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On 3/21/2019 at 12:15 PM, Callum Gilhooley said:
I don’t mind the other nations teams being involved. I have a bigger issue with Colt teams being included .It’ll be interesting to see if the colt thing goes away next season.
Now that the wider OF colt teams issue has been so unanimously voted down, they may take this view that this rather transparent Trojan horse has failed in it’s mission.
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1 hour ago, herman_munster said:
SCOTLAND ARE FÜCKING SHITE
3-0 DOWN TO A TEAM RANKED 117 BY FIFA
WE ARE PROBABLY OFFICIALLY THE WORST NATION IN EUROPE TODAY
HOW EMBARRASSING, AND THE TARTAN ARMY WILL STILL BE CHEERING
AND COMING ROUND THE ROAD GETTING FÚCKING STEAMING, THE TARTAN
ARMY WOULD TURN UP AT THE SCOTT ANTARTIC STATION FOR THE OPENING
OF A SHORTBREAD TIN
No beef whatsoever with your view of the team, but your assessment of the Tartan Army is outdated, lazy and clearly lacking in any recent experience.
It’s a long time since the TA indulged in any such behaviour. But don’t let the truth get in the way of your mind numbingly boring patter.
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I refer you to my earlier post about finding it hard to imagine a day when Scotland are playing on the telly and I’d rather be off doing something else.
I now know when that day is. Sunday.
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Two Irish colloquialisms. One I love, one I hate.
For sone bizarre reason it always tickles me when Irish lassies call themselves lads. “C’mon lads! Let’s go.”.
on the contrary, when Irish repeat what you’ve just said followed by the words ........is right.
Me - “he’s a dickhead”
Irish person - “he’s a dickhead is right!”
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On 3/19/2019 at 9:20 AM, faraway saint said:
Thought I'd try again...................
The Ring?
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4 hours ago, smcc said:
Of course it's a serious question. When I was a boy the dividing line between Europe and Asia was the Ural Mountains. Kazakhstan lies a considerable distance to the east of the Urals.
So does Vladivostok. Which is in Russia. Which is in Europe. Go figure.
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14 minutes ago, DougJamie said:
I was kiddin however partly serious, I mean they are hardly European are they ? Austrialia are in the European Song Contest so I guess anything is possible these days
I can only guess as to Oaky’s point, but I’m assuming it was simply that Kazakhstan used to be part of the Soviet Union and if we were happy for it to be considered Europe then, why would we not now as an independent country. Also for the reasons I mentioned, the geography argument doesn’t really fly either.
I do know you were only half serious though.
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17 minutes ago, oaksoft said:
Is that a serious question?
Whilst you are indeed right to afford yourself a scoff at Dougie’s assertion
, given that there’s parts of Russia that are thousands of miles further east than Kazakhstan, i have always wondered one thing, but always been too lazy to find out.
How come Kazakhstan were so late to come to the UEFA party after the break up of the Soviet Union and also, why have none of the other “stans” followed suit?
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I think there’s a fair few people on this thread who (a bit like me) are still desperately clinging to the idea of what international football USED to mean to players.
Sure you’ll occasionally get throwbacks the likes Darren Fletcher who woud’ve crawled over broken glass to play for Scotland, but for me, players like him are a rarity now.
In my view, if the national team start using the rules to throw their weight around, it’ll only backfire on them and if players are put in a “push comes to shove” situation, it’ll only end one way. So i don’t actually blame the national team managers for this phenomenon. I think their hands are totally tied.
Also contrary to Cornwall’s earlier post, I think international football is becoming a bit like the Champions League (in as much that it can of course). All the big teams who are challenging don’t have the same level of issues as we do with call offs, therefore they continue to be successful as teams like Scotland continue to spiral. Sure you’ll get the odd wee blip here and there like Wales and NI qualifying for the last Euros, but they were both prominent by there failures to qualify for the last WC are their performances in the Nations League. Normal service resumed for another 30 years or more.
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25 minutes ago, Lord Pityme said:
Am i right in thinking post split we will get two home, and three away ties? Looks like we will have played 17 home and 16 away before the split.
It’s the likely event, but bizarrely it isn’t guaranteed to work that way.
ETA
I think I’m talking bollocks. It is guaranteed that you play the same number of home and away games. I think what I was thinking about is that just because you might have played a team twice at home already, it doesn’t mean you won’t be playing them at home again after the split.
Obvs knowing our luck though, that would only happen in the away sense.
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On 3/14/2019 at 11:23 PM, linwood bud said:
Since the bull changed hands it’s went down hill. What was a great pub is sadly no more. They have even started Karaoke on Saturday nights
Right Linwood, I’m gonnae come right out there and say it, but I think folk that don’t like a good wee karaoke night are killjoys.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve zero desire to go back to the mid to late 90s when it seemed to be ubiquitous in every boozer on every night of the week, but I love stumbling upon a wee karaoke night here n there and I’m still known to treat the patrons to a wee tune or two.
The standard has to be average to brilliant though (obvs I’m on the brilliant scale)). Naebody has any appetite to listen to group off pished up would be Little Mixers screeching away on the Mike, but in my experience the majority of folk that get up tend to be alright.
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1 hour ago, antrin said:
Most scots were based in Torshaven.... though I booked a turf roofed, ex whaling cabin at Nesvik (for which my wummin has not really forgiven me, yet...).
and... I dunno Toftir.... Tórsvøllur, though....?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tórsvøllur
I was at the new grun, you were at the auld grun....
If you were at the new grun, why did you call it the “Stadium in the Sky”? The new grun is in Torshavn and isnae in the sky.
Naw but hod on. Were you at the one Maloney and Gary O’Connor scored? Coz that wasnae at the new grun. That was at the Toftir one tae. Incidentally, that was the one game I was talking about that I missed in those 15 years.
Scotland havenae played at the new grun have they? Have I forgotten a game? Or are you just haverin pish?
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Aye, Scotland have never played at the new grun (i.e. the one in your link above) so who the f**k did you go and see?
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11 minutes ago, antrin said:
Other nails in my Scotland fan coffin were £40+ tickets for a FRIENDLY match v Brazil at the Arsenal stadium, where Levein(?) deployed his usual goalkeeper and 10 defenders formula.
Scots can do pessimism, but we have to at least give it a go. Boring overpriced depression... only alleviated by being there with the London Saints...
and also the SFA. I won’t subsidise those corrupt basturts anymore.
on on the other hand I enjoyed a later Torshaven match at that glorious stadium in the sky. Scotland won and CharlieAdam made his debut. We stopped at the roadside and had some beer, waving to the line of fans in cars as they wound downhill, till we were left, in the gloaming, at peace, with curlews and red necked phalaropes pecking nearby, amid the moss and heather surrounding us.
Ahem!!! Not to be pedantic, but Toftir, not Torshavn.
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8 minutes ago, Kemp said:
Mind you, Andy Robertson pulling out of the Scotland squad so he can go to the dentist does make me question the whole thing a bit...
A perfect example.
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So far all good and very familiar responses.
The only thing I disagree with is the standard of the team issue. Jeezo fellas we’re St. Mirren supporters for Christ’s sake. Just as well we don’t employ that logic to our club team or SMP would be empty every week.
Like many on here I grew up spoilt rotten through the 70s, 80s and perhaps to a slightly lesser extent the 90s as far as Scotland teams were concerned. Anyone who made it through the Berti years and is still standing proves my point. I absolutely refuse to believe we will EVER see such dark days again. If anyone is in any doubt about that, take a look at the starting line up for the 2-2 draw with the Faroes in 2002. Surely to Christ we could never ever contemplate having a team that bad again. I remember getting off the ferry from Torshavn to Toftir. When we got off, we had to scramble up a big hill (literally climb up a hill, no path or anything). By the time we made it into the ground we were already 1-0 down and it wasn’t long before we were 2 down. An utterly horrendous day, brightened only by the fact that the Buds beat Morton that day and one of the lads on the boat was a soapdodger. Think it might even have been the day of the Yardley mazy run. Someone might correct me on that. Anyway, the point is that anyone who made it through that period of utter turgid shite, isn’t about to give up due to the quality of the team.
After all, we then went on to the relative high of the Smith/McLeish era and the wonderful Euro 2008 qualifying campaign. What a roller coaster that was and although it ended in heartbreak, I don’t mind heartbreak now and again, because t least it reminds you that you’ve genuinely competed and on that occasion we competed with some of the best teams in the world.
I actually have (again relatively) high hopes for this current crop we have coming through. At least for once we appear to be going with younger players and I believe they have the makings of a decent team. We’re always missing something though. For years we were crying out for decent centre backs. Now it seems we’ve got a reasonable crop of young CBs and instead we’re crying out for any sort of striker. Even one of Kenny Miller’s previous standing would do.
No, for me it’s about all the other reasons I gave, not the standard of the team or its ability to compete. As I I’ve said, f I took that approach to football in general, I’d never have been a S. Mirren fan.
Really interesting to hear everyone’s views though.
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To me there was definitely something a bit fishy about this game being postponed.
f**ked if I know what it could be mind you?
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14 hours ago, Sonny said:
I would reckon all teams in the bottom six would want an exact number of games per team all played at the same time ie 3pm Saturday. One team having an extra game could impact on the others and would be resisted in my opinion.
That won’t happen. There will definitely be bottom 6 televised games which will need to be played at a different time. Only the very last round of matches will be played at the same time.
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Is it just me, or is anyone else as close as they’ve ever been to giving up on International fitba?
Players “retiring” while still at the top of their game.
Players being told by their clubs that they cant play on plastic pitches.
Ever increasing levels of call offs for at best dubious reasons.
Players asking not to be selected in order to “receive treatment” during the international break.
Nets being cast even further to capture players with increasingly dubious national credentials.
Young players “undecided” about what country they want to play for??
The “week of football” rather than the guaranteed Wed/Sat games.
I could go on and on.
I’ve been an absolute Scotland nut since at nearly 7 years old seeing Joe Jordan score against Czechoslovakia to qualify us for the !974 World Cup. Once I got old enough for my circumstances and my finances to allow me to travel, I spent the best part of 15 years following the team and missing only one competitive away game during that time, right up until Craig Leven scunnered me in Prague and I vowed to travel no more. Even since then though I’ve still witnessed every game on the telly and been to 2 live. To put things into context, I think the only Scotland games that I haven’t seen since Joe’s goal in !973, would’ve been the odd game back in the old days that wasn’t televised live. This is nothing to do with the quality of the team. I’ve witnessed some fantastic Scotland teams and some utterly shite ones. That’s in the DNA of any Scotland supporter over 40.
HOWEVER, I’m just about at the end of the road of caring. The Indyref result probably got the ball rolling for me and ever since then my interest has started to wane more and more. It’s hard for me to imagine a time when Scotland are playing live on the telly and I’d rather be doing something else, but it’s in the post.
Anyone else feel the same.
I’m not really after the thoughts of the handful of “West Coast Disease” punters we have on here who’ve been slagging off the national team for donkeys years. More the views of fanatics like me who have almost lost their faith. Or alternatively do you still have faith in international fitba and if so why
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On 3/16/2019 at 5:01 PM, oaksoft said:
I'd rather spend my entire life in cloud cuckoo land than spend 20 seconds in the bleak pit of depressive hell that you live in.
I can't imagine what it must be like never enjoying the sun because you are worried it might piss down later.
Jeez. It's only a game.
A superb post sir, right up until the last line.
Whilst of course in reality it is indeed just a game, I hate that expression. If you feel that way, that’s fine but I don’t think you can project it onto others. Some folk take the team/sport they love very seriously indeed and there is nothing wrong with that. Hell without it, there would be no passion in the game at all.
The seriousness with which I take the game has definitely dissipated with age, but I would never use the expression “it’s only a game”..............even tho it is!
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21 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
Just puzzled you picked out me
as I agree that barring us winning the 2H2Hs Hamilton are out of our reach, I predict roughhouse tactics & time wasting from the KO, although that's pretty much been their MO since Billy Reid took over a dozen or so years ago so no change there - the question is whether we're ready to match them in the coming two fixtures?
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For me the question on whether Brian Rice is a tactical genius or Canning's sacking focused the Hamilton players and gave them back their mojo is still open to debate although that will be academical (sic) to us if we go down.
I think they might just find out next time that we a now far better equipped to deal with a bit of roughhouse tactics, not to mention dish out some of our own.
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Just now, Isle Of Bute Saint said:
Where did all the extra time come from if I was a Dundee that's what I would want answered.
Aye. It seems they don’t even try to hide the OF bias these days.
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Oh my! I reckon that was potentially the best outcome for us in that game. Arguably (GD aside) better than them getting routinely pumped 6-0.
An absolutely sickening kick in the stanes.
Perfect.
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1 hour ago, whydowebother said:
Phenomenal
84th Minute though ?
Seriously, that’s our luck
Nonetheless astonishing comeback
Loved it
As soon as we gave away the penalty on the half way line the writing was on the wall. It was inivtable. Despite some unbelievable defence you knew that unless they made a mistake themselves it was going to happen. The real crime was we had possession with a minute and a half to go. We should have just looked after the ball, went through a few phases and then booted it out the park. Very hard to be critical though after a comeback like that.
What would have been interesting would’ve been if England had scored out next to touch straight away with a pushover from the line out. Imagine the pressure on the kicker on what would already be a really difficult kick. Farrell was already off the park, so I guess it would’ve been on Ford. He’d have been absolutely shitin himself.
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57 minutes ago, whydowebother said:
Scotland were 31-0 down against England
Now
England 31-38 Scotland
Scotland score 6 unanswered tries
Simply stunning
Biggest comeback in champ history ( so far )
84th Minute penalty advantage
England score ffs
38-38
Absolutely incredible match. I’ve never seen anything like it in 40 odd years of rugby watching memory.
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