Decent pre season friendlies being set up for Livi


http://www.livingstonfc.co.uk/newsdet.php?...5&type_id=3



Roll on the new season...

There's a pinned thread for this, chief.



I'll say no more.

The LSC will be delighted with the proposed friendly.
Well, half of them.

playing a big team is all about getting a decent crowd and income!

we used to play Rangers every pre season during Keane's time

Unless Celtic have a couple of fancy new signings they intend to show of, your not going to be looking at a big crowd as you take on their reserves and youths.

Anyway, we all know your club has a 'special' relationship with the 'tic.

I hope we have a 'special' relationship wi your tean next season to and we gub you


Is the 'tattie' picking still going on at Firhill or have they spent any money on there park

That's rich coming from the supporter of a team that we practically owned last season. We'll have a fresh, new surface by the time the season begins son, don't you worry.

No wonder yours looks so good the amount of manure that graces it.

According to the Scotsman today, Tommassi is trying to get a Serie A team to play against us. No doubt if this does come to fruition, that it will be some mug that just got promoted.

Presumably the likes of Inter and Juventus should be falling over themselves to roll up at Almondvale then

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It was a horrible try, I'll never do it again.

I really, really, really detest this suggestion that we have a special relationship with Celtic. It's not the fact that we have had ex-celtic shareholders, players and managers at the club it's the suggestion that the implication that something sinister goes on. (Niz, I am not solely having a go at you.)
Honestly we have ties to lots of different clubs if you want to look at it that way. I really don't mind everyone having a go about the Meadowbank thing but I have NO time for this Celtic pish.



I doubt they would. However a lesser Serie A team might just. I heard Barcelona were coming to play Dundee Utd

An SPL team with whom there is a historical relationship.

Your wit is tempered by your lack of originality.

C-
Must do better.

That's a pass: I'm happy with that.

I'm not talking Juventus.
Right enough though, the SPL does command a lot of respect in the football corridors of power.

My post was in jest to Edinburgh Livi, who seemed aghast that it wouldn't be a top name coming.

We had Osasuna the other pre-season which was excellent. Even if you were to attract a team from the lower end of Serie A, that would be a good game to have.

Someone needs to tell the webmaster at Livi that they will never, ever be involved in an "international challenge match".

Indeed, no club will.

I'm not complaining at all but I'm certainly not getting my hopes up for a big team. "mug" probably was a bit harsh but what I mean is that it will be unlikely to be a well established Serie A team.

Osasuna on the other hand are a recognisable name. I won't be surprised at all if I've barely heard of the team even if we get the fixture with a Serie A team.


A challenging match against international opponents I think is the point they were trying to get across. I'd agree though, not the best word choice.

I'm not sure how else you could bill a challenge match between two teams from two different countries... ?

C- is a fail.

C is a pass...

Workmates son plays for Livi, he hasnt been given an exact date yet as to when to report for pre-season yet.

From (other) people's experience d was the fail threshold.
I wouldn't know, naturally.

Not like that.

An "International Challenge Match" is the official FIFA name for an International Friendly, i.e Scotland v Croatia; England v USA...

You're playing a friendly against foreign opposition. Simple as that.

of course with SQA Exams not having pluses or minuses, it's just grades.

I myself, touch wood, have never done worse than a C (and that was in S1 Art ) and since I got to choose subjects, have never dropped below an A in any.

There are those who think that, because the SQA award a grade for D, that they have passed if they get it. However, they forget to read that a D is described as a "near miss"

"I really, really, really detest this suggestion that we have a special relationship with Celtic"

If that's true, then you need to tell somebody at Livingston that you are not happy about it, and that it needs to stop. Jesus mate, it's there for all to see. At no time have you not had a Celtic man somewhere in charge. You've had one big time transfer deal. Guess who was the other club involved. Your club announces it's pre-season games, then at the bottom there's a bit about trying to arrange other games. Only one club gets a name drop. Celtic. The whole Livingston creation was about DK's vision of it being a feeder club to Celtic, and you have never ever gotten away from the green and gold.

So you don't actually have any alternative ways of describing a Challenge match against international opposition then?

When Meadowbank moved to Livingston, the chairman was Bill Hunter and the manager Jim Leishman. I dare say some of the Pars fans will be delighted to learn that Leish is really a Tim. Bill Hunter wasn't one either, but don't let that get in the way of a good rant.

And given the above, DK only stepped in later when Bill Hunter ran into money problems, so how he 'created' Livingston after the effect is quite a feat. Did he drive a DeLorean above 88mph or something? And the Celtic feeder club system was clearly working to design when Marvin Andrews signed for Rangers. In fact, only 2 of Livi's players ever went on to sign for Celtic - a great feeder system indeed. I was also completely unaware that Ibrox and Tynecastle legends Richard Gough and John Robertson were Hoops men too.

Aye, it's amazing what you learn on P&B!

PS. The Italian flag is green, white & red but I guess that's close enough eh?

I assume Duncan, my loyal friend, that you are financially challenged and have been unable to afford the bus fare out of the 'shire and along the road to Castle Greyskull? Faced with that dissapointment, you opted for the nearest team to wear blue. That's understandable, how ever un-palletable it must be for you to have an ex-Celtic man running your team.

Here's some facts for you;

1. Livingston have had 3 chairmen to speak of. I will concede that two of them were former shareholders in Celtic. However it is clear that there was not a succession plan unless of course you are suggesting that Keane deliberately took the club into administration, nearly bankrupting himself in the process, in order for his Celtic buddy to pick up the club for a song. Clearly not the case.
2. Managers come and go and out of 13 (lucky for some) managers since the move. Of those 13, 2 yes only 2 have any connection with Celtic. Clearly again you are barking up the wrong tree.
3. To my knowledge we have only made any money from Celtic in one transfer, That of Fernandez. The only other direct transfer to Celtic was Broto on a free. All the other countless transfers were not to Celtic. So not much of a success at being a feeder club. Fernandez only played 11 times for Celtic. If we were a feeder club, we'd be sacked.
4. The friendly with Celtic? Yeah let's name drop a friendly with East Stirling, that'll get the punters going.

So my loyalist chum, I have to ask, given that their is NO evidence of a special relationship, why do you persist with your wild and unfounded slurs. Is it just that if you are cut, you bleed blue? Were you affected by catholicism in a detrimental way? Do you have Cloisterphobia (a fear of nuns)? We may never know why you have this chip, so do us a favour, chuff off unless you actuallly have evidence of cooperation between the clubs, which you don't.

For the benefit of anyone else having a laugh at my ability to be wound up, no apologies. Whether he's fishing or not, some people on here will believe him when it is patently untrue. There is not a club in the land that won't have some sort of connection with another club, be it Celtic, Rangers, Hearts or Hibs. It's a small country. I have no time for Celtic, so this subject particularly winds me up.

"A friendly against foreign opposition". Or how about "cross-border friendly".

It is not an "International Challenge Match". Simple as that. If you don't want to accept it, then that's fine by me...but don't expect anyone to take your posts seriously again.

God some folk are awfy picky semantically speaking. A wee bit huffy too I'm thinking.

You should be on the stage.

Seriously, this is comedy gold.

Well said sir!

My but it must be a quiet day at the ingin farm if that's all it takes to upset you.

I am loving Benito.

Has to be done really

Shame we couldn't call it "Micky Mouse International Challenge Match" as thats the official name Dundee FC use

Must admit, i am at a bit of a loss to see how the possible arrangements of two friendlies is viewed as moving forward. Announcement of set dates maybe, but not the discussion of possible games.

It makes some of our recent pre seasons seem ground breaking and well organised in comparison!

It's simply because we have had basically nothing in regards to the footballing side of the club. The recent announcements of a new manager and these proposed friendlies really are ground-breaking considering the lack of excitement we've has since about December.

The first day of Livi pre-season...

5 players
An Italian mob
Davie Hay
and a translater

Sitting in the old Livi nitespot, eating pizza, while the translater speaking off propagna and no-hope dreams for the future from the Italian mob.

Well Spain started off their Euro 2008 campaign with defend in Belfast againest Northern Ireland...could this Italian Livi be on their way to glory???

Thats fair enough. Obviously, after the last few years, I know how you feel!

Careful Mr Darwin, your union jack underpants are showing ...

Eh?