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  1. I’ve bought my first season ticket in 15 years and got one for the weans too.

    Stuck them on the credit card, so if COVID kills me before the football’s back, my life insurance will cover it and the club still get the money.

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  2. It’s effectively a free hit at them. No one expects us to come away with anything from Parkhead. They have been in great form, not conceding a domestic goal in 2019. However, they have got a hard game on Thursday but hopefully they can get the 2-0 victory they need and take the game to extra time and penalties.

    Hopefully after that, the last thing they will want is Arriybi and Hattie running at them.

    I’m quietly confident. So much so that I’m swithering about whether to go to the game. It sounds mental but the thought of watching #youngmotherwell is exciting enough, irrespective of the result.

    Heart says 2-1 Well.
    Head says 2-1 them.

  3. I think they should be playoffs based on coming up only. Relegate that second team and allow the victors of the lower league playoff to come up without the higher league team as a final hurdle.

     

    This.

     

     

     

    So you think it's fair in England if at the end of the season your team is 15 points ahead of the team that gets promoted?

     

    If it's that good, why not let the top 4 teams in the SPFL play each other to decide who are the Champions? Maybe call it Scottish Major League Playoffs.

     

    I do see where you are coming from. However, the rules are set down at the start of the season and every team plays knowing that outwith the top automatic promotion places (1st & 2nd down south, 1st in Scotland), you have to play a playoff round.

     

    In England, it gives mid table teams something to play for rather than rendering 5 or 10 games meaningless. Less of an issue up here due to smaller leagues.

     

    And if you don't like play offs, you'd have a field day with the Belgian or Argentine leagues and their crazy half seasons.

  4. I don't think it's meant to be fair. I am pretty sure it is meant to favour the team already in the top division so that it makes it harder for the lower division team to oust the premier league team.

     

    That was the point I was trying to make.

     

    Personally, I'd be in favour of 2 down and 2nd to 5th in the First division playoff for the 2nd playoff place.

     

    Just not this season of course.

     

    :ph34r:

  5. I think the issue from the Premier to the First is the amount of games that the team that finishes 3rd or 4th has to play in order to have a crack at 11th.

     

    Obviously, that was the way that the SPL teams wanted but I think 11th vs 4th/3rd vs 2nd is fairer.

  6. But Dong-caster is acting on behalf of the clubs. So ultimate responsibility falls upon the clubs themselves. But it again follows my argument that there is no competition for the rights to the SPFL, therefore it's a race to the bottom and the lowest price Sky can get away with. As for Sky not showing the Welsh game, they don't. But they show matches from Norn Iron.

  7. I don't buy that TV is only interested in the OF and without it there will be no TV deal. Certainly tonight there's a Championship playoff on BBC Alba that plenty on my twitter feed are watching instead on the EL final.

     

    The issue is there is no competition for the TV rights so we have to take what we get or we get hee-haw.

  8. I like it. The away kit certainly looks "Italian" with the uneven detail around the collar.

     

    I particularly like Steelmen below the collar but agree it should be "The Steelmen" or Come on Ye Well...

     

    Home top is nice and simple. Not too much fuss except the sides. And Handsome John looking as handsome as ever.

  9. For some reason, big Don Goodman was a favourite of mine. His double against Smelltic in the season we beat them in 3 of the 4 games that season stick in the memory (99 - 00?)

     

    Even know hearing him commentate on Sky is braw. Still has the mad afro and squished nose.

     

    Don Goodman = Hero!

  10. Beaten by a better side (get your cliche bingo cards out) who are technically miles ahead of us!!!

    Yeah, they weren't very good on the night but they had taken their chances whereas we would require 4 or 5 chances for a goal. Very much like the PANO matches tbh.

     

    Still doesn't make it any easier though.

     

    Don't understand why folk have such a hard-on for Hutch though. I'm a big fan but he really seems to have went off the boil so far this season. Granted his red card was for a tackle he had to make but 3 European games and 2 goals sold and a red card. Wasn't at the St Johnstone match but I heard he had a stinker too.

     

    Thing was they had 3 in midfield that allowed them to have a man over on Murphy and Humphrey. Murphy done ok in the first half but Humph had one of those nights.

     

    I think we're missing Jennings, big time.

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