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YassinMoutaouakil

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  1. 6 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:

    As a guess I'd say Airdrie will take a lower hire fee. No fans = less hassle.

    But you're right. It's madness and seems to be something the new CEO finds completely unacceptable.

    Aye I wasn't planning on going anyway but I'm glad Caldwell is making a fuss about it because it seems absolutely mental to me that Motherwell or Dundee fans could be barred from a game because of a waterlogged pitch on the other side of the country.

  2. 3 hours ago, capt_oats said:

    I'd be lying if I said I'd been keeping up to date with the pitch chat through the day but while I get that the inspection being held today seems a bit pointless I guess if it had failed earlier then there would have been a push to discuss alternate venues given forecasts and what not.

    I suppose it passing today and them working towards that means it's more likely just to be P-P on Saturday rather than relocated after it pishes down between now and kick off.

    (and also as @Ludo*1 says Dundee get to keep up appearances by showing everyone that they *really* tried)

    I've also not been following the finer details since I found out it won't be at Hampden and lost interest but does it not basically absolutely have to be played this weekend if they want to have the split sorted on time?

  3. On 01/04/2024 at 23:29, Dee Man said:

    @RandomGuy. ran away when I asked him what he'd do if Bakayoko had scored the winner on Saturday 5 seconds into his minute's applause. Still waiting. 

    When I first read this I took it to mean there had been a minute's applause at the weekend for RG and his graphs or something ffs 

  4. I'm fine with it for anybody associated with either team- home or away- be it players, board members, fans etc. It feels a bit like it's creeping in to a point where anybody in the "football world" gets one now, though? I remember noticing it with Walter Smith a few years ago- obviously a greatly respected figure in the game etc, but it was hardly a noteworthy or tragically young death, so I've never grasped why there has to be some sort of half-arsed performative tribute at every ground in the country rather than just the clubs that individual was actually associated with.

    Looking this up to double check I wasn't just completely havering, it does turn out our mamager at the time was Graham Alexander who obviously played under Smith for Scotland, and Scottish football is obviously a fairly small world so it does make sense that there will likely be a lot of people at any given game who'd have some sort of personal connection to the deceased. It doesn't massively bother me and it's nice to be nice etc but I think I'd ideally rather it was scaled back a wee bit.

  5. Something I thought was very odd was the way we started pretty brightly- after about 10 minutes I thought we'd win comfortably- and then seemed to remember that we'd had two weeks off and suddenly the passes became slacker and everybody looked a bit off the pace. 

     

    I'm not saying Kettlewell is blameless but I think central defence right now is more of a personnel issue than a tactical one. I like Casey, Bevis, SOD and McGinn individually but hopefully next season we're only playing at most two of them at any given time. Tbf I was amazed Bevis didn't give away a penalty at any point in that second half as there were a few situations where that's the usual outcome.

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