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On 5/21/2020 at 10:00 AM, Buddymarvellous said:
A much better view! - Not a bad place to live in any of the houses on the left (which are now basically all offices)
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I'm beginning to get a fixation over the Cross.............................. I think it throws back memories of being stood up once at Burton's Corner!
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More about trams at Paisley Cross, but a bit later than the one where they were laying the tracks!
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Not sure if this has been previously posted...................... Old photograph of laying Tram lines at Paisley Cross
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On 6/25/2020 at 10:45 PM, djchapsticks said:
We actually ended up with six!
Obika, Jakubiak, Morias, Cooke, Mullen and Chabbi.
Obika and Morias are all that's left and given Goodwin enjoyed going with 2 up quite a lot last season, I'd be hopeful of Jakubiak returning to the club and another forward option.
Please note we were the lowest scorers in the league last season, by a few goals, however we stayed up due to a meaner defence.
We need to freshen up the front line with someone who can get 12 + goals a season and keep Obika. I would have liked Cooke to have made it, and I know he had a bad injury, but I'm just not sure he has the ability to step up and really worry defences in this league.
I go with the argument that you need probably at least 5 strikers (a) to cover for injuries and (b) to freshen things up if anyone isn't making the grade.
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On 5/14/2020 at 4:52 PM, antrin said:
The shop where I got my Beezer (Mon), Dandy (Tue), Beano (Thu), Topper (Fri) and hunners o ither things...
Niice colouration, though my memory of these buildings was GREY not pretty pink/red stones...
Definitely the tall building was VERY grey.
I think the photo was one of these colouration jobs where they had a B&W original photo then some person sat in a back room somewhere and coloured in the more attractive reddish colour (and blue sky) that appears more homely than sooty black / grey!
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17 hours ago, shull said:
In all honesty Shull, do you think that there is the remotest chance of football starting in Scotland in July?
Here we are in mid-May with 6 weeks to go to July and at least 2 of these is in lockdown. If you then assume that our dearly beloved leader in Scotland might relax our movements in any different way to those currently in England and allow the owners to open up hotels, bars and restaurants (alongside football stadiums and rugby gatherings), you have a very large dollop of positivity surrounding you and your thought processes.
1. how do players tackle without physical contact? .................. mmmmmm tough one that
2. How does Scottish football (which depends so much on match-day income) make ends meet on the games - even accepting they won't have policing, crowd control or office staff to deal with ticket requests.
3. What happens when 1 player in a team tests positive and he has been in an enclosed room with his team mates does that mean they all have to self-isolate, or do they expensively test every day and ensure that not one player in the entire Premier league is hit by this virus.
4. They have just tested hospitals and some sample care homes in Scotland and it has been found that on a sampling day 3% of the staff tested positive without showing any symptoms. If that is what it is showing in Cambridge as well as Scotland and is consistent with say police, fire and ambulance across swathes of the country, it could well be the same for the general population including footballers. You can't play football until we get to a near zero position in the population as the game needs fans on their seats in Scotland and the two positions just don't tally.
I have to say that I agree with your basic premise: football is fu**ed in Scotland for the foreseeable future, and whilst it was extremely tight before all this kicked off, it's now in a perilous state. We don't have a great product to sell to the TV companies, we have two dominant teams that lord it over the rest of us and that makes for a boring product that the world doesn't really want to watch, so we get highlights on BBC and Alba, occasional BT or Sky offerings that aren't taken seriously and we are well down the European and world rankings when it comes to football skills.
The football powers that be, are trying to look busy and positive, but the reality is that life in Scotland and the rest of Europe has changed for the foreseeable future and there is no realistic chance of of us gathering in W7 in the near future to bang the drums.
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The Rangers 'didn't back down' strategy behind their Celtic title can-kicking - Michael Gannon (Daily Record Online Writer)
There were the usual rumblings, the growing thunder of hooves over the hilltop, preparing another charge. It’s always the same when word arrives a Rangers statement is on the way. But this time it was only a shot across the bows rather than a full-on offensive. The language was familiar as was the warning.
The battle may be over but the war will roll on.
In the meantime Scottish football will pause for breath, pour a cup of tea and reflect on a month when our usually bonkers game cranked up the craziness to record levels.
But where exactly does Tuesday’s vote leave us? Want the bad news? Right back where we started. The SPFL might have sent out conciliatory messages the other day and several clubs want peace in our time. But let’s be honest, this wasn’t clearing the air before bedtime. Everyone went to their spare rooms and the same grievances will fester, only to boil over again in the coming days and weeks.
The Premiership season will be called. It’s not a Peter Lawwell concocted conspiracy, it’s just the way it’s going to be. Just like it will be in every nation that doesn’t have billionaires putting guns to players’ heads to get back on the pitch.
This weekend was meant to be the final match of the season. We’re already into overtime and everyone knows it ain’t coming back. It made sense to argue with the SPFL in April about trying to finish the season. Okay, clubs were screaming out to get their dosh but we could at least hang on to the pipe dream of actually completing games by hook or by crook.
Back then when Rangers decided to go gung ho at the league chiefs, their stance was, finish the season but not behind closed doors. Even then it looks like fantasyland stuff but a month or so down the line it’s about as realistic as a magical unicorn limbo dancing under a rainbow.
But let’s call it what it really is.
Rangers have done what they needed to do. Forget all this “greater good of the game” guff, coincidentally spouted by most of the clubs who would be shafted by the season being ended. Gers wanted to block the initial vote, kick the can down the road and show fans they wouldn’t hand over the title off the field. Fair enough. They’ve made their point clearly and when the inevitable happens now they can say they didn’t back down.
The rammy in the Championship was sheer opportunism – the ideal chance to get to their ultimate goal – to get rid of Neil Doncaster, Murdo MacLennan and Rod McKenzie. There have been running battles for three years as the folk at Ibrox see them as being in Peter Lawwell’s pocket.
The rest of Scottish football usually just leave them all to it. But just because Rangers were about as subtle as a Panzer Division doesn’t mean the game doesn’t need a shake-up. Murdo MacLennan might have thought he was defending his honour but rising to the bait and lashing out only made himself look daft.
Scottish football needs an adult in charge, not someone who won’t front up to Press scrutiny and who sends out statements like your angry auntie on her second bottle of Prosecco. Everyone knows the SPFL could do with smartening up in general but it’s a private company made up of members who have the power to change it if they can ever agree on anything. The board will believe they can go along their merry way now the vote is over but the same old problems remain under the surface. There will likely be moves to call the league soon, ahead of UEFA’s May 25 deadline.
Hearts, Partick Thistle, Stranraer and a few others, such as Falkirk will erupt en masse. Rangers will see it as a chance to get stuck back in as well, the merry-go-round will spin again, and it will keep spinning until either we get back out on the pitches in front of fans or clubs start tumbling in to administration.
Don’t bet on peace in our time as that rumbling sound over the hill isn’t going away.
Sums it up pretty well. Mostly vested interests at the heart of it all.
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7 hours ago, shull said:
Guess what, guess what, guess what ?????
Another statement
http://www.stranraerfc.org/index.php/77-latest-news/1748-statement-egm
Mr Dougan may feel hard done by, indeed probably anyone in the league set up will who find themselves being relegated, or not being allowed to complete their games if they could theoretically catch the team above them to gain the opportunity of promotion or avoid relegation, will feel aggrieved.
However a decision had to be taken as the Great Unwashed chairman pointed out, that the main stumbling point was basically financial and if you (the SPFL) couldn't see any realistic end to the season due to the HEALTH of the nation being challenged, then they had to stop the process at the point when it became almost impossible to predict when they could complete the leagues. They couldn't just abandon the season for lots of logical reasons, so the majority of clubs agreed to stop it now.
Take a minute to look at those who were part of the 13 dissenters, of the ones I am aware of :
Rangers, Aberdeen, Hamilton, Hearts, Partick Thistle, Brechin City, Stranraer, Inverness Caley Thistle, Livingston, Stenhousemuir and I think Elgin City, not sure about the other two. Almost all had something to lose, but if the boot had been on another foot and all had either been safe or had won promotion, most would not have been on that list.
I feel a bit sorry for Partick as they were two points behind with a game in hand, and I get their arguments, but as I said before, the music suddenly stopped and they didn't have a seat.
So basically the main reason for the SPFL resolution was not about improvement of the leagues, or changing the league structure, it was about nothing other than plain and simple cash. As one or two Chairmen have just found out over this scenario, life can be hard and unjust sometimes, but if you don't want to get burnt............................................
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1 hour ago, munoz said:
Said like a true Ran***s fan.
OK Shull; Said like a true Sev*o fan.
Does that fill yer boots?
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4 hours ago, Bud the Baker said:
Just like her tax policy (1% above the Tories) she'll be 1% stricter on easing lockdown - there's really no mystery to Sturgeon. BJ will continue to test Abe Lincoln's apocryphal theory about fooling people.
What I want to know is how she keeps her hair so naturally red, not a grey hair in sight and so well coiffured........... is there a social distancing question in there somewhere?
She should come out of the closet!
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Let's put this into some perspective.
1. Rangers are proposing this because they think misguidedly that they can overhaul Celtic. If the boot was on the other foot and they were 13 points ahead they would be completely silent on the matter
2. Hearts are panicking. They obviously thought that they could overhaul Hamilton and then us to become safe, so if they were in our position they would be silent.
3. Hamilton are in much the same position as Hearts above
4. Plastic Whistle are the unfortunate party to finish up in that league position when the league was stopped. Someone had to be and it turned out to be them. Do you think for one second there would be this much of a stramash in Scottish Football if it just came down to Partick or Brechin or any other team being in the wrong place when the music stopped?
Shull to follow your argument you may have to wait until September to remotely consider allowing any game (behind closed doors) to be played out. Meanwhile if one player in Scotland is tested positive it then throws that league completely into a position where they can't complete the fixtures. With so much non-accurate testing in the whole set up, that will lead to quite a few false positives and real positives from carriers, to the point that the games and leagues will become a bu**ers muddle, even worse than they are now.
Football is a game in Scotland that really isn't that important anymore. Some people should get a life and accept, that life can be hard and harsh sometimes and they should just accept there are one or two fractionally more important things to think about just now.
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The overall Scottish message is that golf can't be played as you would have to specifically drive to the course (well most would) and also leave your home for a non-essential reason. Fine if you could walk to the golf course, carry your clubs and waterproofs (however not required for the last 6 weeks) and then play, but that would become a beacon of sense and sensibility and you would then get the anglers, bowlers, tennis players etc all complaining that why is golf allowed, but not our sport?
I get the reasoning, but am frustrated as hell that I can walk over my golf course, or others locally and they are festooned with dog walkers (who let their mutts roam wherever they want), runners and families out for a walk. I even saw a funny but ridiculous situation last week where a family had gone to the golf club with buckets and spades and the parents allowed their two sub-5 year olds to run about in the bunkers making sandcastles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
However having said all of the above, there are so many more people about now, than there were say three weeks ago, plus so many more cars, I think that now loads of people are moving about for non-essential reasons.
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Just before Saints made their mark on the town!
Paisley and surrounds 1580's
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Paisley Centre 1936
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1 hour ago, Tommy said:
40 would be better
I am much more in favour of roughly 28 surviving in the senior tiers of Scottish Football.
Below that you can have as many area sub-leagues as you like, all competing to end up in the top two of their respective area leagues and then they play off to provide one up to the senior tier.
In reality Scottish football has been fu**ed for at least twenty years. Crowds are low and when you get down to the third and fourth tiers of the league structure, the turnouts for a game are well below 1000 regularly.
Like many I would love to see the Glasgow twins disappear from the Scottish game. They control much of what money is about and they poison just about every game they play in Scotland, so for many it would be better if they went elsewhere. That would leave a much more level-playing field for all the others to compete and who knows, once in a while, a St. Mirren or St Johnstone side might just compete at the top end of the league as opposed to struggling near the bottom of the Premier set-up.
Oh, I suppose I can day-dream, what else is there to do these days as we remain in lockdown for another three weeks!!!!
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Now that came from Blade Runner 1, if I remember in my befuddled aged mind.................., however one might ask oneself would you or wouldn't you?
However they had to replicate her for Blade Runner 2, as they wanted the look of the original film, but Sean Young had somewhat changed by that time and ...................................she was indeed replicated in the West of Scotland!
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On 5/3/2020 at 8:53 AM, faraway saint said:
The recent "fake" grand national was an example of how far this technology has come.
Some shots were remarkably "real" looking but others, when they jumped the fences" were not fluent at all.
The bottom line is this technology will always be in a supporting role to real actors who can add the human touch.
(Except in cartoon/game style movies)
So in Blade Runner 2, could you see who was real and who wasn't?
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The question whether Hancock made a rod for his own back or not in trying to hit 100,000 tests by the end of April, is a matter of debate, the main point of testing is surely not just to create numbers on a chart, but to actually use the testing for the right reasons.
If Germany had tested 1.3m by 4th April and continued at 50k per day after that they would now have another 1.4 million tested. However what has it told them and who is being tested?
Basically I can be tested today and be negative and tomorrow tested again and be positive. What has that proved (other than I have come into contact with a carrier)!?
Testing has two main benefits:
1. it can show where the hot-spots are in the country and you can act accordingly to isolate more of that community
2. it can allow the key workers to carry on working if they continue to show a negative reading.
Otherwise, what other good does testing do, especially if it is merely a one off test?
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Take a look at the following video and it will take you to where cinema is now reaching - total virtual reality:
My wife's nephew is involved in this type of work in the West of Scotland and the Company that he works for has been involved in a few Hollywood blockbusters.
Brilliant technology.
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On 4/8/2020 at 2:27 PM, Slartibartfast said:On 4/8/2020 at 2:23 PM, TPAFKATS said:Interesting approach from this MP.
Twitter handle contains #StayHomeSaveLivesReligion - that's another pandemic we need to find a cure for.
Couldn't have put it better myself!
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As a nation we are generally sensible, but there are a fair number of effing edgits out there who may well be the cause of a total shutdown on anyone moving anywhere. 660 "parties" in Greater Manchester is just complete madness.
My daughter made a great comparison:
If you said to 100 people that you have a 3% chance of dying by just going out there and mixing with your friends and everyone else, you would find that they would basically just ignore it and say "it won't happen to me"!
If however you put 100 sweets down on a table and three were actually cyanide made to look exactly like the rest of the sweets I bet you that there would be hardly any takers.
So maybe we should start saying it as it is. You have more than a 3% chance of dying within the next 30 days if you continue to go out and socially interact, let's see what that might do!
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So the current trend for footballers running onto the park is to kiss their wrist, touch the grass or carry out some semi-religious chest crossing exercise that probably has nothing to do with religion, but has a lot to do with superstition.
So it got me thinking am I superstitious and yes is the answer, in some parts of my life.
I don't walk under ladders, I always at least acknowledge Friday the 13th, I always try and use the same ball marker every time I play golf and...………………… I wear black & white boxer shorts whenever Saints are playing!
The last item is of course if I remember, as the mid-week games sometimes catch me out and they are substituted with some other colour, and amazingly Saints don't get a result on that day. Mind you Saints don't get a result on quite a few days, even if I've donned the requisite multi-coloured pants, but that is part of being a Buddie and accepting that every game isn't winnable!
Of course I've worn them at Hampden Park and they worked, but I also wore them when we didn't get a result against 9 men, but that's life I'm afraid and I didn't blame the pants!!
So what ticks your Box?
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Again we huffed and puffed, much the same as against Aberdeen.
It's an obvious comment to make, but my main worry is our inability to find the net, by anyone on the park. Yes the defence has tightened up and isn't that bad, but our basic fault of not being able to put the ball in the net may well prove be our undoing this season.
We have no answer to this problem either, now we are trying Chabbi as an option and we seem to have dropped Cooke and Mullen as any kind of impact substitution, it's a bit like trying a perm of any two from 6 poor options and we can see that hardly anything works at all.
It sounds like knicker wetting, it's not, it's just the reality of this season, we are going to struggle until the last day of the season and hope that we are at least in 2nd bottom spot and we again come up against a Championship side who are somewhat adrift of D Utd!
Paisley - My Pics Of Old Or Unusual Buildings Or Places Of Interest.
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This may have been posted before - Canal Street in its hay day!
I like the idea of "Bovril repelling Influenza" and in this day of sensitivities, Paterson's Camp Coffee may only attract a certain clientele!