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Did any of them go bust and die then pretend it never happened?

Is it worth adding to the debate that Hibs once ceased to exist for around a year, before <checks notes> 'reforming' and providing much mirth and banter ever since?

Aberdeen 3-1 St Mirren Motherwell 1-0 St Johnstone Rangers* 2012 4-0 Kilmarnock Ross County 1-3 Celtic Hibernian 1-2 Heart of Midlothian Dundee United 2-0 Livingston

Credit where it's due; United were superb last night and it augurs well for their league campaign that there was no lack of match sharpness evident in only their second competitive game of the season. It's only half-time in the Euro tie of course, but, even this early, their quality suggests they'll be challenging at the top end of the SPFL Premiership this season.

Poirot is a work of fiction, a bit like the currant current manifestation of Rangers.

I also read James Forrest's article and deduced that if only Motherwell could've tried a teeny wee bit harder, they might've reached the final of a European competition and, much more importantly, contributed to the much vaunted co-efficient that our two biggest supported clubs valiantly and selflessly built up together, almost as if they were some kind of old firm, dishing out scraps presents to the less fortunate. If only Motherwell had thought to pull their socks up and redouble their efforts, or perhaps if they were entrepreneurial enough to increase their fan base and income through clinging leech-like to centuries-old historical battles which are totally unrelated to football, Scottish football wouldn't be such a laughing stock. Here's hoping Hearts and Dundee United try especially hard in their coming games so as not to disappoint Mr Forrest.

Okay, so some other nations have a dominant team or teams. But, which other nation has seen only two teams (3 if you include 2020/21) win the past 37 consecutive top league titles between them? More importantly, which other nation's monopoly or duopoly was built on the financial benefits of pseudo-religious and Irish political bollox that should have no place in football?

Livingston 1-3 Rangers 2012 (Tavpen hat-trick 90+2, 90+7, 90+8) Hearts 2-2 Ross County Kilmarnock 0-1 Dundee Utd St Johnstone 0-0 Hibs St Mirren 0-0 Motherwell Celtic 1-2 Aberdeen (Kyogo sent off for simulation, Starfelt for impersonating a footballer)

Accepted defeat? I take it you were in an alcohol induced coma and never noticed the mass rioting in Manchester? Also, how could Rangers come close to extinction if only a meaningless operating company dies following liquidation, according to the myth concocted in 2012? In your own time. Please allow me a short gap to go and stock up on popcorn.

If the Scottish football authorities can prop up a corpse and pretend it's still alive, what else are they capable of? Imagine if either of the big two had a one-off dismal season and failed to make the top six, resulting in fewer televised Old Firm games than paid for in the broadcast contracts. Or worse still, if one of the big two was relegated, would the football authorities panic as they did when Rangers died and try to gerrymander their place back into the top flight? So long as our myopic 'suits' fail to see beyond a duopoly, a duopoly is what we will continue to have.

No surprise to find the usual suspects indulging in large-scale whataboutery and dismissing or downplaying the liquidation of their former club as trivial and inconsequential. Yes, other clubs have suffered insolvency events over the years, but none of them ran up debts as colossal as Rangers' up to 2012. None of them cheated their opponents on an industrial scale for over a decade, yet remained unpunished. None of them swore loyal allegiance to a head of state that they subsequently plundered millions of pounds from. Let's suspend reality for a moment and pretend that an incorporated football club somehow comprised of two distinctly separate entities, contrary to all documentary evidence. Nobody can tell us when the two supposedly separate entities parted ways. Instead we are told that they just did. This, despite RFC's Articles of Incorporation specifically referring to club and company as synonymous (the same), and despite the entire purpose of incorporation being that the club would become a company. Rangers were the architects of their own downfall, but neither of the two clubs to play out of Ibrox has ever accepted blame or criticism, or in this case, self-inflicted extinction. It's always someone else's fault. Blaming a supposedly separate operating company for their demise is just the Rangers way of distancing themselves from reality and culpability. The fact that two quintessentially British establishment organisations have finally kissed and made up is as vomit-inducing as it is predictable.

I know it's not you, so kindly refrain from calling me it.

Its main function is to provide advice on the use of punctuation. You should try it. What's a mate?

The evidence in your posts suggests otherwise.

To my mind, the SPFL is a trade organisation that is supposed to function as a co-operative for the benefit of all clubs, not just those with the biggest support. This means that either all clubs in the Premiership should have B teams in a lower league, or no clubs should have B teams in a lower league. Similarly, either all clubs must arrange lucrative friendlies a few short weeks into a brand new season, thus avoiding an instant disparity in league games played, or none of them should be allowed to do so. Instead though, let's handicap the diddy clubs while simultaneously slaughtering them for offering little or no competition to the clubs who already have humongous financial advantages.

I am full of compassion for the victims. I am also full of hatred for the two clubs who actively encourage sectarianism, or at best pay lip service to it, because it is financially beneficial to them.

FTFY.

Congratulations on a very decent track and video. I've subscribed on Youtube and look forward to hearing more.

Prog has been my genre of music since my teenage years, though I also had a jazz-rock period where I was heavily into the likes of Weather Report and Return to Forever. My first ever gig was Genesis' 1974/75 Lamb Lies Down tour at the Usher Hall. Nowadays I listen to a mix of older music from the classic era prog bands (Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, PFM etc) and newer stuff from Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Marillion, Pendragon, Ayreon, Devin Townsend, Glass Hammer, Wobbler, Riverside, Arena and IQ, plus many other talented but relatively obscure bands (Evership, Nemo/Jean-Pierre Louveton, Logos, Major Parkinson, Sylvan, Nexus etc).

FTFY.

On the evidence of a few minutes of Youtube clips, the guy has definitely got a decent degree of ball control, regardless of the quality of the opposition. Whether that ball control is evident on a squally November night on a quagmire of a Scottish pitch remains to be seen, but he certainly looks like an exciting player who'll have fans on the edge of their seats. You'll probably be calling him Bahamboozle before too long.

If Hellbhoy is a Celtic supporter as his username suggests, I have absolutely no love for the other cheek either. Check back on my posting history far enough and I can assure you that you will be left in no doubt. It beggars belief that I'm having to waste time and energy denying that I'm posters I've never even heard of while the substance of my argument is totally ignored, or conveniently dismissed as 'sevcoing' by adherents of the Church of the Miraculous Resurrection, Govan Congregation.

I'm not deflecting anything. I'm stating the blatantly obvious fact that Doncaster's word is not law, contrary to what you lot have alluded to over the past decade. Not only is he fallible, he's incompetent and untrustworthy. Anything he says or has said has to be taken with a pinch of salt.