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Thought Stewart look good if a little heavy but that may be our figure hugging strip rather than him being over weight. Christie was excellent. Not impressed by Tansey but in his defence he was being played on the left which is not his natural position. German lad looked okay on the ball but hard to tell how good he was as Saints never really put us under pressure. As for Kev I know he is only getting training facilities but if a deal could be done at the right price then would not be against him being signed as defensive cover.

Definitely overweight buaccoring to a Dee mate he's quite heavy anyway. To me he looked very unfit though and quite disinterested when not on the ball. Again this is apparent lying his way!!!

No right minded man would surely say no even if she has put on a few pounds recently, although thankfully she's not reached Buc proportions yet!

It's a yes from me. 

The deflection off Considines's head was a thing of beauty!!

Some things can never be unseen. 

Are kids allowed in?

Outrageous posts, blatantly displaying utter disregard for those who couldn't be arsed making a decent life for themselves, who feel the world owes them a living and who resent others who have succeeded. This is a country that celebrates failure, how dare you make a success of your lives.

I'm going to have to go for a lie down.

I disagree regarding his standing at Norwich, yes they loaned us to him, but in this short time, he's already shown he's capable of playing for them, I think, I could be wrong, but I think, he played 90 minutes when they beat Coventry 6-1, and he'd be competing with Wes Hoolahan & Steven Naismith.

 

I honestly believe he'll go back in January and immediately be involved in their match-day squad, where he starts though, is obviously debatable, on the pitch or on the bench.

Fairy nuff, I just think he's there for us if we push it. The Bythemin team had an interview with a Coventry fan who explained a bit more about him and he seemed to lose interest in Coventry after Norwich signed him and loaned him back, so much so he was booed by the Coventry fans during the game he played against them for Norwich, but apart from that he hadn't made an impact at Norwich.

Joe Lewis has been a revelation as a keeper that we own! He's the first keeper who seems really comfortable with the ball at his feet we've had in donkeys years. He's not as good as Danny at one-on-ones but he's as good as him at everything else. The save against St Johnstone to keep us in it and the fingertips save against Sevco from the deflection were outstanding.

Maddison's not even close to being third or fourth choice at Norwich so we should be doing everything we can to extend his loan.

Neither Pawlett or McLean are capable of playing his role anywhere near as effectively so we either look for a replacement or go back to playing everything out wide again. Looking for a replacement could end up with another Monakana type signing which would be unthinkable!

'Just about...'

'He just about squeezes it over the line.' when he clearly did because it was a goal.

'He just about manages to tip it over the bar.' when he clearly did because he tipped it over he bar.

Ian Crocker is the worst offender and it does my hut in!

I have an Amazon Fire TV box, and I installed Kodi. Given my atrocious internet connection it was essentially pointless. An endless fuck about too. Although the Amazon box is good with a Prime subscription, just nae the Kodi part for me. There is another option oot there too, which involves a satellite dish of sorts, which might do a better job. Forgotten what it's called though - basically fake sky, illegalish.

Think you're talking about Openbox but you need a Sky dish for it, it doesn't work of a Virgin line.

It's full Sky, minus some HD channels for a one off cost of about £60 but there are more expensive boxes. Every year you've to renew your subscription for about £30.

Maddison was outstanding again today. Some of his touches are just sublime and at times he looks like he can turn on a sixpence. All he was missing today was a goal.

Definite MOTM for me.

I want Strachan and McGhee gone, but it's because I despise them as people, not because I believe anyone else can do a significantly better job. 

 

Scotland is a basket case.  We've stopped producing the kind of talent we need to field a decent international side, and there's no sign that's changing among the kids growing up.  End result is we'll continue to chop and change managers in the hope the next guy will have a magic wand.

 

Not enough people are seeing the connection between the corruption in our club game and the state of our national side.  When I started watching fitba, it was a working-class sport in the UK and taken seriously in far fewer countries.  Scotland was on a par with France as an international side, because although we had a small fraction of their population we took the game a lot more seriously.

 

Since then the game has broadened out and gentrified.  Many people don't like that, but it has implications for the amount of money coming into the game, the quality of coaching, and aspirational parents encouraging their kids to get involved.  When fitba was a hard-core working class game huge swathes of England wanted nothing to do with it.  So we matched them in producing fitba talent. Things have changed.  Who wouldn't want their kid to be a multi-millionaire superstar?  With that broadening of the game's appeal the English, whatever their shorcomings, have produced far better players than we have over the past 20+ years.

 

In Scotland the broadening of the game's appeal beyond its original fanbase hasn't happened to anything like the same extent.  Why?  Well, our club fitba is dominated by two clubs, both built on sectarian bigotry.  At least one of those clubs has a recent history of being mired in corruption, and the behaviour of its fans in Manchester and elsewhere is rightly seen as a national disgrace.  The reaction of the authorities, football and otherwise, to anything challenging the power of those clubs, is to bend the knee.  The fitba authorities think only of the short term impact on income flow, and the establishment fear violent unrest or turning a section of the electorate into single issue fanatics gunning for any politician perceived as a threat to their clubs. 

 

The evidence is everywhere: the refusal to countenance strict liability, or to enforce laws on sectarian singing, the Houdini trick of pretending that Rangers is a continuing club, the series of bizarre court and enquiry decisions confounding the expectations of informed lawyers, the refusal of the authorities to stand up for taxpayers against tax cheats, the ostracism and defenestration of journalists refusing to toe the pro-Rangers line.  And the utterances of the authorities that make it clear that not only do we need Rangers (and Celtic) to survive to be successful, we need them to successful to be successful.  The message to fans of other clubs: for the game to prosper we need clubs like the one you support to normally fail.

 

The end result that the game has failed to broaden its appeal to those not already emotionally invested.  The sons of ordinary working men who got a better education and ended up in middle class jobs often retain their childhood allegiances, but many decent Scots either give fitba a wide berth or bypass the Scottish game and focuss on the EPL,  And when you see the sectarianism, the corruption, the willingness to bend the rules, the lack of sporting integrity, who can blame them?

 

Now I know some posters will say, if the middle classes don't like the game, fine by me.  We want the game to keep its soul, not sell out the the prawn sandwiches mob.  But that comes at a price. Nowdays any footballing country that has a big section of the comfortably off, the influential and the opinion formers turning its back on the game is fighting with its hands tied behind its back.  if aspirational parents don't want their kids playing football, we'll produce fewer good players.  People have been contrasting the success of our Olympians with our football team, but the harsh fact is that a disproportionate amount of our Olympians, and of successful sportsment generally, come from the sort of families who are turned right off by the negatives attaching to our "national game".

 

I don't think Scotland will start punching its weight in international football again until a bigger and more representative proportion of country is more wholeheartedly invested in the team; and I don't think that will happen until our club game starts to at least gain respect from the sort of people who haven't been steeped in it since childhood.  That would require a massive injection of decency and fairness into the domestic game.  It would require an upgrading of our football media, too often partisan, lickspittle and frightened of any show of integrity that might put their cushy gig at risk.  It would need us to get rid of the perception that our game is run by spivs and chancers who'll bend any rule for the sake of a fiver and operate in the conviction that there is virtually no risk of them being held to proper account.  In short, it needs Scottish football to be something that decent, aspirational families would be prouder for their kids to be part of.

 

In other words, not gonna happen.

Outstanding! 

Some game in 1973, no idea who against or what the score was. In the beach end with my father's uncle Tommy and all I remember is that it seemed packed and I couldn't see a thing but I was only four!

Anyone know why West stand sections A6, A7, B1 & B2 weren't available to book seats in yesterday? I had to book seats in B5.

Hello all!

Another central belt Dandy and AbMad refugee, although I was never a prolific poster there.