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Why on earth would any manager sell their best players when they know they'll not have the money to replace them?

If it's only 4 by the end of this game, it will be a miracle.

what an embarrassment.

Extremely underwhelmed

He did get booked for a late studs up challenge on Iniesta i think. Some refs might even have sent him off for that.

Think Spain will win 2-1 or 1-0 and Alonso to score first. That's my bets anyway

Love top but not keen on the shorts or socks!

I think if video technology was to be brought in, it should only be used for determining whether the ball has crossed the line or not. It's the only decision that a referee makes in a game that's totally black or white. The ball is either over the line or not, there's no ambiguity whatsoever. Introducing it to other decisions wouldn't necessarily eradicate errors. So many decisions come down to a referee's interpretation of the situation anyway and how many times do we see arguments raging on for days over a decision when it's been seen from umpteen angles?

Because they actually won a game? Beating the, albeit poor, world champions to boot

Hmmmm, i'm pretty sure wayne bridge isn't scouse

You never have to look very hard for reasons to want them to get pumped. During the build up to this world cup i was beginning to get very indifferent to England's participation. Normally i'd be getting fear sweats already that they might win it, but i'd actually started to think that i wasn't really that bothered. I then listened to Talksport and they were going over the great world cup goals. All the normal england goals got the mention then someone brought up Archie Gemmill's effort. This was of course dismissed as it didn't really count as we didn;t go through. The conversation finished with Gareth Southgate saying, and i quote, "i suppose it was a good goal, but as you say it didn't really matter as thankfully they didn't score enough to go through". If the English broadcasters cannot even begin to show the slightest hint of even wanting Scotland to do well on a radio show broadcast to the whole of the UK, why should i give two flying fecks about them. Needless to say that after that, i was back to wanting them to get pumped at every given opporunity.

Used to take my company car to the anniesland one when i was based there and can have no complaints!

What's to be unsure about? The game at St Andrews will be the same as the QP games at Lesser Hampden. Low key with no formal entry.

The figure i've heard quoted is £17 billion.

Will you be purchasing a ticket for the playoff final? Surely a must see game for a bluebirds fan?

In all honesty, in an independent Scotland i'd be more inclined to vote for the conservative type party. I certainly wouldn't vote for the Scottish Conservative candidate in my constituency. He's not even based in it!

The SNP should keep making the point until they're sick from saying it that voting labour will not guarantee to keep the Tories out of power. Only a vote for the SNP will ultimately make that happen.

But surely the cost of running the youth system is irrelevent to the board as the point i was trying to make is that McCall must be using his playing budget to fund it. Meaning essentially that it's his decision and not the board's as to whether it continues or not. It's no skin off the board's nose whether or not he continues as they're not giving him any extra money to run it. We're seeing the board continually cut his budget, and McCall is making savings by having player coaches, no assistant manager and a smaller first team squad. That suggests to me that he's putting a lot of faith in the youth set up to provide him with a steady stream of players that can take the club forward.

McCall must be spending a good slice of his budget on running this youth set-up. It's good to see that, unlike a lot of managers in the past, he's got the conviction to stick with it and not disband it in order to fund 2 or 3 journeyman pros that would get us 2 or 3 places up in the league table. The youth set up could prove to be invaluable to us in the years to come.

Further to my post above, the following mob are also offering free tv's if England win the world cup. Free TV!!!!

Yeah, i have to agree with this. It's been the lack of goals scored that's cost us this season, not the amount of goals conceded.

One that always sticks in my mind is Kenny Milne's effort against Livingston on the opening day of the season, when Gerry Collins had first taken over. Brilliant goal.

I heard an advert on Talksport last week about an online retailer offering a pretty good deal. If you buy a TV from them before the world cup starts, and England then go on and win the tournament, you get your money back! Pretty much a win-win situation for a Scotsman Edited to add; it's via the Toshiba website. I have a Toshiba LCD TV and it's really good, never had any problems so would highly recommend it. If you buy a Toshiba TV, register it within 7 days and England win the World Cup, you can claim your money back within 21 days

That was my interpretation of the situation. The guy couldn't come back onto the park until the ref or the linesman could check that he'd stopped bleeding. The game went to quite a bit without a stoppage that the ref could get a chance to check him over. I thought Rowser was the MOTM but MacBeth was excellent aand really ran him close. I think Grehan looks to have a good bit of potential, he's decent in the air and links up the play really well, if he can improve his shooting and final ball then i think he'll be a great addition. I think it was fitting for Tuffey to have such a good game in his last appearance. He's been a great player over the last few years and it was good to see him at the top of his game one last time :worshippy:

I'd say the fact that someone can have a go at McCall for being honest in his post match comments, and a match we won to boot, is what's wrong round firhill these days amongst fans. Nitpicking for the sake of it. The guys was being realistic, and it's nothing do do with "getting excuses in early".