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Salvo Montalbano

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  1. Salvo Montalbano
    League One is poor but this season's division is a lot worse than the one we won IMO. No Dunfermline or Airdrie who were two of the better teams, Edinburgh who had some cracking results last season are a shambles, Queen of the South are somehow taking the crown of worst ever senior team off of our own John Potter inspired jobbers who came 7th, and the only team who are anywhere close to challenging - Hamilton - are so bad that their fans want the manager gone despite being second. Hopefully it lulls Falkirk into a false sense of superiority and they crash and burn next season!
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    Aye we don't score many so have to score first to have any chance really. But we have several good hold up strikers and no finisher, Todd is our of form and Allan seems to be the only player who can take a set piece and he's not playing.
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    Too many games too quickly on his return. He was awful on Tuesday night, the worst I've seen him play since he came into the team.
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    Aye the push, but then... According to the commentary on radio, Vaughan "got a punch away"
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    True.
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    Vaughan lifting his hands and not getting a card? Only going by the radio commentary mind you.
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    I think he also won the popular vote in the one he lost but lost the electoral college? Teddy Roosevelt ran for a third term too - originally he declined to run for a third time and supported Fatty Taft but then they had a falling out and he tried to get nominated, failed, then set up a third party for a run which ultimately failed and let Woodrow Wilson in, IIRC. Of course Teddy's distant cousin Franklin ran four times and won all four, then the amendment was brought in to limit it to two terms. Can't see it being repealed or changed but no doubt the orange one will try if he wins and the Republicans control both houses.
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    Rumours elsewhere that Kane is out for the foreseeable. 2-0 Rovers. Glad I'm not going.
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    I'd say if Airdrie were still the same club (titter) and hadn't been jobbing about for the last decade then there would be a lot more animosity between the two. When we had old First division games against Raith, Falkirk and Airdrie, the games against the Diamonds were properly nasty. Both in terms of the match (heavy tackles, late challenges, mouthing off to theqaq ref/fans) and the carry on in the terraces and round the ground (particularly at Broomfield where you'd often get cars broken into or wing mirrors snapped off since you parked in residential areas that weren't always the nicest and police presence was virtually nil). There was arguably more vitriol at Airdrie games, then Falkirk, then Raith (although Raith always had their sights on us, like with their famous "won't be playing in the UEFA Cup next season" programme notes). I don't mind Airdrie now but I guess if your formative years watching the Pars was during that era, you might still not be a fan.
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    We used to have one of the best grass pitches in the country but a combination of using the undersoil heating, the undersoil heating then breaking and flooding a section of the pitch, playing games in a short space of time to catch up with the games postponed when our USH broke and cut backs to the maintenance budget have meant that at the moment it looks like a tattie field in the Somme during the Great War. Although we'll probably lose, I can almost guarantee that our game today at Stark's Park will be a better spectacle than our recent home games v Arbroath, Ayr and Airdrie. The best game I've seen on TV this season was probably Raith Rovers v Partick Thistle. Good grass pitches will almost always beat an artificial pitch but a good artificial pitch like those in Kirkcaldy and Airdrie will almost always beat a bad grass pitch.
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    First time I ever heard "the wee team" as an insult, or the "you're just a wee team" song was well into the 2000s (I'm pretty sure it was Jason Barber who used the phrase "the wee team along the A92" at an open night around those times) - certainly don't remember anything like that when I stood in the cage in the 90s - so I'm surprised to hear people say it's been "we fucking hate you" since the early 90s. It's always been "we don't even hate you" as far as I've heard it, from the mid 2000s up til about 4 or 5 years ago when the young guys started a singing section in the North Stand when a few started the other version. Maybe I'm wrong and it started earlier than that, but "we don't even hate you" makes so much more sense. Mind you, football fans are idiots. When I lived in Southampton they used to sing "Que Sera, Sera (wash your mouth out son)" and the final line I'd always heard ("Pars are number one") which rhymed with son and gun in the previous lines was supplanted by "and support the Saints" which doesn't rhyme with any other line in the song. Really annoyed me, that did!
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    Only in the context of social media output. I don't think we ever really mention other teams unless it's directly about the game itself? Might be wrong of course. But even last year when we were winning the Seaside Division, I can't remember our twitter feed mentioning Falkirk except before/after we played them? Which kind of adds to the point - I'm not too fussed either way when it's before/after the game. But when you beat say Queens Park and the first thing to come out on social media contains a dig about Dunfermline, it looks a bit needy and unnecessary. I don't think it's bad or naughty or anything and I dare say it's helped them with numbers and engagement, but it's a bit small time IMO.
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    I think some of the posts have been funny, and I think after games between the two clubs there's an element of "fair enough" about social media posts. The ones that mention us when we're not playing are a bit tin-pot IMO. Why even mention Dunfermline when you've just beaten Dundee Utd or you've just went top of the league or whatever? Seems a bit needy, and just reinforces the idea that Raith need us a lot more than we need them. All IMO of course. FWIW, I think the only time our social media team have done anything particularly childish or a bit tin-pot was when they posted a clip of Miles Hippolyte doing an outrageous dive/forward roll in the box which led to Falkirk getting a penalty - think we published before the midnight embargo and also posted something like "penalty? " No surprise either I guess that I didn't find Sammy and his cardboard tank "disrespectful" - football is well known for war analogies "it'll be a battle out there", "we expect an aerial bombardment", "he's the kind of guy you want in the trenches beside you" and 2 teams going head to head in what was essentially a title decider was always going to be described in such terms. Don't think there would have been any Raith complaints had Hardie not scored in the second half and Rovers held on to their half time lead.
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    Tidal Bay and guess the year wrong today. 8
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    If you read the article it goes on to say the third biggest "active" derby, since the Dundee Derby, Ayrshire Derby, Renfrewshire Derby, Lanarkshire Derbies, etc aren't being played this year. Seems fair enough to me, even though I'd say our rivalry with Falkirk is bigger than any with Raith.
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    Why? It says in the post that Chelsea lost 90.1 million - that will be well within the sustainability margins. For all Chelsea's crazy spending, they always manage to sell off academy graduates for decent money, and those players aren't amortised in the same way signings are so they make decent "profits" on them as far as the books go. Amortising the big spends over 7, 8 or even 9 years will also help and now the PL have banned that, nobody else can do it. The issue they'll have will be in a few years if they can't sell any more academy graduates or they can't recoup any of the fees they've laid out on the likes of Caicedo, Fernandez, etc.
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    On the The Rest is Entertainment podcast he does with Marina Hyde (which is actually really good), he was saying that he wanted to do a show where you had the same people for a week so there would be more of a narrative to it but nobody thought it would be a good idea. Until Taskmaster. Then suddenly it was a great idea and so got commissioned.
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    With that rumour and the one about Todd Boelly looking at an American basketball coach for Chelsea to have a "Ted Lasso effect", we could really be in for some banter years.
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    A pleasing 10 for Thursday.
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    It was so annoying that our early play - first ten minutes or so - was full of zip and passing and movement, but as soon as we didn't take advantage of that early pressure and Airdrie got back into it, we started looking long. Absolutely pointless "tactic" and played into their hands. At least on the plastic pitch at Starks we don't need to avoid any boggy or marshy areas but I worry what Raith will do to us, especially if we don't score first.
  21. Salvo Montalbano
    8. Year and country.
  22. Salvo Montalbano
    Easy Raith win. We looked dead on our feet at times tonight and so many of our better players were either out of form or feeling the effects of Friday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday. Benedictus might be back, Kane might be back, Ritchie-Hosler might start, but there isn't much from a Pars perspective to be positive about for Saturday. So your social media guy can get the crayons sharpened and you can all relax.
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    It was a nice hit although it bounces up perfectly and was a bit of a swinger tbh. And it came from our free kick on half way that we wasted through a terrible Hamilton mishit, and woeful defending when we didn't ever look like winning the second ball. Too many players not at it today (McCann, Todd, Allan, Summers) and missing Kane massively. Glad I won't be at Stark's on Saturday now. Back to square one.
  24. Salvo Montalbano
    Todd absolutely trying too hard. Not the only one btw. We need to calm the f**k down. Not sure about the red card. Initial thoughts were that a yellow was correct but we'll see how the footage looks later. We have resorted to aimless hoofs now after a promising start. Hope the confidence isn't that fragile that one goal turns us back to shit.
  25. Salvo Montalbano
    We were well on top early doors but let Airdrie into it and it wasn't really a surprise that they scored. No surprise it was Todarov who scored either. Both teams looking to play football and it's a decent watch, apart from McCann jumping about 10 seconds too early for every header which is making me quietly seethe.
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