Derry Alli Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Forgot all about blethering Fitzy and his "highest paid manager in our history and biggest budget alongside it - we are top four Paisley". Some potential there, too. Especially when the fan owned thing happens next month. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 9 hours ago, AmericanFan said: Will someone provide a proper definition of banter? I'm guessing it's something like a club bottling an entire season with poor decisions and results? Basically yes. Providing opportunities for supporters of other clubs to point and laugh. Just being bad on the pitch isn't really enough for most clubs, you have to really earn this title. It's not really a thing other than on here I don't think, first time I heard it was in 'the Banter years' thread to describe rangers' 'journey' through the lower leagues in a parody of 'the wonder years' tv programme. They lost to lots of small part time teams despite having a multi-million £ squad, made ridiculous appointments, tremendous outbursts from fans, the club periodically came out with ridiculous cringey statements, all under the cloud of dodgy financial goings on and much more. Halcyon days. Whilst we all want to see our own clubs succeed, the thing which sustains Scottish football most is the enjoyment derived from the suffering and misfortune of others. It's the lifeblood of the game up here. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Looking good for a banter season in the Premier. Two big hitters in the field back. Celtic off to a flyer with stellar off field incompetence. Dons showing possible potential to bring back the good times of the Ebbe/Patterson era. Livingston are always on the brink of giving us a laugh. Rangers, at least the fans and possibly the board if not the team, will always find a way to contribute. Ideally i'd like hearts 4 adrift at the bottom with 8 to play. Any outcome from there would cause a delicious mix of hilarity and heads gone. Fun times ahead. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Fundee Ushite-it. Thank you. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 26 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said: Fundee Ushite-it. Thank you. Scumling Lolbion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 The way Sxottish football is structured only Rangers, Celtic and St Johnstone can win trophies. I would guess laughing at the failure of rivals is more important to Scottish fans than anyone else. It is to me anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 51 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said: The way Sxottish football is structured only Rangers, Celtic and St Johnstone can win trophies. I would guess laughing at the failure of rivals is more important to Scottish fans than anyone else. It is to me anyway. And yet we get chased out of your thread anytime we mention the 'Doon Derby'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 I fear we may fancy a tilt at this given we've made an absolutely terrible managerial appointment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 20 minutes ago, johnnydun said: And yet we get chased out of your thread anytime we mention the 'Doon Derby'. You're welcome to mention it but we are welcome to point out that landing the last punch on an already unconscious fighter pales into insignificance compared to the indignities we have visited upon you over the years. However, I fully appreciate its all you have. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 7 hours ago, TheJTS98 said: I wouldn't say Hearts have gone completely quiet. Last season we chucked a Scottish Cup final from leading a penalty shoot-out and also got knocked out the Scottish Cup by a team from a town with a population smaller than the year of our formation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 3 hours ago, TheJTS98 said: Nobody as far as I'm aware. A load of complete shite released, but we all look forward to them being replaced by injury-prone players in their mid-thirties on three-year contracts. Have Hearts become Aberdeen? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 Awarding this retrospectively, who would get it each season since year sevco? I had a go, but struggled with 2016-17 and 2017-18 as can't remember too much about them. I put Brechin for an entire season without a win, but I'm not sure they should get it as it was a brilliant over-achievement getting to the championship in the first place. Not sure if Utd did enough either: 2020-21 Celtic 2019-20 Hearts 2018-19 Falkirk 2017-18 Brechin City ? 2016-17 Dundee United ? 2015-16 Rangers 2014-15 Rangers 2013-14 Hibs 2012-13 Rangers 2011-12 Rangers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 2 hours ago, coprolite said: Looking good for a banter season in the Premier. Two big hitters in the field back. Celtic off to a flyer with stellar off field incompetence. Dons showing possible potential to bring back the good times of the Ebbe/Patterson era. Livingston are always on the brink of giving us a laugh. Rangers, at least the fans and possibly the board if not the team, will always find a way to contribute. Ideally i'd like hearts 4 adrift at the bottom with 8 to play. Any outcome from there would cause a delicious mix of hilarity and heads gone. Fun times ahead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: Awarding this retrospectively, who would get it each season since year sevco? I had a go, but struggled with 2016-17 and 2017-18 as can't remember too much about them. I put Brechin for an entire season without a win, but I'm not sure they should get it as it was a brilliant over-achievement getting to the championship in the first place. Not sure if Utd did enough either: 2020-21 Celtic 2019-20 Hearts 2018-19 Falkirk 2017-18 Brechin City ? 2016-17 Dundee United ? 2015-16 Rangers 2014-15 Rangers 2013-14 Hibs 2012-13 Rangers 2011-12 Rangers I think we have to be a pretty solid shout for 2016/17 and 2017/18. The close season in 2017 was very much our banter era, when we got relegated, released a load of players and staff via voicemail, went through about three chairman, sacked our social media guy for liking pornography and recruited a new team partially from YouTube. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 54 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: 2018-19 Falkirk I'd say we earned it jointly with Falkirk at least in that season. Quite simply one embarrassment after another. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasda2 Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Fair chance it will be the Dons but the real banter will kick off when the Falkirk Variation of Covid 19 (yet to happen but it's coming) kicks in after 22 games played; Aberdeen are bottom of the division when fitba is cancelled and the SPFL votes for no relegation due to curtailed season. Happy days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 4 hours ago, TheJTS98 said: Depends what you mean by entitlement. When people say that they generally just mean a club's support has a minimum level of expectation. I don't think it's unreasonable for supporters of Hearts, Hibs, or Aberdeen to expect their sides to generally be in the top half of the Premiership, given the resources the clubs have. If that's entitlement, so be it. But let's say Motherwell were relegated to League One. Their fans would perceive that to be below their minimum expectations and would be annoyed. Would that make them entitled? Do you only become entitled when under-achieving? Semantics, I suppose, but just seems a pretty loaded word to describe something that applies to every football club on the planet. There’s a pretty fine line between expectation/ambition and entitlement/delusion, and it’s all in the eye of the beholder. Lots of folk in the Scottish media thought that if an Aberdeen fan didn’t think mcinnes was doing an amazing job then they were entitled. Still, I think hearts, Aberdeen etc probably do have a decent percentage that fall into the ‘entitled’ side of the margin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambieBud Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Fair chance it will be the Dons but the real banter will kick off when the Falkirk Variation of Covid 19 (yet to happen but it's coming) kicks in after 22 games played; Aberdeen are bottom of the division when fitba is cancelled and the SPFL votes for no relegation due to curtailed season. Happy days.The seethe from Tynecastle would be a joy to behold 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanFan Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 5 hours ago, PauloPerth said: Basically yes. Providing opportunities for supporters of other clubs to point and laugh. Just being bad on the pitch isn't really enough for most clubs, you have to really earn this title. It's not really a thing other than on here I don't think, first time I heard it was in 'the Banter years' thread to describe rangers' 'journey' through the lower leagues in a parody of 'the wonder years' tv programme. They lost to lots of small part time teams despite having a multi-million £ squad, made ridiculous appointments, tremendous outbursts from fans, the club periodically came out with ridiculous cringey statements, all under the cloud of dodgy financial goings on and much more. Halcyon days. Whilst we all want to see our own clubs succeed, the thing which sustains Scottish football most is the enjoyment derived from the suffering and misfortune of others. It's the lifeblood of the game up here. Thanks. Man, the way the last few weeks has gone, this has Celtic and/or Dundee United written all over it, right? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 6 hours ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said: Fundee Ushite-it. Thank you. Scumdee Pooshited imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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