Nowhereman
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No-one has to use the car park. If they feel that £10 justifies the convenience they will pay it. If they think it is too expensive they won't. Whether the pricing is justifiable will only be known after the game.
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3 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:
Forgotten clubs? Bit harsh
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And it will be the opposition’s first game for three weeks
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1 hour ago, Silverton End said:
Aye, we coped fine in The Championship hosting Hibs, Hearts, Rangers, Dundee Utd, even when we put 4 past Hamilton Accies & Alex Neil's heads gone moment we coped.
Some amount of knicker wetting going on.
Aye all these youngsters concerned about having to sit next to a couple of Rangers fans. They should have been around when we played them at Boghead. 16,000 in the ground, the vast majority Rangers fans, and we still managed to change ends at half time.
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2 hours ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:
I don't think it's negativity, more realism based on experience. I consider this Saturday's fixture to be the toughest we've faced since the last time we played Peterhead, and I include Annan in that.
I think there's also a nervousness that in McAllister, they have one of the most experienced and physical stickers in the lower leagues, which the current central defence will need to deal with.
As for stats, they are fine but rarely tell the full story. The reality is that we are playing well and we're entitled to be reasonably confident but if say Gray and/or Ruth were to become missing that would be significant. If everyone turns up this weekend though we can certainly get a result.
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7 hours ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
Tbh if getting a big payday at this stage of the season meant strengthening the squad in January and winning the league I’m taking the dough every day of the week. I couldn’t really give a f**k about a competition we have zero chance of winning.
That’s a pretty stupid attitude to have. In any competition you want to do the best you can. We had no chance of winning the Championship when we were in it but I’d suggest you might have been bothered about results. The worst draw we could get would be away to either of Celtic or rangers. Unless you’re an accountant
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54 minutes ago, velo army said:
You definitely don't get searched going into the theatre, and you don't get searched going into the rugby. There's a bovine acceptance of erosions of rights that makes me queasy. A few lads occasionally setting off flares shouldn't necessitate or excuse people being pawed at by strangers.
Ok. I’ll tell my son , who works in a theatre, to stop doing it because you say it definitely doesn’t happen
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1 hour ago, velo army said:
Searching folk at the football is outrageous. I don't even think it's acceptable to target youngsters. It's a disgrace all round.
You get searched going to a concert or the theatre these days. Its hardly unusual
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5 hours ago, Ziggy Sobotka said:
Gutted I spent all my money on Poppymas, because I've none left for Lee Rigby fest.
Anyone got any spares ?
Presumably Lee Rigby only had one parent and 'In attendance' belongs to that sole parent?
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15 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
50yrs ago:
Wednesday 14th November 1973
SFA Centenary
Scotland 1-1 West Germany
Holton Hoeness
(58,235)
Goals:
Full Match:
Player analysis:
Love the story in the column next to the report about Montrose being included in the first round of the cup by mistake. Football authorities have always been a bit crap but that is an astonishing mistake.
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2 hours ago, microdave said:
Durnan still out and is joined by Div Wilson with Jinky needing a late fitness test. I await an unchanged line up
Think i would prefer Lynas in the centre over Malcolm. He didnt look comfortable there last week and he could be moved forward in place of Blair
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5 hours ago, The Mantis said:
England 2 Scotland 3 1967
Got the whole game on DVD years ago and decided to give it another watch yesterday. It would be interesting to hear if anybody else has it, or was at the game. I was nearly 12 and a bunch of us listened to it on a wee transistor radio out on the pavement…
It’s like night and day compared to modern fitba. As your typical oldie, I’m usually of the opinion that the modern game is technically far superior but completely devoid of any entertainment value. Nobody takes a risk any more.
The first thing that strikes you is how wasteful both teams are in possession (I thought the very same when I recently saw extended highlights of Inter v Celtic). Both lined up a very open 4-3-3 and went at it from the start. Denis Law misses an open goal on 20 mins as Wallace fizzes a cross over from the right.The players are given an amazing amount of time to run with the ball even allowing that people always bang on about the big Wembley pitch. But when there’s a tackle, boy it’s fierce. Much is made of Jack Charlton hobbling early on and moving up front, but there must have been at least 6 players needing attention during the first half. Second half the players definitely tire and the pace becomes less frantic.
The German ref let a lot of heavy tackles go, although he was more niggly about other stuff such as dissent or obstruction. At 25 mins, Ray Wilson absolutely halves the overlapping Tommy Gemmell and bizarrely a corner is awarded to Scotland. In today’s game it would have probably finished about 7-a-side.
Not a weakness in the Scotland team that day and for me Bobby Charlton was the standout for England. Although it’s often reported as Baxter’s game, it’s interesting to see how Denis Law was getting stuck in and niggling away at them from the start. He really enjoyed putting one over on the English. Very pleasing to see the gradual disintegration of Alan Ball into a seething mess as Baxter and Law took the piss out of him as the game wore on. Otherwise it was played in a very sporting spirit and you can see players exchanging friendly chat e.g. Law and Stiles.
I don’t think there was one example of a defender shepherding it out for a goal kick in the whole game. They always tried to play the ball rather than let it go out. I can’t say I saw any gobbing either.Re your final sentence. The amount of times footballers spit always baffles me. Do any other sportspeople do it?
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11 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:
Kevin Gaughan didn't play very often for us but he is easily one of the worst centre-backs I've ever seen in a Sons jersey. And Scott Bannerman and Graham Connell were Grade A warmers as well.
I was about to come on to ask who he was. Absolutely no memory of him
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1 minute ago, FifeSons said:
That’s not luck. He missed. So wasn’t good enough to put it in. Banks O Dee were as poor a team as we’ve played and when Farrell finally played our strongest team the result was never in doubt
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1 hour ago, FifeSons said:
Lucky, lucky, lucky.
Judging by the club’s Twitter, this is going to be hailed as some kind of triumph, rather than a very lucky escape.
In what way was it lucky?
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9 hours ago, The Moonster said:
In other words, when he lucks out and his tactics work from the start we do well, when they don't he has no idea how to change it.
That seems like it to me. How many times this season have we seen a good first half then a collapse in the second. Other team realise what they have to change at half time, get on top and we can’t change to combat it
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Good luck getting in to the stags
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On 17/09/2023 at 07:25, Boghead ranter said:
Amazing to think that we paid £40,000 for Wallace back in 1972. That’s £675,000 in todays money!
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‘Common sense gets marked down’. - kinda sums up Scottish Football administration doesn’t it?
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On 07/09/2023 at 19:55, bluearmyfaction said:
Word of advice to Dumbarton.
Next time you win the Scottish Cup, plan the victory parade route more carefully than last time.
(Dundee Advertiser, 11 April 1883)
If only the proposed new rules about buses had been in force back then none of this would have happened
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17 hours ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
Imagine allowing your tennants to not only try and bump your own supporters with DFC season ticket specific discounts but also target potential Sons fans of the future by offering tickets to local school children. Our current board are so out of touch it is frightening and the quicker we rid ourselves of these clowns the better.
Perhaps @Paul Mc could explain to us why we are not only allowing this but actively encouring this via our social media channels. The mind fucking boggles.
I'm not sure how we could stop Broomhill giving discounts to our season ticket holders. Confiscate the ticket if anyone goes along?
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I know that a lot of fans can’t distinguish between the spl and the spfl but I’d have thought the BBC would have been able to
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Why would the sfa not allow it to be played on the Sunday?
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That really is ludicrous. If a club can’t fulfil the fixture they should forfeit home advantage
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Derek Adams interview
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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How can you say something is poor without comparing it to anything? You must have a standard to judge against.