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I wonder with clubs using the tickets sold line to explain why the attendance is obviously considerably larger than reality how often that's actually what's happening, or if they're simply fabricating attendances based on nothing to be more appealing to sponsors.
Obviously Friday was busier than usual but Inverness are regularly announcing crowds of 2000+ when there are barely 1000 in there, and I remember a Dunfermline midweek games few years ago when the crowd was announced as well over 4000 when it was probably about half that; even midweek, are there really 2000 season ticket holders all not bothering to attend the same game?
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Obviously the football club can get fucked, especially so while they employ such luminaries as Scot Gardiner and Duncan Ferguson, but I'm not having this slander of Inverness as a place. Excellent pubs, given the choice I'll take a night out in Inverness over Glasgow or Edinburgh any day. It's not quite got the scenery of the Clyde Riviera, but much like Greenock it is objectively a much nicer place than the many hovels in the central belt which have the misfortune to be nowhere near a river or sea.
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Very funny to end up finishing 5th after that, and generally being abysmal for two thirds of the season.
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44 minutes ago, PB1994 said:
Has a team ever finished 9th on 42 points?
We will be well deserved 9th place finishers, if it stays this way, but it seems like a rather high points total.
Not this league obviously, but Stranraer were relegated from the 02/03 Second Division in 9th with 44, while Raith won the league that season with 59.
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Just now, HoBNob said:
Flashscores is saying he got booked twice in the same minute?
Took a blatant dive in the box, correctly booked, then sent off for dissent. Think it was actually a straight red rather than a second booking.
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A team correctly having a stonewall penalty awarded against them and collectively losing the plot. Napier has got every decision spot on there.
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Muirhead should be released for that behaviour.
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We're defending about as well as you'd expect for a team with a centre back partnership of a 39 year old and an abysmal right back, with a central midfielder at right back.
I'm not sure the Sean Crighton - Stefan Milojevic partnership would be any worse than Broadfoot and French have been here. Samuel is predictably absolutely ragdolling the pair of them, then when McKay peels off him Power and Gillespie can't possibly cover the ground left by the those two being in another dimension.
That said, Broadfoot's goal celebration was possibly funny enough to forgive his sins.
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Presumably Blues at right back, with French and Broadfoot centre back, Gillespie and Power sitting. That's going to be brutal, with Quitongo keeping his place ahead of Bearne also a surprise.
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Imrie's not giving away who the players are, but unless he's at it for no apparent reason it sounds like we're struggling to put a team together for tomorrow with injuries.
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For years we've been hearing from free speech absolutists that universities are an essential place for difference of opinion to be tolerated no matter how extreme, and any notion of suppressing speech within them, cancelling speakers at events and things of that ilk, even trigger warnings attached to course material, are indications of a creeping authoritarianism. The supposed left wing cancel culture sweeping student bodies across North America and Europe was going to lead us all to thought policing and totalitarianism like those evil dastardly Chinesez and we only need to look at the Hong Kong protests of 5 years ago to see how that will end with the state cracking down on unacceptable opinions.
Funny how all these free speech warriors - having of course already been absent in defence of academic freedom as the University of Gaza was blown up in a controlled explosion out of sheer malice while Israel targets academics for assassination - are now nowhere to be found as US police act like a private militia brutalising peaceful anti-Israel protests at universities, with arrests, expulsions of students and sackings of staff commonplace. They are acting like an occupying military force, with snipers on roofs of surrounding buildings and celebratory propaganda videos being shared of their attacks on the public.
Meanwhile, their House of Representatives has just voted in favour a bill declaring criticism of Israel an antisemitic offence, as the valiant self-appointed defenders of free speech who want to resist suppression of any views applaud as SWAT teams and the military roll into universities to kick the shit out of everyone they can at gunpoint.
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As for Forbes hoovering up Tory voters come the next election, regardless of how the relationship with Tory MSPs was to go in the meantime, this very much depends who the members of public making Forbes more popular than Swinney are.
It's easy to look at polling showing Forbes as more popular than Swinney overall with the public but less popular among SNP members then conclude that the SNP membership are being too insular and need to look at how to reconnect with the wider public. However if a significant proportion of the poll respondents who've said they prefer Forbes to Swinney are in fact died in the wool Tories, people who've still voted Labour in every election for the last 13 years despite everything or some other variant of hardcore unionist, then they're still people who would rather commit seppuku than vote SNP regardless of who the leader is. They may hate Forbes less than they hate Swinney because they don't associate her as closely with Sturgeon or the Greens and therefore prefer her to be FM, but it doesn't mean they'd vote for her.
Maybe a veer to the right will attract some soft Tories who aren't in that diehard category, but this seems an unlikely route to stemming the tide for the SNP when it could risk driving other voters away. They don’t need to pick up people who've been voting Tory for the last 17 years, they need to get their 2019 & 2021 voters who are drifting to Labour back.
While it's very early days after Yousaf's resignation and we don't even know who's standing yet so any polls need to be taken with an even bigger truckload of salt than usual, the polling breakdown of 2021 SNP voters does suggest Swinney is more popular with them. If that's the case, Forbes and a substantial move to the right of where they were in 2021 is more likely to push those voters further away than reverse the slump.
The idea that those voters are planning to abandon the SNP for Labour come the next two elections because they aren't right wing enough and have been captured by loony left Greens doesn't seem a more plausible explanation than general fatigue with a party who've been in government 17 years, have developed an air of bumbling incompetence through self-inflicted crises such as Matheson's iPad or Yousaf 4D chessing himself out of office, and most significantly are the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation into corruption which has seen their ex-Chief Executive charged, who happens to be married to the former First Minister who has also been arrested in connection with the same investigation.
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On 29/04/2024 at 23:18, Jedi2 said:
But once Kate starts pursuing a low tax, light touch regulation programme, promoting oil and gas, downplaying Environmentalism and Equality, potentially trimming public service budgets...why wouldn't the Tories get on board with that?
She would win the next Holyrood election...hoovering up 'soft' Tory votes, suggesting that Independence is a 'longer process' of needing to persuade enough people with competent/strong govt, and, in addition to the soft Tory vote, retaining most of the SNP's existing share as it will be a 'who else is there to vote for' response
They wouldn't get on board with it because this isn't the 2007-11 parliament, we're in a totally different place. The Tories were happy to work with the SNP on budgets and other legislation then because no one believed there was any prospect of any party ever winning or even getting close to a majority in Holyrood, therefore independence was easily dismissed as a non-issue with only about 30% support among the electorate and seemingly no chance of a pro-independence parliamentary majority. Being a good faith opposition who could extract concessions from a minority government in that context made perfect sense.
The last 13 years have changed the situation entirely and the whole Tory strategy in the years since has been obstruction, blanket opposition, never working with the SNP. They are the Great Satan who must be destroyed, and bad faith opposition has worked as an electoral tactic since 2014 in allowing the Tories to portray themselves as the great defenders of the Union in a situation where the constitution became the most important factor for a huge number of voters, an Ulsterisation the Tories actively strived for and wanted to deepen.
They're already going to slip back to being the third party come the next Holyrood election through a combination of unpopularity from their own legacy of government at Westminster and likely being squeezed out on the list as Labour compete with the SNP in constituencies again, while 10 years on from the referendum voters on both sides of the debate also start to doubt independence remains a live electoral issue which will be impacted by their vote. They're not going to make it even worse for themselves by constructively working with the SNP and handing what remains of the uberstaunch pro-Union vote away to Labour as well, even if the SNP had a reanimated independence supporting Thatcher as leader throwing out a load of other policies they agree with.
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Regan is probably thick enough to think going against the SNP in a confidence vote leading to an imminent election would bring on an Alba landslide, as they sweep up pro-independence constituency votes from the SNP and don't need to rely on list votes.
Whether she's gone rogue or Salmond has lost his mind/become delusional in his arrogance is another matter.
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4 hours ago, ICTChris said:
All this talk of Morton paying big bucks takes me back. The Chris Templeton fee that went up and up every time it was mentioned, I'm sure about a year after he signed people would claim he was about the European record transfer fee.
Believe the actual fee was £80K, which was already hilariously mental spending on a part-time player in the third tier as it was without further embellishment to £200K+ as appeared in some papers. Dundee United paid Plymouth the same fee for Stevie Crawford in the same window, with Crawford being an active Scotland international at the time.
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5 hours ago, btb said:
Morton during the Rae the Elder era.
Since achieving fan ownership (congrats btw) some Morton fans have taken to scrutinizing other clubs finances like reformed addicts.
No one disputes that Morton were paying stupid money throughout the Rae era, but £5K a week is very much [citation needed].
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On 28/04/2024 at 21:04, D'Jaffo said:
Pretty sure this was the state of play at the time of sacking.
I don’t think anyone who actually watches games can say it was a bad decision. Fans saying Bullen could’ve gotten us out of it may have been right but I think they were saying that out of blind hope as there was nothing on the pitch to suggest we were about to turn a corner.
I always believed we would stay up somehow but not with Bullen. Things were too stale and I think a lot of players were in a comfort zone with him and had stopped performing as well as they could have. I can’t see that ever happening with Brown.
Here's the table from Brown's first game in charge onwards.
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Swinney's reputation for technocratic competence seems to mostly come from being a bald centrist who wears glasses rather than anything he's actually done in politics.
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Yousaf's first big f**k up as FM which was entirely of his own making rather than something inherited from Sturgeon was the council tax freeze. Aside from what anyone thinks of it as a policy, the implementation of it was shambolic and was done in a way which unavoidably pissed councils off as much as the policy itself, torching his relationship with COSLA when he'd not long signed a partnership agreement with them that was supposed to reset the relationship. This was made worse when Robison openly admitted that they'd pretty much come up with it on a whim because they needed a headline grabbing policy and hadn't costed it or really thought through the potential consequences at all.
So we come to the final situation which has led to his resignation. It's obviously entirely understandable to want to get ahead of events with the Green membership calling an EGM to vote on the BHA, it makes sense to try to avoid the eventuality of looking weak through the junior partner being the one to end it. That the Greens were doing this certainly makes it fair to point out the petulance of their reaction since, even though their MSP group were all in favour of staying in.
Once again though it seems to be a decision Yousaf has taken on a whim with no thought whatsoever given to the potential consequences. You can surely construct a means of the SNP ditching the agreement which isn't unilaterally deciding to sack them two days after you were publicly talking it up , which would have carried far less risk of the Greens turning against him the way they have. As embarrassing as some of their reactions have been, not foreseeing the possibility that they may not react kindly to this now they're an opposition party again or having a plan for it suggests someone who is genuinely incapable of taking a long term view or seeing the consequences of their actions, which is not exactly a desirable quality in a leader. Just as with the council tax freeze, doing it is one issue but the way he's gone about doing it is simply idiotic.
He's always had a reputation for incompetence arising from previous ministerial posts, but this level of sheer naivety is something else.
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Ben Vorlich (Loch Lomond) today, my first Munro in going on two years so took a lot out of me but was tremendous. No photo could do it justice but the view from the summit was outrageous, seeing as far south as Ailsa Craig with every island in the Firth of Clyde visible, Jura to the west, Mull to the north west and dozens of other peaks to the north and east as well. Definitely won't be letting myself go so long without a proper hike again.
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Having missed the last two meetings between these teams, I'm sure Oakley will be excited for this.
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24 minutes ago, Raith Against The Machine said:
Was Tyler French involved in some sort of madcap bodyswap incident around the time he left Dundee for Morton?
I suspect Tyler French was actually always this shite and became better in the mind of Dundee fans through being out injured while Cammy Kerr was playing.
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Total dead rubber material from two teams who evidently don't give much of a f**k, a largely pointless exercise.
That disallowed goal did look about two yards off, but the linesman waiting until the goal was scored, the referee awarded it and Raith players started complaining to finally put his flag up was some laugh and tells us the officials are paying about as much attention as the teams are.
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🔵🔵 Montrose v The Caley 🔴🔵
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Along with the potential hilarity of Gardyne relegating Inverness, it could also set up Gardyne v Carson for next season. The box office narrative demands it.