MacDonald Jardine
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27 minutes ago, Otis Blue said:
True, from the perspective of a Hearts fan (I get this being from originally a Gorgie-based family). However, with a larger league you'd also have larger not-quite-so-diddy clubs like Dundee, Dunfermline, Partick or Falkirk being more of a consistent feature in the top league (instead of being perennial yo-yos as now) - as well as giving the odd semi-decent diddy clubs like Inverness, Raith, Morton, Ayr and QOS their days in the sun now and then. If you shut down the opportunity to progress for the "have-nots" then you create a very sterile and stagnant pond, which is basically where we are heading now.
I do get that too. It's striking a balance between meaningful games and reasonable opportunities for teams to progress.
One of the notable features of the last few years is the fall off in crowds for teams like Dunfermline and Partick.
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15 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
It's not even necessarily about which level you're club is operating at
Amongst Hearts Fans, for example, the ones who go home and away seem to be more likely to complain about a league where we play each other up to four times than the bulk of us who really only see each opponent twice.
I suspect this pattern exists elsewhere
I suspect the novelty of seeing the likes of Arbroath, Raith or even QOS once or twice a season instead of games against Hibs or Aberdeen would soon wear off.
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39 minutes ago, Otis Blue said:
It's fine, I knew you were ... the fitba should never be taken too seriously ...
Absolutely, these things are very subjective and the view from upstairs is always going to be different from the view from the basement.
I get all the arguments about 10 team leagues avoiding many meaningless games. I'm just saying that having watched them for plenty of years now, playing the same teams over and over again is just tedious in the extreme, and I think that its maybe because old gits like me remember the larger leagues with more variety and 2 games per season against each club. But I get that my view is just one view amongst many - and their certainly isn't a consensus amongst us diddy clubs on this point.
Our big problem is that with well over >50% of the attending/viewing public being OF, Doncaster is never in a million years going to listen to any other views.
I started going when we had the two leagues.
It didn't help we were shite at the time but bar a cup run the season was over by January when we sat somewhere between 7th and 10th.
I hated the Premier League when it meant relegation (3 times) but it did mean the season lasted a season, apart from 80/81 when we were all but down in January.
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14 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said:
On kickback it’s Robbie’s fault for missing out on 3rd place.
I'm not sure why that's funny.
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8 hours ago, kingjoey said:
You're not of the opinion that Hearts should have simply beaten Dundee? You'd rather blame St Mirren? After all these years, that is so sad.
That's not what I said is it?
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3 hours ago, kingjoey said:
You'll have to explain that.
I'm sure I don’t really.
Their performance that day for a then decent team was a disgrace.
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10 minutes ago, Flybhoy said:
Staying on the theme of old pictures of current grounds barely recognisable from the present here is an old image of Tynecastle, I'm guessing from the 1960's or thereabouts.
That's the way I remember it when I started going in the 70s.
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3 hours ago, VincentGuerin said:
I don't really understand the mentality of moaning about VAR or refs in the media.
Outwith the OF, no club in Scotland is a big enough deal that the coach can pressure refs through the media. So, you just look like a fud doing it. Yet, they all give it a go at some point. Why do they think it works?
It's kind of like how coaches spend the whole game in the fourth official's ear. Why? He can't do anything.
It's like coaches all just see each other on tv doing things and think they all have to do them.
It may not have a direct effect on any single decision but do it often enough and doubts may begin to creep in.
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19 hours ago, kingjoey said:
I'm interested in his comeback to this. " It was St Mirren's fault."
Of course that wasn't.
Their performance against Celtic was though.
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1 minute ago, Frank Grimes said:
You want to peak at the thread on Kickback on by the subject
Apparently the only reason we were successful in the 1980’s was because we had really good players and our manager was Alex Ferguson
They might be onto something
I'm sure they are but the fact is you were lucky.
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9 minutes ago, Don exotic said:
I’m glad you educated him. He’s started contradicting himself after claiming they had more head to head trophies.
Right enough.
Compared to Hearts, Aberdeen are serial winners.
FFS.
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21 hours ago, StellarHibee said:
Because some of them behave the same way?
In what way?
Hearts fans are no worse than others and better than some.
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On 25/03/2023 at 13:35, Specky Ginger said:
Sir Richard Staite.
Knighted for services to education (rector of Beeslack High School, Penicuik) and sport (scoring for Raith Rovers in a Scottish Cup quarter-final).
He was Depute Head at my high school before he went to Beeslack.
Decent guy and although we knew he'd played professionally he never talked about it.
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10 hours ago, Flybhoy said:
Folk around my age will, when they hear of Jim Leighton will probably instantly recall his amusing nuance of falling on his arse most of the time he launched a goal kick into the opposition half.
He was a great keeper who couldn't handle crosses but was protected by Miller and McLeish at Aberdeen.
I always thought he was hung out to dry by his central defenders at Manchester United.
He didn't cope with the change in the back pass rule well.
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5 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
The stuff on education is nonsense - the issues go way back more than 7 years - to the time of McConnell.
It doesn't matter who politically is in charge of education when we have the same failed education "experts" directing the policy - we won't have success. The continued chasing after whatever fad idea of the moment is (often imported from abroad) instead of concentrating on getting the basics right.
I am genuinely glad I'll be retiring in the next 4 years because it won't change while we have the same people playing education buzzword bingo.
Right.
So we vote for a government and it doesn't matter who because no party could deal with the shitshow anyway?
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14 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
You mean that the BBC looked for an opinion that fitted their narrative.
Maybe but he's a credible source.
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8 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
I find it hard to believe that any neutral court could find the Westminster grounds for blocking this bill "reasonable".
Section 35..
I suspect they'll be using paragraph b.
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19 hours ago, Craig fae the Vale said:
Excellent show from Volbeat at the Hydro tonight. Made even more impressive by the fact that singer Michael Paulsen had a horrible cold. He was out on his feet by the end, but put in an incredible performance regardless. Spectacular production, a band fully embracing the size of the arenas they play.
Excellent support from Skindred, incredibly Benji looks the exact same as the first time I saw them back in 2002!
Opened by Napalm Death, who aren't really my thing, but was fun to finally see them.
Really good gig.
The only thing was one of these fuckin balloons spilled my pint.
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7 hours ago, Carl Cort's Hamstring said:
I know this chat is focused on the issues in Scotland, but I thought I'd through in my tuppence worth from the perspective of a teacher in England.
@Monkey Tennis post above echoes a lot of my thoughts. I disagree with the idea that teachers are "very well paid." The job is highly skilled, demanding and requires a degree (and often a post-grad). Put in that context, I think the pay is alright. We're not on the breadline, but I also work with quite a few people who could earn ( or have previously earned) a lot more in other professions.
I decided against strike action, and felt that I couldn't in good conscience vote for it, although I will support my union when the ballot inevitably comes out in favour of striking. The UK government's offer of 5% for experienced teachers (slightly more for new staff) is already unfunded and schools will have to make cuts elsewhere to pay for it. An 11% rise would almost certainly lead to redundancies amongst support staff, many of whom are already struggling as it is.
It's fair to say that teachers often exist in a bubble and, as MT mentioned, you'll hear people on £40k+ in the staffroom talk about pay in a way that is frankly insulting to our support staff, who are on not much more than minimum wage. On the other hand, the job is far more demanding than most people realise. I'm a full time class teacher and a core subject leader in a primary school, and it is impossible to do both jobs properly within my working hours to the standard that I need to. The pay I get for that is absolutely not in line with the amount of responsibility and pressure involved.
This is a really good post.
It's nice to see a bit of perspective.
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2 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
Who?
Where?
It's a new claim on me.
Within my work.
I'm not going to name them or the employer.
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1 minute ago, scottsdad said:
Where was this post?
All i can see from that past day or so is you making this claim over and over again, and @Monkey Tennis asking you what the source of this information is. You then repeat the claim.
If I missed a post somewhere, my bad.
But wherever you look (e.g. here) it mentions the annual salary of teachers. No wee asterix. In fact (and I did see this a few pages back):
Where you are getting yourself confused is this the statement that teachers get paid 40 days per year annual leave, but are away from schools for longer than this. Days when the schools are closed are not unpaid leave. We have this at university also - buildings closed days at Christmas and Easter which do not count towards annual leave but are, nevertheless, paid days off.
I'd agree entirely about this.
However, some teachers (not on this thread) repeat the mantra they aren't paid for the school holiday periods.
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3 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:4 hours ago, virginton said:M8, the EIS is a sectional union devoted to giving certain education staff a privileged deal separate from the plebs. When was the last time that the teaching unions joined any radical campaign for collective change?
Spare me the workers of the world bullshit then, because you're not getting a 10% hike at the second time of asking.I'd be surprised if Inverclyde job losses were anything but voluntary as most (not sure if it's all) Scottish LAs are currently working under a "no compulsory redundancy" agreement.
I'm not sure about Inverclyde but it's certainly not all.
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32 minutes ago, scottsdad said:
You are making a clear point about teachers only working10.5 months per year. It is a simplistic reduction of the role of a teacher.
I have been reading the thread, and find some of the takes on here wild. Teachers are very well paid, and get massive holidays? In the minds of some on here maybe, not in the reality of actual teachers.
By reality you mean the minds of teachers
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4 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:
Is that actually happening though?
I can categorically state that it's not the "general feeling of most teachers". In fact I've not once heard it mentioned outside this thread.
It may not be the general feeling but I've heard it on more than one occasion.
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How do you solve a problem like the Scottish Premiership?
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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I haven't studied it in detail but I remember core supports of plus 5000 and larger turnouts for big games.
The capacity of Rugby Park was optimistic when it was redeveloped but Killie regularly had 10000 plus at that time.
They don't now.