Sneckboy

Indeed. If it had been a Celtic goal disallowed against AC Milan after a clever corner routine. Scott Brown played the ball in the corner, Stokes took the corner to 'himsrlf' and Commons cracked it home. Legitimate goal chalked off - we'd be in the midst of a full inquest!

St Kilda!? Big teams like that can wait - we might have an away tie to negotiate first, against Rockall!

^^^ Never thought of that! A North Atlantic derby for a World Cup place would have been great... It'll be galling to see Croatia playing in Brazil after we beat them home and away and without conceding a goal! Assuming they defeat Iceland, I can't see them making any impact at the World Cup - I doubt they'll get out their group. Now that I've said that, expect Croatia to reach the semis!

Draw for the European play-offs took place today. Games are next month over two legs: Portugal v Sweden Ukraine v France Greece v Romania Iceland v Croatia I certainly fancy Croatia to make the finals after getting Iceland in the draw. I think France will be too strong for Ukraine while I'd expect Portugal to beat Sweden over the 2 legs. Greece or Romania (for me) is too close to call - It might come down to 'away goals'!

Updated. Ties on 2nd November. Albion Rovers v Deveronvale Alloa Athletic v Inverurie Loco Works Arbroath v Brechin City Ayr United v Queen's Park Clyde v Brora Rangers Culter v Berwick Rangers Dumbarton v Cowdenbeath East Stirlingshire v Raith Rovers Elgin City v Dunfermline Athletic Forfar Athletic v East Fife Fraserburgh v Montrose Queen of the South v Hamilton Accies Rangers v Airdrieonians Stenhousemuir v Annan Athletic Stranraer v Auchinleck Talbot Turriff United v Stirling Albion Edit - Date corrected to November (thanks Alex!)

North of Scotland Cup Final Zander Sutherland (Brora Rangers 3-0 Nairn County) Richie Hart (Brora Rangers 3-0 Nairn County) Aberdeenshire Cup Final Martin Bavidge (Formartine United 3-2 Inverurie Loco works) - Steve Paterson guides Formartine to their first trophy in Highland football. Highland League Calum Dingwall (Keith 5-2 Lossiemouth)

Win tomorrow, then again in Dingwall on Friday and we'll go back to the top of the league!

^^^ It's not strictly the U20's. It's the Scottish Youth Cup tomorrow. Queen's Park v Inverness CT.

LOL! Well what else can I be when you've just posted a picture of your impressive, big tackle in the 'Well done England' thread.....!

Having looked at the teams who have qualified and those who may yet - it's very likely there will be a few players from the SPFL at the World Cup in Brazil. In the 23 man squads. May have missed some but I've 11 names who could be there. Coincidentally, there's a 'keeper, a right back, a left back, a centre forward etc making it possible to create a hypothetically, plausible team: 1. Fraser Forster (England & Celtic) 2. Mikael Lustig (Sweden & Celtic) 3. Emilio Izaguirre (Honduras & Celtic) 4. Arnold Peralta (Honduras & Rangers) 5. Efe Ambrose (Nigeria & Celtic) 6. Rabiu Ibrahim (Nigeria & Kilmarnock) 7. Reuben Gabriel (Nigeria & Kilmarnock) 8. Tom Rogic (Australia & Celtic) 9. Georgios Samaras (Greece & Celtic) 10. Jackson Irvine (Australia & Celtic/Kilmarnock) 11. Rory Fallon (New Zealand & St Johnstone) Two obvious questions arise when looking at those 11 players... (a) Have I too much time on my hands? (b) Why haven't I got a girlfriend?

Speak for yourself!

Got to remember that as recently as last summer the Dutch were being written off as a spent force and having reached the end of an era. They lost a warm-up for EURO 2012 at home to Bulgaria before heading to the tournament and losing all their games and finishing bottom of their group. But they've picked up since then by cruising through this qualification and have accumulated enough ranking points to be on the verge of the top seeds pot - but it looks like they'll just miss out. Only last month they failed to beat Estonia - that, I imagine has cost them automatic seeding. They now have to hope Jordan can spring a major shock and eliminate Uruguay!

Congratulations. He looks happy, healthy and a bundle of joy. So does the baby!

Scotland winning the World Cup!!

Yeah, my 'crazy' forecast that Switzerland could end up in Pot 1 isn't looking too far away now! We'll see tomorrow when the FIFA rankings are released. What I wasn't so clever with was my feeling that Chile v. Ecuador would be a stick-on draw! I should have listened to Doofer'sDad! His suggested scenario played out. Despite beating Argentina, Uruguay were never going to thrash them by enough to improve their goal-difference that would threaten a loser of the Chile-Ecuador game....and now the Uruguayans have the not too daunting prospect of a two-legged play-off against Jordan.

They're up to 2nd in the table now!

Damn! Billy McKay not in the starting line-up for Northern Ireland. They've gone for Martin Paterson up-front supported by Aberdeen's Niall McGinn. Hopefully Billy will come on as a sub!

So it would appear he won't be joining Brora?

Thank god you've changed your avatar! From a big fat disturbing belly to a fat arse! Lovely.

I think that's definitely the best ever - what a record!! 48 from 49. Another good penalty stat here...The Czech Republic have been involved in penalty shoot-outs over the years and have won all them all, scoring 20 successful goals and missing NONE!

^^^ That post I made about Switzerland may turn out to be the most 'embarrassing' one I have ever posted - not too late to delete it, but I won't! My reasoning was that they are currently 14th. They have since won a game last week and have a home game against Slovenia tomorrow. Another win and they could jump up a few spots - but possibly not into the top 8! We'll see on Thursday - it may yet be my most 'inspired' post!! I also, would love to see Iceland make the play-offs!

The October FIFA world rankings are released on Thursday and will be used to seed the European play-offs AND the actual World Cup draw. Switzerland may sneak under the radar and end up in the pot of top-seeds alongside the likes of Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Germany, Spain etc. !! That would be incredible....

^^^ In one off situations, centre-backs can hit them in! You're right Renegade. David O'Leary netted a crucial one for the Republic of Ireland in a World Cup knock-out and Brian Irvine scored the winner (I think) for Aberdeen when they last won the cup in 1990.

Updated draw after today's replays- Albion Rovers v Deveronvale Alloa Athletic v Inverurie Loco Works Arbroath v Brechin City Ayr United v Queen's Park Clyde v Brora Rangers Culter v Berwick Rangers Dumbarton v Cowdenbeath East Stirlingshire v Raith Rovers Elgin City v Dunfermline Athletic Forfar Athletic v East Fife Fraserburgh v Montrose Queen of the South v Hamilton Accies Rangers v Airdrieonians Stenhousemuir v Annan Athletic or Buckie Thistle Stranraer v Auchinleck Talbot Turriff United v Stirling Albion

Saturday 12th October Scottish Cup 2nd Round (replay) Zander Sutherland (penalty) (Cove Rangers 0-3 Brora Rangers) Scottish League Two Shane Sutherland TWO GOALS (Berwick Rangers 2-3 Elgin City) Highland League Stuart Soane (Wick Academy 0-1 Forres Mechanics) Craig MacMillan (Strathspey Thistle 1-2 Buckie Thistle) Andrew Skinner (Clachnacuddin 8-1 Rothes) Kyle Whyte (Clachnacuddin 8-1 Rothes)