tom_widdows

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32388618

Seeing snide comments about hampden being half empty etc for the final. 1997 scottish cup final had a crowd of just under 49000 so I don't see any reason why Caley and Falkirk cannot muster at least 40k for this final particulalry given its a saturday 3pm kick off

Star Wars is probably more historically accurate than Braveheart

They will care if their employer cares ie that extra £100k for finishing 8th instead of 9th means the club doesnt have to slash the playing squad or wage bill the following season or even allows them to actually get a win bonus once in a while The prize money from the SPL is irrelevant to the likes of celtic as they make their money from sponsorship, Champions league football, and of course having a large gullible fanbase (both loyal and gloryhunting) who like to throw cash across the celtic shop tills. If there is no incentive to finish as high as you can other than 'ho look as us we're better than you' this year then I hate to think how many meaningless games there would be and how much worse the quality could get. For every player who gives his all just for the love of the game and to hell with the money there are 2 or 3 Bobo Baldes (9 years at £30k a week but only played 161 games and happily sat on the bench for 3-4 of those years doing nothing)

Lets change it.....next season

FUCKING BOOM!!!

aaaargh its the hope thats the killer!!!

Who the fuck is the sky co commentator? The way he is bitching a moaning about craig Gordan's red card is pathetic.

Not offensive but it is a faux pas when you meet someone and you have to put down the teapot to shake their hand or doth your cap.

113 years and counting and Allan Stubbs spits the Dummy What price a Caley vs Falkirk Final? Meanwhile down south Bebo perhaps just stuck a dagger into Bournemouth's bid to win the Championship and perhaps even automatic promotion.

Thats the nature of Playoffs Go around the world and in some cases the team which finishes 8th is crowned champions. Down south the team that finishes 6th can get into the premiership ahead of the teams in 3rd 4th & 5th Go down to league 2 and the team that finishes 7th can get promoted. I'd personally prefer that 2 were relegated from the scottish premier and the playoffs were between the teams in 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th in the 1st with the final played at a neutral venue (Mcdiarmed park, Easter Road or one of the other standard non-glasgow semi final grounds).

Think the logic is 'why bother spending money we don't need to on a stadium which is 'supposedly' being replaced in the next 5-50 years?

Clyde play in Cumbernauld (Population 50,000) but are rumoured to be shifting to East Kilbride (population 75000) Greenock - 25miles from Glasgow with population of 44000) Paisley - 12 miles outside of Glasgow with population of 75000 Dumbarton - 15miles outside of Glasgow with population 20,000 You start including these teams then you may as well rope in Motherwell, Hamilton, Airdrie, Kilmarnock etc as they are all reasonably close to Glasgow with quite large populations. Population doesn't breed fanbases unfortunately and given the BBC website now gives top billing to Spanish Football I wouldnt be surprised to see scottish (and indeed UK) kids forgetting home nations teams and supporting Real Madrid or Barcelona. I believe there was an attempt to amalgamate Brechin, Montrose, Forfar & Arbroath a few years ago and it did not go down well. That would in theory have created a team with a 4 town catchment population of 56000 but things do not work that way. Dingwall has a population less than 6000 but it has a premier league team. if I went back in time and met my 12 year old self and told him that the local Highland league team who send their coaches out to the rural schools would be playing Aberdeen for actual league points he'd laugh in my face. I occasionally think the likes of Albion Rovers should merge with neighbouring teams and co but then again why should they? These are established historical clubs who live within their means and have small loyal fanbases. The only time I can recall a really stupid decision regarding a new team in scotland was after the demise of 3rd Lanark. They had the choice of an Inverness team or a 3rd Edinburgh team to use the newly constructed meadowbank. Note that 40 years later an Inverness team sits 3rd yet the 3rd Edinburgh team has been through numerous administrations and is on the brink of relegation to the 3rd tier. Of course there is always Gretna,,,,,

operation 'helping hand' begins http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32325215

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-stafford-heginbotham-martin-fletcher?CMP=fb_ot Think I might be looking into waterstones for this one For anyone not old enough to remember it. They use this video in Health & Safety training courses to show how quick fire can spread

I see they still haven't worked out when to schedule the missing pre-split Caley vs Arabs match

Anyone else remember the last time they clinched the title at Pittodrie?

Win/Draw against yon arabs next week and 3rd place is guaranteed.

86 85 84 83 82 81 80 - MBT 79 - 78 - Tyrant 77 - rocket_scientist 76 - Nellie The Don 75 - Dandy 74 - BigAl 73 - BobbyBiscuit 72 - Edinburghdon 71 - Mizer 70 - Manc 69 - CtS 68

The joke is that football is an Olympic sport. Far as I remember the Olympics was meant to be for 'amateur' athletes but that's gone out of the window with mainstream sports such as Football, Rugby, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey, Tennis etc being included either currently or in the past. Only mainstream sport that I can think of that still keeps the amateur status for the games is Boxing. They usually wait until they win a medal before selling out to the likes of Don King (is he still alive?)

Sevco - Livingston (A), Dumbarton (A), Falkirk (H), Hearts (A) Hibs - Livingston (A), Alloa (H), Falkirk (A) Qos - Alloa (A), Dumbarton (H), Livingston (A) Livy and Alloa both fighting to avoid relegation so be interesting to see how it all plays out.

I seem to recall saving all my criticism of the defence for a certain Derek Whyte.

well top 6 sorted 2 more dons wins to guarantee 3rd. 3 more to guarantee 2nd Perhaps Kille are slowly being dragged back to the relegation playoffs? Down south the Championship looks a bit tasty top 4 teams separated by just 2 points with 4 games left