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7 minutes ago, A96 said:
Seriously ?..... Leaving aside the question of whether being co-presenter of Off the Ball counts as sports broadcasting.....he's become an unfunny ignorant bore who re-hashes the same anecdotes and opinions on an increasingly tedious basis.
You could have had a golden retriever sitting beside Tam Cowan for the last 20 odd years and it would be heralded as broadcasting royalty in comparison to that balloon.
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Was your family freed from captivity just before you departed for Strathclyde? A more oblivious bunch I can scarcely imagine.
This post from the ‘Holiday in Strathclyde’ thread has always been a highlight for me. It manages to be both humorous and extremely offensive at the same time.
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10 hours ago, Munoz said:
He said something like - don't believe everything you read in the papers.
There’s no way Robinson is going back to Motherwell. It would be a backwards step for Motherwell and they don’t seem to be a club that operates like that. I remember them being linked with Van der Gaag before, who is now assistant to ten Haag at Manchester United, surely he will be in the frame for the job again?
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12 hours ago, Wile E Coyote said:
Macintyre said on OTB today that he interviewed for his post. Fucking hell, what must the rest of the candidates been like
Pat Bonner and Chick Young collect a wage from the BBC, I don’t think it would have been a rigorous interviewing process.
I wonder how much the production team behind the show are taking in wages. There’s a St Mirren fan on Twitter called Douglas McNeil that is apparently a producer for the BBCs sport output in Scotland. He must be doing cartwheels every time pay day comes around each month. How someone could listen to guys like Miller, Bonner and Young week after week and not come to the conclusion that there just might be better people out there is worrying. Jobs for the boys and there isn’t even the slightest attempt to try and hide it.
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14 hours ago, NorthBank said:
McIntyre would start an argument in an empty room. Awful listening. Games just finished as he starts a free-for-all and ignores the the matches just completed. Absolute useless in his job. He doesn't want calm discussion but angry shouting.
I wasn’t particularly fond of Richard Gordon, but he at least managed to bring an air of professionalism to the show. Even with Gordon it sometimes felt like a bit of a rabble, but McIntyre makes it sound like an argument at a pub door.
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Impressed by Nouble yesterday, took his goal well and seems to have a composure with the ball at his feet. I remember Arbroath fans were gutted when he was recalled by Livingston last season, he looks a find.
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6 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
That’s as clear a booking followed closely by a second booking as you’ll ever see. A correct call from the useless bald c**t for once.
The second booking should have happened when he kicked the ball away again. No arguments that the red is deserved, but a good referee would have had the red out straight away, and there would have been no need for the Bradford players over crowding him.
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5 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said:
Can;t see what Madden has done wrong there. Tomlin surely looking to get sent off (a holiday booked?) Three clear bookable offences - two for not retreating and kicking the ball away and one for a blatant dive.
The red card is justified, but why doesn’t he show the second yellow the second that he kicks the ball away for the second time? He walks over showing no intention of showing a second yellow and waits until the Doncaster player gets stood on until producing it. Surely the Bradford player that stood on his foot should be taking a yellow as well. The incident was managed in the incompetent style that Madden is famous for up here.
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On 29/07/2022 at 02:24, Rodhull said:
Yeah, I have high hopes for this as a big fan of the previous show and the books. Wasn't expecting too much with the way the show ended but have been sufficiently hyped by the recent trailers and coverage.
The events of this series are mentioned briefly in the original book series but covered pretty extensively in the separate book Fire and Blood. It's written by Martin in a very different style though, kind of as a non fiction account written well after the fact and maesters are using several separate sources to try and piece together what really happened. It covers all the major events but leaves nearly all the specific details vague or unknown so the people doing the show should still have a lot of creative licence to mould the show as they see fit.
It'll be interesting to see how many series they plan for the show to last. The story covers a pretty long period of time but they could easily wrap it up in a series of two or stretch it out for quite a few depending on how in depth they want to get.
I was contemplating reading Fire and Blood before watching the series but apparently it’s written in the style of a family biography, from the memory of a Targaryen maester who GRRM has said might not have got every detail correct.
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10 hours ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said:
Good to see all our refs are still hopeless
Good to see even the refs that have left the country are still hopeless. Apparently he only booked one of the Doncaster players for a leg breaking challenge in the 6th minute. I’ve not seen the challenge myself so I can’t say wether only a yellow was warranted or not, but going by the outrage on Twitter he’s had an absolute nightmare debut in the EFL.
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I watched the highlights of qualifying earlier and can’t really see how Magnussen blocked Checo’s flying lap, he was pulled over to the left before a corner where Perez would have been taking the racing line as far right as he could go? Seemed like he was just trying to find an excuse for a poor lap? Maybe I’m wrong but he didn’t seem as inconvenienced as he made out.
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5 minutes ago, oaksoft said:
FFS I didn't say it DID exist in the rail industry. I said that IMO, this is the way it could go.
The problem with you and Billy Jean is that you don't fucking listen.
Honestly, what a pair.
You suggested it would be a solution to replace striking workers. I simply explained why it’s an absolutely ridiculous idea that wouldn’t even be considered by anyone with half a brain.
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12 minutes ago, oaksoft said:
I'm not saying I agree with the model.
I'm simply saying that they train and place people to become consultants.
Not one of them will talk about being a Spartan on site.
Do you think Scotrails fleet of trains maintain themselves? Every single night of the week there is maintenance schedules taking place all across Scotland, to keep the millions of passengers who travel on these trains every year safe.
Walk me through how you become a consultant that has the academic and safety qualifications in order to be allowed to work on trains? Go to a local college one night and walk out with an apprenticeship and an HNC? It requires manual work, by people trained over a number of years to be able to carry out the job safely. You just simply don’t get ‘mechanical’ consultants. You might get engineers with a mechanical degree as a consultant, but he’s hardly going to be under trains changing brake pads.
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3 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:10 minutes ago, IrishBhoy said:That sort of system may work for IT companies, but even taking someone at the most basic level of train maintenance, they will have served a 4 year apprenticeship as a mechanical or electrical technician, (rail operators prefer their maintenance workers to be dual trained on both the electrical and mechanical systems), will have at least an HNC in a mechanical or electrical field, as well as an SVQ Level 3. Electricians are required to hold even more qualifications (17th edition, high voltage training etc), and that’s before you even get into the safety aspect that varies from depot to depot, things like trackside awareness, PTS etc. Thats the minimum you would need to even change a brake pad on a train. Train maintenance guys are working beside 25Kv main lines, if you even get within a metre and a half of that kind of voltage it throws you about 20 feet away and you are almost certainly dead. It’s not the kind of job that people would hold those sort of qualifications for and then sit around the house waiting for a phone call. Anyone who has took the time to get trained to that level, will more than likely already be employed in the rail industry. I understand you were only putting a suggestion out there, but there is so many things wrong with trying to implement something like that, that any sensible person could see in an instance that it’s completely unworkable.
Same thing applies with signallers, shunters, drivers. You don’t hold the qualifications to work as a signaller unless you are already working as a signaller. I think some people underestimate just how many people are required in order for trains to run without disruption. Taking on ‘promising school leavers’ isn’t going to cut it im afraid, unless you are happy to travel on a rail network ran by a bunch of 18 year olds.No ICT company I know is going to pay contractor rates to a kid straight out of school with a few weeks at a training agency behind them. I suspect he has seen the Spartans glossy social media platforms on his hours of daily silver surfing.
I will be honest I don’t really know what he’s talking about, as I’ve never heard of a service like that for contractors. It certainly doesn’t exist in the rail industry, for the reasons I’ve explained above, and it would be completely unworkable as a solution for the Government to cover striking workers. Strikes last days or weeks at the most, what is this pool of qualified rail workers doing for the other 50 weeks of the year? Sitting waiting for a phone call for 5 days work, or going out and getting a 2 year contract within the rail industry?
There’s rail contract jobs in London paying £45p/h, 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday. Absolutely no one in their right mind is going to be sitting there in some ‘contractor pool’, waiting for Grant Shapps to give them 2 days work.
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13 minutes ago, oaksoft said:
I might be able to answer that one.
They'll use a body shop which put it's employees through an intensive training program.
Large companies do this already to take advantage of finding cheap programmers for large IT systems. They use a body shop company who take promising school leavers and people without qualifications and/or experience and put them through 12 weeks of intensive training (without pay by the way) before integrating them into the large company teams. They are not employees of the large company. They remain employees of the body shop (sometimes for a fixed number of years) and in that way can be hired and fired en-masse without the large company having to declare it publicly. It's a very successful business model and if it works for IT systems, I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work in the rail industry.
That would be my guess.
And it wouldn't take very long to get to the point where you had a pool of people capable of stepping in at a moment's notice who are not union members.
That sort of system may work for IT companies, but even taking someone at the most basic level of train maintenance, they will have served a 4 year apprenticeship as a mechanical or electrical technician, (rail operators prefer their maintenance workers to be dual trained on both the electrical and mechanical systems), will have at least an HNC in a mechanical or electrical field, as well as an SVQ Level 3. Electricians are required to hold even more qualifications (17th edition, high voltage training etc), and that’s before you even get into the safety aspect that varies from depot to depot, things like trackside awareness, PTS etc. Thats the minimum you would need to even change a brake pad on a train. Train maintenance guys are working beside 25Kv main lines, if you even get within a metre and a half of that kind of voltage it throws you about 20 feet away and you are almost certainly dead. It’s not the kind of job that people would hold those sort of qualifications for and then sit around the house waiting for a phone call. Anyone who has took the time to get trained to that level, will more than likely already be employed in the rail industry. I understand you were only putting a suggestion out there, but there is so many things wrong with trying to implement something like that, that any sensible person could see in an instance that it’s completely unworkable.
Same thing applies with signallers, shunters, drivers. You don’t hold the qualifications to work as a signaller unless you are already working as a signaller. I think some people underestimate just how many people are required in order for trains to run without disruption. Taking on ‘promising school leavers’ isn’t going to cut it im afraid, unless you are happy to travel on a rail network ran by a bunch of 18 year olds.
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14 minutes ago, parsforlife said:
I’d not undertake them, they clearly can’t be trusted, absolutely no danger would I be chancing that they wouldn’t choose that moment to move back across.
I don’t undertake any vehicle bigger than a car, but you’re probably right it’s not the smartest idea. Most of these middle lane drivers are so oblivious to the fact that you drive in the inside lane unless overtaking someone, that I’ve never had anyone try and move over. I genuinely believe some people think the middle lane of a motorway is the ‘no hassle’ lane. Get on the motorway, into the middle as soon as possible, and coast along at whatever speed you like while everyone else manoeuvre around you.
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People travelling along a motorway with not a car to be seen in front of them, and for some reason only known to themselves, they brake. What’s wrong with just lifting your foot off the accelerator if you feel the need to slow down. It’s usually a woman in a Toyota Aygo, who has the seat so far forward her forehead is touching the windscreen.
Another trait that annoys me on motorways is people sauntering along in the middle lane for miles with the inside lane completely empty, and a couple of hundred yards before the junction they want to exit from, they move over. Why not just drive in that inside lane in the first place instead of forcing other drivers to manoeuvre around you when they want to overtake. I don’t even bother to overtake these people on the right hand side, they get undertaken instantly. I know it’s an offence and punishable by way of a dangerous driving charge, but I would be willing to take that just so I could ask the traffic police why they don’t enforce the offence of not driving to the inside when not overtaking another car.
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1 hour ago, craigkillie said:
The BBC gets a live feed directly as far as I know, they don't need to be fucking about with all that stuff.
That would make sense as the games still appeared on Sportscene. What doesn’t make sense is why the pundit on Open All Mics that reported on the Rangers game, would go to great lengths to convince the listener that they weren’t watching live pictures from Ibrox, when they blatantly were. Maybe it was just pettiness on the BBCs part, who knows.
Neither of them come out of the situation looking good. I did find it strange that Rangers statement mentioned Michael Stewart’s apology to Jim Traynor, that particular incident passed me by. What did Michael Stewart do or say to Traynor that required a public apology?
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9 minutes ago, Shuggie_Murray7 said:
I'm a big fan of Grieve. He reminds me somewhat of Danny Mullen, in that he never stops running or chasing down lost causes, likes to get stuck in and isn't afraid of a challenge.
When I watched the Linfield game and seen a deliberate effort from our forwards players to be constantly pressing the centre halves and cutting off passing lanes, it got me excited for the season ahead. Grieve didn’t stop running, and you could see the wing backs pushing high up the pitch and the centre halfves out covering them, so it was a deliberate game plan. I didn’t see the Airdrie or Arbroath games, so don’t know if we pressed with the same intensity in those games?
We played that way at times under Jack Ross in the Championship, where we didn’t give the opposition a minutes peace no matter where they were on the park. It’s an exciting style of football to watch, and if you have an energetic midfield willing to bust a gut to get forward when the ball is turned over it can create 2 on 1s/3 on 2s etc.
Under Goodwin we seemed to allow most teams the space to wander up to the half way line, and would have our centre forward floating about just inside our own half. I’m not criticising the players for that as I’m sure that was Goodwins instruction, he preferred getting Main, Brophy etc. back infront of the ball instead of chasing down defenders. Obviously it’s not a tactic you would employ for every game, but at home against teams that we would expect to be bottom 6 it’s a tactic I would like to see used.
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20 minutes ago, AW saint said:
Main and Ayunga may just be the perfect fit
I quite like the look of Ayunga. He seems to have a bit of composure with the ball at his feet, even when surrounded by defenders. Admittedly I’ve only seen him against Linfield and Edinburgh but he scored 3 goals in those 2 games, and was getting in to the right positions.
Would quite like to see Grieve kick on a bit this year. He’s got the security of the extended contract now, and has shown glimpses of good forward play. He stills lacks that final bit of quality when presented with a goalscoring opportunity, and sometimes plays the wrong pass or tries to hold on to the ball for a split second too long. He does have a habit of getting himself in to the right positions for a tap in though, which is a good trait to have.
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17 minutes ago, joewarkfanclub said:
I take your point to an extent.
However, its not reactionary from most Motherwell fans. Its the culmination of watching 18 months of eye bleedingly bad football and 7 months of rank rotten results.
These 2 games were just the straw that broke the camels back.
Yeah you will know better than me to be fair. I was using reactionary more in the context of the state of Scottish football as a whole, but I accept Motherwell fans haven’t been happy with Alexander or the team for a while now.
One of my work mates is a big Well fan and he’s been saying similar to yourself.
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Does the Serbian league have the same gulf in finances between the top two and the chasing pack? It’s a genuine question because I don’t know.
In Scotland nobody bats an eyelid that two teams spend more money on wages in a year than some top flight teams spend in 10. Celtic spent about £20 million on transfer fees last season (admittedly they did bring in a fair wedge in sales), but teams like Aberdeen and Hearts do their best but realistically they are never going to be anywhere near that level, and with Champions League Group Stage money are getting further away. I think most non-OF fans have came to accept it, but it’s still galling that the media fawn over Rangers or Celtic winning 5 or 6 nothing against a Motherwell or St Mirren without ever mentioning the gulf between the clubs financially, but when Celtic took a pasting off PSG in the Champions League a few years ago the first thing we heard was Celtic can’t compete with them financially. It doesn’t help that the media is full of ex-OF players who are happy to go along with the story that the teams are competing against the OF on anything close to a level playing field, when in reality the difference in finances between St Mirren and the OF is larger than that between Celtic and PSG.
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Four in a Bed can be absolutely comical viewing on a lazy Sunday. 5 episodes on the trot on More4 usually.
Always amazes me that these hotel owners don’t have their rooms in immaculate condition when the other contestants come to visit. If I was a hotel owner showing my business off on national TV, I think the first thing I would do is go out and buy fresh bedding and mattresses. They know the other contestants are going to turn the place upside down to find any dirt or stains, and anyone watching on TV is hardly going to use your hotel if they see pish stained mattresses or discoloured pillows.
Some of the people on it can be extremely petty though. An episode I watched last week had someone find a dead fly stuck inside a window frame, and when it came to scoring the cleanliness they scored them 5/10, which prompted the owner to say ‘Is a fly worth 5?’, which I found very funny.
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On 20/07/2022 at 11:13, DA Baracus said:
Utter, utter, utter shitebags.
Grovelling, bootlicking cowards. Worse, subservient to bigots, and are now bigot apologists (although they've been that 'unofficially' for a while).
It’s quite unbelievable that this is the outcome. A journalist from the BBC, factually reporting sectarian singing from Rangers fans, then banned from future work at Ibrox by the thin skinned mutants in charge of that club, and the outcome is a grovelling apology from the BBC. Anyone who holds out any hope for the culture around sectarianism in Scottish football changing anytime soon can forget it. It’s not going to change during any of our lifetimes, if anything it’s getting worse since the liquidation and subsequent reincarnation of Rangers. There’s a vitriol and aggression that goes along with the perceived injustice that Rangers fans feel they have endured. This climb down from the BBC will only empower them.
It’s funny that the BBC haven’t reported live from Ibrox for a good few years now, including interviews and press conferences, and you would have hardly realised. It was quite obvious that they had one of the Sportsound pundits sitting watching Rangers TV on Hesgoal every second week, saying things like ‘and it’s Morelos who has been brought down just inside the box, and Tavernier is now stepping up to take the penalty…so we’re hearing’. Anyone who pays that license fee needs their head looked at. A national broadcaster that doesn’t rely on commercial income should be providing a service that does its best to cater for everyone. At a rough guess I would say support in Scotland is split 55/45 between OF fans/every other teams fans. The BBCs output doesn’t reflect that.
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The European football level St. Mirren FC 2024/25 thread
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He’s Chief Operating Officer. By all accounts he’s doing an excellent job, and seems to be heavily focused on the community aspect of the club. That’s something that I think Motherwell have done well at for the past few years and continue to do so today, and as similar sized fan owned clubs it seems Lasley is trying to emulate that with St Mirren.
I didn’t know this until he joined St Mirren, but he grew up in Paisley and has family in the town as well. I’ve been very impressed with him any time he’s spoke about the club and the vision he’s got for the future. I think he gained a degree in business management after retiring from playing so it seems this sort of role has been something he’s been aiming at.