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2-0 the dons. Burns and O'Connor. Hopefully we'll see a bit of a shake up tonight. I'd give Hayes a rest for the weekend and bring in Pawlett for Maddison and Shinnie into left back with Considine on the bench and Jack into midfield. Pace is the name of the game on this pitch, so I'd maybe even switch Rooney for Storey. But that's why I'm nae in charge, and it'll be much the same team I reckon with only Maddison removed to be replaced by McLean with Jack coming into the holding role.

Alex Miller is the worst by miles. Not just his atrocious record, but the fact that we had 10 years of evidence of his disgusting style of fitba at hibs who played in our fucking league. At least McGhee, Brown, Paterson etc all had decent records. Miller's fitba was horrendous, I've never seen anything like it.

Seems to be the only game on tonight, but not on TV no. Hopefully on red tv.

Just turned it on and the tims scored. Looks like it'll be them in the final. Good stuff

I don't think they did. I think it was just in our collective imaginations. I don't think there's ever been a reference to playing the ball forward. It certainly doesn't exist on the internet.

This. I want them to be given as little air time as possible - squeeze the life out of them. I want their fans to lose interest and dwindle in support. To the extent that they get found out for their disgraceful and unaffordable levels of spending and they are crippled again financially. That would be the best outcome for Scottish fitba, and teach them a lesson that they deserve. Also, I'd like us to beat the best team.

As long as the second forward (the one that scores) is not ahead of his teammate when it's squared, then the ball can go in any direction it likes. To extend this: If he is ahead of the player, and the ball is played backwards (behind him) and he tracks back and hits it in, he is still offside.

We hate Scotland over here min donwards! Especially thon Tim Strachan. Apart fae me, I was at the Lithuania game. Was pish, I hate Scotland. Is your user name some anti-Japanese racism? Anyway, welcome aboard min.

That's nae actually the rule. I thought the same as you, but my mate corrected me and it turns out he was right. The direction of the ball has no bearing on the offside decision, just the position of the players.

One of the amateur managers I played under would switch the left and right back's shirt numbers to "confuse" the opposition. It never worked.

I think football just followed the way the rest of the West moved over the last thirty years. If anything, they were a little behind. Everything has drifted towards monopoly, as that's the way the world is designed. Fitba is no different to music (ruined by style over substance), films (endless re-makes and easy plots), food (dominos pizzas, Macdonalds and the chain restaurant), buildings (mass produced shite houses, glass boxes), clothes (next, top-shop cheap latino/bangladesh etc workers providing shite quality pish) and so on. Fitba perfectly mirrors the society we live in. Whether it be just looking at Scottish fitba, or European fitba, the glaringly obvious problems are there for all to see, but are ignored. But we're in the cup final, so who gives a fuck?

I thought he was our best player today.

Unlucky from Rooney. Need to get a goal. Not been bad on the whole, just lacking the killer ball. The pitch looks good from a distance, but you can see it regularly cutting up as players are just lightly jogging on it. One further reason why hampden is a fuckin disaster.

Aye, but wis he a hun?

Did it work? I wid have thought reducing the cider with butter or some such wid have made for a stickier, more cidery effect. But I've never tried it like. I burnt my tea the nicht so possibly nae one to gie advice.

Cider infused carrots? How did that occur?

Anyone who uses the term "bad hombres" in a leader's debate gets my vote. I'll be disappointed when it's over and cuntface wins.

The thread is about things you'd like to see return, not things you'd like to see that have never existed.

Designed by sick fucks.

I'm mainly a tea and coffee drinker, but take in very few liquids at all. I realised on Sunday that I hadn't drunk anything other than a cup of tea, a coffee and a glass of wine since the Friday which is probably quite bad. My pish was still clear like, but perhaps that isn't a great barometer for me. I try and drink two glasses a day during the week though, so that's about a pint. The problem at places of work is that they often just have thon pishy plastic glasses that aren't worth the bother even filling up so I have a cup of tea instead. I'm a very healthy eater, but I just dinna back it up with the drinking part - although I never have fiizzy drinks or juices like cause they taste like piss. I'm always going for a hose ina, so that doesn't help. I'll attempt to increase my levels to 2 pints a day.

Aye, it's superfluous ones for me. Freaky cunts of things. Birds and kids clothes are full of them, it makes me sick. Dolls though, that's the one. Horrendous things.

Yer right, although I wouldn't have gone even if it was the huns because of the ridiculous kick off time, but I'm probably in the minority. It's certainly not through lack of interest though, I'm really looking forward to the game and gutted that I'm (through my own choice) not going, but I simply can't give them my money for agreeing to such a fucking ridiculous event. It's the equivalent of holding a Shed Seven gig at the O2 where you'd sell about 2,000 tickets. Could you imagine an events organiser anywhere in the world doing something as ludicrous as what they SPFL are doing this weekend? Yet we accept it because it's fitba and we can't have a serious conversation about it.

I'd say that's the case, yes, but it's entirely anecdotal I don't have any figures. What I do know is that when I grew up in the 80s (so nae that long ago) we had several places to go and play football. They were all free and didn't require any organised event, you just turned up and had a kick about whether there were 2 or 10 of you. My home village/town now has about 500-1000 extra houses. They've all been designed in classic UK housing estate style (except I don't think they call them estates - but they are). Self contained areas where the only way in or out is by car, and the streets - and often the pavements - are lined with parked cars as the driveways are only suitable for 1.5 cars or you can't open your doors. Kids are confined to their back gardens, where their parents get pissed off because they keep kicking the ball into the neighbours' gardens. There is originally a green space where kids can play, but it's then run down deliberately or situated in a ridiculous spot so the developer eventually comes back and build more houses on it. Even in the small village I grew up, the new houses will be a drive away from the park for a lot of kids who's parents won't let them go out on their bikes because of the paedophiles. You then get a couple of evenings of highly organised fitba at the local pitches with a game on a Saturday, with the option to send yer kids to the fully-commoditised fitba schools if you can afford it. What used to be free, readily available fun, now has to be paid for. We've taken our spaces and said: "how can this make someone money", rather than design our new town add-ons with a view to integration, enhancing and adding to the existing infrastructure. The irony is that the chairman of the north east's biggest fitba team is responsible for a portion of it.

Aye, totally. To argue with myself and you though, I suppose he probably did get leeway at the start, but he just didn't give the early performances that would have seen him through. A second leeway wind is what's called for!

You winna be disappointed, Curtis nails it like. Where he gets his clips from I've nae idea, but it works on all levels.