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Insurance companies*. Renewal quote sent today for my car insurance and it's slightly up from last year. I've not made any changes or had any claims or incidents. I shopped around and got a quote from someone else at £180 cheaper so didn't even hesitate to go with them. Phone the other mob and when you tell them it's too expensive and you're leaving, this line is what winds me up: "OK, well I can have a wee look and see if I can get the price down for you". No, you get your wee look to f**k. Your wee look should have taken place months before this phone call. Don't try and rip people off and then bother your arse when they threaten to leave. p***ks. I'm aware that's how the world works but it's infuriating all the same. * Any company that offers a renewal price.

Football is the only industry I know that talks down one of its income streams. The cup represents one of the only chances of a significant income boost to clubs. You don't need to win it to make money out of it. There is significant money to be made by getting to the semi finals or even in Thistles case this year an away tie against one of the old firm. An Aberdeen v United tie should have been hyped up and been close to a sell out. Instead the clubs allow talk of more important games. Uniteds next game isn't until the 23rd of February. away to Livingston ffs. Better get your ticket early for that one. I love cup games but they're being badly sold by football.

could you tell me when clubs at the lowest level of the national league set up have ever produced internationals regularly? It's a totally different discourse altogether. Our last international played in the nineteenth century. We have a youth system that has produced, in recent times, Martin Boyle (Hibs) and Aaron Taylor-Sinclair (Partick Th, but never really made it down south). This is not an argument for Colt teams, by the way. No one can be bothered taking you seriously and the thread has degenerated into a boring game of whack-a-mole. The proposal is shit, fan opposition has -for now- sunk it- come back with something better, preferably not involving parachuting in your youth team just because "we're the Old Firm". Or, alternatively, let everyone sit down and come up with a plan, overseen by, well, y'know, the game's ruling authorities, not this back-of-a-fag-packet-bollocks punted by your under-18 coaches, or whoever they are, designed to benefit the gruesome twosome at everyone else's expense.

Penrice contract extension for you boys.

There's three things at play I think. Dons_1988 is spot on that shite TV kickoff times have ruined traditional cup weekends for the bigger clubs that feature regularly. Our cup game on Sat was a 3pm, we had 1500 supporters there and it was a great day out - that wouldn't have happened if it was on the box. Secondly, cup games disappeared from Season Tickets and now that season tickets are everything, a lot of folk who would be there if the game was on the 'ticket simply won't. Lastly - I think we have imported another piece of received wisdom from English footy that doesn't actually fit here - namely that the League is paramount to the exclusion of everything else and the cup is an inconvenience to be tolerated. With the money washing around the top two leagues down south (and the value of a promotion between the two), I can almost see that point of view, even though I think the FA cup down south is a fucking great competition and it shouldn't be devalued. But in Scotland? There is no huge TV deal outside of the CL and in so many cases, a good cup run could be the difference between profit and loss - or it could enable a better player to be added that could make the difference in a really tight league. We should be prioritising the cups as no one league game will have such an impact on your balance sheet (excepting the Premiership play-off)..... 'mon the cups.

Which kind are you, Kev?

Is there a more loathsome draw possible to take the wind out of a cup run sail than the **** away. Totally deflated by it. Likely pumping, the reek that surrounds both cheeks getting the easiest pass possible and a truly horrible away day. Truly the polar opposite of what the cup should be about which was the experience I missed out on at Inverurie. At least lads that made the Cove game got a good experience before going to Ibrox to get abused and sit through a cauldron of bigotry.

Imagine having a guy who saw his old club struggling, so went out of his way to re-join, with the publicly-stated target of keeping us up then getting us promoted. Now imagine he's also our captain, and that he wasn't talking complete bollocks. Stephen McGinn. What a fucking guy.

I hope you don't mind Philpy, but I liked the bottom photograph, but the date was spoiling it. I just made a little alteration (with your approval) and I think it makes it far better.

Montrose crowd on Saturday was 1,182, due to them giving away free tickets to school children. They’ve done this a few times now and each time it’s drawn good crowds. Wonder if it is potentially something we should look at, even singling out two games a season or so, maybe games where there will be little away support or games in tougher times, end of January for example. Free tickets to all primary school children and discounted rate of £5 or whatever for their parent/parents. I’m sure it could be as successful as it is for Montrose, actually when you look at the size of the town it has the potential to be much more successful. Given how good we have become in the community and on social media etc, along with a good team on the park, I’m sure we could benefit from it down the line at some point and potentially attract more youngsters to become involved with the club? Just a thought

Kevin James V StJ Home and Away 2002/3 season, and the Celtic equaliser in the semi. 3 top goals. Legend.

The cognitive dissonance on display here is alarming. I voted to have ice cream and a piping hot cup of tea in the same mug and i'll do so again, no surrender to thermodynamics, WATP etc.

Kevin James is a Falkirk legend.

It's the sudden touching concern for the "state of the national team" that annoys me the most. Blatant hypocrisy. The national team went down the grubber, coincidentally, with the intorduction of the "SPL"- designed to concentrate much more money in the hands of fewer clubs. Scottish football has yet to recover from that and has since spent its time implementing shit ideas from down south a few years after the fact.

Got to be honest, his passion is quite surprising. He's a professional who has played at a higher level and obviously has a strong connection to the club, and that club to him is in the wrong league, so there is no surprise that he genuinely wants us to make a real fist of not just promotion but beyond - but even then his determination seems really strong and it's not just a personal determination but a team one.

I always thought concentrate on the league was a joke that people came out with after getting papped out the cup - or after you're drawn away to Celtic or Rangers - it's not something for serious consideration surely? In any case, Utd's finances can't be in a rosy state of health after rattling around in the Championship, so I'm sure the income would have been welcome - and their supporters can't have had a season so packed with fun that they wouldn't fancy a good cup run. If the league survived fine with Hearts, Hibs and "Rangers" being absent at the same time, it's a bizarre argument to suggest that missing one mid-table club for a season or two constitutes any kind of problem at all. TL;DR - Everything Billy Dodds says is shite.

Can’t see Juve winning but daft not to put it on!

There is no chance of the Juniors league season finishing on time to make the dates set out for play offs to get into the LL.

A team having another teams club shop at their own stadium is probably unusual. Can't believe the St Mirren fans were ok with it.

Loads of Big Teams Found on the COYB Facebook page over the past couple of days.

Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday

Good to see the DAB slayer back on the bench.

2-0 Dundee - two goals in quick succession. Good to see the 20s doing their bit to keep the DABs in their place.

With no mention of my banishment for non attendance I will keep posting my scores with the hope the cardi will reach out the hand of forgiveness. With a score of 2/10 for Tuesday I'm not going to be challenging anything anytime soon anyway

Ross County away moved from Wednesday 28th February to Saturday 3rd March.

5/10. Pretty pattern.

What the f**k happened the last few pages of this thread

New series. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43032159 This Time with Alan Partridge.

Funny that. Because Holt looks under pressure every time I see him play, wether he has the ball or not

Slimming World is utter nonsense. Peel a banana and eat it - free. Mush it up and eat it - 4 syns. Unless you're fucking deep-throating whole bananas, they are always mushed up by the time you swallow them. Unless mashing it with a fork somehow adds calories to food that mashing it with your teeth doesn't. Utter utter made up nonsense that's designed to keep you on their plan otherwise they make no money. Calories in Vs Calories out - nothing else matters, literally nothing.

Quite, such is the success that saints have had recently that at the first sign of real trouble or threat of anything other than top flight Football the fans have panicked and started blaming everyone left right and centre. I’m not suggesting Kyle and the likes have done that, but there definitely are others out there. Nows the time to actually get behind the team and try and show them a bit of passion and fight exists amongst the fans, which they should replicate on the pitch. Everyone is culpable in this, a support base should “support” during the bad times and the good. I think we’ve all just got used to expecting a certain standard that we’ve forgotten how to scrap properly.

Johnny Cash - God Bless Robert E.Lee

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

Mississippi John Hurt - The Ballad Of Stagger Lee

Looks like a bunch of morris dancers

It's a nonsense argument that has somehow become accepted among fans, much like how so many English fans have swallowed the shite about how survival in the EPL is more important than winning the FA Cup

Probably stocked to the rafters with half and half scarves with 1985/86 emblazoned on them...

You'd think he'd have shared some of his neck when he was wee.

Pedro's shit hot at keepie ups.

The Cactus Blossoms - Mississippi

Air - Cherry Blossom Girl

Roxy Music - Tokyo Joe

Steven is a Corker of a signing! I have no doubt that Caulker will fill in the gap left by Hendry; he'll help Dundee seal a place in the top-six. Let's take a moment to reflect on the events that led to Dundee gambling on Steven Caulker... The Hated, The Rated & The Immolated The Triumvirate Transfer Saga: – | Hamilton scammed out of £1million, after investing in a ‘Nigerian prince’. – | Craig Gordon attempts to end Efe Ambrose's career by diving into him; Gordon ends his own career by diving into Ambrose. – | The Nigeria international receives a lump sum – presumably compensation from Craig Gordon? – | Celtc want a backup keeper; the Second-Hand Hoops throw pennies at the Wishing 'Well. – | Motherwell reject pittance pennies; Scott Bain's treacherous ears begin to burn... A transfer saga is afoot. – | Rumour of Bain’s desire to turnaround on a Hibs deal filters through to The Chubby Baller: master of turnarounds... The two collude on moves away. – | Bain vanishes. – | Jack Hendry joins Celtc for a record fee, following a transfer triangle being agreed between three clubs. – | Rat Bain reappears, signing a Celtc contract in a Hibs kit; the Jambo moves from Dundee - again. (More clubs than a Hibernian-branded pack of cards.) – | Snake Allan shows that he has no backbone by slithering back to Hibs. – | Tangerine-headed Simon Murray heads to Dundee as part of the deal. - | McCann pulls rabbit out of the hat, by signing Steven Caulker on an 18-month deal. - | Caulker's wages revealed to have been covered by anonymous donor. - | Hibernian's Nigerian Prince reveals that he has spent his 'compensation' money. tl;dr Thank You... Thank You... Thank You... Thank You...

A good day of betting

I drunkenly spoke to John McGinn in Malones last night. He used to be a Celtic season ticket holder, scoring at Ibrox is just as great as we all imagine it to be, and he’s in no rush to leave Hibs mainly because he loves Edinburgh. He’s also not joining Aberdeen despite me asking him to. That is all.

Quite amusing tin-pottery from the announcer at Livi today, as they announced the player being substituted off's sponsor over the public address. That's quite tin pot in itself tbh, but when the player replacing him is announced along with "sponsorship still available" it takes it to another level...

Take Two: BSC Glasgow - Season 2026/27 First Team Squad | Transfers | Finances | Facilities | Training League Campaign Well, f**k. Looks like we fell just short of our aim of being less shite than two other teams. We had another complete shiter of a start to the season, winning just one of our games before December the 12th (a bizarre 5-1 thrashing of Queens Park, who ended up getting promoted). Our form didn't ever really get much better to be honest, two wins and a draw being our best run by an absolute mile. Fortunately, Cowdenbeath were absolutely dreadful, and Forfar weren't much better but managed to scrape together a few more results than we did. Mark Fletcher has just about cemented one of my centre forward roles as his own, considering he didn't play at all for half the season, then score 11 goals and got 3 assists in the half he did, which for an absolutely terrible team, isn't bad at all. Ryan Hunter has also developed into my best central midfielder, but Bob Dunlop has stalled completely and isn't any better than he was when he first signed. He still gets a game as I haven't got anyone better, but we'll need to hope someone pops up to replace him. Judas Scott has spent all season refusing to sign a new contract and has now decided that getting over 6x his current wage and playing full time football in the Scottish Premiership is a more attractive option that fighting against relegation to the fourth tier of Scottish football every year. There's no loyalty these days. Anyway, as you can see, we faced a playoff to try to stay up, and first up we had Montrose. The first leg was eventful, both sides missed penalties and we managed to be much more clinical, as Montrose had more of the ball, more shots (both on and off target) and hit the woodwork twice, although we created the better chances. Phil Higgins got his first goal for the club to put us 3-1 up, and that proved absolutely vital as we then went on to lose 1-0 at home in another game where we were outplayed, but managed to defend just well enough to see us through, and John Gallacher in goals put in a solid display too. Extremely fortunate, as had we conceded again, I'm absolutely certain we'd have lost in extra time. All that set us up for a playoff final against Clyde. A pretty poor first leg was a 1-1 draw, where we took the lead through an own goal with just 10 minutes to go. Our lead only lasted 5 minutes, and there was no time to do anything about it. 1-1 at home, so we went to Cumbernauld needing to get a result. That we did with Pat McManus getting his first goal in 8 games to secure our safety for next season. We were once again outplayed, and relied on absolutely cynical nonsense which would have me absolutely seething if they'd done it but it worked, and somehow, despite being absolutely terrible all season, with just a couple of glorious highlights (Cowdenbeath 0 - BSC Glasgow 5 and BSC Glasgow 4 - Raith Rovers 0), we've managed to stay up. Jamie Scott is obviously away, but we'll have the same squad next season more or less, so I expect another shitfest of a season. The Cups Cups are shite. They can f**k off until I'm good enough to not just get cunted whenever I have to play someone half decent. I mean, 0-0 with East Kilbride for fucks sake. We didn't even win the penalties. Disgusting. Youth Intake Declan Shankland: At long last, a semi-decent looking right back. I'll try to get him involved in the first team next season, but he's not particularly good. He can't really attack, which isn't great as I'd rather my full backs could, but he looks fine defensively. Paul Ritchie: Another striker, he could end being a good target man, his heading and finishing is good, but he needs a lot of work to be the finished article. I do need replacements up front though, as Barry Wilson, Pat McManus and Jordan Donnelly who've been my go to strikers for years now really aren't up to it now we've been promoted. Other News We've had our first international caps, both at under 19 level, with Chris Herd getting one for Scotland and Jamie Scott has played for the Irish a few times now. As Scott is leaving and we don't really have anyone of the same standard, I'd expect these to dry up but it's still a nice milestone. There's absolutely nothing else going on, we've still got no money to do anything. I'm absolutely desperate for a cup run and an away game against one of the bigger sides, as it's about the only way we'll make any money. We don't even have the capacity to capitalise on a home game properly, which is shite. Still, if we can stay up again next season, that'll be great. If we can start playing before March that'll be nice too.

Going to level with you, I’m not doing this.