Duck snort Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 Chris Sutton has been tweeting his thoughts about all the teams today. Says Cerny will need to be good playing behind an inexperienced defence. I've pointed out to him that while the first choice back 4 are young they have nearly 250 Premier league games between them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 Chris Sutton has been tweeting his thoughts about all the teams today. Says Cerny will need to be good playing behind an inexperienced defence. I've pointed out to him that while the first choice back 4 are young they have nearly 250 Premier league games between them! I'm just absolutely amazed that Chris Sutton can write. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyprusjag Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 I can confirm that Pat Bonner is a very nice guy ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 I can confirm that Pat Bonner is a very nice guy ! But we can all confirm that he is thick as pig shit@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinny Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 I like him as well and think he's a decent anchor man. The one thing tho' that really gets on my goat about Richard Gordon is the sheer regularity he "sells" the so called excitement angle of the various leagues. He's forever harping on about how close this or that division is. How only a few points separate top from bottom, from being involved in a promotion play off spot to being in the relegation zone. That's because we have such small inane claustrophobic leagues, Richard. League models that virtually no other country has or would ever want. I realise that adding a bit of perceived excitement is natural to a broadcaster and could be even argued as part of his job. It's just the year on year overkill that riles me. I don't think the league structure affects the range of points totals significantly. A bigger league would of course be more competitive though because, except for being more likely to have outliers with there being more data points, there will be more teams within the same range of points totals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 Archie dishes out a bit of subtle telt to Bonner http://m.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/14663649.Partick_Thistle_boss_Alan_Archibald_fires_back_at_pundit_Pat_Bonner_after_relegation_prediction/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 Another gem from the publicly funded broadcaster - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36953491 :puke: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClydebankJag Posted August 5, 2016 Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 STV predict a better season for us http://stv.tv/sport/football/1362903-discover-the-stv-sport-team-s-predictions-for-2016-17-spfl-season/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivad Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Laziest prediction comes from last week's Sunday Times. Just bring in Rangers at 2nd, then move all the teams below them down one place from last season. So Thistle will be tenth. It's unlikely to be like this in practice. Since Thistle were promoted, one of the bottom two places has been occupied by a team that finished in the previous season's top six. Hibs started their season by being thrashed by Malmo in the Europa Cup, before ending it by losing to Hamilton in the playoffs. Alarm bells started ringing for Motherwell when they were beaten by an Icelandic team in the Europa Cup, with only an easy tie in the playoffs keeping them up in the end. Last season, Dundee United went straight down, after being title contenders in the early part of the previous season. Trouble ahead for Hearts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickthedog Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Stuart Cosgrove on Off the Ball this morning was lamenting that St Johnstone had lost "all twelve" points to Thistle last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 Ho hum ........................ latest gem from the license fee: Ref 'has made a mistake' Hearts 1-1 Celtic Posted at 14:53 Former Celtic keeper Pat Bonner on Radio Scotland: "I didn't think that was a penalty at all. I thought Kieran Tierney pulled out of it just as Walker was going to strike it. I think the ref has made a mistake there." :puke: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 Ho hum ........................ latest gem from the license fee: Ref 'has made a mistake' Hearts 1-1 Celtic Posted at 14:53 Former Celtic keeper Pat Bonner on Radio Scotland: "I didn't think that was a penalty at all. I thought Kieran Tierney pulled out of it just as Walker was going to strike it. I think the ref has made a mistake there." :puke: Not sure what your point is here. If that had been given as a penalty against us there would have been meltdown on here, and quite rightly so too. It was a shocking decision, and there is no getting away from it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 BR Without a doubt it was a soft penalty but how many soft penalties are given against Celtic in a season compared to most other clubs? and how many other clubs have a cheer-leader on the radio questioning every contentious decision against their team? Of course there would have been meltdown on this site had such a decision been given against us but it would have passed on the Licence Fee web-site without even a murmur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 BR Without a doubt it was a soft penalty but how many soft penalties are given against Celtic in a season compared to most other clubs? and how many other clubs have a cheer-leader on the radio questioning every contentious decision against their team? Of course there would have been meltdown on this site had such a decision been given against us but it would have passed on the Licence Fee web-site without even a murmur. It wasn't a soft penalty it was a non-penalty, let's be honest and clear about it. As far as the BBC are concerned, I refuse to get stressed about them. We are but a mosquito on their sunny Sunday afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfaelivi Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Yeah! The other notable comparison this weekend is that Waghorn's injury was news bulletin stuff and our Liam's never got a mention anywhere and arguably his trouble could cost us a whole lot more than the problem with the Rangers forward. We are tiny and inconsequential yet inhabiting the same league though you would hardly know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 The best way of answering the 'Old' Firm nonsense is to remind them which Glasgow team is currently highest in the league Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-R Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Our game on Sportscene last as usual and no Championship coverage probably because a certain team from Govan no longer plays in that division. Load of rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Peebles Tackle Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 (edited) Not a big deal, but on Sportsound there was comment / interviews from every match on Saturday after the games, apart from ours... Wee Chic obviously had to scuttle off to the BBC to appear on Off The Ball (again)... Couldn't really care less, but I did used to like leaving Firhill, getting in my Dad's car after a (rare) victory & soaking up the glory. Nowadays they basically say 'oh, and Partick Thistle won too. That injury for Waghorn though, could derail Rangers title challenge Willie?' Load of drivel - thank God for the club's excellent commentary for us living in foreign lands. Edited August 8, 2016 by Gary Peebles Tackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graemei Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 I don't even watch Sportscene anymore, stopped last season after it was constant pish like 1-1 draws getting 10 minutes of footage when our game had more goals and been more entertaining. Enjoying the club highlights, far better than any pish Sportscene would televise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 The other notable comparison this weekend is that Waghorn's injury was news bulletin stuff and our Liam's never got a mention anywhere and arguably his trouble could cost us a whole lot more than the problem with the Rangers forward. To be fair if it had been Lindsay that scored our club's first ever goal in the top division we might have had more coverage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 I thought it was decent coverage of our game and some positive comments afterwards. I usually record it and watch the next day - so it doesn't matter where we are in the running order.I don't usually bother with the other games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky jag Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 I'm a huge NFL fan, and you should see the pundits on that sport. They know the 53 man rosters almost encyclopaedically for all 32 teams, can tell u the 3rd choice quarterback or back up punter for every team, really thorough in depth analysis. They watch all the games on game rewind during the week, can recall specific passages of play from 8 weeks ago and notice trends and tactical decisions, by comparison the punditry on offer for our game is amateurish, and that's probably me being generous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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