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A return to form 10 for Thursday . A rather less impressive 3 in the comedy quiz .

Just to update. Great news at my clinic. The numbers my cancer is measured in are the lowest since March 2021. Can live life for another 4 months until next clinic in March.

This is another example of folk being so desperate to flog the club (our fans and others) that they wade in and subsequently find themselves trying to defend a position that they cannot. There is no way this is a bad thing. It is a wild reach to start whinging about subsequent season ticket money. People calculating the losses haven't taken into account that these might not even be getting bought by season ticket holders, or by folk who pay early bird KM7 prices. It's clearly a good initiative in terms of getting cash in. It's clearly working as folk are apparently signing up. Anyone continuing to try and use this initiative to slate the club is quite simply making an arse of themselves.

48 now.

Middle lad made it through to a cooking competition final where he will be representing his school against all the other Dundee schools, despite being in the youngest age group. Gets 2 weeks training with a chef. Since the football dream has tailed off, he has wanted to be a chef and has an excellent balance with flavours. Very proud of him and look forward to all the practicing.

Every single club thread in the league has opposition fans posting within the last page or two. It’s a multi-club forum, that’s kinda how it works, quite why you guys get so bugged by it I don’t know.

I have started a band called 999 Megabytes. We still haven't gotten a gig.

I'm honestly just absolutely buzzing about the thought of seeing a current Saints player playing Lionel Messi in a competitive game. I don't even care about the prospective transfer fee or the money from FIFA, I'm just fucking delighted that this talented lad has taken a gamble on joining a random team on the other side of the world, that it's paid off for him, that it's going to transform his career and that I get to hear WC commentators repeatedly mention our club. I was really down about this tournament - still am, on most levels, and many of the games have been gash - but this is just putting a huge smile on my face every time I think about it. Bit tinpot? Maybe. Basking in reflected glory? Yeah, a bit. But I'll remember what this lad has achieved forever.

When we were shite last season it was constantly inhabited by other club fans ripping the pish. Funnily enough when you're clear at the top of the league you get allot less patter. Over the years Falkirk fans have been amongst the loudest when it comes to giving it out, crying about other fans laughing at you when you've been stinking out this level for two seasons while being run like a shambles just shows you up to be an idiot, the whole premise of PnB is the interaction between other fans, if you don't like it then f**k off to whatever single club forum Falkirk has, it really is that simple.

The final 4 pages of the Dunfermline thread has just 2 posts from non-Dunfermline fans. I had a look.

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You’d think with all that McGlynn-ball, passing football, you’d have Falkirk fans in their 100s chomping at the bit to sign up for these 10-season ticket books.

Not sure what you are asking me but I hope it’s for sedatives.

With all of the posts regarding the 1925/26 Scottish Cup, it's important to remember who won it that season.

Holy shit this is tough going. Folk losing their shit over us getting a very winnable cup draw followed by them losing their shit over the club launching an initiative to try and fill a well document £400k hole in the finances.

Stops the car door being banged by other idiotic, inconsiderate drivers. I do this quite a lot.

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I'm clearly not au fait with other clubs' lowest ever Scottish Cup crowds but I would be completely stunned if any other club in Scotland at the weekend had a crowd that was almost 20% lower than theif previous ever lowest attendances. Had a quick look at Morton and Hamilton as an example and their attendances were both actually up on recent league games which makes our figures look even worse.

And this financial emergency will automatically be solved... when exactly? When pesky seaside league outfits stop having the temerity to defend against you or you stop shipping 3 goals to Clyde? Doesn't seem like the sure thing to bet ten years' of future revenue on, but then I'm not a gullible moron and so don't support Falkirk FC. Oh and if you think that a scheme that will generate £125k now will only cost £7,500 per year in lost revenue over ten years, then you should go back and sit National 5 Maths. Then you can perhaps move on to the basic accounting principles that you also completely failed to understand. So many thousands of season tickets sold and yet here you are, facing a "financial emergency" and trying to flog utterly tragic IOUs to your own gormless fans to keep the lights on. Swing and a miss indeed.

Well this Bot has an attitude, wonder what they are here to promote? My money is on VisitLargs.

I absolutely loved heading the ball as a kid and don’t think it’s done me any harm and I absolutely loved heading the ball as a kid

Because apparently the Labour Party set up the Scottish Parliament to be one of coalitions (in order to kill the SNP stone dead). Any grouping of parties could have power. Provided of course between them they have over 50% of the seats. An example would be the 2 Lab/Lib coalitions in the first 2 terms.

BOO!

Get out and walk for sixty seconds, ya lazy bassa Try being in a car with someone who'll drive round and round a busy car park for ten minutes in the hope that a space close to the door appears, while there's half a dozen at the edge.

There is almost no difference in attitude between Scotland and England on pretty-much every question. Why? Because we've been the same nation for over 300 years!

What a great response to a young player we are trying to sign…………….we’ll look at Baccus, who came to our club as a relative unknown and left a World Cup International, that is the platform St Mirren can offer, now if you can just sign here

Steve Archibald moves from Clyde to Aberdeen, featuring Craig Brown with hair.

There are definitely valid criticisms/concerns over the scheme but this isn’t one of them. Nobody is thinking “can I afford to have Christmas dinner OR spend five thousand pounds on a 10 year ticket”. Wealthy/relatively wealthy people exist. This scheme is for them at a time when the club is in desperate short term need for cash. The “mood of the nation/cost of living crisis” argument doesn’t cut it for me.

John Cochrane was the St. Mirren manager when they won the Scottish Cup in 1926. He then went on to manage Sunderland to win the English FA Cup 11 years later, becoming the first to manage cup winning sides on both sides of the border.

Ricky Little is mates with Grado...could be the target man we've been lacking

Wtf were you planning to do to that donkey…

We need to know the market that we operate in and the transfer fees that we can realistically demand but any club in the English championship shelling out £1m for him would be getting him at a total steal. He's tailor made for that style of football. In an ideal world we'd be asking a lot more for him but realistically, I'm not sure we could as other sides know a million quid to sides in Scotland outside the 5 biggest clubs is always going to be taken very seriously. If it was a million or thereabouts, I'd be hoping we'd make sure there's at least a 25% sell on in there as well. The boy has far too much upside for that not to be a must.

She also asked. “…..but who do you really support”

Four years since Gary Caldwell took his Thistle team for a team bonding day with the Paras. One player burst into tears at one point, another escaped a training room and ran off. LEST WE FORGET...

It's great way to get a cash boost quick. Anyone seeing this as anything other than positive are at it. Frillies being pished yet again and trolls showing themselves up to be thick as shite, yet again. Nothing to see here, as you were.

^^^^ I'm just about there.......going to have to put the heating on soon.

For us Dundonians, we never use "wifey" to describe our wives - "wifey" is a term for all woman just as you say.

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Not really. I was a member of a wee club with some industry insiders, collectors, auctioneers etc anything that's decent they are ITK about months in advance. I've seen Berry Bros, Thompson Bros and G&Ms go in 15 minutes. If anything the independents are worse as they can't afford bottles on shelves. Your best bet with the indepdents is to find a few distilleries you like that are reasonably unfashionable. 5 years ago nobody gave a shit about Clynelish, now it's the new Springbank. If you like Blair Atholl, and I do, there's always independent bottles to be had. Same with Caol Ila, Mannochmore, Glen Grant for me. The best thing about SMWS is you can try out lots of different distilleries and find stuff you like. Not cheap drams bit cheaper than buying bottle If you go to Queen St you don't have to be a member to drink on ground floor

Following on from the correction of Mr Shortt's first name (Joe), and in an attempt to work some repetitive humour, Joe Shortt had kept goal for Albion Rovers when they reached the Scottish Cup Final in 1920, losing the Kilmarnock, below. Kilmarnock had Mattha Shortt at centre half, meaning for the first and so far only occasion, a Scottish Cup Final took place with both sides playing a player Shortt.

20 odd fans stuck in £10k to help out the club in return for a piece of paper. Asking 25 fans to pay £5k up front for a 10 year season ticket with a load of “add ons” that actually mean they will be quids over time in is perfectly sensible to me.

They are only offering 25 of them. It's a way for some who has 5k to put into the club, or was considered doing so, to get a wee bit extra for it. Not everyone will be interested in owning shares. I'd be surprised if they dont shift them, and have no idea why anyone would have an issue with it.

As the first resort.

When my older brother was dying of cancer we had "the chat". We established he wanted cremated and asked if he could invite anybody from his regiment association in attendance etc. I asked about music, but being a man of simple tastes (he like liked fishing but no interest in music) he just said "similar to what we did for mum and dad" then added, although there is one song I would like. So naturally I asked... Song? No idea. Artist? No idea. Lyrics? No idea How does the tune go? I am shit with humming tunes. I have something about it in my bedroom at home. This already had me in a panic as the only musical thing I knew he had was a Donny Osmond album, no idea how it ended up in his room but it had been there for years and had become a family joke. Got my brother home as he wanted to die in his own bed but for some reason never got the chance to ask about that song. Brother died suddenly a few days later. Everything was arranged but that song was bugging me and I gave it one last shot. Turned his bedroom upside down like I was looking for the family silver. Happened to come across a crumpled bookie slip with the word "Sissel" on it. Naturally I first assumed it was a horse but then remembered my brother was not a betting man. So looked up Google. Turns out she sang a rendition of Going Home which is also used by the military. I only knew it as the Hovis theme tune but there is a line in it which refers to going home where mother and father are waiting (his ashes were to be buried with them in the family grave). I almost cried with relief. So my brother was piped into the crematorium with Amazing Grace (mum and dad had the same) and a guard of honour with regimental colours. Then the played Fisherman's Blues as he was committed and as we left to the sounds of Going Home by Sissel the piper was outside playing it at exactly the same time. So for those not wanting to plan ahead, remember the hassle and heartache you can be saving others. Or you might be remembered for the guy that got buried to Puppy Love