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He's absolutely choking on a job with a Rangers-friendly media outlet.
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On 22/04/2024 at 12:47, Desp said:
For the Premier League shirts on kids, that's been the case for 30 years or more. I'm 37 so was just a kid when the EPL kicked off in '92. My parents got me loads of shirts when I was a boy. Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle. Even a belting Man City away kit in the Kinkladze days. I actually think you see more Scottish tops on youngsters these days (you'll always have lads having the EPL tops, plus Inter Miami etc due to Messi) but you also see a lot more tops of the "diddy" sides around. Being in Lanarkshire, I see a lot more kids wearing Motherwell tops, which is great, but I've even seen youngsters wearing Hamilton & Airdrie tops, which you would hardly ever see 20/25 years ago.
I take my wee man to a football class and Falkirk and Scotland tops comfortably outnumber OF, EPL and big Euro clubs most weeks. The kids are alright
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Why did you have to put that in the title?
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That's been coming tbf. Showed a decent bit of fight against us a few weeks ago and looked lively on the break. They could still have a say in the play-off fight down the bottom.
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I've fancied Accies to do well in the play-offs since it became clear they were finishing second. Comfortably ahead of their potential opponents with time to rest key players and work on their strategy. Starting to doubt that now given how easily the heads went down when we took the lead. Misplaced passes all over the shop culminating in an embarrassing giveaway for our second goal. Alloa also seem to be hitting form at the right time.
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Kelty should be on the beach next week and there's a good chance Alloa are resting players on the final day. That leaves Annan who are fighting for survival but looked like a complete gang recently, despite stealing a point. I'll be incredibly disappointed if we fall short now.
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Longridge and Tumilty are their two defenders with the most minutes. They may try and shoehorn in Euan Henderson (10G, 5A) at LW even though Miller's numbers are better. He had a bit of hype about him earlier on in the season.
I think Burrell is a shoo-in as the top scoring striker in the division.
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It might be tough seeing these clubs ahead of us the pecking order at times but I'd far rather our model than theirs.
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3 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:
Didn't we give them a section of the Main Stand once, moving the season ticket holders?
Yeah, in one of the Championship seasons. Doubt we'd do that now given the new board and how healthy our crowds have been.
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14 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
Is it fair to be comparing Livingstons "dormant" support to that of Kilmarnock?
Far as I can see Livingsons move in 1995 virtually forced them to rebuild their fanbase from scratch so it's not as if there's thousands of generational fans just waiting for an upturn to crawl out the woodwork when things are going well.
Probably not, but there are lots of houses being built in West Lothian, so potentially a new fanbase to tap in to as it grows as a commuter town. My mate lives in Bathgate and two of his wife's friends have started taking their kids along to Livi: one a Celtic fan and the other who mainly follows English football. The fans are there if you're willing to be brave.
Quite a relief that TFS is the size it is. If we do draw one of them in the cup - or reach the Premiership again - they'll get the full North Stand and the stadium will be close to capacity which will save all the tedious debates.0 -
16 hours ago, 18BAIRN76 said:
The only negative of promotion is having to deal with fans of absolute non-entities like Morton and Airdrie.
Our champions Tweet on Saturday was swarming with Airdrie, Morton and Livi. Have a day off.
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3 hours ago, Bigbrbairn said:
Looked back on our results. What a lot of goals! You sometimes forget the 5 goals and 4 goals games dotted through the season.
At the age of 66 and having watched the Bairns through the good times and bad i am sure that this team and this season has been the best Not just winning but destroying the opposition at times. PROUD
We're top for goals scored across the whole SPFL and second only to Rangers for goals conceded.
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A sober one for me yesterday as I took the car but just as enjoyable getting to see the buzz on the wee man and his pal's faces when they ran on the pitch.
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16 minutes ago, Bigbrbairn said:
Will be glad when The Gateway Project is complete as all the walkway closures are a nightmare.
It's an accident waiting to happen. Ridiculous that they can't push the fence back to free up the pavement for a couple of hours every second Saturday.
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Superb decision to go with O'Neills
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20 hours ago, velo army said:
I'll email the Jags today. We're actually seeing our games affected by VAR in the upper league. Referees are taking more time to make decisions. Against Dunfermline we had one of those nonsense offsides where he waited until Graham had rolled the ball in before flagging instead of flagging immediately for Milne. In other words we've taken the decision for something to be implemented which certainly won't directly benefit us but which has absolutely made things a bit worse for us.
Would echo this as well. Even though we don't have it in L1, it feels like the standard of officiating has been poorer since it was implemented in the Premiership. More of the top officials required to operate it meaning a talent drain further down.
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Last ever trip to 'Grangemouth' for this lot
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Surely we're not being dictated to by Lincoln City ffs. Both keepers have their flaws, so play the one we actually own in the hope he improves.
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4D chess from McGlynn to keep Rankin in a job for another few weeks
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Earliest the title can be won is at Stirling but it would take a very unlikely set of results. We'd have to win our next three - Annan (H), Cove (A), Stirling (A) - and hope Hamilton lose their next two. I could see them dropping points at Kelty at the weekend but Edinburgh are such a rabble that three points should be a gimme.
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15 hours ago, Blame Me said:
Is that one of Hartley's squads
That lot would beat Hartley's jobbers from summer 2018.
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34 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:
I never buy this "he's young and will develop" talk. He's either good enough or he isn't .And I don't think he is good enough. By the way, Alfie is only a year younger than Callumn Morrison who has been our top player for the last 4 seasons or since he was 21 years old. Previous to that he had played 30 games for Hearts between the ages of 16 and 21. Other examples are Stephen Kingsley who first played for us at the age of 16 and played 88 games before moving on to Swansea at the age of 19/20. Scott Arfield made his debut at age at the age of 18 and played 108 games for us before moving on. Craig Sibbald played his first game for us at the age of 16 and made 214 appearances before leaving at the age of 23 (the same age Alfie is now).
Player development isn't linear and it happens differently for everyone. Saying they're either good enough or they aren't is an incredibly binary way of looking at things and would rule you out of signing a lot of late bloomers. Players are clearly more likely to have a good career if they're good at a young age but it's no guarantee.
On Alfie I think he can turn into a useful player for us. He's got the technical and athletic ability. What lets him down is the decision-making which is the most coachable attribute out of those.
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38 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:
Not sure if same guy but this always seems to happen when the fairweather fans show up. Utterly clueless but they watch Sportscene a lot. One thing we've learned with this team is patience and not to worry if the other side score because chances are we'll score two.
Timing of subs is one of my biggest bugbears with McGlynn but to his credit he reacted to Accies' second and the game calmed down when Tait came on.
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20 hours ago, RC55 FFC said:
Sat in the north stand a couple of times but not recently at all.
ICT (2006 I think) & Vaduz (2009).
Same two for me. That ICT game was pretty drab but I got a great view of Latapy doing one of the best pieces of individual skill I've seen in the flesh.
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Annan v Falkirk
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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90 minutes of this please