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21 hours ago, Mr.Bojangles said:
Watched Robertson playing for Liverpool just now. I think the problem is the Scotland players don't trust each other. I remember years back my favourite ice hockey team had an amazing attack, a good defence and a shockingly bad goaltender. They would win a lot of games in the early part of the season, but when it came to the crunch they would stop attacking because they were worried what would happen if they lost the puck. I think there's a lot of that issue with Scotland even during one match. Against Russia and Belgium they started great, but as soon as the opponent started attacking they fell to bits.
This seems like a good insight to me. A do think there is also a lack of leadership on the field. Robbo can't carry the team on his own and he's not a snarler. We don't have any strong personalities in that team.
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Gorgeous shithousery from McCall. Beautiful stuff.
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4 minutes ago, theoriginalhedge said:
If he did that then he shouldn't be officiating as that is just incompetence.
Fair. I'd be beeling about that if I was a lichtie.
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1 minute ago, Monkey Tennis said:
What difference does the guy in the middle make?
The linesman simply got it wrong.
The guy in the middle looks marginally off. Maybe the linesman sees him as offside and raises the flag. As I said in my post, I didn't see it and I don't know how soon the flag went up. I know the ball isn't played to the man in the middle, but he isn't far enough away from the play to be deemed inactive.
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2 hours ago, lichtie23 said:
Iv circled the offside scorerThe guy in the middle looks offside to me. His heel is behind the defender's arse. I appreciate that the ball wasn't played to him, but how early did the flag go up? I haven't watched the game tbf.
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10 hours ago, Kuro said:
I've thought for a while Tierney could do a great job as a defensive midfielder. Could see him in there one day, but we need him at RB more just now.
Aye it would take a ballsy manager to stick him in there (the howls from the TA and the numpties in the media would be deafening). I thought he was superb at centre half against the Dutch at Pittodrie, so you could be right.
I personally think we need Armstrong in there, never mind how much he plays for his club. He wants to take responsibility and will come short to take the ball, before driving forward with it. I didn't see anyone doing that against Cyprus or Russia (didn't make it down for the Belgium game) and it was infuriating. He's also got the leadership that guys like McGregor and McGinn (who both disappeared after 20mins v Russia) lack.
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What we lacked in this game (and the Russia game) was any sort of leadership on the field. No snarling angry b*****d like Barry Ferguson or Scott Brown. In the Russia game we had the entire team shite themselves after going a goal up, with nobody cajoling and encouraging, or leading by any sort of example. Robbo is a smashing player, but there's limited influence you can have on the game from left back.
The entire midfield was pretty rudderless.
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2 hours ago, Antiochas III said:
He must win the Playoffs. There is no ifs and buts.
If he continues to pick the same players because they're "big names" or play for "big clubs" and they continue to fail like they have for previous managers then there is no one else to blame but Clark
Who else should he pick? And what "big names" are you talking about?
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14 hours ago, Kuro said:
Aye, and your Mrs was just giving your best friend a shoulder to cry on. She was sucking him off mate open your eyes.
Sorry to hear about your marriage Pep. You should talk to someone.
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The fact is that this is a clip with no context applied. I have no idea of the relationship between these two. He could be hazing Fleck for all we know. Fleck could well know that McBurnie loves playing for Scotland and it's a bit of a laugh between them.
People are seeing what they want from a badly shot, few seconds of video.
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10 hours ago, TavTastic said:
Wonder if Clarke will consider him at RB. With Tierney out it's basically SOD and f**k knows who else.
He was solid enough against the Dutch at Pittodrie, but does he have the pace?
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On 10/08/2019 at 18:01, Miguel Sanchez said:
How would the police have reacted if a black man tested his constitutional rights by walking into a shop in body armour and carrying a rifle?
In 1967 The Black Panthers exercised their constitutional rights by wandering into a government building carrying rifles to protest about racist gun laws in California "keeping black people unarmed and helpless". Within months Governor Ronald Reagan signed a bill making it illegal to openly carry firearms. The bill was even nicknamed The Panther Bill.
I imagine the reaction would be considerably less measured now, given the shoot on sight policy the polis seem to have with black men/boys.
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9 minutes ago, Aim Here said:
McGonagall, you say? Oh yes.
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Twas the night of August eleventh in twenty hundred and nineteen
When occurred an event the likes of which no-one had ever seen
The grand Hibernian football club went to Ibrox to play a game
And no-one who ever saw it would ever ever be again the sameFor weeks before that very day, Scotland talked of little else
whether Jambos or Dundee fans, sheep or pars or celts
The country had been split along a great religious divide
Between unbelieving secular heathens, and those with great sectarian prideAnd on that fateful Sunday, the spectators did convene
There were 800 brave young Hibees, all dressed in emerald green
And arrayed all against them, a fifty thousand strong orc horde
Blue and white and pungent, for soap they could not affordThe players from the Capital were numbered very few,
For injuries aplenty they had managed to accrue
Tom James and Lewis Stevenson, and captain David Gray
Martin Boyle and Ryan Porteous could not appear that dayWhile Her Majesty's twelve best players were fighting fit and true
Ten of them bedecked in their finest Royal Blue
The eleventh, called McGregor, was the goalie at the back
And the twelfth man, from the SFA, had a whistle and wore blackAnd as the match unfolded, the Hibs fans were horrified
Flo scored a goal from the halfway line, but was quickly ruled offside
At the end of the first half, the hibs fans were feeling ill
The Rangers team were winning, by a score of two to nilAnd at half time Hibs manager, whose name was Heckingbottom
Was using every trick that his previous managers taught him
His football mind was working fast, going into overdrive
He said "we're going switch formations from 4-4-2 to 2-3-5"And so the game restarted, and the crowd cranked up the noise,
They sang about the Derry's Walls, and then the Billy Boys
But after thirty seconds, the bluenose bubble burst
As Daryl Horgan rounded Tav and scored Hibernian's firstAnd for forty-five short minutes, the attacks came thick and fast
As the energized green front line left Rangers flabbergast
A second goal from fifty yards was scored by Stevie Mallan
And Flo scored from a shroo ball from the famous Scotty AllanAnd when the time came for the match to end and finalize the score
The fourth official held a board that showed fifteen minutes more
There was no chance the SFA would let a Hibs win go
This was the year they planned to stop Celtic's ten in a rowThen Morelos dribbled to the box with seconds more to go
But Darren launched a tackle, using fists and head and feet
He got a straight red card for that, and paid for his foul crime
And a penalty kick was awarded, at the close of injury timeAnd a limping Alf Morelos went up to take the kick
The handful of Hibs supporters were all still feeling sick
But Ofir Marciano was a keeper in his prime
He knocked the ball out of the park and the ref blew for full timeSo remember August eleven in twenty hundred and nineteen
And a football match, the likes of which most people have never seen
The legend will live on, as long as Hibs fans are alive
Of the day that Rangers lost 3-2 to the second famous fiveThis is the best thing I've seen on this forum. Superb mate.
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Aye his 4th goal was lovely. I foresee a bit of a pummelling. Braw.
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2 hours ago, Hillonearth said:
The three Laidlaw books are in many respects the template for most Scottish crime fiction that followed - I'm especially fond of the first one because a couple of scenes are set in the Burns Howff where I used to drink when I was a kid!
Docherty and The Big Man are both excellent as well. I didn't enjoy his first book Remedy Is None ithough...wee bit overwrought and selfconsciously literary.
I loved Remedy but it was so grim I had to read something super light (Pirlo’s autobiography, since you ask). I felt and related to the anger and grief expressed in that book. Docherty is an absolute masterpiece though.
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"The People's Act of Love" by James Meek is a gorgeous book. One of the few novels I'd read again.
"The Kiln" by William McIlvanney is a hugely uplifting coming of age nostalgia trip. I've read it three times and love to revisit it often.
I love McIlvanney actually. If you fancy detective fiction "Laidlaw" is up there with the great crime novels, because it isn't as much a crime novel as an eloquent journey into the the soul of a city (Glasgow) in the mid 70's. Again, I've read this one multiple times.
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2 minutes ago, RussellAnderson said:
None that I’ve found so far, but I’m planning a Friday chug tonight so I’ll let you know what I find, highlights or otherwise.Do keep me in mind won't you.
Thank you.
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Leaky defence and an abundance of pace going forward sounds like a recipe for an exciting season.
6-5 Thistle.
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Any links to the highlights of last night's match?
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9 hours ago, Mediocre Pundit said:
Have I missed something - apart from a strange reference to moneyball in the takeover speculation, has there been any serious suggestion that this is Caldwell’s primary method of player recruitment and team selection?
This was the spirit of my question. A lot of people here are talking about moneyball and how it isn't a fit for scottish football, but nobody seems to have used the method at all.
His recruitment seems pretty Lambie-esque. Journeyman pros who have been over the course.
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And I wasn't suggesting that it was. I was having a go at the performance conditions of it. Utterly risible. Celtic were right to reject that.
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4 minutes ago, peasy23 said:
Guessing you missed this yesterday...
Ah ok. Aye, I just caught the report. So I guess my gallic hopes are on the shoulders of Alaphillippe. Braw.
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Today should be hugely exciting. Tactics will go largely out of the window as it's only 40 miles up a big hill. It'll be attack after attack. I see Bernal taking it, but I'd love it to be Alaphillippe or Pinot (pour la France, bien sur!).
Genuinely excited for this.
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What's this about algorithms and AI? Did Caldwell allow a computer to pick his team or are you chaps just being sardonic?
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Calling Cards of Morons
in The General Nonsense Forum
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It's telling that the people who are raging about so called rude people in restaurants having the temerity to want to have a blether and not order immediately don't work as waiters, while those of us who do work as waiters are giving it a massive Partridge shrug.
I work as a waiter (TGI Friday's, Aberdeen Beach) and I also take an absolute age to order in restaurants. I'm too busy blethering. Why? I've gone to the restaurant to catch up with my pals, which is why most people go to restaurants. It doesn't impact my work if someone wants to take their time. Actually, if I have loads of tables already, it's a fuckin godsend when a table (especially a large table) want to take their time. If they have to be out by a certain time, and they're still there, then the next table will either be placed elsewhere or will get a wee bit knocked off their bill because of a long wait. Again, none of this has any impact on me. None.
So by all means take your sweet time in a restaurant, and leave a dece tip.
Now can we get back on to talking about morons please?
Thank you.