Well just thought I would spread the word on here about the possible community buy out of the Binos. PLEASE Read this and repost every where.
As we all know Stirling Albion Football Club is for sale. Chairman Peter McKenzie has announced to the world on several occasions that he is looking to step down and be relieved of his majority shareholding in the club. Talk of mystery consortiums has come and gone and despite the chairman hanging on for a white knight to charge over the horizon the offers simply haven't materialised. It's clear Peter wants out so maybe it's down to the fans to give him his wish. How do we do this though ? Peter won't give the club away and we need to show him we mean business and that we really are the people to lead the club into the future.
Therefore at this crucial moment in the history of Stirling Albion FC the fans have come together to act. Driven by the Supporters Trust, the Supporters Club, Young Reds, Websites and fans old and new have united. Backed by our own team of legal experts and campaign professionals we will never have a better chance of giving our club the future we all think it deserves. For months now ideas, options, proposals and suggestions have been discussed until a plan for taking the club forward was agreed. It's now time to get YOU involved and so we are therefore pleased to announce what could well be one of the most important meetings in our clubs recent history. For reasons of legality, confidentiality and publicity we cannot go into too much detail at this point in time. All we can promise is you will not be disappointed with what you see.
Where - King Robert Hotel, Glasgow Road, Bannockburn
When - Wednesday 6th May - 7.00pm for a 7.15pm start
What - Campaign for Community ownership of Stirling Albion
Why - We can’t do it without YOU!!
If you have any interest in the future of Stirling Albion and it’s place in our community we would plead with you to attend. We’re not too proud to beg. Please, please take the time to be there and to help play your part in shaping the future of Stirling Albion.
Bring a friend, bring your family, bring a neighbour. Bring anyone you know who runs a business in the town or anyone who has even the smallest of soft spots for the Albion. Everybody is welcome. Please be assured this is not a gimmick. This campaign has been months in the planning and is in our opinion possibly the one and only chance the fans and community will get to have a say in the running of their team. This is not about egos or making names for ourselves. This is about the long term security and viability of Stirling Albion Football Club. Hopefully this is something we all feel equally passionate about.
Look forward to seeing you on the 6th May.
Please feel free to contact us at info@safcst.org.uk if you have any queries about the meeting.
Stirling Albion Supporters Trust
www.safcst.org.uk
Wednesday 29 April 2009
The sale of the Binos is it possible?
Breaking news over at www.stirlingalbion.com and www.stirlingalbionfc.com with the excellent announcement that there are plans for a "community" buy out of the club. Stirling Albion's owner Peter MacKenzie has been wanting to sell the club for some time now but no one has come forward to make him any offers, despite the numerous rumors of consortiums and local business men making offers nothing came of them. Now there is a meeting next Wednesday regarding the community buy out plan.
This was rumored at a while ago and since nothing was confirimed when this idea was first heard I thought it was dead in the water but now the Supporters Trust, Supporters Club, Young Reds and the websites have announced that they have been planning things for a while and after all the legal consultations that needed to be made they can now go public. I am looking forward to hear the plans and well this is going to be the last chance for anyone to step in and save the Binos from becoming the next fatality of Scottish Football Clubs. If things dont move on fast the club will be no more.
This is the time where the Albion will either be saved from the impending doom of financial ruin or the club is going to fall off the face of the earth.
This was rumored at a while ago and since nothing was confirimed when this idea was first heard I thought it was dead in the water but now the Supporters Trust, Supporters Club, Young Reds and the websites have announced that they have been planning things for a while and after all the legal consultations that needed to be made they can now go public. I am looking forward to hear the plans and well this is going to be the last chance for anyone to step in and save the Binos from becoming the next fatality of Scottish Football Clubs. If things dont move on fast the club will be no more.
This is the time where the Albion will either be saved from the impending doom of financial ruin or the club is going to fall off the face of the earth.
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Weekend part 3
Attempt number 3 at talking about my weekend.
As I was saying it was great to see Mara Yamauchi do well in the Marathon and I do think she is a possible star of the future in distance running for the UK roll on London 2012 thats where she will need to prove herself as the next Paula Radcliffe.
Sunday wasn't just about the Marathon though as soon after it I could get ready for the Formula 1 from Bahrain, unfortunately this weekend I missed the Friday practice and Saturday Qualifying sessions due to being a bit busy on Friday and on Saturday I was in Peterhead so there was no chance to keep up to speed with the events in Bahrain.
Sunday's race though made up for me missing the other sessions as it was one of those edge of seat thrillers. Where the winner of the race was going to be decided by the pit stops and who could make the time to run the perfect race and with most of the teams looking so good this season it was close. The two Toyota's qualified first and second on the Saturday and Sebastian Vettel took third with Jenson Button in 4th and Lewis Hamilton has done his best so far in qualifying taking 5th. That had the front end of the grid looking rather good and competitive, and well it was a great race that followed when the lights went out. Just in the rush to turn one we had a few changes of positions throughout the field as usual but the race that followed included some excellent decisions for the team bosses to make and yet again the man that got the decisions right was Ross Brawn, from making sure Jenson Button had enough fuel to stay out for a longer first stint so he could get in front of the Toyotas during their pit stops and then use his lighter car to make some room for his stop and Ross Brawn got it perfect Jenson drove well to make the gap and Ross Brawn pulled him in for his stop. Even when it came to the second stop for Jenson it was timed perfectly to enable a better gap being made even though Jenson got the little notice board message of "BOX" which was an indication that he had to come in next lap of he would be out of juice.
All those doubters out there who thought Brawn GP wouldn't do well and said that they had issues in the desert heat soon sat up and took notice when Jenson cruised across the line to take the win. Even with a load of holes being drilled in the cars underside to help ventilate the engine and cool it due to the heat they still managed to secure the win.
Oh and lets not forget that old Stalwart Rubens Barrichello who may have finished sixth but he played a big part in Jensons victory by running a three stop strategy as was Jensons rear gunner who kept the field at bay while he was making space for his stop and once completed he continued to keep the pressure off him.
One thing though this race proved was that this season is going to be very close and I know I say that every time I'm talking about it but I can not believe that we have what looks like a fairly competitive season not like what we have had in previous years where it has been the two heavy weights of Mclaren and Ferrari slugging it out, and on the Ferrari note they finally picked up some points with Kimi Raikkonen getting three points, but it is the same old Fillipe Massa no where near getting any points, I just don't think he really has a feel for his car this season at all now. On paper it looks a good car and Kimi is starting to have some success with it but Massa is not going anywhere fast.
Oh and for a long time we had a race without any yellow flag incidents so no need for slow laps under the safety car where sometimes teams can make mistakes like McLaren done in Australia well after their little lieing incident they are up in the FIA court this week awaiting judgement.
The weekend ended on a high as well when I managed to watch the Carl Froch V Jermain Taylor fight. I can honestly say it was one of the best fights I have seen for a while and I really did think that Froch would have lost by a couple of rounds if it went to the score cards as he just wasn't doing well at all. Taylor on the other hand looked the better fighter and in the third round he had Froch on the canvass with an excellent punch. The fight was al but over in the 12th round where Froch had no choice but to go out into the ring and knock Taylor out and well I couldn't believe what I seen. Froch came out of his corner fired up and layed into Taylor who just had no response to the attack and it looked like Taylors fitness had let him down again when Froch had him on the ropes in the corner and with one big right hand after some punnishment in rounds 11 and 12 Froch had Taylor down and it didn't look like he was getting back up and in my opinion he should have stayed down as no sonner was he back up and fighting the referee had to jump in to stop the fight as Carl Froch was now beating Jermain Taylor up quite badley and Taylor didn't answer Froches attack with any sort of defence.
So Carl Froch managed to hold on to his WBC Super Middle Weight title but only just there was no way he would have held onto it if the referee didn't step into stop the fight with just 14 seconds left. The only thing though about Froch in his post match interview he said he would love to take on the great Joe Calzaghe and the way Froch was talking he was confident he would beat Calzaghe but there is no chance of that even if Calzaghe did come out of retierment Froch wouldn't last the distance he would but knocked out in the sixth round.
Well finaly I have managed to complete my weekend even though now it is Tuesday night but it was just one of the best weekends of sport, I have had for a while OK Stirling Albion may not be in the Playoffs but that is a good thing as I think we need another year in the Second Division to get a decent team together again, just need to hope that the ruomors that we are sold are true but just now I will be watching for flying pigs.
I would go on for a bit about my plans to get fit, just like I have been going on about I really need to look at making some sort of plan.
As I was saying it was great to see Mara Yamauchi do well in the Marathon and I do think she is a possible star of the future in distance running for the UK roll on London 2012 thats where she will need to prove herself as the next Paula Radcliffe.
Sunday wasn't just about the Marathon though as soon after it I could get ready for the Formula 1 from Bahrain, unfortunately this weekend I missed the Friday practice and Saturday Qualifying sessions due to being a bit busy on Friday and on Saturday I was in Peterhead so there was no chance to keep up to speed with the events in Bahrain.
Sunday's race though made up for me missing the other sessions as it was one of those edge of seat thrillers. Where the winner of the race was going to be decided by the pit stops and who could make the time to run the perfect race and with most of the teams looking so good this season it was close. The two Toyota's qualified first and second on the Saturday and Sebastian Vettel took third with Jenson Button in 4th and Lewis Hamilton has done his best so far in qualifying taking 5th. That had the front end of the grid looking rather good and competitive, and well it was a great race that followed when the lights went out. Just in the rush to turn one we had a few changes of positions throughout the field as usual but the race that followed included some excellent decisions for the team bosses to make and yet again the man that got the decisions right was Ross Brawn, from making sure Jenson Button had enough fuel to stay out for a longer first stint so he could get in front of the Toyotas during their pit stops and then use his lighter car to make some room for his stop and Ross Brawn got it perfect Jenson drove well to make the gap and Ross Brawn pulled him in for his stop. Even when it came to the second stop for Jenson it was timed perfectly to enable a better gap being made even though Jenson got the little notice board message of "BOX" which was an indication that he had to come in next lap of he would be out of juice.
All those doubters out there who thought Brawn GP wouldn't do well and said that they had issues in the desert heat soon sat up and took notice when Jenson cruised across the line to take the win. Even with a load of holes being drilled in the cars underside to help ventilate the engine and cool it due to the heat they still managed to secure the win.
Oh and lets not forget that old Stalwart Rubens Barrichello who may have finished sixth but he played a big part in Jensons victory by running a three stop strategy as was Jensons rear gunner who kept the field at bay while he was making space for his stop and once completed he continued to keep the pressure off him.
One thing though this race proved was that this season is going to be very close and I know I say that every time I'm talking about it but I can not believe that we have what looks like a fairly competitive season not like what we have had in previous years where it has been the two heavy weights of Mclaren and Ferrari slugging it out, and on the Ferrari note they finally picked up some points with Kimi Raikkonen getting three points, but it is the same old Fillipe Massa no where near getting any points, I just don't think he really has a feel for his car this season at all now. On paper it looks a good car and Kimi is starting to have some success with it but Massa is not going anywhere fast.
Oh and for a long time we had a race without any yellow flag incidents so no need for slow laps under the safety car where sometimes teams can make mistakes like McLaren done in Australia well after their little lieing incident they are up in the FIA court this week awaiting judgement.
The weekend ended on a high as well when I managed to watch the Carl Froch V Jermain Taylor fight. I can honestly say it was one of the best fights I have seen for a while and I really did think that Froch would have lost by a couple of rounds if it went to the score cards as he just wasn't doing well at all. Taylor on the other hand looked the better fighter and in the third round he had Froch on the canvass with an excellent punch. The fight was al but over in the 12th round where Froch had no choice but to go out into the ring and knock Taylor out and well I couldn't believe what I seen. Froch came out of his corner fired up and layed into Taylor who just had no response to the attack and it looked like Taylors fitness had let him down again when Froch had him on the ropes in the corner and with one big right hand after some punnishment in rounds 11 and 12 Froch had Taylor down and it didn't look like he was getting back up and in my opinion he should have stayed down as no sonner was he back up and fighting the referee had to jump in to stop the fight as Carl Froch was now beating Jermain Taylor up quite badley and Taylor didn't answer Froches attack with any sort of defence.
So Carl Froch managed to hold on to his WBC Super Middle Weight title but only just there was no way he would have held onto it if the referee didn't step into stop the fight with just 14 seconds left. The only thing though about Froch in his post match interview he said he would love to take on the great Joe Calzaghe and the way Froch was talking he was confident he would beat Calzaghe but there is no chance of that even if Calzaghe did come out of retierment Froch wouldn't last the distance he would but knocked out in the sixth round.
Well finaly I have managed to complete my weekend even though now it is Tuesday night but it was just one of the best weekends of sport, I have had for a while OK Stirling Albion may not be in the Playoffs but that is a good thing as I think we need another year in the Second Division to get a decent team together again, just need to hope that the ruomors that we are sold are true but just now I will be watching for flying pigs.
I would go on for a bit about my plans to get fit, just like I have been going on about I really need to look at making some sort of plan.
Weekend Continued
I thought I would have managed to finish off my last post some time yesterday but never had time to. Got rather busy with college stuff. So now lets see if I can finish me weekend stuff.
So with the posibility of the Binos being sold sometime soon Saturday ended quite well, a good trip to Peterhead, some good football and a good laugh with the rest of the supporters. I was off to bed soon after so I could be up and ready for the start of the London Marathon at around 830 in the morning.
I have always tried to make sure I watch the Marathon as it is a good laugh to have a look for the most insane person there with their costumes and the elite races are excellent to watch as well it is always a good race to see what athletes are looking good this year. At least the Rhinos were back this year, the guys who run the Maratho9n in that heavy suit must be extreamly fit as it looks like it would be heavy and rather warm inside it and with London being hot on Sunday things didn't look too good for any of the runners even the elites must have found it difficult this year. Talking about the elite athletes it was great to see British runner Mara Yamauchi come second and for most of the race she pushed German runner Irina Mikitenko. It was some great running from Mara and well she looks like she will do well in years to come, will she do as well as Paula Radclife? lets hope she does.
And here we go again having to stop just now as my lecturer has turned up so will finish this later on. Should be done today as it is a half day here at the college.
So with the posibility of the Binos being sold sometime soon Saturday ended quite well, a good trip to Peterhead, some good football and a good laugh with the rest of the supporters. I was off to bed soon after so I could be up and ready for the start of the London Marathon at around 830 in the morning.
I have always tried to make sure I watch the Marathon as it is a good laugh to have a look for the most insane person there with their costumes and the elite races are excellent to watch as well it is always a good race to see what athletes are looking good this year. At least the Rhinos were back this year, the guys who run the Maratho9n in that heavy suit must be extreamly fit as it looks like it would be heavy and rather warm inside it and with London being hot on Sunday things didn't look too good for any of the runners even the elites must have found it difficult this year. Talking about the elite athletes it was great to see British runner Mara Yamauchi come second and for most of the race she pushed German runner Irina Mikitenko. It was some great running from Mara and well she looks like she will do well in years to come, will she do as well as Paula Radclife? lets hope she does.
And here we go again having to stop just now as my lecturer has turned up so will finish this later on. Should be done today as it is a half day here at the college.
Monday 27 April 2009
Sport weekend
Good morning it is the Monday after a excellent weekend of sport. Not only did I have the football up at Peterhead on the Saturday but also had the London Marathon, Bahrain Grand Prix and the WBC super middle weight boxing match between Carl Froch and Jermain Taylor, oh and a little bit of the Snooker as well.
It all started on Saturday at around 730 when I had to get up to get ready to go for the Supporters Bus for the 3 hour trip to Peterhead. The trip up there is always good especially the coastal sections of the A90. Some people think spending 6 hours on a bus is a waste of your time just to get to a football match but it isn't especially since you have some of the best veiws of the landsape as you travel. The only thing though with our trip when we hit Aberdeen it started to cloud over and begin to rain after having the sun shineing for most of the trip it stayed overcast and wet until we were on our way home again where after leaving the Granite City it brightend up. I have never seen the sun shine in Aberdeen before everytime I have been near the place it has been cold or wet. Anyway the views wasn't the only thing we went up there for we were in Peterhead to see if we could slavagee our season against the bloo toon as a win would keep our chances of a playoff spot alive but it wasn't to be as we could only manage a 1 v 1 draw. So we have yet another season confined to Division 2.
The Peterhead trip isn't just about football though as it is one of the better trips of the season, it is all about the banter which slowely gets worse as the day moves on and the levles of alcohol increase some to the point of certing people being absolutly pickled. On the road home we usually make a stop somewhere for a refuleing session (you can enterperit refuleing however you like). After a 13 hour day I was back home in the comferts of my chair to watch the telly and then discover on the Stirling Albion supporters forum that we may either be sold or in the process of being sold but as with everything to do with the Albion they're more chances of Pigs Flying than us being sold.
Will finish this later
It all started on Saturday at around 730 when I had to get up to get ready to go for the Supporters Bus for the 3 hour trip to Peterhead. The trip up there is always good especially the coastal sections of the A90. Some people think spending 6 hours on a bus is a waste of your time just to get to a football match but it isn't especially since you have some of the best veiws of the landsape as you travel. The only thing though with our trip when we hit Aberdeen it started to cloud over and begin to rain after having the sun shineing for most of the trip it stayed overcast and wet until we were on our way home again where after leaving the Granite City it brightend up. I have never seen the sun shine in Aberdeen before everytime I have been near the place it has been cold or wet. Anyway the views wasn't the only thing we went up there for we were in Peterhead to see if we could slavagee our season against the bloo toon as a win would keep our chances of a playoff spot alive but it wasn't to be as we could only manage a 1 v 1 draw. So we have yet another season confined to Division 2.
The Peterhead trip isn't just about football though as it is one of the better trips of the season, it is all about the banter which slowely gets worse as the day moves on and the levles of alcohol increase some to the point of certing people being absolutly pickled. On the road home we usually make a stop somewhere for a refuleing session (you can enterperit refuleing however you like). After a 13 hour day I was back home in the comferts of my chair to watch the telly and then discover on the Stirling Albion supporters forum that we may either be sold or in the process of being sold but as with everything to do with the Albion they're more chances of Pigs Flying than us being sold.
Will finish this later
Monday 20 April 2009
Mondays
After a excellent 2 weeks off college where I done as little as possible apart from go to the football and watch the formula 1 oh and started some gardening work as well. Will post more about my gardening escapades later on and not forgetting working away on "the pod" to try and get it back on the road. So far locating parts for a 1975 Toyota Hi Ace is impossible.
So far it has been a good day not done any work since I came in this morning, my first lecturer decided to give us a few excellent wee stories about things he has done in his life, it is always excellent to listen to people like him as you can learn a lot about them from what they say also it is a great excuse to sit and do nothing. So that was the first class out the way. The second class was even better as the lecturer didn't turn up, now I would usually be pissed off about that but for some reason I'm not, maybe as the laugh the four of us had looking at some freaky stuff on YouTube that helped dissolve the Monday blues. Well just now I'm back from lunch up at McDonald's and just waiting for the Maths lecturer to turn up at least I have some of my investigation to show her that I was working on last week, not finished it yet but look on the bright side it doesn't need to be in for a few weeks yet.
Oh and after taking time over the past week or so to think about getting fit I'm just going to start building up my exercise again really need to get back in to some sort of exercise routine. One thing that is helping me though is the fact that my new phone has some features for measuring the exercise you do, just walking and running though but at least it gives me an idea of how well I'm doing.
Anyway got to go now the lecturer has turned up.
So far it has been a good day not done any work since I came in this morning, my first lecturer decided to give us a few excellent wee stories about things he has done in his life, it is always excellent to listen to people like him as you can learn a lot about them from what they say also it is a great excuse to sit and do nothing. So that was the first class out the way. The second class was even better as the lecturer didn't turn up, now I would usually be pissed off about that but for some reason I'm not, maybe as the laugh the four of us had looking at some freaky stuff on YouTube that helped dissolve the Monday blues. Well just now I'm back from lunch up at McDonald's and just waiting for the Maths lecturer to turn up at least I have some of my investigation to show her that I was working on last week, not finished it yet but look on the bright side it doesn't need to be in for a few weeks yet.
Oh and after taking time over the past week or so to think about getting fit I'm just going to start building up my exercise again really need to get back in to some sort of exercise routine. One thing that is helping me though is the fact that my new phone has some features for measuring the exercise you do, just walking and running though but at least it gives me an idea of how well I'm doing.
Anyway got to go now the lecturer has turned up.
Sunday 19 April 2009
The Race Is On
Good afternoon. I was up this morning again to watch the Chinese Grand Prix and after yesterdays qualifying session that seen the Red Bull's do well with Sebastian Vettal taking poll and Mark Webber securing third on the grid with the Brawn's in fourth and fifth. It is begining to look like the Red Bull's are coming into their own and challange Brawn GP. The race taday was another wet affair this time from start to finnish with the Safety Car being used at the start of the race and it stayed on track for about 10 laps or so before finally pulling into the pits and letting the race start properly. Once we were under race conditions though it was entertaining. The condidions didn't help the driving as I think all the cars ended up off the track at some point in the race. Not much else to say really about the race apart from that well done to Sebastian Vettal and Mark Webber who took full advantage of their grid positions and some unlucky/poor tactics by Reanults Fernando Alonso who was in second place but had to pit under safety car conditions and end up at the back of the field.
Just one final thing Fillipe Massa broke his Ferrari again or is just the case that the new Ferrari was designed to break all the time?
Just one final thing Fillipe Massa broke his Ferrari again or is just the case that the new Ferrari was designed to break all the time?
Saturday 18 April 2009
Season Over
Another week, another game of footy and the grave has been dug and the coffin is ready just one more nail required to confirm that Stirling Albion's season is dead and burried. Nothing apart from a mirical will save us now.Well done to Raith Rovers today who were the better side and I hope the now go on and win the league. Brechin City done them a favour against Ayr United today and well I hope Raith can get the win over Brechin next week.
Friday 17 April 2009
Friday
Good afternoon everyone. It's Friday and the weekend is just around the corner. Things have improved a bit for me I have managed to get some of the project done and I'm just getting ready for the Formula 1. Watched the practice sessions and well it looks like Brawn are going to do well again with the Ferraris still struggleing.
Also got my new mobile phone today so just been setting it up this afternoon. Really happy now just need to get a memory card for it that way I can put a fraction of my music collection on to it. Really need to find a mp3 player that can hold my collection got about 3600 songs not a lot I hear you say but it works out to be around 240 hours worth of music the other thing is it is always growing. I don't have any particular genre of music I like as I can listen to everything from Classical through to Heavy Metal to Punk Rock. The only thing that is limiting growth just now is space for CD's. I do get some downloaded but I love my CD's but like everything else they will become unpopular and everything will go to downloads which isn't that bad really. Talking about music I'm always looking for suggestions of who to listen to.
Also got my new mobile phone today so just been setting it up this afternoon. Really happy now just need to get a memory card for it that way I can put a fraction of my music collection on to it. Really need to find a mp3 player that can hold my collection got about 3600 songs not a lot I hear you say but it works out to be around 240 hours worth of music the other thing is it is always growing. I don't have any particular genre of music I like as I can listen to everything from Classical through to Heavy Metal to Punk Rock. The only thing that is limiting growth just now is space for CD's. I do get some downloaded but I love my CD's but like everything else they will become unpopular and everything will go to downloads which isn't that bad really. Talking about music I'm always looking for suggestions of who to listen to.
Wednesday 15 April 2009
Formula 1 - Diffuser Gate
Earlier on today the FIA passed its verdict on the diffuser issue, and well what a surprise it was here is nothing wrong with the diffusers on the Brawn GP car, or any of the others. Just one thing to say about it.
"Pram Emptied, Toys everywhere"
That was the case for Ferrari at Australia as they and others had a little tantrum because they didn't think of the design first. The will just need to tidy up and stick their dummy back in their mouth now.
Onto more important things then lets look forward to China, not long now just can't wait until we are back in action. The Formula 1 will be a lot better than this weekends Football that's for sure, we are playing Raith Rovers and well Raith will be up for the win more than us as they know that if they win they will have a good chance of winning the title. But having said that we seem to lift our game against the "bigger" teams in the league, so we could well sneak the win which would be excellent as it would give us a little chance of getting to the play-offs but then it comes down to confidence and fight from the players do we have enough fit to do well. I'm not too sure what to think but from what I have seen in recent weeks from the Binos I don't see us making the play-offs however I would like to.
"Pram Emptied, Toys everywhere"
That was the case for Ferrari at Australia as they and others had a little tantrum because they didn't think of the design first. The will just need to tidy up and stick their dummy back in their mouth now.
Onto more important things then lets look forward to China, not long now just can't wait until we are back in action. The Formula 1 will be a lot better than this weekends Football that's for sure, we are playing Raith Rovers and well Raith will be up for the win more than us as they know that if they win they will have a good chance of winning the title. But having said that we seem to lift our game against the "bigger" teams in the league, so we could well sneak the win which would be excellent as it would give us a little chance of getting to the play-offs but then it comes down to confidence and fight from the players do we have enough fit to do well. I'm not too sure what to think but from what I have seen in recent weeks from the Binos I don't see us making the play-offs however I would like to.
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Investigations
Not just about investigations though but I am supposed to be starting my Maths investigation today and to be fair I can't be bothered to do it. I think it is just a case of having a holiday and wanting to do nothing but relax and switch off from the world for a few days. But I feel that if I do that just now I won't do the investigation, as thats what I use to be like but I am trying to change my life from being too layed back to a bit more active with the things I need to do. At school years ago I didn't worry about handing things in late as I always knew I could do them and my teachers also knew this. Some things were difficult but I still managed them but as you all know I have been trying to change this around and well I have done well for a while as all my previous projects for college were completed ahead of schedule, but now I just feel that I'm slipping back to my old ways, something I want to avoid as I have been doing well and I just don't want to go back into my past that much. I like my new life and I want to keep it up.
Another thing about the new me I want to desperately start with the lighter nights now coming in I want to get out and about more and get fit. I'm a unhealthy bugger use to play football now and again but after problems with my knee that stopped also use to be out on my bike a lot as well as go swimming at least once a month. Don't know why any of that stopped though. I was going to join the Peak gym but after looking at the prices that place is a joke, how exactly does Stirling Council expect people from a poor background to afford the fees. I'm not poor but still I would find it hard to pay their fees. I thought that the Peak was supposed to promote a healthy Stirling. For those of you don't know about the Peak it is Stirling's new multi use sports complex that replaced the Rainbow Slides it is right next door to Forthbank and it is all known as the Sports Village now. Well from what I have seen the facilities look good but I just don't see me going along as it is just a tad expensive. Think it may be the Uni for me, the only problem though is it is a 50m pool and well I don't have enough confidence to try 50m lengths yet, maybe if I kept at the swimming I would be but just now I'm not that confident.
Another thing about the new me I want to desperately start with the lighter nights now coming in I want to get out and about more and get fit. I'm a unhealthy bugger use to play football now and again but after problems with my knee that stopped also use to be out on my bike a lot as well as go swimming at least once a month. Don't know why any of that stopped though. I was going to join the Peak gym but after looking at the prices that place is a joke, how exactly does Stirling Council expect people from a poor background to afford the fees. I'm not poor but still I would find it hard to pay their fees. I thought that the Peak was supposed to promote a healthy Stirling. For those of you don't know about the Peak it is Stirling's new multi use sports complex that replaced the Rainbow Slides it is right next door to Forthbank and it is all known as the Sports Village now. Well from what I have seen the facilities look good but I just don't see me going along as it is just a tad expensive. Think it may be the Uni for me, the only problem though is it is a 50m pool and well I don't have enough confidence to try 50m lengths yet, maybe if I kept at the swimming I would be but just now I'm not that confident.
Monday 13 April 2009
Holidays
On holiday the now from college so just been working with my dad and trying to relax. The football on Saturday was shocking, I would have commented on it sooner but it is a match I want to forget getting beat of the relegated Stranraer was a joke. We just didn't seem to have any passion in the team on Saturday. The first half was OK for us but the second was horrible. It was on 2 v 1 to Stranraer because of our 'keeper pulling off some good saves and deserved being the man of the match.
Now I have said it before that our season was over but now I truelly believe it is over. I just think the team has lost the passion and desire to go for wins and the chance of a play-off spot. There are only a few players in the team who are showing some fight, but they are the ones who always do. Andy Graham and Ross Forsyth are two of them they have shown that they want the team to do well. Then there are the ones who I would love to see leave the club immediatly especially Mark Docherty, who ever told him that he could play football was having a laugh no way is Docherty a football player. I have seen better players in the sponsored games the website have.
Now I have said it before that our season was over but now I truelly believe it is over. I just think the team has lost the passion and desire to go for wins and the chance of a play-off spot. There are only a few players in the team who are showing some fight, but they are the ones who always do. Andy Graham and Ross Forsyth are two of them they have shown that they want the team to do well. Then there are the ones who I would love to see leave the club immediatly especially Mark Docherty, who ever told him that he could play football was having a laugh no way is Docherty a football player. I have seen better players in the sponsored games the website have.
Sunday 5 April 2009
Rain Stops Play
Race 2: Malaysia
All was going well in the second race of the season. Only a few unexpected incidents happened with Jenson Button having a poor start that seen him drop back a few places but after a few laps and some pit stops he reclaimed his place leading the field around the Sepang Circuit until in laps 31 to 33 we had the predicted Monsoon conditions and after a short spell of the Safety Car it was clear that in lap 33 that conditions were dangerous and for the first time in years we had Red Flag conditions.
Race was suspended after 1 hour and 10 minutes. With Jenson Button leading. Then for some reason the officials decided to keep waiting to see if the race could be restarted, when it was clear that there was no chance of a restart. After 50 minutes of waiting the decision was made by the clock as there was only 10 minutes left on the race clock, basically the 2 hour race window was closing and since the race was still Red Flagged and in the rules of the sport a 10 minute warning is required before restart there was absolutely no chance for a restart.
Nothing much else I can say about it really apart from the fact that the officials could have ended it sooner when it was clear that there was no chance of restarting in time for full points to be awarded. So only half points this week for those who managed to get in the points positions. A good race that was hampered by the weather, anyway no F1 next week but it is Singapore next, so the teams can have a week off to work on some little issues they have been having.
Well done though to Jenson Button yet again as well as Brawn GP, looking good for them so far and well I am getting more convinced to support Brawn GP this season, but just now as a neutral I am happy with the progress being made throughout the pit lane. Ferrari are still being a disappointment though due to poor decisions and dodgey KERS, McLaren aren't much better, Red Bull, BMW, Toro Roso are doing OK but again not as good as they should be. Force India, Reanult, Williams and Toyota have done as I expected them to do and Brawn have been the best so far, didn't expect them to do well due to being the new boys and on a limitied budget but they have done well. It is still the begining of the season and this is F1 so anything can happen over the season.
The next big thing for F1 is the FIA court hearing to do with the DIfusers. The difuser is just a device at the back of the car that is designed to difuse the air flow simple really, but a few teams have ones that are diffrent and work better than the others. Some people weren't happy and complained and we are now awaiting the FIA decision on the matter. I don't see them saying they are illegal as from what I have seen everything looks good and doesn't breach any of the rules, I think it is just a case of lets complain as we didn't think of that. I'm sure nothing will happen next Tuesday, but again when it is the likes of Ferrari that is having a moan you just never know what the decision will be.
All was going well in the second race of the season. Only a few unexpected incidents happened with Jenson Button having a poor start that seen him drop back a few places but after a few laps and some pit stops he reclaimed his place leading the field around the Sepang Circuit until in laps 31 to 33 we had the predicted Monsoon conditions and after a short spell of the Safety Car it was clear that in lap 33 that conditions were dangerous and for the first time in years we had Red Flag conditions.
Race was suspended after 1 hour and 10 minutes. With Jenson Button leading. Then for some reason the officials decided to keep waiting to see if the race could be restarted, when it was clear that there was no chance of a restart. After 50 minutes of waiting the decision was made by the clock as there was only 10 minutes left on the race clock, basically the 2 hour race window was closing and since the race was still Red Flagged and in the rules of the sport a 10 minute warning is required before restart there was absolutely no chance for a restart.
Nothing much else I can say about it really apart from the fact that the officials could have ended it sooner when it was clear that there was no chance of restarting in time for full points to be awarded. So only half points this week for those who managed to get in the points positions. A good race that was hampered by the weather, anyway no F1 next week but it is Singapore next, so the teams can have a week off to work on some little issues they have been having.
Well done though to Jenson Button yet again as well as Brawn GP, looking good for them so far and well I am getting more convinced to support Brawn GP this season, but just now as a neutral I am happy with the progress being made throughout the pit lane. Ferrari are still being a disappointment though due to poor decisions and dodgey KERS, McLaren aren't much better, Red Bull, BMW, Toro Roso are doing OK but again not as good as they should be. Force India, Reanult, Williams and Toyota have done as I expected them to do and Brawn have been the best so far, didn't expect them to do well due to being the new boys and on a limitied budget but they have done well. It is still the begining of the season and this is F1 so anything can happen over the season.
The next big thing for F1 is the FIA court hearing to do with the DIfusers. The difuser is just a device at the back of the car that is designed to difuse the air flow simple really, but a few teams have ones that are diffrent and work better than the others. Some people weren't happy and complained and we are now awaiting the FIA decision on the matter. I don't see them saying they are illegal as from what I have seen everything looks good and doesn't breach any of the rules, I think it is just a case of lets complain as we didn't think of that. I'm sure nothing will happen next Tuesday, but again when it is the likes of Ferrari that is having a moan you just never know what the decision will be.
Saturday 4 April 2009
Malaysia Qualifying
Disasterous session for Ferraris Filipie Massa, the team thought Massa was OK to get in to Q2 and brought him into the pits to get ready for Q2 siily move though as after the rest of the drivers who were on track Massa was knocked out of the top 15.
In Q2 it was the turn of McLaren to get it all wrong as Lewis Hamilton and Hekki Kovalainen not doing that well either. So it is the case that things are going to be totally diffrent this year, the new rules are working and it goes to show when you see the starting grid. My predictions were close OK I only got Jenson Button right but Rubens Barrichello did qualify in the top 5 but due to a gear box replacment he dropped 5 places.
Just going to repair my car after the Audi ripped my light off.
In Q2 it was the turn of McLaren to get it all wrong as Lewis Hamilton and Hekki Kovalainen not doing that well either. So it is the case that things are going to be totally diffrent this year, the new rules are working and it goes to show when you see the starting grid. My predictions were close OK I only got Jenson Button right but Rubens Barrichello did qualify in the top 5 but due to a gear box replacment he dropped 5 places.
Just going to repair my car after the Audi ripped my light off.
Malaysia GP and Melbourne Controversy
Good morning. As we now know McLaren were disqualified from the Australian Grand Prix after withholding information from the race stewards the situation all related to Lewis Hamilton and Jarno Trulli incident when the Safety Car came out onto the track after Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel crash. The basics of the incident Jarno left the track and Lewis passed him which was all legal as Jarno had all 4 wheels off the track, but then some major confusing for Lewis as he asked his team for advice about the situation and Lewis was clear about what he wanted to know, did he need to let Jarno back into third at the time he initially asked this he was told he needed to and he did. But soon after the team were unsure of what to do and contacted the race director. By this time the race was over and Jarno was third.
Then the post mortum begun and it was clear on Sunday that Jarno Trulli passed Lewis Hamilton under Safety Car conditions, which he did do the video footage proves this. But over the past two days it was clear that during the initial PM McLaren withheld the information about the radio communications and this wasn't liked by the stewards and they immediately Disqualified the McLaren Team and reinstated Jarno Trulli to third position.
If McLaren presented the radio information on Sunday after the race they would have been fine but due to there stupidness the screwed it up for themselves
Then the post mortum begun and it was clear on Sunday that Jarno Trulli passed Lewis Hamilton under Safety Car conditions, which he did do the video footage proves this. But over the past two days it was clear that during the initial PM McLaren withheld the information about the radio communications and this wasn't liked by the stewards and they immediately Disqualified the McLaren Team and reinstated Jarno Trulli to third position.
If McLaren presented the radio information on Sunday after the race they would have been fine but due to there stupidness the screwed it up for themselves
Friday 3 April 2009
Drive off's
Not had a good couple of days yesterday my wee Skoda Fellicia was crashed into by someone and one of my indicator units was smashed and some minor body work damage was caused. What made this worse was the person responsable drove off after hitting it and to make it even more annoying it was a Learner Driver who was out with their Driving School. I'm really pissed off about the whole thing as they didn't even have the common decency to contact me or anything. I seen it happen and by the time I got outside they were gone.
I just feel that if this is the sort of driving that is being taught now there will be more cases of people failing to stop at the scene of an accident. So this driver has got away with it and left me out of pocket.
After this incident today I had a visit to my local scrap yard to see if they had a indicator unit and luckily they did, so got that I had my dad with me as well who was looking for a set of distributor points for his old Toyota Hi-Ace camper-van, but with it being over 20 years old Distributor Points are hard to get as everything has moved onto electronics. Now the only real option left is to see if there would be any way to get a set of points of another car, of a similar age. So it looks like my Easter Holidays is going to be spent trailing around all the local scrapyards to see if I can salvage anything that will do the job.
Just about to go to bed to be up ready for the qualifying session of the Malaysian Grand Prix tomorrow. Never seen the practice sessions this morning as I had to take someone to Falkirk and then had to come back to Stirling to go to a meeting so it has been a busy day.
Just a quick prediction for the F1 qualifying
1. Jenson Button
2. Kimi Raikkonen
3. Rubens Barrichello
4. Robert Kubica
5. Felipe Massa
thats my top 5 anyway will just need to wait and see if it is right.
I just feel that if this is the sort of driving that is being taught now there will be more cases of people failing to stop at the scene of an accident. So this driver has got away with it and left me out of pocket.
After this incident today I had a visit to my local scrap yard to see if they had a indicator unit and luckily they did, so got that I had my dad with me as well who was looking for a set of distributor points for his old Toyota Hi-Ace camper-van, but with it being over 20 years old Distributor Points are hard to get as everything has moved onto electronics. Now the only real option left is to see if there would be any way to get a set of points of another car, of a similar age. So it looks like my Easter Holidays is going to be spent trailing around all the local scrapyards to see if I can salvage anything that will do the job.
Just about to go to bed to be up ready for the qualifying session of the Malaysian Grand Prix tomorrow. Never seen the practice sessions this morning as I had to take someone to Falkirk and then had to come back to Stirling to go to a meeting so it has been a busy day.
Just a quick prediction for the F1 qualifying
1. Jenson Button
2. Kimi Raikkonen
3. Rubens Barrichello
4. Robert Kubica
5. Felipe Massa
thats my top 5 anyway will just need to wait and see if it is right.
Wednesday 1 April 2009
Easter Break
Today was the last day of college for two weeks as I'm now on holiday. So don't need to worry about getting up early for a couple of weeks apart from getting up for the Formula 1. A nice relaxing couple of weeks for me.
Only got a few things to do for college during the holiday so don't need to worry about that either. The holiday couldn't have come at a better time as I have been needing a wee break. So with nothing to do it looks good. Don't know what I should do though, not got any plans yet.
Only got a few things to do for college during the holiday so don't need to worry about that either. The holiday couldn't have come at a better time as I have been needing a wee break. So with nothing to do it looks good. Don't know what I should do though, not got any plans yet.
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