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Willie Pettigrew was a significant part of my childhood as the goal scoring hero in the team I followed. Growing up in Edinburgh where myself and my Dad were the only ' well fans in the area, his exploits helped justify my loyalty. My brother showed no such fôrtitude and succumbed to the lure of his wee pals and has been a Hibs fan ever since. Seeing that youtube footage again just confirms a couple of things. We had a seriously decent and talented side back then, and Rangers, cheating the hell out of us in two of the featured games, are the complete shite stained bastard offspring of Satan. Some of the skill and touch displayed by Willie P and his teammates, on pitches which make you wonder if teams even employed groundsmen, are fantastic. From that era, my favourite players were Willie P, Joe Wark, Bobby Watson, Peter Miller, Bobby Graham, Peter Marinello and Ian Taylor ( plus a special mention for Stewart Rennie who worked with my Dad). How we never won anything with the talent available is a mystery until you take into account the antics of the scum from Ibrox. Seriously though, happy birthday Willie P and thanks for the memories.

The club that has had it's fans as Compliance Officer since the role was introduced. The club who's chief executive negotiates TV deals on behalf of the league. The club that caused the ref strike, allowed a movie to be filmed in their stadium about a conspiracy theory of SFA corruption and called a ref a cheat on their TV channel all with no punishment. The club who have been allowed to hold an internal inquiry which has never reported back about their employee paedophile ring. The club who's solicitors decided how to end the season. Celtic are the richest club by far and in Scottish football like the rest of society the richest get preferential treatment.

Must have been big pay cuts and redundancies cross the club for them to splash the cash on Nisbet and Magennis!

Campbell could leave, we could sign nobody, and we still wouldn't get relegated.

When Campbell goes we will have no midfield so it will be five at the back and five up front, the squad is starting to make sense.

If any of you are trying to forget about yesterday here is a cheery story for you. Last week we had a decorator in the house, found out later he was a British Airways pilot who was on furlough and was earning extra cash. He made a lovely job of the landing. Ba boom

Some cracking responses in the past hour, that all make sense to me... ...regardless of your political persuasions, I'd suggest you're as well getting your head around being no where near Fir Park until Spring, at best.

It does, but you've gone a little beyond "pointing out" In the space of a couple of posts alone you have alleged that they are going to ignore evidence from other countries when it comes to the re-introduction of supporters and suggesting that their messages are deliberately simplistic with the inference being that they are doing so to garner votes for an election eight months away.

So you confirm your approach is mainly Political. Good to have that confirmed once and for all. Social gatherings of any description can lead to rising infection rates. That's a fact you cannot deny. There are numerous examples in sport and elsewhere, in the UK and overseas. Some have been listed but you choose to ignore that evidence to suit your own purposes. As another example, a charity football match in England resulting in a requirement for 300 folk to isolate. Restricting Social Gatherings across all settings is a sensible response as is trying to find an economic and mental health balance. Until an effective vaccine is available to all, I hope our Club and our Government continue to take a cautious and realistic approach.

It's an outside event, but it requires a sizeable number of people being funnelled in and out through confined spaces, sharing cramped facilities, etc. Also relying on fans behaving themselves and following the rules, every club has it's share of zoomers that will ruin it for the majority. As wellwell91 says, how do you control what happens before and after games, travel to and from the stadium, milling around before going in, etc? Policing and managing all of this costs money that clubs wouldn't be spending in normal times. Then the practicalities of choosing what fans get in. And say we find a solution that works for all parties, why do I need to stick to the rule of 6/2 households when there are literally hundreds of different households all at the same event sharing the same facilities? Fuck this, I'm doing my own thing because if it's okay for football then why isn't it okay for me? Playing devil's advocate here, but the point is that it's a can of worms that could exacerbate things. I know everyone has their own view on how things have been handled, but the fact is that we have rising numbers in the country just now (almost certainly linked to schools/universities being back, but not exclusively because of). Letting people back into stadiums when the death toll is slowly creeping up and you can't even go and visit your granny would not be good from either a PR or public health perspective. That isn't going to change until it is clear that we had the situation under control. Other countries having fans back in stadium may work for their situation, it doesn't mean it would work for us at the moment or that it is even the right thing to do.

spot on. The international deadline is today but they have until 16th Oct to make domestic transfers.