VictorOnopko

Whether he oozes back into his old job is irrelevant - the ad was 100% minterific from start to finish.

They had 5 seasons in the top tier ending in 2010 mate. Last time Greenock were in the top tier was in 1988 when you conceded 100 goals. They were in 3 Scottish cup finals between 1997-2015. last time Greenock managed that was in 1948. Falkirk's 5 year stint in L1 has been funny obviously, but I'm still not sure you have the upper hand here tbh.

He just said it again! As we move past half past 3, we could maybe wrap up the still ongoing Aberdeen manager chat, fascinating though it is, and get more game updates from the grounds? Just an idea...

Think he has now confirmed he is not playing next week, so presumably he'll head home for a while. The Masters was always going to be a big ask given his form. I would be amazed if he's back playing the DPW tour before the end of the season though - much more money to be made and experience gained in the US while he still has a card and is making some cuts. He'd really be chucking it if he didn't go back after the Open (I also have a funny feeling he might do well at Troon - but that is probably just wishful thinking as he is my favourite player and it's my favourite course in Scotland; cannae wait to spectate there in July).

I hope I'm wrong but I just don't see where a -4 round is coming from today from Bob. There have been one or two tentative signs of progress in recent weeks (6th in Mexico and did OK at the Valspar) but it sounds like his iron/approach play is now misfiring badly; even at Valspar where he made the cut (just) he hit loads of wedges/short irons to distant 2-putt range or even missed the greens and short-sided himself a lot, so was forced to get up and down to many times. He also seems to get really annoyed really quickly and to be spending a lot of time seething, and playing the next hole after a mistake badly too. Psychologist badly needed before this season just slips away from him. That said, I'm intrigued by Tosti, the small angry Argentinian who is also in his debut PGA season. Apparently his behaviour is extremely erratic and he is -4 so far this week, so maybe angry golf works for some folk.

First two points are very dull takes indeed, well done. On the last one - Northern Ireland are 74th in the world m8.

This bait reminded me of your eye-bleeding Partick Thistle Liquidation / Gravedancing thread which brought quite a few of your fellow roasters crawling out of the woodwork. I hope you enjoyed your team's multiple beatings from the still very much operational and unliquidated Jags this season.

"Alexander Graham Bell: 'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.' "Let that sink in. The key to finding success in your career requires a diverse skill set and intellect, emotional intelligence and functional or technical skills are all important." Man, that's deep stuff, thanks Derek. He's truly a great football philosopher of our times, is DA. Definitely not just a guy who has a cringey quote to hand which he thinks makes him look clever. If he gets another gig then I suggest "Live, Laugh, Love" after the inevitably rapid sacking.

Indeed. And I'd be willing to bet that the folk wringing their hands about a cheaper, modern alternative being used have no interest whatsoever in Thistle or our stadium (and probably no awareness of financial pressures in Scottish football) except to have a wee tut about historical accuracy when walking past. Regional List (lol) MSP Sweeney's apparent suggestion to try to get the building listed at a time when work is already underway - which could therefore presumably cost us quite a lot of money in the unlikely event he could make a retrospective listing happen - marks him out, quite frankly, as a busybody. He apparently cares about the appearance and fabric of our old stand, but he clearly hasn't considered the overall interests of the football club playing at the stadium and their staff. The new windows look fine.

This. The Welsh fans seem to be suffering from a terrible case of mass humblebragging - the media coverage from people like Elis James (who I don't mind on 5L with John Robins when he's not talking about the Welsh football team) is hugely self-congratulatory and seems to be under the delusion that non-Welsh people find them fascinating and likable. "Look at us with our bucket hats, we're just a small country but boyo we've been through a lot, did we ever mention that Joe Jordan once handballed it and got a crucial pen otherwise we'd definitely been at the world cup finals - er, despite failing to score in that match and still having another to play, which we lost? We've never got over that - but we've been happy to cheer on Bale being a massive diving cheat for ten years. The Euros will miss us this summer even though we completely stank out the World Cup with a team of Championship jabronis." A Wales-free Euros is a very pleasant scenario. Hopefully they don't qualify for another major finals for 50 years.

This team has fewer stars than past Scotland squads but can play just as effectively as a team. It would quite obviously be our best ever team achievement to get to the knock out stages of a major tournament. I think we might do it, you seem sure they won't. Fine.

OK mate. Never mind that we finished 9 points ahead of Georgia in our group, and were unlucky not to take something from Spain away having outclassed them at home. We've had a few shit friendlies so we must be terrible now and by far the weakest team at the finals!

Optimism, and a few other reasons: We have a mostly excellent core squad of Premiership-level players and despite the scoreline we played really well for 60-70 minutes against the Dutch just days ago - we were confident and assured (until the subs f*cked it and we collapsed; we'll learn from that). There are always key moments and had Shankland's chance gone in we probably wouldn't be wringing our hands this morning. Most of our core players have finals experience now, unlike last time. We're always shite in friendlies, have been for years and years and for some reason we chose to play this one against a team who would be very well organised, defensive, and hard tackling and who won with a flukey deflected goal after a defensive gaffe. Heads went down when we lost 3-0 to Southern ireland in a friendly a while back but we've done OK since then, except the dire run of friendly losses. No idea why we agreed to play France away and fielded our reserves for example. The Euros group we have is not all that scary and if we can get a point from the opener then we have two chances to win and qualify. Scotland are much of a muchness with Hungary and the Swiss and if we have our first choice team available (and it doesn't include Patterson or Dykes as starters) then I fancy us to beat one of them. We haven't gone from world beaters against Spain a year ago to a hopeless basket case with no chance at the Euros as quiet a lot of folk are claiming. We have to trust the players and manager to show up when the time comes. Everything else is just noise.

I think we'll do well this summer and I'm not panicking like a lot of folk on here are. We qualified in style and need things to click again at the right time. My point is, we're at the finals. We waited 20 years to qualify for anything and Clarke has got us to two Euros in a row. If we get out of the group that'll make this the best Scotland team ever, and I still think we can do it. Not a loser or defeatist attitude, quite the opposite.

If someone had offered me us losing to NI in tonight's friendly in exchange for Wales getting papped out on pens to the Poles, I'd have taken it. We're going to Germany this summer and it'll be a good laugh whatever happens.

Yaaaaaaassss Get it RIGHT up you, Wales!!!

I'd say Wales are almost certainly going to slither through here, the bucket hatted wankers, but it'll be funny if they don't.

How is Clarke a fraud when we qualified for the Euros at a canter from a difficult group?!

Tonight's been shite but let's not go into full panic mode just yet.

Clarke is a great manager but he has a stubborn streak.

I don't know what's worse, that first half or folk claiming Andy Murray isn't Scotland's greatest ever sportsman. He is, by a long long way given what he achieved in a high profile sport against the best ever players in that sport. Chris Hoy maybe second. Alex Ferguson was a great manager.

Can GTF.

No self awareness after cheering on the diving top-knotted bellend for years then. At least it got downvoted!

Shelley Kerr sounds like Steven Pressley. And Jonathan Sutherland has a massive right foot.

i'd be more inclined to agree with you if it wasn't for their silly wee fanny ultras in khakhi paramilitary uniforms, their glorification of terrorism in Ireland, and the fact that they find losing (or sometimes even drawing) any domestic match absolutely unacceptable to the point of furious tear-stained protests. I think there's plenty of hatred amongst the Celtic support for their perceived enemies (you're absolutely right about the hatred underpinning Rangers tho). They're as bad as each other. Here are the clubs I can muster an opinion on. The rest I have no feelings about at all.