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    I guess the idea is that these dual-qualified players will be more likely to play for us at full level if we've helped a bit with their development., although that idea hasn't worked out for the Irish recently with Jack Grealish and Declan Rice. Wales and NI sometimes cap younger English-born players at silly young age in full competitive games to cap-tie them. e.g. Ethan Ampadu
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    In my experience of Scottish football (particularly Hibs), cock-up is a far likelier explanation for a strange sequence of events than a conspiracy.
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    Tremendous amount of cope from the Aberdeen lads. "never wanted him anyway" (I'm sure you prefer an ageing Niall McGinn / Connor McLennan) "cost Hibs a few quid to give him a contract" (which they were negotiating already) "
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    Presumably this is a one-year extension for Boyle, and not a deal for new plumbing at the training ground and/or Easter Road. https://twitter.com/HibernianFC/status/1427967262045073408?s=20
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    They tweeted the main angle of it yesterday. https://twitter.com/HibernianFC/status/1427521197621735429
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    Top work. Otherwise the existing deal would have run down by 12-18 months, by which time Boyle would be pushing 30 and clubs (including Hibs) would be nervous about signing him long-term and/or giving him a pay rise.
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    More seriously, if the council continue to play silly buggers, get the SRU on their case. They usually have some influence in these matters, e.g. getting the drink ban relaxed for rugby.
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    Nixon's own paper reported that Watford offered 2.5m for Doig in June.
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    If that was the case then UEFA would have postponed tonight's game surely? They aren't going to reinstate Celtic and get PSV to play an extra game. True, but they could come up with an alternative solution in the event that Midtjylland forfeit both the Celtic and PSV ties. Instead of making PSV play Celtic at short notice they could put PSV through to the UCL playoff and put Celtic directly into the UEL groups, which is what Midtjylland would get if they lost "normally" to PSV. Jablonec would get a bye to the EL playoff (instead of playing Celtic) and Midtjylland would get punted down to the UECL playoffs. That said, I think the likelier scenario is that they give PSV a walkover and put Midtjylland into the UEL groups, because UEFA didn't notify Midtjylland that there was an issue with Juninho being banned worldwide until this week. Celtic and Jablonec would carry on as normal.
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    I doubt whether Bohs would sell any away tickets (officially or otherwise). They were playing in the Aviva last night, but everyone was c. 2 metres apart. I think it was sold out on that basis.
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    The weird one for me is that St Johnstone seem to be getting a harder draw if they drop into the Conference than if they get past Galatasaray and stay in the Europa. Their five options in the Europa are AZ, Zorya Luhansk, Antwerp, Sturm Graz and Randers, while their four options in the Conference are Anderlecht / Laci, Rennes, LASK / Novi Sad and Maccabi Tel-Aviv / Spartak Trnava. Probably not a lot in it, but just seems odd.
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    Rijeka will be pretty happy with getting a draw there, as Dinamo almost always win that league. To put it into context Dinamo knocked Spurs out of Europe last season (lost 2-0 in London, won 3-0 a.e.t. at home), and that was against a full-strength Spurs team as winning the UEL was by then their best chance of qualifying for the UCL. Rijeka aren't as good as Dinamo, but that's still a level or two above where Hibs normally are. As for the draw, I think Feyenoord / Luzern would be best. Feyenoord barely squeaked past some Kosovon mob in the second round and if the Swiss upset them, that would be a winnable tie as well. St Johnstone beat them on pens 5-6 years ago.
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    Even in the game on Thursday night, the period of pressure the Andorrans had a few minutes before their goal came from Doig playing a ridiculous pass inside. I've got to give Mathie credit for sticking to his guns and getting the 4m +add-ons for him. I was starting to worry that he was being priced out of a move.
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    Emphasised the important word there... it's just Hibs assuming that they will get at least the same as last week, and getting those booked up, while asking for more.
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    Some people still hurting, it seems. Post marked on Monday 26th. Nice handwriting on the envelope though.
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    The live stream from yesterday is still up. All the goals were between 38:45 and 44:50.
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    This mob are the worst team ive ever seen us play against and we look all over the place at the back against them. We need a defender asap. McGregor should start on Sunday. That's an absurd exaggeration, unless you've never seen most part-time Scottish teams or you missed the games against the Faroese mob in 2018. The goalkeeper was dreadful in his decision making, going walkabouts for the pen in the first leg and the first goal in the second leg, but their outfield play was competent. If you go through their results over the last 10 years or so, as they are in Europe each year, they haven't really been humped at home since about 2010. That all said, Hibs will have to improve significantly to beat Rijeka.
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    the Nations League route for Euro 2020 was just a replacement for having third place teams in regular qualifying go into the playoffs for Euro 2016, so it kind of is comparable. We missed out on that because we only finished fourth in the Euro 2016 group (behind Germany, Poland and Ireland). There were 24 teams at Euro 2016 and we didn't qualify, there were 24 at Euro 2020 and we did.
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    TBF they actually came up with an "outside the box" appointment for the women's team recently, having take absolutely ages (> 6 months) in the process.
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    Would rather listen to that than Tam McManus Looks like everyone agrees https://twitter.com/HibernianFC/status/1420657542817058816
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    I suppose it will give them an idea of the demand for Hibs TV presentation and commentary @ £9.99, as opposed to some Andorra radge talking in Catalan for free.
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    Born 1 January 1997 or later. So Kieran Tierney and Kevin Nisbet would be eligible from the Euros squad, as well as the 23 year-olds. Spain have got quite a few of their Euros players at the Olympics, including Pedri. 3-4-1-2 Craig Gordon Ryan Porteous, Jason Kerr, Kieran Tierney Nathan Patterson, Billy Gilmour, Callum McGregor, Greg Taylor David Turnbull Che Adams, Kevin Nisbet
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    Goal tallies have generally accelerated since the 60s/70s/80s because there are more internationals played and more of them are against San Marino et al. e.g. Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 109 goals in 178 internationals; Eusebio scored 41 in 64. Similar strike rate, in fact Eusebio's is slightly higher, but Cristiano has played almost three times as many games. That's partly because Portugal have been in just about every tournament during his career, whereas the only tournament Eusebio went to was the 1966 WC (where he was top scorer), but it's also because there are more qualifying games (+Nations League) nowadays. The damning indictment of our forwards post-Dalglish is that not only has his record not been broken, nobody has even come within hailing distance of it, despite having loads of games against San Marino, Faroes, Gibraltar and so on. And our number of games have held up during the 2000s and 2010s even though we never qualified - we played 89 in the 1970s, 87 in the 1980s, 92 in the 1990s and 86 each in the 2000s and 2010s.
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    Correct. In the absence of Dalglish, who was near the end by then anyway, our four strikers in the 86 WC squad were Steve Archibald (4 in 27 for Scotland). Graeme Sharp (1 goal, in 1988). Frank McAvennie (1 goal, in the playoff v Australia) and Charlie Nicholas (5 in 20). Nobody in that whole squad ended up with double figures goals in international football (Paul McStay scored 9).
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