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aberdeen will be creaming their sporrans
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accies have taken one of our cast offs in imrie
it's the kind of world we all live in
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12 of the 20 points we need would have to come from remaining gamesagainst dundee, county and motherwell and I maight be right in guessing we play each of these twice. that would see us OK, i think
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beat me to the draw
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No shots on target is very disappointing for the fans who braved the elements, no idea who could come in and turn things around. We should have been buzzing after last week but instead it looks like the boys have downed tools again after one win
it's the same paperweight squad that craig formed that has got us in this mess and will see us stay in it-new players are a bigger requirement than a new manager
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glad i missed this one, i thought we would have kept it tighter than this
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0-0 will do me today, united have put last week's result in perspective for me. I always said the wheels would come off at dens and they are unravelling big style-killie are a different proposition with a proven match-winner in their ranks
just seen too many false dawns to get too carried away with recent developments
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this line up is dictated more by who is fit and suspension free rather than any philosophy, i think.
Killie will be far more tenacious than dundee were
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It's a tracic dilemma.
I voted SNP at the last local elections despite, as you may know, believing independence is not best for the long term future of Scotland.
I respect and rate many SNP politicians... but since the referendum it has become clear that rather than concentrating on running our country, they will simply take my vote as a mandate to push for independence... despite their own pledge that it was a "once in a generation " thing.
If I could trust them to concentrate on running the country, making the best of what we have and working towards a more devolved federal union for the benefit of 45 million people rather than 5 million, I would vote for them without hesitation.
Sadly, their reaction since the referendum when two thirds of eligible voters chose NOT to support them, has been like a scene from the Life Of Brian.
Splitters!
i think you are discounting the infrastructure projects that the SNP delivered after decades of promise but no delivery from all other political parties
or forgetting dicko's rants, the thousands of operations and maintenance jobs in renewable energy
or brokering the saving of the ferguson shipyard
or maybe you just want to lie about the SNP
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And now another central plank of SNP policy has been found to be anything but good for the environment as the Whiteless Wind Farm is found to have contaminated the public water supply with cancer causing chemicals, giving Scotland our first, very own version of the Hinkley Pacific Gas and Electric case that first brought Erin Brockovich to national prominence. The SNP are particularly culpable given that they have prevented local authorities from imposing bans on wind farms that caused them concern. This has been an hugely inefficient and expensive waste of public money and it has seen Scotland cut down or remove over 1,000,000 of natures natural carbon capture apparatus - trees - to erect wind turbines with parts that have been shipped to Scotland from as far away as China.
Source, please?
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It's only soulless because of what's being served up on the pitch. There have been matches such as the 4-0 vs Celtic and the 5-4 vs Ross County along with a few others where the atmosphere was absolutely electric. Poor football under Gus (along with approximately 50 injury time losses), followed by long winless runs under both Danny and Tommy have been the cause of the lack of atmosphere, not the stadium itself.
I'd disagree. many fans wanted a four-stand arrangement without realising that the atmoshere is generated by people being enclosed. iwould sugest that the club invest in some big plastic advertising banners to drape across the north and south stands and only open them if we sell enough tickets in advance to make it worthwhile
more than once, especially in the early days of the McPherson promotion season, i saw the crowd lift the team from a tepid performance to get things moving again
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big talent
loved the story of his mum going to wash his jeans while he slept things off and found a royalty cheque for 100k in the back pocket
at least he lived it
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sky were giving it greater prominence than bbc 24, who seemed to think that northern ireland is a bigger story today
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I don't think anyone would argue that a perennially unsuccessful club would see falling crowds. But fan ownership wouldn't guarantee such a state of affairs any more than it would guarantee success. What it would guarantee though, is that decisions made would always be made in the best interests of the club.
I wish i could believe the last statement. But anyone who has ever been in any sort of a club or on a committee will tell you that self interest, greed, cronyism, etc rear their heads in all sorts of places.
the place would inevitably be run by a clique who are more interested in the power or the money than they are in the welfare of the club. If not that, then there would be constant internicine war being waged between factions and half-baked experts popping up to give us the benefit of their "expertise" in the playing side
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Takes longer than 15 mins to get from Dunfermline town centre to Edinburgh City centre though ;-)
still only half an hour
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will post on the FB page.
the Playhouse in Perth is doing great trade using a mix of mainstream, art-house and niche presentations on the screen
they have an I-max, which is a must
rather than waste money on a rerstaurant, doing a meal & movie deal with local eateries would work more cost-effectively (i think)
theatre wise, if the alhambra in Dunfermline can do so well, then why not a paisely theatre. dunfermline is very connected to edinburgh yet manages to sustain the carnegie and the alhambra very well
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Sir Ian Wood did an interview a day or two past on Russia Today. He explained why price would recover shortly and it wasn't a longterm issue. Hasn't made it onto bbc yet?
all the BBC managed on Friday was to interview a guy delivering lunches at the harbour.
Nice guy, seemed a decent business man
possibly the most unintendedly laughable interview i have seen
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So they aren't critical then?
Games before the split could certainly be critical, if around Feb/March time we are 10 points adrift we'd certainly be in a critical state.
Of course at the moment, we are one win from safety and we aren't even half way to the split yet. It's not a great situation, but it certainly isn't critical, it isn't even nearly critical.
if any of the bottom 3 lose their next 4 games then i'm afraid they have little chance of staying up.
bad news for us is that the board will take a short winning/not losing run as a cue that things are on the up and will think again about new signings
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£400k with a cut of any future transfer fee , would be not bad business
looking back, we should have taken it
another bad decision compounded by the Craig debacle
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McGinn's probably at the stage where slogging away at the wrong end of the league in a struggling side isn't the greatest thing for his career. Wouldn't begrudge him a move but would rather it wasn't to the Celtic reserves.
i dont think the current position is in the interests of any of our players
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Some of us like crumbling things.....mind you, no parking?? How do they get by? That's it, off to the out of town shopping centre it is!
Ayr United games are for getting the train, having a fish supper and getting pished. They are staying at Somerset and let that be an end of the matter.
well as long as you have decided, eh
did you tell them?
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Scotland does not need any more out of town retail parks or entertainment complexes. Or identikit stadiums for that matter.
It might selfish of me but I hope Ayr don't leave Somerset Park, an away day there would not be the same going to a stadium that looks like our own soulless dump.
as opposed to the crumbling dump, sans parking, that they currently inhabit?
they need a new ground, that is for sure, and a new one need not be soul-less. all it really needs is to harness the noise of whatever size crowd is there and keep the fans close to and a little above the pitch
in my experience, Falkirk's stadium has bags more atmosphere than ours and the raised stands at NDP would work really well in a completed stadium
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Piazza flattening sounds good to me- a garden city development along the banks of the cart from the Hammils to the bridge behind the sneddon and the high street reverted to good quality social and private housing with certain decrepit buildings removed and replaced with open space and street art/furniture.
the UK high street aint coming back soon and the only way it will ever happen is if city centres become a bit more picturesque and attractive
we do desperately need a major employer to move their headquarters to a location near the town centre to drive some momentum. they really should have done something to try and snare scottish power who are building in a pointless location next to the M8. a new development on Laighcartside would have been ideal for them
somebody somewhere is planning a new city headquarters building just now, we only need to get one of them to Paisley and we are rocking
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Anthony crola suffers a fractured skull whilst rying to apprehend burglars
real shame if it affects his career in the way that i fear it will
Ictfc V Smfc Spfl Premiership Sunday 4Th January 2015
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have to say this is more or less what i expected from this tie
we have a long road to come back and need new blood in the squad, poor permanent signings are one thing but the poor loan signings have hit us harder as we could have expected some quality there.
it's also time to rest some of the kids before the heart is knocked out of them
our games against the rest of the bottom 4-5 clubs are our battlefield now