Braesoyetts

I remember watching May scoring for fun back in his first spell in Perth, about ten years ago now (back when the SPFL put up a good highlights package on YouTube - then they removed the commentary for no reason and it kind of ruined it). At the time I thought he looked like he’d go on to big things, but it never quite panned out. Still not a bad player at all, good physical presence, and maybe would make a bigger impact against lower level defences (looking at you, Brian Graham). Edit: Also, agreed about the hair - if he doesn’t work out on the field, he can join our Bon Jovi tribute band.

What does this even mean?

Ah, I couldn’t have said if Van der sar played or not, but I watched the team walk in from their coach, and the abiding memory is of big Edwin being like a clear foot taller than everyone else…. And I’d forgotten about Collins John - the backwards John Collins!

Was that when Van Der Sar was playing for Fulham? Pretty sure I was at that one (and I didn't make it to many games due to always working when they were on).

Think it’s fine as long as the stadium has an established name already. So that the corporate name doesn’t become the accepted name for everyone. Etihad etc. Middlesbrough did well with Cellnet Riverside Stadium, so whatever the sponsor, everyone just calls it the Riverside. Arsenal on the other hand, could have gone with Ashburton Grove, or New Highbury, or Queensland Road, or whatever, but missed that chance and now it’s just the Emirates. Shame, really.

Agreed. I would love to see Clyde back in the East End, and back in the higher divisions. I’d also love to see Thirds resurrected. Glasgow had one of the most vibrant football cultures of any city in the world from the 1890s to the 1960s. It’s still pretty strong, but a shadow of what it was then. You could look at somewhere like Buenos Aires to see what it used to be like in Glasgow. Six teams in the top flight, strong coverage in at least four city newspapers, two city-specific cup competitions that were taken fairly seriously and got big crowds, a bunch of attendance records, three huge stadiums and three other pretty large grounds. Not to mention that European Cup too. Thats why I don’t have any problem with QP building themselves up, though I hope they aren’t taking risks with their future, and I wish they’d get that ground finished….

Agreed. I don’t think we have anyone else with as much of an instinct for goal as him (except the guy standing in the technical area, and maybe if we don’t sign anyone else we might see him too!)

Roberto Baggio cost Italy the World Cup. Total loser. If he was on my team I’d give him a free transfer and say good riddance….

think Tiffoney will be very hard to replace. An attacking threat of that kind, that really unnerves opposition defences. Also I think he helped bring the best out of Graham.

That’s my thinking. I don’t think this league is particularly tough, as it goes, though the distance from contention to relegation can be alarmingly short. In other words, with a tactically astute manager and reasonably competent squad, a lot can be achieved. A lot of the failings of teams in the league can be put down to managers without the quality to get the best out of the players. Look at McCall/Doolan. Not saying Doolan is the next Fergie, but at least in this case you could see a clear and obvious step up. Bring a top level manager into the championship, and you’d see how quickly a mediocre group of players would be playing like world beaters. So this season is about a) keeping a competent squad together and augmenting it with some good loans, and b) hoping that Doolan is the difference-maker he seemed to be.

I have to disagree on the toughness of the league. Competitive is not the same as tough. Consider this: we were pretty crap for decent chunks of the season, and when Doolan came in we improved and narrowly missed automatic promotion despite wasting points most of the first part of the season. If you can sit on your arse half the season and almost get promoted, it’s not that tough a league…. If Doolan is in charge from the start, I think we would have gone up in first place (though hypotheticals are pointless). Note that I’m not saying we will go up easily next season - we won’t have the same squad, and who knows what kind of budget QP and Dundee United will have.

Aye, no doubt about that. We had momentum, after getting the goal - looked likely to get another. Then they bring everything to a stop to look at a ridiculous handball claim (that County didn’t even seem like they were claiming much for) and then gift them a lifeline that completely changed the narrative of the game. Not blaming the referee, but for like the millionth time, VAR ruins a perfectly good game. Though if you’re going to give County a penalty for that with VAR, and not give us one for that trip, then where’s the consistency? Better still, call neither of them penalties, and throw the video monitor in the Beauly Firth…. We’ll just have to make sure we go up automatically next season, to avoid this kind of nonsense. I have faith in Doolan. If he’d been in charge from the start, we’d have been up automatically this time.

Yeah, I always feel that if I leave I might miss something incredible. An overhead kick goal from twenty yards out by the keeper, or a good fistfight. Even at baseball games, which are usually a bit longer, I don't leave early, in case something happens that's never happened before. After all, if you've stumped up for a ticket you might as well get your money's worth.

Also, if you look back at Cyprus's results, for every thrashing they have had, they've also had plenty of narrow defeats and impressive draws and wins against not-bad opposition.

This is more or less what I was talking about....

It's so he'll be feta for the next game.

If Scotland had gotten a second goal in the first half, I reckon it'd be four or five by now. Without that security, the players have been too cautious in attack, and here we are....

Not a fan of the idea of any club going out of business. They all mean something to some folk. Even MK Dons. I wouldn’t mind seeing some teams brought down a bit though. I used to edit Football Manager to effectively reduce the Old Firm teams to the level of League One, and boost most of the other mid-sized teams (and the Jags of course).

True! I didn’t even see them at first. That’s the stuff.

I think we’re probably unlikely to get automatic promotion, but if we are to, we need to win the majority of our remaining games, and two of those need to be this one and the QP one. We need to go on the front foot for this one - get an early goal and we’re away to the races with the attacking players we’ve got. ’Mon the Jags!

The guy with the laptop’s loving it.

Disappointing to draw, especially when it seems like a game that we could have won, but ultimately it’s another point and a continuation of Doolan’s unbeaten record. It’s games like this, and the Arbroath one, that McCall was losing. He said something about us not getting enough draws, and weird though it sounds - he wasn’t wrong. A successful season is about drawing the games you might have lost, and winning the games you might have drawn. Sometimes by luck, through dark arts, or just s**** football, whatever it takes. I totally thought we’d lose at Cappielow, so I’m content. Anyone know roughly how many fans we took there?

That’s generally what friends from Glasgow concluded. They would regularly laugh at slang terms I dropped that they’d never heard. They clearly thought my home town was the arse end of nowhere. Which was news to me, as I was born in Glasgow and had family in Townhead, Carntyne, Cranhill, Springburn, Balornock etc.

The “actual weegie clubs” would be Clyde, QP and us. Paisley is not Glasgow, as folk from there will never tire of telling you. Bankies are probably closer to being a Glasgow team. At least that’s it until Petershill begin their rise to Premiership dominance. incidentally I grew up 10 miles from Glasgow city centre, and it was a different accent, different dialect in some cases, and surrounded by cows and sheep. So it’s more complicated than just mileage.

We'll need that for when we qualify for the Champions League and have to build a new stand over there. I'd give them that 80s-looking office block at the left side of the main stand, always hated looking at that.