Todd_is_God

The catering is outsourced, and I believe the Morton's advertising is exactly that - advertising. We certainly don't offer rolls at the kiosks. We have an outstanding pie creator nearby in S. Collins & Son and it's a crying shame we don't sell their pies at NDP.

The pies were class that night. Sadly, our scotch pies are rubbery, our steak pies are full of carrots, and we do not have a pie of the week.

I'm sure there will be, but at a cost. We already have a plan to replace our artificial surface with a grass pitch and relocate the youth academy to the home of a local WoSFL side. Swing and a miss, Champ.

Dunfermline was it not? In 2003. We installed a grass pitch before the 08/09 season. I don't think we did so because we couldn't have an artificial surface in the SPL, but rather the rules explicitly stated we had to have USH which would have involved digging it up anyway.

I'd argue I'd very rarely see a "good quality" game in Scotland on any surface.

"Can you bring it back Lance?"

It's incredibly frustrating that one decision a few weeks ago looks like robbing the tournament a Grand Slam showdown.

No I agree. And I don't want to derail the thread, I just get annoyed when people talk about standing as if it's dangerous. "Safe Standing" is a phrase that bewilders me

The Taylor Report was a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Standing is not, and never has been, unsafe. Poor policing, overcrowding and, perhaos most crucially of all, pens and fencing were unsafe. Remove one of those three factors and said disaster doesn't happen.

No-one is claiming artificial pitches "enhance" football. Only they don't make it worse just by existing. I've seen some decent football played by Accies on artificial surfaces this season, and i'm certain Falkirk fans will say the same. I'll be honest, I don't even notice half the time the pitch isn't grass. Good sides will play good football on any surface. The reason the myth about not seeing good games on them in Scotland exists is because A) we have a lot of bang average sides, which we seem to somehow believe would play like peak Barcelona if only the pitch was real grass, and B) the majority of exposure for these pitches is on TV against Rangers or Celtic, where the gap in talent wouldn't produce a good game on a grass pitch either. You then have daft OF fans claiming its the pitches stopping their team playing like Champions League winners and not the fact they are not at that level anyway and their opponents are parking the bus for 90 minutes.

It also seem inherently unfair that only 12 of the 42 SPFL clubs will be given the power to effectively put an artificial (pun intended) barrier in place for the other 30. SPFL wide issues should be voted on by all SPFL member clubs.

I didn't pick up on that. Thanks!

Granted, but clubs that have them will likely base youth academies, training etc on them. After they get relegated then finding the cash to re-instate an artificial pitch / alternative facilities could be prohibitive. This vote is to deter these clubs from promotion.

Then introduce a framework to ensure clubs continue to meet minumum standards. I don't think that's unreasonable.

How would it not?

I'm sure the fact that both yourselves and Livingston aren't very good isn't a factor here at all, and if it was played on grass it would have been a great game... A properly maintained artificial pitch is just as conducive to playing good football as its grass equivalent. And vice-versa.

It's absolutely mental how many people (usually OF fans who don't even go to their own team's games) who want them banned because of the way the lights shine off them on TV. Scottish football could do with getting over itself and didtching the myth that "you never see a good game on artificial pitches" before it's too late. This isn't about plastic pitches - look at the number of clubs outwith the top flight that have them now. Some even rely on them to be able to keep the lights on. This is nothing but a move by the "big" clubs to protect their interests and put a barrier between the "wee" clubs and their opportunity to take their place eating at the trough. This vote passing would be as damaging and backwards a step as the 10,000 seater rule.

lol

Howling at the translator being asked to translate, and him instead just asking Madrimov to do it

I enjoyed the comment about how he should be proud of being close to Hamilton during Q2. Hamilton was 10th at the time. A complete nonsense comment.

I'd like to see the full thing first, but it intrigues me for sure.

I think we have a squad capable of beating most of the bottom half of the Championship tbh. OK we’ve fucked our chances of the league quite solidly over the last few months, but I still think our squad is pretty decent. Leaving aside the “best squad in the league” patter for a moment I said earlier in the season I thought both us and Falkirk had squads that were too good for this league and I stand by that. Our biggest barrier is Rankin. I would prefer not to play Inverness though as I just cba going up there

It is going to next year

Its so that the Saudi GP can take place next week before Ramadan

Congratulations on a belter* of a simping post