KirkieRR

Crowd-based discussions on here are fine as most people on P&B actually go to games. What's unbearable are English Premier fanboys who infest talkboards boasting about 'their' club's huge, huge home crowds, even though they have never been a crowd statistic themselves.

I once deliberately went to a Renfrew-Rob Roy game using the Renfrew ferry, just so's I could say I'd gone to the fitba by boat.

If Agatha Christie had set a mystery in a sleepy Perthshire village, John Swinney would be the austere but kindly GP who finds the first body.

Hands up who has heard of 'Ben Davies'?

One of a dozen dodgy decisions in that match (I was there). The only one that went against Sellick, the only one that was raged about in the press afterwards, the only one that was the subject of a 'Dae You Know Who We Ur?' request for clarification to the SFA. But the records still say the Caley won and it is rather delicious.

I take it there will be no VAR check for this...

He sees the script in advance. It's not his fault if County or Killie decide to ad lib.

Steven Thompson on Sportsound: 'You can understand why there's grumps and groans from the Rangers supporters.' Grumps and groans = booing, ursine bellowing, demands for the summary execution of the SFA, the SPFL, The Pope and Humza Yousaf, furiously angry peeing over the row in front.

Please hing oan, Killie, in the most Sevco-frustrating way imaginable. The telly's rubbish the night and I want to enjoy a seething RangersMedia.

From the BBC web coverage: We're only 28 minutes in and there will probably be about 1,000 extra minutes of first-half added time with all the VAR stoppages there have been. I fixed it for the BBC, though; We're only 28 minutes in and there will probably be about 1,000 extra minutes of first-half added time if Sevco still need a goal.

http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/trans5.htm

Will there come a stage when the SFA, SPFL, the refs, VAR officials etc say, look, Sevco, we've done everything possible to hand you this game on a plate, how about bringing something to the party yourselves, eh?

Cumbernauld Colts are only three places below them and we saw them off... with a performance I'd rather we'd kept for the league.

Ach, well, relegation it is, then. Our own fault. Might as well prepare for our wee bit of fun v EK in the SCC. Next season there might be three tiers difference between us and EK.

They bus them to Glasgow for Kelvingrove, the Hunterian, the Green, the Mural Trail, People's Palace, Burrell, St Mungo Museum, GOMA, Renee Mackintosh sites, Botanics, Cathedral, the Riverside Museum, Kelvin Hall, Concert Hall, Armadillo, Hydro, Science Centre etc. And Loch Lomond is nearly as accessible from Greenock as Loch Ness from Inv. I mean, come on, I'm Invernessian by marriage but besides watching the Caley there's not much else to do there. And the Longman is as ugly as any Inverclyde industrial estate.

Plastic or hybrid are the future, like it or not. Look at our traditional pile-up of April-May fixtures owing to Guy's Meadow being unplayable much of the winter. Pains me to say it but one of the exceptions is Duncansfield where the grass surface is always superb.

Decent summary, that. Not but that she was the cheerleader for one or two of those questionable policies, but a NIcola Sturgeon exonerated without a stain on her character and returning to frontline politics would be the best possible thing for the SNP. As a political performer, there's no one in any party, Holyrood or Westminster, who's even close. And the look on Mad Wings NotRev Stu's seething goblin physog would be priceless. However, even if she were to be cleared, I don't see that happening.

I heard something on Radio Scotland about Salmond suggesting there might be a deal if the SNP agreed to step aside for ALBA in some seats. I think that's just another example of the enormous Salnond chutzpah - step aside for a party hat three people and a dug are gonnae vote for? I repeat - the largest caucus of ALBA supporters is Mad NotRev Stu's adoring BTL constituency on Wings. All wallopers of the first water, and all convinced that ALBA might be about to make a real electoral breakthrough.

Now you're asking. Would have to check. There have been a few draws, but....

Rob Roy 2 Meadow 2 Four goals, should be a great game eh? It wasn't. Roy scored early doors, Meadow equalised just before HT and went 2-1 up with a couple of minutes to go. The Roy managed to force in a late leveller. Standard throughout poor. There are still plenty of points to be won, but if we can't get past the basement club, how are we to get anything out of Talbot or Darvel?

Rum to see Alba potentially having such power here. Their poll standing remains flattening just above zero. Nobody but Wings Mad Stu's btl followers think it will ever gain any elected representatives except through defections.

Dept of Baseless Speculation and Wish Fulfilment.

Seems to me you've just provided two paragraphs of admittedly slightly grumpy personal reflection on the matter...

...in a stadium in Dubai. My hope is that both teams play half a dozen ineligible players and are docked 40 points each, relegated to the West of Scotland League Division 4, their stadia confiscated and demolished to make way for social housing, the clubs having to share with Petershill, and have to change their names to Fluffy Rabbits FC and Frilly Undergarments FC. I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.

I will be hillwalking in the Campsies, avoiding all public places and licensed premises, mentally preparing myself for the weekend's big event, the South Challenge Cup final at Broadwood next day. I will try to avoid my neighbours on either side (SELLICK!) and two doors up and across the road (RANJURS!) before and after the Bigotry Derby. None of them, by the way, ever go to games, any games. If I bump into any of them beforeheand the conversation will run something like this; 'Ye watchin the game the morra?' 'What game's that?' 'The cup final! We're playin Sellick/Ranjurs!' 'Och, naw. I'm no interested in that.' neighbour assumes bemused, slack-jawed expression