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Funnily enough I was thinking of exactly that game too. One of the standouts from our time in the First Division.

I think my favourite piece of footballing karma is when your opponent concedes a red card tackle outside the box to prevent a goal, and you score from the resulting free kick.

Mr Burrows tweeted there are issues with the "ticketing partner" across their network that they are working to fix.

+ a speedy wide man

Part of it is risk/reward. It's very difficult to tell how well very young players are going to develop regardless of their talent. They develop at different speeds and most will stop progressing (or progressing enough) to make the grade. If you are a bigger club like the OF (or a massive club an EPL team) it's much more cost effective to skip the 5 or 10 years time/money/effort developing kids and just take them off the smaller clubs when they continue to show potential at 16 or 17.

You have to wonder what strategy Rangers use to attract these signings. It can't be "look at all the youngsters we've signed that have gone on to prosper (or even make an appearance) in our first team". Of course I know it's money and OF loylaty, but you'd hope that whoever is advising the kids would have the sense to see that it's always the youngsters that rack up first team games with us that are the ones who succeed.

He's still on our books - maybe just needs a good preseason.

A nod to one of my favourites from the 70s.

It's certainly no coincidence that the youngsters who have moved on with their careers are the ones who racked up a decent amount of first team appearances for us first.

If EPL clubs were run like normal businesses, they should. However, the strategy of most EPL clubs seems to be that if your revenue increases by 30% you need to increase your spending by 45%.

West Ham's recent financials: "WH Holding Ltd has announced its financial results for the year ending 31 May 2021. The Club reports a net loss before tax of £26.9m, a decrease of £38.4m from the loss of £65.3m in 2019-20."

You need to put it in the modern day context with full backs which boils down to not actually requiring as much out of them defensively. Whether it's Trent Alexander-Arnold, Calvin Ramsay or Nathan Patterson, the expectation is that they operate more as wing-backs (or even wingers) than a last line of defence. I can't say I'm a fan of that approach, but you see it across all the leagues now. As for poorest fullbacks, the current two wouldn't come close to my top 5 even if you restrict Derek Murray to just one slot.

Surprised at the fee quoted tbh, given the money they throw about in the English market. (Also surprised they want to let him leave).

Can I get one of those posters and some Shoot! League Ladders please?

Looking forward to the "why are playing on the new pitch before it's ready" or, the "why are we playing our home leg at Firhill" rants heading this way soon.

St Johnstone sold their best players and didn't bring in any replacements. GA has cleared the decks of players who didn't cut it and is looking to bring in a few higher quality replacements. Different situation altogether.

That's the spirit.

So many repressed memories in this thread coming back to haunt me! Good job I like the shirt.

That sounds about right. Although it would have been his US employers that needed to provide the paperwork, so they couldn't have been that concerned about it or they would have fixed it - unless he was a member of the Communist Party, a terrorist or a war criminal.

And the job in the US he left us for fell through didn't it? I seem to recall Wallace pushing Willie Irvine out the door because he didn't like his attitude - so he took his attitude to Hibs and became the SPL top scorer.

As long as we don't turn in the levels of performance as the throwback team that wore it, I'll be happy. Those Jock Wallace/Bobby Watson seasons were not our finest,

Thought wee Al was going to get a debut goal there.

The streaming to UK was a special arrangement that the TV companies allowed during shutdown when nobody could attend live games. In normal circumstances I believe it's still the league (and UEFA) rules that don't allow live streaming of games within the UK - and more importantly, the TV companies won't want to lose more revenue.

To be fair to Clarke he took over a team, a bunch of players and an organization that was beyond shambolic. He brought some organization and stability to the squad that settled things down and even had us qualifies for the Euros. That organization, along with his loyalty to players and reluctance to chop and change has always been the way he operated and was what the Scotland set-up needed at the time. Whether he's the man to move us further forward will be determined in the next few games I suspect, but I agree that the time for guys like Turnbull getting a start is long overdue. We definitely need something more progressive to be put in place now.

A 520 is a general error usually means there is something wrong with the host of the website you are trying to access. Depending on what the root cause of the actual problem is, switching browsers or using a VPN might help work around it, but there's not much else you can do except sit tight and wait until it's fixed.