RandomGuy. Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Apparently Ferguson's resigned due to them falling out the play off places. They currently sit 14 points off the play off places... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 11 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Apparently Ferguson's resigned due to them falling out the play off places. They currently sit 14 points off the play off places... To be fair it doesn't say that. It says out of the race, not the places. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolfie Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Sky Sports EFL co-commentator : "Mentality-wise when you tire the 1st thing that goes is your brain". Holy feck!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 New signings? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolfie Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 BBC national news reader : "....the death of Tommy Gemmell, who was known as the Lisbon Lion" Ok, hen, there was only one of them? ffs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I recall Nat Lofthouse was "the Lion of Vienna". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/scotland-the-worst-title-race-in-europe-since-1932-z68l83g02 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Malcolm Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 19 minutes ago, accies1874 said: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/scotland-the-worst-title-race-in-europe-since-1932-z68l83g02 'Attendances have collapsed across the league.' Why oh why do people persist with this nonsense? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blastie_12 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/scotland-the-worst-title-race-in-europe-since-1932-z68l83g02 I actually agree, and it's probably because sevco were allowed to start in the bottom tier and bigot their way back up instead of being done forever.. and ever.. and ever 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainbowrising Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 16 minutes ago, Malcolm Malcolm said: 'Attendances have collapsed across the league.' Why oh why do people persist with this nonsense? because it proves we need a "strong Rangers" which has been the beating heart of most of Scottish media for the last 5 years. I don't recall articles like this in the 90's when they were having all sorts of love-ins with the Record etc. They don't seem to get that the strong Rangers was actually the Wizard of Oz operating on huge debts and illegal tax dodging schemes and illegally registered players and ended up in liquidation. This apparently is really unfair (not 20 years back though) and proves how crap the rest of us are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 (edited) It's simply lies. It's repeated too often and widely to only ever be misunderstanding. At the turn of the year 9 of 12 Premiership clubs crowds were actually up on last season, admittedly a couple only modestly; and only 3 were down with 1 of those modestly. Divisional average is no different that it was in the seasons between the recession and Rangers going bust. Truth would be "Attendances in Lanarkshire have fallen 12%". Dubious of this least competitive league since Hungary in 1932 claim, too. EDIT: So having read the full article... the people on the ground they went to for quotes were Archie McPherson and Gordon Smith . Justification for the big claim of collapsing crowds is given by the fact that the journalist went to Hamilton v Aberdeen on Tuesday, and found the stadium half-full; plus he's looked-up the averages for Hamilton, Aberdeen and Motherwell and discovered they are all down... Conveniently the only 3 clubs that are down - and even then Aberdeen's only by a sliver. Coincidence and very bad luck on the part of the writer - or deliberate and selective deception, either by him or whoever informed him? He then goes on to consult Richard Wilson - "an expert on Scottish football viewing figures"! - then uses the claim that TV figures for Celtic games are down 1/3 to 1/2 to prop the argument. Shoddy piece of so-called quality journalism. We can all look up 2 or 3 clubs - a pair of them having bad seasons battling relegation - find their crowds are down and claim it's a widespread trend. We would all be misleading people in doing so. EDIT AGAIN: Of course the whole thing is also predicated on the assumption that a 1-horse race is terrible and makes everything bad. Fact that most non-OF fans don't care between that and a 2-horse race doesn't really get a look-in. Edited March 3, 2017 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Malcolm Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 30 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: It's simply lies. It's repeated too often and widely to only ever be misunderstanding. At the turn of the year 9 of 12 Premiership clubs crowds were actually up on last season, admittedly a couple only modestly; and only 3 were down with 1 of those modestly. Divisional average is no different that it was in the seasons between the recession and Rangers going bust. Truth would be "Attendances in Lanarkshire have fallen 12%". Dubious of this least competitive league since Hungary in 1932 claim, too. EDIT: So having read the full article... the people on the ground they went to for quotes were Archie McPherson and Gordon Smith . Justification for the big claim of collapsing crowds is given by the fact that the journalist went to Hamilton v Aberdeen on Tuesday, and found the stadium half-full; plus he's looked-up the averages for Hamilton, Aberdeen and Motherwell and discovered they are all down... Conveniently the only 3 clubs that are down - and even then Aberdeen's only by a sliver. Coincidence and very bad luck on the part of the writer - or deliberate and selective deception, either by him or whoever informed him? He then goes on to consult Richard Wilson - "an expert on Scottish football viewing figures"! - then uses the claim that TV figures for Celtic games are down 1/3 to 1/2 to prop the argument. Shoddy piece of so-called quality journalism. We can all look up 2 or 3 clubs - a pair of them having bad seasons battling relegation - find their crowds are down and claim it's a widespread trend. We would all be misleading people in doing so. EDIT AGAIN: Of course the whole thing is also predicated on the assumption that a 1-horse race is terrible and makes everything bad. Fact that most non-OF fans don't care between that and a 2-horse race doesn't really get a look-in. I absolutely hate Archie McPherson. I'm in my thirties and the pompous old buffoon has managed to sound like an absolute dinosaur for as long I can remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillresigned Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 All this journalistic hogwash about whose going to take charge of the Big House/Drum (?) at Castle Greyskull and nary a mention of the complete lack of money or access to funds thereof?The complete lack of serious analysis of all things red, white and blue is a disservice to Rangers supporters most of all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Of course it's all lies and misinformation. HJ has summed it up perfectly. The hidden agenda here is simple - it's an anti-Scottish one. Look at the newspaper it's in FFS. Rags like the Daily Record push their pro-Rangers agenda because that's their readership. Rags like the Telegraph push their self loathing/patronising-at-best/pathetic Jocks stuff because, well, that's their readership. And Archie McPherson has been a prize welt for decades. No surprise to see him in the servile Better Together (ha!) camp back in '14. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Someone on Twitter noticed the article doesn't even feature in the Scottish edition of the paper, only the English one. Fucking shitebag, say it to our face you coward!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 1 hour ago, stillresigned said: All this journalistic hogwash about whose going to take charge of the Big House/Drum (?) at Castle Greyskull and nary a mention of the complete lack of money or access to funds thereof? The complete lack of serious analysis of all things red, white and blue is a disservice to Rangers supporters most of all. SNAKE MOUNTAIN! IT'S FUCKING SNAKE MOUNTAIN! CASTLE GREYSKULL WAS WHERE THE GOOD GUYS LIVED, AND SEVCO ARE NOT THE GOOD GUYS! RRRAAAAAAAAHHHHH! -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoon Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Horrendous piece of "journalism." For a country that apparently dosen't care about Scottish football, they're utterly fixated with it at times. You know the Croatian top flight, where European cannon fodder Dinamo Zagreb are going for their 12th (TWELTH) title in a row? Why don't you speak about that? How about talk to fans of Rijeka (famously bodied out of Europe by Aberdeen might I add) how they feel about it? No, he goes to Glasgow and speaks to some dinosaurs and a fucking cab driver and tries to pass it off as imvesrigative journalism. Get him in the sea. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 11 minutes ago, TheGoon said: Horrendous piece of "journalism." For a country that apparently dosen't care about Scottish football, they're utterly fixated with it at times. You know the Croatian top flight, where European cannon fodder Dinamo Zagreb are going for their 12th (TWELTH) title in a row? Why don't you speak about that? How about talk to fans of Rijeka (famously bodied out of Europe by Aberdeen might I add) how they feel about it? No, he goes to Glasgow and speaks to some dinosaurs and a fucking cab driver and tries to pass it off as imvesrigative journalism. Get him in the sea. The cab driver was spot on, Rangers are pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 SNAKE MOUNTAIN! IT'S FUCKING SNAKE MOUNTAIN! CASTLE GREYSKULL WAS WHERE THE GOOD GUYS LIVED, AND SEVCO ARE NOT THE GOOD GUYS! RRRAAAAAAAAHHHHH! Being a little young for He-Man, I have recently watched a few episodes on Netflix. That is some grade-A bat-shit brilliant nonsense. Stunning watching. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s_dog Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 2 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: Fact that most non-OF fans don't care between that and a 2-horse race doesn't really get a look-in. Unfortunately the only football journalist that can see past the 1-horse/2-horse race what difference does it make really, is Jim Spence. The rest are just blinkered. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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