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Last week we started our quest to review all 132 cards from Hearthstones Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, with the first two parts of our comprehensive card review and our exclusive reveal and roundtable discussion of Grimestreet Pawnbroker. Vladimir Tarasenko Jersey . Our first set of reviews focused on class and tri-class cards this expansion; now we move on to the neutrals announced so far.We start off with the Big-Time Racketeer, six-mana 1/1 that summons a 6/6 Little Friend (I love Scarface references). The first thing I ask myself on a card that isnt vanilla is How can this be exploited in a win condition? Six-mana 7/7 is perfectly reasonable in itself, but theres not a ton of synergy with cards it likely will be paired with. The exception is Brann Bronzebeard, who triggers Battlecry twice, but Brann has trouble surviving a turn -- making Brann + Racketeer a win condition -- and 13/13 of stats for 10 mana that doesnt affect the board isnt really that great. Fine in Arena, where stats rule.Im always on the lookout for anti-aggro tools, and the Second-Rate Bruiser fits the cards here. By becoming a three-mana 4/5 with taunt if your opponent has three minions -- and insane amount of value -- it fills a needed role, buying time if playing against low-curve decks flooding the board with tokens. A 4/5 minion with taunt isnt exciting on Turn 5 otherwise, but its not a dreadful card that loses you the game if you play it.Kooky Chemist, Crazed Alchemists (a two-mana 2/2 with the same text) bigger cousin, doesnt strike me as a card likely to see competitive play. Two additional mana for 2/2 stats is worse than a vanilla two-mana minion, and if you want the effect, you can just choose to play Crazed Alchemist for fewer mana. Might see some play in Arena, but likely a little below average.Another early-game card, where Second-Rate Bruiser tries to be the new Sludge Belcher, Mistress of Mixtures is an attempt to replace the beloved Zombie Chow. 2/2 is a worse line than 2/3 at fighting for board, but you also get four health back, where Zombie Chow only healed the opponent for five. This is significant because control decks that would use this card would sometimes see their health a little too low when the Face Hunter simply ignored Zombie Chow and went face.For neutral legendaries, we start off with Patches the Pirate, a Stonetusk Boar that gets played for free whenever you have a Pirate. On the surface, the effect looks exploitable, but I think this card wont be as solid as many in the community think. It does give you a free 1/1 and thins out your Pirate deck. However, to make a one-turn-kill deck, you likely need to be playing Gang Up, but then youre stuck having Gang Up, which wont always be able to hit this target. In a pure Pirate deck, youll frequently not be able to play this at the moment you want because a Pirate deck needs to play pirates.For cool artwork and concept, Finja, the Flying Star is tough to beat. Unfortunately, it doesnt really fit Murloc burst decks, and the old-style Murloc decks, where you just stuff in every good Murloc, arent good enough these days.Madam Goya is a card with interesting possibilities, but one I think that will not see that much play. Why? Because she needs a deck around her to make her effect work well, but that effect itself isnt good enough. If it were, wed see competitive YShaarj decks and Varian Wrynn be more than a very niche choice in Control Warrior. A six-mana 4/3 has to have an effect thats completely bananas to see play, and this one doesnt. Sure, you can get a second Reno Jackson effect off, but you can already do this with one of the Brewmaster cards, and precisely zero people are doing this in high-level play.Auctionmaster Beardo would be terrific if Inspire decks were a thing. Theyre not, and Blizzard hasnt done anything with the mechanic since the Grand Tournament was released, so there likely arent yet-to-be-unveiled cards that will make this card bonkers. A three-mana 3/4 has good stats, so this will mostly be seen in Arena, where you do sometimes end up with Murloc Knight or Kvaldir Raider. Thunder Bluff Valiant is the only card I see that can really exploit this, but I dont think its good enough for Midrange Shaman, which, while very much a fan of triggering the Valiant twice, wants to already have a scary board by the Turn 9 required for this combo.Friendly Bartender is a straightforward card to look at. We have lots of two-mana 2/3 cards that do something, and in this case, the something just isnt that appealing. Just not good enough, but will at least exist in Arena.Thats more than can be said for the Wind-up Burglebot, which too often will be simply a six-mana 5/5 with no effect, which is absolutely dreadful. Whats the dream for this card? That you play this on a board of token on Turn 6 and start clearing a token every turn? Cards are nice, but if you actually have time to take advantage of this effect, youve probably won anyway, so the card doesnt do anything of value.The Fel Orc Soulfiend is a tricky card to value. Getting a three mana 3/5 on turn three is terrific, but its also a card that will die on its own if you dont invest mana in it to keep it alive. I can see some shenanigans in a Priest deck, but the problem is youd need a Priest deck that actually chooses to play Silence or Purify, and in that case, Injured Blademaster and Circle of Healing are the more useful combo. This will see play in Arena, however, as it can remove a 3/2 or a 4/3 and survive a turn unless the opponent invests another minion or a costly ping into dealing with it.Windfury is one of the more difficult mechanics for Blizzard to manage, as theres a fine line between a card being superpowerful and overpriced and unplayable. The Grook Fu Master is probably on the latter line but would be insane at one fewer mana! Its too costly, and like Windfury Harpy and Thrallmar Farseer, both similar cards that are a bit too expensive, will only see some edge play in Arena. Whirling Zap-o-Matic remains the only successful Windfury card that doesnt have crazy burst potential (as in Raging Worgen and AlAkir the Windlord).Im surprised that the Worgen Greaser wasnt named the Worgen Rager, given the theme of high attack/low health and unplayability. A four-mana 6/3 is no more playable than a three-mana 5/2. The developers have said that all expansions are going to have some bad cards. This is one of them.Meh. Thats my only reaction to the Backroom Bouncer, a four-mana 4/4 that needs a lot to go right to be playable. You need at least one minion to die just to make it a 5/4, and if you wanted to play a 5/4, there are already a lot of them to choose from. A 6/4 or a 7/4 gets a bit more interesting, but the four health makes it easily removable no matter how large it gets. Id rather play a guaranteed 7/4 Ancient Shade at the same cost and risk the seven health instead of killing three of my own minions. And Im not playing Ancient Shade (nor are you). Luke Opilka Jersey . Tracey comes to the Blue Bombers after spending over a decade with Queens University. Most recently he was the schools assistant football coach. Kyle Brodziak Jersey . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. 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Also inside was a congratulatory video message from Edwin van der Sar, the former Ajax goalkeeper and a current director at the club.It was a fantastic gesture, East Kilbride chairman Mark Horner told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The fact that Ajax recognizes it (as a record), thats the main thing for us.East Kilbrides players usually play in front of around 100 spectators at the teams community-funded playing facility that is located about eight miles (13 kilometers) southeast of Glasgow, a city that has two huge, famous soccer clubs -- Celtic and Rangers. Turning out for Kilby, as the team is known locally, is a merry band of electricians, plumbers, teachers and office workers who dont get paid to play soccer, except for expenses.Now they have a place in the spotlight, with news outlets in Britain and other countries in Europe and the Middle East covering the clubs achievement of winning 14 matches at the end of last season followed by 13 at the start of this season.Jacob Kean, East Kilbrides goalkeeper, told the AP that the club has been sent emails by Sig Hansen, captain of the Northwestern boat thats the focus of the Deadliest Catch documentary series on the Discovery Channel.Hes a big fan off the club, said Kean, who is a joiner/carpenter for his fathers building firm. Zach Sanford Jersey. Horner said East Kilbride-born actor John Hannah, who had roles in movies like The Mummy Returns and Sliding Doors, also is a supporter and has bought into the dream of a club that was only formed in 2010.East Kilbride is a so-called new town built in 1947 as part of the overflow from nearby Glasgow. It now has a population of 80,000 and a soccer team of which to be proud, the focal point of a community trust established by local businessmen who wanted to put something back into the area where they grew up. Among the backers for the project is Ally McCoist, a former Rangers and Scotland striker.Where we play used to be a muddy field with two highland cows on it, said East Kilbride official Ian Aitchison. Now its a field of dreams.East Kilbrides capacity at K-Park is for 500 spectators. Plans are afoot for a new facility, holding 6,000 spectators, to be built about a mile (two kilometers) away.The new stadium is another part of the jigsaw, Horner said. Our main ambition is to play in League Two (fourth tier) of Scottish football, as then were a senior club.That could soon be a reality.East Kilbride is 14 points clear in the Lowland League and is in line to enter a playoff system at the end of the season, when it could get the chance to play the last-place team in League Two.The immediate priority is extending the 27-match winning run, and next up is a game against Stirling University on Thursday. However long the streak stretches, though, it will never make it into the official record book.This is an outstanding achievement from East Kilbride, a club clearly going places and one their fans can be extremely proud of, Guinness World Records said in an email to the AP. However, due to the differing standards of professional football around the world, we only monitor records achieved in top division football. 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