Goggles & Flippers

Based on our last accounts, the club isn't worth anything near £1.5m, 800k would be closer and I reckon Boyle would snap the fingers off anyone who offered it. With respect to the council getting involved, the Clyde/Broadwood thing plus the proliferation of fans of a certain East End club a particular non-starter.

I don't know whither to be dismayed at another subsequent 2-0 lead squandered or thrilled with the guts to get the draw. They are the Champions and have a better quality of player so I can accept it, just the smile on my face after 44 minutes was wiped out too soon. Good to have that bounce for the next few matches.

6 points would result in Dundee Utd needing to win every game, quite an ask.

As been pointed out, Aberdeen are spluttering, Dundee Utd are finding form after a run of indifferent results, as for us, I don't have a clue where we are however mindful that our record against top 5 teams was looking shocking until recently.

If we were using 4 I'd expect lineouts opposed to shy's

Neg votes ... deary me. The pitch was woeful a few years back, an empiricle sandpit, no doubt that helped seal the P45 of the existing groundsman. This article resulted in a lot of back slapping on here for the current one. All I was saying was (and it appear it wasn't grasped) if he encountered a winter where snow lay and froze pretty much for 2 months as it did in 2009 and 2010 then the current state of the pitch I suspect would be very different and he would no doubt be facing a little more sniping on here. All I was pointing out it may have been fair to judge his efforts off the back of a cruel winter.

Your use of "I think" means that's an opinion rather than a fact

Mildest winter for quite a while though, interesting to see how things go when things are a bit more tasty.

We'll get points from games we don't expect and drop points, again, at ones we think are sure things. Same thing happens every post split run in.

5, Draw with Dundee Utd beat ICT, Aberdeen draw, St. Johnstone loss, Celtic loss (hopefully not a drubbing)

Twice bitten, thrice shy? Writing was on the wall earlier in the season that you wouldn't get treated right there. I can't understand why we can engineer police free games at FP and then we go away and get treated like this. I'd claim police intelligence was behind things but as OnTheFringes has conveyed previously, these two words don't go hand in hand as often as we assume or like. It would appear the division which handles Paisley has a particularly zealous match commander(s), in future vote with you feet and spend your cash on grounds where the clubs work hand in hand to improve the atmosphere. But remember to let St. Mirren know that's the case, otherwise its fruitless. Back to the game, watched the highlights there, going on that to get out of there with a 2-1 win would have been possibly fortunate? Doesn't take away from a woeful decision from Brines. I will never know why Linesmen aren't consulted more often. Essentially, we've rode our luck on a few occasions and got points we maybe shouldn't have. 2nd is still achievable, we merely share points with a team that is by and large better than ours with a game in hand. 3 points yesterday would have given confidence, its now ensured squeeky bum time and hoping for other results in the run in, part and parcel of being a dosser though isn't it? Another issue is Dundee Utd blow hot and cold, issue is its generally been hot recently.

Jesus, the bird on the left looks like she'd eat Hutchison and shit him out.

I can't think of any time McCall has criticised a ref, even with prompting from a hack, but just read the BBC website there where he cuts Brines in two.

I'm with Busta on that one, 2-0 up and we switch to soaking up pressure and time wasting at corner flags regardless of how much time is left, when we have momentum, go for a third and put it beyond hope for the opposition. Can't speak for today as I wasn't there but I've noticed a significant change in how we conduct games. We used to we woeful in the first half and came out in the second with a bounce and drive. Last few games for quite a while now has been the opposite. On the eve of the season I'd be happy with top 6 Mid November, it would have been avoiding the playoff New Year, Euro place Today at 15:30, 2nd Today at 4:45, 4th Long and short is we have ridden our luck in quite a few games, karma is biting us in the arse now, not ideal as we're in the run in.

They've been skint since 2009 but it still hasn't stopped them paying out £8k per week for Nicky Law

He's 31 which is in goalkeeping prime, despite his injury proneness of late, he can still command a bigger club than us sadly. Gordon will go to Ibrox because: a) he's been training there b) they'll offer double than any SPL club can in salary c) a precedent has been set that even if you play for them in a lower league you can still win a cap unless: Celtic sell Forster because of his exposure in the England team.

maybe they do and all this is conjecture

I stand corrected, the Dundee Utd one with the islamic text and arabic motifs is by far the best.

CoF, I'm sure it was facebook as I don't use twitter or instagram, it was a massive Caley eagle swooping down on Ravenscraig

Is it OK to like a post because its so ludicrous that it made me laugh out loud?

Anyone got a copy of the accounts?

Agree with Dr Pepper, Ally's stuff is memorable, I think we'd shift a few extra to away fans with stuff like that on the cover, the ICT from the home game (not shown above) was my favourite.

With the ICT result the other night and a few comments made in posts by those on here about our points tally likely to be in excess of last year got me thinking back to the AGM and annual accounts released by the club. A bit that stands out is due to our performance last year the club cited that win bonus' accounted for a significant part of us posting a loss. Obviously paying out plenty of win bonus' means we've been successful on the pitch which no sane fan would be unhappy with. With 6 games left to go, we've already exceeded last years total by 1. The current total exceeds what I imagine the happiest clapperist of us on day one of the season could envisage. Motherwell 2012/13 P W D L F A GD P 38 18 9 11 67 51 +16 63 So far in season 2013/14 (with six games left to play) P W D L F A GD P 32 19 3 10 53 47 +6 60 Thought it was worthy of a debate.

While we have a better record away, Dundee Utd at Tannadice is plainly wrong looking at Brazilian's first post in this thread. Aberdeen away was always a given and with the chase for the title done and dusted last month, Euro places and play off place keep the TV audiences interested.

Is that Vigurs won three on the bounce?