snorbens_caleyman

I think you'll find that world leaders are exempt. Especially if they are willing to sign a Free Trade Agreement 🙂

Yes, I nearly wrote something very similar a couple of weeks ago. There is an eagerness, a freshness, about the team that hasn't been there for a season or two. We press forward in numbers, and play close-passing football - we're not just lobbing hopeful balls at a lone striker. As you say, we have a number of players who move around up front, and who can all score. This season I don't think that we are going to have a leading scorer way out in front of the others. We will have a number of players pretty much all on the same tally. I do still think that the defence needs firming up, though. I never have complete confidence in them, especially when they face a tricky player like Dobbie, who gave them some frights last night.

x 2 from Snorbens.

Have just seen that our problems with the follically-challenged assistant referee have made the hallowed pages of New Scientist magazine. The current (21 Nov) issue carries a paragraph about it in the Feedback section at the end of the magazine. One thing I hadn't appreciated - thought it's obvious with hindsight - was that a large part of the problem was that he was on the near side. So the angle of view from the camera made it appear as though his head was on the pitch - i.e. inside the touchline. The implication is that things would have been better if he had been on the far side of the pitch.

And "switching you to a backup server" probably had nothing to do with the streaming, but gave you a way in which bypassed the usual user authenticaton.

I meant that it wasn't worth wasting more time on trying to establish exactly when the email was sent out. The fact that so many of you were locked out requires an explanation, and an apology if it was due to some deliberate act.

Not sure if you folks are actually checking the email headers. It's not the time displayed in your inbox - it's part of the actual email but you don't normally see it, and as such it won't change from 1613 or 1616 to "yesterday". Not worth wasting more time on!

If anyone still has the email, and knows how to do it, it's very easy to check the email headers to see when it was sent. I only saw after the game that I had received one, and I deleted it, so I can't check.

... I was just thinking "Does he say the same thing in every game?" 🙂 (This is the first time I haven't turned him down.)

So who's in the white car parked facing north on the A9 about halfway along the southern half?

Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?

I assume that the Chairman is currently on the phone reading the Riot Act to the SPFL?

Keatings 1-0. Swept in from beside the penalty spot.

Shooting south now. Ignore last post if you saw it!

Great shot from Storey clipped the bar and went over!

I was able to open a second stream, on Windows/Firefox, whilst you guys were having trouble. So maybe it's a problem with certain ISPs, not with the SPFL stream. Currently OK with the browser on an LG TV.

I just started up a second streaming connection with no problems, so I'm not sure where the problem is.

I am in - no problems.

And give us all a wave! Remember you're on camera - and no attempts to distract the AI, please

It's certainly a lot steadier. Maybe because it's not looking into strong sunshine?

Let's be realistic. The name of the game this season is survival. Not just avoiding relegation from the Championship, but survival of the club itself. Paying compensation to terminate the contracts of the manager and assistants, and hiring new ones, would be suicidal. Not going to happen.

Two commentators, a cameraman, secondary cameras behind the goals, a producer, and a classy website. Even if the people are volunteers - and I don't know if that is the case - then that all costs a fair amount of money to set up. And money is very scarce this season. Before the match the commentators were saying that Raith was fortunate that they set their system up about 7 years ago - although it has since been upgraded - and that they would not like to be starting from scratch this season. 7 years' experience will also help!

Penalty practice for the rest of the week, lads.

With a different referee it would have been a very different game...

3-2!! This season we are getting forward in numbers much more. If you do that, you make your own luck.