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    Killie

    in Football related - Discussion of non TA football

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Squirrelhumper said:

    We generate zero revenue from our pitch. 

    Never been and never will used by anyone other than the football club. 

    Well with the exception of Junior Cup Finals and internationals and the grass pitch was used for that too. 

    Plenty of diddy clubs that are playing int eh CL that have non grass pitches. 

    You have areas of your stadium without a bloody roof and seats bolted onto a terracing in half your stadium so don't think you are in a position to call any club diddies!

    Leg-pulling aside, that's pretty interesting. Why lay it at all then? Savings on pitch maintenance? Surely no-one on the football side at Killie thinks that, all else being equal, it's better than a proper pitch?

    Season 21/22

    in Football related - Discussion of non TA football

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, dandydunn said:

    The league has to continue, if, as posted above is true, we cancel, we can’t just simply move everything back 3 weeks. Sky have games picked, the Scottish cup final would move to June, players contracts will be up by then. 
     

    We’ve constantly been told games can’t be cancelled for Covid at short notice because there’s no room to play them later in the season, now they just want to quit after tonight. 
     

    That is ridiculous. 

    It’s the winter break being brought forward, they’re stopping for three weeks in January anyway so the end date of the season won’t be affected: as long as it is only three weeks they stop for of course.

    Season 21/22

    in Football related - Discussion of non TA football

    Posted · Edited by wee-toon-red

    1 hour ago, aaid said:

    Always cracks me up when people try and hark back to some halcyon time when the Old Firm weren't the dominant force in Scottish football.

    This doesn't bear scrutiny when you look at the raw facts.

    To date, the Championship - which is the ultimate judge of success - has been competed for on 124 occasions, between them, Rangers and Celtic have won it 106 times.  The next best are Aberdeen, Hibs and Hearts with four apiece, after that  Dundee and Dumbarton with 2.  Only 11 clubs have won the league and one of those is defunct.

    In fact in the rare seasons where neither of the old firm won the league, there's only four seasons where one of them wasn't runner up and three of those were before the First World War and Rangers were third.  

    The only season where neither of the Old Firm were in the top three was 1964/65, when it was Kilmarnock, Hearts and Dunfermline in the top three.  

    One season in 124.

    Lets go back to the good old days before the Old Firm dominated the League, well then you need to go back to before the league was founded in 1890.

    I'm not necessarily saying this is what you're suggesting, but all the arguing back and forth about "how it used to be" doesn't change the fact that we should strive to make it better in future otherwise the ball's burst.

    29 minutes ago, Orraloon said:

    I tend to think that the "New Frim" thing of the 80s is a wee bit overstated. IMO, it was Aberdeen that dominated that period and they don't always get the credit they deserve when lumped in as part of the "New Firm"

     

    Dundee Utd who?!

    1 x league title and 2 x league cups v 3 titles, 4 Scottish cups, 1 league cup, the Cup Winners Cup and the Super Cup. No contest.

    Curling

    in Other Sports

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Orraloon said:

    Scotland doing not too bad in the curling. Mens and womens teams both getting to the final of the European Championships. BBC coverage of this has been appalling. One of the few sports Scotland are actually good at, but it barely gets a mention.

    The BBC were showing live coverage of the men's game on their website but now that the game is done there's literally no mention of it anywhere on the site. An absolute joke.

    Scottish player transfers

    in TA specific

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Blantyre_Braveheart said:

    If it's Man Utd they might actually give an offer that tempts Rangers to sell. Rangers already rejected £5 & £8 million from Everton.

    Rangers know the kind of value Patterson could eventually have so are holding out for a big offer. He's probably worth that £5-8 million just now but for me he seems like he could be in a similar league to Tierney when he is 21-23. So I doubt Rangers sell unless it is for a decent amount upfront or a lot of add ons.

    The boy better start playing regularly for someone if he's going to be as good as Tierney was at that age in the next 2-4 years. Tierney was a regular in the Celtic team and had probably played nearly 50 games by the time he was Patterson's age.

    The Brexit Thread

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

    Posted

    On 9/22/2021 at 11:31 PM, scotlad said:

     

    Either shitebags or just unfathomably stupid.

    I mean, what other country, after learning that it has vast energy reserves worth a fortune, enough to completely transform the place, would just stand there like dumb cattle and watch it being syphoned off, year after year after year, with only pocket change being slung back as compensation?

    A large proportion of No voters have been brought up over the years to fully believe the "too wee, too poor, too stupid argument" and it's so ingrained they are unable to think themselves out of it. Thankfully it doesn't apply to everyone over a certain age but there's a reason that, in general, young folk want independence and old folk don't.

    More shortages

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

    Posted · Edited by wee-toon-red

    2 minutes ago, ThistleWhistle said:

    My wife's two nieces in India and Nepal work as nurses and there's agencies set-up there trying to head hunt loads of them.  The NHS/Government are offering wild stuff like paying flights; first month rent; settling in expenses; a month's wage in advance; visas all paid; NHS charge waived/forgotten about etc.  Starting salaries have to be wild too in  comparison to previously to qualify for visas but they're still going elsewhere like Canada because it's easier to get family members over.  

    Classic supply and demand type stuff.  

    Canada may also be more appealing since, in 30 years' time, their kids and grandkids are less likely to be herded up, packed onto planes and sent "back" to India and Nepal.

    Billy Gilmour

    in TA specific

    Posted

    Norwich is a decent enough move. In an ideal world a move abroad to a team playing in European competitions would've been perfect. Rangers would be a disaster. No-one of Gilmour's level benefits from playing on plastic pitches and at the level of most teams in Scotland, even in exchange for a handful of European games.

    Where do we go from here?

    in TA specific

    Posted

                   Marshall

    Patterson Hanley Tierney Robbo

                     Jack

       Gilmour McTominay  McGinn

                   Turnbull

                    Adams

    Hopefully Marshall and/or Gordon don't retire as who knows where we go for a keeper after that, and we still need to find a striker unless Griffiths does a Lazarus, but I don't think that's a bad team.

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