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  1. 9 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkant said:

    Im going to check Discovery Beers down here but Im not holding out much hope.  Surely Brew Toon will do another run? 

    Chances are it's flown off the shelves in its old heartland, whereas down here almost nobody's familiar with the brand so it's selling a lot slower.

    TBH I only knew about it through P&B - I'd been up at a Highland League game and we'd stopped off at a petrol station I think near Elgin on the way back when I saw a bunch of 500ml bottles and picked up some because I'd heard folk mention it on here. I'd likely never have heard of it otherwise...it didn't seem to be sold outside of that corner of the country.

  2. 1 minute ago, Central Belt Caley said:

    Why is Paddington seen to be some sort of Grim Reaper by royalists? 

    I'm assuming it feeds on from that daft video the old yin did a few years back.

    At the time they were wetting themselves at how well she delivered her lines, but by that stage I'm not entirely convinced she didn't think she was actually talking to a real bear.

  3. 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkant said:

    Review please. Raging I missed this one. @doulikefish better get it sorted.

    I think it's just come out, so you'll likely still be in luck - got it in Valhalla's Goat this afternoon. I was last in there a couple of weeks ago and it defo wasn't there then. Not popped it yet, but I'll post when I do...it'll be interesting to see how they manage a sour version of something I primarily remember for its almost overwhelming sweetness.

  4. Quite astonishing they haven't tracked him down yet when you consider half of his coupon now looks like a mince bhuna.

    Not everybody dressed up like the Phantom of the Opera is really going to the theatre, Met...

  5. 19 minutes ago, PossilYM said:

    Although the last Thirds tale of resurrection on P&B was a whopper.

    Canadian or was it American business man with millions ready to step in and get it all going again at Cathkin. Page after page until someone pointed out Cathkin is run by the Jimmy Johnstone Academy. Case closed.

    Although one small snippet caught my eye, the first meeting of supporters about Thirds dying wasn't held 7 days after they closed the gates nor 7 weeks not even 7 months  but 7 years later. Teddy Taylor MP chaired the meeting in the Dixon Halls. Teddy went the same way as Thirds, into the memory of old guys like me.

    From memory the last time the story reared its head some fairly big player's daft relative was one of the prime non-movers behind it. As soon as I heard they were planning to resurrect Cathkin I knew it was bullshit...pre-COVID there was a Saturday morning ammy team using it and I'd occasionally stop off to catch the first half on my way up to Lochburn. While it's an atmospheric place to watch a game, it's a ruin. There are still a few bits remaining of what could charitably be called terracing, but in terms of bringing the place back into use as an actual stadium they're fifty years too late - it would cost millions, especially when you consider the size of crowd they'd be likely to attract.

  6. 1 hour ago, glensmad said:

    I think Clyde are under the impression that moving back to close to Shawfield will automatically bring back all their fans from the Oatlands, Rutherglen and Bridgeton area. Except the people who lived in the Oatlands and Bridgeton areas immediately around Shawfield 37 years ago are no longer there. If they are still alive, their houses have been demolished to make way for new roads and business parks. And their next generation are already supporting Rangers, Celtic or Glencairn (the only genuine Rutherglen team, 127 years in the Royal Burgh and counting). 😉

    I suppose there's an analogy to be made with the fantasists who appear every few years proclaiming the resurrection of Third Lanark, conveniently ignoring the fact that the area they played in has completely changed both in terms of population density and demographic profile since they played there sixty years ago.

    Worth noting though that a version of Thirds still play, albeit in the ammy leagues - saw them play up at Barlia a couple of months ago. Given that the bar has never been lower in terms of going semi-pro though it's notable that they've made no move, suggesting we can finally treat the "Thirds are back" stories with the contempt they deserve next time they appear.

  7. 1 hour ago, PossilYM said:

    Would be highly surprised if Clyde win the bid for Crownpoint.

    They seem all over the place on and off the park

     

    Given their current position on the park, they look like candidates for the LL in the next few years, which would make taking on a new stadium which would need substantial work done while simultaneously financially restructuring in accordance with their new reality problematic to say the least.

    As I'd said earlier, their greater name recognition might swing it for them, but the truth is they've not been a club based in the area for the best part of half a century now - when did they vacate Shawfield - mid-80s? - whereas Finnart are and seem to be a genuine local community enterprise in comparison.

  8. 4 hours ago, peasy23 said:

    Finnart at least have made it clear that they don't see Springburn Park as a long term solution, but Crownpoint is far from perfect too. Assuming it's the "stadium" pitch that would be their home ground if they are successful it at least has a bit of terracing, but tbh I'd rather stand on a touchline in a cage than watch a match on a pitch with a full size running track around it.

    Yeah, I walked through the stadium bit a while back on my way up to Dennistoun and it's in quite a bit of disrepair as well. anyone who takes it over it will have a job on their hands...it's certainly not some spanking new facility.

    It's difficult in many ways - while I totally get that the days of monolithic stadia like the old Tinto and Petershill are gone forever my worry is that the more sides who go down the 3G cage route, the more that'll be normalised as an acceptable way of operating. It's fine for sides that are just starting out - everybody's got to start somewhere - but for me there has to be some sense of working towards something better than that.

    Moving from amateur or youth football comes with an expectation that now you're changing to get in, you should also make at least some effort to provide a spectator experience that people might want to repeat...some of the newer sides seem to get that point, Thorn being a good example of a side that seems to be moving in the right direction, but with others the jury's still out.

  9. 7 hours ago, peasy23 said:

    Think Scone Thistle might have been the most basic I've ever been at, just a pitch with a fence around it with no hard standing or cover at all.

    Fwiw I popped in for 5 minutes yesterday just in time to see a bit of 20 man pushing and shoving which was sparked off by Finnart not putting the ball out for an injured Larky player to get treatment. It could easily have been avoided as the ball was out of play with the player already down but the ref let Finnart restart play with a goal kick. It certainly looked to have the potential for a red card or too.

    Yeah, I was there for the first half - it looked like shooty-in and I could only see one winner so I went down to Peasy Park for the second half of Locos/Panmure.

    I think there's certainly an element of resentment of the new at play; some the people who are most vocal about Springburn not being fit for a junior cup tie would probably be moist with anticipation at the thought of an away tie up at somewhere similarly no-frills like Whitehills or Hall Russell, simply because the distance involved would make it feel more exotic, romantic and...well, juniory.

    And that's not to say Springburn is a good venue. It's clearly not - the spectator experience provided simply isn't good enough to be charging money for.

    Finnart are one of the ones who seem to be going about things the right way though and seem to have a plan in place, although I fear that the name recognition Clyde retain might be the deciding factor in the Crownpoint saga.

  10. 4 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

    Difficult to gauge too much from that result given the events that lead to the by-election. 

    Exactly - it's my constituency and TBH the Ferrier factor meant that the SNP ran the most desultory campaign I can remember in recent years as if they knew it was going into the L column from the get-go.

    In contrast Labour were never off the doorsteps, but I do question if they retain the activist base to replicate that level of effort throughout the country in a GE...it felt like they threw everything they had at this one almost in overkill fashion.

    As for the Tories, although I live in one of the areas of the constituency where they must have been hopeful of getting a few votes there was absolutely no sign of them apart from a couple of leaflets where you had to look REALLY carefully to find out who it was from....there was probably a more concerted effort made by nutcases like the Family Party.

  11. On 28/09/2023 at 22:02, BTFD said:

    I stumbled upon a Reddit thread about working from home after overhearing the lonely micromanagers last week. Half of the thread was people moaning about how they never get to see their friends anymore, and the office is such a lonely place with only a handful of people in, so those working from home should think about other people and come back into work.

    Take a fucking hint. They're not your "friends", and they'd be arranging to see you outside of work if they were. Stop trying to force other people to be your mates and relying on captive workers for social interaction, or you're going to end up chewing the ears off bored counter staff in the Post Office when retirement inevitably comes calling.

    The two groups that seem to miss it most are the Brentesque middle managers who relied on in-office working to provide them with a captive audience and the wee groups of middle-aged wifies who have what passes for a social circle built around work. Even the latter have found an MO by co-ordinating their days in, so it's really only the first lot who there was never really any hope for anyway.

    I remember during one of the lockdowns one of the Brents stridently complaining to me that WFH simply doesn't work because nobody was keeping in touch with each other and thinkling to myself  "Aye, nobody's keeping in touch with YOU..." People were just sending him strictly-business emails and avoiding phoning him because they knew they'd be subjected to 45 minutes of his brand of performance art if they did.

  12. Mentioned this to the missus just there - she has her suspicions based on a podcast she watched recently where some female comedians were repeatedly referencing Mr Rapey Wape which seemed to be common knowledge in those circles.

    Don't think he's big enough to warrant 90 minutes, so I assume tomorrow will probably delve into who knew/covered up etc.

     

  13. 8 hours ago, pheasant plucker said:

    Used to be pretty good on here - a forum to discuss and debate a level of ‘football’ many of us have been brought up with and love. Unfortunately (IMHO) it has increasingly become a chat room for sad righteous and conceited politico’s. I’m sure I can survive without it - I’m out

    Politics doesn't remotely come into it - if anything we're discussing morality, and we wouldn't even be doing that if one of our clubs wasn't actively considering signing an actual rapist.

    No level of football exists in a bubble where outside issues and events don't touch it, which seems to be where you're coming from...at an even more extreme end of the scale should it pass without comment if somebody signed Ian Huntley because he'd be worth 30 goals a season to them?

     

  14. Ooft...this thread.

    Sticking purely to the football side of it, I'm just glad they got emptied from our division last year and in all likelihood we won't have to play them. I'm sorry for the clubs that will though...

    Given that the league are essentially powerless to stop a signing like this and Shettleston now seem intent on doubling down, the sides they will be playing are however not completely powerless to show they're not tarred with the same brush as another team in their league.

    The ones that want to can make the fact incredibly clear TBH...each team in their division could reach out to a local rape charity/crisis centre and offer to display signage at their ground, they can hand out literature before games against Shettleston and blanket coverage of the charities in all their socials on the run up to that game. Likewise, most/many usual sponsors would probably be fine about switching their match programme adverts to some more of the above for one week only.

    Shit - invite some local women's groups to the game to make it a genuinely uncomfortable experience :)

  15. 1 hour ago, HorseyGhirl said:

    Wanted to expand on this part of your post.

    First off big kudos for using the term 'new Scots', tells us a lot about you as a person and it's positives.

    A number of the new Scots come from footballing countries and you never know they might have experience in administering a club in their birth country. 

    Clubs can reach out to them and engage with them; it's almost a win-win for both. New blood at clubs and a massive way of the new Scots becoming an integral part of their new community.

    #we are all Scots.

    It definitely pays dividends to build bridges, but it's unlikely the nature of the experience of transplanting yourself to a new country would leave someone with sufficient free time to get involved in the administration of a club.

    There's definitely a pool of talent player-wise out there though, although it has to be said transience again plays a part and it's rare for players to stay very long at a club before they require to move for work or whatever.

    Certainly for us it's led to some odd situations, not least last season when we had a current full internationalist turn out for us as a trialist in a bounce game who'd left his previous club at the start of the winter break and was signing for another club in January. He was over here on holiday visiting friends in the period in between and asked to train...we had a friendly booked and were short of bodies sooo...

    I can also remember the fun and games trying to get international clearance for a Georgian midfielder...the documentation came back from Tbilisi in Georgian which looks like this :)

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