tom_widdows

Reserve league supposedly being brought back this season

Can't help thinking of a certain Kiwi who turned up and scored the occasional 'spectacular' goal then went missing for mutliple games

wrong thread lencarl

A site is only worth what a developer is willing to pay for it. Mount Florida is OK as is Kings Park but Toryglen is not (or at least wasn't last time I checked). Pittodrie being valued at 15million is based on what developers reckon they could get from converting the site to housing. Houses in Aberdeen cost more than most parts of the south side of Glasgow If the plan is to scrap hampden and spend money on building a new national stadium then as I see it the only way to make it stack up financially would be to demolish Murrayfield too therby emulating the Irish & Welsh and having just one main stadium for all sports (I am discounting Croke park as it is reserved for the Gaelic games). Spend extra on having a running track with retractable seating as well as a retractable roof and yer onto a winner. However moving it outside of the Central belt would not make business sense. A stadium like that would need other sources of income so moving it away from the majority of the populaiton (central belt), the busiest railway stations from (Edinburgh Waverley & Glasgow Central), and the two businest Airports (guess which ones they are) makes it less attractive for concerts etc. Believe I saw an article which said Queens Park would be hit with a bill of about £10million if the SFA left hampden as part of the redevelopment funding had conditions relating to it being used for Internationals and cup finals. It true the discussion of where Queen's park move to could be irrelevant. Personally I am for Murrayfield mainly because it is the largest stadium and to my knowledge has not had 'ends' claimed by any team. I do however disagree on the comments about how good the transport links etc are for it. Hampden at least has multiple roads away from it, is less than 1mile from the M74, and has several surrounding railway stations on the send largest suburban rail network in the UK. Cops can split different groups of supporters much easier Murrayfield was pretty chaotic IMO after the dons game last september. I actually walked about halfway back to Haymarket station down the middle of the A8 which had not been closed to traffic yet was gridlocked because of the fans dispersing. Edinburgh's bus network is very good but does rely on the roads not being blocked by thousands of fans walking back to town. International rugby crowds don't tend to have the 'angry' element which is all too common in club (and international) football crowds so would be interested to see how the cops dealt with that.

As the news reports a Polar Bear being shot on Svalbard because it attacked a cruise ship guard I have to say the biggest annoyance on the planet for me is Humans You want to go walking amongst polar bears in their natural habitat then sign the waiver that says you accept the largest land based predator (and one of only a handful of creatures who consider humans as food) may kill you. But no the fat lazy irritating cruise ship community are now expanding their global pestilance to the more extreme points of the planet and expect it to be Disneyland. Other examples include recent calls from Western Australian govenment officals to cull sharks so humans can 'enjoy the beaches in safety' Farmers and the UK government culling badgers because they allegedly spread Bovine TB. Complaints from people in coastal towns about Seagulls (Tam Cowan on off the ball supposedly joking about hitting them with Tennis racquets and sounding 'hurt' when someone texted in to point out they are a protected species) And of course one of the supposed 'acceptable' legacies of Victorian times - Zoos. Edinburgh Zoo now openly admit they and other zoos essentially 'farm' certain animals which are not endangered (such as the Wallabies) so they can maintain a healthy captive population. Why the fuck Edinburgh Zoo needs to have a chimpanze research lab is a mystery to me.

Will you ask the same question at next year's Women's football world cup? (2015 world cup - 24 Teams but only 7 Female Managers/ Coaches)

League Cup 2nd round qualifiers Dons Sevco Tic Hibs ----------------------- Ross County St Johnstone Dunfermline Ayr United Livingston Motherwell Kilmarnock St Mirren Queen of the South Dundee ------------------------ 2 spots left going to 2 of the following Inverness Caley Hearts Partick Thistle Hearts have to beat Caley or they are OOT!

Motherwell facing elimination from the league cup. 1-0 Clyde at the moment. Stays the same they are out. equalise and they have to hope Caley beat hearts

I don't understand using Motherwell as an example of good recruitment. The Don's have finished 2nd for the last 4 seasons whereas Motherwell since they 'stole' 2nd place 5 seasons ago have only made the top 6 once and escaped relegation via the playoffs. The fact they reached both cup finals least season seems to have people thinking they were something special and forgetting they finished 7th. They have also had 6 Managers in those 5 seasons too. Chris Cadden and Louis Moult are the only 2 I can think off the top of my head that seemed to be attracting real interest but they still played in a team that in recent years has been bottom 6.

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His positioning was a bit criminal at times but give him a chance and I'm sure he will get that Killer touch back

Let it go

Disappointing to concede but at least this rules out the 'park the bus for 90mins' tactic in the second leg Just hope its a repeat of last seasons trip to serbia and not the previous seasons trip to Slovenia

Away goal for Rosenborg!

The question of them being 'good' or not is irrelevant if the other SPL teams (especially the Dons) continue their inferiority complexes and set up their teams to simply defend and hope for a break against them. SEVCO have had relatively poor teams since they were set up and yet just because they carry the name 'rangers' the other teams & managers seem to panic.

Arabs knocked out of the League cup. Now Thompson Jr has sold his shares I get the impression they really are in the shit

Hotel Artemis Enjoyable and also short (only 94mins). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ExcW_ia0Q

I'm not sure what the atmosphere in the Sunday Central League is but I have just 'retired' from playing 5s at Powerleague Townhead (after 10.5 years) because I am no longer prepared to put up with bullshit that seems to come with playing the game competitively now. I know 5s is completely different to 11s but after a relatively calm few years (thanks to some rule changes that got rid of alot of thugs) they bad old days came back with a vengeance and the attitude of both the opposition and the officials ruined it for me. I didnt mind the occasional 'handbags', late challenges or (as the keeper) someone 'accidentally' sliding into the box to try and intimidate me but recently it went back to 'punches, headbutts, spitting ie the stuff that gets you charged with assault on the street, for which the referees and centre management did nothing. On top of that it was turning up only to discover your opposition couldn't be bothered to show their faces so you ended up playing about 5 competitive games out of a possible 12 and lost the league because another team were given more 10-0 victories than you (10-0 awarded if the opposition doesnt show up). The price of games went up but the service went down We used to tap into the influx of highland and western isles students every year but recently if we did get anyone they quit after a couple of matches where they ended up with black eyes, or hepatitis. I'm sorry to hear your 11s team has gone and I reckon my old 5s team will soon follow (not because I was the greatest keeper but because I was one of only 3 who would turn up every week). I think I read that kids theses days spend an average of 7 hours a week outside (including weekends) so I suspect as the current crop of 'sporty' people get older, the number of sports clubs will shrink dramatically

Because the majority of people in this small country will declare their allegiance to one of the Glasgow two. Its the same principal as to why the mainstream UK media is angled towards England - 55million englaish vs 8million scots, taffs & Nirn-sish. The media talks/ writes about what their 'majority' audience are interested in so they can sell their papers/ get their viewers/ website hits. Its the same logic as to why the Evening Express sports reporter has a bizarre fetish for Aberdeen Football club or the Edinburgh Evening news hacks seems strangely keen on Neil & Avril's showbiz elevens

Arabs on the brink of being knocked out of the League cup They now have to hope Arbroath & Alloa fail to pick up any points in their last games.

Seems people are lining up to touch whatever nerve Gary Neville has over this Rooney Transfer First it was Accrington Stanleys owner/ chairmen etc and now its the Motherwell Manager. Twitter - the online school playground of modern society

As I recall he was put his foot wrong on a few occasions but had luck on his side. He had a tendency to parry shots into dangerous positions instead of away for a corner or at least away from the goal with enough pace to allow time to regroup. That type of mistake gave away the killer away goal to Kairat Almaty. But he was young and making those mistakes is what you need to do to get better and I reckon Schemichel Jr will be looking over his shoulder with a bit of concern. A potential win win situation for leicester, Denmark & Wales.

I can barely name the squad these days but as far as I recall Rooney was not the lynch pin of last seasons 2nd place finish and every week someone seemed to be having a go at McLean yet now he is away panic has set in almost as if we didnt know that was going to happen. Frankly Im amazed its taken this long for Rooney to find himself another club given he seemed to spend most of last seaoson on the bench and being brought on when there was either nothing left to play for, or having no time whatsoever. His 11 goals came in 8 games - St Johnstone (4), Partick (2), Ross County (2), Kilmarnock (1), St mirren (1) & Dundee United (1). Squads change, players leave (whether the club wants them to or not) but the dons plough on. Given my reputation it may seem strange to see me say this but get a grip some of ya. Rather than panicking about the players who have left, why not concentrate on supporting the players who have arrived, or perhaps even the players we already have? McInnes has hinted that the cash from Rooney may allow for 2 more players so lets see what he can do

Hibs appear to be trying to set a record for a 2 legged euro tie Currently 6-4 in Toftir (12-5 on aggregate)