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Not until I told them about it. The staff at the club are great, but everything about their online presence makes them and us work hard to get any results - exactly the opposite of what online functions should be doing. I keep forgetting to count how many clicks it takes to purchase, say, virtual halftime draw tickets, but it's certainly way more than it would take to place a bet on the result of the game, and probably more than to buy the club.

Does anyone know if this goal will ever be revealed again other than by paying extra for Jagzone? (I resent paying more because streaming fails and the club thinks that my payment for a season ticket in April isn't enough. Despite the claim of videos on the app, none has been posted.)

Sorted that for you.

You people need to develop psychic powers like me: once the stream cut out, I just knew there would be a goal. (Fortunately, though, it was to us.)

That's always a problem for bimedia production. Often, it goes the other way, and habitual TV reporters keep filling up space with their own garbage and 'jokes' instead of keeping repeating the score and positions of players and the ball.

Streaming very average to useless for me: for about 5 minutes after Spittal hit the post, the feed dropped altogether, and I missed the 3rd goal. Occasional dropouts after that persuaded me to change the VPN connection, but it made little difference. There were little coloured stacks of blocks moving around, and for much of the game even the score numbers were illegible. I know it's a difficult time for the club, but this isn't much of a compensation for the price of a season ticket. The picture quality was noticeably inferior to that of QoS, although the camera work was better (not too many closeups). Oh, and the feed cut out altogether just after the final whistle. (I have fibre to the box, which AFAIK is as fast as you can get through the telephone network, i.e. without going for cable into the house.)

Apart from any other issues, the disciplinary one seems to be players creating a rod for the team's backs. Bannigan can barely tackle without conceding a free kick, and Graham was obviously irate long before he got himself sent off. This isn't a new problem, but officials will have noted it, and even if the team committed no fouls to the end of the season, the players would never be given the benefit of any doubt.

The club's whole online presence needs a review. Various links go to external sites which look similar, clicking on a button labelled "Back" takes you forward in time, the home page doesn't display the latest score or result and actually getting anything done takes so many clicks that it's easier to pick up the phone and speak to someone, because the people working there are more efficient than what should be an easier, cheaper process online.

That sets up school classes to be super-spreaders, as the majority attending them (the pupils) will either be asymptomatic or show symptoms that can easily be mistaken for cold symptoms.

Doesn't the common feature of recent disappointments in management lie elsewhere?

Ugh!

On the good side: good beer (Bishops Finger) available, with pork scratchings. It's warm, and the sun isn't blinding. A good quality pie is on in the oven.

More attempts on goal from Queen's Park, although they don't have as much possession. Several of our players look well off the pace. Passing is poor. Slowing down the game is part of Bannigan's game, and it isn't suitable here - more pace getting forward is needed. Rudden isn't fit. We still have a problem with constant fouling.

Thanks, Jimmy. I did the same and it worked.

My browsers are always up to date, and although I usually use Firefox, I opted for Chrome, which seems the stablest one just now. The suggestion of contacting support just before a game is, frankly, idiotic. I'll follow the BBC text, which is at least reliable.

I got in but at 14:54 it cut out with an error message saying : "This live event has ended." By and large, the club seems to find it difficult to do anything online, and people keep saying that phoning up gets results. Time to review the whole online setup (an outdated interface, multiple clicks to fulfil simple tasks, etc.). There's also a warning not to refresh the page, or it won't be reconnected. What a useless setup!

Paid in April: silence since. I've just sent a mail to ask whether they've clocked the payment.

There's another benefit to Jagzone than watching games online! Who knew? I just assumed they were the same: the details of how they get more money from us aren't really my interest. I just want to watch football now and again when I've paid for it.

Thanks, but the Jagzone logon hasn't functioned for me either - neither as a season ticket holder (which the club promised would be made accessible) nor as a new signup to the free offer. I suspect that the club has some design and/or database issues. At any rate, they didn't sniff at my early payment for a season ticket, but they seem to be reluctant to provide a service - really not a good look for a service provider, especially at this time.

It's never allowed me to log on in the first place (I eventually gave up on the unsuccessful attempts to log on), nor does it show up on YouTube: " "Video unavailable "This video is private." I seem to spend much of my life these days trying to get around other people's online hurdles, as if designing with users in mind is some kind of unattainable mystery. My football club seems to set out to make me face the same.

At least one vaccine is totally novel and unproven technology (although if it works, it will be cheaper to produce). No effective vaccination strategy has been developed for any coronavirus, which include some of the most economically damaging viruses there are (colds and flus). There is increasing evidence that immunity to the novel coronavirus disappears over time. Humanity may, in any case, face more new viruses, for example as the tundra in Siberia melts or because warzones act as incubators. If so, measures to stop infection could become the norm - which brings us back to the point of returning to stadiums. IMHO, Firhill would be relatively easy to adapt, as it's large and doesn't usually have large numbers of spectators closely packed together. The awkward points of toilets and access could be adapted safely. Other stadiums don't usually have such open spaces, though. Would rules about attendance be determined according to the average stadium, rather than each being judged on its merits? We've seen this for rules about countries, instead of regions, and about all homes, instead of house parties.

This is such a common auto, er, "correction" that perhaps we should make use of it and insist that all new signings have to give a rendering of a song on signing.

You seem to have misspelt "smear" there.

Probably running out of players, at least who can be contacted to sign a ball at a safe distance!