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  1. Pleasing, most most pleasing. To all you East coast diddies, GIRFUY.
    11 points
  2. Have to say despite being extremely sceptical when it was first announced, I think it’s brilliant. - Reduces friendlies which everyone can agree are absolutely shite - Gives fooball fans some great competitive games to watch from Tier A instead of the usual big team drubbing wee team as in the normal qualifiers - Gives middling Nations like us the chance to play teams on our level to have a great chance at qualifying for a tournament - Gives an absolute diddy the chance to make it to a finals, meaning they actually for the first time in history have a purpose rather than just turning up to be pumped 5-0 every game (playing other teams their level has made for some really good games already) It’s great, and I can’t think why anyone wouldn’t like it other than simply not understanding it yet.
    10 points
  3. There are 5 train stations within a 10 minute walk of Hampden. There are 6 or 7 bus routes that stop within a few hundred yards. The M74 extension has an exit (J1A) less than a mile away.
    8 points
  4. How many of the players who he deems complete shite then bother their arse for the next 4 months? He'd have been off his tits to slate the entire squads ability.
    8 points
  5. Thanks all! Got home yesterday from hospital after a wee cuddle with baby. We've called him Fraser. He's doing great so far but a long journey ahead of us.
    7 points
  6. No wonder this country is fucked. You can commit murder then get to play a gig at The Echo Arena.
    6 points
  7. There’s one thing to take from all of this. Cheaper pies.
    6 points
  8. I liked the Mckay Wedderburn partnership at the back felt we were more solid and with Gillespie and Matthews in middle our movement was much better.
    6 points
  9. Ahh the Hartley method....
    6 points
  10. This was my second ever visit to Tannadice, the first was when i was gifted a ticket for DUFC v Barcelona 1- 0 i think it was , Kevin Gallagher the scorer ? What a team you had then, ! i can imagine your frustrations , we have been punching above our weight for years now and it has been good to be an Alloa fan recently i hope you guys get back to where you should be .
    6 points
  11. Love how SOD interviews as well. Disingenuous false modesty from media-trained footballers is standard nowadays, but he is always thoughtful in his assessment of his own, the team's, and the opposition's performance, and you sense that he genuinely can't believe his luck in coming as far as he has in such a short space of time, despite it being so well deserved. Seems a thoroughly good guy.
    5 points
  12. Bland, ruined by the egg, alright, cheap, n/a, n/a, beautiful, worst ever, glorious, not bad, catalogue. Brilliant, meh, wonderful, what's the point, too much white, gold and egg so WTF, decent, classic.
    5 points
  13. Genuine tears of laughter at someone saying there are no pubs within a mile and a half of Hampden.
    4 points
  14. I don't think McKinnon or the team has anything to gain by that. We know they are shite, he knows it and some of them will know it. His job is to get the best out of them until he can replace them, they will be desperate to prove that they are good enough and if they think they have the managers faith and support they will try hard, If they think he is going to bin them at the first chance no matter what then they will down tools. I for one would rather have shite motivated players than shite unmotivated players.
    4 points
  15. Wedderburn's ability to pick a pass and try and play a ball out from the back (atypical of many scottish lower league centre backs) meant we brought Gillespie and Matthews into it dar more often, which in turn meant more dangerous balls played into strikers feet or behind the defence.
    4 points
  16. I was being a wee bit tongue in cheek while pointing out there is one tie between a Scottish team and a foreign club. I doubt the good people of Sligo would be getting excited about a trip to Motherwell never mind the Under 20's. I don't think the Colt sides add anything to the competition. If anything it's a bit demeaning to ask a club from another country to travel to Scotland to play a club's Colts team.
    4 points
  17. I'm pretty certain the pubs and restaurants around Hampden are open on potentially their busiest days of the year.
    4 points
  18. Yes, maybe not for Celtic/Rangers or even Hibs/Hearts finals, but that isn’t really Hampden’s issue. There’s also plenty of other pubs to go to nearby as well as a fair few food outlets. You might be stuck if you’re looking for a full-on 3-course candlelit dinner, although I never thought that was too important in any football fans pre-match ritual.
    4 points
  19. Allowing money to go from football tickets to the SRU would have been crazy. It was never going to happen. If people genuinely struggle to get to Hampden from the city centre it might be time to get a carer. Football special trains going back to Aberdeen/Inverness would be great but that's an issue for the Scottish Government.
    4 points
  20. Glad they have decided to stay at Hampden, but I'm still not sure I trust them to redevelop it to the standard it should be at. Disappointed that my prediction from very early in this thread has come true though, that the SFA were simply using the process to drive down QP and buy it on the cheap. Could have been done privately instead of creating all the publicity it has. Suppose that was half the point for the SFA. Now getting credit for doing the right thing after looking like they wouldn't, as opposed to people just accepting what happened as being sensible and moving on with it.
    4 points
  21. Good news for the correct part of the country. Now let's turn Hampden into this please;
    4 points
  22. As me old gran used to say - "You'd start an argument in an empty hoose!"
    4 points
  23. Nah, f**k that. These ambulance chasing c***s can do one. If you were genuinely injured, off work, hospitalised, missing work, potential financial knock on etc., fair enough making a claim but other than a wee shock at the time seems you’re all good. Be thankful it’s not worse and be content you’ve done the right thing.
    4 points
  24. He’s still as handsome as ever
    3 points
  25. aye, it's all relative..........................especially in Fife
    3 points
  26. Cumbernauld promoting the start of their defence of the South Challenge Cup... ... which is impressive given they lost at home to Vale of Leithen in R4 last season.
    3 points
  27. I'm starting to feel like some kind of super human as I have never had a problem getting to Hampden or getting a drink.
    3 points
  28. The silence from the interviewer when Brown just says "naw" is pretty funny.
    3 points
  29. Absolutely this. If only he could..............
    3 points
  30. Murrayfield was never in the race. it was always just there so the SFA could keep the price down to buy off Queens Park.
    3 points
  31. All the comments on the BBC articles are from bitter middle aged Scot-hating gammons. Best ignored.
    3 points
  32. Hopefully they do a good job and make it work. Whatever the crowds and capacity may end up being, Queen's Park is a great club. You guys deserve a proper football ground to play in.
    3 points
  33. Gets on my nerves when people who live further afield say it’s difficult to get to Hampden. Its slap bang in the middle (almost...) of the biggest city in Scotland. What do they want? A stadium right on their doorstep? No matter where in the country Scotland play, people will have to travel. Do we hear people from Newcastle and Manchester complaining about how far away Wembley is?
    3 points
  34. Quite. Let us pause, reflect, and appreciate Mrs Donare for a second:
    3 points
  35. Keep it as it is and spend the money on new players instead.
    3 points
  36. Just seen this on the club website. Hopefully we'll see some of you Alloa supporters who aren't going to Dunfermline this weekend. BSC Glasgow will donate the admission takings from our upcoming SFA South Challenge Cup match against Edusport Academy to local charity The Gate. We have been groundsharing with Alloa Athletic for the last two seasons and have also given away 50 free tickets to the match for service users at The Gate to come along to The Indodrill Stadium this weekend to enjoy the match. Admission at The Indodrill Stadium on Saturday is £4 for adults and £2 for concessions, with everything taken on the door being donated. The club are encouraging everyone to come out and roar the side onto victory while supporting a fantastic local organisation.
    3 points
  37. Really? The other young boys might be able to drill themselves into mega fitness pretty quick, but that would still leave us with precisely no one with any creativity of magic that Froxy has. We need to get to a stage where we can carry a luxury player, not simply cast him aside. Its goals we need.
    3 points
  38. I actually think promoted teams coming up and doing well is actually a contributory factor in the league being tight. We have it again this season, with four of the current top six being promoted sides. Promoted teams probably find it easier to hold a squad together and have a winning mentality. Teams in the league above who miss out on promotion or have struggled to avoid relegation often make wholesale changes to their squads and it can take a while for them to gel as a team. We should know that having experienced both scenarios repeatedly over the past few years.
    3 points
  39. More results in. Hungarian Irishman Dublin Magyar lost his opening doubles, but he proved a Mighty Magyar on this occasion with eight. Just as well, as he's been left to carry this pairing. Adam101 can only manage a, frankly pitiful, three. Peasy23 manages a second straight five. At least he's consistent. All on Goober Bud but he also manages to repeat his Round One score with a two. Rumours that Christophe is attempting to put him on the transfer list are as yet unproven. Dublin Magyar could have won this on his own. Lions take it eleven-seven. Crusaders with work to do. In the trebles, everyone's favourite unnecessarily-punctuated poster Ross. throws a six. Caspian Chris scores five and there's another six for yet another geogaphically-confused Thistle fan, German Jag. Cowden0 was on the winning side last time out and, being a Cowdenbeath fan, was able to count his score on the fingers of one hand. Seven. Cardinal Richelieu looks up from his spreadsheets for long enough to post a five. blackislekillie is the star with a exceptional eight. This already had the feeling of a must-win for Christophe's Crusaders, and they oblige. 20-17. So the Lions maintain a healthy lead but the Crusaders have at least stemmed the tide. LINCOLN'S LIONS 8.5 CHRISTOPHE'S CRUSADERS 6.5.
    3 points
  40. agree with that, not the player he was and I think Wedderburn would do better there at the moment
    3 points
  41. If you coach Clyde to the bottom of the national leagues and relegate more teams than just about any manager in Scottish football - which Duffy has - then having 25 years experience of league coaching is not a stand-alone achievement. He's been effective in patches and a joke figure in first team management for other spells in that time: he's a slaphead version of John Hughes. He was never universally disliked: there were many who were deeply underwhelmed by his appointment and our season at this level showed continued, major flaws in his management at times. He had however goodwill from many fans because of his playing career and the fact that he had to build a playing squad from scratch which accounted for at least some of the jobbers he brought in. By about the time of reaching the League Cup semi-final he has gained respite from even his most consistent critics - including yours truly - but he rapidly frittered that away by treating reaching the play-offs as the pjnnacle of all footballing achievement and pretending that he was managing the equivalent of a village social club without the resources to do any better. You could count on him doing a steady lower midtable job with a midtable budget at that level but was incapable of pushing his ambitions at the club any further and so was rightly binned. Duffy is good at some parts of the job - coaching young centre-backs in particular, also drilling defensive organisation over a longer period of time - but limited in others. If some of the most frequent complaints about Barry Smith involved shoe horning players out of position to fit a formation he was beholden to, Duffy will offer more of the same. He loves a 4-4-2 with sand-dancer wingers and so his teams are often reduced to shelling the ball over the heads of the central midfield due to a lack of presence there. If you're looking for a manager who will change things during the course of a game then he is incapable of doing that as well and will routinely not even bother to try anything more than like for like substitutions to no effect. Raith's squad doesn't strike me as an obvious fit for Duffy's approach but you could do considerably worse. Appointing Nacho Novo for one would be tremendous comedy value.
    3 points
  42. This. We expect the Tories to be c***s - it's par for the course. The Labour Party in Scotland has excelled itself in being c***s by colluding with the Tories on IndyRef2 and putting Scottish interests at the bottom of the agenda. 15 minutes debate on the devolution elements of the EU Withdrawal Bill caused not by the Tories but by Labour calling for divisions on votes that didn't require divisions. And don't fucking start me on their abstention fucking strategy in that debate. C***s the fucking lot of them.
    3 points
  43. We should have probably sacked Stubbs when he hired Darren Jackson as his assistant
    3 points
  44. I was fucking raging after that. Leave Lionel alone you big sidemooth c**t.
    3 points
  45. And your mad because Celtic FC has the monopoly on that?
    3 points
  46. It’s not as good as it used to be, but I’d miss it if they scrapped it. I miss ‘Your Call’ with Jim Traynor. It’s time slot was perfect as it attracted raging, drunken callers. Traynor being called a ‘fat, racist c**t’ live on air was a particular highlight.
    3 points
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