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I'm going for 5 points - Home win against Livi and draws against Celtic and Rangers. I'm hoping that the lack of atmosphere and baying crowd noise will play into our hands

Was that not the campaign that came down to the last game against Italy at Hampden? A win put us through, a draw left us alive waiting on France to hopefully drop points in Ukraine later on. (We would have needed France to lose - they ended up drawing - but who knows if the pressure of having to avoid defeat had we drawn might have had an impact) Outrageously bad refereeing decisions cost us at least a draw - I think that's a key reason for the failure to qualify.

I know that this a money making move by the club so for those that want to do it - fair doos - but its a bit too much for me. Was happy to write off 2019/20 refund and gamble on 2020/21 season ticket(s) - but £20 for a cutout that no one will see is money for nothing. Looking forward to the fixtures tomorrow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53110391 He was great as old Bilbo but even better as Frodo in the BBC 4 Radio production of the Lord Of Rings - a staple listen of mine for years. Will be sadly missed

Yep - loads of English football coming up. If you count the Championship, and a couple of days of Play-offs, there are English games every day until the 10th July - with the last batch of Premier League tv fixtures yet to be announced! 🙂

Scottish Weekly Covid death figures just out https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-52944935 70 for last week - down by 19. Progress continues - hopefully not long until we hit 0 😞

Thanks for the pointer to that site FS - very useful I've been looking for something that gives the different English speaking options for a while - usually trial and error otherwise. Bookmarked for future reference (preview only)

I wonder if Gashauskis9 has been in contact with Ann Budge to complain that we should just be drawing a line under the season and getting on with things.

If PPV is an option now then that’s great news for everyone (assuming games stay behind closed doors). We should be able to pick our away games to watch without locking in to an away season ticket.

I don't disagree that he will be trying to work a better move I'm just hoping that other options are limited - Hearts in the Championship - irrespective of wages - is not as attractive an option as us, if he wants to get back into Scotland squad. It depends what other Premiership sides are interested in him. If it's just money he is after, he will stay at Celtic.

Yep - if we wants to get back into the Scotland squad he will want to stay in Premiership and be seen to be getting a good match day workout between the sticks. He will get both with us 🙂

Just saw that on BBC website as well. They included a video clip of the Obika goal, so I took the opportunity to watch again. 🙂 After a month of empty stadiums the noise as the goal went in nearly blew my eardrums !

So that's its done and dusted. Hearts (and the other relegated teams) can now only look for compensation. I wonder how much they could realistically get - surely it has to be taken into account that the league was forced to act due to extraordinary circumstances? The SPFL was on the hook with the broadcasters due to a specific and measurable breach of contract (i.e. supply of live games) - not sure what grounds Hearts etc have here and what they can pursue and why. As others have said, if it had been us bottom we would have been booted without a second thought - so I wonder if it was predominantly scare mongering to push through reconstruction.

Another day of zero deaths. Figures continue to move in the right direction overall. Long way it continue

Season ticket holders get to see all home league games. Everyone else gets to see the games they pay for. This is the way it has always been. The medium used to see the game -TV or in person - is irrelevant. Simple really.