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I'm still curious about this Parks/Rangers contract. It was signed in May 2021, apparently, and Rangers still haven't shown a copy to the court yet. The cinch/Rangers negotiations were occurring up to early June, and Rangers have yet to give a copy to the court except with severe redactions. For some bizarre reason, Rangers signed some sort of advertising exclusivity deal with Parks (though not one that involves actually advertising Parks of Hamilton) while still talking to cinch about renaming Ibrox! If the dates are right, either Rangers managed to skillfully concoct a very precise contract with Parks that would have allowed cinch to name the stadium, but not to have their name on the SPFL logo on the shirt badge, or Rangers were negotiating with cinch in bad faith. The SPFL's lawyer thinks this contract is as fishy as I do. “We do have considerable doubt about the way in which this document has been produced and redacted and we would invite your lordship to direct the petitioners to disclose the full contract to your lordship in a sealed envelope in order that the purported redactions can be examined and the issue of commercial sensitivity determined as it is a matter under the court.” (my emphasis). The most obvious explanation to me is that Douglas Park got miffed at cinch for getting some relatively cheap advertising deal after failing to score $billions for renaming Ibrox, and had Rangers retroactively falsify and backdate a very weird, nonstandard contract to spoil the cinch/SPFL deal, because nothing else makes any kind of obvious sense. Of course that would mean that Rangers are engaged in fraudulent activity leading to tortious interference and all sorts of stuff of that ilk, so I'm sure that can't be the case. Anyone got a more reasonable hypothesis?

In ye come Andy Carroll

Christ, he'll be knackered by the time he's finished!

Griffiths will be trying to figure out how he can text that record.

He'll probably have a t-shirt ready for under his shirt to be exposed when he scores that reads "I never felt I was given much of a chance at 'Well and was unfairly scapegoated at times on social media"

Today is the day. watches lookin the time as come Posters to watch out on this thread...because.. they are lunatics @Todd_is_God @Left Back @oaksoft @Detournement @Elixir Personally feel sorry you can PM me for more details

You're both wrong. It has only been 9 years since Dundee and their fans took over Hampden.

Maybe just me, but that statement is piss poor. don’t feel there is any need to come out and publicly come out and say “his body isn’t strong enough to train with the team”. suggests to me there is maybe more to it, a fallout perhaps. should have been kept to - needs game time, so we’ve put him out on loan.

A perfect 10

there are 3 major honours up for grabs in scotland...1 we'll never get near winning again...fail to see why boys call this cup a diddy cup...its a fucking major honour FFS i want us to win it...then watch as my wife sends out a nationwide appeal for me to come home as i lie fucking blootered in a ditch someplace.

Tagging poor sods like Kate Garraway’s husband with the same label as someone who’s sense of taste and smell hasn’t quite fully recovered after a few months is a clear attempt to fiddle the numbers in order to justify more restrictions. Long covid is a wide range of things that don’t need to be under a single umbrella term.

I mean, when you're being constantly threatened with legal action over the threat of job losses, is it not about time to reign in the 'we care more than the Tories' act a bit?

Good news [emoji106]

Good idea. Otherwise, your opposable thumbs will give you away as an outsider.

The Cinch Stadium at Ibrox Parks (Of Hamilton)?

Who has denied that "long covid" exists? It's quite clear that some people do suffer prolonged effects. It has also been highlighted that these prolonged effects are by no means limited to Covid-19 and that other viruses have similar outcomes. The problem is that "long covid" is being used as a reason that restrictions must stay in place or at least not be relaxed. It has been a recurring theme throughout the pandemic and recently children were weaponised by a certain campaign group in an emotional argument that 1 in 7 of them (so x thousand per week) would get long covid. The Implication being that more restrictions should be put in place to prevent this. These claims are being made without supporting evidence of this supposed avalanche of long covid cases that will materialise.

The League cup is a minter? Not for me and many others. This isn't a dig Mr.Ali but you've already stated you'll be supporting from afar due to prices and seem quite disillusioned, much like my old man. For me i'd rather pay the money (unless it's Tannadice) than sit in a boozer which can be done either side of the 90 minutes . Most definitely i'd rather go than sit in the house watching it on TV. Having followed this club for many years of pish, i'd love to see us in a semi final and there would be a big group of people i've been going with for around 15 years that would also love the day out, win, lose or draw. Football is for the memories and a day out at Hampden with your mates/family where the Dees reached a final would be far from a minter. Football is about much more than just the ninety minutes. Come on the Dees tonight. Thank you.

Agree wholeheartedly. Sometime soon, I’d like us to go a couple of days in a row without doing something which makes me suck air in through my teeth.

League One defences can make Robbie fucking Muirhead look like Zlatan on a regular basis so both of these claims can be correct. Looks like Montrose see the nick of Falkirk and fancy pushing the boat out for promotion this year - all power to them.

"Just for balance, I drove home pished but it's ok the road was empty and I didn't kill someone" Am I doing this right?

What?

If you gave me a choice of winning a cup and being relegated or getting beat tonight and finishing 7th I'd take the cup 100 times out of 100.

Most people who are resistant to returning at my work are as Scott described, but I would say there are some people from all sort of backgrounds who do genuinely seem to be still worried about everything. I've heard two people (one colleague and one person who works in a different industry completely)say in the last week that they had just been on public transport for the first time in 18 months or whatever. I think there are a lot of folk out there who have essentially mostly been able to go about a happy, content and probably to them fairly normal life over the last wee while, where their only "risk" has been a trip to the supermarket (if even that, maybe they get it delivered). They go out walks, they drive to various outdoor beauty spots (beaches, hills etc) with their picnic or maybe grab takeaway lunch from a local cafe and they go back home to their nice house with their pets and their big garden. They have maybe started having friends and family over for barbeques and/or outdoor dinners, or occasionally let people in but keep the doors open. They didn't get their week in Greece or Italy but they drove to Skye or St Andrews or something instead and had a lovely time in their cottage. That life seems pretty boring to me but they're probably happy enough and genuinely don't understand and/or care that other people are missing out on things and therefore wonder what all the fuss is about.

We're flying at the moment. We look like a team for the first time in a while and are just off the back of a great result at Ibrox. County are still winless and this thread has reminded me they have Jordan White up front who was rank rotten for us. This will also be the first game I've been able to make this season and I can't wait. With all of this in mind, 2-1 County.

That's what I tell my wife, anyway.

Mods ffs.

Aye Steeley is a top guy. I remember I left my jacket up at Peterhead after the 1st leg of the playoff semi final a few years back and he got in touch with the Kitman up there who brought it down on their bus for the 2nd leg.

1) 'Masks' are not the same as keeping a grotty unwashed 'face covering' around for four months at a time, which has been actual practice in the UK. 2) China's success has got much more to do with welding infected folk into their apartment blocks than making them wear a mask. 3) The face covering requirement has completely failed to stop three additional waves in Scotland, while the reckless Tory decision to bin that requirement resulted in no such recent wave. 4) None of this fucking matters anyway because we are falling over stacks of highly effective vaccines.

Any excuse to share the greatest own goal ever by the DKB Gus McPherson

3 year deal..

I’ll be missing this one as I’m off hooring and touring. The last time I missed a game due to hooring and touring we beat Falkirk 2-1 and Callum Wilson confirmed himself as the best midfielder in the SPFL. Repeat plz.

My question would be, given that if you get a positive LFT result on day 2 you would need to take a PCR test to confirm it, how does that stop them sequencing for new variants?

I do not feel the slightest bit of sympathy for any brain-dead idiot who looked at what had happened to their community over almost a decade of Tory rule and thought, "Yeah, I'll have some more of that, ta." These fuckers deserve every empty shelf, every benefit cut, every price rise, every lost employment right that's coming their way. Hell fucking mend them. The tragedy is that they've dragged everybody down with them, and screwed at least one generation's future, because they're stupid enough to believe what the RW media tells them without question. To give one classic example, these lying shits still use association with Russia as proof absolute that Corbyn is a Communist. Because they can get away with being lazy. Because the GBP are supine fucking idiots who'd rather shag a flag than give their kids a decent life.

A well-rounded Ten for Wednesday. I'd be interested to see how many of Frogface's Metric Martyrs would get number 9..

My wife & yer Maw.

Potato 16 (1967-1975) Potato 16 kept itself in circulation for eight whole years, making it the longest running potato since WWII. It might have lasted even longer but for league reconstruction. This potato changed hands 92 times and visited 22 clubs before finally ending up being buried alongside Potato 2 in Dumbarton. We would also see Queen's Park being overtaken by a new club at the top of the all-time potato table. Hearts were the first team to take a hold of the potato after losing 4-1 at home to Hibs on the opening day of the 1967/68 season. It started with a series of short spells before ending up with Motherwell for six matches in the autumn - the Steelmen had four one-goal defeats and two draws before they passed it on to Clyde just before Christmas. The Bully Wee would be regular holders of this potato - they had it for 31 matches over seven spells, which took them to a total of 175 matches with all the potatoes, enough to leapfrog Queen's Park. January saw St Johnstone take the potato for eight matches and fall into the relegation zone in the process - they managed to offload it, and although they got it back briefly a month later, by that point they had already pulled towards safety. The potato would ultimately finish the season with mid-table Partick Thistle. Thistle offloaded it quickly at the start of 1968/69, and after a few games it made its way up to Arbroath for a 12 match spell between October and January - they offloaded it before getting it back a couple of weeks later, but fortunately for the potato they got rid of it again before finishing bottom and being relegated. However, they would be back before this potato expired - indeed the Red Lichties had this potato for a total of 35 matches, more than any other club. The potato safely spent in the summer in Paisley, in the midst of a 10 game stint with St Mirren across 1968/69 and 1969/70. After a brief stop with Clyde, it spent most of the autumn in the leafy West End with Partick Thistle, who had a 10 game run of their own. 10 was definitely the magic number for 1969/70, because it also subsequently spent 10 games with Raith Rovers from January to March. Rovers and Thistle both went down, but fortunately the potato had made its way to Dundee United by the time the season ended. The potato spent the first six matches of 1970/71 in the City of Discovery (two more with United then four with Dundee) before spending a further six games with Ayr United. After bouncing around a few clubs for the last couple of months of 1970, it made its way into the hands of Clyde in early January 1971. The Bully Wee sat in 12th places, 9 points clear of the relegation zone, with 15 matches remaining. They failed to win any of them, but fortunately for the potato they did draw seven of them, which was enough for them to just keep their heads above water. Defeats in the opening two matches of 1971/72 took their overall run to 17 matches with the potato before they were finally able to beat Motherwell 2-0. It was quickly passed to Killie then Dundee United, before it embarked on three lengthier spells that took it through most of the winter - five matches with Airdrie, five with Falkirk and then eight with Hearts. It would later spend six matches with relegation threatened East Fife, but an April victory over St Johnstone was enough to pass on the potato and keep them up, before the potato eventually spent the summer with 5th placed Dundee. The potato was very mobile during the 1972/73 season - it only had one spell of longer than three matches with any single club, that was an eight game run with Dumbarton in November and December. It ultimately finished the season in the safe hands of St Johnstone. 1973/74 wasn't too dissimilar - it had consecutive six game spells with East Fife and Clyde over the winter, but aside from that didn't spend more than four games with any club and eventually ended up enjoying a summer in sunny Greenock where it prepared for a tumultuous 1974/75 campaign. The 1974/75 season marked the transition from larger divisions to smaller divisions. The Scottish top flight had consisted of 18/20/22 teams for almost 70 years, but was now introducing a 10 team Premier Division as part of a move from a two division to a three division format. Therefore the bottom eight clubs would all be relegated out of the top flight at the end of this campaign, making it a tough task for the potato to survive. This would be a hugely cut-throat season, as evidenced by the potato changing hands 15 times across the whole season, including seven times in the first 11 matches. A nine-game spell with rock bottom Arbroath across the winter was the only run of more than three matches with the same club. Therefore, as we approached the end of the season, it was still all to play for. Arbroath's run ended with a win over Airdrie in March, but with Airdrie also looking doomed at that stage it was crucial for the potato that it was quickly passed on elsewhere. They delivered two weeks later, beating Celtic 1-0 at Broomfield in a result that all but ended the Hoops' bid for 10 titles in a row. Celtic beat Hearts a week later - Hearts were four points clear of relegation with four games to go, so if they held the potato until the end of the season there was a decent chance it would have survived. However, Hearts beat Motherwell 4-1 at Tynecastle in their penultimate game to send the potato down to Lanarkshire. Motherwell still had two matches remaining, but sat a point outside of the top 10 and therefore most likely needed at least one win to survive. If they didn't win and kept the potato then they'd probably be taking it to the second tier. The fixture list had them travelling to an already doomed Dumbarton on the final day, so the potato knew that a win over Aberdeen at Pittodrie in the second last game was its best to survive. The Steelmen led 2-1 at half-time, but ultimately the match finished in a 2-2 draw which meant the demise of the potato looked more likely. Motherwell were ahead of Kilmarnock on goal difference, so the potato's only hope was that Killie failed to win at home to Dundee United and then Motherwell kept their noses ahead of them without actually beating Dumbarton. Killie would ultimately lose 4-2, leaving the window open, but sadly for our friend Potato 16 Motherwell comfortably beat Dumbarton 3-1 to ensure its demise. Potato 16's journey: Total number of matches with Potato 16: Full set of results for Potato 16: Final resting places of all potatoes: Total number of matches with all potatoes: Total number of spells in possession of all potatoes:

Chocolate Chapati? The game's gone lads. Gone.

Really? The opportunity to form meaningful connections and relationships with people you study with, is not in any way affected by not actually meeting in decent numbers and sharing that common experience directly? What a remarkable theory.

It was a blatant lie when the Ibrox cheek used 'Covid procedures' as an excuse to exclude away fans last Saturday, then sold the spares to their own fans, and the same applies this weekend to the Parkhead cheek, who will save on stewarding and policing by having only their own support at their ground. Both these Glasgow sides have for years made it unattractive for away supporters to attend, and for them to use a health crisis to create their latest twin venture is loathsome. All other clubs in the country are now doing their best to accommodate supports and get Scottish football going again, while this pair see an opportunity to save and/or make more money out of the public's collective difficulties over the past 18 months. They are the Tories of Scottish football.