ShaggysBeard
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Dunfermline 6 - 2 Valencia. Introduced by Bob Crampsey.
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13 hours ago, meanmistermustard said:
Stuart Bingham commentating on the Astley v Muir match in the snooker shout-out. Astley wins it by potting the back with three seconds on the clock yet Bingham sounds like he's had to watch one of his own boring as f**k matches.
The competition is pretty crap overall but can be exciting when it's down to the final seconds.
I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I enjoy it as a spectacle, I was expecting that when it went to a ranking event last season the players would be in a more serious mind set but it's still treated as a fun event. I think since it went to the full 128 at the venue the rankings have been devalued, only really matters to you if you're on the line near the top 16 for Worlds and Masters qualification and the line for top 64 for decent draws.
That said, there's no way it should be a ranking event. It's a ludicrous idea, Barry Hearn has made a right c**t of this one. It should be a non-ranking, a crazy prize fund to attract the top players and plugged everywhere and preferably on Sky Sports and not tucked away hidden on ITV4 after Poirot or some shit.
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People who still use the "dancing on the streets of Raith" quote, that's arsehole patter now.
Describing Tennent's as piss water while drinking Stella or similar out a pint glass with a wee stem and bowl type shape.
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Erm no, Manchester has dozens of clubs across its metropolitan area, at almost every level of the English game. In the same way that even diddy village townships like Brechin and Forfar possess more than one football club. The 'too many clubs' argument rests on the bizarre belief that being a 'senior club' (the English 92; Scottish 42) carries some sort of magical power that gets diluted by having more of them under that category. It's a completely arbitrary cut-off point.
That's a fair point, large support for junior and non league football also. Doesn't detract from the hypothetical stance that if there were less clubs with a greater following it would make a better spectacle.
As it is, Scottish domestic football is as healthy as we can expect it and don't agree with an urgent restructure.0 -
1 minute ago, 1320Lichtie said:
And what difference would it make getting rid of these clubs at the level they’re at? They’re self sustaining and make a pittance in the grand scheme of things. What would getting rid of them achieve?
Absolutely nothing. I said that in the first line. Nothing can be done now.
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1 minute ago, 1320Lichtie said:
Too many teams, explainI wasn't offering a solution. It's just the way the country developed.
If you were to do a round trip from Montrose down to Arbroath, Dundee round to Forfar and back to Montrose. You'll have done a mere 60 mile roadtrip and the collective population under 200,000 and containing 5 senior clubs. No wonder it's hard to run a club there's not enough fans to go around.
In England, you have places like Birmingham, over one million and contains only two clubs. Manchester, one city two clubs but populated by 500,000. Leeds, one club city with population of 750,000. Newcastle, one club city and a population of 280,000. Sunderland one club and a population 275,000. Even the smaller sides, Preston one club town of 122,719. Plymouth one club town of 260,000.
Hypothetical shite, but imagine the leagues developed differently and the 400,000 of Fife were represented by one senior club, be a lot less teams in the league but be much bigger clubs.
42 senior clubs for a population of 5,000,000 is too much. It's no wonder clubs are struggling and it's just the Old Firm, 5 or 6 medium sized clubs and a barrel load of tiny clubs.
I am of the opinion we should just accept that this is the way it is and enjoy what we have.
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Having a cheeky pint. Putting on a cheeky coupon.
BOOM!!
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I think I must be one of the few that doesn't think there is much wrong with the domestic game. Quality obviously isn't great but with the levels of money players can earn at average levels in England and elsewhere attract players out of the Scottish top league, it's difficult to do much about that.
Too many teams for a country of 5million is about all I can see that's a hinderance.
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Having a wee go on these tonight. They are on offer down the Lidl. As far as I can make out it's just normal T with arty labels from the past.
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On 21/01/2018 at 14:34, MONKMAN said:
The wee fat pint glasses you rarely see anymore, gid find!
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That time Les Battersby turned up and paraded round East End Park with Sammy the Tammy pre-match.
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"Is a swan a duck or a bird?"
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I'm one of the rare fuckin weird b*****ds that prefer Diet Irn Bru to the normal stuff, it just tastes like syrup to me.
It's a marketing scam anyway, why would you tamper with a product that is already so dominant. What they should be working on is the reintroduction of the irn bru bar...
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Winger? Been a strange January for Johnston.
Robinson is known well by Johnston, which we've seen him do before with Paton, Ashcroft, Reilly, Nicky Clark. Craigen and Vincent have decent experience at this level and above which we know he looks for. These other two break that mould.
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On 23/01/2018 at 16:18, 19QOS19 said:
What age did everyone start introducing the potty? We have one just now and every so often I'll plonk her on it to get used to it but she's only 15 months so hasn't a clue just now and prefers to use it in the shower, filling it and throwing the water over her head.
I have two preschool boys (slightly less than two year gap) and even two brothers can be so different. I had one that went to it easy at around two, I think he only wet himself twice in total and never dirtied any pants. My youngest turned 3 a few weeks ago and is quite visibly still not ready, we've tried but it was obvious that it wasn't right yet for him. My wife is is off work in the easter holidays so he's going to spend that whole week in his big boys pants, finger crossed.
My own views are trying to discourage the view that the potty is a toy and don't push too hard. When they are 10 year old they won't be pissing and shitting themselves because of what we did at potty training. It'll happen fine.
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Fanny
And this auld bint. My wife watches River City and she does that auld lady comedy Scottish accent, hams it right up. Insufferable.
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30th April 1968. A famous day, particularly in Dunfermline's history. George Farm's Dunfermline won the Scottish Cup the weekend before when on the same day Rangers lost to Aberdeen meaning Celtic, still the European champions, could not be caught. 27,000 crammed into East End Park resulting in fans climbing the floodlights and taking the game in from the roof of the terracing. Celtic won the match 2-1.
Roy Barry carrying the Scottish Cup and Billy McNeill.
Fans on the roof of the terracing and up the floodlights.
The only men who have managed Dunfermline to their two Scottish Cup wins. Jock Stein jokingly attempts to wrestle the Scottish Cup from George Farm.
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I've no idea of context, but this popped up on my twitter feed.
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10 hours ago, Adam said:
Absolutely no shite teams seem to be at home this weekend, so opted for PSG v Montpellier on Saturday. Sure it will be a good game, but wanted to see what I watch on a weekly basis with Clyde.No a bad game to stumble across.
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Didn't Hibs have a prize draw that all season ticket holders went into and one of the prizes was a meal with Terry Butcher in the centre circle at Easter Road?
I'm sure that happened, but when I typed that out it does sound too bizarre.
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So I am, I make a comment about criticism of outgoing players from Falkirk, clearly aimed at Craigen, Gallacher's potential exit etc, and all I get back is unrelated pish about players that have done well after Falkirk loans/stints a decade or so ago.
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Good one pal
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Sorry, didn't realise you would take my comment as covering from the beginning of time.
Of late, every player to have left Falkirk has been slated on these forums.0 -
100% guys like Tim Krul, Kasper Schmeical, Michael McGovern, Scott Arfield and Anthony stokes have all done f**k all since their time at the 3 sided grangemouth arena.
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First World Problems
in The General Nonsense Forum
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My usual place where I get a coffee at work has changed the policy on loyalty cards.
Your 6th coffee is free. Previously this would include regular or large, now only includes a regular. I have to pay an additional 50p to get an extra shot in my free coffee.