Voice of Reason: 8 October 2009

Oct 9 2009 by VoR

AND we're off again. This season's had more false starts than a grand national.

But now is where we start to pick up the fallers. Yes Raith Rovers – the VoR is looking at you.

This week it’s one of the classic away trips that signals our return to the big time.

Dunfermline and East End Park. A once famous club whose current claim to fame is tasty bridies.

They’re also in shocking form and manager Jim McIntyre is one bad result from the boot.

Happy to oblige.

I SEE the latest boat oftrialists has docked in Ayr.

Word has it we have a FrenchMoroccan dude pulling up trees in training.

Wonderful memories come flooding back here of a chap by the name of Mohammed Benlaredj.

So awful he once entered a game against Livingston as a sub and was quickly hooked again.

But could this gentleman be a little more Mustaffa Hadji? One can only hope.

Who knows. Could he and the boy of ‘Croatian descent’ be our new strikeforce?

Welcome to the foreign fun factory.

LET’S talk X Factor. The most gripping show on television – and we all know it.

They’re mucking about with the format this year, but it matters little.

This promises to be the most controversial year in history for one simple reason...John and Edward.

The VoR states right now that these boys will be stars.

The Irish MacDonald Brothers, if you will.

And if they’re eliminated in week one, I’ll by eating my hat. In public.

Televisual gold these lads. The country will be hating them – and it’s going to be epic viewing.

The longer they’re in, the better.

And you can bet your bottom dollar Cowell and his ITV boys know it.

THE Scottish Cup has kicked off – with a host of junior sides making an impact.

Now the VoR is all for equal opportunity.

But the Lochee alarm bells are already ringing.

And this season will no doubt see another farcical episode involving one of these clubs taking 27 attempts to get a tie played.

They have a Junior Cup for a reason.

FEW surprises over in betting corner.

As soon as I allow Iain Ferguson to get close, I simply tease him and pull away.

It’s like taking candy from the proverbial.

Ferguson’s tip of last week – Wigan to win at Hull – was horrendous stuff.

And he was rightly punished to trail 9-7.

Now it’s another less-than-certain offering from the furlong flutterer this week. He goes for Inverness 2, QOS 0.

Either brave or stupid. Quite possibly both.

But the VoR – he stays sensible and says Stirling 2, Arbroath 0.