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  1. 10/10 for Thursday. YPM was a guess, or perhaps (dare I say it) a semi-eduguess,
    18 points
  2. Spanish data analysts? I thought there was only Juan. *Gets coat*
    14 points
  3. 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.
    11 points
  4. Hey guys, I 'm just passing by on my "Liam Kelly is utter dugshite" bus. Plenty of seats still. Hop on.
    11 points
  5. 10 points
  6. Who would have thought a Dundee United fan masquerading as an Arbroath fan wouldn't want to go to Dens.
    9 points
  7. 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.
    8 points
  8. 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.
    8 points
  9. Anyway, here's Pele at Dens. In Scotland gear.
    7 points
  10. The great Pele having to resort to dirty tactics to stop Jocky.
    7 points
  11. 7 points
  12. And there, my friends, is 100% proof that red card for Pittman was the correct call.
    7 points
  13. 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
    7 points
  14. 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!
    7 points
  15. 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.
    6 points
  16. 6 points
  17. In this season of goodwill and cheer, I hope the stadium collapses during the match.
    6 points
  18. Bert you spelt the last word wrong.
    6 points
  19. An hour isn't a lot of time but Sportscene seem to make as little use of it as possible.
    6 points
  20. Five and twelve people respectively clearly did.
    6 points
  21. Big Ange has quite possibly the easiest job in world football.
    6 points
  22. I think this officially qualifies as an 'Ooohyahfucker'
    6 points
  23. 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.
    5 points
  24. 5 points
  25. Plenty have people make that mistake.
    5 points
  26. First time for everything, I guess.
    5 points
  27. 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.
    5 points
  28. 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!
    5 points
  29. 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.
    5 points
  30. 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.
    5 points
  31. Bet the fanny round you were absolutely dripping
    5 points
  32. Darren Mackie, of course, famously promoted kids’ reading programmes by picking a movie as his favourite book because he didn’t really read books.
    5 points
  33. 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.
    5 points
  34. Yeah exactly. There's an element of you'd be surprised how many people there are out there with quite a lot of money who are incredibly thick. I worked in a call centre years ago for one of the mainstream dating sites, just normal customer service cancelling subscriptions, helping folk add pictures (occasionally fielding a call from someone who's account had been banned because they posted dick which was saved onto the advisor version of the site as reason for removal, always a fun shock when they called up and we had to explain why they no longer had an account). Two guys came over to work for us who had been about a month at a call-a-psychic place and the stories they told were insane, regulars spending 100s a day. Said they were sickened by it but tbh don't know what they expected in that job. Likewise, in the 21 odd months I was there I couldn't count the number of folk who got scammed on the dating site. Guys whose accounts get nuked in like a day by the moderators so they convince these women in the first few messages to get offline, then tell them they're a soldier who found diamonds in iraq and need help getting them out of Dubai or some such. Had one women who chucked 100 grand her parents had left her as inheritance at them and was left waiting at Newcastle airport. The scale of the examples you gave though still don't make any sense to me, you're right. I guess there's many billions of people out there and platforms give folk a global reach now. Additionally, though, the culture war aspect of scams now means no one actually has to really believe Liver King's not on PEDs, by supporting him you are owning your perceived enemies so you can either pretend not to see it or just ignore it. I'll have to give Coffeezilla a look, the guy who did the PED video on Liver King was very good, although his wider persona seems very odd as well. Bit of a beamer to realise halfway through doing it that he emailed you asking for help with PEDs years ago. Can't believe the guy cast such a wide net looking for help and thought no one would leak it.
    4 points
  35. There remains frustration about games like last night’s, where the manager’s decision to start the team he did - so clearly dubious before we even kicked off - was the reason we found ourselves two down in 20 minutes. We were then forced into a change that got us into a better situation - probably into the team I’d have started with at that stage - and unsurprisingly we got better. That was an opportunity missed last night and the blame lies solely at the manager’s door. On the plus side, he does have us playing much better football this season and we’ve just gone toe to toe with a side I fully expect to finish third, and probably should have got something from the game which is a vast improvement on last season.
    4 points
  36. 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.
    4 points
  37. Right, so Miller's concerns clearly revolve around the question of medical transition, surgery, hormone treatments, detransition and so on. All of this is a perfectly legitimate topic to concern yourself with, but it has no relevance whatsoever to the GRC reform bill. The act of attaining a GRC in no way compels, or mandates, anyone to undergo any form of surgery or medically alter their bodies. As GC's are fond of pointing out endlessly, the vast majority of trans people never undergo any form of body altering surgery in any case. I'm taking you on face value and assuming you are portraying Miller accurately and fairly here, but if you are asked to provide submissions to support your argument that a bill proposing the liberalisation of an administrative process should not proceed as intended, and you posit an argument concerned with a legitimate but completely unrelated issue, then is it any really any wonder when you fail to halt the bill? If Miller and her cohorts are so concerned about the direction of travel regarding gender theory and some people's trans status that they just want to halt the entire thing completely, i.e. a blanket 'no' to anything whatsoever that recognises, validates, or 'encourages' trans people, then that's their prerogative, but I'd ask why they are so hellbent on restricting the rights of a group of people based on their trans status alone. It's not like trans people only magicked themselves into existence five minutes ago, despite this being the picture many GC's groups are attempting to paint, so why are they so completely consumed and obsessed with a demographic that has always existed, purely because governments in many countries are finally acknowledging that they have always suffered from a lack of official recognition and protection and are finally moving towards giving them the rights they deserve?
    4 points
  38. Charlie Nicholas. As a youngster, he was superb. Incredible. Scored on his Scotland debut in 1983 (when he was 21) against Switzerland and, jeezus, what a goal it was. 2-1 down, 15 minutes left, he casually juggles the ball from right to left foot and clips it over the keeper into the top corner in one swift movement (Archie's scream of "OH WHAT A GOAL!!" summing up a level of excitement that he rarely showed). During that 82-83 season he scored 48 times (3 of the goals got nominated for goal of the season). And this was the early 80s. The Scottish League was at its peak. Hell, Celtic didn't even win the league that season (yay for Dundee United). From then on, he only managed to start another 3 competitive matches for Scotland (ignoring the home internationals poop) and managed only a couple of goals that weren't in friendlies. By the age of 26, he was back in Scotland playing for Aberdeen and, although he still had flashes of genius, looked like was about 35. Hell, he was only 28 when he signed for Celtic again. As per always, drink, blah, blah, blah. What a waste.
    4 points
  39. 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.
    4 points
  40. 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.
    4 points
  41. So did Hitler. He wasn’t chased about by the Allies because he was popular though.
    4 points
  42. A great thread, cheers for posting @djchapsticks P&B was started almost by accident. I had set up the Black & White Army forum at the time and I moved it to a new web host who offered me a free domain name at the time. I was a regular SFO user and the site was up and down all the time (sound familiar?) so I registered PIEANDBOVRIL.CO.UK as it was back then and set up a forum and just told the SFO folk it was there to be used as a backup whenever SFO went offline. SFO eventually succumbed and never came back and enough posters went across to P&B to give it the momentum it needed and it went from there. I've had some unbelievable good times and bad times running the site over those 20 years. The lows have mostly been technical, the Wasteland summer was the most stressful, whilst I've been threatened with legal action a fair few times, and of course offered a few square go's over folk that didn't really appreciate being banned The highs have been incredible though, the fives tournaments were amazing back in the day, the golf day was brilliant, and I even got to judge in the Scotch Pie World Championships once. The fact that the site has helped produce marriages and kids blows my mind a wee bit. Social media has obviously taken it's toll on traffic over the years. At our absolute peak we were doing about 5.5 million page views a month but we're still getting 3 million which is not at all bad! Couldn't have got this far without an incredible mod team, some of whom have been looking after the place for more than a decade! And of course all the regulars who make the place what it is. Thanks to all of you and here's to the next 20!
    4 points
  43. If you've heard one ACDC song, you've heard then all.
    4 points
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