sung, enough so that quite a few large security staff were called in and some of us got a Polizei escort from the ground.  The few fans I spoke to outside the ground seemed in good spirits.  

 

The pronunciation of Union was a constant source of amusement (sounds like you're singing Onion Berlin).  

Well, it is not the Germans' fault that you cannot speak your Germanic language properly these days  Just look at Underground, Ulster, union, united etc. 

 

Rule Britannia and 10 German bombers will most likely not have caused any bother with the locals or the police. There was a very limited number of police there yesterday. Probably only a third of a usual Bundesliga match.

The guys around me liked the song sung during the second half. Thanks to @der Berliner for providing the words of "Ibroxonia".

[Gonzo79 14,498]

3 minutes ago, Idisi said:

Well, it is not the Germans' fault that you cannot speak your Germanic language properly these days

It's a U, not an O.  🤣

 

[Scott7 5,659]

1 hour ago, Gonzo79 said:

The pronunciation of Union was a constant source of amusement (sounds like you're singing Onion Berlin).  

It’s a foreign language though more foreign in, let’s say, Corstorphine than in, for example, Clatt. The roots are the same. A recent German ambassador to the UK described himself and his countrymen as the Anglo Saxons who missed the boat.