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On 5/23/2024 at 10:24 PM, twistandshout1983 said:
With it being the last game of the season on Sunday it got me thinking about last games of the season in years gone past
This one came to mind in May 2000, not seen much footage of it since and taken from a Rangers youtube channel
For our younger fans who do not remember this game we played Rangers off the park on this day, then the fans invaded the park at the end of the game. A bit like the play-offs you could say
It was a great game, I remember it well. It was gutting that we just missed out on Europe after such a great result, the Rangers had only lost one other league game that season. We had beaten Celtic both at home and away as well but we had some poor results along the way which ultimately cost us in the end.
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Is Simon Murray out of contract? County paid a transfer fee to Queen's Park only a year and a half ago so you would think he would be on a longer deal. He's a player that never really impressed me while at Hibs or Dundee United but was done well down the leagues with the likes of Arbroath but at 32 he has just enjoyed his best season in the top tier.
The Joe Lewis rumour originated from Pie and Bovril as did the one about Obileye signing away back in the January transfer window.
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8 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:
Nathan McGinley has been freed by Ayr United.
He never made an appearance at Somerset or Firhill last season, I wonder what the issue is.
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Even the Daily Ranger is reporting Liam Kelly is away to Ibrox.
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2 minutes ago, TheoBair14 said:
Heard a few things about Kevin Davrovski and Motherwell
might be replacement of Kelly?
He still has a year left and we would need to fork out some dosh.
Joe Lewis is a name that keeps popping up via various sources.
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Going back to a fair old bit but we once canceled a contract of a Finnish defender that Harri Kampman signed on a PCA called Harri Ylonen. I don't know if he was recompensed or such or how we got out of that one. Saying that I'm sure things have changed a lot since then.
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I liked O'Hara as well, one of those players that could be deployed almost anywhere as he played mainly in a defensive midfield role for us but he did well filling in at center back, right back, and as an attacking midfielder but he did suffer several injury setbacks. According to the guy that runs Pie and Bovril, St Midden offered him an extra £500 a week.
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Six sub appearances, not even played 90 minutes in total and he has scored twice and assisted with a goal, it would have been two if it weren't for Oli Shaw, but I'm quite pleased with Moses' contribution all things considered.
4 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:Hopefully the much awaited release list will be published this week. We don't want to read about too many "Contract offered but awaiting response" entries.
I think that is going to be the case. No offense to the guy but hopefully Obika is on the released list, Butcher and Maguire are the only real names I think that will be concrete. There were rumours of Mugabi heading to Dundee United. Apparently, it's going to be a busy few weeks.
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3 points from 12 against a pish St Johnstone side this season.
I thought the match was gearing up to be an entertaining affair as it went back and forth quite quickly without either keeper being tested. It was a great cross in to be fair from Carey for the opener but it's so frustrating watching everyone ball watching other than the forward. I had that feeling Bair was going to come up short with the penalty, he loves to hit them low to the left and I'm sure that was well researched by his former club. The less said about the second goal the better. They certainly identified Mugabi as a weak link as they kept pinging long balls right to him.
I thought the ref was frustrating again at times, a Bair effort was well blocked in the first half and you would think the goalkeeper and defender celebrating the tackle and with everyone heading into relevant positions was enough to convince him otherwise but no. He also seemed to take an age making his mind up at times denying Bair a great opportunity in the second half like 6 seconds after he won the ball.
I couldn't help but feel the footballing gods were watching over them today, a routine cross early in the game ended up being cleared off our own defender and it took a great save by Kelly to claw it away from the top corner. I'll give them credit for the three blocks on the line from our effort but when Spittal's shot came off the inside of the post and rolled into the keepers arms you just knew it wasn't going to be our day. However Moses goal was nicely taken, just typical it came on the 94th minute. Ross County hit the post twice late on in the game at Dingwall.
TBF I hate travelling up that neck of the woods so hopefully Raith Rovers can do the business but I feel they will come up short.
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Chance to make yourself a hero and he does that.
Quite a few former players involved in different playoffs across the board lately, most seem to have endured some misery.
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St Johnstone fans getting fired up the top tier today.
Hopefully sign off the season with a nice win. I suspect they might fold like origami if we score first but I'm not too confident in us keeping a clean sheet.
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I seen it mentioned somewhere that Jon Obika was helping with the warm up versus Hibs. He is 34 in September and his injury record the last two or three years hasn't been great, I wonder if he is looking to transition into a coaching role. Hopefully that optional year on his contract was in our favour rather than his.
I was pleased when Halliday signed as it gave us some league experience in the middle, he seemed to start brightly enough but he is so slow and ponderous on the ball and will never last a full 90.
From the list of players posted above there isn't many I would be too sad to see go. If Kettlewell has made contract offers to any I hope he has put a deadline on them before we move on to other targets.
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30 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:
That assessment pretty much covers all of the referees in Scotland.
Apologies. He was Stevie O'Reilly brutal in the games he covered.
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Colin Steven is the referee for this one, he was brutal in the two matches he covered this season.
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The games is on HibsTv for £12.99.
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I remember reading an article from a designer at the start of the season and they ranked this seasons kits and they had Motherwell in 11th and Hibernian at 12th. I appreciate everyone has there own tastes and that but I thought those two kits were great in a traditional sense (minus the Hibees sponsor of course), especially when you look at some of the hideous efforts on show such as Celtic's. Adidas designs have been mental this season, they slapped a mad design on Aberdeen's away kit and just marketed it as a 'Northern Lights' kit and the fans were all over it and they did similar with other teams.
It's going to be interesting to see how our fan design will turn out and I wonder if St Johnstone will show up with it as well.
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Great to hear Willie Collum will never referee another Motherwell game but the sad news is that he will be take up the role as Head of Referees. I thought they might have looked elsewhere after Crawford Allan's performance.
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They have went through some amount of managers recently, they have managed to try a few different approaches from experienced guys and then taking a punt on the likes of Shaun Maloney then most recently Montgomery who by all accounts seemed to be doing well in Australia, I'm not sure what would get you pass marks at Hibs these days.
I found it interesting to see that out of the 42 senior clubs in Scotland, Kettlewell is currently sitting at number 16 in length of time served.
Looking forward to the game tonight, we were a bawhair from taking the three points on our last visit to Easter Road and anybody but Oli Shaw at Fir Park to snatch the three points.
They have two long stalwarts playing for the final time tonight in defence, it would be nice to send them off with a defeat.
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1 hour ago, Kmcalpin said:
Where did you pick up this footage? The early scenes don't seem like Fir Park.
North Lanarkshire heritage have footage of a few 'Well games from the 20s but as Bobbybingo mentions above it's the game against Partick thats used. You can see a few noticeable buildings in the back ground like the school and the building that sat around Edward Street area.
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Callan Elliot leaving at the end of his short term deal. He's off to New Zealand to join Auckland according to Scott Burns.
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Rabbi Matondo won the PFA goal of the season, plenty of other goals were more worthy of that award. Spittals and Nicholsons are far superior to it. I think it was the same last year when a Celtic player won it but it was a poor choice.
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10 hours ago, weeyin said:
Difficult to compete with Roy McGregor's deep pockets.
I seem to remember Alan Burrow's saying in an interview that County typically needs to pay an extra 20% to entice players up to Dingwall due to the location. It was mentioned as well that we competed with them to sign Jackson Irvine back in 2015 and they doubled our wage offer, they sold him 12 months later for a decent fee.
I was never really impressed with Simon Murray, he always seemed to run about like a headless chicken and he never really set the heather on fire previously in the Premiership with Dundee United, Dundee, or Hibs. However, he is probably enjoying his best season.
It'll be interesting to see how our rebuild goes from this point on.
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Thoroughly enjoyed that win. I didn't have a clear view of the handball incident but when checking scores etc at half time it was considered harsh by reports on BBC even viewing the match thread over on P&B several posters suggested the same but having seen the footage back it was a penalty all day long, don't know why it took so long to arrive at that decision though.
We were probably lucky with the chalked-off equaliser as it looked more of a coming together but Anderson, Brandon and the wee banjo-looking guy from Deliverance were all quite cute with the barging into our players just as they were about to win headers.
Bair was unlucky with his acrobatic effort but Nicholsons drive was tremendous, probably well further out but it was reminiscent of Seedorf at Tynecastle.
Theo's run and header was another excellent finish and it was great to see Casey notch another. The only moan is that Livi scored with the first effort they had on target which has happened numerous times this year but it was nice finish tbf. It wouldn't surprise me to see Nouble play for another Premiership side.
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