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6 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
These pitches help participation bu giving more kids an opportunity to play.
Firmly against this moronic bullshit idea of banning them.
Does a couple of top flight teams having an artificial pitch give kids more opportunities to play?
Most high schools have them as well as councils having ones. I'm all for having more and widening access, but I don't think there'd be a noticeable drop in kids' participation if Kilmarnock and Livingston had to switch to grass pitches. Maybe I'm wrong.
I was surprised to hear that only one highland league club has an artificial pitch. I'd have thought a lot of these clubs would've done well from being able to rent out their pitches.
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I dunno, there's something I like about a grass pitch. I like how a grass pitch will change with the season, and will vary from team to team. A good grass pitch just looks much better too.
I'm not particularly strident and I think there are more pressing issues to deal with in Scottish football, but I would prefer to have all grass pitches. Possibly just being a bit nostalgic.
Edit: I agree with the point about football snobbery.
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31 minutes ago, ZingaliMan said:
A wee run would be terrific however a first round knock out in some outpost such as Tajikistan would hardly cover costs . Would be amazing to experience another European trip with Saints. The flip side of the coin 2 games a week with our squad size could make league games a bit of a struggle.
It's a very tall ask for a team finishing 5th, or even 4th, to make the group stages. There are some very decent sides in the later qualifying rounds. Hibs last year met Villa and Hearts lost to a pretty strong PAOK team.
Like you say, any sort of away day would be brilliant. A team in the Baltic states would be a good trip, hopefully we could progress and draw a decent outfit. It would be unbelievable to see us play in a big European stadium.
Wait to see us finish 6th now.
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I'm not sure many folk are saying that we are massively overperforming. Based on our resources finishing in the top 6 is a good achievement, to do it 2 years on the bounce is excellent.
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16 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
I know exactly how this will go down, but Robinson wont get a bigger move until he actually achieves something notable.
His best managerial achievement remains the 3rd place finish with Motherwell in the Covid season, or taking them to 2 cup finals in the same season.
For someone approaching 50 and almost 10 years into their coaching career, its not standing out.
Thats not me giving my opinion on his ability blah blah blah, its just that most clubs higher up will be viewing him as a mid-table Scottish Premiership manager.
I agree with you, which is another reason why I think if he was offered a job like Aberdeen, he'd most likely take it.
I just don't think Aberdeen will come for him this time. There might be some English League 1 clubs that would be interested, but there's such a massive amount of out of work managers down there. And most of these teams would probably plump for someone like Wayne Rooney over Robinson.
Hibs maybe, when they inevitably sack Montgomery. I think Northern Ireland is a more likely step up for him.
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36 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Robinson & O’Carroll should be eyeing a bigger and better move than Aberdeen… as Aberdeen are in this modern Scottish fitba’ landscape.
Totally agree, but if someone offers to double or treble your wages it's a different story.
We also know how fickle football is, one bad run and he could miss the opportunity for a move.
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I'd be surprised if Aberdeen went for Robinson. Firstly the fans have ideas above their station and given they recently took a manager from us and it didn't workout, then I don't think they'd be happy with the appointment.
Secondly - and I guess this is linked to the first point - a lot of their fans are calling for a manager that plays some sort of expansive, passing game. OK, you work with the tools at your disposal and Aberdeen would have a much bigger budget for players, but I don't think Robinson is that type of manager.
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8 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:
Any article that starts 'Lee Mair reckons' should be given no credence whatsoever given he's a pyramid-scheme punting oddball who goes into 100% 'yer da' mode and posts memes about how 'back in the WWII days, men were real men' shite.
He actually seemed to have some decent patter in the past. Then he started with his Avon for wankers and it all went down hill.
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4 minutes ago, Craig fae the Vale said:
Say Nothing and Empire of Pain are two of the best non-fiction books I've read in the past few years.
Did you ever listen to his podcast series, 'Wind of Change'? It was terrific.
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1 hour ago, Mr. X said:
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8 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
"A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses
excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play"The lad has his foot at head height and could quite easily have caught Cochrane in the coupon with his studs.
It's an open and shut red card for endangering the safety of an opponent.
Fucking mad that anyone is arguing this, apart from that it's Celtic.
I mind Nani getting sent off against Real Madrid about 10 years ago for a high boot that was totally accidental.
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Just finished 'Rogues'by Patrick Radden Keefe. Actually took me a wee while to get through it as it's a series of articles he's written over the years, so I tended to put it down for a while after each one.
It's a good read though, he's a brilliant writer, and there's some really fascinating pieces about a variety of different criminals - and one about Anthony Bourdain.
I'd definitely recommend Say Nothing, his book on the troubles/IRA that surrounded Jean McConville's murder. I couldn't put it down. Empire of Pain about the Sacklers was really good too.
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Incidently, here's what Rodgers said after Olusanya was sent off against Celtic.
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18 minutes ago, Radford said:
Before VAR, the referee might have blown when the foul took place but they obviously let the game run on now and Kwon scoring then let's him essentially decide to let VAR make the decision for him.
The same happened in our game against Rangers when Considine clearly fouled Sterling (I think) but the referee just bottles making a decision and let VAR call him to the monitor so he could look at it several times.
There are instances of re-refereeing but as big a problem is officials being happy to not make decisions because they know they'll get a second look at it via VAR.
I think that's a fair point, although we had a similar one chalked off against Hearts. The ref (Nick Walsh maybe?) let the play continue and as soon as Mandron had the ball in the bet he blew for a foul, which was then checked by VAR, who stuck with the decision.
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One thing that I will agree with Rodgers on from his tantrum yesterday is about moments in the game being refereed off the pitch.
I think Yang's red card is the right decision ultimately. Robertson maybe was slightly unsighted but the linesman is looking right at it. What has Roberston seen in the replay that wasn't seen in real time by himself and or the linesman? Likewise with the handball, Robertson is in a brilliant position to see it.
In the St Mirren v St Johnstone game last week, Kwon's goal gets chalked off after VAR intervened. We can argue whether or not it was a foul, but there was nothing in the replay that showed anything we didn't see in real time. Everyone in the ground saw that Kwon nudged the defender.
I think there's too many cases where you've just got one referee who disagrees with the onfield decision, rather than highlighting things the officials have missed.
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7 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
About the penalty? I don’t think I’ve posted about it at all actually.
About St Mirren fans complaining about decisions.
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1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said:
Don’t get them started on refereeing decisions. They’ve had a sleep to calm down and then you go and post this.
I honestly think you've posted more about this than any individual St Mirren fan.
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1 minute ago, Dubford don said:
The fact 2 shite teams like Hearts and st moron are third and fourth says a lot about the standard of our league
Lovely stuff
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2 minutes ago, Unleash The Nade said:
You sound like a bleating Hibee
Cool
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Controlled the game from the 2nd minute, without creating much. The two late goals will be a real sore one but we absolutely deserved to win that game.
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Give Olusanya another year's contract
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Some hit for the goal. Thought Tanser (Fraser?) was too easy for Duk to get past in the build up but not much you can do about the strike. We've probably been the better side since but we're pretty poor up top, same as Tuesday really. I'd get Olusanya on fairly soon to cause a bit of havoc.
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1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said:
I’m sure it’s nothing to do with being handy for the airport
He can share a taxi with Warnock then
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44 minutes ago, medals said:
The big question is WHY? ....
BBC reporting he's at a conference at Loch Lomond. Last papragraph says he's going to the game.
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Aberdeen vs Killie
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Shinnie gets away with murder, was the same last week.