Dirty Sanchez

I had to laugh at Willie Collum moaning about being typecast. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36694913 I wonder if he's well rounded enough to appreciate that the below is equally applicable to the numerous indisputable cases of Jim Goodwin being booked for f*ck all due to his pantomime villain status: Some pundits, media and even managers have been pointed in their criticism of him. "Sometimes I've been treated harshly," he says. "At times, I'm losing before I even blow the first whistle and that's unfair. "What disappoints me at times is when people make it personal, or you feel it's a witch hunt and people are constantly talking about you. I would rather people focus on the positives."

Tom Hendrie's team came from behind to draw 1-1 in the opening game of 99/00, then went away to Raith Rovers in the second game.....

I've not seen a great deal to be encouraged by in any of the games so far. I can't see why a squad with all that attacking talent can't attack convincingly. That said, I literally (pointed and) laughed myself hoarse at the equaliser. How inept do we need to be?

Additionally, if we were to get the 4-0 margin, we could potentially finish exactly level on points, goal difference and goals scored with Dunfermline (1-0 win) and/or Kilmarnock (3-0 win), which would involve a round-robin paper scissors stone play-off.

I don't see any mention of head-to-heads counting as a tie-breaker. If not, 9 points could see us in 3rd place.

This is the peak season for airport parking. There will be many more spaces come the winter.

I'm trying to think of how many free kicks he actually scored. In addition to the above, I can think of three others at the moment. At home to Hearts and away to Motherwell and Dunfermline (where he also missed a penalty). He also scored the winner at Easter Road with an overhead kick. The first sighting of him was in a pre-season win over Queens Park at Lesser Hampden, where he scored both goals. I remember the buzz about him that night. We knew we were on to something, and that Paul Chalmers' days were numbered. Definitely a guy to put bums on seats, or indeed shoes on concrete, as it was then.

I've gambled on TNS plenty of times over the past few seasons (due to the fact that they almost always win). I finally watched one of their games on S4C and was pretty shocked at how mince the standard was.

Note the date of the thread. Around the time we won the League Cup. I came across it, if you will, when I was snooping around that forum reading the Hibs reaction to Hearts losing the final to us at the time. However, I had to do a bit of a dodgy Google to find it again, of course. That forum was absolute comedy gold in the wake of that final. There was all sorts of proper laugh out loud stuff on there. A Photoshop contest then broke out when someone managed to get a (genuine) picture of the open topped bus that Hearts had organised to parade the trophy in.

The installation of golden showers in the home dressing room is surely going to eat into his transfer budget? http://www.hibeesbounce.com/showthread.php?103378-Gary-bend-over-Locke

"The referee had to be changed because Brian McGinley was going his holidays! He did the first match and should have awarded us a penalty when McCloy clattered Colin Campbell. That was outrageous". Hmmm. Sounds familiar.

The Hearts team of that era, which Alex McDonald created in his image, were vermin to say the least, and must be as despicable a bunch of thugs and villains assembled in one place at any time since I've been watching football. Then he left and did the same at Airdrie, who he also turned into pond life. If any of these dicks are still upset, it's great, and even more so that we've sent them packing in two semi-finals and a final since then. That arsehole Sandy Clark won't have been as keen to examine the surroundings to the shenanigans behind his 120th minute 'goal' in the semi-final replay at Hampden a couple of years earlier.

I think it was in increments, i.e. a certain amount after a certain number of appearances, then more cash after the next trigger was reached, etc. The 20 game figure is the one that would have maxed out the deal and given us £2.2 million, which would have been washers to Blackburn anyway. I also just had a look in the '125 years' book, and they quote the 20 game figure, but don't mention the increments. I think the guys only ever played in the odd cup game, which didn't count.

To collect all the money for both players they had to play 20 first team games each. The way it panned out, there was as much chance of me playing 20 games for Blackburn. There was guestbook poster at the time who watched O'Brien playing for Blackburn's second string, and said that he'd love to report that Bobo was outstanding,and on the verge of a first team call up, but in fact he was mince.

Bobo and MacNamee deal was £600k up front, and would have been well over £2million if they'd both triggered the add-ons.

I wonder if that's Michel Platini you're thinking about. There was that guy on the Love Street DVD gushing as he vividly reminisced about watching Platini in a game that he never even played in.

Johan Cruyff and I go back a long way. I'll never forget our last (only) conversation, outside Love Street when he was signing my programme. Johan Cruyff: Your page is wet. Me (turning page) : Can you sign there, then? Johan Cruyff: No

I wonder if the 'Union Bears 2007' can plaster as many of their union flag stickers over our seats as they have done to Livingstons.

Before they started officially giving them the Love Street end, it had already been happening unofficially for years anyway. The best one was when it started chucking down with rain, and there was tannoy announcement asking us to move along a bit to let the Celtic fans from the Love Street end into the Northbank.

That no11 really is a f**king dick. Rattled Stewart deliberately with the ball while he was down Fanny.

I remember in the Hendrie title season they charged us £3 more than the home fans who were sitting in the same stand.

It's just laughable when you see stuff like that. Wee Man Syndrome is not a pretty affliction, and Baird reeks of it too much to prevent embarrassing himself. A feisty attitude can't overcome the Laws of Motion when you are being swatted like a fly.

And I remember Nigel Spackman jogging over and tripping Charnley up, in front of the dugouts, when the ball must have been about 50 yards away. I was incognito in the west enclosure.

Typical that this one was televised. The **** had a rancid record at Love Street in those days, and this was 1 of only 2 wins they had in 15 league visits they had to us. Loads of great wins over them never made the telly.

In hindsight, as pish as it was to lose in that manner, in the second half we actually looked pretty good for the first time in ages, and that's surely something we can build upon.