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Quite a good article i thought, a change from the usual doom and gloom merchants. Spiers may not be everyones cup of tea but i think he's one of the best football writers we have.
Saddest thought of the day
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A Hearts Newcunto may have to apply to the Lowland League along with others.
Although if the present Hearts are liquidated, i cannae see a new Club forming at all.
End of.
Yip
with the ground gone and all the playing assets liquidated then there is nothing to save.
As i said before, it was always going to be so. the bidders were looking to cash in on the stadium and hoped UB liquidators would be soft enough to go with a pittance bid
doomed from even before Vlad's arrival
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I refuse to fight someone with learning difficulties.
You should try using your fists, it works much better.
still, nice to see you've overcome the learning disabilities to the extent of being able to type a few words
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The very reason DL wanted this kept under wraps another SPL clubs keen on him,with this outed he may not even play tonight as another club could jump in ahead of us and take a chance on him. Ross Couny and Aberdeen to mention two.
He has impressed in training but there are some concerns over his fitness due to injury which DL wanted to asses,we may not get that chance now this is common knowledge.
Will be another triialists tonight plus something bubbling away on a well kent face around the club.
All very plausible,
except that DG is a very well known player, who will have an agent who will be talking to the press and other clubs anyway. Any journos at the game will recognise him immediately, all cover will be blown by the morning and his agent wont let him sign any deal before then anyway.
Silly wee post
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My preferrence for a name would be Jesus Wolverine
Why the 4 hour delay between birth and announcement? Did they need that time to saw off the horns and replace the goat's hooves with human feet?
Not suggesting that the above is true, just asking the question
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Colin, I never knew you but still sad to see a good buddie go
Enjoy your rest
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I seem to remember a game right before the start of the paisley fair in 1980, a horrendous rainy night if i recall correctly.
Have i got this confused with the Tampa game?
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f**king hell. Oaksoft, Pozbaird and I agree. There's a first.
I actually agree with absolutely everything Oaksoft has said on this thread - including the comment about kids with their iPhones 5. Why would parents do that? Letting their kids wander around with nearly £600 worth of equipment in their pocket is hardly common sense. My kids have had mobile phones since they were pretty young but they've always been less expensive, less popular brands. It's worked in my favour too as both have managed to leave one of their mobile phones on the bus home from school on one occasion each. In both instances both kids shat themselves before coming home to tell me they'd lost it and in both instances their phones were handed in and returned to us - would that have happened if it had been the latest "cool" expensive phone? I seriously doubt it.
One parent I know received a phone call from her shaken up 15 year old daughter from T In The Park yesterday. Apparently she woke up to some drunk lad sleeping in her tent between her and her pal. It appears that nothing happened and the lad was genuinely apologetic for going to the wrong tent, but you have to ask a question about why parents let their kids go to these things never mind pay for them to go. You can trust your own kids all you like but putting them in an environment where everyone around them is pished or doped up is never going to be sensible no matter the right of passage.
I was truly shocked last week when leaving the bus at Buchanan St on Thursday & Friday to see how young most of the T in the park-ers appeared to me, mostly between 14-18 years old. Dozens being dropped off by mummy or daddy to head off in a group of their peers without supervision.
When you think of the scumbags who gravitate towards these kids, it makes my skin crawl-before rock ness last year there was a heavy police presence around the bus station and you could see the pushers and runners heading for the hills and phoning/signalling each other to say the game was a bogey. No such visible presence this year
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Whicker's shows were great, Loius Theroux derived a great deal from his style
I also love Monty Python's whicker island skit, must be on youtube somewhere
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"Tell Sid"? Oh yes that one of the most successful privatisations of all time. British Gas' monopoly was smashed, competition and efficiency increased, and the tax payer hasn't been saddled with the need to subsidise the industry for over 20 years.
But the taxpayer subsidises the gas and electricity networks quite substantially
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If it turns a profit as a privatised business then it gets taxed on its profit and the state will skim it for wedge anyway. Better long term bet that throwing money down the drain at it and also having taxpayers forking out for its ridiculous pension promises.
What's wrong with taking the whole profit for the taxpayer as opposed to a percentage of the profit as a tax?
The tories privatised BNOC for a quick buck and a share of profits, but it was wound up by the buyers. Norway kept their Statoil in state ownership and now have a massive hedge against the future when the oil runs out. We only have comparative pennies to show for the so-called free-market economy model.
This is only intended to make a few tory backers a quick buck, in exchange for cash backing of the tory party and a few seats on a few boards
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Just wondering what it takes for our club to be bought ? Is it administration ? Because by the looks off it only clubs in administration are having buyers and it confuses me why anyone looking too buy a club are wanting too take on a debt ridden club.
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They can settle the debt for a pittance and gain ownership of the assets, which is where the money is to be made
20000 capacity out-of town stadium, price tag of 20 million?
I wont hold my breath for that
Bye-bye herts-you had it coming
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This guy has all of you hooked-please try and resist
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Liked his little piece in Gangs of New York as well
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Seems Longmuir is dead......"Long live the king ...Long live Neil Armageddon Doncaster"..... "Liquidation happens every week in the EPL....No big deal"
Should read "Good Old Neil Armageddon Doncaster"
Gonad should do for short
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was afraid this was the title for a "home" movie project
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sutherland brothers
sutherland brothers band
sutherland brothers and quiver
james & bobby purify
spencer davis group
elvis costello and the attractions
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The big bonfire has been dismantled. The council paid for it and supplied fork lift trucks. They are getting another site and I wouldn't be surprised if the council helps somehow. It's cheaper than upsetting the tossers and keeps the peace. The pallet thing was always a sore point over here. Most businesses found out the hard way it was better to give the wee boys a few or the 'big' boys would come calling. Old tyres ditto. The authorities have tried to get them stopped for environmental reasons among other things but it's their tradition, you see. Their culture. Intimidation lives, on both sides of the great divide.
tradition? you mean they were burning Prellis since the 15th century
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Sounds a bit like some establishments in Paisley.
I'd love to go somewhere with a bear garden
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Must say I have to congratulate you for this gem, I was considering posting it myself. Probably best know for their contribution to The Big Lebowski soundtrack these days you certainly make a strong candidate for the being site's resident Dude!
Went to see Walter Trout a few years ago on one of the nights RW was playing with Take That - the train up was rowdy with lots of 30something laydeez knocking back bottles of Bacardi & alcopops etc.
- rowdiest train I've been on in years.On the way back saw many of the same laydeez who by this time were generally looking in a post-coital state, so the boys must've been on form that night.
Having closely observed the polyester-clad hordes (yes, HORDES) on several occasions, that statement makes me feel more than a little queasy.
their sopping wet leggings would be the reason for the sticky pavements and distinctive aroma that pervaded the Mount Florida area for several days afterwards, until now i thought the chippy had been on fire.
It is said that a stadium full of take-that fans are dressed in so many man-made materials that their jeggings could generate a static charge big enough to bring down a jumbo-jet
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Goodbye Mrs McKenzie
That would be a Ms
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Just looked at the photos, there must be a lot of idle fork lift trucks in the area as these morons have cornered the wooden pallet market.
And anyone needing a spare tyre may have a bit of a wait, the sound of cars driving around on wheel rims must be deafening
The answer is simple, construct one huge F-off bonfire and test the theory that shite doesnt burn
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I bet there not as big as the ones they had down feegie when i was a kid,
some folk called them bonfires, others called them 3 storey derelict buildings,
Others called it central heating
Why Are We Getting It So Wrong?
in General St. Mirren Discussion
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I just had a wiki look at Elfsborg's stadium, where Celtic will be playing next week. it is right next door to the old stadium where St Mirren played their first ever European tie in September 1980. How things have changed.
In 1980, Their stadium, although tidy, was owned by the local council and doubled as an athletics arena, it still stands as part of the same complex. It held far fewer than Love st and lacked the atmosphere of our old ground. they now have a grand-looking 14500 capacity stadium with state of the art synthetic turf and 2 big stands
The elfsborg side couldn't live with our quality back then, their players were mostly part time and lacked fitness (though not heart). These days, they are champions-league and Europa league regulars (at least in qualifying), where we havent featured for decades. our lovely old ground had to be raised to pay for a new one, they kept theirs and with it a link to their history. Elfsborg also seem to regularly enjoy 10,000 plus crowds and have given themselves the luxury of extra capacity for big games, we have gone for the option of a stadium that disadvantages home fans when a large away support comes along. They seem to hold a pretty prominent position in Sweden and regularly usurp the bigger teams from Stockholm and Gothenburg. the opposite is true for us, although the cup win may signal a return to us being cup contenders for the near future. Apparently, they also make a decent skin from the earnings from the stadium, I understand that we struggle to make any money outside of match days.
Back then, we scoffed at scandinavian teams, now we envy them. i remember talking to a guy who toured in a youth team in denmark in the 70s, he told us that the facilities were outstanding. We all laughed, after all, what had the danes done for soccer up until that point?
i think these things show how we have deteriorated in so many ways over the last 30 years or so in Scotland. How can we as a club and scotland as a nation have continued to let football decline so far in the last 3 decades?