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10 hours ago, TxRover said:
Overdoing stuff is what I [over]do.
Ftfy
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Aye, on the face of it, Dundee Utd going into this game with only 6 goals conceded all season and still undefeated in the league would suggest they shouldnt be all that worried.
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1 hour ago, Aladdin said:
Don't have a good feeling about this with our history of the wheels coming off campaigns around Xmas.
Traditionally this is where we fall apart as well
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3 minutes ago, TheRoundO said:
Seriously though lads, I know you lost Hamilton at the last minute and Vaughan didn’t start, but if that’s what you’ve got you will not win the league. Lucky injury time winners do go on for ever.
If it makes you feel better, that's as shite as we've been since we lost to Airdrie.
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For all the chat about our late goals, for the most part I think weve merited the points, whereas tonight we were definitely on the lucky side of the spectrum.
Granted, the game plan gets fucked by the late call off, but without someone to win 2nd balls up top, and Byrne badly outnumbered by a packed Arbroath defence we struggled. Second half we had a couple of decent pull backs but our corners and free kicks were brutal.
Dont think our tempo was high enough at any point in the game, but fair fucks they kept going.
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4 minutes ago, Craigus said:
Listening to these "Arbroath characters" get excited about memories of Dundee United games they have attended is a fitting end to a non-event of a game played out on a tatty field.
Referring to it as "Tannadicci" was the peak cringe moment.
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Stuggling to win 2nd balls going forward, or the first ball in defence. Outnumbered in midfield.
Weve created a good few chances and looked decent when we have gotten the ball down but not sure we dont need to shift something about here, if only to get us more possession in midfield to play Gullan and Smith in rather than expecting them to win high balls.
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Well, my nerves are starting to jangle.
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I think the whole Bi-Generation thing ties into Davies rebranding of it as series 1.
It seems odd that if 14 was suffering from the accumulated trauma of Eccleston through Whittaker, that 15 shouldnt also be in the same place but he clearly isn't. In the Tardis scene he seems to recognise that 14 needs a break even as he, ostensibly the same man, doesn't.
The regeneration narrative trick only works so long as you sustain the illusion that it's the same person, even allowing for the differences in how the character is played by different actors. Yet that's much harder when you have the two of them side by side not physically the same being anymore, on divergent narrative paths as well.
To my mind, the whole stunt is a way of parking the 05 to 23 continuity. The new Doctor may have the memories of the old one, but in a more abstract way, and not in a way that will require too many or any references at all to the past. He can fly off to a continuity free future on Disney + while Tennant marks the end of NuDoctor Who.
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15 hours ago, clashcityrocker said:
Two years ago I would have went for a home win - but we have injuries, lost form and have no creativity .
Must be grim for you to be doom posting.
With that in mind, home win.
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43 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Forecast for 4-5 C and a freshening SW “breeze”…10% chance of rain.
The Lichties new manager bounce turned out to be of the dead cat variety, can he turn that around?
The Rovers absolutely flying, but when you’re flying, there’s always the risk of a crash!
This will be a very interesting match…did the earlier postponement help or hinder the Rovers, or will the midweek match play to the Lichties advantage? Could the Rovers be looking ahead to Saturday…I’m going with the first two goal win of the season, 0-2 Rovers.
Read this in the voice of that guy that used to do all the movie trailers.
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Hope @Rb123 put some money on my advice.
Christ, if we could sort the first 15 minutes of the 2nd half....
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6 minutes ago, Rb123 said:
Raith should be more than 1-0 up which may come back to bite them
Aye, you can take an equaliser in the first 15 minutes to the bank.
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3 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
Dont know how it'll play out tonight , but I'm more worried about the banana skin that is Arbroath lol
No, i'm content to shite it for tonight.
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Thistle ran all over the top of our 4-1-3-2 at the start of the season, albeit without a recognised sitting mid at the time. Doolan's Thistle teams really do attack quickly down the flanks and I think I saw a stat about goals vs xG that gives you an idea of how good they usually are at getting the ball into Brian Graham between 6 and 10 yards out.
Really could see us dropping points tonight. Defence should hopefully look a little more settled than it has against Dunfermline and ICT at least. Byrne has been different class since he came in and should hopefully stem some of the Thistle flow, but think this is the best attack we've faced outside of Dundee Utd by a long shot.
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10 minutes ago, superbigal said:
Sure Humsa will plough on with another waste of money. Even the no win no fee mob would not touch him.
Regardless of what you think of the GRR act itself, this ruling effectively gives the SoS for Scotland an extremely broad remit to veto anything the Scottish Parliament comes up with.
Any law at Holyrood, even if within devolved competencies that confers any status referred to by any other reserved law is automatically within the scope of being vetoed. Any administrative or operational changes proposed by ScotGov would fall in that remit too.
The ruling seems to me to state that the principle judge of whether there is sound reason for interfering is in fact the SoS themselves. What's to stop the UK Gov passing "UK wide" laws and then using that mechanism to force alignment?
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That has fairly wide ranging implications for how devolution is operated (or not). Basically, the SoS for Scotland can veto naything they damn well please for any damn reason they like with no route of appeal for the Scottish parliament.
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2 minutes ago, embow said:
Fingers crossed that this doesn't curse us tomorrow and onwards.
Scottish Championship: Could Raith Rovers beat Dundee United to the title? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67641066
Aye, that's the kiss of death.
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He's gone
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13 minutes ago, Kenny_m said:
It seemed that every time his contract was up he had offers to move upwards but for one reason or another they never materialised, no doubt it was financial until the Kirkcaldy lucre came calling. Ayr, Falkirk & Dunfermline had all shown interest and it won't surprise anyone, most notably Peterhead fans that he's doing well.
We werent exactly flush when we signed him tbf.
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I stand corrected. What a team.
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2 minutes ago, grumswall said:
He's certainly done alot for the club over the years and has been at a fair amount of games
That's how it looks to me. I just can't see a back 4 in that team.
I can't see a defence in that team.
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This is like one of @TxRover's nightmare lineups....
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The Very Meh Humza Yousaf Thread.
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Posted · Edited by renton
Most of ScotGov's budget still comes from the bloc grant, the value of which derives from the UK government's budget decisions.
It's not that the Scottish Government spent more money than it had, it's that it will have less to spend than planning assumptions to date, based on the previous bloc grant.
In much the same way as the MoD suddenly found itself with a similar 10 billion hole in it's equipment plan, despite not actually having changed the plan, UK government refusal to inflation proof public services will clearly have a knock on effect to any fixed budget - like Scotland's.
That's the harsh reality of devolution. It was never designed to be compatible with too much divergence.
Not much can be done until Starmer arrives in late 2024 and suddenly increases public spending in vital services, introduces progressive taxation of it's own, a true living wage for all, reforms local government spending and introduces radical constitutional reform to deliver a more sustainable settlement for the devolved admins.
No laughing at the back please.