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Why would ancient Hibernians (or Caledonians for that matter) be speaking Latin?

That was the league result? Maybe it's about time you got your cup game started.

Rangers-Aberdeen thread for this well-reasoned and entirely justified sentiment.

Speaking of mistakes, Lolls and pub car king have the same two hits, and should be on the same score, which by my reckoning is 238.

Division A Table and Outstanding Fixtures Division A P W D L Pts DearyMe 21 19 1 1 58 ancientnoise 20 18 2 0 56 AimHere 22 16 0 6 48 The_Curmudgeon 22 15 2 5 47 stewartmathers 21 11 0 10 33 Arabjoe 22 8 3 11 27 KenDeans 20 7 2 11 23 AH13STU 19 6 1 12 19 invergowrie 22 5 4 13 19 AlbinoRov 21 4 2 15 14 beef2711 22 4 2 16 14 The_kid1433 22 3 3 16 12 I did have to fish another result out of the chess.com gamelist, a draw between the_kid1433 and AH13STU, so if that wasn't a league match, please correct me There are five matches still to complete, all in progress, as far as I can tell, with stuff to play for at both ends of the table (if AlbinoRov doesn't get a result against AH13STU, the head-to-head results suggest that beef2711 gets the playoff spot) 14 AlbinoRov vs AH13STU 21 DearyMe vs ancientnoise 21 KenDeans vs AH13STU 22 ancientnoise vs KenDeans 22 AH13STU vs stewartmathers Results and calculations are on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

As far as positives go, I'm just grateful Hibs didn't join the ranks of the tiny select few teams that James Scott has ever managed to score against. Kudos to St Mirren for hooking him before that happened.

Looking at chess.com, it seems that the reason is that the engine thinks that otherwise, black has a small advantage. So a draw is in your favour. So after Qxh7 Nxh7 Bxh7 Kh8 then you can force a repetition draw by moving that bishop to and from h7. So this is really just machines being machines. Most people wouldn't be at the level where they could reliably evaluate this position as being very slightly black-favoured, so don't feel too bad!

Is it not the case that we replaced McKirdy, who didn't do much of anything, with the 18-year old? We replaced Doidge with that guy who scored the second goal against Killie a few days back.

That's McKirdy dropped off the same place we picked him up from, same as Doidge.

Absolutely. The traditional Leith hospitality to visitors is famed the world over.

Did he score a hat trick?

A hundred years of town planning wisdom has informed us that when you make car ownership shitty enough for drivers, they stop using cars, switch to public transport or walking, and cities become nicer. If you try to appease car owners with nicer facilities and wider roads and whatever, then more people start to use cars, and the city becomes as hellish as it was before you widened the roads. The very idea is to harass residents into not owning cars anymore. The usefulness of the policy is directly proportional to the volume of complaints about how annoying it is to own a car in Edinburgh. The answer to your question is that the residents shouldn't be parking cars anywhere, if at all possible.

Division B Final Table Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 22 21 1 0 64 pleslie999 22 18 1 3 55 PnbMathematics 22 14 2 6 44 Basedgodsa1nt 22 14 1 7 43 Dandies1983 22 12 1 9 37 mackieboz 22 10 1 11 31 markf268 22 10 0 12 30 N5_Spur 22 8 1 13 25 RBWatson 22 7 1 14 22 Dustysghost 22 6 0 16 18 DieHardDoonhamer 22 4 0 18 12 XCTR94 22 3 1 18 10 All the results are now in for Divison B, and this season's runaway winner is newcomer redVtop / @Caro-Kann - the guy with the chess name on the football forum and the football name on the chess site. From his near-perfect winning record this season, and his cup upset against Trogdor, it looks like we'll have a likely challenger for the top spot next season. Congratulations and very well played! Joining him in the automatic promotion spot is pleslie999 / @pleslie99 who also put in a very good showing and in third place is PnbMathematics / @mathematics - league restructure permitting, he'll have some chance of promotion to division A via playoff. And thanks to all the players of Division B for making this a very easy to run tournament. I hope to see you guys back next season, once we've sorted out the other, (rather less prompt), division and the playoff spots!

Division A Table and Outstanding Results Division A P W D L Pts DearyMe 21 19 1 1 58 ancientnoise 20 18 2 0 56 AimHere 22 16 0 6 48 The_Curmudgeon 21 14 2 5 44 stewartmathers 21 11 0 10 33 KenDeans 20 7 2 11 23 Arabjoe 21 6 3 12 21 invergowrie 22 5 4 13 19 AH13STU 17 6 0 11 18 AlbinoRov 21 5 2 14 17 beef2711 21 4 2 15 14 The_kid1433 21 3 2 16 11 For this week's results, I trawled the chess.com gamelist to see if I could find results that either I'd missed or hadn't been reported. The trouble with this method is that I don't know if you guys are playing each other in friendlies or games in other tournaments that don't affect the league, so any results I've found this way are recorded below - if I made a mistake, please correct me. Happily, for every outstanding result, there's either a game in progress or a (provisional) result to record. |-------+---------------------------+------------------------| | Round | Game | Status | |-------+---------------------------+------------------------| | 5 | AH13STU vs beef2711 | Win for AH13STU | | 9 | DearyMe vs AH13STU | Win for DearyMe | | 10 | beef2711 vs The_kid1433 | Win for beef2711 | | 12 | The_kid1433 vs AH13STU | Apparently In progress | | 13 | beef2711 vs Arabjoe | Apparently in progress | | 14 | AlbinoRov vs AH13STU | Apparently in progress | | 17 | AH13STU vs The_Curmudgeon | Apparently in progress | | 18 | beef2711 vs DearyMe | Win for DearyMe | | 21 | DearyMe vs ancientnoise | Apparently in progress | | 21 | KenDeans vs AH13STU | Apparently in progress | | 21 | The_kid1433 vs beef2711 | Win for the_kid1433 | | 22 | DearyMe vs invergowrie | Win for DearyMe | | 22 | ancientnoise vs KenDeans | Apparently in progress | | 22 | AH13STU vs stewartmathers | Apparently in progress | |-------+---------------------------+------------------------| As usual, results and calculations are on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

Oh my. I was keeping an eye on that game, thinking it looked like a draw to me. I didn't expect DearyMe to miss the mate threat!

Give it time. He's only just been signed the other day and has had at the very most one single training run with the team. A few sessions at East Mains to show him the ropes and he'll be drilled into being an ineffectual shitebag like the rest of the team.

Nah, not tonight. The horsing will be so brutal that Andrew Dallas will be moved to tears at the VAR footage and award Hibs a free penalty, out of pity.

Division B Table and Outstanding Results Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 22 21 1 0 64 pleslie999 21 17 1 3 52 PnbMathematics 22 14 2 6 44 Basedgodsa1nt 22 14 1 7 43 Dandies1983 21 11 1 9 34 markf268 22 10 0 12 30 mackieboz 21 9 1 11 28 N5_Spur 22 8 1 13 25 RBWatson 22 7 1 14 22 Dustysghost 21 5 0 16 15 DieHardDoonhamer 22 4 0 18 12 XCTR94 18 3 1 14 10 12 XCTR94 vs mackieboz 15 XCTR94 vs Dandies1983 21 XCTR94 vs Dustysghost 22 pleslie999 vs XCTR94 As usual, the results and calculations can be found on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/

Division A Table and Outstanding Fixtures Division A P W D L Pts ancientnoise 19 17 2 0 53 DearyMe 18 16 1 1 49 AimHere 21 15 0 6 45 The_Curmudgeon 21 14 2 5 44 stewartmathers 21 11 0 10 33 KenDeans 20 7 2 11 23 AlbinoRov 18 4 2 12 14 invergowrie 18 3 4 11 13 AH13STU 12 4 0 8 12 Arabjoe 18 3 3 12 12 beef2711 16 3 2 11 11 The_kid1433 16 2 2 12 8 5 AH13STU vs beef2711 9 DearyMe vs AH13STU 10 beef2711 vs The_kid1433 12 The_kid1433 vs AH13STU 13 beef2711 vs Arabjoe 14 AlbinoRov vs AH13STU 15 AH13STU vs Arabjoe 17 invergowrie vs The_kid1433 17 AH13STU vs The_Curmudgeon 18 AH13STU vs invergowrie 18 beef2711 vs DearyMe 19 ancientnoise vs AH13STU 19 The_kid1433 vs AlbinoRov 20 Arabjoe vs The_kid1433 21 invergowrie vs AlbinoRov 21 DearyMe vs ancientnoise 21 KenDeans vs AH13STU 21 The_kid1433 vs beef2711 22 DearyMe vs invergowrie 22 Arabjoe vs AlbinoRov 22 ancientnoise vs KenDeans 22 beef2711 vs AimHere 22 AH13STU vs stewartmathers For these outstanding results, report them if the game has been played, fire off the challenges if the game hasn't been played, and keep on playing if the game is in progress

Is it too late to bring Lee Johnson back?

Station Park seems to be one of the more idiosyncratic treks to the away end in the SPFL, I feel.

Mary Weiss, the leader of the Shangri-Las, and now she's gone.

He doesn't. Defending is sooooo 2023. We're punting all of our centre backs out to Annan Athletic on loan, Nick Montgomery is going full-on reverse-Levein and we're switching from 4-4-2 to 0-4-6. Doesn't matter if we concede as long as our 4 wingers and two centre forwards score one more goal than the other mob. We're going to win the league with more goals scored than Celtic, and more goals conceded than 2018-era Fort William. Have faith in the process.

Division B Table and outstanding Results Division B P W D L Pts redVtop 22 21 1 0 64 pleslie999 21 17 1 3 52 PnbMathematics 22 14 2 6 44 Basedgodsa1nt 21 13 1 7 40 Dandies1983 19 11 1 7 34 mackieboz 20 8 1 11 25 N5_Spur 22 8 1 13 25 RBWatson 22 7 1 14 22 markf268 17 6 0 11 18 Dustysghost 21 5 0 16 15 DieHardDoonhamer 20 4 0 16 12 XCTR94 17 3 1 13 10 As is typical, division B tends to be a lot more prompt with their game results. Here are the few that remain: 8 markf268 vs Dandies1983 12 XCTR94 vs mackieboz 15 XCTR94 vs Dandies1983 16 markf268 vs mackieboz 17 XCTR94 vs markf268 19 Dandies1983 vs markf268 21 Basedgodsa1nt vs DieHardDoonhamer 21 XCTR94 vs Dustysghost 22 DieHardDoonhamer vs markf268 22 pleslie999 vs XCTR94 As usual, results and calculations are found on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/