The Official Scottish Football Thread

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Barga said:

simoid said:

Not me, particularly. That’s my point:

He has a high threshold for opining that Rangers deserve a decision. So if he’s saying it’s a penalty to Rangers, it must’ve been

I think it’s the exact opposite,he doesn’t want to be seen as anti rangers!

This, at least Chris Boyd has the balls to speak his mind.

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technodup said:

Edinburger said:

You bet against your country?!

What does eveyryone think about how the game ended?

Regardless. fair play to the ladies for their effort.

Women's football? Who actually gives a fk?

Apart from the BBC that is.

Pretty much this, stone wall penalty. Ref took an age to decide but never added it on, totally out her depth. By the letter of the law the penalty save was illegal but any ref with commonsense would tell you that's tolerable.

Manger fked it completely up for Scotland, failing to freshen up players at 3 nil up and to take your foot off the gas.

I can't really find myself to get bothered about it.

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JuniorD said:

Say the keeper makes the illegal move off the line, but the penalty taker scores, has it to be retaken?

I've seen it recalled, but normally they let it go.

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I await the minority report.

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abzmike said:

sigh... for a few days there was a nice discussion about football in here...
Back to normal bickering now it appears.

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sbarclay62 said:

Driver101 said:

Everyone behind the sofa?

Work with Hibs, Hearts, Rangers, Celtic, Motherwell, St Johnstone & Dundee Utd season ticket holders and not one person is remotely interested in the national team. Looking at the attendences for the last two games that seems to be a growing trend.

£35 including booking fee for San Marino if you fancy it.

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malks222 said:

sbarclay62 said:

Work with Hibs, Hearts, Rangers, Celtic, Motherwell, St Johnstone & Dundee Utd season ticket holders and not one person is remotely interested in the national team. Looking at the attendences for the last two games that seems to be a growing trend.

that’s not really true tho, the last 3 games have been bigger crowds (cyprus- 30k fri- 30k last night 25k) where as the last round of home games (nations league) attendances we’re down at 20k or less.

i definitely think we need to come out in the next game and put 4 or 5 past san marino and make some progress to keep people’s attention for the euro nations play offs.

Personally I feel Clarke needs to name a squad, the SFA to sit down with these clubs and request the players to train once or twice a week with the national team to build up something at least. When I say request, I mean tell them.

Drastic action is required, this is a fking joke now.

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Driver101 said:

Linlithgow Rose v Falkirk coming on soon on the BBC Scotland channel.

What a cracking away day that was, 8 or 9 pubs on way to the ground all packed.

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I can't see bt sport making the final payment when they will loose the play offs and such, more so when you consider its their last year of broadcasting the spfl.

I've five games left on my season ticket. Are fans reimbursed. I'd happily give it to my club. But if falkirk are told due to this they must remain in league one for another season, being denied the chance of promotion (a single point with 9 games to go) I'll not be fking happy, this won't be the first time as well. The standard is pish down in the lower leagues. The games are turgid. I'll have less appetite to go every game when the season before was basically nil and void. A complete waste of time and money.

Why the fk do they want to write off a 1/4 of the league season to start a new one with no defined date I'll never know. Play it to a finish, then expand the leagues based upon that. Do away with the group stages of the league Cup (make it unseeded) and scrap the bells-irnbru-ramsdens st show.

Or they could adjust the length of next season, only play each other three times. Plenty of options.

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Utter pish. Have you listened to the BBC sportsound episode yesterday live with the ict and forfar chairman. Detailed what's app messages between clubs were quoted stating each clubs stance and when they sent them to the spfl.
This seems like a total cover up, bullying of clubs and not a fair vote.
In all my years of following Scottish football this is the biggest farce I've witnessed and I say that as a fan of a club who's been denied promotion twice. Once after winning the league.
Every fan of Scottish football knows the spfl board is rotten to the core and have been holding back scottish football for decades. Its time it ends.

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Dundee sent their vote in. They might have missed the requested deadline but had 28 days so that didn't matter. They rejected the proposal.

Spfl claim they didn't receive this.

Spfl announced one club hadn't voted.

Dundee then email the spfl saying 'disregard this vote'

Spfl got this email.

It just all screams of back handers. Private discussions and such. An independent investigation is required now. Think how you'd feel if you were working in the offices of Partick and about to loose your job because of being relegated by this fix up.

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Driver101 said:

Drive Blind said:

was it not always quoted that a 14 team set up wouldn't/couldn't work?

i'm thinking back to previous calls for league reconstruction or maybe from the st show of 2012, maybe i'm not remembering correctly...

Reading Bill Leckie's column the other day the Inverness CEO held the same position at Dundee back in 2012.

He's the guy bleating on about how he can't see teams harmed. Strangely he was only too happy for Dundee to be promoted to fill the spot vacated by Rangers and didn't have an issue with Dunfermline Athletic being relegated.

The Celtic v Rangers games are the biggest earners for Scottish football. Every penny is needed and I can't see anything being given up. The TV deal will be 100% secured having all those games.

We can't go to 16 teams. Even then if we allow 4 teams up then teams as far down as Arbroath will argue they could have caught Ayr to be in the top 4.

14 teams makes things awkward. It'll lead to an imbalance of games no matter how you do it. Play everyone 3 times or have a strange split.

No matter what happens there's going to be someone fighting.

Dunfermline finished bottom that season and rightfully deserved to be relegated.

Partick Thistle are two points behind qos with a game in hand, due to the fact they were playing in a cup competition.

Falkirk are one behind raith. And hearts could still easily find themselves out the relegation zone.

Void the league or reconstruction. Whatever the case there is no need to make a decision just now. I don't see the epl doing so.

Release the funds change the spfl rule book. Done..

A lot of clubs saying it will give them a chance to plan for next season. I'm sorry but how can you plan for next season when you've no idea what's going to happen in the next six months anyway.

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I'm fking fizzing as a falkirk fan, that's about the third or forth time we've been screwed over for promotion.

I however would be going off the walls if I was a jag. A farce of a fking organisation. The playing field isn't level for lower clubs.

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I'm owed five games I think from my falkirk season ticket, even though I'm out of work just now I'd have a red neck claiming the money back from my club.
Falkirk haven't released season tickets yet, I'm now hearing it'll likely kick off in January for league one club's. Sadly, in my position there's no way I'm buying one until this is all clarified.

I've been watching the German football and can safely say football is st behind closed doors and not worth watching. There's no intensity without the crowd. Scottish football has the biggest attendance per population in Europe I'm lead to believe. We rely heavily on arses on seats. It's utterly fked if this doesn't lift.

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Driver101 said:

Kilmarnock have been forced to forfeit their cup game with Falkirk. The SPFL refused to reschedule the game.

I'm not sure I like that.

Is there any rumours that the Killie players had been up to something? It doesn't sound as if they've been following the rules with some of the comments made. What do they know?

To be fair, I'm surprised we didn't loose the forfeit against killie we have a shocking record against them. I wish they'd just pull the plug on it all.

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Shay HTFC said:

malks222 said:

ps- they are talking of scrapping the euros spread across europe and might pick 1 host country, they f*cling better not!!!!

Hope not! Already booked tickets to see Austria in Bucharest!

Likewise I've got the opening game in Rome then all the games at hampden.

But fking yaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssss.

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Deathmole said:

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I felt we got it wrong going into the Slovakia game making 8 changes, I saw them in Trnava against Wales last year and they were a decent side.

We are playing much better football, before we couldn't string two passes together. But I feel it'll be a chance missed. Please retire McBurnie though.

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Lets be honest, the protest was laughable, I don't condone the actions but come on. I saw them tear down a Harris fence and physically restrain themselves from going any further. Perhaps there was more to injure two police officers.

As for the bemoaning of the breach of social distancing, come on. No one gives a st anymore, fire in as far as I'm concerned. I have the feeling that sturgeon will look at this and see it as reasoning for not allowing fans back but she isn't prepared to open the stadiums up at all. Listening to Leitch on off the ball flap when questioned from someone who isn't an inept fk shows me that they aren't even considering it. I genuinely think the SNP would be happy if Scottish footballs doors never opened again and it was all on the box from now on.

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league 1 and 2 suspended for 3 weeks due to rising covid cases. Announce the league title now. Bairns rightfully back in the championship.

What a fking clusterfk.