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  1. 18 hours ago, wellboy1991 said:

    I have been contemplating putting this out their due to the usual comments that it would get. But I’m going to risk it anyway and take the hit. 

    About 6 months ago, I got a new next door neighbour. Current Well player, from down south. Absolutely lovely guy, just a genuine nice guy. Down to earth and no airs and shits about him.
     

    Have become quite good mates with him and despite my previous attempts he doesn’t usually talk much about the club. Wee bits here and there. Rest of the neighbours are **** and Tim’s so they don’t care who he is . 

    However this week he did say a few things. He came home from training the other day and was out with his dog, I asked ‘hard session today’. He laughed and exact words ‘never a hard session mate’. I looked at him and laughed.

    He then said basically training it’s  an utter shambles, no one has a clue what the f**k is going on. Basically he has seen better organisation at the juniors or as he put it non league teams.
     

    Utterly amateurish with little emphasis on the graft in the game. He genuinely seemed gutted about it all. Hammell is not respected by the players and seemingly his ego is out of control. Big split amongst the players which has resulted in Burrows being approached bye multiple senior players. Burrows is a rabbit in the headlights and doesn’t have a clue what to do.
     

    Kerr is stuck in the middle and can’t bridge the gap with players and managers. However there is a  big split with Kerr over something that happened with Barry Maguire, no clue what. He didn’t elaborate. 
     

    Sounds pretty far fetched until you watch our team and it all makes sense tbh. We are an utterly divided team from top to bottom. Rudderless off and on the pitch.

     

    If all this is true then surely the board are aware of the problem. It is also quite simple to fix.. Get in an experienced manager who can revamp the training and motivate the players. The players must believe on what they are being asked to do. Too many of our players have regressed. It looks like they do not believe in the tactics and what they are being told to do.. There is only one solution change the manager and do it before it is too late.

  2. Did I hear Caldwell right. Did he say, when talking about United being denied a penalty that Kevin Clancy  would be glad that he was unsighted. What does that mean. Is Clancy a Celtic fan. More likely it confirms what many of us believe that referees do not want to give game changing decisions against the Old Firm.  

  3. On 17/09/2021 at 04:07, The_Kincardine said:

    100% this

     

    This is a very strange of game for a Rangers man to highlight.This Was The day my hatred for all things Rangers was confirmed.  Motherwell 2-0 up and all over them then the crowd could not take any more and invaded  the pitch. The game was changed and Rangers eventually won 5-3. No action taken by the League or the SFA. if my club had been involved in something like this I would want it buried and forgotten about. Yet another shameful day in Rangers history. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, LiviLion said:

    Keeper being off his line is irrelevant. There needs to be 2 players between the attacker and the goal; defender on the line was one, so the decision is whether Gallagher was playing Irvine on or not.

    Sportscene showed clearly that Gallagher was a yard beyond the goalscorer. Clearly offside. 

  5. 1 hour ago, craigkillie said:


    It was not a "shocking refereeing howler" by any stretch - it was a really tight decision.

    If your team had lost  a goal like that  you would be shocked.  It was a yard offside but what rankles is the unanswered question. Did the linesman see the Motherwell defender on the line and so gave the goal forgetting that Kelly was out of his goal. 

    Anyway good luck on Monday against the soft penalty eleven.

  6. 41 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said:

    I learned recently that guid hoanest laddie & shroo ball enthusiast John 'Yogi' Hughes nickname comes from another John 'Yogi' Hughes known for his lengthy service to Celtic & being part of the Lisbon Lions squad albeit not taking part in the final.

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    Picture is from his swansong Celtic game against Airdrie on September 25th 1971. Hughes would then move onto Crystal Palace then Sunderland where his career ended due to injury. After playing Hughes had a spell coaching defunct junior team Baillieston then a season at Stranraer & lastly a role as the first ever manager of the SJFA international team. Internationally Hughes collected 8 caps & scored once for Scotland plus 6 appearances & 4 goals for the Scottish League XI.

    If anyone could id the Airdrie players to sate my curiosity that'd be sound.

    I am pretty sure the ground is Love Street and the player is Cammy  Murray of St Mirren 

  7. 52 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

    Top of the terracing looks too low for Cathkin and were the trees there in the late 50s like there are now? Old photos suggest otherwise.  

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    Think we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss East End Park. Can't think of any other Scottish league ground from that era with scope for having trees like that, because usually there isn't higher ground behind the top of the terracing. 

     

    7 hours ago, Raidernation said:


    Look at they beets!

    I’ll bet you never had a broken metatarsal in one of those beauts!

    Pretty sure that's my theatre of dreams named after  the trees - Fir Park. 

  8. Why has the game with St Johnstone been cancelled? Aberdeen must have 11 or 12 players at some level who are covid  free. Youth and reserve  players usually train separated from the first team. Let all these rookies play in the game and punish the players who went out on the town and the club.  Would serve as a warning to others.  We would also see the players who were missing and therefore be able to identify the idiots. 

  9. Has anyone on Sportsound ever tried to explain why 14-10-10-10 was rejected. I'm not  in the know but surely someone could make the following  points

    1 The crumbs that fall after  the big two have taken the bulk of the money will now be divided twelve ways instead  of ten. 

    2 Middle  and lower ranking clubs could find themselves in what  in effect would be an spl b from mid January onwards. Missing out on a third game against bigger clubs would be another financial  hit. 

    3 The chances of relegation would be greater.  Ignoring the playoffs, 2 from 14 is a bigger percentage than 1 from 10 and two from the bottom eight is higher than 1 from a bottom six. 

    A discussion programme should be balanced and explain both sides of the argument.

    I have not heard  anyone say that Hearts action is damaging every club in Scotland and their  claim for 8-10 million is ridiculous.

  10. On 10/04/2020 at 14:05, tamthebam said:

    IIRC Kilbowie was in a bit of a hollow. The road at one end seemed to be higher up than you would have expected.

    I don't remember mounds of earth, Kilbowie was quite a neat stadium with bench seats on the terraces. 

    The Clydebank area was heavily bombed in WW2 and there was a rumour that a bomb crater in the middle of the pitch had been filled in using a wrecked double decker bus. I don't think they found one when the ground was cleared for redevelopment but it was a nice myth.

    The ground where the bus was allegedly buried was Glenhead in nearby Duntocher.  It was where Duntocher Hibs  played.  When they folded it was taken over by Drumchapel Amateurs who then resurrected the Duntocher name for  a few seasons. When Clydebank reformed as a Junior  club they played there before moving to Yoker. 

  11. 15 minutes ago, paul wright scores said:

    Was that the Bo'ness game against Arthurlie?

    Falkirk must have made some money from the junior  cup in those days.  In 1976 Bo'ness played Lanark there.  They gave the crowd a s12000 yet I knew people  who were locked out and couldn't get in. It was absolutely packed.  

  12. I do not understand why the BBC continue to cover Sevco games. The hierarchy at Ibrox refuse to speak to BBC journalists and pundits. We get Billy Dodds or Chick Young holed up in a cupboard reporting on games from Ipox. Then they read out a quote lifted from Sky or BT from SlippyG. It is like the spotty guy in school running after some lassie who ignores him.

    The free publicity they give this horrible institution is an insult to licence payers.

  13. Some comments on St Mirren's newish stadium here, If that is the road we ever go down when and if we move from Fir Park then lets hope we don't have anything like that. The shallow rake of the stand meant that I had no idea what was happening at the other end, St Mirren hit the post but from where I was it could have been a save or a block. I was unaware of any hand balls until I saw the highlights. I  had no notion of how close O'Hara came to score in the second half.  I rarely go to away games now and if that is what is on offer at these new parks I don't see me increasing my attendance. I seem to remember going to Falkirk a few years ago and having a much better view from behind the goals because their stand was steeper. Yet they get criticised for not completing their park. Maybe two steep stands either side rather than four shallow stands is the way to go.  Viewing a game from behind the goal is not for me.

  14. 14 hours ago, kingjoey said:

    That aside you guys were well worth your win yesterday, although we were absolutely awful. And as ever your support conducted themselves impeccably inside and outside the ground. I got chatting to a few walking back up the road yesterday, proper gents as Rangers fans tend do be in my experience. 

    So you think singing about a dead hunger striker and being up to their knees in blood is impeccable behaviour. Songs that were clearly being sung on Sunday and are totally  irrelevant to football. The club that promotes sectarianism in order to increase their revenue so they do nothing about it. And what are the orange training tops all about? Oh wait  a minute I just  worked  it out. 

  15. On 08/12/2019 at 10:00, Hillonearth said:

    I must have been to Moor Park on occasions into double figures over the years and never until yesterday realised the railway line ran so close to the back of it...for some reason the line does a weird loop when approaching Lanark and comes in from the other direction right behind the park.

    There is a disused line even closer to  Moor Park than the current line from Glasgow. It ran out to a station that served the race course.  The remnant of the line can be seen by the dismantled bridge when you enter Lanark from the Biggar side. If you park at Lanark Loch you can walk along the old line and get a good view of the ground. 

  16. I often think if you are a defender at one of the smaller clubs, Well, Killie  St Johnstone  etc then your job is harder than a defender at Celtic. One of the most bizarre call ups recently was the boy Hendry of Celtic. He had played almost every game in a Dundee side getting battered every week, got transferred to Celtic in January and after being in and out of Celtics team got capped. Now Celtic are trying to punt him. With Declan in the side I have taken an interest again on how Scotland get on.

  17. 1 hour ago, Romeo said:

    Just checked through the thread and didn't realise that this was was your 1st post. Nothing about the game, payers,  how it might go, the performance or the result.

    Just came on to your own teams match thread to be angry about opposing fans Jackets.

    Minter.

    Why do you want to discuss the crowd? 

  18. This thread makes depresses me . Celtic fans with their balaclavas to make them look like IRA men and Rangers with their red hand of Ulster flags. There are only  two clubs in Scotland who rely on bigotry to promote themselves. I have not been to Parkhead or Ibrox for 15years and have no intention  of ever going again. I hope we pump them tomorrow but if we lose 8-0 it won't bother me.  These two clubs are irrelevant to me. I have  no interest  in this game unless we win hopefully with goal that should have  been disallowed .

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