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Craigan looks like he'll have to come off.

Can we swap tellies? We've hardly strung two passes together on mine.

http://sport.scotsman.com/football/Changin...step.6228008.jp

Paying Murdoch £30-odd quid a month for the privilege of watching his programmes is hardly 'free', mind you.

I might make it over for one of 'em, but you'll have to pay my air fare for the rest

Neither. Like the system or loathe it, we all know what we're getting into at the start of every season, and that somebody's going to get the rough end of the stick after the split. No point moaning about it now, if the clubs want to fix it, they know what they have to do. On the plus side, I don't expect Hibs are delighted at having to visit Fir Park three times this season either...

I'd be raging if I had to go and see Peter Kay as well. "Garlic bread? What's that all about, eh? D'you remember school milk? Eh? Do you?" Aye. Now feck off.

On our last couple of showings, we'll be doing well to finish sixth

No they don't, the season here runs from March to October, with promotion playoffs in November.

Sorry, just realised this article was published last year, so dunno why it popped up in my Google Alerts today. Still, you can't read about it too often, can you?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/1...-boyd-cup-final

http://www.lennoxherald.co.uk/dunbartonshi...14557-26186659/

Have never met the man, but to be honest, in any company, the chairman and the board are rarely the best people to be letting near the paying punters, especially ones with gripes. They're usually successful business folks who Haven't Got To Where They Are Today by worrying too much about touchy-feely customer service skills.

Ya beezer.

Does that apply to loans? Thought the loaning club could still recall anytime they liked. (Anyways, Broony said "David Moyes is probably going to have to recall Lukas Jutkiewicz at the end of the season", so nothing to worry about either way...)

Tough call, though. Do you pick the team that you think is going to win you the cup, or the team you think the fans might like best?

Knowing the type of people they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd just put their own contract formalities on the back burner until the (much more important right now) players' contract negotiations were completed.

Main cost would be buying the footage rights from the SPL, I'd imagine...

It's a lot worse here in Ireland. For every one person who goes to a League of Ireland game, there must be at least ten flying or ferrying their way over to Parkhead, Old Trafford or The Emirates every weekend. The amount of money that could be going into the Irish game that's going elsewhere is unbelievable.

Dunno, but as I mentioned in the Hearts thread, it does equal the longest unbeaten run in the SPL outside the Old Firm. (Previously held by Hibs--earlier this season in fact--and Hearts).

Wish they'd make their minds up... last year there were loads of stories about how well the cinemas were doing (and always do) in hard times because it's a relatively cheap night out of escapism. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-bus...om-recession.do http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/fi...-recession.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1...uster-year.html etc...

Neither, you're essentially paying the same price for the same thing: to be allowed to sit on a plastic seat and watch 90 minutes of football, which some weeks will be great and some weeks will be crap. (And there are plenty of crap games in the EPL too, if Match of the Day is anything to go by.)

Yep, have to say looks like they got it right this time.

Full time. What were we worried about?

Coke on for Duke.