RicoS321

Kept missing it when it was on normal telly, so just started it last night. That's what the BBC is capable of. They just need to cut out the other 99% and they'd be onto a winner.

Can we nae get that French team to take him still? Throw in Curtis Main if it helps.

It's a ridiculous statement for a referee to be making. More ridiculous that it's seen as perfectly normal and acceptable.

If we sign Hoban before the weekend, there's a good chance that taking the knee would end his season

Etc 67 - Rico

I may have made it up

Fuck him. Hun.

I think they're unfit for purpose, but I don't think they were wrong on this one. I'd agree, that the decision was made too early - before they had any idea what was happening - but I think they got the right decision. I don't think the Scottish Government would have given much leeway on starting next week, especially given the few airse ups on testing so far, which has been fine for the handful of friendlies. I did read your previous responses, but I don't think you addressed the contract situation. England can just afford it, so they're not really an example we can go by. Hamilton and Killie have had to let players go in the double figures. There's no way they could have finished the season with the same squad from March so either way you look at it the final positions would have been contrived/unfair. Basing it on actual games that had happened seemed fairer than playing the remaining games with teams weakened or completely changed.

Harvie is a strange one. In a period where we struggled for fullbacks, I thought he looked promising-ish. Certainly worth a run. Didn't think Ross had it unfortunately, despite that awesome free kick.

You can only really compare with England, as they are the only country with a pandemic timeline similar to ours but with the Scottish government putting a much later start date of 1st August compared to England (I doubt our clubs would have been suitably prepared any earlier, and I don't think the SG would have responded well/favourably to pressure). I'm not sure how finishing the season would have worked, what would your suggestion be? The two - almost insurmountable - issues for me would have been player contracts and the new season. In order to complete the season, beginning August 1st, we'd be looking at end of September for a finish. That would have meant a 3-4 month contract extension for all SPFL players. This would be non-mandatory - for obvious reasons - with good players possibly leaving if other offers had arisen. Obviously, new signings would also not be allowed to play (otherwise Hearts just buy themselves a new team to avoid relegation). With a short break between seasons (two weeks, let's say), you'd be looking at mid-October for the new season to start, with either a reduced number of games or a move to a summer calendar. Both options would have a significant impact on season ticket sales as it's unlikely that fans would pay as much for a reduced season (even though that's effectively what we're getting in terms of viewed games), and they would likely have waited to purchase their new tickets until closer to the start of that new season presenting a serious cashflow issue for many clubs (again, you can't compare England, Germany etc). I'd be interested to hear your resolutions to the above, as I can't think of a nice way to get round them. I also wouldn't class the solution as mismanagement, either, they've come to an answer and dealt with 90% of the issues. Perhaps not the way you would like, but a reasonably acceptable outcome given the situation. I'd characterise it more like Sturgeon/SNP's failure to prevent care home deaths rather than Johnson's complete ineptitude.

Fuck me, was that Hernandez that headered it back into the box from the right back position? That's primary school fitba.

I too have high hopes for Bryson. Been very fit his entire career before joining, so I don't think he's a Hoban type risk. Just seemed a bit unlucky last season. There's something about him in the brief glimpses that suggests he's played before. Hoban worth a punt too, just in case he goes somewhere else and turns out ace. I think McInnes will pack the midfield against the Hun so it doesn't surprise me to see so many kicking about. Sounds like Logan might be struggling, so perhaps Hoban might be the square peg to fill that hole if Hernandez is still pap (hopefully not!). Looking forward to it in a weird sort of way. Hate the new site, it's too modrin.

You need to understand statistics if you're going to quote them. Are you saying that black people are more likely to commit violent crimes because they are black? If not, then what do you take from this statistic?

They've given up, haven't they? The Cummings thing just ended any pretence. They'll have their herd immunity, or die trying. The argument will now move to whether we should have had a lockdown in the first place, making sure we don't lockdown again. A few things learned: our economy can't cope with a pandemic, it lacks any resilience whatsoever. We're now a domesticated pet, completely unable to subsist other than on a hyper complex global system and any disruption to that will see most of us starve. This pandemic should have been a test case for future crisis, and we've utterly failed; we'll never be able to cope when a worse pandemic hits or the worst effects of climate change begin to bite. We've not set course for something better; nothing has changed.

Probably one of the worst debuts I've seen in a dons' shirt, allowing for money paid (the boy Anderson signed by brown was worse for example, but a free punt). Tommy Wright or Pepper maybe. Rabbit in the headlights falls way short of describing it. Was like he had never played right back before. Young loon though, a big move for him and thrown straight in unprepared so with a pre-season we can hopefully see something from him. Logan's concentration actually seemed to improve once he joined too, so he'll have to be decent to keep him out.

Jesus. Could you imagine? There's not enough room for all Levein's signings at Tannadice. If you socially distanced a Levein squad, they'd stretch around the entire planet.

He was buying rowies. When asked how he'd like to pay, he said: "contactless, you hun cunt". I may be putting two and two together of course.

I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I saw him shopping for food the other week and he looked fully committed to the dandies. For what it's worth, I think we should take a good offer (£4-5M) if it arises. It's got to be the model that we're looking at with the new training facility. If we can get good money for the likes of Ferguson and Cosgrove, then that'd be great too. Obviously, try to stagger the sales of our best players. I don't think McKenna over Considine makes the difference between finishing third and second or fourth and is an area we can probably afford to lose in if it stabilises the club for the next year or two. If Ferguson has another good season then expect the same to happen with him next year. If Cosgrove gets a run of form then I expect a bid might come in January and we'd just have to see how we sit in terms of league position and finances. It's fantastic to see us have players with actual valuation >£0 at the club. Big Ronnie will makes us £10M once he learns how to play fitba too. I can see Campbell coming good soon too, despite some pish, he had a couple of games last season that showed he can be a cracking fitba'r. I think he'll kick on when he works out the level required. Hopefully fetch us enough to put in a new main stand.

Interesting you pick Devlin. I wasn't impressed when we re-signed Taylor, but he had a very good season. Devlin was pap in nearly every game. I'd even offload him if someone wanted to pay his wages. I'd also have ojo ahead of McGeouch too, who only had one good game - our last game - since joining. I agree though, don't expect any more in, and we couldn't afford to fuck up with a risky signing, which makes Hayes all the better.

There was a good documentary about it on BBC4 (or Netflix?) a while back, might have been the same one. You can see the points where people begun to have their doubts but continued because they were so invested in the idea. That said, our economic system is entirely based on belief. We're all (very much me, anyway) so heavily invested in it that we're pushing our entire species toward collapse just to serve that economy. There's no other reason for it other than the tenents of capitalism and we're all part of that religion and belief system. There's even a similar refrain to that of jonestown with the unevidenced assertion that through (and often suggested only through) capitalist technological development we will prevent disaster (not necessarily existential, but horrific nevertheless). How is us ignoring systemic: species die off, pollution, water scarcity, resource depletion, massive energy use, soil depletion, carbon emissions, inefficiency, destruction of nature etc etc because of "jobs" and "the economy" different to the people following Jim Jones? We're all taking that pill, just a little more slowly, and it is entirely based on a belief system.

Yasss, well done Consi. Another great season. Hope he gets the chance to make the top 5 dandies in appearances.

Is there a danger that, after lockdown, they will continue to use it for Livingston games?

The military were thrown into LA after Rodney king under Bush. Whilst trump is a tinpot, there is previous for military intervention in similar circumstances. It'd be interesting to see the reaction, but I think they'd just be a disorganised rabble getting in the way.

I haven't found anything that backs that up. I'm guessing he's either incorrect, or being selective of his stats. What he suggests is that women in otherwise stable family homes removed themselves and their children from those homes for money. I think that is utter horse shit. Complete fucking nonsense in fact. I could see mothers colluding with fathers in order to pretend that they had separated in order to get the money, but actually still living as a family. I could see an instance where an abusive relationship is ended because the welfare state has afforded the mother and children to leave the abusive father (in which case, you would replace the likelihood of crime stat for children growing up without a father to children growing up in a home where domestic abuse occurs). The most important point though is that what the guy suggests is entirely compatible with systemic racism. Unless he's saying that by virtue of being black alone you are more likely to be unable to form stable families? Is he suggesting that there is a genetic disposition in black people that makes them split up? Then they're not social justice warriors then, surely? It's nae the bird with the green hair fucking da police. For every social justice warrior exaggerating the scale of the problem there's a right wing newspaper exaggerating the violence and rioting. They even themselves out I expect. I quite like the spectacle and I quite like the rage. I think that you're along the right lines to an extent with the social justice warriors in that there are a whole host of people who are "morally outraged" without actually feeling proper rage and that's obviously exacerbated by celebrity. I think Hispanics are usually homogenised into the people of colour group for the purposes of argument. Why would you take proportion of arrests rather than population? Unless you think black people are genetically predisposed to commit crime? Taking 2019 figures by population you would expect white people to account for ~750 rather than 370 shootings and black people ~140 rather than 235. Again, the likelihood of black people committing crime, divorcing, having children, living in poverty etc. should be the same otherwise there's either a systemic problem or a genetic issue. The interviewer fails to pose that simple argument.

Not at all, I don't think he is right because his conclusion was that single mothers were the issue. It's clearly nonsense. The only annoying thing was the weak, ill prepared, interviewer that made him look knowledgeable. A little like the time Tommy Robinson threw cherry picked stats at thon wifie on newsnight, completely overwhelming her to come to an illogical conclusion. Do you believe that single mothers are the reason that black people are shot by police? Black lives matter are an organisation setup because of killings of black people by police. That white people also are killed by police is neither here nor there (black and Hispanic were killed by police more often). Just as you wouldn't say that saving polar bears wasn't a good cause just because rhinos also needed saving. Are they social justice warriors? Do you think that there isn't an issue with police killing black people in the US (or stop and search in the UK)? I understand your point about the green haired shouty person, but how often can you say that their cause isn't just? Because that's the only thing that matters. Most of the public are concerned by climate change but the overwhelming majority of citizens in the UK (me included) are actively making it worse. The reason that I/we don't like the green haired shouty fucks is because they're right.