Well, Saturday was a good day. Finally got online in my new hoose and Killie win 1-0.

According to Setanta Carlos Cuellar is off Villa for £7.8 mill. Not a bad bit of business really.

The Huns have squeezed a good-sized fee out of Villa there, just as they did with Boumsong a few years ago, but with no European football this season they're unlikely to be able to spend more than a couple of million of it on their team. Their defence has a very make-do-and-mend look about it now.

Darren O'Dea has been fined after being involved in a pub brawl last night, in which Scott Brown was attacked by a couple of teenagers and Aiden McGeady was called a few Fenian-related names.

Cuellar's a lot better than Boumsong though isn't he? AMMS - Please say yes!

Souness signed more players from Rangers than he signed for them.

I would say so although Boumsong looked great at Rangers and out of his depth at Newcastle so who knows. He's a defender in the truest sense, he gets in the way, blocks, headers well and reads the game but his distribution is his weak point. I'd be very surprised if he isn't successful though as he was great in Europe last year. He was a good player for us and I'm very sorry to see him go unfortunately it looked inevitable after last week. His sale should ensure we don't have to sell anyone else and surely it'll mean we can buy a midfielder or three, is that Gareth Barry guy still getting a game for Villa?!?
We'll replace him with Boughera(?) so the defence will have the same make-do-and-mend look as last season.

HoH, reading the BBC report it sounded like O'Dea assaulted Brown which would have been amusing if misleading.
Lastly, you're clearly a smart guy so what is the difference between a couple of drunk neds calling McGeady 'Fenian-related names' and you referring to 'Huns' more often than not? You should drop it, you'll feel better for it I'm sure.

...Oh and today’s rumour is Shaun Maloney coming in the opposite direction, probably to play centre half!

How to return to the top flight in style.

Well done Accies - and top of the league on goal difference, too. Not bad for a team that was in the third division just seven years ago.

Oh aye, and Lee Wilkie's still a cro-magnon liability.

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Lastly, you're clearly a smart guy so what is the difference between a couple of drunk neds calling McGeady 'Fenian-related names' and you referring to 'Huns' more often than not? You should drop it, you'll feel better for it I'm sure.

AMMS, please don't start this shite about "Huns" being a sectarian term. Because then I'll have to waste precious seconds of my life explaining why it isn't, and I've got a hundred better things to do.

Craig Levein spent the close season bringing in thousands of strikers the latest being yet another Irishman, Roy O'Donovan, on loan from Sunderland.

Judging by that shite I watched this morning, it was defenders he should have been after.

To make matters worse, it's Celtic at home and Motherwell away next.

You'll beat Celtic if they play the way they did on Sunday.

How did James McCarthy play?

Hieronymus of Hesselink wrote:

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You'll beat Celtic if they play the way they did on Sunday.

How did James McCarthy play?

He falls over a bit too easily but, that apart, I liked the look of him. In fact, I was impressed with Hamilton overall - there's a fair bit of pace in that side. I know it's only 1 game but they don't look like a team that's going to be cast adrift at the bottom.

HoH
I didn’t claim it was sectarian just that the difference between a sober, educated, articulate Irishman calling me, and a reasonably large section of the west of Scotland, ‘huns’ whenever he feels like it and a drunk teenager calling an ‘Irish’ footballer ‘fenian-related-names’ during a fight in a nightclub is grey at best. Neither is particularly edifying.

Either way if the sober, sane members of our respective supports took the lead and showed some respect to one another maybe it would be better for everyone. I know I sound sanctimonious but there you go.

Ah, lighten up, AMMS, for god's sake.

There's another Rangers fan on here who has come to accept the essential truth of the term, to the extent that he even changed his username to "Extreme Uber-Hun" for a while. Perhaps you might adopt a similar approach, thereby reclaiming the word from mean-spirited individuals like me?

Incidentally, I've been meaning to ask you this for a while -- what does "AMMS" stand for?

Alastair Murray McSporran?

A Moses MacNeil Sandal, I would have thought that was obvious!

I'm getting heavier the older I get whether I like it or not. The diet starts today.

you spelled McNeill wrong!

The diet starts today.

AMMS = Ah Must Munch Salad?

I hate diets. I'll probably have to go one one myself though - I'm about a stone and a half overweight, and it's making my ankles sore (which restricts the opportunities for exercise, and makes me even heavier).

I am not going to turn into Mark Yardley.