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55 minutes ago, The Mantis said:
Forth and Endrick League. Deanston 5 Aberfoyle Rob Roy 1.
McAlpine Park, Deanston. This doubled up as a league fixture plus a Telfer Cup tie.
Always enjoy an ammies game. 3-1 ht and a missed pen in the second half made it pretty comfortable for Deanston who missed a hatful of chances. Rob Roy were no pushovers but they found it difficult to get out of their own half at times.Have to say this was a fabby day out. I had to nip up to Callander in the afternoon so I took the chance to get a tour at Deanston distillery, with a driver's dram pack of course, then up to the Scottish Real Ale Shop at the Lade Inn. Couldn't resist a pint (Lade Back Ale but they had 3 brews, wish I could have tried them all). A quick Chinese takeaway, then on to the game and home on a fine evening. Keen hill goers will spot 3 significant mountains in the pics.
Ben Vorlich, Stuc a Chroin and Ben Ledi?
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4 hours ago, Mine Man said:
Because he is very good at what he does.
Sure, and that's obvious from the highlights. But 6 cameras is a lot in one place - BBC doesn't even do that for Sportscene - and I'm interested in what the different cameras are for. Also, when I've seen folk use more than camera it's usually a GoPro or two behind the goals.
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Best of luck to Clyde and Stranraer tomorrow. Don't you open that trap door, cos there's something down there.
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Caley Thistle had the fourth-best goal difference in the league, pipping Airdrie because they lost 2-0 at Hampden, and were 3 points from the top half of the table. The Championship is brutal.
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Black Rock Rovers 4-0 Fortrose, Inverness & District Football Association First Division Cup, Quarter Final.
Have to admit, the only reason I went to this game was because it was at a pyramid ground. Clach A use three grounds for the North Caledonian League matches - Grant Street Park, Inverness Royal Academy and here, the ground they seem to prefer but it has no lights and is rarely playable in the winter months.
An enjoyable watch on a good pitch, two early goals for the home side were a fair reflection of the gap between the sides. Fortrose fought to get back into the game but a third midway through the second half ended it as a contest, and Rocks put a gloss on it through a penalty with the last kick of the ball.
Black Rock Rovers are (presumably) named after the nearby Black Rock Gorge, which is one of the most unheralded, extraordinary natural features in Scotland. Rushing water has eaten through the soft rock to create a slot that's well over 100 feet deep but only a few feet wide at the top. If you're passing this way you have to see it, it's a very pleasant walk through the community woodland from Evanton.
Their badge features the Fyrish monument, the fruits of a work creation scheme in the late 18th century. You can just make it out on top of the hill in my first picture, about 1,500 feet above the Cromarty Firth.
You know you're watching amateurs when two of the guys are in different tops from the rest of their team.
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11 hours ago, lokforever said:
Ah maybe you'll be able to tell me - why were there about 6 cameras filming the game, all from the same vantage point?
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10 hours ago, Ross. said:
Tremendous. Just booked a spot. Will probably mean I can sleep in the car for an hour afterwards too, while the traffic fucks off…
Was gonna say, it's a Sunday so the park and rides should be quiet, and the travel is free with match tickets. The stadium parking is pricey.
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1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
Could have sworn that was all part of the same era
They're not far apart. The burger picture was taken in 1990 but the peak year of the BSE scandal was 1996. The foot and mouth outbreak was 2001 - Blair delayed the election that year because of it.
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4 hours ago, Stag Nation said:
The LL clubs must have known the timetable. Was anything stopping tcki off the season a week earlier?
It's not about fixture congestion, it's about twiddling your thumbs from mid-April onwards. It's just too early to be done with a football season.
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Thorniewood United 0-2 Johnstone Burgh, West of Scotland First Division.
Bottom-half dwellers Thorniewood hosted promotion-hunting, big spending Johnstone Burgh. I've always thought this looked a proper ground and it didn't disappoint, tucked in behind houses off the main street with a big grass banking on the pavilion side, a shed opposite occupied by one of the noisiest, finest ultras squads I've seen/ heard and a good terrace at the home end.
The pitch was lush but bobbly and slow, preventing any free-flowing football from being played and quality was at a premium. Burgh won it with two goals in the first half, a header and a lovely 20-yarder arrowed into the top-left corner. Thorniewood stuck in without every really looking like scoring until a wee stramash in the closing minutes, when we were also treated to a substitute appearance from Kyle Lafferty.
And I'd appreciate it if anyone can explain why there were 6 cameras filming the match, all from the same position.
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1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said:
USM Algiers forfeited SF 1st-leg of African equivalent of EL - which they're defending - last week after police seized opponents Berkane's shirts citing its map of Morocco:
Row over map of Morocco on shirt sees Confederation Cup game postponed - BBC Sport
Morocco map row: Club given 3-0 win after refusing to play in Algeria - BBC Sport
USMA now forfeited 2nd-leg too:
Morocco map row: Second game involving USM Alger called off - BBC Sport
Morocco map row: Cas to hear appeal from Algerian federation and club - BBC Sport
FIFA have to be banning depictions of disputed territory on kits. The scope for really offensive uses is huge - Israel, Serbia, Hungary, Azerbaijan... it can't be allowed.
Failing which, I would love to see England play Argentina with both of them having the Falkland Islands on their shirts.
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Well done the olive farmers.
Bestest League In The Whole Wide World™
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For the young whipper-snappers who've never been to a tournament before and are going without any tickets - we went to France 98 without any tickets and had a great time at the big screens in St Denis and Bordeaux. In some ways it's more fun than being in the stadium, especially compared with tickets in neutral areas, because you're packed in with Scotland fans instead of sitting between a couple from Tennessee who got their tickets from Coca Cola and to whom you're just colourful background, and opposition fans going wild as their team hammers us.
The 7 minutes between John Collins' goal against Brazil and half time were unforgettable.
We got black market tickets outside the ground in St Etienne for £100 each. Not the best money I've ever spent.
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3 hours ago, Empty It said:
The temptation to just pull that cable tie must've been unreal.
Murdering peaceful protestors for causing trivial inconvenience is not an instinct I have tbh.
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3 hours ago, D Angelo Barksdale said:
The amount of shite I have saved on my phone is unreal.
Cometh the hour, cometh the thread.
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24 minutes ago, PogoStick said:
Followed by...
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3 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
Different disease, government and century, but aye.
He went on to be Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee and has actually done a pretty decent job.
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2 hours ago, MazzyStar said:
Kate Forbes is basically the Scottish Angela Merkel so you might not be far off.
Note sure I would compare an incredibly astute politician and leader of the free world for most of the century so far to someone that couldn't answer obvious questions from a journalist in her leadership campaign, but sure, their views are probably pretty close. Like Merkel put a vote on gay marriage before the Bundestag saying it's a matter of conscience, knowing it would pass, and voted against it.
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19 minutes ago, Jedi2 said:
And now, Swinney can do another deal with the Greens in order to get legislation passed,(and the Greens can get the SNP to keep plugging away at their 'Equality' agenda).The continuity,continuity candidate.
What have you got against equality? How can that be a bad thing and what's the alternative?
The Greens get a say because they'll do business with the SNP and the others won't. That's how multi-party democracy is supposed to work. Incidentally very little of the Green "agenda" is on equality, their stuff has been about a national care service, just transition for workers in declining industries, rent controls, free bus travel for young people, a new national park, marine protection zones and the bottle deposit scheme. Stuff that good honest local white folks benefit from.
In any case I think your speculation about Sturgeon's involvement is absolute fantasy. There's no evidence for it and plenty against.
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20 hours ago, Butters Scotch said:
To suggest anyone touting him is based on one game against Dundee is ridiculous. The guy is a good footballer playing for one of the top clubs in the country and has a lot of caps for Scotland already and would have more if it wasn't for injury. That, combined with us having a few injuries now/lack of other viable options are the main reasons he has come into the conversation.
That's it exactly. We all know of the phenomenon where someone has a couple of good games for the OF and suddenly they're hailed as the Second Coming. But Forrest is nowhere near that category. Before his injuries he was an automatic squad pick for Clarke and started more often than not. He scored a hat-trick to beat Israel, the only time (barring penalties) we've managed that in five matches against them. I'd argue he's done more in a Scotland shirt than Armstrong and not much less than Christie.
I think he's particularly valuable if we don't have Hickey or Paterson because he can give us some of the dynamism and threat high on the right that we'll lack with a lower quality right back that can't get forward as much. He gives us options that nobody else can.
If he's fit and in form he's comfortably in a 26-man squad.
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Just got 2 cat 1 tickets for the R16 game in Berlin, which is where the second placed team in our group goes, and 1 cat 1 ticket for R16 in Cologne, where we have a 30% chance of going if we qualify third on our group. I really wanted Frankfurt as we have a 50% chance of going there if we qualify third, but I never saw anything below prime at 500 Euro.
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This advice is too late now but when I got lucky in the last resale I went on exactly at the start of the sale. Quite a few people seem to have had that or a similar experience. This time I thought I'd follow the advice and get on early, I clicked on at 1015 and so far my progress bar is only about quarter along. Might just be coincidence, or maybe going early is a disadvantage.
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Trapdoor to Hell
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Posted · Edited by GordonS
That was never true in the sense people understand, but it has definitely not been the case since the Companies Act 2006 came into force. Companies can set their objectives and these do not have to selfish. If the objectives include furthering the interests of Scottish football then directors can set aside shareholder value against that. See s. 172 and the Explanatory Notes: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/172#section-172
Also, I don't know about any others, but Stenhousemuir aren't a limited company, they're a community interest company.