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It is iconic as even for premier league sceptics like me it was an amazing moment. The problem is sky sports turning it into a marketing piece and playing it at every given opportunity. Also although he didn’t say it on that specific occasion, Andy gray absolutely used ‘take a bow son’ as his little catchphrase.

It is iconic as even for premier league sceptics like me it was an amazing moment. The problem is sky sports turning it into a marketing piece and playing it at every given opportunity. Also although he didn’t say it on that specific occasion, Andy gray absolutely used ‘take a bow son’ as his little catchphrase.

Is that unpopular? The group stages in particular are absolute shite.

True but mcghee’s post match interview was a laugh

You will get nowhere with him, I promise.

Milky ways are shite to be fair

Yeah it’s all about context. The headlines I’ve seen use bodies or people, it’s only in the body of an article I’ve seen the term immigrants used. It’s just informative as you instantly know the nature of it.

It isn’t really

I used to think I was smarter than my parents when I was a kid too

Was that a prediction or an instruction?

Was that the "Stevedores" season? I blame the Greeks

5-0 again please

This is thoroughly stupid, no offence.

Can of beer on the train is always a surefire way to ensure you’ve got space. Unless you’re really unlucky and the train alcy decides you could be his mate.

The 76 points we got in 2016/17 is (I think) the highest ever non-OF points total (not sure if that factors in the 2 point per win era) and the lowest points total the league has been won with in the past 10 years is 79 points, and that is a considerable outlier as a bad points total for Celtic in a season. They are generally late 80's or 90's. It's incredibly difficult for any club to sustain the consistency required over a whole season with the size of squads available to the diddy sides. Clearly what Kilmarnock did was amazing and it's not impossible for a club to achieve it but even if they did it would be a one off.

Wrong, Torres for Chelsea

Should have asked what part of Birmingham he was from.

Scott Brown cost us many points in the second half of that season, it's why I'll never like that big toothed German idiot Jurgen klopp for taking Danny Ward away from us then sticking him on Liverpools bench. The title was always a very long shot to be honest but I lost all hope that day. At least Barry Robson smashed Scott Mcdonalds face in, every cloud.

Or we could split it into three groups pre-playoffs, East Coast, West Coast, and OF, with a playoff at the end between a certain number from each group (only 1 from OF). They could play each other 33 times while the rest of us battle it out for playoff spots.

Again, I am supportive of change but is the finals series really more tv friendly? They'd sooner have an extra OF game than see Aberdeen v Hearts in a playoff. TV is about the mass market, which is the casual observer who wants to see either a) elite level football or b) some sort of novelty circus with lots of noise and colour or hatred and anger. Since a) doesn't exist in Scotland b) becomes the selling point. You can see it already this season, every result each team gets is framed around how it affects the other. Whilst we compete in the global market we'll be doing what the tv companies tell us they want. How many people watch in England and beyond matters more to them than what the vast majority of match going Scottish fans want. Our domestic game is not built for the likes of you and I anymore really.

I don't disagree but there's some fundamental issues to address to get clubs on board. Clubs priority is to grow revenues and investment in the game, not necessarily presenting the most competitive domestic game. TV is where the money is, not mugs like you and I coming through the gate. Presumably a playoff system includes less games, which means less people through the turnstiles for all clubs and significant shrinking in revenue, same for TV money. Regrettably, it means less OF games and Sky/BT lose interest immediately. Where do clubs make up that shortfall in cash, you'd just see a mass exile of the top players in the game, maybe a price worth paying short term but doubt clubs would see it that way. Also I return to my European football point, if it makes it possible that say an Aberdeen (or any other diddy) goes into the CL qualifiers instead of Celtic, the OF will shite on it immediately.

Won't quote the whole post. I agree with the sentiment but the fundamental problem is the capitalist nature of football. The clubs, the SPFL, the SFA see us as competing in a global market, not simply growing a domestic one. That means having our top teams competing in Europe to attract investment, tv deals etc and everyone, except the fans of course, reaps the rewards. A salary cap on the OF in particular means Scotlands days of competing in European football are over, so no one in power will sign up to it. No one. Similarly ditching leagues for a more of a lottery might see a total diddy team take our CL spot, which again, no one will sign up to it. Your ideas are feasible if a) Scottish football operated in a bubble and b) if boards of directors owed a duty of care to the fans and not predominantly the shareholders and their investments. The clubs have signed up to this to such an extent that a lot can't survive without tv money and the pay day that a visit from the OF brings, so they are too far down this road. 2012 was the chance to make real change, it's gone now and we're back to business as usual.

Bounty’s are lovely thanks very much.

You killed our dreams that day. No need to laugh about it.

Now that the Mcinnes juggernaut is back up to full steam ahead I fully expect us to take this defeat on the chin and beat Hamilton.