scottymagoo
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The Scottish Cup Final (fingers crossed).
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1 hour ago, laukat said:
I've been searching for a positive from today best I came up with was that at least Caldwell can't get rid of any more club legends...
... he'd better not sell Kingsley.
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Sacking a manager with the 3rd best form in the league seems harsh. I don't care if his remit was to get us promotion, the team was utterly honking and had been on a downward trajectory for a year and a half. The remit might as well have been to win every game and beat Celtic 5-0 in the Scottish Cup Final, it was a stupid remit. People saying he should go should be careful what they wish for, Scotland recently sacked (pre-racisty comments) Strachan when we were heading in the right direction because he didn't meet a remit and look how that worked out. Fair enough if we start the season poorly but you don't sack him when he's doing well.
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Regards the Hazard / Sneddon chat, at this stage of the season and in the position we're in the manager has to play whoever he thinks is the most likely to keep us in the league irrespective of which players / clubs development this benefits in the long run. I'm assuming he believes that player is Hazard and that is why he is getting the nod.
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Please just sign a decent striker. No matter the cost, I don't care if we go bust and have to start again in the 4th tier of the women's league next year. It'll be worth it.
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I went to hospitality for a curry buffet night a couple of years ago, paid extra on top of my season ticket and the food was basically rationed so I didn't even get a proper feed. Won't be going back. Piss poor value. I would have been much better just going for a curry in the West End before the match.
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Dumbaya warming up like a fat kid that doesn't like P.E.
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We always make an arse of it when we score first, giving them a goal head start is a masterstroke.
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Depends which Sevco turns up. They had a good result under Murty against Hearts last week but then they had a good result under Pedalo against St Johnstone recently and then lost to Motherwell and drew with Kilmarnock.
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Berti Vogts?
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Sammon played on the left wing so didn't really start in front of Nisbet or Storey (unless you think either of them would also be considered an option here?). Apparently he played here a lot for Kilmarnock last season so it's possible he's been signed as to play both here and as cover up front.
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Just think of all the earth shattering discoveries I would have made in the 11 seconds I wasted reading those farm puns. Don't just feel sorry for me though, it's humanity's loss.
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He’ll just need to spend all the money we got from Cambridge for Azeez to sign some cover. Has it been announced how many millions of pounds it was yet?
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If Lindsay is likely to leave then what value transfer fee are we expecting?
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Youth set ups have age bands and a squad for each band. This is feeding into a senior set up that has only a single squad. From a numbers perspective only a couple of young players are ever likely to make the step up each year. Say a career lasts 10-15 years. If five players made the step up every year then during that time you'd need a squad of 50 to 75 players to sustain this. It's simply not feasible for more than 1 or 2 players to make the step up every couple of years because that's how many the system can cope with.
Edit - Also these players are competing with teams with much bigger resources to spend on youth development who's 'cast off's' will filter down through the system and compete with homegrown players of less succesful set-ups.
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If thye can't change things because the Old Firm can just veto everything then Scottish Football is done for. I don't understand how these people can't see that more of the same will inevitably result in more of the same, i.e. the standard of Scottish football, including the Old Firm, getting progressively worse.
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The teams at the bottom get an absolute pittance anyway. It's a ludicrous argument made by people who know absolutely nothing about football.
ETA: breakdown of how the prize money is distributed. http://stv.tv/sport/...-201516-season/
If you take League 2 out of that you'd have £474,750 to split between 32 teams which if distributed evenly gives each club an £14,836 a year, enough for each club to employ 1 person on minimum wage (but not living wage). Getting Scottish clubs into the latter stages of European competition and the national team qualifying for major tournaments regularly does seem like to a lot to ask of 32 people on that salary. In reality though they'd just give as much of it as they could to Rangers and Celtic.
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I blame the collapse of communism. There are now significantly more countries in UEFA than there were when we were regularly qualifying for tournaments. Where before we had Yugoslavia, USSR and Czech Republic there is now Croatia/Serbia/Slovenia/Russia/Ukraine/Czech Rep/Slovakia who are all better than us plus a host of smaller nations like Macedonia/Bosnia/Lithuania/Estonia who are capable on their day of competing with us. The answer is simple, if we want to see Scotland qualifying for tournaments regularly in future we should be getting right behind that Vladimir Putin fellow.
Also in recent years our players have been rubbish. We gave Kevin Kyle 10 caps FFS!
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I didn't exactly see what Dan did. So I'm generalising when I say that a ref should show considerable tolerance to players remonstrating over an opponent trying to con the referee. Fans turn up to see their team play with passion if nothing else and if officials expect players to just stand back and watch an opponent blatantly cheat then they really don't understand football. They just might know the rules but that's not enough. Besides it's the players living as well. Akin in my mind to crossing a picket line, when you fully expect emotions to run high.
And again generalising but what was the outcome? A faint possibility a penalty would have been awarded and a booking apiece. One each if you like. In fact the chances that the diving wee shit would have picked up a second yellow later in a game is far less than a last line defender. Arguably the cheating side come away better off. As I say I don't know in this specific and it was late in the game anyway but if you know you're up against a passionate opposition that are likely to react there's not much incentive not to have a wee dive.
If a player is guilty of simulation then the opposing player should be allowed to give him a kick commensurate in power with that which it would have taken to actually cause the cheat to fall to the ground in such a manner in the first place. Alternatively the victims of the cheat could be awarded the decision they were attempting to win at the opposite end of the park. I prefer the one where Seabourne gets to run up and boot a Dundee Utd player though.
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One poor result and we have multiple threads of people filling their underpants.
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Still cannae believe Fraser had the ball in their corner with 30 seconds of added time to go and instead of running down the clock he didn't look up and pumped in a hopeful cross to no one allowing Motherwell one last chance to attack.
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Sometimes the balls he chased weren't lost causes until he got to them. Just wasn't good enough for the step up.
He's alright against wee diddy teams like Rangers.
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I used to like Balatoni when he worked hard to earn a living playing in front of a few thousand fans every week with a bottom six club in the West of Scotland but now that he works hard to earn a living playing in front of a few thousand fans every week with a bottom six club in the West of Scotland I hate him and everything he stands for.
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I used to always put Roberto Carlos up front in ISS on the playstation. This will definitely work.
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What if they shut down the season?
in Main Jags forum
Posted · Edited by scottymagoo
I don't want Thistle to get relegated but to stay up off the back of the Coronavirus would be embarrassing. If we get relegated as it stands then it's unfortunate BUT or own fault for being bottom of the league (on points and on average points per game). Ideally we'd get to finish the season but ideally we wouldn't be in the middle of a pandemic and we don't live in an ideal world. We sound like pathetic Sevco Newco Zombie The Rangers 2012 fans greetin about sporting integrity when we're where we are because we've been shite. Bottom line is if we hadn't been honking all season we'd have nothing to worry about.