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Not a bad result for us, annoyed I didn't back the draw at 3/1.
Disappointing results for the nae sayers who have us relegated already.
Maybe next week will please you lads but maybe no.
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I have no opinion for or against plastic pitches, (though there is an active environmental issue against them), but on googling I see the life expectancy is 8 years and the renewal cost is around the £500,000 mark plus the groundsmen wages for maintaining and repairing the pitch over 8 years at a further cost of around £300,000
Considering championship clubs only who employ say 2-3 groundsmen full time would their wages plus maintenance and grass seed exceed the £800,000 over 8 years?
I have noted that the main pitch can be used for training therebye doing away with a further cost of a training pitch but surely using a plastic pitch for training four days a week and then a match day does incur more damage and cost.
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Is the streaming audio only?
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1 hour ago, Alert Mongoose said:
I'm hoping for a positive result and no negatives. Ever ready for Utd to disappoint me again though. Our goals scored column is pretty decent but a lot of those have been farmed against Arbroath. If ICT bring down a decent battery of fans the atmosphere could be electric. Hoping to see one of Tony Watts better performances.
What is it with Tony Watt? I remember when he was a suave looking gadge, now he sometimes looks like a constipated gorilla straining on a stiff shite.
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DU are odds on at 2/5 with us at 5/1 and the draw at 3/1.
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18 hours ago, Central Belt Caley said:
As incredibly wealthy as I am, I’m not paying £25 to watch us get dicked by these Tangerine ruffians
You can never be too rich or too thin.
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I've brought up the problem with plastic pitches a few times over the last few years after reading a couple of articles against them by the environmental brigade. There is a campaign against them due to the plastic composition with the main argument being that plastic from the pitches is getting into the drainage systems.
But what next? A ban on plastic formed seating?
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What a fuckin joke Westminster politics is, a corrupt speaker dressed in frills and garters, a debating chamber which is more like a children's playground with grown people hurling childish insults at each other, committee inquiries which are riddled with lies and liars, a voting system where MPs leave the commons chamber, gather in a hall, and then proceed through a narrow door and be counted so as to define their individual vote.
And then every so often all the ELECTED members have to leave the commons and walk over and stand at the entrance of the UNELECTED Lords chamber to hear the ELECTED governments intended bills being approved read out by an UNELECTED idiot.
The whole shambles belongs in the 17th century.
It is laughable and no wonder the rest of the world laugh at it
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On 25/02/2024 at 14:14, DeeTillEhDeh said:
It's not just the Borders that is like that.
Rural Perthshire is full of people who haven't a bean to rub together voting for the Tories - and it's been like that for generations.
I remember my gran telling me that people in Rattray used to take off their hat when the local lord came past saying "There's the Maister".
There's still a lot of that abhorrent deference by working people in these areas to titled wankers and toffs.
I could never understand how people gave acknowledgement to these titles which in the main are not earned but inherited. I was in Inverary way back and as this little nondescript man passed us in the street I overheard another man address him with," Good Afternoon Your Grace", turned out the grace gadgie was the wee alcoholic Duke of Argyll who probably inherited through a 5th cousin, and anyway these type of people got these titles by all sorts of skulduggery. It's a sad reflection of how the country is embedded in the past.
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2 hours ago, Super Staggie said:
Wilson Robertson?
Wasn't Wilsons boy playing somewhere Mantis.? I remember some talk about it on here
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1 hour ago, Super Staggie said:
Grass, Mitchell and Alan Smart??
Let's not forget super keeper Calder, brickie by trade and a striker destroyer by nature.
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Noticed twitter talk this morning of bringing Butcher back?
I'll nail my colours to the mast and stick with Ferguson come what may.
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On 24/02/2024 at 19:29, Freedom Farter said:
Norway's pension fund is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. Yesterday, it announced it'd divested its entire Israel Bonds holdings. Norway hadn't divested from the Israeli state until yesterday but it had long since been divesting from Israeli private corporations. A major round of divestment came in 2014 following Israel's last bombing of Gaza: https://www.ft.com/content/53d00268-8a89-11e3-ba54-00144feab7de.
Mentioned in that article is how Norway also at the time divested from a London-listed (typical!) Indian mining company. That company was responsible for booting Indian tribes (these folk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adivasi) off their ancestral lands.
When looking through recent Norwegian divestments, this one caught my eye: https://wsrw.org/en/news/norway-excludes-israeli-oil-company-over-western-sahara. An Israeli oil company conducting exploration off the coast of Western Sahara.
That hits upon a pet bug of mine, Trump's Abraham Accords, continued on by Biden under the new name of "normalisation agreements". These were a series of deals between Israel and various Arab governments, all sponsored by USA. The aim was to promote arms and security tech transfers between the governments as well as to compel diplomatic support for each other's rights violations. Sudan and UAE, a great bunch of lads, signed on with Israel and USA, as did Morocco. Official American maps now show Western Sahara as part of Morocco, as do Israeli maps. Making them two of only three nations in the world who officially reject the existence of Western Sahara as an occupied territory, Morocco itself being the third. So that Israeli oil company was paying its exploration licence fee to the Moroccan state rather than to the Sahrawi people who are the actual owners of that maritime zone.
To conclude; that Norway's sovereign wealth funds are able to divest like this shows Norwegian democracy to be particularly nimble and responsive to public will. It also shows Norwegians have an impressive awareness of global events. Or at least, that they've promoted technocrats who do.
A wee BTW on Norway.
The Norwegian state oil company then named Statoil, (now Equinor), had a rep of drilling dusters especially off West Africa but mind you with all their money they could take the losses.
On another tangent, in my lengthy career I only met one Norwegian working overseas off South Africa, mind you he was a dumbfuck when you consider offshore Norway is a two on four off working schedule.
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17 minutes ago, The Mantis said:
Let’s face it, the team that won div 3 in 96-97 with Charlie, Herchie, Stewarty, Noble etc would beat this lot.
If only we had the likes of wee Ian Stewart right now.
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9 minutes ago, Lanky Highlander said:
Was a genuine question to RiG (although it was answered by David Brent). Apologies if it came across as gloating, really wasn't meant to. What do you think lies ahead for Caley?
We'll probably just scrape staying up but on the bright side we will have the local Derbies with County next season to look fwd to.
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A bad week just got a lot worse.
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1 hour ago, TheScarf said:
Onto footballing matters and I was told yesterday by a mate that one of the youth players he knows was playing in the bounce game against Clach the other day and Ferguson’s son was the worst player on the park. Ferguson was sn the stand telling Gardiner all game how good his son is technically. So that sounds really promising for when he signs.
The last thing we need right now is a "technical" player square and back passing, what we do need is a natural flair forward.
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If people will vote Labour in the mistaken belief that Labour will turn things around away from the tory rich benefitting and bring the balance back to the majority then they should prepare themselves to be let down.
And if you want to know how things will go when Labour are in power bear in mind that Starmer has already sided with the tories on the two child cap while in opposition.
And remember how Scottish Labour were quick to jump into bed with the tories during the referendum campaign.
Plus voting for a London based party will ensure the wealth will stay in the south of England.
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Keir Hardie one of the Labour Party founders would be shocked at what the present Labour Party has turned into.
Hardie in Parliament spoke once on how great the wealth of the nation had become but instead of the wealth bringing comfort to the masses it had instead brought increased burdens to the masses.
Sound familiar?
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Nobody expected this scoreline so far so well done Dunfermline.
Pitch is in a bit of a state though, looks as if there had been a rodeo on it last night.
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2 minutes ago, Pete the Jakey said:
Never staked our clubs future against a get rich quick scheme though.
Your club is nothing without Roy McGregor.
And all of Scottish Football knows it.
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Trump has declared that he will stop all military support for Ukraine. As of now this has been a one way street financially for all countries supporting Ukraine so this statement by Trump is purely based on money as after the second World War Americans enjoyed their golden years in the 1950s all down to the likes of our Lend Lease agreement reaping millions for them.
I'm not sure how much South Korea pays the US annually for their military presence but it will be plenty, and Japan pays 4.4 Billion Dollars annually for the US military.
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7 hours ago, Adamski said:
I had an encounter with the Queen and Prince Philip when I was about 15. Even as a committed republican it’s not one I’m particularly proud of.
They were visiting the town I grew up in, arriving in the back of an open top car. I happened to be at the right place at the right time to be standing at the side of the road as they entered the town, without anyone else standing particularly close.
As they passed they stood up and gave me a smile and a wave. I just sort of scowled back and gave them a little nod of my head as if to say ‘what is it?’ All a bit petulant and teenage, but they sat back down looking quite disappointed.
With all the turmoil presently around the royals it may well be that you will have witnessed the last of the monarchy before it's demise.
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53 minutes ago, Supercaleyman94 said:
Worry about your own club you're a Morton fan presumably from Greenock why do you care so much about Inverness? We don't want your pennies worth. We've tried our best to back the club anyway we can. It's not our fault that the board & now the Highland Council have shafted us big time.
I wouldn't wish this uncertainty on any club or their fans even if a couple of fans on P&B pissed me off so much that I'm still raging about it years later.
Nobody replies to VT, he's bad news, best stick him on ignore as most do.
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DUFC v ICT
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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So Watt is on for game in 90 minutes for a 1-1 draw against the second bottom league team at Tannadice and you're wankfastic for you're future.
Do you ever wonder why Celtic fecked him off.