yoda-jag

why is baldy kermit worried about whether it suits the big clubs or not? it's clearly nothing to concern himself about what big clubs like us and other top league long established clubs with historys into three figures, are faced with ..... he should stick to worrying about his own wee diddy infant club, and how they are going to pay their bills.

st moaning fans are as pathetic as their panda kingsley > paisley panda jags fans > st moaning fans firhill > new love st or whatever they call it doooooooolannnnn > thompson every jags player > any st moaning player ptfc > smfc

i've been calling for kingsley to have faceoffs with opposing teams mascots since he was born and revealed to the universe. looking forward to this. kingsley will melt that panda in double quick time.

been thinking about league reconstruction and what would give supporters of all fortytwo clubs the most varied and interesting options for avoiding the repetitiveness of playing the same opponents four times a season in league alone, with little change in their opponents season after season, due to the various restrictions and obstacles they all face to progress. i have also considered how to spice up the whole league structure to ensure fair play is achieved but at same time open up and maximise the chances of the top league title being won by another club out with the smelly green arse or the new infant stinky blue one, as well as coming up with an option for tv companies to get all the bile filled sectarian bigotfests they crave. other considerations include promotion and relegation as well as ensuring there is no reduction in overall games in a season by taking account of various cup competition amendments. so here is my solution to ending to numbfest of multiple games per season against same old ..... league of forty two equals fortyone game league season. teams play one another once a season, and home/away fixture is alternated every season. for first season of it, clubs are awarded points based on how they finished the current four tier leagues ..... so premiership champions start new league with one point, runner up two points, all the way down to the (at present playoff winner of bottom league) who would start season with fortytwo points. following seasons follow same formula, of champions start with one point all the way down (and up in points) to thirtyeighth place who get thirty eight points, then the four new clubs promoted start with fortytwo points. 3 points for a win in ninety minutes, 2 points for a win in onetwenty minutes, 1 point apiece if a draw after onetwenty. such a league structure and points system would open up the table and make it last with excitement and intrigue for all clubs supporters right through to end of season, and open up the possibility of a wide variety of potential champions. bottom four in league relegated and replaced with four league winners of regionals. to take account of the slight increase in league games for the current three lower leagues, scrap the irrelevant challenge cup. league cup setup model as i suggested a couple of days ago, scottish cup no replays, finals in november and may respectively. and if this isn't satisfactory to the tv companies, i am quite happy to let the two bum cheeks have a league of their own, where they could travel the world and play in philly, boston, dublin, belfast, rome, tel aviv, tehran, tikrit, baghdad, homs, mosul, kirkut, pyongyang, arctic circle, and wherever else. job done. move aside dudcaster, i'm taking your job.

hmmmm, so as it stands just now, that would be us?

should be a rule or condition in tv contracts that evening tv games must be between clubs no more than fifty miles apart in my view

he's also the longest serving manager in the premiership so in addition to six spinetingling rousing renditions of twelve days of christmas, we have to fit in several recitals of happy victoryday to archie as well into the bulging songbook for saturday? going to be a lot of hoarse jags fans by ten to five.

in complete agreement with every word old lady issy says above on this. football is a team game. that's eleven against eleven. penalties is ultimately five against one for two teams for ten kicks. yes penalties are part of the game, but predominantly their purpose is for when a foul inside the box is made. never been a fan of them to decide a match. nerves, luck, keeper guessing right way to go, amongst plenty other factors, means penalties IS a lottery. particularly over ten kicks. why not do tossing a coin ten times, and giving five supporters of each club the chance to call heads or tails ..... wouldn't be far off being as equally accurate and fair as penalties to decide the outcome of a match.

^^^^^ these. play fifteen teams home and away. split into two eights, equals thirtyseven games. for the split, make the first round of matches at a neutral ground (£15 entry for all in this match), then you've got three home and away games, so complete parity for all clubs and their supporters. with a few tweaks to league cup (beyond what's already announced), we'd instantly have a set up massively more appealing, varied and competitive for players and fans alike. however, any changes to league sizes, should not be implemented when the preceding season has already started. however ..... changing the process of who goes up (or down, or escape it by league size change), and how, midway through a season, is NOT on. sporting integrity please. not corruption which is solely for the purposes of ensuring some new diddy bigot club gets up or to avoid some snake clubs being relegated because they are having a shite season. if dungcaster and other brainless bampots imbeciles who run our game want to make a change midseason, that will be universally welcomed by all supporters, then they would serve scottish football best, by resigning and gtf, back under the rocks they crawled from.

^^^^^ correct which is why i suggested extra time. win a game in ninety ..... three points win a game in onetwenty ..... two points then go to a penalty shootout ..... enter a lottery and possibly only get only one point. seems fairer than dungcasters lazy solution

being mischievous m'lady i was

i like the concept of it, but believe the extra point by means of a penalty shootout is a ill thought out lazy easy option ..... which is why i suggested thirty minutes extra time in event of draw, means teams have thirty minutes to win bonus point properly, and would be much more entertaining that straight to penalties in my opinion.

possibly like that suggestion i do ..... why should euro four be guaranteed a straight bye?

on your first point ..... unless it's mini leagues of four, with one club per league, then it's impossible not to play another team in same mini league no matter what league any club is in. also (if they followed my tweak suggestions) by limiting it to maximum of two clubs from any one league in a mini league, that would remove possibility of three (or four, or five, or (on my preferred number of 6 team mini leagues) even six clubs from same league ..... by limiting it to two maximum, that gives greatest chance of varied opponents for all clubs. on your second point ..... don't get where you get "same 4 teams" outcome? on current proposal, ten team bottom league plus lowland and highland equals twelve, so my suggestion of fifty fifty north south split would mean six teams ..... while my preferred seven group format of six, would mean ten plus four from bottom pot, so seven teams after north south split. also, to further expand on my north south split, it would be a straight fifty fifty split per league ..... based on who is starting in that league every season ..... so with promotion and relegation, there could be geographical shifts in each league each season depending on the makeup of them ..... again varying the possibility of teams in each north south pot. also, with my suggestion of seven leagues of six, it means chances if getting a team in your own league is only twenty per cent ..... that's pretty favourable, no?

hmmmm. just suggested to princess leia, our next spawning should perhaps have the middle names "weir thistle". i'm getting too old for this father lark she said. what a grump she is sometimes.

like trying to turn an oil tanker with dingys powered by broken paddles while up a narrow creek, pleasing to see it is, that the seemingly unaccountable and put downers of our game, have started to listen to the vast majority of scottish football fans i have come across in the recent years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35031970 observations and thoughts ..... so preseason friendlies either become a memory of the past, or they'll start mid to late june. everyone bar four european qualifiers (thirty eight clubs) plus highland and lowland champions is a reasonable proposal for group stages ..... though instead of eight groups of five, where league winners and four best runners up join the euro four in sixteen team knockout, i'd have tweaked it to either the eight winners plus one off playoffs between runners ups (at neutral venues), or my preferred, seven groups of six (thirty eight plus winners and runners up of both lowland and highland), where seven league winners, best three second placed teams, then winners of one off (at neutral venue) playoffs between other four second placed teams, join the euro four in last sixteen ..... reasons for this means a (minimum) extra game for all teams before elimination (or progression) so more revenue for every club, as well as another competitive game before league season starts. whether in the eight leagues of five, or seven leagues of six, i would also like to see gate revenue split fifty fifty after costs ..... and equally the make up of each mini league to feature at least one team from each of the four leagues, and no more than two from the same league ..... in my model of seven leagues of six, the lowland and highland foursome would be added to the fourth tier pot, which would mean two from fourth tier in every mini league, and then one of each from other three tiers, plus one more from any of them ..... this would mean every "wee" club from lower tiers are guaranteed games against bigger opposition (nostalgia of david versus goliath, but not knocked out on back of one (or even two) defeats, with chance to progress to last sixteen more dependent on games versus clubs (for most) nearer their traditional level ..... this method would also minimise the chances of playing many teams in same league and alleviate the "oh no not another game against same old league teams" common complaint. i'd also suggest making the mini leagues regionalised (north and south), to cut down on long distance games (costs to fans and clubs) and potentially create the chance of some local derbies in each mini league, would add further old school spice to the format. the bonus point system ..... yoda likes ..... only tweak would be extra time before penalties lottery (gives the supporters more value for their admission money) ..... makes me wonder, why can't we introduce that into our league system (would help encourage supporters to stay right to end of games, and make season (and patg) tickets (for league) more appealing surely shirley? as for the league winter break of two weeks ..... this being scotland, it's an impossible situation to choose in advance when the two week break should fall, such is the length of bad weather december through to february (and more) and unpredictable severity of it in that large window, so good luck with choosing the optimum two week period. overall ..... least it proves bumkins like dungcaster and regawngettophuk are finally, slowly and possibly begrudgingly, beginning to listen to the supporters, oops customers, of scottish football, oops mean the product these bams have rundown and undersold consistently ..... so, it's a start, hmmmm?.

never saw stv news at six so can't comment (paging libby to thread). tonight's reporting scotland sports section ..... lots of time spent on sevco manager and rumoured fulham target is he staying or going talk, interview with cameras full works ..... and then we had a similar length report on michael ohalloran, rumoured target for the green bigots, and interview with cameras full works with, oh, novembers player of the month ..... and that ladies and gentlemen, was the sum total of tonights sport on reporting scotland. as before, draw your own conclusions and opinions. eta ..... libby quick on the keyboard tonight!

alan archibald awarded manager of the month for november. you can read all about it online with specific articles on the herald, evening times, stv, eurosport, sky sports websites (these are the only ones (barring one exception which i will come to) i have quickly checked). as of right now, you cannot however read a specific article about alan archibald november motm on the bbc website. you can however find and read a specific article about michael ohalloran of st johnstone being novembers potm on the bbc webshite. it is admittedly a lazy journalistic offering, on the bbcs part, but it is a specific article clearly found on their scottish football pages. if you bother to read the article, the last line may interest jags fans. but, with the bbc, we are but a footnote, nothing else. bias? disinterest? apathy? a general dislike of all things ptfc? whatever it is, it is apparent the bbc has some form of issue with ptfc.

for you fixed that we've yet to play sevco fifty eighty eight

well if that's what you're going to do gloomylaw, give yourself a forum holiday for a month after the match.

we'll sit (stand) where we want we'll sit (stand) where we want ignore what the ticket says we'll sit (stand) where we want

battle of the thistles ..... lothian away please failing that, the thistle is mightier than the rose, linlithgow would be another unique away day

gordy seems a smidgeon upset. when killie eventually bin locke (take your time johnson and bowie, let him take you down via the playoffs first), they should hire gordy as their new manager ..... the post match interviews and press conferences would be comedy gold

we've seen it many times before, and today was another day which highlighted what a magnificent player, and indisputable jags legend, kris doolan is ..... never hides, never let's his head drop, his attitude, energy, professionalism and countless other attributes and talents have been discussed and praised numerous times before, and he should be awarded the freedom of firhill. disappointed archie hasn't yet acted on my suggestion of over three months ago

are we allowed to laugh at the not so jolly green diddys, or is that another off limits subject for the self appointed forum police?