Have to do some freelance work in Bridgeton of all places tomorrow - dreading it tbh (think I'm going to get in very very early)
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 9 September 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
admire the "well we're already called paddy so it's not like we're going to feel the effects of a boycott" vibe to this
https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/774188001396158464
― sktsh, Friday, 9 September 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
as so often with him, i'm torn between chuckling and thinking "you're a mean man and spend your time exploiting your power dynamic as the boss to make others look stupid and you look like a funny cleverclogs"
Definitely the second one. Funny or not it's clear he's now permanently a bitter wee guy getting his own back on the world.
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah he doesn't mind bullying people does he
― sktsh, Friday, 9 September 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
the fuck, Celtic, letting these clowns back into the match right before half time?
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 September 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
Turning out swell though.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 September 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
That'll do.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 September 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
just popping in to say "lol"
― you can't drowned a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 September 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
Indeed. Well and truly skelped.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 September 2016 12:56 (seven years ago) link
That was quite enjoyable. Senderos and Barton are a bit rubbish, eh?
― ailsa, Saturday, 10 September 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
Hahahaha rangers are shite
― sktsh, Saturday, 10 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
Is that really the challenge Scottish football has been missing?
Well done Cammy Bell on today's other hat trick.
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Sunday, 11 September 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
<3 Lustig's beachball hat celebration!
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Sunday, 11 September 2016 12:48 (seven years ago) link
Cammy Bell:
https://youtu.be/rdONmv35a3U
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 September 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
(far be it for me to suggest he probably didn't get much experience of having to face penalties at Ibrox....)
― ailsa, Sunday, 11 September 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
Got a feeling Barcelona vs. Celtic is going to be reminiscent of Celtic vs. Rangers.
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
In that the home team will destroy the opposition.
We'll be lucky to escape with 5-1 tbh.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
id take 5-1 haha
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Keeping it down to single figures might be all we can hope for.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Well, this wasn't quite the night I wanted Barcelona to rediscover their innate Barcelonaness.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
ilxors ananimus (onimo) wrote this on thread "You've no right to be angry with John Collins". SPFL, season 2015/2016 on board I Love Football on 03-Feb-2016
I can't even.I mean.Fuckin
I mean.
Fuckin
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
We're just gonnae try out a completely new formation with players making champs league debuts away at fuckin Barcelona. Aye ok Brendan. Give it a go. What could go wrong?
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
Also, quit fucking fannying about at penalties. Blooter the fucker. Jesus.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
We were always going to get beat. But we didn't have to get totally humped.
Fear what might Aguero might do to us, fair enough getting murdered by Barcelona but Man City would be too much to bear.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
ho ho ho
http://stv.tv/sport/football/1367209-joey-barton-s-rangers-future-in-doubt-after-training-ground-row/
― sktsh, Thursday, 15 September 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
also chucklesome:
People keep asking me if I'm okay. Of course we're okay.
― sktsh, Thursday, 15 September 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
barton obv remorseful. thought he was coming up to skoosh the league and win some silverware for once, realized pre-season how guff the team is - and with the visit to the 6 counties probably cottoned on to how horrendous the fanbase is - and now he doesn't want to be there. how bad must his strop have been to have him telt to stay away from the training ground?
the press, after really warmly welcoming and praising warburton to the hilt, seems to have taken against him after the poor start to the league.
the fact that the next Glasgow derby is scheduled for lunchtime Hogmanay is hilarious. wish I was home for it (or do I? maybe better to think of myself as out of harm's way).
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 September 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
I'd agree that Barton may be having second thoughts - never saw it myself but a Rangers supporting colleague said there was a post-match interview with Barton sfter the Hamilton draw where he looked surprised that they'd been given a game. I'm all for players coming up here and finding it not as easy as they expected.
As for Warburton, he kind of has a point about the hysterical negativity of the Scottish media, particularly when it comes to Rangers and Celtic.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 15 September 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
he has a point about the negativity but he's coming across very poorly while making it. seems thin-skinned, overly-defensive, and as if he's trying to deflect attention/lessen the import of the weekend's result/performance
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 September 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
I agree with all of that, Jim.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 15 September 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Read earlier on Twitter that Barton said during his wee rant that "my son is older than this club". I really want that to be true.
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 September 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
from a satirical feed
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 September 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
a not particularly funny and not overly followed feed at that
Oh, read it from a couple of folk, wasn't sure where they'd got it from. Ah well.
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 September 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
how amused folk can be by new club jokes 4 years into the new club bemuses me
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 September 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
I am easily amused.
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 September 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
Also seeing how irate some folk can get at the very suggestion that their club might have been liquidated (when, y'know, it happened) still makes me chuckle, so a wee slapdown now and then is a cheap giggle.
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 September 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
As an aside to this, there's a team in our local pub quiz who used to have a variety of Rangers-related team names prior to liquidation (my favourites were when they changed it to Red Whyte "make sure it's spelled with a Y" and Blue the week our favourite googly-eyed charlatan rode into town, and also "you reap what you sow" when the new club rocked up in the third division. They then settled on Team 54 in honour of the league titles won until their demise. When their team won the third division, they changed their name to Team 55 to hoots of derision from everyone else in the pub, then Team 56, then a wee wait until changing again to Team 57. Then they thought about it at the start of the season so they're back to Team 54 again. Which presumably they'll be keeping for a while.
I suggested Team Zero and got glowered at.
― ailsa, Friday, 16 September 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
also "you reap what you sow" when the new club rocked up in the third division
― sktsh, Friday, 16 September 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
also re barton above, totally agree this is about regrets, but wonder if that goes both ways too - the very heavy punishment being the gers hoping for an excuse to boost him a la sandaza. He's looked like a staggering waste of money in the (admittedly few) highlights I've seen..
― sktsh, Friday, 16 September 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, there's also that. Clears a five figure weekly sum off the wage bill that lets them bring in true reinforcements. Or keep the lights on.
― michaellambert, Friday, 16 September 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Superb stuff from us today. Having half an hour of dominance then conceding a wonder goal all looked a wee bit last season but the reaction was really good. Dembele looked deadly and Rogic showed amazing control throughout. I'm finally coming round to Tierney being a better option than Izzy.
Shame we've got Sergio coming to destroy all our confidence this Wednesday.
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
"I'm not going to answer questions from the general public"
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/watch-gordon-strachan-deliver-sarky-9000645
Such a dick
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Saturday, 8 October 2016 09:51 (seven years ago) link
exciting times for the jam tarts then
― sktsh, Monday, 5 December 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
always find coaches such as cathro a true unknown quantity. obv spoken of very highly by journos and colleagues. retained by rafa when mclaren was sacked at newcastle - which is not that common. but as he's yet to be a head coach it is very hard to predict how things will go for him.
the hunt for second place should be competitive this season, and hearts have got as good a chance as the dons or rangers.
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 5 December 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Cathro is an awesome appointment. Just last week I was conversing with a Geordie fan about what would be the natural next move for him and I'm not in any way a Hearts fan, but this seems like exactly the right level for him. Two seasons from now and he will be able to take his pick from the bottom two thirds of the English Premiership. When he was at Forfar and Brechin I had discussions with old boys in The Pub about him, we knew he was headed for bigger things, I was resigned to him being a future Rangers manager but hopefully he has sidestepped that now. Maybe Bournemouth once Eddie Howe goes to Arsenal, or the Swansea job will surely be opening back up. Basically I think he's great.
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Monday, 5 December 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
rangers no longer a step up from hearts either financially or in terms of competing for trophies so id imagine it's on to england if he is a success at hertz
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 5 December 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
exciting post! xp
I hope he has more ambition than moving to milton fucking keynes anyway
― sktsh, Monday, 5 December 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
congrats must have worn a bit thin by now
― imago, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
oh for sure
and now u've pointed out i see it's p much all i've posted here this season
― sktsh, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
congrats to me on failing to walk the tightrope b/tw magnanimity and sycophancy
― sktsh, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
Never in doubt :-)
― ailsa, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
Never saw this season coming during the dark days of Lincoln Red Imps away, eh?
― ailsa, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
was just going to say, we'll always have gibraltar etc
― sktsh, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Talk about irritating, entitled Celtic fans, I was working today and found myself hoping it went to extra time so I could find a pub to watch Celtic winning the treble at least half an hour of the game.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
get in!
― Odysseus, Sunday, 28 May 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
Scotland 1 Brazil 0
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40144470
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 June 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
howling
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
Was going to start a new thread and make the first couple of hundred posts just "hahahahahahahaha".
Dying here.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
Oh my good God!!!!!!!
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
To be fair though, Rangers FC had never played in Europe before.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
ahahahahaha
― sktsh, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
HMRC win the big tax case. Grab your popcorn.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 09:17 (six years ago) link
Uneventful start to the new season.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 09:18 (six years ago) link
Should probably start a new thread, eh?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
Indeed, I forgot we've got Celtic vs. the DUP Linfield to look forward to, huzzah!
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
Surely they can appeal the result
Yesterday's I mean
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 11:17 (six years ago) link
supreme court unanimously rejected appeal
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/462883/supreme-court-rejects-rangers-appeal-big-tax-case-articleisfree/
we need to strip the titles.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 6 July 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
SFA have already said no further punishments I believe.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 July 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
they have, but the clubs and supporters should really be pressuring them.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 6 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
the lord nimmo smith garbage makes no sense in light of this verdict (well even less than it previously did)
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
Undoubtedly but I don't see that working, tbh (xp)
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
in my dream world the Celtic support (and at least also the Dons) would boycott Hampden this season, the club would not allow players to go on international duty for Scotland friendlies. Anti-SFA banners and chanting etc. Really make the bastards squirm.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
Lennon had better get the Hibees on to it too.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
i don't see how regan or doncaster can possibly stay in post
― sktsh, Friday, 7 July 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
(i fully expect regan and doncaster to stay in post)