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flyingscot

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  1. Cup wins do not bring a manager invincibility. Yes we won a trophy, great, but the league is the bread and butter and with relegation we'll have few chances of matching that. People looking from the outside will look at results. This season two 3-0 humpings in the Highlands and a failure to beat 10 men at home. 1 win since February (last game of the season where Killie played a few kids) and John Brown got Dundee got far closer than they should have. That is shoogly peg form. Then there is the mess of the squad and the transfer window this summer. 2 defeats from the next 2 games will do it.
  2. I loved Darley when I played it. I found it really tough going at points, but a great bit of fun. Ralston isn't bad for a local course. Love the drive down the hill at 18, towards the clubhouse and the view over Paisley from the 2nd and 5th greens. Just a pity I'm woeful at golf!
  3. Papers had them down as running coke and ketamine parties in their flat in Ibiza. Sure not the only ones taking drugs in Ibiza but easy to see how they'd fall in with the wrong crowd. Two schools of thought for me- either they ran out of cash and did this to get 'easy money' and a 'holiday'. Or they ran out of money, used someone's drugs that needed paying for and were 'offered' this way to pay the debt. This might be where the 'threatened me and my family story' was concocted from. They'd be best pleading guilty for a shorter sentence. If you've been caught in an airport with 11kg of coke not many ways of getting away with it.
  4. That's surprising. If our new place isn't suitable I'd say very few grounds in Scotland are.
  5. Fair enough, I think it would work better at St Mirren than at Firhill, as at Saints you walk out and can see from the front all the seats taken and walk along to other areas which you can't do as easily at Firhill as you come out to the middle section and have to go back into the stand to get to another section. Equally interesting they let the numbers get to that level was that pay at the gate or at the ticket booth? I was turned away from that stand at a far quieter rugby game- apparently they could only sell 85% capacity because of unreserved seating- so despite there being free seats there we were asked to go into the north stand. Like I say anyway, plenty of opportunity for people who want a season ticket with an allocated seat to have that and unreserved seating moving to W5/6/7
  6. I'm curious as to what makes our stadium unsuitable for replacement of seats with rail seats? On the other 2 I can't see those being an issue. Other grounds in the UK have standing areas (and some new ones)- mainly in rugby it has to be said, so any LA would have to answer why it is OK in one part of the country and not another. Insurance again I can't see being prohibitive a problem. I can tell you that anyone wanting unreserved seating at St Mirren games that it wasn't a great system at busy games at Firhill for rugby. Glasgow Rugby moved to allocated seating for all stands with non-seated standing areas at pitchside when they changed stadium, which was for the better in all honesty. Equally if you are in the west stand most games you can move to W6/7 which is empty and sit there with whoever.
  7. Aye it will be madness round there. I'm avoiding it where I can and heading up Hawkhead Road/Penilee Road. It was annoyingly bad on Friday got stopped at the boundary and took 6 or 7 goes of the real lights to get though never mind temporary ones. When they had the temporary ones earlier in the year I think it was 4 minutes between going red and going back to green!
  8. McGowan was OK yesterday but I'd like to see him further forward like Ibrahim for Killie. He also sold the Killie goal with a silly challenge on Ibrahim which meant he could run 40+ yards at our defence, esp with Grainger out of position having put in the cross.
  9. I'm more worried by the f***ing temporary traffic lights and 1 lane on all approaches at Paisley Road/Crookston Road on Monday. Been chaos with those roadworks, took me 15 minutes to get through the lights on Friday Morning.
  10. The only way clubs will learn and sit up and take notice is if fans stop going and they get hardly any money. County know fine well that despite it being £24, we'll still have a couple hundred fans there.
  11. Probably not, but if he did it would strengthen his argument? The fact aid passes through multiple intermediaries who all take a slice for their overheads, so much so analysts can't say for sure how much hits the ground? That's before you get onto arguments like South African needing £17million a year to help pay for the billion dollar World Cup and Rwanda getting millions a year despite the President having private jets, and them arming rebels in the Congo. We have cut back on Rwanda due to their human rights record.
  12. Surely Bongo Bongo land isn't racist it just refers to President Ali Bongo of Gabon In any case the point was made badly but the guy is right. The aid money rarely gets to the people it is intended to and often is wasted by corruption. The amount of money we're spending on it (and increasing it) is horrendous.
  13. The original superhub is god awful. I use mine in modem only mode and connect my own £20 router to it because without it the signal drops, and speed is poor. With it, all is good.
  14. It will be down to the TV companies wanting to work out the form and which teams are doing well to televise more important games for each team. They'd want to make sure that if St Mirren and Dundee United were having a winner takes all game for the final top 6 place that they weren't televising some dead rubber game of Kilmarnock v Partick Thistle.
  15. Tough game. I'd make them favourites without a doubt, they have a great record at Palmerston in the league cup, only the dead Rangers and Dundee United scraping by in recent times. Hibs lost there last year at the same stage.
  16. Lunchtime Saturday I'd imagine will be OK. Monday night will be awful! If it was up to me I'd have all games on a Friday or a Saturday. That gives 3 TV slots per weekend (Friday Night, Saturday Lunchtime and Saturday Evening). Friday nights are better than Mondays- most people can get away early on a Friday and if you want you can have a drink knowing no work is next day etc. All games can be completed by Saturday at 7pm allowing the BBC to make a nice Saturday night highlights show to showcase our game instead of the English one. Pigs can fly.
  17. I don't think that is that unusual in the SPL. Look at Inverness for example- and a lot of their boys came from the Conference (Vincent was from Kidderminster and Brill the keeper is on loan from Luton Town). You keep a small number year to year, but have to rebuild every summer.
  18. The problem is this fee no doubt has come from a minority of people who made spurious claims. See this is where zero hours contracts make sense, but to give them to the majority of staff for a retail industry is terrible practise.
  19. Is it not legislation that only applies in England?
  20. It's pretty poor going for some industries to exploit them. I can see their use in some fields- for example if you are a steward at events and thus only work when there is an event.
  21. And celebrated by mocking the Aberdeen fans fat bastard chants in the middle of the pitch.... and the referee booked him.
  22. Looking at Killie yesterday (only in highlights however) it was 2 for Aberdeen but should have been a lot, lot more. Not sure if Aberdeen are the real deal this year or if Killie had a poor game
  23. The season before in the SPL when we lost by 3 goals on the opening day might be more representative! Didn't win a game that season till the end of September!
  24. To be fair his record was poor before the cup win. Without that he'd have gone in the summer imv. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Black & White Army mobile app
  25. It is the last part they make better use of their available budget. That said I wouldn't be surprised if we have a lower budget than others in the league, but we have enough to compete. Wouldn't be surprised though if Ross County had a bigger budget. We paid off Lewis Guy's wages and Dougie Imrie, so what will that have cost us? I think the cup win papered over a lot of cracks. If we'd gone out on pens to Aberdeen in the cup would Lennon still be here?
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