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Gutted at losing the game in the last minute, But that's fitba' and despite the result it was a really entertaining game. Got to say well done to the Falkirk fans who seemed a good bunch and were much better behaved than some of the numpties we've had recently at LP (Raith, Clyde). Made lots of noise backing their team and added to the great atmosphere today. The cathartic winning goal celebration was something else & I must admit I felt a bit jealous it wasn't us! Also have to say well done for applauding our Under 16s team who won their league recently.

@D.A.F.C I confronted my management in a previous job, this is how it panned out.. I was really happy in my role, a mid management level position where I had a lot of freedom to implement my own styles and my department within a large oil & gas service company was making profit for the first time since it's beginning. This company is well known for buying smaller companies and integrating them with what they already have. So they bought out a rival company that carried out the same work as my department. The type of work I am involved in is quite niche and in this category most people know or have at least heard of everyone else. The company they bought were well known to be run by utter ball bags and a terrible employer. I personally knew a few of them coming on board and I was not happy. But being the professional I am, I thought this would be more daunting for them than me and welcomed them. I was given a new General Manager and a new European Operations Manager to answer to, their Workshop Manager that was in the same position as me, came along and was given a Foremans role answering to me. This was the start of the problem... They did not like my Management style at all, I like to think of it as quite relaxed and heavily safety focused thinking a lot of the workshop staffs wellbeing, as long as they were getting their getting jobs done safely and efficiently I did not have any issues, the workshop staff preferred it this way as I would let them sneak away early for things etc.. The big bosses were all happy with it too as there were no accidents and profits were up. These new guys had other ideas, telling folk that my regime would soon be over and things were going to change and be more disciplined, they were telling folk that thier guy was going to take over and force me out. An email sent in error to a co worker meant for their own group saying that this was not the way they operated and it was going to stop. It was a really depressing time, as I was being forced out from the job I once loved. So I couldn't take it anymore and went to HR with a copy of the email and all the witness statements. All 3 were binned within a month. Sadly it was too late for me as the love for job had gone, I moved on a couple of months after that. I was never one for confrontation but this had to stop, it was affecting my health and no job is worth that. I have since been asked back but I declined, more to do with travelling up to Aberdeen daily but it's good to know that I am still valued. If you can take anything from this then take the line in bold. Thank you.

Start of the decade (season 09-10) we enter into administration, then we are demoted to the Third Division where we romp the league by 15 points with Andy Halliday as top scorer whilst Marc McNulty is kept out the team by Armand Oné, Robbie Winters and Raffa De Vita, with De Vita contracted to us still. Chairman Gordon McDougall then apologised to the other clubs in the division saying that It wasn’t our choice to have players on First Division wages in the Third Division and it was distinctly unfair that a full-time club was thrust upon the others clubs in the division. We had to apologise for being a big fish In the same season we thump Clyde 7-1 in the Scottish Cup where current club captain Alan Lithgow scores Clyde's 1 in front of 690 fans. While Keaghan Jacobs scores our first, both currently are in our first team. 10-11 season we then sign Iain Russell who scores 22 in the league as we go on to record back to back promotions, winning the league with 5 to spare and an average home attendance of 1.3k. This season we first see Stefan Scougall whilst Tony Bullock replaces Roddy McKenzie as first team keeper. In the 11-12 season back to back title winning manager Gary Bollan is replaced by John Hughes whilst Marc McNulty has his breakthrough with 16 goals in all competitions as we finish 5th and record a challenge cup semi-final. Controversial keeper Andy McNeil takes over from Bullock and eternal Livi fans favourite Rory Boulding signs for the club for the first time scoring 13 goals in 32. Mark Fotheringham also signs for the first of his two spells. 12-13 Hughes fucks off to Hartlepool for some reason and we bounce managers about including Richie Burke and Gareth Evans. Despite this we finish 4th under Burke with Mark Burchill signing on as Assistant Manager/Player. This team was an overhaul from the previous season now including Jesus Garcia Tena and Tony Andreu with Danny Mullen and Scougall featuring frequently as first team regulars. The options we had up front were pretty ridiculous this season, Danny Mullen, Iain Russell, Marc McNulty and Burchill (who made zero appearances) whilst we persisted with Jordan fucking Morton. David Luongo also just never appears? Worth noting we had Callum Booth on loan for this season too. 13-14 Burke resigns and John McGlynn takes over and we finish in 6th. At this point we've settle into being mid table Championship fodder, just surviving. McNulty however finishes the season with 17 goals to his name, Hamilton poach Jesus and Andreu off us who help them to win the first Premiership playoff to relegate Hibs, Andreu scoring a 93rd minute eqaualiser. 14-15, now things get real. We're faced with a Championship with Hearts, Rangers and Hibs. To top it off we're given a 5 point deduction just for the fun of it. Hearts pump Cowdenbeath 10-0 as they go on to romp the league. McGlynn is replaced by Mark Burchill as manager whilst also signing on as a player. We survive on the last day of the season thanks to goal difference. In amongst all this madness is our 'Great Escape', the signing of Scott Pittman and a trophy to boot, beating an Alloa team with Micheal Chopra up front, 4-0 in the final of the Petrofrac Training Cup. You'd be forgiven for thinking this would be as good as it would get for Livi this entire decade 15-16 season starts off with 1 win in 10, 4 points from 30. The likes of Spas Georgiev, Hugo Faria, Jordyn Sheerin, Darren Cole, Gary Glen and Moses Duckrell are all part of this absolutely demoralising side. The few shining lights amongst this are Liam Buchanan, Danny Mullen, Scott Pittman, Jackson Longridge and Myles Hippolyte. We also sign Craig Halkett in this period. While the likes of Keaghan and Kyle Jacobs are allowed to leave, Callum Fordyce and Jason Talbot also leave the club after lengthy spells. We land ourselves in the playoff semi finals, only this time it's the relegation one and we're up against Stranraer who pump us 5-2 in the first leg. Any Livi fan would surely put this down as their lowest point of the decade. We miraculously overturn the result and find ourselves into extra time after a 89th minute Danny Mullen goal and a 95th minute Craig Halkett goal that ties up the score line on aggregate. We then absolutely capitulate and concede twice in ET to see us relegated for the first time since being demoted to the bottom tier in 2009-10. Fans absolutely call for David Hopkin's head who replaced Mark Burchill after Christmas. Fans then get even more livid after it's announced that Hopkin will take us into the 16-17 League 1 campaign. 16-17 the club announce that they will remain as a full time club to try and bounce back up at the first time of asking. One Airdrie fan famously predicts Livi will finish no higher than 5th this season. A lot of the previous dross is cleared out the club and we sign a few players with the likes of Shaun Byrne, Josh Mullin, Nicky Cadden, Alan Lithgow and Sean Crighton. Declan Gallagher also signs on following his release from prison. We comfortably win the league by 19 points, taking top spot in week 11 and never surrendering it from there. We also exit the League Cup at the quarter finals following a few dubious decisions at the hands of Hibs with Todorov filling in at CB. Liam Buchanan scores 22 goals in his final season with us cementing himself as a true star of this decade with 41 goals in 91 appearances and a cup win to his name. Keaghan Jacobs also signs on in the latter half of the season with De Vita also returning to the club. Fans eat humble pie as Hopkin delivers a dominant and strong Livi side. 17-18. The season of the decade, one that we will struggle to ever emulate. Livi enter the season losing their top scorer, Buchanan. We enter with many predicting us as relegation fodder. We are followed in promotion by Brechin who go up through the playoffs and then go on to record an entire season without a win. A January transfer window sees long term Lion Danny Mullen leave for St Mirren whilst Livi secure Ryan Hardie on a 6 month loan with Falkirk's Lee Miller also coming in to form a lethal striking partnership. Livi's decent early season form is consolidated with a very strong second half to the season which sees us then go on to finish 2nd and book a playoff semi-final place against Dundee United who see off Dunfermline. Livi's game of the decade ensues in the first leg with the Lions running out 3-2 winners away at Tannadice. The reverse leg throws up a 1-1 draw to set up a playoff final place against either Partick Thistle or Ross County as it comes down to the last game of the season in the Premiership. Ross County finish bottom and Livi learn their opponents, Partick Thistle. A first leg win of 2-1 sees Livingston 90 minutes away from their first time back in the top flight of Scottish football since 2006. A Keaghan Jacobs goal and a Neil Alexander penalty save ensures the club win promotion and will have played in every professional league in Scotland within the decade. 18-19 sees David Hopkin refuse a new contract and leave the club despite back to back promotions (a feat only equalled recently by Gary Bollan), and Kenny Miller signs on as player-manager. Livi also implement an artificial surface to replace the grass pitch and the club play their home League Cup games at Linlithgow Rose's ground. Miller is relieved of his duties a few months into the job and is replaced by Gary Holt who oversees Livi beating Rangers at home, Hearts 5-0 at home which prompts Craig Levein to compare the side to PSG. The club also recorded a 0-0 draw against champions Celtic. Despite a poor second half of the season Livi survive comfortably finishing in 9th place in their first season back in the top flight. 19-20 Livi sit in the top 6 at Christmas despite starting the decade at the bottom tier of Scottish football. Was fun writing this up, feel free to add other memories along the way but what a fucking decade Livi. So many lows but way more highs than we could've predicted.

You're a c**t as well.

Touché. I'd been waiting for a suitable occasion to use my Sturgeon gif generator script since a week last Friday so I'm inclined to fire it up at the flimsiest of excuses So, on that basis, here's an updated version:

Div coming on to give Marshmallow a reasoned reply and free platinum membership only to be red dotted Thread brewing nicely.

Without a doubt this!

Tidser tried like a bear yesterday and was clearly up for the battle. Doesn’t look like there is an attitude problem but there clearly is an issue with fitness. Get him up to speed and we will have a quality player.

That Tidser with another assist yesterday... For all he's been shite or not been playing by my count he's been involved in a goal in pretty much every game he's played

I think you'd be first on everybody's list.

No, you're full of sanctimonious shit.

Here are this week's highlights. Have a good Christmas everyone.

Guess we've found out where Goggsy stands on the Goths Vs Nazis debate.

Got to be trouncing the **** 6-1 in the play -offs . Saving ourselves from relegation while consigning them to another year in the lower leagues was glorious. It was like all the planets aligned to f**k them over big time. Highlights of this included the three one win at Ibrox with Ainsworth crossing himself after scoring the third sending them into a rabid frenzy.The twist and shout singalong by the Well fans after being kept behind. Refusing to give them a full away ticket allocation after they fucked us over at the last minute for ours and the subsequent heads gone from ra peepul. That Cammy Bell punch. Sitting behind two Rangurs fans in our end as we pumped them three nil at Fir Park which ended wae the wummin *** bursting into tears . Leaving the game to witness the utter seethe of the reduced away support as we pointed and laughed. Oh the memories!!

Easter Road has aleready been mentioned so I'll throw this into the mix. Beating Celtic 1-0 at their own midden to go top of the league, no games in hand or anything involved, and being able to sing "we're top of the league and you're no" to them was a good day

Assist of the season back in August.

I haven't seen a single Aberdeen poster, Romeo, claim that it influenced the outcome of the game. Many have even explicitly said that it didn't, and that it was irrelevant to the final score. What they are saying is that it: A) wasn't a red card and B) certainly wouldn't have been given as one if it had been a Celtic player making the tackle. On both counts, they're correct - in my opinion. You keep dancing around this and pretending that they're saying it changed the game or whatever. My hunch is that you do it because you know that, if you had to come to terms with the fact that referees subconsciously favour Celtic as they are one half of the establishment, the narrative of Celtic being the downtrodden underdogs who have won 50 titles miraculously against the masonic odds would be in tatters. And so, in turn, the reason to exist for many Celtic fans would be likewise.

Most of the behaviour described in this thread is annoying. Yours is an arsehole. Sorry.

Get fūcking rid, pronto.

The ref had a stinker. He isn't a poor referee or a cheat, he just had a bad day at the office like anyone can have at their profession. A ref is no different. The sending off was a really poor decision and no doubt had a bearing on the end result but if I was NF I would be more concerned of the lack of discipline thereafter. They were STILL going on about the red card when mick scored the equaliser. NF could still have took something from the game but their players and sidelines became focused on jim brown and not the match. Glenburn just set about their business and won the game. These bad decisions happen to us all and when NF played Stewarton at dean park earlier in the season they won due to a referee having a stinker of a day. It dominated the p & b forum too with Sean dalton getting slated on this. It happens to every team. Offsides are pointless arguing with refs about. VAR still takes 5 minutes to decide them when an amateur referee only has a split second and no one to help him. Why the ayrshire committee have been brought into it I have no idea. What they meant to do? Bring a spare ref with them and sub him off if he is having a nightmare??

On behalf of all Livi fans i'd just like to say Thank You for giving us Lyndon Dykes. What a player.

It will be a dark day when hell freezes over that there are no EFtv highlights!

Found a card for our friends over the water.

I've got a great accounting trick that I can't be fucked going over on here because it will take too long. It's great though. It highlights that Scotland is a massive taker and England looks after us through awesome benevolence. f**k it, here goes (let's say Barnett consequentials and split of debt of 10%): England borrows £20billion for a project. England Asset: £20billion, England debt £18b, Scotland Asset 0, Scotland Debt £2b. Scotland gets its 10%: England Asset £18b, England Debt £18b, Scotland Asset £2b, Scotland debt £2b. Everything is fine and correct, yes? I would say so. All well and good, but there is one missing part of the story. Apparently England is funding Scotland to the tune of £2billion, because it has transferred that money to Scotland. Think about that. Basically everything England borrows involves them "donating" money to Scotland. They could borrow anything and we take a "subsidy" on the back of it. I'd happily take a critique on that but I'm fairly sure it is all above board.

People who use GERS to back up their argument are economic illiterates. GERS is an accounting exercise that is inherently flawed - do people honestly believe that the only part of the UK not in deficit is London? It underestimates revenues for Scotland (and the regions outside London) whilst deliberately overallocating expenditure to Scotland (and the regions) for expenditure that either does not benefit Scotland (or the regions) or would not be undertaken in an iScotland. I've long been a critic of the whole GERS methodology - even in my pre-independence days - by continually showing Scotland to be an economic basketcase they are actually undermining the case for the union on two fronts. Firstly, people are now seeing what a ludicrous joke the whole exercise is - does 8.2% of the population really gernerare 61% of the UK deficit? There's lying and there's taking the piss - and GERS is one big piss-take. Secondly, and more crucially, even if these figures are taken at face value, they show that Scotland is not benefiting from the Union - why the hell should we trust Westminster to run our economic affairs if they've done so badly?

Last week I delivered 600 Christmas cards to deliver to all the customers I drop milk off too during the night. I don’t know their circumstances but I do know some may have no one and will be spending Christmas alone, it’s a bid to combat social isolation and hope it brings a smile to someone’s face. If it does, I’ll be a happy bloke.

Celtic fans to launch into this thread with chips on both shoulders. Surprisingly touchy bunch.

Is he scared of crosses?

Doyle is not a good enough player to act the clown off the park. He should forget acting like a fanny off the park and use that time to improve his game.

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Relax lads, you’re playing us at Tynecastle next week. Guaranteed 3 points.

This is a yellow cardinal(it's christmas ffs) for speaking about the play off question, while the game is still on going. Check your PM, you daft c**t.

Do humanity a favour and don't breed with this absolute fu©kknuckle of a human being

Would like to see Mercer, Kilday, Murray, Pybus and El bakhtaoui follow suit and sign new deals. Would give us a decent base for next season

I wouldn't have used the word 'dominated', but it was a fairly comfortable afternoon for the Sons. We played some neat passing football in the first half and deserved to be ahead. Rovers had their moments with Hendry orchestrating most of their attacks. I was expecting a difficult second half, but Raith were toothless . We offered next to nothing in attack and gave away possession far too easily. However our defence coped easily with anything thrown at them. Connor Brennan didn't have a serious save to make. Our back four all had good games; Kyle Hutton had another fine match; Stuart Carswell had arguably his best game of the season and Ruaridh Langan put in a good shift. A bad day at the office for Raith and clearly their injury list and suspensions took its toll. They will be there or thereabouts come the end of the season. The fans who booed them need a reality check. Thinking back to August and the 6v0 drubbing at Falkirk, if you had said then we would be 5 points off the league leaders at Christmas, I would have advised a thorough health check. Jim Duffy and the players deserve huge credit for turning things around.

Baird has been a huge let down. Can't see him staying beyond Jan.

I just love the look of that bitter old p***k to the left of David Gray. I want to distill his emotion. I was a few rows down and to the left when he lifted the cup. Strange thing is I was in a different stand at the start of the game.

Why the hell would any DAB be the slightest bit worried in the build up to this? We are going to get so badly butt-fucked that the live broadcast will have to be delayed to post-watershed on decency grounds.

Hutton loves dishing it out but can’t take it. Horrible little turd with a massive chip on his shoulder. Was glorious seeing him and your shithouse number 6 losing it at the end.

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Think the snowman twat is away to be decapitated.

So close to perfection. It's Academical ya fud!