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It was just on the general contact us section of the page, unfortunately it's a send form so I can't actually fully remember what I had said. It was mainly along the lines of it was heartbreaking to see so much incredible work from Saints since being promoted just being pissed away. With the sales of McCann and Kerr we were given the football is a business, bottom line trumps all treatment, yet when it comes to a manager who is ruining the club, that's where we decide past achievements and tenure has to be respected. I know it's deeply unsavoury to hope someone becomes unemployed, but I'm pretty sure he'll get his contract paid up or paid until he finds a new job so there are levels to it. The thing that really brings me down, is that Saints are so much more than just a football club to me. I have no actual connection to Perth, I was born in Dumfries and lived there until a few years ago, I was taken to a game against Motherwell as a kid when visiting family and it just stuck with me, I didn't follow my Dad's lead and support Celtic, I loved the community feel and felt proud to be a very small part of it, feeling like I belong to something I enjoy and being able to get behind something with a group of passionate people every weekend is the best thing ever. I pointed out that I'm confident Saints fans aren't expecting 6-0 wins or for a manager to revolutionize the game, but we've always appreciated those who gave their all for the club and all I ever want is to turn up and have some kind of belief that my team is going to give it a go, and think they can win any game if they play well. It's really important to not go full rose-tinted glasses on TW, but he was a man I would go into battle for if he asked, his team did the same and I'm pretty sure we all appreciated every last drop of that. Some of his teams were miles less talented than what CD has had, but It's a hill I'll die on - at least there was a plan, at least I could see what he was trying to do. Of course it sometimes blew up in his face spectacularly, but he was trying to win games. Every last bit of that has gone under CD. We're now full of journeymen who'll be gone in two years, likely with us in the Championship. He'll be gone, the Kerr and McCann money wasted, there will be no long-term plan, it will likely take years to stabilise and build again. One thing to TW's credit was he usually had someone lined up to replace the veteran players, he deserves credit for the work he did bringing on the younger guys. CD would just ring Alan Preston and find out which other 33 year old is no longer good enough for Hibs or Aberdeen and we'll give them a final decent payday. I've never felt more disenfranchised supporting Saints, I noticed going to the Hibs game on the first day of the season there wasn't any excitement, it was part dread, part resignation and just part emptiness. We are going nowhere under CD. Hoping not to be the sh*ttest team isn't a form of ambition, and We just need to bite the bullet and get rid. Sure the board might see it as a waste of money, but so was Hector-Ingram, so was John Mahon if CD stays in charge.

Renton knocked us out of the Scottish cup in September 1883. Weird how all Dumbarton's 19th century rivals all died. First Renton, then Vale of Leven, then Rangers.

Gogic is fine for bottom 6 jobbers, not for us.

Oh you sweet summer child. The Lib Dems’ knickers would be round their ankles before the Tories even made a formal proposition.

Truss is comedy gold as PM, a sort of hybrid of Margot Leadbetter and Frank Spencer with the cunning and intellect of Father Dougal. Highlights include telling the Japanese PM to "chillax about Taiwan", mixing up paperwork to take the UK out of the UN and join the Surbiton Women's Institute and walking into a lampost. With Britain's moron population distracted by the hilarity the Tories continue to loot the country and rig the capitalist system in their favour. Poor people are made to generate electricity on giant treadmills in exchange for food credits. To encourage investment in growth, the highest rate of tax is replaced with a 20% tax rebate funded by putting VAT on bread, pasta, rice and potato products. The NHS is broken up, with the real estate going to opaque offshore trusts associated with dodgy mates of the governments' (Russian, American, Chinese, Saudi, who cares, they have big yachts) and the running of it outsourced to highly leveraged private equity firms. Education is fully privatised, with most state schools replaced with Wetherspoons, Sports Direct and Amazon academies and universities banned from teaching Arts courses to anyone with less that £1m in a trust fund. Our moat of sewage will be reinforced by razor wire and machine gun towers. All boats not visibly crewed by white people will be dive bombed by specially adapted Spitfire replicas playing Rule Britannia through suspended speakers. Then into 2023, where things start to get bad....

Offside is probably the most important single rule in football (apart from handball). Offside makes the game work in the way that it does and makes football watchable. It's central to the game and everything is built around it. But it was never designed to be analysed to within an inch of its life by people who fundamentally do not understand the purpose of the rule. It has been modified over the years to improve the game, from no offside in your own half (thanks to the English national team of 1906 for that one, look it up!), to the change from three to two defenders in an attempt to increase the number of goals, to the change again after Italia 90 to make level onside, again encouraging attacking and having huge tactical implications. Changes to offside have always been about the shape of the game and how it should develop tactically and become a better, more enjoyable sport. The offside rule wasn't designed to need 'more accurate data'. You're missing the point completely and seem to be excusing disrupting the flow of the game and damaging the most exciting moments in football to solve a problem that doesn't exist. This pish about 'time your run better' is physically impossible when we're dealing with offside calls so minute as to be completely pointless. If someone can't immediately look and say 'offside', then the offside rule has done its job and the game should just carry on. The post-Italia 90 solution was pretty much perfect. In line is onside and just get on with it. It's becoming even worse than the fucking choobs that moaned like f**k about the old (perfectly sensible) approach to the handball rule and led us to the point where players can be penalised for having arms. Now offside is getting like that. Football never needed this level of technical infringement. It's totally against the spirit, and just as importantly the flow, of the game. Football is a game where things happen quickly and it can be a bit messy and it's not always clear what exactly has happened. But that's fine and has always been fine. It's not a sport like tennis that has built-in breaks to stop and analyse a marginal call using fucking satellites and protractors, or like rugby where the game can stop for a couple of minutes while a technical decision beyond the understanding of the casual viewer is deliberated over. I cannot fathom why any football supporter would want - or perceive a need for - football to go down this road.

Just clocked they removed the green from Hibs' badge What a pathetic bunch of fucking children.

The suggestion that we should 'defend' how we run our club in the face of criticism from OF supporters takes laughable to a new level.

Alas no. I'll watch on the telly with a few individual steak pies and some Blue Riband biscuits. It's all about showing respect.

This chart from the BBC News website... Making things the same colour in a pie chart, this probably annoys me more than it should.

I would politely suggest that if Rangers don't want their gifted young prodigies being crunched by lower league jobbers then they simply don't enter competitions that will see them directly facing lower league jobbers. An outcome we can surely all agree on

Nope. This guy did:

Harrison wasn’t great but he wasn’t the worst in the sense that he looked like he actually gave a little bit of a shit, which put him streets ahead of folk like Lewis, Froxylias, Haber, TOE, Turner etc. Seeing the names which comprised that squad still gives me the absolute fear. On a somewhat related note, Hartley has had a fucking miserable start to life at Hartlepool. Pleasing.

Over 6,000 views/listens to our 4 episodes so far, simply amazing . Episode 5 out NOW🎙️.

OF Fans 'You diddy clubs can't survive without the blue/green pound, you'd die without it' St. Mirren: 'Cool mate, let's see if that's true and remove the extra stand' OF Fans: 'Oh...no, wait. That's not what we -'

Says Nicky, from Port Glasgow. 5 minutes from Morton and would also pass our ground long before reaching Celtic Park. Don’t moan about solutions to the problem when you ARE the problem

Even worse was ex employees and ex directors at the club believing his accusations along with Keith Hogg having banning orders ready to be sent out before anything was proven.

If I was having an episode where I was mentally unwell, stressed and anxious and suddenly found i was the subject of national media attention I would simply snap out of it.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about Zurich.

See also, people who stop suddenly on a path to talk or whatever, and are apparently totally unaware that they are now an obstacle.

Anyway, strange days in Edinburgh as Hibs reveal their ideal starting line-up for Saturday.

The annual trial match is upon us once more. Plenty in black and white looking to impress enough to secure their dream move to the capital before the window slams shut.

Bump. This season's edition gets underway this weekend with 24 ties. St Andrews and Syngenta debut. With more than half of all clubs in this round hailing from EOS there were bound to be numerous head-to-heads and 6 such ties do occur: Broxburn v Blackburn, Burntisland v LTHV, Penicuik v Musselburgh, Sauchie v St Andrews, Vale of Leithen v Dunbar and Whitehill v Camelon. None of those ties have an overwhelming favourite: but Broxburn, LTHV, Penicuik, Sauchie, Dunbar and Whitehill would probably be tipped. Newtongrange should have enough to see off Invergordon - while Preston, Dunipace and Syngenta also start strong favourites against Newton Stewart, Wigtown and Threave (especially as all have begun the season fairly strongly). Linlithgow will be overwhelmingly tipped at home to St Cuthbert but might recall a rather 'sticky' South Challenge Cup tie against them only last season. By early form Dundonald v Tayport looks well-balanced but home advantage could prove the difference. Haddington and Hill of Beath will need big performances to threaten Darvel and Irvine Meadow respectively, although the Ayrshire men are currently placed identically to their Fife visitors at 12th. Coldstream and Hawick are unlikely to trouble Auchinleck and Carnoustie. Dalkeith should be underdogs at home to Lochee - but their strong start and their visitors middling beginning leaves room for optimism. Easthouses face a tall order at Drumchapel. As always a 50% progression rate should be the target and with Jeanfield and Tynecastle having byes that could mean 11 or 12 other clubs progressing depending how you want to calculate it. Syngenta v Threave open the tournament with Friday night football at 8pm. Newtongrange will enjoy gracing a different Victoria Park and SPFL Premiership turf, in the shape of Ross County's venue (moved as Invergordon's ground is unenclosed). Penicuik v Musselburgh and Whitehill v Camelon have decided to play at usual 2:30pm, while Drumchapel v Easthouses also starts then. Most replays would be the following Saturday but Camelon v Whitehill would be the immediate Tuesday; while Lochee v Dalkeith and Tayport v Dundonald would be Tuesday 6th September as would LTHV v Burntisland, plus St Andrews v Sauchie would be on Wednesday 7th.

Offside was invented to stop fat goalhangers scoring fifty a season not to be scientifically scrutinised to death. If a player isn't at least a yard offside I genuinely do not care.

Anyone remember what happened in the last season we lost a midweek cup game in August 7-0 away from home?

I see the squad and staff were at Hawkhill today having a laugh at the bowls. After the golf day it looks like they're making use of local sports facilities to promote a good atmosphere amongst the squad. Who knows, one day they'll maybe get good weather for it!

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Just found out he's from Fife. Get him to f**k.

I couldn't fight sleep but I would like to point out that Lucketti looks like he wants the hardest of hard Brexits possible.

Families/obese couples who take up the whole pavement and make no attempt to make room for others.

I fucking loved Gorrin. Nothing else to add.

People that answer their phones during meal times deserve their hands forked to a table.

Took until the second sentence of that article before there was an inaccuracy- "Followers of the Parkhead and Ibrox teams traditionally took up two stands when they played games at the SMiSA Stadium in the past" They got two stands for about 3 seasons out of the 12 we've been there.

Actually, it's your views that are gormless, and the way you've manipulated what people have been saying is mendacious. If the energy companies were nationalised, there would be an immediate mechanism whereby a government could control the prices available to retail, and business customers. What there is right now is a failed 'free market' system, that's squealing to the government for a bail out. As in ' privatising the profits, socializing the losses'..., in it's own way, just like the banking crash of 2007/2008. As energy is a basic utility, it absolutely should never have been privatised.

It's great when the mask slips and Old Firm supporters show that, despite their entire personality consisting of a constant "I fucking hate ra Sellick/Ranjurs btw" mantra, they actually have a shared common interest of keeping their feet firmly on the necks of the diddy clubs, and that any attempt to level the playing field is met with collective outcry.

For me it Dennon Lewis all day long. A lot of them were shite players but he also turned out to be a shite person that caused a lot of unnecessary trouble for our club and supporters!!

Some laugh like. Full 90 in the spoiler for anyone of the inclination.

Hibs Twitter admin trying to bait the ****. It’s petty and I like it.

I like Gogic as a player and he would offer something different to what we have, but in reality I'm guessing he's going to be a stick on starter and probably one of the highest earners at St Mirren and I'm not sure that would be the case here with the make up of our midfield and the way Hammell wants to play. An Ally Gorrin sort to sit as that 1 in front of the back 4 would be ideal based on the way SH has us set up, but players who land on every second ball, kick folk and can also play a bit don't come around to often at our level unfortunately. I would like us to bring in a more traditional #6 so we've got options for those games where we aren't going to have similar/more possession than our opponents and likely to be under the cosh a bit more (OF, Hearts etc).

Did not bother Scottish Government when they were trying to decimate the Entertainment and Hospitality industry to prove they were better than England.

Daley Thompson does not like this.

It's academic now but with Gogic there's probably a reason why he's been a good fit for Accies and St Mirren but looked like a fish out of water at Hibs. We're only a handful of games in with Hammell but of our 4 games so far we've had more possession and passed the ball more than the opposition in 3 of them. As @thisGRAEME mentioned after St Johnstone - we made more passes in that game than any last season under Alexander. 31/07: St Mirren - 51% possession, 367 passes vs 342 06/08: St Johnstone - 57% possession, 475 passes vs 350 13/08: Aberdeen - 40% possession, 297 passes vs 481 20/08: Livi - 58% possession, 409 passes vs 299 It seems relevant that we've had Goss in as the midfield 1 in this 4141 so far. He's not there to put tackles in and disrupt - he's there to get on the ball and try to make passes. If this is the direction we're going with Hammell - and it seems to be given the comments from the players about training being more possession based and focussed on short, quick passing - it probably means that what a player is like 'on the ball' is going to be something that we're considering more than we ever did when Robinson was here (and to a lesser extent Alexander) given SR's view was that sort of stuff was 'coachable' - his priorities were physical attributes like pace and physicality. So from that point of view Gogic - a brick shithouse who's fairly limited on the ball but can cover a couple of positions - feels like a good fit for Robboball but (IMO) less so for what Hammell seems to be trying to put together. TL,DR - Gogic? Not for me, Clive. (Fwiw, I agree with @Handsome_Devil that we could do with a 6 - though an Ally Gorrin type would probably be a better fit than a Gogic IMO)

Did you not know the actual dragons were on strike that day?

Someone has a new buzzword

No surprise that as soon as McTominay is back in the team they don't fold like a cheap deck of cards. A dominant display even with his partner not really showing up alongside him.

You wouldn't want to nod off and miss your stop on that bus.