[raith_94]

It would be fantastic if it turned out the Daily Record and Sun were found to have been hacking phones. Get them shut - they only exacerbate the Old Firm problem in this country.

New favourite thread.

I will be back. Often.

[Hawk89]

oht, on 10 August 2011 - 10:51, said:

Diddy cup but related to this topic - couldn't even get the opening sentence right.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ll/14459075.stm

That really irked me last night when I read it. Who actually sent that report in? Beginning to wonder if they just make up what happens in the build up to the goals.

I'm just waiting for Billy Reid to be mentioned in the same week as managing Ayr and Hamilton as per usual with Ebbie Malone playing centre half for us.

[RRFC2711]

Sky score centre called it the Scottish League cup quarter finals, despite being eight games played , we also have Lillie Dyer playing for us, they have no idea of the play off situation in the lower leagues and constantly f**k it up. It becomes frustrating that no research or interest is shown or carried out. why dont they recruit (Media in General) from within. I`m pretty sure that our prolific posters on here say VT (yeah i know and i`m a Rover) would be able to give a factual report on the SFL, the county fan who has the statistics blog (apologies for forgetting name) and a true grasp of SFL 1 teams would be invaluable.

Rant over

Sorry to bore you

[RRFC2711]

And another thing, the one that really gets me....I realise Ayr fans have a different course..........The player who is a Legend at Starks Eleven years service, player and manager, scored THAT goal....i give you his address in the media.....Gordon Dalziel.......(EX RANGERS).............Fuckin Boooooooooo!!!!!! !!!

[Don of the South]

Great thread! And I'm sure it will be a very busy one throughout the year.

The lack of just basic research and knowledge in Scottish journalism is worrying sometimes.

Sorry if it's SPL related but there isnt a similar thread in that forum. Sunday Mail (I think) last week committed the very common mistake of "captioning picture of black player wrong" when they referred to a picture of Isaac Osbourne as "Aberdeen's Josh Magennis"

[RRFC2711]

Don of the South, on 10 August 2011 - 13:02, said:

Great thread! And I'm sure it will be a very busy one throughout the year.

The lack of just basic research and knowledge in Scottish journalism is worrying sometimes.

Sorry if it's SPL related but there isnt a similar thread in that forum. Sunday Mail (I think) last week committed the very common mistake of "captioning picture of black player wrong" when they referred to a picture of Isaac Osbourne as "Aberdeen's Josh Magennis"

Never mind black players, in the eighties, Ian Ferguson played for St Mirren and Rangers, Another one played for Hearts and Dundee United, We at the time had our own Ian Ferguson This nearly melted the caption / photo fuckupometer..........

[madmitch]

Hawk89, on 10 August 2011 - 12:42, said:

That really irked me last night when I read it. Who actually sent that report in? Beginning to wonder if they just make up what happens in the build up to the goals.

I'm just waiting for Billy Reid to be mentioned in the same week as managing Ayr and Hamilton as per usual with Ebbie Malone playing centre half for us.

Daily Retard had Baird hitting the post. Pretty sure he screwed it wide from where I was sitting.

[palmy_cammy]

RRFC2711, on 10 August 2011 - 12:47, said:

And another thing, the one that really gets me....I realise Ayr fans have a different course..........The player who is a Legend at Starks Eleven years service, player and manager, scored THAT goal....i give you his address in the media.....Gordon Dalziel.......(EX RANGERS).............Fuckin Boooooooooo!!!!!! !!!

Yeah that one really does my head in, it just adds to the notion that there are only two teams in Scotland. "Ex Ger Stephen Dobbie" is the recent example I can think of. He was at Rangers as a youth but didn't make a single first team appearance for them. He has since reached a League Cup Final with Hibs, Scottish Cup Final with us, and won the Championship Playoff two years running. I'm sure it's his time in the Rangers reserves he looks back on with the fondest memories though!

[Owsley]

Sky now seem to be switched on re the play off positions and the split, but it's taken them years. It also bugs me how they and other stations say "Albion" instead of "Albion Rovers".

[Duncan Freemason]

Hawk89, on 10 August 2011 - 12:42, said:

That really irked me last night when I read it. Who actually sent that report in? Beginning to wonder if they just make up what happens in the build up to the goals.

I'm just waiting for Billy Reid to be mentioned in the same week as managing Ayr and Hamilton as per usual with Ebbie Malone playing centre half for us.

Oh definitely. A while back, a friend of mine at the time couldn't be arsed going to Paisley to cover the St Mirren game, and basically sat in front of my telly and wrote a generic report based solely on what was coming through on teletext. He was only hired for Sunday copy, not Monday, so he didn't have to cover player and manager quotes. He reckoned (certainly back then), that a fair old number of reports from the lower leagues were bluffed together in this way. Of course, if you were providing Monday copy and reports on the same game for multiple rags, then it wasn't a practice that would work for very long before you'd get caught out.

[ptptptfc]

Sky usually report that kris dhoolan or chris erskene is playing for us, also annoys me how the sfl doesn't get a tab thing on sky sports news.

[McKee]

Yep, Morton had James Grady up front last night. According to every fucking outlet in the land.

[Skyline Drifter]

Owsley, on 10 August 2011 - 18:17, said:

It also bugs me how they and other stations say "Albion" instead of "Albion Rovers".

What's wrong with that?

How is that any different from saying "Ayr" instead of "Ayr United" and "Hamilton" instead of "Hamilton Academical"?

[Comrie]

I remember the days when Football First was on and they wouldn't even bother with County games at Victoria Park at times. Really, the papers only care about whipping up nonsense about the Old Firm for the loon brigade of the both sides to get excited about.

[Swampy]

Skyline Drifter, on 11 August 2011 - 09:09, said:

What's wrong with that?

How is that any different from saying "Ayr" instead of "Ayr United" and "Hamilton" instead of "Hamilton Academical"?

The same say it's different from saying "Greenock" instead of "Greenock Morton" or... "Morton."

It's because they're known as 'Rovers', not 'Albion', if you want to use their short name.

I can draw you a Venn diagram or something if this makes too much sense?

[raith_94]

Comrie, on 11 August 2011 - 10:05, said:

Really, the papers only care about whipping up nonsense about the Old Firm for the loon brigade of the both sides to get excited about.

The Sun's Ramsden's Cup preview on Tuesday (I read it while waiting in a Chinese Takeaway and I'd finished all the ladies mags) had a picture of Andy Goram holding the Challenge Cup with the caption, "Goram led the celebrations when Queens won the cup in [whenever it was]".

Anything to draw the eye of the bigots. Probably works.

[Skyline Drifter]

Swampy, on 11 August 2011 - 12:13, said:

The same say it's different from saying "Greenock" instead of "Greenock Morton" or... "Morton."

It's because they're known as 'Rovers', not 'Albion', if you want to use their short name.

I can draw you a Venn diagram or something if this makes too much sense?

Yes please. Draw me a Venn diagram you tiresome cause chaser.

[WendyWho?]

Swampy, on 11 August 2011 - 12:13, said:

I can draw you a Venn diagram or something...

I can draw you a Venn diagram!



It's nae bathir, pal. You're welcome.

[Owsley]

Skyline Drifter, on 11 August 2011 - 09:09, said:

What's wrong with that?

How is that any different from saying "Ayr" instead of "Ayr United" and "Hamilton" instead of "Hamilton Academical"?

Swampy kind of answered it, in his own unique way! They are different because they aren't known as "Raith" or "Ayr", their fans call them Rovers. Bloody stupid name anyway, always thought they should rename themselves Coatbridge Rovers.

[Owsley]

oht, on 10 August 2011 - 10:51, said:

Diddy cup but related to this topic - couldn't even get the opening sentence right.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ll/14459075.stm

What was wrong with that sentence?

[dave.j]

From today's (Thursday's) Glaswegian.

here

The paper says...

Any deal to secure the one-time Rangers wideman would not involve a wage and he could pull on the club colours for the first time today in a bounce game against Kilmarnock.


in the same column they carry a quote from Ian Maxwell...

We have a bounce game against Killie on Wednesday and he may get a run out... .



you guessed it, the bounce game was yesterday.

[Hank Scorpio]

Owsley, on 11 August 2011 - 15:47, said:

What was wrong with that sentence?

The game was played at Cappielow.

[raith_94]

Owsley, on 11 August 2011 - 15:45, said:

Swampy kind of answered it, in his own unique way! They are different because they aren't known as "Raith" or "Ayr", their fans call them Rovers. Bloody stupid name anyway, always thought they should rename themselves Coatbridge Rovers.

I call us 'Rovers', most fans of other clubs call us 'Raith'. In the great big world of lazy Scottish fitba journalism/punditry, this is merely a rouge sweetcorn in the jobby.

Nothing to see here.

[Raith Against The Machine]

A new week, and a new flood of journalistic bullshit, no doubt.

I don't have it to hand, but the Sunday Times report on the Dundee v Ayr Utd game takes a stonking early lead. Having already stated that "Moffat gave Ayr the lead", in the next paragraph it goes with "Dundee's Jake Hyde broke the deadlock" shortly followed by "Gareth Wardlaw was denied an equaliser..."

[Sergeant Wilson]

Dear old Hugh Keevins makes a Hannibal Lecter joke in reference to Ian Black. He refers to "lava beans and a nice chianti." I can just imagine old Shug ordering dinner like Del Boy Trotter.