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22 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
I’m planning to impose a 14 day self-isolation order on myself at the first sign of a sniffle. Hopefully when a couple of St Mirren games are on so I don’t need to go. Thinking of getting my supplies in early, and setting up my coronavirus panic room in a spare bedroom. Hankies, tablets, bottles of water. Beer, crisps, chunky Kit Kats. PS4, spare handset, Gran Turismo Sport. iPad, Pornhub, X Hamster.... see youse’ in a fortnight.
So just the usual "working from home" then.
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On 26/02/2020 at 15:11, accies1874 said:
We've had under 30 wins from our last 142 league matches (this season so far + the three prior to that), haven't won back-to-back league games in what'll end up being over two years, haven't avoided a relegation battle or finished above 10th since our first season in the Premiership, have set a record-low points total for avoiding the relegation play-off, and haven't put together any decent cup run.
I think this point is important. From about 2006 - 2014, we survived by the skin of our teeth in the SPL/Premiership and must have lost (or not won) more league games than any senior team in Scotland and England in that time. It became a turgid shit-fest. The only thing worth clinging to were a couple of "must win" away games at Falkirk and Motherwell; which were great, but just a couple of games. The other real positive in that time, though, was that being in the top league meant we were good enough to go on some cup runs, culminating in the disaster of 2010 followed by the redemption of 2013.
Clubs like us are never going to win the top league - cups are our only hope of tangible success ("top 6" isn't something I'll remember for the rest of my life) . However to be good enough to win a cup, we really need to be in the top league. After 40 plus years of this pish, I've come to the conclusion that it is better to cycle between the leagues, win some (2nd tier) championships and, hopefully get to the odd cup final/semi-final, maybe even win it, once or twice in a lifetime, rather than sit hopelessly 9th/10th the Premiership year on year on year.
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On 19/02/2020 at 07:21, MJC said:
No doubt we'll win against St.Mirren next Tuesday in the lesser game but right now I don't give a f**k, I'm done with it.
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1 hour ago, houston_bud said:
Folk were outraged that Livi were charging £12 to get in, I remember it because it was also highlighted in the fanzine SQ. So it's more than doubled in 20 years, albeit we are an a division higher.
You would expect about a doubling every 20 years just due to inflation, so it is not that far off. However, to put it another way, it is quite understandable that my fellow buddies remain as outraged now as they were 20 years ago.
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15 minutes ago, George Parr said:
Wait, UEFA aren't defined as a Major Events Organisation?
wtaf
If by some chance, Engerland. win this thing over the summer, I trust that the BBC will remind us all that they have not won a "Major Event"
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23 hours ago, Coventry Saint said:
You guys have still got a Wimpy? Fucking hell. The 2000s are going to be a blast, by the way. All goes a bit tits up from about 2008, but bet your house on Greece to win Euro 2004 and you'll be golden.
Hmmmm. I remember Ross County in the early 2000s. Both of us in the league below, one of their "fans" on here threatening to lob tins of spam at us all the way back down the A9. Or is my memory playing tricks again?
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What it says is that if we get two injured/suspended CBs, then the manager will be at least as comfortable using (Paul) McGinn as a makeshift or else using (Nick) McAllister or McBrearty than using Baird. As such, Baird needs to go out on loan and show JG what he can (or can't) do.
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2 hours ago, LargsTON said:
Tbh I dont know if him and St Sid are even alive anymore.
I think they both still post on B and W Army, but under different names. The Captain is back on here after a long absence as Jeremiah Cole. Having a good go, for old times sake, on our Sevco match thread this week.
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2 minutes ago, Sheep62 said:
As much as I would have loved you to get it against THEM, it kind of evens out the one not given against you in your last home game
Yeh, these things even out. Four penalties given in the game at Ibrox last year balanced out a little by one not given today.
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45 minutes ago, Insaintee said:
If we win by four then we go second.
If we win by 11 we go top - for a couple of hours or so at least.
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10 hours ago, thomas said:
I had a dream that we drew this game 1-1, I also couldn't get to work to laugh at the Rangers supporters that had told me how they were going to pump us. If anyone on here is into analysing dreams feel free to let me know what that means, for now though I'm going to the bookies to stick a fiver on a score draw.
If I understand "Media Dreams Expert" Ian Wallace correctly, this is a classic, quite common dream (dream number 17). The first part (1-1) means you are a balanced individual, comfortable with the ebb and flow, ying and yang of 21st century life in the West of Scotland. On a more practical note, it means that, remarkably, Sevco are going to miss three penalties again. The second part probably means that you live up a mountain somewhere on the Cockbridge to Tomintoul road and its going to snow heavily on Sunday evening.
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Typical of the authorities to fix it so that Celtic had to play in two cup competitions on the same evening. Little wonder that they lost in both.
Didn’t happen to Rangers I see. It’s a clear conspiracy.
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1 hour ago, djchapsticks said:
Compared to where we were a few weeks ago, this probable squad for Sunday is night and day.
Possibly swap Mullen in for Obika and Magennis for McAllister due to sharpness on both parts. But yeah, very decent indeed.
If that entire first 11 got injured or suspended but everyone else was ok, we could still field an 11 of:
Lyness, McPherson, Baird, McAllister (N), Erhahon, McGinn, Magennis, Djorkaeff, Kellerman (or Breadner), Mullen, Cooke.
Add an experienced defender who can play anywhere across the back, and I reckon we are nearly there. When does the league cup start?
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2 hours ago, djchapsticks said:
Andreu is by no description I've ever seen, a striker.
He's an attacking mid at very best.
Agreed, but a club like ours can't have both. When he was good (at Hamilton first time) his role and style was compared to that of Cesc Fabrigas and, in fairness, he scored a fair few goals. We could never play him with two strikers as well, unless we were chasing a late equaliser/consolation goal or else playing guff like EK Thistle, Edinburgh City, Albion Rovers or Morton.
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17 hours ago, djchapsticks said:
I get what you are saying but we had 4 on the books almost constantly last season.
Cooke, Mullen, NBM, Jackson
Then replaced NBM with Nazon
Most squads will go with 4 strikers on their books at this level, I feel. If you go with 3 and lose one you're in a bit of bother.
We are going with 4 - Mullen, Andreu, Obiku and Cooke.
It is just that we've lost Cooke for the season already, Andreu stopped scoring in 2017, Obiku hasn't arrived yet and Mullen only scores against teams from Dundee.
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Whatever the strategy, you'd assume we'd have the full set of players we want fully bedded in by the 14th of September (more than 6 weeks from now). We will only have played 4 league games by then.
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First three games are against teams better than us. The "easiest" is the first against Hibs but it is away so we are still big underdogs. These three teams are better than us now and would still be better than us if we'd loaded the team with mediocrity just to get the job done. We might or might not pick up some points or even a win from these, but against the odds either way.
The first game to really target is the away game against Livingston exactly a month from now. If, by then, we have bedded in a few of the better targets we've been aiming for, or else acquired some newly available targets who have run out of options when the English window closes next week, then we will be in a much better place than if we'd just signed bodies to make up the numbers. From everything I'm hearing and reading - that is the plan. Let's see if it works.
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21 minutes ago, Mordecai said:32 minutes ago, Fraser Fyvie said:Only what I've heard mate, he has ambitions to play European football for a big club and knows the potential is there at Hibs.
I'm sure that deep down all players harbour ambitions of playing in 2 qualifying rounds of the Europa League.
Are Hibs hoping to be better than Killie then?
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Last season was a 3 horse race. We decided to turn up in a pantomime horse outfit with a donkey leading us round the paddock and, no surprise, we finished last, despite quickly swapping the donkey for someone that happened to be passing by on their way home. Somewhat inexplicably, the wonderful city of Dundee bailed us out. Twice.
This season looks like a 4 horse race, but I'm not ruling out the fakes or even Killie joining in for a laugh. Despite our performances to date, we've got the core of a decent squad and a promising manager. Now we need to build it into a team through acquisitions, loans, development and management.
It's July ffs. The time to even begin to start worrying is at least 6 months away.
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Been excellent value this thread, but all good things...……………..
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3 hours ago, sergie's no1 fan said:
No doubt if we had signed 5 players before Goodwin was appointed the same folk on twitter would be moaning that the new manager didn't get to pick his own players and Gus would be getting it in the neck.
The same folk were badgering the club to clear up the OK situation.
Pre season and even pre pre season is a nightmare. Fans are bored. We are also very needy. Sometimes you have got to have a bit of patience and let the professionals do their job.
I get that GS might not be the most popular but its concerning how many always turn on him, even still. Who do we trust, a lifelong fan who is running the club or an Irish guy who done well keeping us up but went back to his old vacancy that was available for 2 months.
Thank god the football is almost back.This thread ffs. SN1F sums it up in one word- “needy”.
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5 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
What is your opinion?
I reckon they’d have stuck with the idea of a promising manager from the lower leagues. The Clyde manager, for example. Or the young guy at Airdrie.
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10 hours ago, djchapsticks said:
Is there any word on Muzek?
He was offered new terms along with Gary Mac who was training yesterday but no-one seems to be saying anything about whether Mateo has accepted, rejected or is even still in the building.
As in, Matteo "don't take away the" Muzek?
…………………..I'll get my kazoo.
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20 hours ago, Girth said:
Wasn’t it Hull before? He’s slipping down the leagues!Nothing new there
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Is this weekend the last match we get to go to this season?
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Got to feel for Liverpool fans this morning. 31 years and counting since any or them will have actually seen them win an English league title.