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There's a lot in this tbh. I started going to Dens as a naive 14 year old in 1987. We were a decent side then and from what I recall there was a fairly optimistic feel about the place, my old man reckons the feelgood factor was still kicking about from Archie Knox's time, with Jocky having taken over. Angus Cook started the downfall imo, firstly selling John Brown in January '88 when we looked on course to qualify for the UEFA Cup - obviously we then had a total arse collapse and finished 7th or something. Jocky got a good offer from Aberdeen and left to be replace by Dave "Coco" Smith, Cook's pal and an astonishingly useless manager who somehow did the double over Celtic before being emptied. Totally uninspiring appointments like John Blackley and Gordon Wallace followed, Tommy Coyne was sold and even though we didn't actually go down until May 1990, there was a certain inevitability about it all. The 90's were a mix of the decent, the bad, and the fucking woeful and the Marrs almost had us gone by spending 23million to finish 6th once. We've since had an utterly risible series of owners/BoDs, some hilariously shit managers and an incalculable number of poor signings. This season has that same feeling of doom that 89-90 had. At least that team had some fight. We've had decades of being largely chicken-hearted losers. Almost every "crunch" game at Dens results in a feeble defeat. Even if we somehow make the play-offs there is absolutely no danger we'll have the bottle to win it. Being relegated in a play-off with the DABs, three seasons after relegating them ourselves, and thereby losing pretty much our only piss-poor bragging right into the bargain would simply be the most Dundee FC thing ever. Fucking shite. Thank you.

We have a weekly email quiz at my work. One question was "what country is the football team Getafe from?" Colleague (female) put Iraq. "because of colonel Gadaffi" She is entitled to a vote.

^ And this is why the OF support is, has always been, and always will be a high percentage scum of the highest order. Utter refusal to improve their behaviour as long as they can point to the other side being "pewre worser than us" or complain that the other side is receiving preferential treatment.

Love it when the SNP does this sort of shit https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/05/nicola-sturgeon-tells-brexit-eu-citizens-in-scotland-you-are-welcome-here

I don't understand how people can be happy with such an imperfect solution. No pyramid below the Highland League in the North. Tay boundary unresolved. Two leagues covering the same area in the East. Many leagues competing for one promotion spot. Separate rules for leagues on the same level.

Lennon at press conference today

Everytime we get in the car and she's driving she has to put her handbag, no matter how bag in the footwell of the passenger seat where I'm sitting. Never mind there's a full back seat and boot sitting completely empty!

10 for Friday. Yasss. f**k the Australian.

This. Or alternatively "I gave the product 2 stars because it arrived late" Yes, that's definitely a fault of the product you fucking imbecilic fuckwitted twatalogue.

Hold on, what is the word coming to if you can’t do that?

Just chillin

Yer maw loved her hole.........idays

Quick prediction: St J (a) - no points Well (a) - no points Accies (h) - no points Livi (a) - no points St M (h) - no points Looking good....

Found out this morning i'm going to be a grandad in October, i'm sure my son and his girlfriend just assumed my gender, do they need reporting ?

You seem to be on a stupidity loop

Big guy's got his own settee now, and he ain't giving it up anytime soon

My floor was spotless five minutes before this photo was taken. Went to make dinner and wondered why then hadn’t followed:

BBC reporting that a quarter of the public would boycott the European elections in May. Damn, that's really going to hit the turnout.

... began no rational statement ever.

Damn those Chinese!

I'll go with a 2-0 win tomorrow but after Renton's in-depth spying at Berwick last week it'll probably be a draw. Here's some Blue Brazilians: or at least they would be blue if they walked down Cowdenbeath High Street dressed like that!

I like the Sevco signing policy myself, proves they have feck all money.

Tough Mudder

I don't think that's it. It's certainly not borne out by the post referendum analysis done by the researchers at Edinburgh Uni. What we saw there was an increasing No vote with age, yes - but the tipping point did not occur until after the 49+ age bracket. Long after a significant proportion of people would be in full time employment, property owners and parents i.e. already exposed to significant levels of risk. On the other hand the No vote kept increasing even after you hit pension age - in other words after the maximum level of risk exposure has been reached. The other point, that the Scots born-Scots domicile and the other UK borne-Scots domicile voted in radically different ways: 53/47 for vs 20/80 against suggests that economic risk was not an all encompassing factor, albeit one that definitely did play a role. To my mind the 49+ cut off is significant in that we are talking about the first generation of people who's formative years were after the replacement of the post war settlement and the economic upheavals of Thatcherism. Whether you agree with them or not, their impact was to radically revise how many saw the role of the UK state in their lives. Also, the farther we get from the 'Greatest Generation' as the Americans would call it, the more the crusading Churchillian idea of the British state as a moral force for good becomes a folk myth rather than a lived reality. Especially post Thatcher, post devolution I think younger generations of Scots have a far more transactional relationship with the UK than older ones who saw Britain as a moral imperative. So I don't think that younger Scots who've known the semi detached devolution state as their whole normal, and who had the experience of IndyRef are necessarily going to jump to No as soon as they hit the median wage category and start paying off their student debt. Your other point about the rate of older folk dying off is more pertinent. It's not like 2017 rolled around and a couple of hundred thousand old folk dropped dead. We won't hit a probable demographic tipping point until 2023 (which makes the 2021 election very interesting indeed) I don't follow the logic of your last point. While I might understand the logic of now voting for a Unionist party to prevent the question being asked, I don't see why a past iteration of the referendum would impact on your assessment of the issues confronting the nation in a future one?

Mother's day last Sunday. I'm writing the card and she notices I don't put her name at the bottom. I say because it's not your Mother it's mine. She then goes in a strop particularly as I told her I have never, ever put HER name on a Mother's day card for MY MOTHER. She then says that she puts my name on her Mother's day card. She's not impressed when I ask her why she would do that when she is not MY FUCKING MOTHER. WTF

He turns up in your heart every week, and isn't that enough?

SorTed.

This probably isn't the place for your fantasies Willie.

U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) 51 years yesterday since assassination of MLK

f**k off with this pish

Was at the QF between Pollok and Talbot at Newlandsfield, crowd of around 1700-1800 iirc, and there's not a chance it could host a Junior Cup Final. Kick Off was held up slightly to allow that size of crowd in, no or very basic (to be kind) toilet facilities, no parking etc etc. Final should be held in early May on an agreed date with 2 or 3 Grounds picked at start of Season which can then be selected from depending on finalists (East vs East, West vs West, West vs East). Getting to March / April and not knowing when or where Final is to be held is ridiculous. Holding it on an Astroturf is shoddy as well.

Charley Pride - I'd Rather Love You

No way would Newlandsfield hold 6000. 3000 at the very most.

Assault and battery?

Jake is getting seriously fucked off with this fresh air and exercise pish.

Think he's retired now, so haven't heard from him of late.

Neil Warnock is a massive arsehole. His constant whining about referees is tedious in the extreme. It also shows that he's quite thick and is a shitebag. The talk of him wanting to 'thump' a ref was way too far. I'd love to see a team of refs giving him an absolute kicking.

Sheran's antics after the Cowdenbeath second leg last season did the club no favours. Folk have long memories, and Cove went from being a relatively unknown entity that some would like to see in League Two for the day out to being almost universally known as an awful shower, as pretty much everyone in the north regards them already. Cove aren't the side they were last season and Brora have been widely regarded as the better footballing outfit in the league, but Cove remain as tough a nut to crack as ever. Their swaggering arrogance cost them dear v Edinburgh City a couple of years back when the pyramid playoff was over inside of the first 45 minutes, and also against Cowdenbeath last year when the tie should have been done and dusted after the first leg and Cove were left trying to get out of Central Park with a win. Perhaps they've learned a lesson after experiencing playoff misery the hard way. IMO, the difference between Cowden and Cove last season was experience of the event, the second leg of which is unlike other games. There's concerns East Kilbride will pap them out anyway, which would be heartbreaking for the SHFL. We had a good four- or five-team title race ready to roll this season only for it to be ruined last May when Cove blew it against Cowdenbeath.

Never EVER speak of John Sutton in this manner. He can do whatever he puts his mind to. TBF I do get what you're saying. My point was more that Main does a lot of putting himself about and holding the ball up which is fine when he's up front himself and we need him to bring others into play. With this current system where we have midfielders who can actually keep a hold of the ball and out-and-out wingers who can create chances I feel that we just need a striker who's main role is to put the ball in the net which, unfortunately, Main doesn't do a lot of. John Sutton was the first name that came into my head because he scored a fair amount of goals without doing too much else. Also, he's incredibly handsome.

Old reactionary bores always hilariously overstate the political effect of ageing itself rather than the generational cohort that you grow old within to convince themselves that their regressive views won't end up on the wrong side of history. They're fooling absolutely nobody though.

Probably because he's being deployed as a lone striker. At his peak he wasn't capable of that role so I've no idea why GN thinks he can do it now. It's a system that hinders Dobbie yet the only person who can't see that is the man that matters.

Something that's got on my tits recently is people who leave reviews on Amazon to the effect of "Haven't tried it yet". These cretins presumably buy something then after a while get an automated email asking if they want to leave a review for it, yet lack the intelligence to realise it would be better to either wait until they've actually read/watched/used the thing or simply ignore the email in the first place.

If this isn't set up for the first charity P & B Boxing match then I don't know what is. Get it fucking done. I'll donate immediately.

Yet signing dreadful players has still seen us finish in the top 2 the past 4 seasons.

This guy looks like the child Ron Mael, keyboard player of Sparks, never knew he had. This world’s not big enough for the two of us...

Lies. Two actually.

Can't be Bobby Russell. He's upright. Not sure that that is Tony Higgins either. He’s moving too fast - even in a still photo.

Dislike and indeed loathing, need not equate to bigotry. My dislike of the club (and indeed the two individuals you name, who do not share a common background) is entirely rational. I voiced no wish for Brown to be punished anyway. I just felt that his behaviour was poor.