El Grew

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Robin van Persie sacked by Feyenoord. In charge for just 16 months. Managed 2nd place finish in the league and qualified for the Champions League. Next stop FP? 😂😂😂

It wouldn’t surprise me if he ended up in Auld Reekie or Furriboots City!

VAR in Scotland is hindered by one key factor - resources. In England they have a minimum of 28 cameras, sometimes more, available to VAR for each game. In Scotland there are a minimum of 6 cameras, sometimes going up to 12, for games selected for live broadcast. In Scotland, the estimated VAR costs are around £1.2M per season. The technology and operational expenses are funded by the 12 top flight clubs on a sliding scale according to their final league position. For a full season the estimated annual contributions from clubs are: - top placed teams £195K - lower ranked clubs £67K These contributions cover the stadium camera equipment, additional match officials and technology calibration. When asked recently about VAR, Ian Maxwell, CEO at the SFA said “There is a narrative that we have VAR-lite and that it’s a cheap VAR system but we have exactly the same VAR system as over 50% of European nations with the same technology and number of cameras.” It would be interesting to know which European nations he’s referring to - perhaps the likes of Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, San Marino, Gibraltar and the Faroe Islands! 😏

Wednesday 16th May 2026 Motherwell 2-3 Celtic On 22nd May 2026 The Scottish Football Association (SFA) Key Match Incident refereeing panel ruled that Celtic should not have been awarded a last-minute penalty in the above match. On 29th May 2026 The SFA’s Head of Refereeing, Willie Collum said the decision to award a last minute penalty to Celtic in the above match was correct. Does the SFA Head of Refereeing not talk to the members of the SFA KMI Panel? On this evidence, clearly not! I wonder if they realise how stupid and incompetent this makes them look.

According to previous rumours, we rejected an offer of £3.75M which included ‘add-ons’ from Anderlecht. Apparently they really want to sign him so you would imagine that they will come back with an increased offer.

Exactly my point. It’s way past time that we stopped pussyfooting around them and their obnoxious fans.

Easy solution - when we play the Bigot Bros at FP, put a premium on their ticket prices, say £50 to help pay for any damages that they cause.

Players always come and go and that’s just the nature of football. For smaller clubs like ours, the fallout from this, can be very hurtful as it’s hard to find replacements. Having said that, I believe that the most important element is the manager. It’s to be hoped, that if and when JBA leaves, that having gone down the continental route the last twice, that the club will continue with that. Having seen how football should and can be played we do not want to return to the garbage served-up by some of the previous incumbents.

I’m not sure, but I don’t think he was on a ‘fixed-term’ contract. I think it may have been a 1-year rolling contract so I don’t know if there will be a huge sum due to us in compensation.

I’ve no idea but I would think you’re not far off the mark at that figure.

I’d be really gutted if JBA does leave us but if he does go, I’d prefer it if he went to Toulouse rather than the pit belts. Rumours that the salary on offer at Toulouse is £1 million per year. If that’s true then he’d be foolish not to want to go there. It’s a sad fact of life for small clubs like ours that success has its down side too.

Sorry mate but it was Said’s fault he should’ve cleared the ball in the first instance instead of opting but to pass it back to Sparrow and put him under pressure. There’s a time to play and there’s a time to clear it out and that fell into the latter and Said should’ve done that.

Daily Rancid reporting that Celtic are after Elijah Just and Rangers are after Elliot Watt. The same old story with these two cretinous clubs. Weaken their opposition by buying up their best players for a song. Then even it they don’t work out they flog them off for more than they paid. Phil O’Donnell and David Turnbull!

Without wishing to state the obvious or be trite but it’s high time the manager realised that playing nice football and cutting teams to shreds is all very well but the object of the game is to score goals and concede less than you score. It’s now 1 win in 8 league games and that’s just not good enough. When we struggled to win games under the previous incumbent there were calls for him to be sacked. I’m not for one minute saying that’s on the cards but the manager badly needs to start putting wins on the board as we have slipped into the danger zone, early as it is, but experience shows that teams who are down there by year-end, usually get relegated.