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Hope Aero nutted him tbh.

A business encouraging more people to consume their product? Imagine that.

Are there any figures on this? I'm not doubting it's true, would just be interested to see it myself and can't be fucked digging out everyone's wage bill individually.

Obviously Hartley will be looking to improve the squad, but to say he'll definitely be at St Mirren because PH didn't fancy him at Dundee is complete conjecture on your part. Fair enough if you've made an enquiry, but I'd surprised if we moved on a, supposedly, key player to a team in our league.

Based on what? Even if he's still under-performing, I think it'd be a foolish move for us to let Loy move to a team in the same division when we know he's capable of doing a job at this level.

Fair enough. I didn't have an issue with it, because the correct decision was reached and that's what's important.

1-0 Napoli and probably deserved. Bit of debate about whether the ref had blown his whistle for offside and was therefore allowed to use VAR to double-check, but correct decision based on the replay.

SSN had some magazine editor on yesterday explaining why Peru were above England in the FIFA rankings. His answer was that they'd played 18 games in WC qualifying whereas England had only played 10 plus friendlies. Completely ignoring that 1) England's ranking is also based on Euro 2016 qualifiers + tournament which have the same weighting as SA qualifiers + Copa America and 2) Peru have had results against Brazil, Argentina x2, Colombia and Uruguay in the past 18 months.

It's also the last time we won on the opening day of the season. 10 years FS

And it didn't cost them c£70m

Somebody closer to the club (perhaps BPM) will know more, but it doesn't seem like there are any moves to disband ours at present. Perhaps we're just hoping this shambles doesn't actually come to fruition.

Kidd next please.

I'm not sure about all the details of Brave (is anyone?), but that would be an issue. Was just suggesting that our ability to attract players may not be impacted too much.

Not a Scottish one, but I heard the commentator in the Croatia game saying they'd be 'nipping across the border' for the World Cup next summer

I think the worry for some is that the development league is potentially being done away with and the 8 elite teams will be playing each other in a closed shop (the rationale is that we need the best against the best to produce better players). Our youth teams would presumably be playing amongst other clubs out-with the elite, so the standard may not be as good. As you say, we still have attractive selling points to young players, so hopefully that can mitigate any drop in quality. We may not be able to give them the most competitive youth games, but there's a clear path to the first team if they're good enough.

We'll be in the 2nd tier of academies and logic would suggest that we'll miss out on the top talent to the 8 elite teams. I'd imagine that's roughly how it works already (Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Hibs etc. being the most attractive clubs for youngsters), so it remains to be seen how much worse off we'll be if/when the plans are actually implemented.

That's not really a punishment tbh.

Taxi drivers are always a reliable source of facts IMO.

If only that were true.

Maybe cause they cigared their way to 2nd ahead of his beloved Rangers and routinely dish out a bodying to his current team.

Since we're talking pens...

A bit of Pirlo appreciation? Count me in

Complete novice to all this, but wondering if anyone can point in the direction of streams for 3PM Premier League games (I've got Sky & BT already).

Think he's only had 2 starts in the Premiership this season. Stats are better expressed per minute or per 90 and he's scored or assisted every 156 minutes at this level which isn't terrible. Tbh, I'm more pleased that we've got a manager who's willing to make use of the loan market rather than complain at others who do.

But Paddy Power's Facebook page put that 'the floor is lava' video up that one time, so all of Scottish football is automatically shite all the time.