"The monkeys start to squeal, lie and create conspiracy plots" - Scottish Football 2012/13

piss-up/brewery

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22072465

The Scottish Premier League is unlikely to be able to announce the five post-split fixtures on schedule.

Presumably Sky want to televise an end-of-season title party and it clashes with a 3rd division game.

Aye, were supposed to be out yesterday afternoon. Just move the fecking 3rd division game, ffs, or ignore them, they all seem to be doing that walking away thing they don't do anyway.

get the fuck on with it - I promised my dad I'd take him to a match, would be nice to know when that might be...

five lunchtime fixtures, four on a Sunday, three away from home, title possibly wrapped up before we kick another ball - good work fixture and telly guys!

v ICT, Sunday, April 21, KO: 12.45pm (Celtic Park)
v Motherwell, Sunday, April 28, KO: 12.45pm (Fir Park)
v Ross County, Sunday, May 5. KO: 12noon (Victoria Park)
v St Johnstone, Saturday, May 11. KO: 12.15pm (Celtic Park)
v Dundee United, Sunday, May 19. KO: 12.45pm (Tannadice)

football without fans is normal

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BHa_SBICQAIQsYX.jpg

Oh jolly good, and fuck all chance of getting my dad down from Inverness for the day for a game. Probably easier for me to get a ticket for Ross County away and take him to a game up there instead :(

Ouch, 15 point deduction for Dunfermline, putting them in the relegation play-off spot.

Ooft.

Good crowd at Firhill - 8,857

Thistle 1-0 Morton after 60 mins - looks like the Ton's promotion push is just about finished :(

Aw, was looking forward to them, St Mirren and The The Rangers 2013 three-way-sharing Greenhill Road next year an' all :(

Big Victor has to work the weekend after having his red card against St Mirren reduced to a yellow.

http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/dunfermline/221081-dunfermline-excluded-from-the-scottish-cup-until-they-pay-hamilton-debt/

I assume Dunfermline will be either a) rescued and able to pay the money or b) deid by the time they're next due a cup tie but this looks like a hard line on football debt. I hate this notion of football debt coming first - like Accies' £6k is somehow more important than any £6k they owe elsewhere.

Also: £6000! A morning's wages in TBLITW is preventing a club from trying to win football's oldest trophy.

Then pay up

Why should Accies be paid before non football creditors? I agree it should be paid but the club is close to death and it looks like anything other than a CVA means you get approximately nothing.

Why weren't "Rangers" banned from the cup when Rangers still owed Hearts, Dunfermline, Dundee Utd, Rapid Vienna, etc.?

Also worth bearing in mind that Dunfermline's problems are possibly related to the £80k Rangers wouldn't pay them last year.

Falkirk hibs has been fucking brilliant

Sounds it.

Just noticed this on the BBC site:

(Peter) Alliss is known as 'the voice of golf' and is currently heading BBC coverage of The Masters at Augusta.

But he is also a keen football fan and follows the fortunes of various clubs, including Bournemouth, Aldershot, Celtic, Rangers, Manchester City, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Aberdeen and Blackpool.

Don't think he's quite got the hang of this football supporting lark

Really enjoyed Falkirk v Hibs, not particularly one for footballing purists but as entertaining a game as I've seen for years with some corking goals and saves and high drama from start to finish.

Positive vibes now gone as other half now watching Sevco v Clyde via Sevco tv streaming. Pish game, crap ref, annoying commentators.

As opposed to cracking game, pish ref and annoying commentators earlier, obv...

Thistle score 2 in last minute to win, Morton lose to depleted Dunfermline - that's the First Division race over with

Ailsa, is your other half a bluenose?

Clyde fan

The wheels on your house go round and round etc

Ah!

Not often he gets to see them on the telly, so willing to suffer streaming of Rangers TV to allow him his opportunity rather than stepping inside the Poundland Arena.

2 Accies youngsters in the FA Cup Final :)

http://i.imgur.com/xgYRDS8.jpg

Two Celtic players in the FA Cup Final :)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45166000/jpg/_45166661_celebration_226b.jpg

Is there a separate trophy for "most exciting semi final" or something?

Bet the final's a load of pish now.

Come on the Hibees. Don't think my brother in law would be able to cope if they lost again.

St Mirren and Ross County voted no to reconstruction- think that means the 12-12-18 thing is dead in the water

Celtic angry about it as are the sheep

I'd like to get righteously angry about two wee clubs holding back the whole of Scottish football but regardless of their motives their vote was correct. The 12/12/18 to 8/8/8/18 thing is absolute guff.

Am I correct in thinking that St Mirren used the 11-1 voting rule to prevent the 11-1 voting rule being changed after they objected to the 11-1 voting rule?

they lied like the snivelling cunts they are about all that.
i hated the league set up but everything else was needed more. St Mirren and County voted to preserve more money for themselves. Probably terrified of losing a home game vs celtic (and the rangers once they get up)

scottish football is fucked. Its dying.

And yet... The 12/12/18 to 8/8/8/18 thing is absolute guff.

I don't really understand the deal with the 12-12-18 thing, so I'm against it

8/8/8/18 thing

Any set-up that so closely resembles 1888 would be objectionable to most right-footed-minded football fan.

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"During the meeting, and in an effort to break the deadlock, an amendment to the league's rules on voting was proposed. This major and progressive change would have allowed future league structure to be determined by a 9-3 vote, rather than the current 11-1 majority..... Unfortunately, this amendment was also defeated in principle on a show of hands, with the same two clubs voting against."

Comedy gold.

the same two clubs who said keeping the 11-1 voting system was the major reason they were going to vote against it.

See yer man is after resurrecting SPL2 again.

Les? He's obsessed with that. Fans aren't so keen on it.

it all feels closed shop. a league has to be bigger with more promotion/relegation spots. None of this 1 up/down or 1 up/down play off pish. 2 up 2 down and if you must then a play off for another like in england with the winner playing 3rd bottom team. Play offs must not be designed to keep current spl clubs that season in spl.

http://m.stv.tv/sport/blog/221942-league-reconstruction-rules-could-have-created-literally-pointless-games/

Bonkers

That is completely batshit.

Still, let's keep on blaming two sides for it not being rushed through.

Campbell Ogilvie's being brought in to help them come to a consensus. That'll help.

Also, Neil Lennon cops a three match ban for calling a fanny a fanny. Disgraceful behaviour, down with this sort of thing, etc.