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26 minutes ago, Sarto Mutiny said:
I went to see a game between Luton and Wolves there about 20 years ago, and the seat I booked did not exist. I had something like seat G2, and the row of seating started at number 3. A steward told me to sit in the aisle, then half an hour later another steward bollocked me for blocking the aisle.
In summary, f**k Luton
To be fair they've clearly taken your issues on board and are trying to build a brand new stadium
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On 18/02/2024 at 08:25, RandomGuy. said:
He was never good enough to go any higher than he did, IMO. Physically he was miles off it and technically he got more hype than he deserved because he was a waster and people started dreaming up potential that wasnt there.
A top flight career of hundreds of games for a middle of the road team, then a brief unspectacular spell at a club higher than that, with his career dwindling down to lower league mediocrity, is about right for him.
O'Connor was the bigger waste of bigger talent, and a far sadder tale, to me.
It feels as if Riordan's lack of professionalism was part of his appeal.
He didn't appear to be trying which to some audiences would make him seem cooler and fit into the "maverick genius" archetype that everyone has a weakness for and Hibs fans seem daft for
I have a theory that there's a cultural difference between the Hearts and Hibs support which means that relatively speaking we are a bit quicker to forgive a lack of ability and they're a bit quicker to forgive a perceived lack of effort.3 -
16 hours ago, PauloPerth said:
The most Dundee boy ever. An utter slaver.
Does he have a jetpack?
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2 hours ago, Galajambo said:
they were saying on Saturday it was his 6th booking and he misses the Celtic game now, please tell me they got it wrong.
It's 5 according to TransferMarkt who are generally reliable on this kind of thing
- 13 Aug 2024: Kilmarnock (H), 30
- 17 Oct 2024: Hibs (H), 5
- 09 Dec 2024: Aberdeen (A),90+6
- 02 Jan 2024: Livingston (A),45+4
- 17 Feb 2024: Motherwell (H), 23
Lawrence Shankland - Stats 23/24 | Transfermarkt
He also had 3 yellow cards in our 4 Europa the Conference League games
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6 hours ago, the jambo-rocker said:
I'm ready to be delusional for a couple weeks aye.
I'm researching next season's Champions League format already
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Kilmanock's draw at Parkhead meant St Johnstone's title dream survived till this morning
They'll be crying into their beer tonight in Perth after two late penalties sealed a three nil win for Rangers which not only ends St Johnstone's title charge but means they can't even take second place
Motherwell can still catch Celtic on Goal Difference but they can no longer catch Rangers so their search for a second league title goes into it's 93rd year. The League is now an eight horse raceHearts need one more point to secure top 6 status
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12 hours ago, welldaft said:
In some parallel universe ....
By parallel universe you presumably mean 3rd of September last year
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16 minutes ago, ropy said:
It looked like a lunge, the clip didn’t show any follow through. I think (sometimes) the ref gets criticised for giving a decision the way he sees it. VAR doesn’t help him here. It happens, inconsequential in the end.
Inconsequential on the day
Although it is his 5th yellow of the season so there’s probably going to be a ban at some point1 -
21 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
Three whole posts during the "box office" fixture between Man City and Chelsea. Greatest league in the world though.
Palmer looked class in the highlights. Rodri crying about the referee will always be funny. Pep's performative protestations were pissing me off.
Sorry I was getting drunk after watching real football
But it was on in the background while we were deconstructing Calem Niuuwenhof’s Hearts career
But it should suffice to say that Chelsea being a total wild card who could take points off anybody but can also lose heavily to just about anybody is a great addition to the TV format
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4 hours ago, JamieThomas said:
Joint best form team in Europe along with Inter. Who we'd shag bandy.
All the more reason to get behind Atletico Madrid
They’ve already put Real Madrid in the large folder labelled “worse derby record than the JTs” where they belong
they can put Inter’s undefeated streak to bed on Tuesday
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5 minutes ago, Stevie Kirk said:
Sadly our sights are set a lot lower than catching Dundee this season. Keeping Ross county at arms length will do us and we can reset after that
You’ve got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream then how you gonna have a dream come true
On the other hand we’re now stuck between the implausible dream of closing an 11 point gap on Celtic and the utter nightmare of blowing a 14 point lead over Killie
Wish us luck
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Thank you Motherwell you were perfect guests
you; turned up made it a serious contest of it but weren’t quite good enough to actually deny us the 3 points . That’s what you want from a home fixture
I suspect that you haven’t got enough time left to catch Dundee in the top 6 but good luck trying.
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8 hours ago, Gorgie greatness said:
Monday night FFS this had Friday night all over it!
Timothy should have been Monday as they have a bye to the semi
That would be a bit too awkward for Buckie CSC
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5 hours ago, DC92 said:
I assume they're referencing this one:
- VAR should have recommended an on-field review for a potential red card for Kilmarnock's Will Dennis. Decision should have been red card. (Kilmarnock v Hearts, 2 Dec)
So we were beneficiaries of VAR screwing up once and on the wrong end three times. Four instances in not that many games still seems a lot
Kilmarnock have had 3 VAR errors in their favour (Penalty against Rangers;Red Card against Hearts;Red Card against Aberdeen) and none against which obviously means there's a sinister Ayrshire Squirrel worshipping cult pulling the strings (or maybe they've just been lucky)
Hibs and St Mirren don't feature on the list at all so their fans probably think VAR is finally working really well
Arguably only Rangers had more than 4 mistakes on that list
Two where they can feel aggrieved: Penalty against Kilmarnock;Red Card against Dundee
Two where they should consider themselves fortunate: Penalty against Livingston;Penalty against Dundee
And the old firm game where the two mistakes essentially cancelled each other out so that's either four, five or six in total depending on how you count that0 -
2 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said:
Cup quarter final on a Monday night is just madness. Should not be happening.
Bollocks to that
Only silver lining is that we've both made it into the last five of the tournament1 -
5 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
Simultaneously cringeworthy and hilarious given every existing line is geographic - or named for a female monarch?
Most likely the committee wanted to name all 6 for social / political causes... hence Windrush, Suffragettes, Mildmay (the hospital Princess Diana visited) and Lionesses... but suffered a crisis of overconfidence so swerved for Weavers - which makes a kind of sense - and biscuit taking Liberty "to reference the historical independence of the people of the borough of Havering".
So fiercely separatist are the citizens of a borough nobody's ever heard of (seemingly Romford is the principal town) they abandoned for Essex their status as a liberty way back in 1888-1892; while the noble borough itself originatesmillennia agocenturies agofrom 1965.
Perhaps:
Telephone Line in honour of Edinburgh-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell
Fault Line in honour of Hutton's Unconformity in Holyrood Park
Ben Line in honour of the Leith shipping company
Thin Red Line in honour of the redcoats of Edinburgh Castle
Forward Line in honour of the Famous Five
Washing Line in honour of the working women of the drying greens
Coke Line in honour of the film Trainspotting
Toe the Line in honour of politicians in the City Chambers and Scottish Parliament
Stay in Line in honour of the queues for the busesCymbe line : in honour of the city’s theatrical history
Trampo line: in honour of the more bouncy members of the city’s vagrant community
Made line : en honneur de temps perdu
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Given that by the end of the season 4 of us will have had 30 diddyship fixtures and 6 of us will have 32 are final placings on total points , points per game or do we call it at the split after 27 games
I can see arguments for all three but it’s best to have these things straightened out in advance
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2 hours ago, Chippyminton said:
Trainline obviously assumed that you'd forgotten to mention your wheelchair, your bicycle, your false leg (the other one, without the dodgy ankle), your Sinclair C5, the forklift for your vast luggage pile, the fact that you're blind, the fact that you suffer from Siderodromophobia (fear of trains) - and that you're a Japanese person who can't read any English signs............
........... and the fact that you're a Hearts supporter. Since I'm feeling sporting and conciliatory today (along with the fact that you have to suffer the horror of spending more than 30 seconds in Glasgow) - I'll allow it.
I wish you a great night. Best wishes from Greenock.
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51 minutes ago, Stevie Aitken's Love Child said:
Last Edinburgh train out of Queen Street is at 23.45 on a Friday night. Even if you got the 22.34 train at Cartsdyke, you'd have over 20 minutes to get from Central to Queen Street.
Thanks
That gets in to Central at 23:18 giving me 27 minutes
The Journey Planner I used (Trainline) was obviously being far, far too cautious with the transfer time from Central to Queen Street.
It must have been working on the assumption I had lots of luggage, a dodgy ankle, a stroppy toddler with me and had never been to glasgow before so didn't know where I was going
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1 hour ago, Squirrelhumper said:
We;re the Satruday lunchtime so i reckon you are nailed on for the Friday night,
Last train to Edinburgh leaves at 9:30
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46 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
As I understand it, Dublin offered. Why or what they might be looking for in return is another question.
On reflection The Ulster GAA would also cover the 3 counties that were partitioned off so if the other provinces have got money out of the Republics coffer then taxpaying GAA aficionados in Cavan, Moneghan and Donegal could justifiably ask why their province isn't getting any.
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10 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
Casement Park: 'Considerable amount' still needed for project says Gordon Lyons - BBC News
Redevelopment of Casement Park could require £200m to complete work by 2027The Stormont minister in charge of the redevelopment of Casement Park stadium in west Belfast has said a "considerable" amount of money still needs to be found for the project to go ahead.
Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said funding remained a "big difficulty". The stadium must be completed by the summer of 2027, at the latest. This is in order to host games in the Euro 2028 soccer tournament. Although it will be primarily for GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) games, the 34,500-capacity stadium is one of 10 venues in the UK and Ireland due to host matches in the Euros.
The original cost of the Casement Park redevelopment was £77.5m, but that was a decade ago. In an interview with BBC News NI, it was put to the minister that the cost could now exceed £200m. He said: "The number isn't finalised but even if it was … for commercial reasons I can't go into the details of what that might be.
The GAA has said it is willing to pay at least £15m, with other funding coming from Stormont, plus the British and Irish governments. Mr Lyons said he did not yet have clarity on how much the London and Dublin governments are willing to contribute but said the amounts would be "key".
Asked if he was confident that Casement Park could be rebuilt in time for Euro 2028, Mr Lyons said that is "entirely dependent upon the funding envelope being made available".
So the GAA are looking to not just shake down London for Money but Dublin as well?
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On 09/02/2024 at 18:20, tongue_tied_danny said:
I'd love to see the enhanced games.
Athletes running 100m in 5 seconds before exploding. Javelins flying out of the stadium and taking out low flying aircraft.
Make it happen.
Why restrict it to performance enhancing drugs though
Zharnel Hughes may be able to run close to 9.8 seconds but how would he do after 6 pints of Guinness
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19 hours ago, A Diamond For Me said:
No complaints about that, I think 1-4 was a pretty fair score. We'd have got beaten anyway if we tried to park the bus, so I'd rather see them have a go and create some chances, and our passing game was pretty good overall. Hearts were just a much better team, the speed they played at was something we couldn't really handle and the pass to set up the move for their first goal superb. The gap between them and St Johnstone is pretty vast on the evidence of the Cup games (and, obviously, the league table).
I thought we gave a decent account of ourselves, took a good goal and obviously hit the bar, but didn't create too much else that would worry Gordon. The only thing of note we did in the second half was that low ball in that he took well. I was a bit surprised at how sloppy Hearts' were at the back, especially in the first half there were a number of passes that went straight to Airdrie players or to big gaps in the middle of nowhere, but the difference was that Hearts could punish our mistakes and we couldn't punish theirs. Championship teams won't generally punish those - hence our pretty good defensive record of late - but a team with quality like Shankland's obviously will.
Obviously a disappointment to lose a game, especially when you're on good form, but there are positives to take from it, and it'll be a good learning experience for our players, especially the younger ones. If we as a club or they as individuals want to play at a higher level, that's the kind of play you need to be able to handle.
It was good to have a big crowd in, and to see players of the quality of Shankland and Gordon - and Lembikisa, whom I'd not seen before but was excellent for them down the right - at New Broomfield. You want to see the best, you want your players to get experience playing the best, you want big games and decent gate money more often and that's what we earned by beating St Johnstone.
All the best to Hearts for the rest of the competition.That's roughly how I felt after we played Fiorentina
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Scottish Football's Top Cult Heroes
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Jose Quitongo isn’t just a Hearts cult hero we share him with so many other lucky clubs