Big Fifer

Another +1 for New Order. Not my generation at all, mainly went to see Confidence Man but thought New Order were excellent. Lights show was great as well. And about 10% of the crowd wankers/phone up the entire gig sorta folk as I've seen lately!

I knew Labour were going to be favourites going into this but I had a quick look on the exchange a few days ago, SNP were trading at 13.5 and Labour at 1.07! Seems they have it down as an absolute slam dunk for Labour.

The thing to remember is, Gauld is also having the time of his life over there. Playing well, making loads of cash, living in a great place. No point in anyone else getting more annoyed about him not being called up than he does!

Bob just looks like a really, nice laddie. Chuft to bits for him.

Not easy to answer, wasn't given much of a chance. Most of the time last year we were starting Shepherd with one man off him and a midfield 4, Young was off the bench most of the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/14/behaviour-music-gigs-live-shows Going back to the gig behaviour discussion...

I'm not sure about this. When anyone sends me a tweet on WhatsApp or whatever, I can only see that tweet and no comments etc. If I go on a generic twitter account, lets say East Fife, I can see the tweets but they're not in order. For example, looking now it's a mix of tweets from 2017, 2021, maybe a couple of recent ones. So can't really be used for updates as you would do now.

This was pretty similar to me, never tweeted but kept it for fitba news and politics stuff. Deleted it in July, surprisingly easy. As you say, a lot of time just spent aimlessly scrolling. Got rid of Facebook as well. I'd rather waste my time on here where I actually post on the odd occasion!

Clearly a troll account.

Aye, I think we might have to adopt this position from now on. It's shite, because I swear it wasn't like this a few years ago (or certainly not as extensive). I think there has to be either a post-covid or generational thing, because as I say, the crowd at Connect last week were probably averaging 30 or so and everyone was sound and knew how to behave at a show. The chatting thing is the one that does it for me, if you want to chat the whole way through and catch up with your pals, go to the pub!!

Paolo was absolutely excellent last night. Nailed it, great cover of Stealers Wheel, his acoustic end to the set was magical, Iron Sky incredible. That being said, our time was kinda ruined by the folk we were next to. When we saw him in December, we ended up next to absolute bams at the hydro but managed to move away from them after 15-20 minutes. I can't tell if I'm just getting more intolerant at the ripe old age of 30, but do folk just not know how to behave at gigs anymore? We moved after Inhaler after being stuck in front of a batch of bams again, but failed to account for the plethora of Edinburgh Uni Yah's who rocked up about 3 songs in, spent the entire gig bumping into folk including us, spoke through EVERY SINGLE SONG including when Paolo opened Iron Sky just himself. During a bit of quiet during that opening and they shout out "I LOVE THIS SOUND OF SILENCE!", clearly weren't actually there for the gig, constantly taking photos with the flash on in folks face, made weird comments to folk around them including us, almost wiped out two young lassies in front of them taking photos at stupid times and when one of our pals told them to pack it said "yeah but we never get to see each other all together!!", and just generally being annoying c***s. They left 3 songs before the end having completed their mission of ruining our night. Of course, folk can read that and say "just move" but when you're quite far forward and you're a group of 6ft4 lads, its not quite as easy as that. We tend to "get into position" quite early so folk can't be upset at our height. We move, we become the c***s. I don't know if it's covid or whatever but folk in general just seem generally untrained at going to shows these days, and the juxtaposition between that crowd last night and every single sound person at Connect last weekend was stark. Still, Paolo doing some new music next year for anyone interested.

Look what Paolo's done to his hair

Cheers, I'm based in Glasgow now so will be battering along the M8 to get there. Unfortunately with the last train being 23:45 I think its too much of a risk getting back to Haymarket in time as I'd imagine the show will go on until half 10 at least much like Connect. Think I'm gonna take a stab at Ingliston P&R first as I think the escape route might be a bit quicker from there.

I think their recent consultation had options of more than doubling the current level in the near future, but I could well be misremembering.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66645602 MUP working a treat. No doubt this will call for a doubling down and an increase on the unit price.

Anyone been to a stand alone gig at Royal Highland Showgrounds before? Obviously just been there for Connect as above but going back on Thursday for Paolo. I'm just gonna drive and have bought the parking ticket but I'm not sure whether it might be better to park at Ingliston P&R or elsewhere?

Odd start to the season for us, I don't think our squad is too bad but from the sounds of things we don't ever look like scoring. Might make it along to this but I wouldn't expect to leave with 3 points to be honest.

Big group of us were at this all weekend. Really great fun, festival is such a good atmosphere in comparison to something like TRNSMT. I think the average age is around 30 vs TRNSMT being about 18 so basically no wee bams kicking about, everyone just having a great time. Future Islands - good set, lead singer is good energy on the stage Confidence Man - absolutely phenomenal, if you've never seen these guys live I'd encourage everyone to give them a go. What a show. Franz Ferdinand - only caught 15-20 minutes of them but they sounded really good Primal Scream - excellent, you know what you're getting. Free Love - nice start to the day, ended up right down the front, quite quiet as it was the opener but lead singer was a lot of fun Biig Piig - really enjoyed this. This kicked the day up a notch or two. Will be listening to her a lot this week. Kelly Lee Owens - pals wanted to see this, wasn't really for me, used this as my food break. MUNA - absolutely loved this, had been listening to them a lot in the build up but they were fantastic. Joy (Anonymous) - this was at unknown pleasures, was just a good way to perk ourselves up as not everyone we were with liked MUNA. Having that wee stage playing dance tunes at the entrance is class. Young Fathers - didn't listen to them much before we went but they were brilliant. Will start to pick them up from now on. Fred Again - absolutely brilliant to me, few of my pals were a bit underwhelmed. Very, very phone heavy though, often difficult to see the stage because of people holding phones. We went in a bit later on the Sunday Public Service Broadcasting - very very cool. Raye - not really my jam but as you say, very talented Boy Genius - phenomenal. Their voices compliment each other so, so well. Julien Baker is the one. Was a wee bit sad there was no Modern Leper cover but they're massive as a group in their own right and the gig wasn't just for me I guess! Loyle Carner - pleasantly surprised by this, spotify listening I thought his vibe was quite mellow but much better live. Overall a great weekend. Still think the logistics in certain areas can be better and a few folk commented on Guitar and other machines stage / unknown pleasures being on a hill isn't ideal. Hopefully it's on again next year but I think I'll wait for the line up before doing the whole weekend again.

If we don't take 3 points here it's time to start worrying about our season.

That united kit is horrendous.

With the move to Errea they said they "could now be available early August" so I'd imagine we'll hear something soon.

Since the update, I've been consistently getting the forum opening as a 403 error page. I usually fire onto, for example, the TA forum and open every thread that's unread, and more often than not each thread is a 403 error page instead of the thread.

With regards the perpetual requests and "demands" for B teams and access, it's great news that this has been binned but it does seem to keep coming back and back and back. What are the next steps? How do we as fans look at getting the idea thrown away entirely? Pretty much every argument put forward by the SFA in support of B teams can be torn to shreds within minutes, are the representatives of the clubs doing this or are they just saying "no" all the time? Maxwell doesn't strike me as someone that would be able to defend these plans under even the slightest bit of pressure in having to justify the excerpts I've seen from that SFA document.

Glad to see this proposal binned, and delighted it's before we potentially embarrassed ourselves tomorrow. Sincerely hope the club reassess not only the way they were intending to vote but the way in which fans were consulted and/or informed of the clubs position.

Absolutely delighted at this outcome and thoroughly embarrassed at the manner in which my own club handled this.