Uncle Psychosis

Winning the playoffs would be a miracle, but it would be nice to end the season on a good run, ideally maximising the cash coming in as well, so hopefully we put maximum effort in to this and aren't already playing mind games for what comes next.

if last season's Thistle side couldn't get past last years County then its very hard to see this season's Raith, Thistle, or Airdrie getting past this season's County.

Lets be honest, take any type of professional in any industry and a healthy proportion of them will be sick of the job and only doing it for the money. The surprising thing about footballers not liking football all that much is that fans and the media seem to be surprised about it.

Its deliberate. https://www.tintin.com/fr/news/6068/un-maillot-exterieur-inspire-de-tintin-en-hommage-au-dessinateur-herge This is the third of these "tribute" kits---the Euro 2016 one was inspired by Belgian cycling, and the 2022 one by Tomorrowland. I like it.

Raith are shite, but they scored and we didn't. Fair fucks.

What I'd give for big Tam back right now...

I enjoy it too, although I do always wonder why referees tolerate it. An outfield player blatantly timewasting like that would get booked much, much quicker.

That's basically my point.

Hard to believe this is second vs third. Dire.

By my reckoning Thistle have conceded 16 goals in the last six games. A team with genuine aspirations of winning the league should be pretty confident against us. (mind you Dundee Utd failed to beat us so who knows. This league is mental).

This is possibly the funniest thing to hit Scottish football since the dundeebarry leigh griffiths blog.

They remind me of Hamilton a few years ago. Perennially shite but somehow staying up year after year after year.

The Gary Fraser goal vs Hearts still gives me goosebumps every time I think about it. Special mention for the O'Donnell one vs Dundee Utd, purely for the disbelief that it actually happened. Loads of jobbing players have scored one-off worldies, but for me there's something really, really special about a team like Thistle playing like Barcelona, even if it only lasted about ten seconds.

Watched the highlights on the BBC. Its basically 5.5 minutes of Ipswich missing sitters and 10s of Maidstone putting the ball in the net. Fabulous stuff.

Following Raith for 65 years? I bet it feels more like 90 though, right?

"Ultras" culture is definitely a double edged sword. The problem is nobody really controls these groups because the membership is too nebulous. Sadly it's a lot easier for cretinous wee bams to bring the whole thing down than it is for good folk to use these groups as a positive influence.

I don't really see how clubs like Dunfermline are meant to enforce a banning order. If these bams want to get in, they will - unless fans themselves spot them and get them ejected every time. Even that seems a stretch. Hopefully the police get sufficiently involved. They certainly deserve it.

I mean the question answers itself but you really do have to wonder just how these wee bams think that filming themselves beating the shit out of someone and posting it openly on the internet is going to end. Sadly they'll probably get nothing more than a slap on the wrist and if they're not regulars at East End Park a banning order is hardly a punishment either.

What's the story with Mitchell's agent? I've obviously missed something at somepoint.

Watched the latest Mission Impossible. Utter shite, and I say that as someone that has quite enjoyed the rest of the franchise. Even the (fantastic) stunts can't redeem it. Genuinely baffled by the positive reviews. Too long and just too stupid, even for an MI film.

You get used to it.

My current pet hate is "football people" who don't seem to understand that "common sense refereeing" and "we just want consistency from referees" are contradictory. Here's Dyche mouthing off about the fact that the referee applied a law as written rather than arbitrarily make it up for himself. "The only thing that worries me about the rules now is the experienced referees used the rules, now everyone says the rule is that and end of story. That is where the rule has to have flexibility." I'm really fed up of managers whining about "we just want the rules to be applied consistently" then moaning that "the rules are too black and white". No shit Sherlock, that's what you asked for.

Some game that. Hercules missed a couple of sitters on top of the three they did score. Their second in particular was a great goal, good team move and a fantastic finish.

Just when I thought I couldn't like Big Ange any more, he absolutely hits this nail on the head as well: "There will be a forensic study of every decision out there, I think that is the way the game is going and I don't like it. If you look at all that standing around we did today, maybe people enjoy that sort of thing but I'd rather see us playing football... ...You have to accept the referee's decision, that is how I grew up. This constant erosion of the referee's authority is where the game is going to get - they are not going to have any authority. We are going to be under the control of someone with a tv screen a few miles away."

Stokes hasn't played a domestic ODI since something like 2016. People will blame the hundred but the problems are rooted deeper than that.