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1 hour ago, thistledo said:
Play off final for promotion to Premier should be one game at Hampden instead of two legs.
By the time Hampden has been paid for, there would be no money for the clubs.
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1 hour ago, Arch Stanton said:
I hope he got minced in the outboard.
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37 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
Dish towels that aren't absorbant and instead just push water around.
Did you wash it first when it was new?
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1 hour ago, Swarley said:
Isn't Spain a predominantly Catholic nation? Should be up them to shut this nonsense down. Get the riot police and dogs in about them.
Aye, the walk actually takes two days because of the number of chapels they pass. It's a feat of endurance in that heat.
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35 minutes ago, stu2910 said:
I'm not disputing that someone living in Stockport will be interested in Stockport, that's not the point. In the last few posts you've said that people in Scotland will be interested in Stockport v Tranmere but then go on to question why someone in England would watch Partick v Ayr. Other than, oh I don't know, massively increased media attention, what does the English game have that's so interesting? To get back to the original point, why is this considered interesting enough to show across the board while the Scottish game isn't? You're not wrong that people outside of Scotland don't care, but the coverage has to come first. I doubt you care about watching table tennis but how would you if you never see it.
League 1 and 2 aren't on that much, although Wrexham have attracted a bit of interest.
Stockport is a great story, championship level to non-league and part time before going back up the divisions again, Tranmere, not dissimilar. I'm far more interested in English lower division football, more so since 2012 when I decided I would never have anything concerning Rangers and Celtic on my telly.
(I watch the NI games as well, mainly because I've been to a couple. South of the border, I don't see as much, but watch for Bohemians results.
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24 minutes ago, glensmad said:
Confirmed last night.
At least he's free to concentrate on the league now.
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11 minutes ago, Nightmare said:
Mentioned in the second paragraph.
Fair enough. We all know this is just opinion and personal wish lists, but that would be a seriously hard sell.
You're, effectively, ending those team's season weeks early. That's before you consider the wasteland the lower divisions will become.
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2 minutes ago, Nightmare said:
Nice deflection from your 'teams playing each other too much' comment before.
The only section that would potentially have "nothing to play for" would be the 9-12 portion of the league. Which is a flaw, yes, but I've already indicated that no split system is without flaws, including in the current Scottish football setup.
The section with teams 1-4 would be involved in the title race, 5-8 would battle for a European place in the top flight/for a potential promotion playoff opportunity in the lower leagues, and 13-16 are battling relegation.
So to suggest that the majority of the league would have nothing to play for after the first 30 games is, yet again, nonsense.
What about the third group?
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1 minute ago, stu2910 said:
This is kind of the point I was trying to make before. England doesn't care about Scottish football but they're never going to care if they're not able to see it, unless our league suddenly becomes like Saudi Arabia which I can't see happening somehow.
The quality might not be amazing at the moment, but one of the most consistently interesting aspects of Scottish football is the Championship. A division that until recently was ignored completely and even now is broadcast exclusively in Scotland every other week or so. Is it really of lower quality and interest than a National League game in England that's on Sky/BT every week?
A lot of content on subscription telly is filler. Revenue also comes from adverts, there needs to be a programme on to carry adverts. Hence the reason there's Australian football in the morning, American soccer late at night. Where do you think Championship games might end up on the schedule? The same people complaining about lack of coverage would be howling about games being played on Thursday night's etc.
There's also the cost. The SPFL don't recognise the tv coverage as a promotional tool to generate interest, they see it simply as a revenue source.
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There's an element on this forum who will argue that black is white when English football is mentioned. The interest in Scotland has existed as long as I remember and I expect long before that. Probably right back to when Scots first started signing for English clubs. It's very easy to understand given the size of the countries, that the standard is generally better.
We can't dictate what people are interested in.
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26 minutes ago, newcastle broon said:
Aye that was a sore one. Blyth doon tae. Not a good couple days for the North East.
Hebburn are doing well though, surprisingly given their small crowds.
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3 minutes ago, newcastle broon said:
Gateshead denied a shot at gaining league status by their own council . Couldn't make it up.Not the best of stadiums but their small band of fans have worked wonders getting them back to where they are. The council sold the leisure centre not long ago and can't give a 10 year lease to the football club. Could the stadium end up being sold?
https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/national-league-statement-gateshead-football-club-81474
They've been going to move for as long as I remember.
More concerned about South Shields yo yo performances meaning the missed the play offs.
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5 hours ago, Charles Stiles said:
I'm beginning to think the answer could be no...
I've quoted you in case he's got you on ignore.
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38 minutes ago, haufdaft said:
How the f**k can that pishy yellow one be in the top two?
For that alone the whole board should resign.
"Hello Mr Clyde, Mr Puma here. I'll give you a fiver off each of the white shirts if you'll take our excess stock of yellow ones."
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21 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
I’ll be in Shotts next week. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.
Never rule out shovelling snow.
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5 minutes ago, GordonS said:
Sunday. That's what he said. He said they should have reversed the order of the semi finals because the other one didn't have a team that were due to play midweek. It's fair enough. The reason he's so angry isn't about this game, it's because he and other managers have been asking for improvements to the calendar regularly for years and nothing changes. It's not good for players or fans.
Fair enough, fine margins as all that, but I'm not convinced another day would've helped that much. He'd still have been moaning, it's just the way it is. God help him if he had Shotts BA schedule for the next couple of weeks.
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On 20/04/2024 at 09:17, RH33 said:
Bad week?
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On 19/04/2024 at 18:19, Miguel Sanchez said:
This absolute w**k
The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.
To quote Niles Crane: "If you tortured that metaphor any more you'd be before a tribunal in the Hague."
I read that as Tortured Pets.
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1 hour ago, Bairnardo said:
Instead of ranting at the media, perhaps he ought to simply tell his owners he doesn't want to play in friendly world tours, expanded Champions League, World Club Championship etc etc. And of course, not bother with the millions that these afford him...
Does no c**t in England understand where the #GLITW money comes from, or that the piper is gonna want paid?
An easy question would be, "When would you have played it?"
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12 hours ago, DA Baracus said:
Haha, I was on my couch and heard a distant drum
^^^Jim Reeves.
10 hours ago, Sortmeout said:It’s Saturday night.
^^^Whigfield.
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Can't make it to Ayr today, but it's a must win before all the really hard games coming up. Score updates would help.
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On 20/04/2024 at 01:27, Eednud said:
More from Dundee’s 1978 Australian tour. The picture at the bottom of the 2nd page is of George Campbell from Caol near Fort William. He was who was playing his first season for South Melbourne Hellas having transferred from Aberdeen earlier that year. He was with the Dons from 1972-1978. Jim Hermiston mentioned in the Queensland v Dundee report is another ex Dons and played in the 1969/70 Scottish Cup winning team.
Simlam boots, I don't remember them. It was Adidas or you were ostracised.
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1 minute ago, Fullerene said:
Prince was a very talented musician who could play about 27 instruments
He was no Roy Castle.
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2 hours ago, Jives Miguel said:
I just said black metal and grindcore were European? Not saying they are European inventions.
Black Sabbath were of course the inspiration for doom metal and all the doom metal offshoots, but you cant go back 20 years and apply a label to them that didn't exist at the time, in my opinion. Saint Vitus, Trouble (Americans) and Candlemass (Swedish) are the progenitor doom metal bands.
2nd half of My War by Black Flag is the first sludge metal music recorded. Its an American genre, mainly centred around Louisiana and the Southern states. Melvins, Acid Bath, Eyehategod and Crowbar being "The Big Four" of that particular genre. Some grunge bands have lashings of sludge metal to their sound, mainly Nirvana and Alice in Chains (the two best grunge bands, no coincidence).
Stoner Metal is another Black Sabbath inspired doom metal offshoot with an emphasis on a bit of a more upbeat, psychedelic, blues based sound, its not a revival of anything from the 60s imo. Orange Goblin are a complete non-entity with regards to this genre, and didn't even release anything until the late 90s anyway. Electric Wizard as you mention are the only non-American band of relevance here. Electric Wizard, Kyuss, Sleep, Boris (Japan), Weedeater, High on Fire are the big dogs here. I can't even think of any other European stoner metal bands apart from Cathedral, Lowrider and Acrimony, who are all dogshit anyway. I'm just going with the wikipedia definition of "extreme metal", which to them is pretty much everything post NWOBHM. Anyway, there's plenty of stoner metal with harsh vocals (.ie Bongzilla and Weedeater), so its extreme metal in my book even if some of it like Kyuss is actually on the boundary of rock music.
Can understand why old-school 80s metalheads might hate it considering the corrupting influence of groove metal, leading into nu metal, but there was still some fantastic stuff being put out in the non-thrash related genres in the 90s. Doom, stoner and sludge are my favourite metal genres, and When The Kite String Pops by Acid Bath is probably my favourite album ever, so for me the 90s is also my favourite genre for metal.
Just checked my rating catalogue to be sure, and Sleep, Kyuss, Dystopia, Acid Bath, Electric Wizard, Dystopia, Primus all putting out tremendous stuff in the 90s. W decade.
It's at times like this I see the sense in The Taliban banning music.
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Posted · Edited by Sergeant Wilson
I don't disagree that they're idiots but who would pay more than is paid by the existing tv companies. The perception they have always had is Scottish football is a schedule filler, when there's nothing else on.