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Laurie Ellis won a manager of the month early on and he too was rubbish.

That fact that this discussion has entered the realms of probability in continuous systems with numbers being quoted to 3 decimal places confirms that VAR is shite and should be immediately placed in Baldovie Incinerator.

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I forgot about them!

Been keeping tabs on him once I'd seen the amount of goals he's scored. Could be useful if we can develop him using Gallagher and McIntosh experience. We should only attempt bring in youth (not loans) if we have the capacity to be able to improve them. That seemed something we probably weren't able to do with Shanks

How long before he plays the ball up the line with his right foot and it curls out of play?

Spot on. Two of those clubs in danger of disappearing altogether. Warrenpoint could/ should have went last season. Omagh Town a bit of a loss. **** me this is getting depressing.

Broadfoot's a dirty player (although quite a few of his 14 bookings have been for dissent). Baird recently seems to be following his example. Power's a player who can put a heavy challenge in. On the other hand, Robbie Muirhead has 10 bookings this season and I don't think anyone has ever accused him about him being that type of player (usually the complaint being the opposite). We've only had one sending off all season, which was harsh (one 24th of all sendings off, if you wondered). We have a physical side to us, absolutely, but it's more "what you see is what you get" physicality rather than "someone is going to get injured" dirty.

That's good to heat, sometimes football owners/bosses came portrayed like excited schoolboys with regards to their football club. Like any business should do; a multiple year plan or such covering positives or negatives. A lot of this comes back to the SFA not actually appearing to govern the pyramid, other than trying to shoehorn a b team league in for the benefit of a few clubs. A problem must be that the clubs have come from a system with prize money and such, and just plopped into an amateur setup with no income available other than sponsorship and matchday income. That is not sustainable for any business. The term semi-pro is thrown at Tiers5 down but in reality, its not. Down here in the SOS there are clubs paying players and others who are not, so basically they are amateurs in all but name. Again it all points to a pyramid set-up to appease UEFA or FIFA, without much if any thought given to its governance. It is kind of working for the clubs movig to the SPFL but the clubs moving the other way, tough luck. The whole thing is amateurish from my vantage point.

I think this possibly gets blown out of proportion a bit. I’m not sure our core support this season is that much less than it was say in the 80s when we were a middling First Division team. Difference in those days was certain games might attract more casual fans; Broomfield being in the middle of the town certainly helped and obviously it was much cheaper, but it’s not like we had a core of 5-6k coming to the games every week. At least our attendance figures are heading in the right direction after a decade+ in the wilderness and I think if we were to ever play top league football again (fingers crossed) we would get a few more folk coming back, and draw bigger crowds than the likes of Livingston and Hamilton did anyway.

Martindale saying he wants to keep 12 or 13 of the current squad

I always wonder how people quote WWE making say a £1million off a 12,000 seater (no maths went into those figures, just plucked at random) and now I understand why. In the US, during the PPV era, they were charging about $80 per PPV so no surprise to think we'll accept those sort of in the flesh ticket prices. Imagine Mania came to the UK.

Agreed, but I’d definitely take Moult back.

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Jim i wouldn't be gloating last week was dreadful no toilet facilities for people with disabilities whether it's 2 or 102 ice cream van when its less than 4 degrees and no place to see the game if you weren't standing at the barrier.

We're not just talking about forming a straight line from two points, we're talking about two players being in line with each other from an offside point of view (ie both an exactly equal distance from the goal-line).

State of that.

At the last tournament, he already didn't use two of those 10 defenders at all (Taylor and Gallagher), and only gave one some minutes at the end for experience (Patterson), so it would be a fairly big departure from that. If you want to take an extra right-back, fair enough, but even at that you're still not getting to 12 unless you also pick 7 centre-backs which seems ludicrous to me. We already have Tierney, Hendry, Porteous, McKenna and two of Souttar, Hanley and Cooper, so I don't see why we would need any additional cover at centre-back. Getting three injuries in those postions would be extremely unlikely, and even if we did then you have guys like McLean and McTominay who have experience playing there before.

Fun fact - the Dutch royal house of Orange (or Orange-Nassau to give it its full title) has nothing to do with the colour Orange. They originate from Orange, the city in the south of France, which is named after Arasuio, a local Celtic water god.

Fair enough. I'm not usually in early enough to see the warm-up.

Can see why you did that at the junction in that case but in general when a car stops at a junction with plenty room for another car to go inside it to turn left but they just plonk their car in the middle of the lane so you can't go to their left can indeed be very irritating while you wait when you could've been out and away.

Aye, the only defined yellow-card offence is 'brutality', so you have a good point.

I might have been the c**t today but I think it was the other guy. Entering the roundabout at Stirling Services I checked to see the road was clear, let a Fiat 500 go past then pulled out. Cue blaring horns and a glimpse of something silver passing behind me. Looked left in time to see a silver estate screaming past with the driver glaring at me. Thing is, he must have been doing some speed around that roundabout to make up the distance between me checking and pulling out.

Given the Edinburgh clubs recent history, the laugh is the "championship"

The heads in the sand bit isn’t correct - L2 teams wage budgets have been pushed way up since trapdoor came in. Directors understand very clearly the relegation risk