Lang Toon Saintee Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 6 hours ago, HibsFan said: Shame he spent the second of these "major Finals" diving about the place, the sort of thing that would usually treat us to several of your tear-stained match thread updates. However in retrospect his decision to leave Hibs in persuit of trophies has proven to be the right one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewh Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 "St Johnstone? Who is St Johnstone? f**k off St Johnstone"Emmanuel Dorado 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddie Holly Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Joy and agony at full time. A great day and grateful to be one of be part of the media team in the stadium today. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Liam Gordon's winners medal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankChickens1 Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Good night's sleep has left me no less bemused at just how badly Marvin Bartley wee-manned himself yesterday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Heliums Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Don't know if it's been said before, but David Martindale is a very good loser. Hats off to the guy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marly Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 A bit of an anomaly as finals go, probably down to the behind closed doors nature of the cup. Can't see County winning at even a half-full Parkhead, or Rangers folding like they did at Paisley after equalising late on. Well done to St Johnstone though. To think they said the tories weren't profiting off the pandemic. Making excuses for the failure of the Arse Cheeks?f**k Off!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Patterson Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 38 minutes ago, Mr Heliums said: Don't know if it's been said before, but David Martindale is a very good loser. Hats off to the guy. Certainly has more class than the CEO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fife Saint Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 That can't be real [emoji85] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durnford Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 TBH I kind of feel sorry for the St. Johnstone players. To grind out a (deserved) win in such strange circumstances and then celebrate in an empty stadium is truly surreal - they certainly deserved better. Once the lockdown is lifted maybe they can organise the full open-top bus thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durnford Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 One point on the sponsorship thing; whatever the rights or wrongs about having a betting company sponsoring a sporting event, they doubtless would have been basing their sponsorship on a final in front of a packed stadium with maybe 3 million viewers on national television. Okay; there's nothing that can be done about the lockdown; but for the SPFL to sign a deal with Premier Sports which effectively limited the audience to maybe no more 10k live viewers doesn't look like value for money if I was a Betfred executive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fife Saint Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 One point on the sponsorship thing; whatever the rights or wrongs about having a betting company sponsoring a sporting event, they doubtless would have been basing their sponsorship on a final in front of a packed stadium with maybe 3 million viewers on national television. Okay; there's nothing that can be done about the lockdown; but for the SPFL to sign a deal with Premier Sports which effectively limited the audience to maybe no more 10k live viewers doesn't look like value for money if I was a Betfred executive.They also cant control who gets to the final and will be fully aware of that commercial risk, spreading it over the 5 year deal.3m online viewers is fanciful, I think Rangers and Celtic get 300-500k viewers, indeed the last OF game during a crucial 10 in a row narrative was only 496k.Scotland Serbia game had 3 times that amount I believed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 One point on the sponsorship thing; whatever the rights or wrongs about having a betting company sponsoring a sporting event, they doubtless would have been basing their sponsorship on a final in front of a packed stadium with maybe 3 million viewers on national television. Okay; there's nothing that can be done about the lockdown; but for the SPFL to sign a deal with Premier Sports which effectively limited the audience to maybe no more 10k live viewers doesn't look like value for money if I was a Betfred executive.The competition has been on subscription TV since 2016, the same time that Betfred took over the sponsorship of the competition. This was originally a three year deal, but they extended it last year which suggests they were content sponsoring a competition that wasn't on FTA television.The idea that BT Sport would have had 3 million people watching it is wild, I can't imagine they even get that for big Premier League games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Derek Patterson said: Certainly has more class than the CEO. Third Lanark's second win? What's he waffling on about? Third Lanark never won the League Cup. Anyhow, St Johnstone join the 2 Cup Club - Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, Motherwell, Dundee, Dundee United, Kilmarnock, Partick Thistle, East Fife and St Mirren have all won both the League Cup and Scottish Cup. More or less who you would expect (apart from East Fife, maybe - they're probably unique having won both as a second division club?). Have I missed anybody out? Edited March 1, 2021 by Jacksgranda 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Don't have a clue who John Ward is but his tears taste fucking delicious. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Just me who loved fucking up the Davie Martindale redemption story? 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durnford Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 49 minutes ago, craigkillie said: The idea that BT Sport would have had 3 million people watching it is wild, I can't imagine they even get that for big Premier League games. BT wouldn't have got anywhere near that figure; sky might have as it would have been available to the UK and possibly a wider European audience. I know I was abler ot watch Scottish games when at my sisters place in France but rarely did as it invariably involve one or both of the sisters. I believe our win in 2004 was on channel 4 so had a reasonable take-up even though most viewers probably weren't based in Scotland. It is however a sad fact of life than any match including a member of the old firm still generates significant interest in the republic and across the atlantic (not that I'd imagine that would do Betfred any good at all). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Patterson Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, mizfit said: Just me who loved fucking up the Davie Martindale redemption story? If Livi had been playing any other team then I'd have said fair play to him. He did some stupid and bad things in his past but he turned things around and achieved something great. Didn't happen though and it was Saints anyway so no worries about a load of pious nonsense from the papers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Saints Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Shout-out to Callum Booth btw. An unfashionable player at an unfashionable club, but rarely lets us down. Good performance yesterday. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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