maverick sheep

That'll be the last we see of him then.

I remember seeing something a year or two ago that showed the mathematics of OF teams playing people 4 instead of 2 times. Basically the biggest difference is they benefit from having the number of 'banker' games doubled, whereas teams like us, being relatively weaker anyway, don't have 'banker' games to the same extent - so we don't have as great a liklihood of points gain from playing Hamilton/St mirren more often that the OF do. But I agree about the increase in teams meaning the shite is spread more thinly, unless all the teams have the same budget that top flight teams do now. That is an even bigger problem than the OF stealing all the revenue. The EPL and other leagues sucking all the talent out of Scottish football is the real killer. Take all Scottish managers and players and have them up here, then no question 12 teams wouldn't even be nearly enough! But that's as likely to happen as me waking up tomoro with Jessica Alba. I have the sneaking feeling Doncaster et al will use this seeming dead-end as an excuse not to actually change anything at all.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't about a 50/50 split in opinion between seeing it as more boring to play the teams you mention, or playing the top flight teams twice as often. I tend to prefer the variety personally. I'm much less likely to go to see us play Motherwell 4 times than them twice and Dunfermline twice. it's not so much WHO I'm watching us play that is the factor for me, but HOW we're playing. Each team is a different challenge in terms of tactics, personnel etc, so it's of more interest to me. An extra 6 teams wouldn't really make the cup less interesting as when you do draw a top flight team, that in itself is exciting because, in place of the variety, it's more of an unknown prospect whether we'll get through.

Sounds rubbish, injury prone and a trouble maker... Also someone on facebook is saying Broon had Quido Lanzaat on trial at well, so might be bringing him here... http://www.afc.co.uk/articles/20080825/quido-lanzaat-_2212158_1374852 deja vu?

well he aint first team then

my answer is a combo of 2018 onwards + tsr's depressing but realistic thought.

Why the hell is there such an aura of invincibility around Gerrard and Torres? They've both been shit for about a year but would still go for MILLIONS. Surely selling one or both of them and using the money to make the rest of the team a bit less shit is the only option they have?

Berwick gave a signed strip away as a raffle prize to raise funds for the club. Celtic refused to donate a shirt of their own to help out. Fucking scum.

people still reply to their fishing pish so they come back for more.

uhuh

you do make your own luck though. Injuries are unlucky by definition, but also somewhat inevitable. If you deliberately build a small squad, you can't really fall back on the excuse of being unlucky. That's just bad foresight. Being buggered against your will is also unlucky, but waving your ring-piece in the air while showering in prison makes it somewhat inevitable how your luck will turn out.

Thank fuck I changed my mind. Otherwise I'd have to hack into a mod's account so as to edit your posts and make me look smarter than I naturally could do On another note... Stevenage fan decks his own player WTF????? http://www.twitvid.com/I0Y1X

I think I'd be the same tbf, but I'm no sure I'm comfortable having such flexible morality

Not sure why the new left back didn't get a run out, or place on the bench (unless i missed his name on the sheet?). If he's fit and isn't coming on as a sub at 4 or 5 up against east fife, then what's he here for?

sure but it's spurious of him to suggest he's not a cheat if all he means is, I only cheat when it really matters. bit of a tangent but interviewers are so in awe of football players they never pull them up for the hypocritical bullshit they say. No wonder the players act like they're above everyone else.

yip. Also it kind of backs up the point that his attitude is bad that he comes out and says shit like that instead of getting on with the job in any kind of dignified way. Seems to believe he's world class when I'm not even sure he's EPL class.

how so?

ahhh the good old, "Diving's not the sort of thing I do" While admitting to a...dive. Fucking gooner cunt http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/9351043.stm

seems like bebo beat them single-handed.

What do you call an epileptic in a deck-chair? A transformer.

"Luis Aragones won Euro 2008 with Spain at the age of 70. I don't think I'm past it." - Craig Brown Graham Spiers says that's from The Times tomorrow. Would imagine if that paper's bothering with it then it will be a fairly sizable article to look out for.

Exhibit A m'lud

Time to lock this thread and throw away the key then?