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poolsbabe14 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:37 pm **Posts:** 98

Liam Bennett, Issac Asensso and Piteu Crouz are all on trial from Leeds, Ross Colquhoun is on trial from Sunderland.

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:06 pm

At Scunthorpe?

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

they played 7 on trial against us the other week

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:09 pm

Are these players are on trial at Scunthorpe or for us? I'm confused.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

On trial for Scunthrope.

What a bizzare thread.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

They also have Callum Chippendale on loan from Bradford.

Pooliebabe should have informed us of this.

demented twig · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:09 pm **Posts:** 1043

well after last weekend i'm ready to celebrate anything...so go scunthorpe!!

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:34 pm

Does anybody know if Queen of the South have any triallists this week?

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

great thread this

I wanna see 4 pages at least.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:16 pm

misterb2001 wrote:

Does anybody know if Queen of the South have any triallists this week?

Not sure if you follow sweaty footy or not but QoS are doing rather well at the moment.
Maybe we should be looking whether they have any trialists to send us.

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Montpoolier wrote:

misterb2001 wrote:

Does anybody know if Queen of the South have any triallists this week?

Not sure if you follow sweaty footy or not but QoS are doing rather well at the moment.
Maybe we should be looking whether they have any trialists to send us.

Or more importantly we should be loooking whether they have any to send Scunthorpe.

poolietim · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:19 pm

misterb2001 wrote:

Does anybody know if Queen of the South have any triallists this week?

Aye the Doonhammers have 2 brothers on trial there this week

A Trialist and A Trialist

Alan and Andy probably

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Wonder if there's ever been a player in Scotland actually with the surname Trialist and first initial A. That would be hilarious...

ed-t-ball · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2015 5:18 pm

I hope some of the scunny trialists are good cb's.

Is that the point of this?

Chesssington · **Joined:** Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:36 pm **Posts:** 900

I used to like The Old Show Ground

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:57 am

Adam Campbell on trial at West Brom

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Joe Mac wrote:

Adam Campbell on trial at West Brom

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:46 am

He genuinely is, god knows how he has wangled that one. He made David Foley look like Peter Crouch.

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12382

Adam Johnson could be on trial at Durham....what league are they in???

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Heard about that U16s league isn't it?

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:11 am

Does anyone know if Scunthorpe signed any of these trialists?

We need answers.

Lord_of_Stranton · **Joined:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:48 pm **Posts:** 1852

Your guess is as good as mine Mr. Mac

http://bit.ly/1HFDkXQ

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:27 am

I got a bit lost in our flurry of pre-season activity. Did we actually sign any of our trialists? And while we're there can anyone explain why trialist has one L and medallist has two?

KT Poolie · **Joined:** Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:04 am **Posts:** 150

Quote:

And while we're there can anyone explain why trialist has one L and medallist has two?

because trialist has a diphthong and medalist doesn't? I may be wrong, but I think the length of the vowel sound makes a difference to the single/double letter 'rule'.

grabec · **Joined:** Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:45 am **Posts:** 830

KT Poolie wrote:

Quote:

And while we're there can anyone explain why trialist has one L and medallist has two?

because trialist has a diphthong and medalist doesn't? I may be wrong, but I think the length of the vowel sound makes a difference to the single/double letter 'rule'.

'Triallist' is the spelling given first in my dictionary. 'Trialist' is given as an alternative but probably the reason it's gained currency is because it's used mainly by football people who are notoriously bad spellers.

In a similar vein 'medallist' is 'medalist' in the US of A because they can't spell either. Apart from that, I don't know whether we signed any trialists or not.

Splod · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:32 pm

Ware's Bovver Boots Bob wen yoo kneed im?

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

grabec wrote:

KT Poolie wrote:

Quote:

And while we're there can anyone explain why trialist has one L and medallist has two?

because trialist has a diphthong and medalist doesn't? I may be wrong, but I think the length of the vowel sound makes a difference to the single/double letter 'rule'.

'Triallist' is the spelling given first in my dictionary. 'Trialist' is given as an alternative but probably the reason it's gained currency is because it's used mainly by football people who are notoriously bad spellers.

In a similar vein 'medallist' is 'medalist' in the US of A because they can't spell either. Apart from that, I don't know whether we signed any trialists or not.

Trialist is the spelling in American English of course. We're a couple of generations in to every spellcheck being set to US English as the default, so there's not much hope for British English.

Color me gray (with no problems for The Bunker spellcheck!)

grabec · **Joined:** Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:45 am **Posts:** 830

Re Americanese......I once had a job that involved looking up old church records, from an era before spelling was standardised. Took ages, at first, to decipher some of the entries and the same word would often be spelt several different ways, though each variation was perfectly justified, phonetically.

I thought there was a certain charm to that....unlike the American way of totally misspelling words and then sticking to their initial mistake through thick and thin

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2015 3:36 pm

Spelling with a single L was a conscious decision by a certain lexicographer called Webster. When it comes down to it, spelling is just a way of representing speech so the only time it really, really matters is when distinguishing homonyms, or rather homophones; things like "yer after laugh".
In defence of trialist, you can find the word tribalist in most dictionaries, but you won't find triballist.

Smokin Joe · **Joined:** Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:13 pm **Posts:** 1151

I see that their 'marquee' signing from the effing Borer, Luke Williams is out for at least three months - yet another ex-Borer sicknote

poolietim · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:09 pm

Really? are you happy to put your name to that comment? wow

marcus richardsons third leg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:04 pm **Posts:** 446

Wasn't as bad as the one before it to be fair.

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