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Sunday 19th May 2024:  kick-off 3pm

Scottish Premiership - Ross County v Aberdeen

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tom_widdows

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  1. Their finding a 'winding up' order from the Taxman at the moment. So we might have a slight chance
  2. I refused to sit down. The cop came up the stairs to have a word and then stopped, looked at me, then bizarrely asked the boy sat next to me to move to some other section. Still not figured that one out
  3. someone better tell the BBC that
  4. Nah the worlds ok Terry Christian and Danni Behr on the other hand
  5. Hence my use of the word ANOTHER You seem to read/hear what you want to read/hear Sis. Accept the word is a shite place
  6. Sidenote Castle Grayskull - Home of the Sorceress, and defended by He-man because it contained the secrets of Eternia IE THE GOOD GUYS Snake mountain - Home of Skeletor, beastman, evil lynn etc etc IE THE BAD GUYS!!! get it right Anyway back to another pointless argument about fuck all
  7. tom_widdows

    Films

    I say Bond is either meant to be a 'carry on' or a real thug. Brosnan wasnt either
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    Films

    Cant say I could class any Brosnan bond efforts as classics Better than Dalton but way behind Moore and Connery
  9. Notice that caley's unbeaten away run was ended yesterday at Perth. Going out on a limb but I think they are about to go into freefall and will end up scrapping it out with Hamitlon, Hibs and us for the relegation sport.
  10. From memory the saturday night sportscene stopped at the same time as the sunday night scotsport which would be around the time the infamous 605pm sunday kick off sky deal came about. The satuday night sportscene consisted of ONE scottish premier game and TWO english premiership games. All other games were shown on sunday night scotsport. Only exceptions were the tennents scottish cup sportscene programs which showed all the goals from the cup games (well except the aberdeen stranraer game from 1994 because they decided all the cameras had to be at Allan park to cover dunfermline humping cove) and occasionally 1 fa cup match. And when the league cup final was on BBC, scotsport was cancelled so I never got to see duncan shearers overhead kick against the arabs until scotsport changed their titles a few years later. Match of the days current coverage came about when the BBC clawed back the highlights from ITVs grasp but lost the spl rights to setanta. Setanta decided to sell the highlights to scotsport but ensured the highlights could only be shown on monday nights after 10pm so as not to compete with thier own highlighs package. ESPN now do the same thing with the BBC There is no simple solution to getting kids to support the local team instead of the likes of the old firm. I cant be the only one who has heard kids say they support rangers, celtic, man united, chelsea, arsenal etc etc because they are 'the best'. I heard that when i was in primary school when you could only see your team play live on TV if they were in europe or in the cup final and Im still hearing it today when you can almost pay to have the game kick off when it suits you. And family tickets? Football is not a family day out. Despite all their efforts it never will be unless they make it like the USA where you cant swear, you cant shout, the game is constantly stopped for acrobats, mini games, singers, mascots, free t shirts, go and get another burger, donut etc all in warm comfortable stadiums with no atmosphere. And the cost for me and my pensioner dad to go see the Colorado avalanche was £50 each for a seat behind the goal at the back of the gods with a huge mark up on all the food and merchandse available. Had we taken a seat in the lower tier we would have paid min £175 a ticket with the best seats costing in excess of £500 PS merkland stand 2 adults and 2 kids £40 Merkland stand -2 adult and 2 kids £299 season ticket (less than £16 a match) your own club already does this but you didnt seem to know that?
  11. I watched the english premiership in the USA, France and New Zealand. The coverage there would almost make you think it was their domestic league. Setanta also showed bundesliga, dutch and french football. I believe sky has decent coverage of the spanish league too but that is all PAY PER VIEW SATELLITE coverage available all around the world. New Zealands terrestrial tv barely showed any sport when i was out there. infact there it was quite a big story when they managed to get coverage of some of the 2006 world cup. Dont recall seeing Lyon etc on the french equivalent of the BBC. our domestic media much like most of the worlds panders our own country. The way you are talking you would think skysports was on freeview
  12. How can you class 8 football league games a season on the BBC as 'broadcast as if its the domestic league'? since ITV got the FA cup you can only watch it in scotland either online or via sky If you are going to use 'match of the day' and 'the football league show' as and example then I refer you to 8 years back when BBC scotland had the rights and we actually had coverage with live games and highlights at a decent time every sunday. Then along came setanta and the rest is history. BBC & STV has the rights to fuck all coverage because the SFA and SPL took the money from pay per view. Murdoch and Co are evil but they give the masses what they want apparently. And since the public continue to pay through the nose for 100s of channels of which i estimate 75% is repeats they hold all the cash, the SPL will continue to be their bitches. Oh the other thing which I keep having to explan to my mum. The BBC is for the whole of the UK and since 81% of the population live in england they will favour english related coverage be it drama or sport. Should scotland ever gain full independance and the english league gets that same coverage then questions will need to be asked
  13. when did we ever have 'a lot' of scottish football on the box? 1993-94 the only televised games were the league and scottish cup finals 1994-96 STV started showin the occasional sunday game (1 a month or something). BBC had the cup finals 1996-now Sky or espn show max of 2 games a week depending on fixtures. Scottish cup final on terrestrial
  14. Again Man united, west brom and Newcastle all had lots of space. However Man u and newcastle are now both stuck with their current capacities because of their surroundings. Man united cant agree with the railway companies so cant extend their main stand. They also have a canal to contend with Newcastle cant get past the listed terrace behind their other stand so do actually have plans for a new stadium if demand for tickets really got out of hand (unlikely now) Westbrom have a main road coming off the M6 behind one of their goals so will be hampered by that should they ever feel the need to extend that section. Alot of things were built in the 1970s but they dont let you build exact copies today. if they did asbestos would still be a material of choice and fire safety or stadium crushes wouldnt be considered an issue. Please understand that building new stadiums or stands require new building regulations which were not a factor when most of pittodrie was built. Why do you think there is such a massive concourse behind the RDS but not behind the other stands?
  15. object considered to possess supernatural or magical powers well he did perfect his disappearing act
  16. Not if you class hampden (queens park) as a club stadium
  17. Theres building in-situ when theres lots of space and then theres the reason most clubs move to a new stadium ie their stadium is completely surrounded by houses or businesses Portsmouth had this grand plan to redevelop fratton park ensuring that the capacity never dropped below 20000 at any point. Then they added up the costs and looked at the logistics of doing so and said fuck that. There is also that little issue that is so fucking irritatingly left out by so many people. Fully rebuilding pittodrie to current UEFA standards will result in a reduced capacity of between 10-15000. we go from the 4th largest club stadium to potentially the 10th. PS Manc Don is not an architect yet so cannot speak for our society
  18. Questions must be asked as to why the 745pm kick off St Mirren Jambos game highlights can be put up at midnight yet the 3pm dons game cannot?
  19. Sure I read or heard somewhere that they arent allowed to have any debt if they play in the top division
  20. First time a new dons manager has won his first game in charge since Paul Hegarty in December 1998 Since then Ebbe Skovdahl 5-0 defeat to celtic Steve Patterson 3-0 defeat to Dunfermline Jimmy Calderwood 0-0 Draw with Rangers Mark Mcghee - 5-1 defeat by Sigma
  21. 1-0 killie Wish i could say I wasnt interested but I really hope killie shaft that little ginger cunt's bitch 11
  22. If we somehow went on to win the championship and then the champions league I still wouldnt be surprised to see us sitting bottom the space of a couple of seasons
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