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  1. I think the way this is set up you don't actually need to have a signal to use it, as long as you've opened up the app at some point earlier in the day (week?).
  2. A perfect example of someone trying to sound smarter than they are.
  3. Glad you enjoyed this, was brilliant fun to be involved in.
  4. While what they did with Clydebank was reprehensible, it is worth remembering that there wasn't an option to "work through the leagues" at that point. The new Airdrie did first of all try to apply to the SFL to fill the vacancy left by the original club going bust, but Gretna were elected instead. Had they not bought Clydebank at that point, they could have set a club up in the Juniors, but there was no pyramid system in 2002 and wouldn't be for another 12 years.
  5. I think it is incredibly unlikely that Clarke isn't actively speaking to these types of players to see whether they want to be involved. He successfully "recruited" Dykes and Adams before Euro 2020 and similarly was able to convince Gunn to join up with us for this campaign, and none of those players seemed to have any issues integrating into the squad - indeed Dykes seems to be one of the most influential members of it. If the players aren't interested then it's better and easier for him to publicly say "they know where we are" rather than sounding desperate. The likes of Barnes, Gordon and even Anderson (who he obviously did at least initially successfully convince to be involved) are high level players and it's always going to be harder to convince players who have genuine belief that they might eventually play for England. We are only going to want to bring in players who are going to actually improve us - Wales are calling up Championship junk, and I'm sure we'd have much more success if that was the type of guy we were after.
  6. Still reeling from putting himself forward as Glasgow Uni rector and getting about 43 votes.
  7. The other clubs admitted their guilt, City didn't and therefore they have to go through the whole process. This is City's MO in general, to obfuscate as much as possible, which is what got them off with the UEFA charges they were clearly guilty of. Therefore the Premier League are having to make sure everything is watertight before they proceed.
  8. (They play at the Cardiff City Stadium now, btw)
  9. Shankland is also excellent at linking play at Premiership level, and like Griffiths he has broadly not proven that at any higher level.
  10. I had actually forgotten that Zander Clark played for Queen of the South.
  11. We did well in 3 of the 5 unless you're going to twist logic to suggest the performance in Spain was anything other than very good. And it completely changes your point, since your original point was "It's a year since we beat Spain and there's a good argument that we've been in decline ever since". This implied that we hadn't played well for a year, but you excluded games played in June and September to make it. Therefore you've immediately brought it down to 6 months, with the three competitive games in that period being a good performance in Spain in October and then two admittedly sloppy ones in November after we'd already qualified.
  12. So people saying we played well for 70 minutes against Holland is going to convince the players, who probably already know that they played well for 70 minutes against Holland, that it would be OK to turn in another performance like that? And that's a bad thing?
  13. They're surely just using it as basically a stock photo of football.
  14. Yes, I am seeing the players swimming in plaudits right now, hopefully all this cheerfulness doesn't make them 2% worse at the Euros.
  15. He's fundamentally not better than Fraser, who would be in the squad if it wasn't for his attitude. Conway and Doak are being talked about because they are youngsters who people think have a long-term future with Scotland. Hardie is 27 and is in the midst of his first ever season in the Championship. His only other spell at any sort of half-decent level was with Livingston in the Premiership where he also did fine. It's hardly as though he was battering the goals in during the run-up to these games either, which is not the only thing that matters for our forwards but is at least going to give Clarke something to think about in terms of being different from the other guys he already knows and trusts.
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