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1 hour ago, Red Kite said:
For a usually opinionated gobsh*te, I honestly have no opinion on who should succeed Klopp. I had no idea he'd be off so never thought about it. However, I have bizarrely been to watch Amorim's old club Casa Pia and can't work out if it was when he was boss. Parts of Lisbon, like Belem, reminded me of Liverpool so the lure of the Dock Road may sway him.
See if you can find your match here
https://www.flashscore.com/football/portugal/campeonato-de-portugal-group-d-2018-2019/results/
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7 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
I'll never be able to watch the heart-warming 2008 hit comedy about Owen Wilson's family and their dug ever again,
Fucking spewing here.
To be honest I never liked Reggae all that much anyway
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3 hours ago, VincentGuerin said:
WE'VE FUCKING BLOWN IT!
Devastated.
Marley Watkins Killie wonderstrike at Tynecastle will live long in history
He'll tell his grandchildren about the day he marginally delayed Hearts from wrapping up 3rd place
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Opta running their predictive models get a 40% chance of Man City winning and about 30% Liverpool, 30% Arsenal
It's obviously easy to quibble with the specifics but the general takeaway that each team is more likely to fail than succeed seems about right
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Looking at the bottom 6
If Dundee are in the top 6 then St Johnstone will travel to Aberdeen a 3rd time
St Johnstone:17+3(Aberdeen,Hibernian,Ross County) = 20
Hibernian:17+2(Aberdeen,Motherwell) = 19
Livingston:16+3(Hibernian,Ross County,St Johnstone) = 19
Motherwell:17+2(Livingston,St Johnstone) = 19
Ross County:16+3(Aberdeen,Hibernian,Motherwell) = 19
Aberdeen:16+2(Livingston,Motherwell) = 18Otherwise it looks as if Aberdeen will end up with 18 home games
If Motherwell make it Dundee and St Johnstone will each have a third vist to Hibs or Aberdeen
Dundee:16+4(Aberdeen,Hibernian,Livingston,St Johnstone) = 20
St Johnstone:17+3(Aberdeen,Hibernian,Ross County) = 20
Livingston:16+3(Hibernian,Ross County,St Johnstone) = 19
Ross County:16+3(Aberdeen,Dundee,Hibernian) = 19
Hibernian:17+1(Aberdeen) = 18
Aberdeen:16+1(Livingston) = 17If Hibs make it then Livingston will host Motherwell while Hibs are getting the extra Home Game
Motherwell:17+3(Dundee,Livingston,St Johnstone) = 20
Ross County:16+3(Aberdeen,Dundee,Motherwell) = 19
St Johnstone:17+2(Aberdeen,Ross County) = 19
Dundee:16+3(Aberdeen,Livingston,St Johnstone) = 19
Livingston:16+2(Ross County,St Johnstone) = 18
Aberdeen:16+2(Livingston,Motherwell) = 18But given the season they've had Aberdeen fans probably see that as a mercy
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12 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
I'm sorry but I fail to see how anyone can want Man City to win anything. I hope Arsenal/Liverpool win the league, Real Madrid pap them out in Europe and they lose the FA Cup Final. Glory hunting fans at work is a small price to pay IMO.
Obviously there are plenty of Man City Fans who were there in the old days and can remember inflatable bananas and finishing behind Walsall in the second division. It's difficult to begrudge those people the good times they've enjoyed in recent years
But nonetheless it's about time they move aside and let someone else have a go
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Watching the highlights of this now and it's very difficult to have any sympathy for Dundee
But that's just because they're all dressed as referees
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14 hours ago, craigkillie said:
This is not how this thread works, it's for decisive things that can happen in the next matchday.For example St Mirren’s chances of finishing 3rd are still alive but are now dependent on getting a better result against Celtic than Hearts get against Livingston
on the Other hand while a St Mirren defeat would confirm Hearts in the top four it would also see the end of our title hopes
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1 minute ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
I’m currently leaning towards Man United staging two separate excellent come backs and still losing in a week is funnier than Liverpool losing the title here despite having a million chances
Manchester United winning this and then losing next week in Bournemouth is the ideal option
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16 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said:
1 set of games at a time folks.
Highlights of the weekend.
Hearts title dream still alive
St Mirren clinch Top 6
Hibs are safe from the automatic drop
Aberdeen will finish bottom half
Livi can finish no higher than 9th (due to being able to catch Motherwell would mean Motherwell losing every game, including to Aberdeen which would give the Dons 37pts)
On to midweek where there is only 1 fixture.
It will be Albert Kidd day for Hearts again at Dens Park if 'Rangers' beat Dundee. Hearts would be able to match 'Rangers' 77pts but that would involve Celtic winning the last Glasgow Derby pushing them to 78.
Dundee will complete the Top 6 with a win while Motherwell will be condemned to the bottom half if Dundee get a point.
Time for @VincentGuerinto illustrate these points
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22 hours ago, Ric said:
Nice, instead of worrying that you would need to support Hibs, you flip it so it's dependent on Hibs fans supporting Rangers. Devious!
After todays result a defeat for Dundee on Wednesday would see Hearts title hopes officially ended
Just one more reason for Hibees to get behind the Kings XI
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Has anybody analysed the whole home and away fixture situation after the split
i think we’re due two home games and we’ve only hosted St Mirren and Rangers once each but if Dundee make the cut they’re due a trip to Tynecastle as well
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7 minutes ago, MacDonald Jardine said:
Really?
MK Don's are still unpopular in England.
There's no difference.
Arsenal moved north of the river 111 years ago and are still occasionally getting grief about it
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16 hours ago, willywastecoat said:
Dundee, Hibernian and Motherwell will battle it out in their final games for the last top six spot
#BBCFootball
I don’t think Rangers are going to lose to Dundee on Wednesday either but the BBC should probably acknowledge the possibility
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1 minute ago, Ric said:
Now the question I have is... are Hearts fans going to be cheering on Hibs against Motherwell, and hope they replace Dundee in 6th, so that you have a final derby for the season, or is it a case of point and laugh and to hell with a derby payday?
First things first
Hibs fans will need to cheer Rangers to take points off Dundee or it doesn’t matter
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3 minutes ago, Empty It said:
God Bless you Uncle Craig
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Sometimes it happens in March, sometimes in April, sometimes on the final day, Sometimes it's a footnote, sometimes it's the only consolation in tough times occasionally it's cancelled but it's here today
Happy "Finishing above Hibs Day" everybody6 -
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2 hours ago, Cptn Hooch said:
I think the rise back to the Premiership came too early for us. Perhaps a longer period of stability in the championship would have allowed us to organically grow our core support. Out of nowhere we were promoted to the Premiership and didn't have the infrastructure in place at the time. Our fans had only recently seen us relegated to League 1 and had the rumours of going part time floating around. Hopefully we can make the proverbial lemonade out of our impending return to the Championship.
Presumably you'll get hit with a points penalty to overcome a 15 point penalty to avoid the drop you'll need to have the kind of season that would otherwise see you 6th or 7th.
This is more difficult because all your best players can leave for nothing but on the other hand you can also get rid of a lot of dead wood
Luckily given that the administration isn't tangled up in the collapse of an international banking group it should hopefully be sorted out quickly and you won't have to field the Under 21s all season like Hearts did
Of course given that the sporting penalties destroy value that could be used to compensate the creditors there's an incentive on all parties to achieve a restructuring that achieves the same thing without official administration.
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4 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
You "achieved" all this with a completely unsustainable model and your town are still completely uninterested. You're on your way to the lower leagues, and then oblivion.
That's failure.
It's easy to criticise the people of Livingston for leaving Livingston to watch football elsewhere on a Saturday but to be fair have you ever been to Livingston? Any excuse to get out of town is going look attractive
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2 hours ago, Comrie said:
He's been turned from the main creative force/roaming in a free role at Villa to a cog in a machine at City. Unless you're Lionel Messi you have a role in his system and you do it. Nothing more.
1 hour ago, No_Problemo said:Yeah - it is easy to forget but he was a player that was good to watch at Villa. He just isn’t now!
It can’t be as enjoyable to play in either, but ultimately if you are winning tons of trophies…
1 hour ago, Zetterlund said:Grealish's role when he's in the team seems to be almost exclusively to receive the ball in his area of the pitch, hold onto it while other attacking players get in their positions, then pass it backwards or sideways. He almost never takes risks with his passing and rarely gives it away.
Eye-bleeding to watch after his performances at Villa, but an effective cog in Pep's machine.
HITC sevens touches on this and uses Grealish's heat maps to illustrate his more general case that top teams are now so strictly choreographed and scripted that the game has become more predictable and less entertaining, not so much in terms of results way as in the way the game is actually played
The Grealish bit starts at 13:00
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Legal breakdown of the case
Posting partly because it might be interesting but mainly because of the "Diddy Do It?" pun in the title
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2 hours ago, LIVIFOREVER said:
Aye but rather than seeing what an achievement it is for a small supported club with limited funds being promoted to the top flight and staying there for 6 seasons, that thinking is look at what a minter it is for the league having a diddy club with 3 stands usually not full, being utilised for clubs that can fill them.
Also the same thinking would be what a minter for the clubs with big supports languishing in the lower leagues, when a club with such a small support as us has 6 seasons in the top flight.
Pure elitist crowdwanking snobbery, the kind that would set up a top flight with the biggest supported clubs, and have no more promotions or relegations. Yet the same folk complain about the erse cheeks having a monopoly on winning the league.
A six year run is all well and good but it was probably about time anyway that you stepped down and let someone else have a go
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The Diddyship League Title
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Posted · Edited by topcat(The most tip top)
If Hibs beat Motherwell and make the top 6 then they’ll only have three diddyship fixtures left they need a Dundee win as well to give them 15 points to play for