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Without going through every single back and forth situation seems to be, rovers engage in shitehousing all season long, Dundee United do it for one game, rovers whine like f**k.
Barrowman has openly said they’ve given it out and need to be willing to take it when given back, why hasn’t that been shown in actions?
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3 minutes ago, Ned Nederlander said:
We're about to be inundated with all sorts of batshit-crazy conspiracy theories aren't we
The ship was suffering from side effects of its covid vaccine and the bridge was designed for the round earth lie.
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27 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:
Really like the options we've got now to change it up.
So do I, but the temptation would to not touch the 11 from Saturday.
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I would say it was a transitional 4/5 vs dundee united.
Against Morton it was very much a back 3. Ok MWH occasional went forward and fisher didn’t but that was mainly due to us being camped in whilst fisher was on
I can be as guilty as anyone else but I think we are too comfortable with tying to force tactics into nice numbers when they are much more flexible than that.
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I tuned in late wanting airdrie to win, but the all too consistent desperation to fly UJ and the ones who don’t not giving a f**k about it and it’s connotations reduces the annoyance to them going behind and reduced the joy to the equaliser.
Despite the anti-Falkirk love between us when they act like this it’s hard to want them to win.
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2 hours ago, North West said:
Morton play a physical way and last game they bullied all over the park, but not yesterday.
Fantastic result yesterday given where we were few weeks ago.
Rovers in the play offs.
Aye, the tone was set early that Morton were going to try the same stuff but the reaction to Oakley leaving one on mehmet was very positive, it was made clear we weren’t going to run away from that kind of stuff and would stand up against it.
There were a few other things tried but we handled it well and I think it left Morton struggling a bit for ideas once we did.
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1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said:
That's absolutely dreadful from the Thistle goalie
I really don’t want to kick into a kid chucked into a cup final but yes, left 95% of the goal open and not even dived to attempt to block the small part she could cover
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29 minutes ago, Stevie Aitken's Love Child said:
Keeper has to be saving that. Thought the same at the time and seeing it back, he just has to adjust his feet and it's a comfortable save.
Aye, the standard of keeper in this division has fallen off a cliff in the last decade or so and that was a poor effort. The header didn't have a lot of power on it but he's not followed its path and stays in the same position before making a 'o shit that's going in' flap at it as it went past him.
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Only been to Barrowlands once but it was an incredibly uncomfortable experience, OK it was a really hot day but I came out of there drenched in sweat from a standing at the back job, far more than I ever have been running around the pit. Also it the bars seemed a bit limited, bigger queues than most venues and nothing obvious that could be accessed whilst still able to see the stage. The band did a great job but I really don't see the value placed on it. Is it the crystal ball? a very pointless feature.
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4 minutes ago, HoBNob said:
A 15 goal a season striker, putting in all the extra stuff that Jak was contributing against United wouldn't be playing at this level very long.
Nisbet is by far the most talented striker we had recently and I'm not sure he was as good as Jak was on Friday in terms of bringing others into play. He was really fucking good at scoring goals tho and that got him his moves.
I don't think some people realise how good a return of 15 goals is at this level, you see people throw it away like its a chipping in number whilst someone else is scoring 30. It isn't.
Almost every single player baring an ageing dobbie who was basically PT on a good FT wage at the club he loved that has scored that many has either moved up with the team they've won promotion with and stayed as an important player or they've got a very good move from it.
I don't think Jak will be happy with two, but if he gets a bit of a run and ends on 5-6 for the season then I don't think that's an unreasonable return for a secondary striker at a club that's mostly struggled.
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10 hours ago, Le Tout P'ti FC said:
Amazing!
This guy has travelled from Braintree to see a game of football and can’t name one of the two teams playing correctly.
Don’t just visit the grounds, count ‘em.
Anyway I’m leaving sunny Birnam now and look forward to seeing Crossgates Primrose shortly.
You get this in all sort of hobbies including travel which I guess groundhopping is a subset of where folk want to boast about how many things they’ve ticked off a list rather than how much they’ve enjoyed the overall experience. Called a mate out on it . He was all about ‘wouldn’t it be great to say you’ve done this?’ Who the f**k cares what anyone else thinks do it cos you want to do it
9 hours ago, aidan-bufc said:Seen the lad who goes by the name "Oldham Groundhopper" was up in the Perth area taking in all/some of the games as well.
I like a bit of groundhopping myself but these guys clearly make a huge effort to see these different grounds and fair play to them.
I expect Oldham ground hopper has started to make a living off it, fair enough he clearly loves it, great enthusiasm and shares his stories well.
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Got away with it but mon to f**k we really need to be smarter and not concede penalties so easily
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9 minutes ago, Snobot said:
It’s like a production line.
It is, and it’s working very well, nothing wrong with along with everything else to be teaching players how to play the ref, something Scotland are terrible at as our penalty against count shows
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Every single place I've been with a high functioning public transport system has been publicly owned/run, I highly doubt that is coincidence.
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Allan or chalmers with otoo or hamilton is absolutely fine and may actually be the best choice especially if we are in control of possesion.
The only combination of our deep lying midfielders that doesn't work is allan and chalmers together.
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It's would be nice to have summers available as he's capable of good moments but I don't think there's anything really to say he must start ahead of any of the other attacking options. If you had to have anyone drop out of the starting 11 last night it would have been him.
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I find in interesting a sale is agreed on condition of planning, does perhaps indicate how confident the buyer is that planning would be granted?
They presumably have a lot more knowledge about to use to prove the site would be suitable? Yet they are happy to pay a premium so they can delicate the process to a football club?
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9 hours ago, capt_oats said:
I'm not sure that is the argument tbh.
The argument as far as I can see is that after several seasons, rightly or wrongly, it's increasingly been viewed as an absolute fucking riddy that we've a top flight league with games being played on the sort of surfaces that you'd see at the local Power League. Now, the Starks Park pitch may be a proverbial bowling green but currently, they're not in the Premiership whereas Killie and Livi are and it's their surfaces that have presumably motivated the lock out.
Whether it's true or not there's a general opinion that players don't like fully artificial surfaces, managers don't like them, fans don't like them and I'd imagine clubs who have prioritised investment on their playing surface to get them to a high standard are generally quite scunnered by others not adopting a similar position.
I mean, both are choices. No one's saying you *have* to spend £1.5m on a nice hybrid pitch just as two specific clubs in the Premiership decided it was worth trading off the quality of their pitch against on the money they'd save by having their 3G.
Killie and Livi both used to have grass pitches, but their going the artificial route presumably wasn't dictated by footballing reasons. I've noticed a couple of posts in this thread talking about how Killie are only reverting to grass because Bowie is putting his hand in his pocket which is fair enough but the rub there is, I guess, if they have a wealthy backer and money isn't an object why aren't they sticking with an upgraded version of the kind of surface they have just now?
Is it because despite all the Lovejoying through this thread there's a general acknowledgement that grass/hybrid surfaces are generally going to be preferable or "better" compared to a fully synthetic/artificial?
I mean, that's not for me to say.
It seems pretty clear there's now a view (presumably with Livi sinking in the way that they are) that for the top league the standard should be that games should not be played on fully synthetic surfaces and chances are they'll be able to implement this without being seen to be penalising any single team (assuming Livi are relegated and neither Raith or Airdrie are promoted).
Is it gatekeeping? Sure you could look at it that way. Should it be a priority? Maybe not. Will this improve Scottish football in any meaningful way? Almost certainly not. Is this being tabled in order to save Aberdeen from relegation? Yes. That's definitely what's happening here.
That said, as things stand, of the top 22 clubs in the country there are only Killie (who AFAIK are replacing their surface imminently), Livi, Airdrie and Raith currently playing on plastic. The rest - a significant majority in anyone's language - are either hybrid or grass.
It begs the question, if the vast majority of clubs in the top two divisions are able to maintain grass pitches is it that unreasonable for that to be a standard for the Premiership?
I guess there's a view that "convenience" and "it's more cost effective" or "our Youth Academy can train on it" isn't really enough of a justification when you're talking about top flight football. Is that particularly fair if you're talking about some of the small clubs with artificial surfaces currently installed? Not really.
However, again, as far as I can tell no one is "banning" artificial surfaces. If you're a team cutting about the Championship. League 1 or League 2 then you can be "maximising income" til your heart's content.
The proposal seems to be that they're just not being allowed in the Premiership and respectfully, if fan owned clubs like Thistle and Morton are able to maintain grass pitches in the Championship then you'd think teams competing at Premiership level should also be able to.
Either way, it's a fair point to mention that if the SPFL are going to get all particular about the quality of surfaces at Premiership level then they should equally be making recommendations on standards being met and maintained on all their grass surfaces.
The word maintain is repeatedly doing a lot of heavy lifting. The number of clubs who have grass pitches well maintained is only a small percentage of those that have grass pitches
4 hours ago, Steve McQueen said:Do they have to be green, always looks fake & washed out. Lets get some different colours going.
By IFAB they do, mostly to appeal to raging da’s about how they look, not that it stops them
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20 minutes ago, patriot1 said:
Why should they be forced to become amateur when they may want to play their players?
Agree with that the only time it will be possible to have proper link up between amateur and pro leagues are when we get rid of amateur status. A player is a player, a club is a club and the financial arrangements between the two(within reason) are up to them, shouldn’t matter what league there in.
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15 minutes ago, The Toun Clock said:
Was on the dreaded dotnet there and noticed there seems to be talk of another meeting happening but again for supporters groups, patrons etc. Not sure why the normal ones where anyone can go have been binned for these hush hush meetings.
From my understanding the meetings with supporters groups are meant to be in addition with the normal open supporters council meetings.
The guys on EEB are normally pretty quick to give updates on discussions at the meetings. Piracy is pretty open about having concerns about the finances and his willingness to raise questions about it
But I do agree that self-selected groups do result in a danger that a true representation of fans feelings doesn’t happen. The last meeting of this type was about the living through true sportsmanship stuff, something that has received far more dissent in public than what was represented in that meeting from what I gather.
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9 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
edwards showing up well isn’t a surprise, he’s had a good season surrounded by shit, Otoo probably the only other contender for player of the season I’d be interested in how they compare, perhaps slightly unfairly on Otoo who’s been punted about in different positions but they largely do similar jobs in being defenders who also get heavily involved with attacks.
I, and I think most pars fans will be very surprised about Comrie showing so poorly, he’s not had his best of seasons but not been terrible, is it your factors? I see you’ve used the same criteria as edwards and whilst they have both played wingback edwards is very much an attacking one and Comrie is more about defensive contributions which is why he’s often deployed at RCB. But even if you’re judging him on RCB it’s as a 3 and it would be completely unfair to compare him to CBs playing in a 4 which he’d never play.
Am I right your/wyscout model still prefers players based on a traditional positions struggling with differing between how distinct some roles in a team can be?
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Just now, da_no_1 said:
Seriously though what the f**k is that all about? They've made a really good job of destroying a toilet block. Someone must have seen these arseholes doing this and just walked away. Did the stewards not hear or see anything either?
People can see it, but they’ll have likely marched in with numbers, there’s not much your normal fan just having a piss can do at that point. They can tell them to not be Fannies but they’ll be ignored, they can tell stewards/police but there’s not much someone minimum wage is going to do about it and the police don’t have the capacity to arrest people in the numbers involved
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The match thread has been pretty universal with pars and rovers fans each condemning the scumbags without much care about what end they sit in. Clearly someone has got loose and needlessly making this a tribal issue. You're not got going to find anyone here thinking that such behavior is acceptable.
34 minutes ago, The Toun Clock said:Ridiculous behaviour from whatever wee fannies have done this. Quite intrigued by the writing on the seats, it looks quite near the front where there was a heavy police/security presence, not sure how they've managed that.
Police are now pretty universally applying the attitude previously only given to OF fans, they will stand and watch crap behaviour and beyond capturing footage they are just wanting to get everyone home and their shift over with. They are completely overwhelmed and are unable to storm into crowds to arrest someone for graffiti.
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I don't mind the friday night games as much as some, but christ its a really disheartening way to end the working week when your struggling.
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Smokies v Pars 30/3/24 (stay safe everyone)
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Recommendations for a post-match meal? looking at bar food mainly.