Rudolph Hucker
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53 minutes ago, Liam899 said:
Dougie Imrie on his way?
no chance. And anyway, his fashion sense offends the luvvies. 
It’ll be Richard Foster, and it serves them all right.
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17 hours ago, QPFC67 said:
We were the better team and then they just switched off after the 1st goal (100% a foul) and then we're sleeping again for the 2nd
More accurately, you were decent for the first 15 minutes or so. And in the LAST 15 minutes or so.
And the highlights confirm that there was nothing wrong with the first goal.
Apart from that, good post!
16 hours ago, Skeletar Spider said:It is a slight on Williamson in the sense that Thomas is a much better player than him, and would have offered us much more. Badly missed his delivery from set pieces, we had about 400 corners in the second half but barely put one threatening ball into the box.
You had 12 (TWELVE) in the entire game.
Meanwhile we await Owen Coyle’s apology for his insistence that Oakley’s first goal came after a foul. But nobody’s holding their breath.
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4 minutes ago, johnnydun said:
How do I thank Morten?
I have never been in this position before.
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On 09/02/2023 at 10:12, Bring Your Own Socks said:
I’m quite surprised at Morton fans thinking that a) they have a decent chance of winning and b) it’ll get them back on track.
Our team is significantly improved since the first game and Morton’s hoofball prowess won’t work this time. We have numerous players who can score. We attack swiftly and in numbers. Our shutouts in the last 3 months are formidable. Defence is solid. Anything’s possible of course but the probable is heavily stacked against you.
As for “getting back on track”, if you lose does that mean the wheels are off the bogey?
Ain’t this just delicious?
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5 minutes ago, Spiders For Life said:
What stand should away fans be buying tickets for on the website?
The main stand - now known as the Allan McGraw MainStand.
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3 hours ago, virginton said:
Kids, kids - you're both wastes of bandwidth.
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3 hours ago, Hampden Diehard said:
When all's said and done, we deservedly beat Inverness and Ayr on the park. No panic there. At the moment.
You did indeed and I’m not denying that at all. Just remarking that one of your fans was behaving like a headless chicken (to be fair, so was one particular Caley Thistle fan - maybe they should get together for Valentine’s Day and hurl hot pies at each other from twenty paces or something. Would make more sense than their output on here.
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4 hours ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
I’m quite surprised at Morton fans thinking that a) they have a decent chance of winning and b) it’ll get them back on track.
Our team is significantly improved since the first game and Morton’s hoofball prowess won’t work this time. We have numerous players who can score. We attack swiftly and in numbers. Our shutouts in the last 3 months are formidable. Defence is solid. Anything’s possible of course but the probable is heavily stacked against you.
As for “getting back on track”, if you lose does that mean the wheels are off the bogey?
Your panic-stricken P&B performance last Tuesday to Friday as you waited for the axe to inevitably fall on your Cup “run” was the stuff of comedy gold, but unfortunately you’ve now reverted to type as a waste of internet bandwidth.
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3 hours ago, SandyCromarty said:
The ship is mightier than the crew.
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6 minutes ago, sophia said:
He's been dead for 43 years so we'll just have to imagine
Whatever gets you through the night.
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5 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:
Our successful Scottish Cup run will bridge that hole in the funds. How are Morton doing preparing for their 5th round tie?
Will say using Scot Gardiner as a point scoring exercise is a low blow as no club ask for or deserve that man's involvement and certainly not any Caley fans.
We've just trousered around a quarter of a million quid from the last round, so we can put the feet up and concentrate on the league while you get a fraction of that for going out in the next round.
Nice try though.
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11 minutes ago, TONTROOPER said:
aw do fek off!!!!
Should've had another p***k in the wall.....
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21 minutes ago, TONTROOPER said:
nah....theyre still hiding behind the wall.
Crazy diamond formation.
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27 minutes ago, TONTROOPER said:
Posted from the dark side of the moon?
Us and them involved?
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15 hours ago, The Ghost of B A R P said:
No surprises there then.
jeezo. How are you gonna fit that idiot on your mantelpiece?
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2 hours ago, virginton said:
There's no evidence that Morton ruthlessly 'agreed' to give Lithgow a mere month's wage and that he graciously accepted the rest of his contract being cancelled. And nor should he: it was the club that foolishly handed out a two year deal, for a player in the twilight of his career.
He has almost certainly been paid to leave just as managers are paid to leave when they mutually terminate their contracts: the sum will be less than the full value of the contract, but not 'January only and you're out the door'. Because that is how professional football works.
Your latest clown running across a minefield display is really not my responsibility.
*sigh*….. it’s self-evident that we paid him his wage up to the end of the window and his contract was then cancelled for whatever sum was agreed……. Or at least I THOUGHT it would be self-evident.
I posted a very short post wishing the guy well; I wasn’t looking to add umpteen appendices and caveats about what went on to get him to that point.
I actually feel quite sorry for you, you’re still constantly looking to create arguments out of nothing in the hope of scoring meaningless points and you’ve been that way for far too many years. You’re now well into your fourth decade on this earth, Stephen; it’s high time you started to act like it.
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On 01/02/2023 at 01:29, The Ghost of B A R P said:
I didn't say you did.
The only bit people are taking issue with is the 'giving him January's wage' bit. That really is all.
Hmmm, right……. Well, all I intended was to post a couple of lines wishing the guy well for the future and that it was good to see that he and the club had reached a, hopefully amicable, agreement re his deal with us.
I COULD’VE said “Morton” rather than “Imrie”, and “agreed” rather than “gave” and added a few caveats, but who in their right mind would’ve expected such an innocuous wee post would be leapt on by an emotionally-stunted Bluebottle wittering on about contract law as if he knew the first think about it??
Although, in retrospect, I should’ve known better, right?
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45 minutes ago, Cappiecat1.2 said:
He didn't contend any of that, neither did he allude to it or infer it.
He said that your one month's wage as a pay off statement was a product of your imagination and in fact utter nonsense and on this occasion he was absolutely correct.
…..except that I didn’t say Lithgow was getting his January wage as a pay off (for the absence of doubt, nor did I “allude to it” or “infer it”). He was obviously going to get a negotiated settlement for the balance of his contract. I’d’ve thought that would be obvious to most and wouldn’t have to be said, in a short post wishing the guy well, but apparently the hard of thinking and the nit-pickers are always with us. And, if you check my initial post, you’ll find that it was me who said “I’d imagine”, nobody else. And I went on to say it was giving the player some time to find an alternative club.
What that twat DID say was that I was wrong in saying that Lithgow’s departure would have been mooted and discussed earlier than just over the last day or two. None of us know for sure but common sense dictates that I will be correct in that assumption. I’m more than happy for you and him to think differently, or refuse to admit that I could be correct.
On balance, then, a swing and a miss for you both.
19 minutes ago, The Ghost of B A R P said:My tuppence-worth: our Viking brother could have told you you were wrong in less confrontational terms (that's up to him, btw), but there's little doubt that you are in fact wrong...
We don't know when the conversation started, but we do know that any player, Lithgow included, is less likely to take a negotiated pay-off in November or December than he is in late January, for the compelling reason that he needs to be a free-agent before the transfer deadline in order to be able to sign for a club of his choosing after that (so why would he piss away another couple of months of a full-time wage, presumably higher than what he's moving to?).
The whole process didn't happen in the last few days, but its conclusion happened on 30th January because... well, that's when it's got to happen (not, as you originally suggested, because Imrie is somehow 'giving' Lithgow January's wage).
He'll almost certainly pop up somewhere very soon, almost certainly part-time... everyone's a winner... and there's very little in the final analysis worth arguing about.
Christ, don’t you start as well…..
Your second paragraph - where did I say that we were looking to pay him off in November or December?? I said nothing of the kind. I said that there will have been discussions over the course of this month and possibly earlier, and that is what virginton (I love when autocorrect does that
) was taking issue with, nothing else. I wouldn’t have expected the news to be released before it was, and as I said I now expect him to pop up elsewhere this week. The negotiated settlement for the balance of his contract was probably conditional on him staying on the books at Cappielow on presumably a higher wage than he’ll be getting going forward (note that i said “presumably” as we have no way of knowing). I could’ve said “Morton” rather than Imrie agreeing that , that would’ve been more accurate, but then again I didn’t expect the the fucking Spanish Inquisition (by the way, NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition) over one short post wishing the guy well.
Apart from the first two lines of your post, the rest of it shows that your thoughts and mine on this are on very similar lines. Club, manager and player will have known for much of this season that a “by mutual consent” in January could be a possibility, they’ll have talked about it early in the window (which was vt’s only bone of contention re my first post, and we agree that he will have been wrong in that
) or earlier, and now that we’ve reached the end of the month all parties can move on.
(except for on here, obviously)
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2 hours ago, virginton said:
But we both know that your interpretation of events is utter fantasy with no resemblance to reality. Thanks for playing anyway.
Dear oh dear……
You’re not seriously contending that Imrie and Lithgow and members of the board only sat down to discuss the player’s future after Saturday’s game, are you? REALLY??
There will have been at the very least an opening conversation early in the transfer window, and very possibly even before the end of 2022. While neither of us has much knowledge of “how professional football contracts work”, unlike you I do at least have an awareness of how things work in the real world. Either the player, the manager or the club will undoubtedly have initiated a discussion - Lithgow was one of the highest paid at the club, if not THE highest paid, and he was getting hardly any game time. One, two or all three of those parties will have sought a meeting - from all three perspectives it would be a dereliction of duty NOT to, with the opening of the transfer window giving an opportunity for Morton to save a wage and pay off a contract, Imrie to maybe free up a wage for a new player and Lithgow to get a payoff, find himself a new club and get back to playing regular football. That hasn’t just all happened in the last few days and it would be ludicrous to contend that it did…….. but, here we are.
Your argument, such as it is, is completely untenable, which is why you’ve given up on it and resorted, as usual, to insults and abuse. Grow up, ffs.
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6 hours ago, virginton said:
'Imagine' being the key word for this utter nonsense account of how professional football contracts work.
You know no more than I do about what went on.
Imagine being proud of posting such utter shite. Still, you've had plenty of practice.
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12 hours ago, Paisley Ton said:
Well that's Lithgow offski.
Must be going part time and heard he had lined up a 9 to 5 job
Good luck to him, he did a decent job for us - we were almost always a better team when he was in it.
I'd imagine Imrie gave him this month on our wages to find another club, and I'd expect to see him announced somewhere else in the next day or two.
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3 hours ago, virginton said:
All managers make poor signings - the trick is to get a good ratio of winners:donkeys - and for me the impressive business we have done was secured as soon as the window opened.
As the month has gone on, I've been progressively less impressed by our business. For me, signing Roy and Oakley is a waste of resources that could have been targeted at one more credible option. We do not need 'bodies in the door'.
Bookmarked for future resurrection.
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2 hours ago, wastecoatwilly said:
The problem isn't VAR it's the officials making a mess of there interpretation in real time.
When Spain introduced VAR every hand ball in the box was a penalty maybe it's easier for the officials to go down that line of thinking and feck common sense.Until VAR was foisted upon the game the ref and his two assistants had a fraction of a second to view an incident in real time, and if they couldn’t be as near as 100% sure that an offence had been committed they wouldn’t give it - or, at least, shouldn’t have.
The problem now is that those in the VAR room either feel, or are being instructed, that they have to use the technology to its fullest, micromanaging every decision to get it just right and to hell with how long it takes. IMO they should be told to watch an incident n o more than 3 times and over no more than 30 seconds, and if they can’t decide by then that an offence has been committed then let the referee and the teams get on with the game, as was the case before VAR. This business of watching a replay ten times or more and then getting the referee to watch it another three or four times is farcical - in a game as fast-moving as football is (or should be) the possibility for marginal decisions maybe going the wrong way has always been there. VAR can certainly help that, but those in charge should be told to make decisions more quickly. That might mean some wrong decisions still being made, but it seemed to take forever yesterday for them to still get it wrong.
Plus, as yesterday showed, the handball rule as it stands is a bit of a joke.
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8 minutes ago, AyrshireTon said:
Have to say, from the look of it on the screen above the goal, that pitch was a shocker.
Aye, if the rest of it was as bare as the stretch in front of our fans it makes you wonder how bad the Hampden pitch must be to have had Postecoglu bumping his gums about it last week. Funnily enough, I haven’t seen him saying anything yet about how Celtic benefitted from a VAR & referee decision yesterday……….
I don’t think a single person bar the goon on the VAR monitor noticed that incident, including the referee. The ball nicked off Baird very close to Ambrose, who was facing the other way. He couldn’t be deemed to have hit it intentionally with his arm, which wasn’t in an “unnatural position” in relation to the rest of him, and both before and after the ball hit him it was moving away from goal. Compare and contrast with the Connor Goldson incident in the Old Firm game the other week, and let’s hear a referee defend the decisions given………. But don’t hold your breath.
The only thing that can be said in favour of having VAR at that game is the fact that Celtic have the big screens at either end. Pretty quickly during the long looong wait for the VAR decision the screens were showing the reason for the check, which was at least something as nobody in the ground had a clue up till then. If we’re going to persist with VAR then we need to make sure that at grounds without screens the stadium announcer is able to inform the fans what’s happening. Fitba’ is meant to be an entertainment business and currently the public are being shortchanged, both by VAR decisions and by how it’s being used.
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Good one.