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I watched it all the way through a year or two ago. And I still got very nervous in the second half...

Re Mantis' photograph inside Telford Street - what was Hewden? A mis-spelling? HSBS was Billy Urquhart's company? A colleague of my father thought that Billy was boss of the bank HSBC.

If you have access to BBC iPlayer, then you can change the location - under "settings" - to Scotland, and get the Scottish channels. I have used it to watch Caley Thistle live on BBC Scotland and BBC Alba, but I assume that you can also see the programme after the live transmission.

https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/sport/gardiner-caley-thistle-could-not-relegate-another-club-by-voting-yes-to-spfl-proposals-196496/ "We could not countenance a situation where we could take a vote which would lead to redundancies at Hearts and Partick Thistle on Monday morning and goodness knows what at Stranraer."

Are there any online multiplayer soccer games? Could play out the remaining fixtures that way, with the teams being picked by the managers, and streaming or televising the matches. Though it could favour the team with the fastest broadband.

I think it's grossly unfair to the clubs who will be relegated - eg Partick - and to those which miss out on possible direct promotion - eg Falkirk. Would be much fairer to declare the season null and void, and distribute the money evenly. That would upset the likes of Dundee Utd and Cove, but you can't please everyone. Typical of the shambolic nature of football administration is that nowhere does it say what majority is required to pass this resolution. Is it a straight majority, a certain percentage, or what? And there is also this little gem of ambiguity: "If the resolution is approved, the SPFL has also committed to consulting with Clubs over the possibility of League restructuring ahead of Season 2020/21." That can only mean that before next season they will talk to clubs about league restructuring. It cannot mean that the league will be restructured ahead of 2020/21 - because then they wouldn't be able to say who is promoted and relegated!

I've just seen in yesterday's paper that the English and Scottish FAs have received permission from UEFA to remove the Saturday afternoon TV blackout for the remainder of this season. This would enable closed-door games to be televised, should the season be restarted. Personally, I still don't see the season being restarted, despite UEFA's insistence on no admittance to next season's European club competitions unless the season is finished. For a start, it would be impossible to restart immediately permission was given, because players will not be match-fit and the risk of injury would be high.

Ah, OK, thanks. Thought it was a bit early for them to have reached that stage! One report says that these are the final standings, but another says that they haven't decided yet what to do about promotion and relegation.

All teams had only one game to play, and Bruges were 15 points ahead. So no, that's not likely to set a precedent for anywhere else!

I think it's the only sensible solution. It would be tough on clubs like Liverpool and Dundee United, but these are extraordinary times. I would hope that any club who challenged such a decision would get short shrift in court. And also hope that reasonable agreements regarding money can be made with sponsors, advertisers, broadcasters, etc - and season ticket holders.

No close marking (so no change for us :)) Choreographed elbow-bumping to celebrate goals. Bring your own toilet roll, but certainly no wasting it by throwing it onto the pitch.

Not if he has had a test and it definitely shows that he doesn't have it.

I do think that something needs to be done, and would welcome larger divisions, whilst noting the consequent problem of teams being marooned in mid-table with little to play for except position. However, I can't see any changes being made for next season. The reason I say that is this season would then have started under one set of rules, especially those governing promotion and relegation, and ended, albeit unexpectedly, under another set of rules. Can't do that. For example, those teams which still had a chance of promotion, but which would miss out if you changed everything, would cry foul. In the Championship, that could be everyone beneath us except Partick. Can't start a competition under one set of conditions and end it under another. I think they will have to declare the season null and void.

https://premierleague-static-files.s3.amazonaws.com/premierleague/document/2020/02/06/5767eccb-b0b6-40fb-8101-7f25f3f7f73f/2019-20-PL-Handbook-060220.pdf I just had a quick look, and I think he's havering Can't see anything there about a premature end to the season. I also had a quick look at the SPFL rules yesterday, and there is absolutely nothing in there about what happens if the season cannot be completed. We are boldly going where no man has gone before. (In peacetime, anyway.)

Depending on how things go, it could be played as a curtain-raiser to the start of next season. A bit like the Community Shield in England, but classier

I would have thought they would attempt to play behind closed doors. There are competitions to finish, prize money to be awarded, promotion & relegation to be determined, contracts (eg TV) to fulfil, etc. That is unless there is a travel ban, or sufficient players and officials become infected to make it unfeasible.

Romans never stay this far north for long ⚔️

Currently have 42 points from 26 games, so 6 or 7 from the next four.

Logic would suggest that injuries could decimate a small squad with a congested fixture list - with key players missing more games than they otherwise would have. Less so with suspensions - if you are suspended for a number of games then you will miss that number of games, regardless of the time period. Though suspensions could well exacerbate the problems faced by an injury hit squad. Even the amount of travelling that ICT has to do - compared to a Central Belt club - works against us. I don't remember the friendlies, but would guess that players would have been less likely to get injured or suspended, and that there wouldn't have been long-distance travel.

Judging from the BBC texts, that looked like a ding-dong scrap. Looking forward to reading some first-hand reports.

Yes, but we also need good players as well. Having watched the last three televised games, I am now of course an expert And we simply don't have the quality in the team that we used to have. Ridgers is indispensable, so we must hope that no one makes a good offer for him in the summer. Tremarco gets 10/10 for effort. Shaun Rooney caught my eye in these games - get a little more guile into his game and he he could go far. Trafford is a liability, and both he and Carson need to learn about anger management. Our forwards lack skills and penetrative power. Having said all that, until the ref gifted Hibs the chance for their second last night, I thought it could have gone either way. One thing that did surprise me was that I expected Hibs to have a good, well-drilled defence. Yet the number of times that we got through - especially given what I think of our penetrative power - shows that they didn't. That second goal was a game-changer - easy for Hibs then, and impossible for us. Credit to the team for keeping on going, and getting the ball in the net twice. So don't get me wrong. I'd love them to go up. Provided we didn't go on a stupid spending spree or give the existing players unaffordable rises, the worst that could happen is that we would come straight back down with a parachute payment. We might scrape enough points to stay up - we beat Livi, did OK against Hibs for a while, and narrowly lost out to Dundee Utd. But we need a striker or two. Need to shore up the defence. And, most importantly, we need someone who can impose their personality on the game - someone who can really influence things.

Game was done when a stonewall penalty was ignored, and Hibs went down the pitch and scored. TV replays show that it was a penalty. Pundits agreed, and said that if VAR was available then the penalty would have been given. The whole game turned on that. Sickening.

He's on loan. BBC, 31st January: "Wales keeper Owain Fon Williams admits his switch from being Hamilton Accies first choice to joining Dunfermine Athletic on loan has been "a surprise". The 32-year-old drops from the Scottish Premiership relegation strugglers to Championship play-off hopefuls after Luke Southwood returned from Reading." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51323973

Hadn't realised who the Dunfermline keeper is...

I don't believe there was anyone. If it's all anonymous, then very few will know who was involved, and no-one outside the inner circle will know that no-one has been dropped from the panel. However, you say "whoever was there from the club will know who they are". Just for clarification, are you saying that ICT will know who the three on the panel were? If so, the SFA will have to make sure not to use "the offender" on another ICT case.