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Apparently big nat wedderburn had an absolutely solid offer on the table from kelty, but the big man chose to play at the highest level available to him. Fair f*cks to the big man for his decision ,

For the Sevco support it's probably Romeo.

Bring back ‘angin!

The absolute state of randomguy

Must be so the Falkirk players can give us a guard of honour.

Adults who get excited at the prospect of children being assaulted are of a far bigger concern than the odd loud mouthed kid. You honestly come across as someone who gets turned on at the prospect of kids being spanked with a belt.

In short, anything other than a Scottish win and I'm getting ridiculed at work on Tuesday.

Is that Jack from still game, left of the middle.

The view from my scratcher right now

Might not be an unpopular opinion on P&B but it seemingly is with the general public, but greetings cards have to be the biggest, most pointless wast of time, money and resources going. They cost a lot (for what you actually get), they're usually twee shite that no one actually means and they're also bad for the environment. Get them to f**k.

These are people who choose to spend their weekends actively celebrating a rapist.

I know f**k all about anyone's plans, intentions or motivations, and what I say should be taken as the thoughts of a happy idiot on a Sunday morning rather than those of someone in the know, but I'd imagine that Willie Haughey and the committee are looking at both the short and long term. Short term the plan is clearly to get promoted this season and, by the looks of it, next season as well so they're buying players to allow them to do that. At the same time I'd think they'll be developing the youth set up at the club in the hope of bringing players through, but also giving local kids a chance to play the game and get decent coaching (as they do just now). Theoretically Queen's could field a team of 16 and 17 year olds next season, but they'd get pumped every week and drop out the league, which wouldn't be great for grassroots football either at the club or in the area. I don't see that spending money just now to bring in players as a means to an end and also developing the youth teams are mutually exclusive. Of course it could all go tits up. McKinnon might be as bad a manager as some folk on this thread are making out. He had a promising start in his first couple of months in the job, but the season ahead will be a different challenge. If he doesn't get promoted with the money that's being spent then he should, and I'd imagine will, be sacked. I don't know a lot about most of the players that have been brought in. Mostly fans of clubs they've played for before have gone down the "should do a job in League 2" route, which is hardly a ringing endorsement but again, we'll see. In the past some classed as oafs at other clubs have done well for us, others coming with a pedigree haven't worked out. The old Baron doesn't strike me as a Brooks Mileson type and, as Spider Rico said, he's put a lot of money into youth and grassroots football particularly in the southside for years without making a fuss about it or looking to be seen as a GREAT GUY. But maybe he's just playing a real life game of Football Manger. Whatever happens, it'll be fucking interesting and hopefully a bit of a laugh. Given where we could have ended up with the pyramid coming in and the Hampden situation, I'm hopeful that Queen's will be a solid and stable club with its own home ground, a wee bit further up the leagues and continuing to do decent things for youth football in the area.

The Final league tables are brought to you by Queen - We Will Rock You James Villa Holiday League Normal service is resumed as @WhiteRoseKilie releases his fury on us all by scoring a killer 48. @Eednud scores a very respectable number. Well played lads. @101, finally gets drug tested and back to normal, relegation it is. @German Jag & everyone favourite Yorkshire man @Leeds Saint following him. @alang1993 will have fight it out in a playoff. Teletext Holiday League Back in the top flight after his week away @Rugster eases it, @Perkin Flump & @peasy23 become the yo-yo teams sees them on the up. 2nd week and he is in a playoff for promotion @scottmcleanscontacts At the bottom, some losers on this site 3 the main contenders @Ross. @SlipperyP & @MixuFruit look out swimgear. @NJ2 sees himself in the playoff. Club 18-30 League No new engraving needs this weekend, @pleslie99 wins it ever second week, needs to find form in the league above... @deej back into his usual league and @The Hologram wins his very first promotion. The holidays are over for you lot. @LincolnHearts I waited, you never gave me Thursday numbers, would it have been any different?, Who knows, his scores are very unpredictable. One for sure, he has a big wooden utensil.

Well done to the top 3/4 plus wild cards @Tynierose and @Cardinal Richelieu replacing "hologram" and "yer maw" - If you don't post your score with a corresponding P&B user name im too lazy to figure out who you are and wild card @Silky Si McFly to make it an even 32. @mathematics vs @Tynierose Its the man married to a serial killer lover, P&Bs very own Harold Shipman - This tie has all the makings of a bloody affair @SlipperyP vs @The Captain Slippery claimed to be pished when he pressed send on his score he's up against a man who submitted his score so early I can only assume he pished the bed @Jacksgranda vs @Silky Si McFly Child counter vs Si who struggles with cup form @Arch Stanton vs @WhiteRoseKillie 2 big hitters in this round Arch got 10 for the cup and WRK is normally King of the Hill @Perkin Flump vs @pleslie99 Thinking of witticisms was a bad idea @Rugster vs @scmwell Ruggie against a poster I've never come across I guess he was SCM? @Salvo Montalbano vs @NotThePars All Dunfermline tie this one think of its as Stein vs Paton a battle of the ages @die hard doonhamer vs @Gman1985 Two OG posters coming head to head @Bully Wee Villa vs @German Jag International Tie this one looks to be a cracker @kingjoey vs @The_Kincardine The monarch vs the Staunch - only one can win @alang1993 vs @Snobot Ice cold under pressure vs just fucking cold @Spring Onion vs @Leeds Saint A vegetable vs someone who lives somewhere its illegal to serve vegetables @NJ2 vs @Blootoon87 A GenT vs the first person to undergo a P&B Audit @deej vs @BigBo10 nearly done... @Eednud vs @The DA Platinum vs Gold @Helpma vs @Cardinal Richelieu Thank Christ that's over on to the cup http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=2009061618229100&cpy&

In general though can you imagine the outrage here with those sort of measures yet we are held up as "most severe in Europe". There is very little you can't do here you can do in England. They have just had their first crowd test events and our are next week. As always it's a week or 3 behind. Now being compared to other outliers in Europe for that very reason. NHS has to be the priority as I said earlier, it needs to be ramped back up to full normal operational capacity. There is quite a lot you can’t do in Scotland that you’ve been able to do in England for a while. England reopened theatres, live music and arts venues from 15th Aug, with social distancing and mitigations. Sturgeon went the other way, she banned background music in pubs and restaurants (it had previously just been one of a long list of advisory mitigations), suggesting that Scot Gov’s indicative date for reopening live music venues (Sept 14th) is unlikely to happen without a rapid about turn, as, logically, Scot Gov can’t permit live music if recorded music is banned. I’ve spoken to colleagues in England about the ban on recorded music, and the general reaction is incredulity. There is no credible scientific basis for the ban - low level background music is no more likely to make people lean in more or talk louder than general background chatter - in fact some of the noisiest pubs I’ve been in pre-lockdown were Weatherspoons outlets. This draconian ban, which has rendered pubs and restaurants soulless and sucked any remaining atmosphere out of them (less than half full as they already are because of social distancing), costing the industry dear in terms of lost revenue, was clearly a knee-jerk reaction to local spike in Aberdeen. Sturgeon said, when she introduced the ban just over couple of weeks ago, that she would consult with the hospitality industry to see if an agreed safe decibel limit could be introduced, but that now seems like an empty platitude, as no such consultation has yet taken place. In fact there is now a Change.org petition urging the lifting of the ban, being promoted by a number of the people Sturgeon should have been consulting with, showing how little confidence there is within the industry about the ban being overturned any time soon. Scot Gov have painted themselves into a corner over this, as furlough is already winding down and the hospitality, live music and nightclub sectors are deciding now whether to retain staff or offload them. The ban on background music gives no-one any confidence that live music venues or nightclubs will open again soon, even with SD and extensive mitigations. At this stage, the signals from Scot Gov are so overwhelmingly negative that jobs are not just on the line, but are already being shed and will continue to be shed in large numbers over the next couple of months. At first I thought it was just brinksmanship. Sturgeon’s modus operandi has always been to move a few weeks slower than Westminster, missing no opportunity to castigate the Tories for their recklessness, while reinforcing Scot Gov’s ‘safety first’ credentials, but her continual calls for the extension of furlough, long past the point where anyone genuinely thinks its going to happen (Sunak dismissed this suggestion months ago), now looks like buck-pushing and political point scoring. Scottish hospitality, events, arts, theatres and live music sectors are dealing with much more onerous restrictions than their English counterparts, and an ever-widening lag in terms of reopening for those sectors still closed. There is now very little optimism that Scotland will catch up before the end of furlough, so jobs will be lost and business failures in these sectors will be significantly greater than in England. WM will get the blame, and much will be made of the fact that Scot Gov would have been able to save all these jobs and business if only it had greater fiscal powers, or indeed independence, but the jobs will be lost and the businesses will be gone all the same. There is clearly some political capital to be made here in terms of the independence debate, but at what cost? Sturgeon is playing a dangerous game. I’m not sure if Sturgeon has a positive vision for the future of the Scottish economy, and particularly for the embattled hospitality, tourism, retail, entertainment and arts sectors, but if she does, it’s well past time to start outlining it.

It can never be said enough - they really are a fucking odd collection of football fans.

Maybe it’s some sort of pre season tournament, “The Ray McKinnon Trophy”. Winner to be awarded the below:

yer da = takes a light hearted thread and turns it into some rant about how 'yer da's' don't appreciate your work

Accies das: - Thinking that some no-mark who's just signed for Falkirk or Queen's Park "could do a job for us". - Scapegoat any youngster. - Until a couple of years ago, they'd get annoyed about signing foreign players as opposed to guys from England (or Scotland, obviously)... until we started signing the Alex Pennys and Sam Kellys of this world. See also: "This is a good signing because I've heard of the team they signed from." - Rage about Beuzelin because he has a clipboard. - Think every goalkeeper and striker we've ever had is shite (that might be fair enough). - "Canning/Rice doesn't pick the team." There are also the fans who get annoyed at any criticism because we were homeless/in the Third Division/on the verge of going bust, which is fair enough but doesn't mean that folk can't be raging about having no shots on target at home to St Mirren.

9 teams in league 1 and 3 teams in league 2 had higher average attendances than QP last year . Also glasgow has plenty of teams for people to chose to watch apart from the obvious OF. Pollok to name another. Going by the crowds Hamilton st Johnstone get I don’t think it’s a massive deal as they have shown they can sustain a team in the premier league on pretty low crowds. Anyway have watched the uprising of Queen’s Park from a far it is good to see a lower league team with a bit of hope and optimism around . Having been at a couple of your games when you shared at airdrie I wish you All the best [emoji106]

My favourite Clyde-related scandals on here: - Middle-aged Clyde fan stalks young St Johnstone poster by sitting directly behind her at a match and sniffing her hair. - Two grown men (both Clyde supporters) arranging a fight following a disagreement on here. Fight was to take place outside Shawfield on a Saturday night but there was difficulty in negotiating the time as one was travelling back from a match at Peterhead and the other was out for a meal with his wife.

This is a great idea, apart from the fact that: 1) Winning our group here would give us an excellent chance of a World Cup play-off spot 2) Seeding for WC qualifying will incorporate the Nations League results, and finish bottom of our group would likely see us drop into a lower pot. 3) Getting promoted to League A would also almost guarantee us a play-off for the next Euros. 4) Seeding for the next Euro qualifiers will be based entirely on our Nations League ranking, and being in League C will mean we're Pot 4 at best for those.

Kenny will be out the door fairly soon: he doesn't have the credibility to attempt such a major change in their style of play and the guid fitba men are already frothing in outrage about the attempt. It's all a terrible, wee shame for them.

And for Ross Matthews to dish out free crates of Falkirk Tears.

Have you emailed St Johnstone about getting him in?

We The Kings - August Is Over @WhiteRoseKilie has now 3 in a row for player of the month. Can anyone stop him? How did you do and how did you compare to July. More brainy beans needed for September? It looks like we lost 2 fallen heros in @CaspianChris & @gkneil during the month. We hope you are well. In good news we had 2 new players joining. @scottmcleanscontacts & @The Hologram. I'm sure everyone wishes you good luck. I'll now had over to @Perkin Flump for this months words of wisdom. As you you know, this can be anything you wish. The floors yours.....

That’s right that’s right that’s right

Never heard of someone called kcoc before.

Out for a round today for the final card to gain my handicap! Great front 9 of 39 ( 3 over ) back 9, A bit of a slog started par par then went a bit wayward ended up coming in in 46 so finished 85! Cards handed in are 83 85 88. My touch around the green has improved massively, been getting lessons on my short game and it’s helped out so much. Slowed my backswing down as I was keeping the face far too open and was turning my wrists to correct on the downswing and I was railing right so that has helped me out a lot! Great seeing the progress out on the course but still missing too many putts for birdie/par but all in all I’m delighted with how I’ve taken to golf!

This "Cooper looked shite every time he played for us" patter has to stop. He has two caps, against Russia and Belgium. I'm sure he too would have looked decent against Kazakhstan.

Must really drive home to the Partick fans that they’ve been relegated when thread topics focus not on which artisanal bakery is to supply the croissant stand or which Turner Prize winner is to design the new retro rattle, but instead it’s “how best to beat a child” and “no doesn’t necessarily mean no”.

It is entirely natural that a club who is offered money with no strings, accepts that money. It is equally natural that fans of all other teams will hate that team and pretend that they would never touch such money if they were offered it.

Longtime I've listened and listened to some shite over the years in here, from junior hardliners and from pyramid hardliners as well, as I'm sure you have. We've all said things on here regarding each of our views, some with even stronger views that other don't like, me too and I get that, the offensive people and ignorant people on here, we know the main ones, we just ignore but for my tuppence worth I will say.... The junior cup is not embedded inside the pyramid, it isn't, only in certain peoples minds. The teams that have moved from the junior ranks to the pyramid ranks, most have retained their junior status because they don't know any better or their committee isn't forward, future thinking people. Time is time and eventually these people will move out and younger ones will take over and the views of the club will change, the membership of junior clubs will slowly become less and less each year I don't believe the junior cup will be played this season for the simple reason as I see it virtually impossible to fit in, especially for the teams in the West tier 6 league but then again, I'm not a fixture guy. Agree the mess about the East and North etc.. trying to find a way that they can easily and smoothly move into the pyramid is hard but sure someday I'm sure it will be done. Yes in the East, there are a few teams who intend to move to the pyramid for season 2021/22 (FACT - and no I wont elaborate) and will those couple of teams moving have a knock on effect with the other East teams, mibbiees aye, mibbies naw. Not sure how the tayside and Aberdeen sides will work out so its anyone's guess. If they all move over there could be the ''South Challenge Cup' and maybe a northern counterpart 'North Challenge Cup' and even an 'East Challenge cup' and then there could be a 'Scottish Non League Cup' What would this mean for the Scottish Junior cup well the grade will truly be finished and they could either use the trophy for the main non league cup or just put it in the SFA History room. Right now we are where we are, Covid stricken and football, all football, is suffering so we have to get back to what we all love, football and here's hoping the season starts. I'm looking forward to the league starting, (fingers crossed) and just want to enjoy watching football. I'm sure as the season starts there will be the usual banter on here, windups, and egits and even the trolls. Im happy to read all that on here, why, because it means the season has started back

It's remarkable how all this 'but... but... long Covid!!!!1111!!!!!!' hysteria only ever comes out to defend official measures and yet didn't get mentioned at all when the government decided to restart the schools at full capacity that are obviously ramping up infection.

If no covid goes into a school then it's not going to lead to an outbreak. Schools are quite possibly responsible for worsening the outbreaks in those areas that already have a higher number of cases.

24 years since a Frenchman won a GP ETA: 2 of the best anthems going as well.

My attempts to destroy my own game continue to know no bounds. Was 3 under handicap at the turn in this morning's medal, then holed a birdie putt on 18 to make buffer. The good stuff is sensational, but the bad stuff is like when you played Tiger Woods with your pal and deliberately hit awful shots for him when he went for a pish

Obsessed with referees enforcing the 6 second rule on goalkeepers. Will quite often scream count themselves as they become more and more incredulous.

Asda's new advert where a man and two children are pretending to make their own Asda advert.

I’m not going to take anything someone who seems to think Paul Hartley is the manager of Aberdeen says seriously.

I can’t really understand that table, but I think 10-0 for the Czech Republic at 2-1 is great value. Put your money on that.

Yeah, for all everyone is laughing at him, Randomguy is right. We don't create enough chances and we don't score enough goals. We have a team full of grit and effort for the most part, but, just like last season, we need some creativity on the ball and we need some better movement going forward. I don't know what players are achievable for us just now, but I think we could carry someone like Mallan in the current team and he would make a huge difference for us going forward.

Syvertsen has posted a lovely couple of goals from training on his social media. Oh I’ve missed that!

Everyone remember how there were famously no c***s in the world before 1990?

Interesting times at Queens you’ve always had a good show of fans at Borough Briggs. Look forward to seeing you again soon . All the best [emoji460]️

Thanks for that. Features a few of his definitive shots - the hooked forehand down the line on the run is a specialty, and he's got to be one of the best lobbers ever. Who was the lank mutant he just kept lobbing at Wimbledon one year? He was like "I don't care if you're 9 feet tall, I'm going to draw you to the net just for the fun of going over you." And the lob to win the Davis Cup while the home fans were celebrating what looked like a certain point for Goffin was pure Murray. If he never achieves anything again he's left us with buckets of great memories.

I thought he was doing a remix of fools and horses theme tune

Hummus and Genocide.