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Nah. Your dad was a gloryhunting fanny too!

The stadia happen to not be in the same place, just very close together. If you draw a line L between the two centre spots, take the midway point between them and then draw the line perpendicular to L that goes through the midpoint, that's the border between 'people nearer Dens Park' and 'people nearer Tannadice'. It's just a geometric happenstance that the borderline splits Dundee so that more people are on the Arab side of the line than the Dee side.

In an idle moment of procrastination, and using the last Scottish census data and a bit of python scripting with postcode longitudes and latitudes, I worked out what the nominal team supports in Scotland would be if everyone in Scotland was a decent upstanding football fan who supported their geographically closest team. It does seem somewhat related to this thread so I'll drop it here. Essentially the 'Locals' column here denotes the number of people for whom that row's team is their geographically nearest, notwithstanding some approximations due to consolidated postcodes... I didn't know what to expect, but it turns out that Hibs and Hearts, as well as Partick Thistle, St Mirren and Queen's Park, are the biggest losers from the gloryhunting proclivities of the OF fanbase, and it turns out that wee Elgin City has a moral claim to more supporters than Rangers. Who'd have thought?

You're dead 100% wrong here. Jack Ross has turned Hibs around and I have every confidence that the exact opposite will happen. We're going to concede, then score, then concede then score again. Mark my words.

That would still point to either a Friday or Saturday kickoff, and Rangers still get the Saturday game, because of their Wednesday kickoff the week before.

Maybe, but why would they need to? The Friday kickoff will annoy the Inverness fans, but on the Scottish Professional Football Scheduling Priority list, the ability of away fans to travel to see the game is a decidedly tertiary consideration, with them coming just below 'whether the companies advertising on Premier Sports would like to concoct a pun involving the kickoff time in their slogans' and just above 'whether the third-choice reserve ballboy has a school exam the next day' in the pecking order.

Hibs vs Hearts is on the following Tuesday so neither will play on Sunday. Rangers play in Europe on the Wednesday the 26th, so they won't get the Friday game. So Hearts vs Rangers is on the Saturday. If it can be avoided, the Police will advise that Hibs and Hearts don't play at home at the same time, meaning that the Hibs game will be on Friday night. Due to the 3pm Saturday TV embargo, I'm guessing the other two fixtures will happen on Sunday.

Nicely cherrypicked - it's 6 in 14 since Hecky was dumped which is a respectably mediocre win rate. Sixth place finish beckons.

If we're being tangential, has that Abdul Rafiq - the Muslim Rangers bigot - had his Ibrox ban lifted? He was loitering around Buchanan Street Subway after the game bedecked in full Union Jackery. Wouldn't surprise me if he's still banned from the game but hangs about outside with a packet of crisps and a bottle of juice...

I'm guessing the preferred mode of matchday transport has changed from the municipal bus service to hoverboard, unicycle or perhaps penny farthing.

This isn't an argument. It's just contradictions!

In American media news, tobacco industry shill, cigar spokesman and all-round far-right blustering windbag Rush Limbaugh has just announced he's got advanced lung cancer. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humour?

Can confirm. As someone who lives about five minutes walk Easter Road, there's generally no Hibs tops on show, except on matchdays. There's more chance of coming across a full-kit Celtic w****r in the wild as a Hibs top. You might see a few folks walking up the road wearing normal jackets with the Hibs logo but that's generally folks working at the stadium/ticket office/shop and it'd be classed as workwear.

Hibs' ability to cause the heids to explode at Ibrox is sadly waning these days, with two grim results so far this season, and even the wee team Hearts are doing a better job of causing mass orc seethe. It's not helped by the big Swiss striker instantly forgetting whose payroll he's still on after trying on a blue jersey so that Rangers are gleefully causing seethe to go the other way. Shockingly, there's still tickets for sale at the away end only two days before kickoff. Hibs banter years glory days are very much on the downturn. I don't expect anything other than a routine home pasting.

When Old Firm fans brag about the money they bring into the smaller clubs, can you blame the clubs for actually acting as though they mean it?

It's not that big. The distances you're talking about are maybe, what, 15-20 miles (about as far apart as Edinburgh and Livingston), and maybe 2000 people, not all of them locals (outside of Lerwick proper, which is 7000 or so). But yeah, there's noticeable differences - especially when islands are involved.

Gray was our best right-back option after Naismith got crocked. Despite us having about six of them on the books. What's surprising is we didn't chuck one out the door once we got McGinn in.

Kamberi, McNulty, Docherty and McGinn are all on the bench this afternoon.

Berra's on loan. Only way that makes sense is if Hearts are still paying a hefty chunk of his wage bill because Dundee can't afford him.

I'm under the impression Jamie Gullan was promoted to the first team as a drop-in replacement for Oli Shaw, so that makes three.

Not when you take into account that McNulty's come off the bench for most of those games and played about 660 minutes of football to Kamberi's 1300. Neither are startlingly great scoring rates, mindyou, but McNulty is scoring at a higher rate.

I do appreciate a considerate spammer who actively seeks out and spams a relevant, pre-existing thread to spam in. It's a nice touch.

He's injury cover, really. It does make a kind of sense. Jason Naismith has been knocked out through injury for six months. The remaining people who can play the right back position are David Gray (who is notoriously fragile), Tom James (who is shite), Steven Whittaker (who is okay playing anywhere *but* the wing) and Tommy Block (who's just a kid from the dev team who only switched positions a month ago and probably belongs on loan in the lower leagues).

I think you somewhat invited the 'racist' accusation when you expressed a preference for wearing KKK uniforms.