davie

Dear all, I have recieved an answer from St. Mirren after their General manager and I missing each other's calls over a week or so. The upshot is that the Steward concerned was dismissed as soon as the CCTV footage was reviewed. The matter was fully discussed at their safety meetings and the outcomes explained to me. St. Mirren offered an apology and tickets to the next fixture between the two clubs, which was accepted and the matter closed. I would emphasise that St. Mirren were open and helpful throughout and their General Manager (Brian Caldwell) was genuine and professional at all times. If only every Club were as good. Can I thank everyone who PM'd support and information on this and other Boards.

Aye. Taking the opportunity to visit my mammy while I'm there. Can't decide where to wind up the locals - ferarris, Willie Frew's or the snug. Choices.

Do you love the way Davie does it too ? Try irony.

The game's on, good. I can't really imagine the Oppressed FC relishing these conditions. Also, please pardon my not giving a monkey's about how many of their ill behaved rabble can get up the road. The Polis will certainly be happy at their job being made easier, and maybe the Stewards can actually control them this time if there are fewer of them.

Dougal, buy a new rod, this one's getting slated. Fascinating. Davie

Alright, LG seeing as you sold me a ticket I'd better go. Bu**er, I'll have to take that boy as well.

The bar's only high if you're 2'6". Honestly it's great to get feedback on these things - I write some stuff just because it tickles me, and you're never quite sure that what I find uproarious, others willl merely think I'm a haddock for scribbling. Scotty does have a point though, it's not the place for a journalistically constrained traditional report/ preview (we'd just get Bannerman to do them all, or Chalkie if you're no too fussy) so you do get stuff that is "adventurous". It has not, for instance, escaped Sir William's notice that we play on the sands of Arabia again on the 19th March, and he may awake from his deathly slumbers again. You never know.

I actually doubt that the standard of refereeing is getting worse, and I've been shouting at them since 1970 or so. What is different is our ability to see what is going on. This ain't grainy black & white BBC anymore, it's multi-angled CGI enhanced Sky and that's where the problem lies. There are so many angles that you can question the ref from - he has two eyes, a brain, a load of ill mannered louts shouting at him from opposing viewpoints, a few thousand other ill mannered louts baying for his blood and the likes of Lennon spontaneously combusting. Now make a 100% correct, impartial decision at all times. You're having a laugh. Accept that mistakes will be made, and they will pan out over a season. The ref is still the "sole arbiter of fact" (what he says, goes) and long may it be so.

Ho ho ho! That was a decent game of footie. Thought Motherwell made an open game and we took absolute advantage. only one team ever going to win, the clean sheet was a real bonus. MOTM for me was Hogg. He has class; good vision good distribution and he can tackle. Streets ahead of Tuesday.Bring on the opressed FC

I haven't lol'd on this forum for a while - that is feckin' priceless! :lol: Absolutely. Feckin. Priceless.

Laura will kill you lot for taking the mickey. You know that don't you. They don't even sell ointment in the ICT shop.

Mestalla in Valencia, without a doubt. Enjoyed Skagerak area in Skien in Norway as well, but Valencia has cheaper, better beer and it's warmer.

I wouldn't accept that at all. I am prepared to accept there could very well be a link between drinking to excess and domestic violence, but I certainly wouldn't accept that Glaswegians are any more inclined to beat up their wives or partners than football fans from any other part of the country, or even the world You're surely not seriously suggesting that this is a problem peculiar to Glasgow? Johnboy, Unfortunately, there have been studies done in Hospitals in Glasgow that show a clear correlation between OF games and admissions through A&E for injuries arising from assault (especially stabbings) I can dig out the academic references later if required. It has certainly been strongly suggested that each OF game is the catalyst for at least one fatal or designed to be fatal stabbing in Glasgow within 24 hours. There is also clear evidence from Scottish Government (in the form of offences committed, admissions to refuges etc) that there is a particular problem with domestic violence in Scotland and that it is concentrated in the West and especially in the poorer areas of Glasgow. There is a high statistical chance that the two interact. If you add in the freakshow atmosphere of the games, the inbred bigotry, manufactured hatred and social deprivation and the utter inability (and unwillingness) of the clubs to deal with it, you have an absolute recipe for OF (not Glaswegian) football fans to behave in exactly the way that you doubt.

You are, as usual substantially right aged immortal. There was a false dawn, there was a period where results were better than our ability merited, especially when the depth of our squad was shown to be shallow as when the injuries kicked in. But the men in charge have to share some culpability in that we have been shown to be tactically naive at times. Tuesday was a case in point. United brought on Bauben, which meant that Cox had to face up to him and Gomis in midfield. He had played Gomis well to that point, but with the two of them it took Utd. 4 mins to score. Cox was overrun, and TB's response - bring on Alex MacDonald. He's a fine player in the making but he ain't no holding midfielder which we needed at that time. There was one sitting on the bench, who I hope was (justifiably) frustrated. There have been other instances this year of substitutions that were too late, playing people out of position etc. But you know what? It's OK. we are 7th right now, we're in the QF of the cup. we won't go down barring a bigger collapse than a chilean mineshaft. They have got far more right than wrong but they ain't perfect. I'm still a fan.

Lennon is a horrible, horrible little man. When he is banned to the stand at TCS can one of you mainstanders do us a favour and throw him off the back of it? Ta. I was soooooooo looking forward to welcoming El Haj as well.

Good for you Dougal. as a fisherman you display consistent skills but some of your logic is a bit lax. Only TB and MM can say if they have gone as far as they can, and I expect the answer would be no. That there are flaws at the moment is undeniable and I think that we are seeing the last drops being squeezed out of this squad. Changes are required next year, or we will be in big trouble. Some of the options are pooer at the moment, but what are the alternatives? At least some above are recognising that some people are past it, some were never SPL standard in the first place and some have undoubtaed potential to get much better. That's football!

If I was disasppointed by Saturday, I'm near suicidal about that. We were woeful. What was TB thinking about, fielding a slow back 4 entirely composed of centre backs against Conway and Swanson. It was a car crash waiting to happen and duly did. Rosscoe had his worst game in years and should have been sent off in the first half. Innes is past it, couldn't cope with what was a pretty average arab front line and midfield was overrun. When Prince Bawbag came on we were well and truly stuffed. Russel Duncan needed to be on the park tonight and to be honest it looks as if his face doesn't fit if he can't get a game in there. Still, if we were rank, we pale into insignificance beside that ref.

Nice one Dougal. Gives a shout, I'm prone to embarrasing myself by singing in the North Stand. Loudly.

Pretty much one of the worst games of football I've paid money to watch. We were rotten and Hibs were not far behind us. Fine day out though.Dare we hope for anything from Tuesday?

Let them have their "green day". I want to be a minority.

Yer doing fine, son. I'd love to see a front four of Doran, Foran, Rooney & Hayes. Sublime, so get Hayes fit.

Chris Hogg shone out for me, especially in the first half. Great, great effort in an encounter of utter scrappiness. Roscoe was immense and the attacking options that we hint at should be awesome when we get a whole side fit. Saints were abysmal, cloggers of the highest order beaten only by Mr. Gollum, who was truly dire. I did think tht Butcher was in danger of spontaneously combusting over some of his "decisions" in the 2nd half. Great win, great three points. Ta lads.

Not yet. The General Manager was going to review what happened (it was all on CCTV) with the Police and Head Steward. I'll fill you in when they get back to me.

Wise, very wise TM4TJ, after all it must be quite distressing sitting next to an unwashed unreconstructed dundonian. At least the loon knows no better.