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Didn't Christie score the OG which finally prompted the Lowster to relieve Alan Archibald of his duties after our shambolic start to the new championship season after relegation, when our summer recruitment had left us with about 2 players on the bench? Other than that, I only remember a sense of not really knowing what CE was for or what he was supposed to be doing in the years of watching him run around at Firhill. Like everyone else is saying though, he seems like a nice chap.
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3 minutes ago, Hammer Jag said:
Is there a German word for get it right up you, ya Fife weirdos?
Pech für dich, Fifer hosenscheissern.
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Well done DUFC!
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If Joe Hart is the answer, what's the question?
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20 minutes ago, true_rover said:
A pretty tinpot preview article on the BBC, playing into stereotypes
Scottish Premiership: Why you should embrace the bedlam of Scotland's top flight - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57821757That is an absolutely horrendous piece. "Nick McPheat" (?!!) forgot to add a bit about the coverage, too. I'd suggest something like this:
BBC Coverage
In keeping with the tinpot chaos of Scottish football, our coverage is both tinpot and chaotic. Your nan could do a better job on OOM than Chick, Biscuits and the rest of the old boys' club. When will we notice that Dundee United not Dundee are playing Aberdeen on Sunday? Stay tuned to find out!
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16 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said:
That's one bonny dog. No way would I get Casper to pose like that - sand and salt water send him into overdrive!
Haha - oh, she's activated by the beach and the sea and heads straight in and bounces about barking. There's usually a window for posing once she's tired herself out though!
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Fern on her hols again.
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That's O'Ware mutually consented, at long long last.
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2 hours ago, thistledo said:
Are your dislikes Partick Thistle and football in general?
Going by some of the Scotland threads, he also despises Scotland.
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14 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:
Same non reply as I got the last time - "Thank you for taking the time to send us your comments. We appreciate all the feedback we receive as it plays an important role in helping to shape our decisions.
This is an automated message (sorry that we can’t reply individually) to let you know that we’ve read your comments and will report them overnight to staff across the BBC for them to read too (after removing any personal details). This includes our programme makers, commissioning editors and senior management.
Thanks again for contacting the BBC.
BBC Audience Services."Lovely auto-generated stuff from the BBC's "audience services" factory in Belfast, which has been outsourced to Crapita for the past 20+ years. It's been read by someone there, very briefly, but the idea that it will be used to "shape our decisions" is risible.
You can be 99.999% certain that no one who works on the BBC's Scottish football coverage will see your feedback, which will make it tricky for them to take the factual correction on board and improve their efforts in future. Embarrassing them on Twitter is probably a marginally better strategy.
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48 minutes ago, AJF said:
The source wasn’t Joel Sked, it was from the tweet below, published by Michael Bochel who was employed by the SFA as Head of Digital at the time the tweet was published.
If true, surprising. Every time I have been to Hampden for a Scotland match in the past ten years or so (including one campaign as a season ticketer), almost every accent I heard around me was north-east.
The fact that fewer Celtic fans than Aberdeen fans are SSC members is pretty pathetic too given the overall fanbase numbers...
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10 hours ago, Avon Barksdale said:
This is tremendous. Riddled with errors and salty, salty tears.
"So how did we get to this point? Perhaps we can rewind to the mid-1980s, when Graeme Souness lured England internationals like Terry Butcher and Chris Woods to Ibrox. Whenever these guys represented their country there was a whole host of Bears tuning in. But the majority of Rangers supporters still followed Scotland.
When the Geordie genius Gazza joined Rangers in 1995, a few more made the switch from the dark blue of Scotland to the iconic white top of England."
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I remember thinking the Killie cheddar one looked pretty daft at the time, but really it's a lot better than the random betting companies all over the place now.
I hope Scottish clubs don't go down the Indonesian / South American / French route of having two dozen sponsors on each shirt. Not a great look...
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Tam Cerny's only 36. Get him out of retirement. We need a good shot stopper, but also a good goal-canceller who can simply tell the refs that it wasn't a goal.
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Very nice feeling deleting the League One bookmark this morning. Looking forward to next season and we seem to have recruited pretty well so far.
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On 05/06/2021 at 09:37, ThatBoyRonaldo said:
Is anyone on here a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society? Considering getting a mate of mine a membership as a wedding present (I am best man). Worth it for 55 quid?
Not a member myself but a pal was a few years back. Had several fantastic nights over in the Vaults in Leith, which is really atmospheric and does excellent food as well as the huge range of drams. The new Glasgow room looks nice too. I'd say it's a very nice gift. The optional extras they offer (just looked up the membership) look pretty good too.
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Just found this thread - lovely stuff. Here's Fern, our border collie, having a good time on Islay recently.
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That's an absolutely unbelievable achievement to do the cup double - congratulations to St Johnstone.
Nisbet should set Euro 2020/1 on fire, eh?
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"All I feel is peace and love"
"Nobody from the SPFL or the SFA will be allowed in the stadium, simple as that".
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1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said:
It's cringey stuff.
Everyone gets that relegation was tough on Partick but I just don't buy the idea that it was the greatest injustice in the history of football once you go through the detail. The thing with McCall is as well is he never gives any detail or rationalises his anger, just goes down the 'I could say lots on here, but what good would it do. I'll keep my silence and just you know I'm very, very upset'.
He's done it multiple times this season, either say your piece or shut the f**k up.
I'm a Thistle fan and I agree with most of what you say. McCall is on Sportsound a lot and if you're going to come onto the programme regularly to talk about Scottish football and (inevitably) your own club's fortunes, then the "keeping my own counsel" shtick is ridiculous, particularly when (as he did this week), he sounds like he's still absolutely seething, almost everything he says is boiling over with surly attitude, and he keeps referring to how he'll tell all in a full-length interview with Tom f*cking English. The world of Scottish football really isn't waiting with baited breath for that exclusive. I doubt I'd even bother to listen to it.
Relegation *was* tough on us, because it was a triple-whammy - after it happened based on a suddenly halted season, we then got £150k rather than 500k support having landed in L1, and the season was delayed too. so we couldn't play. That all said, it's long since time to shut up and move on because nothing is going to change now. McCall's done a great job to get us straight back up but sadly, his PR style appears to be from the cringey school of Jacqui "SPAD for Michael Forsyth and Failed Tory MSP candidate" Low.
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33 minutes ago, Fuctifano said:
I would be a lot harsher tbh, I'd obviously like Tiffoney to stay but would imagine his form will have alerted a lot of other clubs even in the Premiership bottom 6.
Foster I'd keep as he improved as the season went on and can cover both sides.
Everyone else could go and I wouldn't be fussed. The way I look at it is if we hadn't got promoted everyone would be wanting a clearout but now people want to keep some of these guys for a harder league?
Of the non-Tiffoney loan players:
Bell played well but this interview suggests he went P/T for a reason plus we're going up a level. Geggan, Erskine similar re going P/T. MacIver clearly not any better than our own front 2 and Wright was fine, I'd rate him slightly above Sneddon.
Of our own players I still don't see it with Sneddon and I've been consistent with this over the last 3 years, makes some good saves but let too many easy ones in. Williamson can go to Falkirk if he wants, think L1 might be his level. Penrice looked like a pound shop Arjen Robben vs Falkirk playing on the right wing but not sure that's the game to judge him on in that role, he needs to make a position his own and if Livi are interested he'd be stupid not to go. He'd probably be the only one I could be swayed on staying.
Cardle I didn't want to keep last summer, he did OK but again he's another year older and we're going back up a level. Gordon still doesn't score enough goals for being invisible 90% of the game.
In terms of incoming, it'll depend on whether McCall wants to stick with the 4-4-2, if so I would expect a few wingers and strikers given Rudden's injury history and his and Graham's likelihood of picking up suspensions. Wouldn't tremendously surprise me if we sign Dobbie, there was talk of it in January.
Pretty much agree with all of this. Tiffoney is an obvious priority to re-sign and I would hope we'd make him a good offer but if a top-tier club wants him then that's probably that. Foster still has enough in the tank for next season a league up but I doubt Cardle does, although he might stay on as an impact sub.
We definitely need a new 1st choice keeper. Penrice is very meh but if he does hang around then I've not entirely lost hope in him.
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I chuckled at Biscuits shouting "Yes!!!" on Friday night when one of Hearts's goals went in.
He's edged ahead of Chick "George Costanza" Young to top my list of the Worst Pundits in Scottish Football.
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1 hour ago, D'Jaffo said:
Nice try but the obsessed patter didn’t wash last year so it’s never going to work this time round.Nice try, but you've repeatedly posted in this thread, both at the time and its reanimated zombie version, and had your fun "pissing yourself" when we went down. You seem... interested.
I'm was pleased to see that your lot avoided the play-off spot. We can have a sporting series of McCall reunion matches next season now.
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29 minutes ago, Jollyjag said:
Looks like Ian McCall has got a lot to say in the next few weeks Looks like he’s not going to hold back
He's obviously still raging about the relegation but the best thing we could have gone on to do was to win this league at the first attempt. Job done, in style.
Might be time to let the victim stuff go (if that's what he's got a lot to say about).
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Having had Sportsound on in the background for a while last night, I think part of the problem in putting together a coherent podcast might have been that the programme itself was utter, utter drivel. Mark Hately droned on for a long time about how great a player he was and how wonderful it was to play for AC Milan; the panel agreed that the PGA centenary course at Gleneagles is really hard; and there was a lot of confusion over the rules of football. Also, due to the "ongoing situation at Ibrox" there was no commentary of any kind.
Adam, Burke and Hateley also predicted easy wins for "us" - hard lines, chaps.