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10/10 for Thursday. YPM was a guess, or perhaps (dare I say it) a semi-eduguess,

Spanish data analysts? I thought there was only Juan. *Gets coat*

I must admit reading a fan of Glasgow Celtic call another club "Insecure" did raise quite the chuckle. Fair play, even if it was entirely accidental.

Hey guys, I 'm just passing by on my "Liam Kelly is utter dugshite" bus. Plenty of seats still. Hop on.

I beg to differ.

Who would have thought a Dundee United fan masquerading as an Arbroath fan wouldn't want to go to Dens.

100%. It’s even more galling when you know what the alternatives to him were at the time he was signed. Utterly baffling decision from the manager, as so many were last season. The initial loan signing was bad enough but then giving him a 2 and a half year contract on the back of it? Fucking mental. Davidson watches a different sport to the rest of us sometimes. That team line gave me the fear tonight and so it came to pass. That midfield 3 and Gordon playing ahead of Mitchell the primary concerns for me and the first half an hour was as poor as anything we saw last season. missing the penalty at least kicked us into life and the end of the first half and then the second half was exciting. Clark has brought the best out of May (who was excellent again) and you can’t argue with a decent goal return but I wish he’d have more influence in games. I feel like he goes missing far too much. Murphy and McPherson both played very well off the bench, they gave us a spark and energy that had otherwise been missing for much of the match. Would be happy to see both starting against Dundee United to be honest. I really don’t get McLennan. He puts me in mind of a young Michael O’Halloran, only without the blistering pace. A bit of a nothing player and I couldn’t even venture a guess as to what his best position is supposed to be. I think we need to get something on Monday against United. We saw how quickly a 3 game losing run turned into a 10 game losing run last season and I really don’t trust Davidson to dig us out of that situation. We at least have the experience and know how in the squad to dig out points, in-spite of Davidson and his regular brain farts.

Callum Davidson. Just go. Sick of you and your pish. Every single time you try to "tweak" the formation, it's not actually a tweak. It's just a change of player to bring utter diddies that you signed and who are no where near good enough. Ali Crawford just GTF. Absolutely travesty he is pulling on a shirt ahead of Wotherspoon.

Anyway, here's Pele at Dens. In Scotland gear.

The great Pele having to resort to dirty tactics to stop Jocky.

HAVE. FUCKING HAVE. NOT OF.

And there, my friends, is 100% proof that red card for Pittman was the correct call.

31st December there will be a LIVE players of the year awards. Best Player Best Newcomer Most Improved Life Time Achievement no need to vote now, it's closed.....thanks to all who did vote much appreciated. over 1,000 votes

An hour isn't a lot of time but Sportscene seem to make as little use of it as possible.

Celtic's reputation for receiving fewer disciplinary sanctions from Scottish referees than other Premiership teams was only an incidental part of the joke, which was that getting an early red card was a deliberate strategy on the part of Hibs' current management team. But thanks for actually proving the stereotype true with actual hard statistics!

Vivienne Wormfood

Have been looking for an every day wearer for around the £300-£500 mark for a while. I am a big Hamilton fan and was severely tempted by the Khaki Field Automatic. However a couple of weeks ago I came across the Marloe Watch Company based out of Kinross. They had some really nice watches but I decided on the the Marloe Sceptre Commander. It's listed as £349 but due to go up to £399 on 1st Jan. With a discount code I got it for £314. I know it's maybe not one for the purists but I like the fact it's designed by a company just down the road. It arrived today and absolutely love it. It goes straight into my top three with my Oris Aquis Date and Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical. My photography skills really dont do it justice.

Simple explanation. She’s a c**t.

In this season of goodwill and cheer, I hope the stadium collapses during the match.

Bert you spelt the last word wrong.

35/42: St Johnstone 2-3 Hearts, Premiership, 28/12/2022. Hearts beat St Johnstone 3-2 for the second time this season in a nice wee boost to my season goal-per-game count. Went to the Muirton Lounge before the game, which is a very nicely-appointed spot, but the queues for a pint after our first drink were ridiculous, so we just packed it in and went into the ground. Once things got underway it went inexplicably well for Hearts in the early stages. Soon 2-0 up and playing very well, Hearts fell out of it for spells and carried a bit of luck in reaching half-time with that lead intact. The second half was entertaining/nervy, and a further three goals made for an enjoyable game played amid a pretty good atmosphere. Even at 3-1 to Hearts, I said to one of my mates that this could finish 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4... It just felt like the kind of game where it could go absolutely any way, especially with the VAR interventions and three penalties awarded. Overall, probably a deserved win for Hearts on balance. A great result that's been a long time coming in Perth, and Hearts' move into third is starting to look ominous. I've seen St Johnstone three times now this season, and they've looked pretty decent each time. Interested to see where they finish up this year. So, with 2022 coming to an end, I'm 35 games into The 42 and it's currently standing at 16 home wins, 16 away wins, and 3 draws. Didn't expect that.

Five and twelve people respectively clearly did.

Big Ange has quite possibly the easiest job in world football.

I think this officially qualifies as an 'Ooohyahfucker'

If any potential investor looks at the club but decides against getting involved because they believe they'll be criticised if they sign a rapist then (a) good, and (b) f**k 'em.

Pure class.

Plenty have people make that mistake.

First time for everything, I guess.

What is it about "Falkirk statement writer found" you're struggling with? And which of those words are slang?

Aye. This is nowhere near the worst Motherwell side but unless someone actually takes some sort of ownership of things then we're fucked. As it stands Hammell's had 18 league games in charge and his record is marginally better than the Jan - May 22 run that saw folk lose their minds over Alexander. GA (Jan 22 - May 22) = P 18 W 3 D 6 L 9 Pts = 15 SH = P 18 W 5 D 3 L 10 Pts = 18 There are obviously mitigating circumstances with Hammell in so much as he was parachuted in 2 days before the season started, has a paper thin squad and we've a laundry list of injuries which have now apparently been compounded by illness. That's...fine but the January window opens at the weekend so it's on Hammell/the club to do something about it. Even if it's short term fixes the window is open and the issues around the squad have been known for ages. Without wanting to come wide have we actually seen any individual improvement in players under Hammell/Kerr in the same way we saw with say Cole, Watt or even Lamie's redemption arc under Alexander. For avoidance of doubt that's not me arguing for GA, we were well shot in the end and his position was untenable but it does beg the question of what the f**k we're actually doing just now. As @thisGRAEME said last night whether or not they were actually worth extending or not we lost the likes of O'Hara, Donnelly, Woolery, Roberts etc over the summer and simply didn't replace them. Quite possibly through choice because we wanted to reduce the size of the squad. We've a centre forward who's on 11 goals in 22 games this season which is good but he's literally our only option for that position. We're asking players to play through injury and illness regularly. I mean, that was true with KVV last season as well when we were asking him to play with one functioning arm. Incidentally this is a good point from Nick McPheat: When we hit a slide with Robinson there was a general feeling that he was prepared to blow things up and make changes whether that was bringing Hastie back from Alloa, getting Gboly in and going 433 instead of Murderball or whatever. Right now I don't get the same impression from Hammell. Like, clearly I've no idea what he's like in the dressing room or generally but his post-match script of doing good work in training and we need to defend better started getting old a while ago. I noticed he's modified the line to getting players in "as quickly as possible" now. So that's something. Like others I don't think it's a given that we're down and a routine 3-0 at Ibrox doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know. It's definitely fixable but it absolutely needs someone to actually acknowledge the fucking problems and do something about them. I mean, if we've spend the entire season up to now talking about not being "clinical" enough in the defensive third and our solution ends up as signing a boy from the LOI because he scored a worldie of a free kick against us in July then...f**k me.

During the ceremony I would expect to you be wearing a club tie, no trainers. There will be music, we expect you all to get up and dance. Even I don't dance 'Arch Stanton' No other halves are welcome. The evening will only be as good as you want it. See you soon!

The man was literally emailed by dozens, if not hundreds, of our fans via the fan's rep begging him not to sign a rapist. He can feel hard done by all he wants, but if he was expecting people not to call him out on that then he's living in a different world. A year to the day since Scott Burns broke the rumour. So fucking daft.

Bet the fanny round you were absolutely dripping

Darren Mackie, of course, famously promoted kids’ reading programmes by picking a movie as his favourite book because he didn’t really read books.

Adamski Junior version 3.0 arrived on 20th December! We’re so delighted. It’s been a long road: eight miscarriages since the beginning of 2020 and we’d pretty much resigned ourselves to it not working out. And dread all the way through pregnancy that something was about to go wrong. But he’s here! A wee brother for our daughter and son aged 8 and 6, who I’ve never seen so excited. We’ve all been enjoying getting to know him over Christmas. Also meant watching Argentina become world champions from the maternity ward of the QEUH. A World Cup final that we’ll never forget.

Both took substances that kept them up.

Have there been backlash’s to other signings outside of David Goodwillie? Unless they’re planning on bringing in Mason Greenwood why would they have anything to fear? it’s not a lot to ask of our board that we avoid signing anyone who has been involved in a serious sexual assault. We’re meant to be a family club. Believe it or not but most people don’t think signing a rapist is a good idea that’s why he was at Clyde.

Jocky Scott rippining Pele a new arsehole is Jocky Scott's favourite story to tell. Eventually got bored of hearing about it. Nice picture of it though.

May as well just try and sign Vaulks while we’re at it

Goodwin's tenure as Aberdeen manager found black ice and he's now frantically oversteering to recover the situation that is escalating fast out of his control. This isn't going to end well as he would need to display managerial skills, that from the evidence of his whole managerial career, he doesn't seem to possess, to start moving forward and out of this rut. I would imagine Cormack will hope that six points from the next two home fixtures will calm the growing displeasure of Goodwin amongst the support but even in the ideal scenario, it looks like he'll be plugging a hole when the dam has already burst. With the fixtures then taking us to Hampden, Darvel, Hearts and Hibs he seems to be heading into a minefield without a plan other than to sign better defenders in the January window. Furthermore, I can't listen to his interviews any longer so I'm not sure how the players can cope with him on a daily basis. There's something unlikeable and self-serving about him. There's no room for error now for Goodwin. What should've been a straightforward couple of home games now see the vultures circling around Pittodrie as they see a manager on his last legs.

Hibernian 0-4 Celtic @ Easter Road Stadium . cinch Scottish Premiership. The home side started pretty well but didn’t score (one ruled out for offside) and Celtic went on to win very convincingly. 2 goals in each half and it could have been more. Crowd 19,730.

I'm just finding it all to be a total slog now. I don't need to be in the Premiership. I don't need a team that I expect to win every week. I don't need the standard to be particularly high. What we have now though is a team bereft of any oomph or even the slightest hint of entertaining football, a manager who looks increasingly incompetent, a sporting director who has way overstayed his welcome and a CEO who seems to be nothing more than a charlatan. It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees but we're now dying on our knees and it feels like no-one even cares - including the fans.

So did Hitler. He wasn’t chased about by the Allies because he was popular though.

If you've heard one ACDC song, you've heard then all.