Tommy Posted September 10, 2022 Report Share Posted September 10, 2022 £22 for me for a game on telly and i would have to try and convince them i am a saint supporter. Since i haven't had a season ticket for 2 years, i don't know if i am still on their data base. At £22 i won't be finding out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W6er Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 Is this definitely going ahead? Remember, it's the day before the Queen's funeral, so a minute's silence will be appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, W6er said: Is this definitely going ahead? Remember, it's the day before the Queen's funeral, so a minute's silence will be appropriate. Good luck with that given the opposition 🙄 oh & shouldn’t be a problem anyway , Tory Government protocol seems to be that anything goes the day/ night before a Royal funeral. 🍾🎉🍾 Edited September 11, 2022 by Callum Gilhooley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W6er Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 2 minutes ago, Callum Gilhooley said: Good luck with that given the opposition 🙄 Which is exactly my point! Will it be postponed? No doubt it'll be on TV, too. A minute's applause...for the Queen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 5 minutes ago, W6er said: Which is exactly my point! Will it be postponed? No doubt it'll be on TV, too. A minute's applause...for the Queen? I predict a microphone failure just before kick off - to last approximately 1 minute 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleySaint Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 Surely it is equally appropriate for this round of fixtures to be postponed too if this week was deemed to be so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted September 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 1 hour ago, W6er said: Is this definitely going ahead? Remember, it's the day before the Queen's funeral, so a minute's silence will be appropriate. I doubt if it will go ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 I see absolutely no reason why the game cannot go ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W6er Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Callum Gilhooley said: I see absolutely no reason why the game cannot go ahead. No reason besides scandalising Scottish football, you mean? Edited September 11, 2022 by W6er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 Because of the winter World Cup and midweek European games there are very few dates available for postponed matches. There are no dates before Feb for the Hearts game to be rearranged. Can see us playing Tue and Thurs at this rate if another round of fixtures is postponed and thats before possible winter bad weather. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W6er Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 https://www.67hailhail.com/news/promising-signs-that-celtic-vs-st-mirren-will-go-ahead-next-weekend/ Quote The Scottish Mail on Sunday [11/09 print edition, back page] reported this morning that it is anticipated that football will return next weekend ahead of that (...) “Clubs, for all fixtures up until the funeral, will observe a one-minute silence prior to the game and will wear black armbands as a mark of respect to Her Majesty.” That’s obviously a separate decision to what the SPFL, English Football League and Premier League may end up doing, but it’s a decent signal we’ll be returning to normality when it comes to football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stlucifer Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 53 minutes ago, W6er said: No reason besides scandalising Scottish football, you mean? It wouldn't scandalise Scottish football. It will show up one club's fanbase's views which may come across to some as crass and ignorant. I would respect the minute's silence, not through any loyalty to the monarch, but simply because others had. It costs nothing to NOT talk or shout for sixty seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 43 minutes ago, W6er said: https://www.67hailhail.com/news/promising-signs-that-celtic-vs-st-mirren-will-go-ahead-next-weekend/ That's the right decision, interesting to see the response to the probably minutes silence. I'll be watching from Ibiza, if I'm allowed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 2 hours ago, W6er said: No reason besides scandalising Scottish football, you mean? I’m not sure if I’m being whooshed here or whether youre being serious . If it’s the latter , why do you think Scottish football would be scandalised ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 4 hours ago, StanleySaint said: Surely it is equally appropriate for this round of fixtures to be postponed too if this week was deemed to be so. Why ? Golf, Cricket , Horse racing, Motorsport, Rugby League , Rugby Union & even Polo restarted this weekend after a brief period, in some cases it was less than 48 hours after the official statement . Some organisations and associations have said that they may have to postpone fixtures next weekend as a result of shortage of available policing or emergency services - not as a mark of respect . They can show respect by minutes silences … or a minutes applause . Plenty of folk clapping during the cortège through Edinburgh today and no one saw any issue with that 🤷♂️ By all means cancel just about everything on the day , but before it ? Nah , not for me …. How far before the event do you cancel things ? One day ? Two ? The whole week previous and two days after ! 🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W6er Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 50 minutes ago, Callum Gilhooley said: Why ? Golf, Cricket , Horse racing, Motorsport, Rugby League , Rugby Union & even Polo restarted this weekend after a brief period, in some cases it was less than 48 hours after the official statement . Some organisations and associations have said that they may have to postpone fixtures next weekend as a result of shortage of available policing or emergency services - not as a mark of respect . They can show respect by minutes silences … or a minutes applause . Plenty of folk clapping during the cortège through Edinburgh today and no one saw any issue with that 🤷♂️ By all means cancel just about everything on the day , but before it ? Nah , not for me …. How far before the event do you cancel things ? One day ? Two ? The whole week previous and two days after ! 🤷♂️ Because Celtic fans will not observe the minute's silence. They will boo and jeer and sing songs like "Lizzy's in a box", as did Shamrock Rovers fans. If the game's televised they will need to cut the microphones, but it will still go viral on Twitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beyond our ken Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 4 hours ago, W6er said: No reason besides scandalising Scottish football, you mean? Only Celtic would be scandalised, and they're not Scottish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beyond our ken Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 (edited) Given Celtic are in the CL group stage and maybe the Europa league then the SPFL will do all they can to avoid fixure congestion for them and barring Policing issues i think the game will go ahead as schedules The World Cup schedule has already impacted the fixtures so not much room in the calendar for rescheduled league games with a full card already wiped this weekend. Edited September 11, 2022 by beyond our ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 15 minutes ago, W6er said: Because Celtic fans will not observe the minute's silence. They will boo and jeer and sing songs like "Lizzy's in a box", as did Shamrock Rovers fans. If the game's televised they will need to cut the microphones, but it will still go viral on Twitter. So basically , it will show THEM up for what they are, knuckle dragging Neanderthal bigots . Why should that scandalise Scottish Football ? Liverpool fans regularly boo the national anthem , that doesn’t scandalise the whole of English football 🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 18 minutes ago, W6er said: Because Celtic fans will not observe the minute's silence. They will boo and jeer and sing songs like "Lizzy's in a box", as did Shamrock Rovers fans. If the game's televised they will need to cut the microphones, but it will still go viral on Twitter. So basically what you are saying is that because one club out of 42 cannot behave ( well, 2 actually 🙄) then all others should be made to miss out ? Nah , not having that 👎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted September 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 Personally, I would have gone ahead with the football programme without interruption bar, perhaps on the day of the funeral itself. As has been mentioned, other sports did function more or less as normal. Having said that I find it strange that we will go for a resumption of the matches before the funeral having already paused them. As it turns out, this is one match that I can’t attend as we have a family event the same day. It wasn’t the same day until the game was changed to the Sunday! @W6er has a point though that we will be involved in a TV game with a high probability of protest by Celtic fans ( not all of them) exacerbated perhaps by our decision to restrict them to one stand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W6er Posted September 11, 2022 Report Share Posted September 11, 2022 @Callum Gilhooley - It appears I have angered you, as you have replied twice to my post. It should only be Celtic that are scandalised, though that may depend on how other Scottish clubs' fans react. You must remember there are a lot of republicans in Scotland (mostly, but not exclusively Scottish nationalists). Hearts fans didn't observe the silence, because one idiot shouted "f**k the Queen" and that elicited a chorus of boos and, I believe, a rendition of God Save the Queen or something similar. As for Saint Mirren's game on Sunday, it shouldn't reflect badly on the club depending on how our own fans behave and also whether the reporting is fair. For example the media could cover it briefly: "There was fury today after a minute's silence for the Queen, held before the match between St. Mirren and Celtic in Paisley, was disrupted, with fans singing and jeering throughout." Some English guy Down South: "Bloody Scots! Animals the lot of them. Bloody well give them their independence and build a fifty foot wall along the border..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleySaint Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 8 hours ago, Callum Gilhooley said: Why ? Golf, Cricket , Horse racing, Motorsport, Rugby League , Rugby Union & even Polo restarted this weekend after a brief period, in some cases it was less than 48 hours after the official statement . Some organisations and associations have said that they may have to postpone fixtures next weekend as a result of shortage of available policing or emergency services - not as a mark of respect . They can show respect by minutes silences … or a minutes applause . Plenty of folk clapping during the cortège through Edinburgh today and no one saw any issue with that 🤷♂️ By all means cancel just about everything on the day , but before it ? Nah , not for me …. How far before the event do you cancel things ? One day ? Two ? The whole week previous and two days after ! 🤷♂️ My thinking was around the unfairness of not being able to play a winnable game against Hearts when other sports played on but it is ok to get humped off Celtic the day before the funeral. To my mind neither should have been postponed but the day before the funeral is I think more appropriate to drop as a mark of respect rather than an arbitary blanket postponement of the whole programme on the saturday between her death and the funeral but allow other fixtures to take place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldfellow Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 9 hours ago, Rascal said: Personally, I would have gone ahead with the football programme without interruption bar, perhaps on the day of the funeral itself. As has been mentioned, other sports did function more or less as normal. Having said that I find it strange that we will go for a resumption of the matches before the funeral having already paused them. As it turns out, this is one match that I can’t attend as we have a family event the same day. It wasn’t the same day until the game was changed to the Sunday! @W6er has a point though that we will be involved in a TV game with a high probability of protest by Celtic fans ( not all of them) exacerbated perhaps by our decision to restrict them to one stand. Agreed. There was ,in my view, no logical reason to postpone last weekends games . Given that the games actually were postponed it would be illogical for next weekends games to go ahead much as I want them to. No games on the day of the funeral would have been perfectly respectful and adequate . SFA and SPFL have screwed up and they probably know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Gilhooley Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 9 hours ago, W6er said: @Callum Gilhooley - It appears I have angered you, as you have replied twice to my post. It should only be Celtic that are scandalised, though that may depend on how other Scottish clubs' fans react. You must remember there are a lot of republicans in Scotland (mostly, but not exclusively Scottish nationalists). Hearts fans didn't observe the silence, because one idiot shouted "f**k the Queen" and that elicited a chorus of boos and, I believe, a rendition of God Save the Queen or something similar. As for Saint Mirren's game on Sunday, it shouldn't reflect badly on the club depending on how our own fans behave and also whether the reporting is fair. For example the media could cover it briefly: "There was fury today after a minute's silence for the Queen, held before the match between St. Mirren and Celtic in Paisley, was disrupted, with fans singing and jeering throughout." Some English guy Down South: "Bloody Scots! Animals the lot of them. Bloody well give them their independence and build a fifty foot wall along the border..." Angered me ? Really ? 😂. Not at all, it’s simply called a discussion 🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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