DaveyDenoon

I wouldn’t hold your breath on this one bud

If the Norway Serbia game is off then there’s no point playing ours. Better to postpone it than to play it in an empty ground.

Great advice from Duncan about getting into the stadium early. Two years ago we queued for a good 45 minutes to get in and almost missed the anthems. Been to a few games at the Millennium Stadium since and there has always been healthy queues. My advice would be to start heading to the stadium at least an hour before ko time at the absolute minimum and that’s assuming you’re in a city centre boozer relatively near the stadium. I’ll be making my way there a good 90 minutes beforehand and since you can get a pint inside anyway there’s no reason to leave it much later. Also try and avoid taking any bags as that will slow you down and rucksacks are a no-no. Ladies’ handbags are about your limit!

You weren’t unfairly relegated. You weren't even relegated. You went bust, ceased to exist, had to reform and start again and do so, rightly, from the bottom. But yes we all knew you’d be back one day. Except, it seems, the Celtic board which has failed miserably to prepare for it.

Absolutely pathetic again from Celtic against Rangers. Lennon hasn’t a clue. Celtic have far superior players but yet again he cannot get them to perform against a little more than decent, organised and determined side. I said it after the cup final and I will say it again - the board appointing Lennon on the cheap will hand the title to Rangers. We need to get rid of him now and get in a tactically aware manager who can get the best out of the quality we have. Lennon clearly cannot and Rangers will win the title if he remains.

If that is the case then you can call him a cock for being wrong about the amount of speed and force. But to suggest speed and force are irrelevant is nuts.

Possibly and as long as the tackle was made and the ball won without using excessive force then it would be wrong to send him off. If however excessive force was used then whether he wins the ball or not is irrelevant and the red would be correct. I haven’t yet seen it so cannot comment on this actual challenge. But the reporter would not be wrong to refer to speed and force (assuming he believes they were excessive) yet you seem to suggest that these factors aren’t relevant. They very much are.

No I’m not, as I haven’t yet seen it. I am making the point that it is unfair to call a reporter a cock simply because he referred to the speed and force of the challenge and that to suggest these factors are irrelevant is plainly incorrect. I'm talking generically and saying that speed and force are very much relevant.

That’s not what I said

You said the reporter stating that the speed and force probably made it a red was a cock for saying so. I am saying that’s nonsense as speed and force are clearly relevant - whether you make contact with the ball or not. Now you are saying force and speed in a challenge is irrelevant if the ball is cleared? With all due respect, and I’m sure you’re a decent bloke and all, you are categorically wrong.

You are seriously suggesting that when assessing a challenge, and particularly whether or not a red is merited, neither speed nor force carry any degree of relevance whatsoever and should be wholly ignored?

Excessive force is a red card under the laws. Combine force with speed and you could well be looking at a red. My point is you said speed doesn’t make it a red and you’re right. But speed and force may well do. So the reporter isn’t necessarily a cock for his comments.

I read “speed and force”, from which you conveniently left “force” out to suit your agenda. Now I haven’t seen the challenge so I can’t comment on whether it should be a red or not but you’re not doing your argument any favours by missing out key information.

That’s what it is! In official terms anyway...

Yeah I quoted the wrong post 😂😂🤦‍♂️

Is it “free advertising” though? You might not be getting paid, but your club is. Isn’t that kinda the point? The sponsor pays the club big bucks (according to level of exposure which would include shirt sales not just the players wearing them in games, on TV, etc and the fact that you might wear it out and about) in exchange for that exposure?

VAR would have helped out with a couple of them - he'd not have been on the pitch to miss them!

You’re right, but I was referring to us not bidding again for 2012 when nobody seemed to really want to host it. We’d certainly struggle now I agree. So sadly our opportunity has gone for good.

Even more ridiculous that we didn’t try again after the failed 2008 bid. Honestly, as a nation we have zero balls or confidence about us.

You just come across as an arrogant, condescending, pedantic arsehole. Not just on this thread either. I’ll express my view regardless of your so-called anal self-appointed “fact-checking”. Life is about more than facts. Opinions are valid too and having one doesn’t make me a “conspiracy theorist” or such like. Enjoy your sterile, boring, pedantic fact-based existence. Have fun spending hours trawling through history to try and prove you’re right every time. Nobody cares.

There is so much shit in this post it’s hardly worth responding. But if you truly don’t want to be rude or insulting then don't be rude or insulting, stop acting like a dick (in this and other threads) and stop talking shit. Bye.

Cheers Yeah quite a long time ago indeed and a bit before my time. It’s time we put that situation right then eh?

Jesus it’s not exactly hardcore paranoia and I’m well aware of the difference between 0% and 49.9%. I'm merely suggesting it’s slightly suspicious or worthy of question that UEFA got the outcome they wanted despite of being a less that 1 in 4 chance. Of course it is possible that the draw was conducted absolutely above board and the 23% chance just happened to come about. I also suggested we’d never really know. But as someone who does not like coincidences there will always be a valid question mark over it. Despite some English paranoia it’s pretty clear FIFA is corrupt. Who says UEFA can’t be too? Just because nothing has been exposed doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I’m certainly open to the possibility. Again, I’m not saying it was 100% definitely a fix, I am saying it is suspicious and there is a question mark. Plenty suspicious people have been found innocent. Some though, guilty. Who knows 🤷‍♂️ I also made it clear that I don’t think anyone but Scotland is to blame for Scotland not qualifying in over 22 years. If I was guilty of gross paranoia then I’m sure I’d be blaming UEFA/FIFA/The Man In The Moon or whatever. The 0.02% guy is plainly just trolling - if not then he needs help. Even though our chances have diminished after the draw if he’s offering 50,000-1 I’ll have some of it.

If it saves him from commentating on either of the games then he can go for it 😂😂

Can’t remember that? Must’ve been a long long time ago?