Rasczak

Not been to many, just Victoria Park, and Tynecastle for league games, McDiarmid Park for Challenge cup finals, Parkhead for the League Cup Final, Hampden for the cup finals and last semi, but do have one that most others won't have, Harmsworth Park in Wick for pre season friendlies, including Tom Aldred's last game.

Dundee, Airdieonians, Dumbarton and Bonnyrigg Rose.

4 hours ago, TheMantis said:

There were 4 guys in front of us in the North Stand, sitting quietly but obviously Celtic supporters, who got up to leave with a few minutes left. We were poking fun at them and shouting "see you next week!"

3 hours ago, Rasczak said:

I saw a some leaving early a couple of rows in front of me and being given the "see you next week" chat, same ones I wonder? Front few rows of D1?

Or am I picking you up wrong, there were a few a couple of rows in front of me on Saturday that left early, and got the patter, coincidence?

24 minutes ago, TheMantis said:

There were 4 guys in front of us in the North Stand, sitting quietly but obviously Celtic supporters, who got up to leave with a few minutes left. We were poking fun at them and shouting "see you next week!"

I saw a some leaving early a couple of rows in front of me and being given the "see you next week" chat, same ones I wonder? Front few rows of D1?

Boys out warming up

Ross Draper part of interim management team at Elgin after Gavin Price sacked

On 6/23/2022 at 8:34 AM, caleyboy said:

I'm sure someone must have noticed the difference between the shirt Shane is wearing to the shirt shown in the Shop. I wonder which one we are getting?

I would suggest the one in the shop, as we had the one Shane is wearing 2 years ago.

12 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

Job done. Third place and Partick Thistle it is.

Not absolutely guaranteed Partick yet, Raith are 3 points and 8 goals behind, so it could still be them, but Partick certainly have the significant advantage. Though as Raith play the already promoted Kilmarnock and Partick play the still fighting to avoid relegation playoff Ayr in the last games, it's by no means a done deal.

And the potential Scotland/England game is the last of the group so could be a decider. What's the bets that if we get in, that we go into that game, able to get through as long as we don't lose by 3 or more goals, and lose 4-1 with a last minute goal. Of course we have Iran in the group, and we all know how games against them go 

Was watching QI tonight and ICT got a mention. The were talking about artificial intelligence and got onto AI cameras at football matches, so of course the infamous Ayr game was brought up. It's on iPlayer, about 6:35 in. If you don't know QI, it isn't really suitable for kids, but the short bit here is OK.

Andrew Shinnie signs for Livingstone

Saw the new advert for Old Jamaica Ginger Beer, and it looks to me like David Carson has a new sideline 

Neil McCann doing a philosophy degree. one question...why?

11 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Only15 seconds between County’s corner and us scoring 

Isn't that Daniel Mckay's second goal from an opposition corner recently, didn't he do the same against Raith from a Ridger's kick out?

1 hour ago, caleyboy said:

who is Ross Nicholson when he's at home?

This guy.

Shaun Rooney with the only goal in today's League Cup Final.

Even if the league were to be called now, on the same basis as last year with average points per game played, we would move up to 5th.

22 minutes ago, TheMantis said:

Did anybody watching on a phone or tablet notice if there was a casting option? I have a so-called smart tv which works fine for Netflix but can’t seem to connect to the internet for anything else.
So watching the games I have to use a 27” iMac and so far Mrs Mantis is being a bit obstreperous about dragging armchairs into another room

Was watching on a laptop, and it did have a casting option. It seemed to be on the stream itself rather than an option of my browser, which is Vivaldi, so may be worth looking at. If it is a browser thing then should be available on any Chromium based browser, Vivaldi is available for OS10.10 and newer if you want to try that. Start the stream on the iMac, cast it to the TV, which would work as long as they are on the same network, and go through to watch.

1 minute ago, Scotty said:

overall a decent product today. Camera work much better than previous efforts according to those that paid for it .. lesson learned should be to have an operator for future games.

Commentary a little flat in places as I said earlier BUT he was doing his best and had obviously done some research and had lots of factoids written down. I enjoyed the commentary, especially as it became obvious he is an ICT fan and got excited when we were doing well. As I said earlier I think it’s difficult to do and especially on your own. A partner to help out, to get a bit of banter going, and to share the load would improve things a lot. 
Well done to all involved. It was a nothing game but great to be able to watch ICT over this side of the pond this morning. 

As part of the needing 2 to do the commentary, there were times when it was clear that he was reading from his notes while an attack started and so he missed the beginning, if there were two then the other could pick that up earlier. It did also seem to me that he was also just watching the stream as well, not seeing the game on the pitch, was he doing it from home rather than the stadium?

It shocked the ref so much he fell on his backside.

15 minutes ago, Scotty said:

Not a criticism, but it’s a little shame that we can’t get a replay to show how good. Looked pretty close to being in before he scooped it back. 

Just had a look, was a couple of feet out I reckon, but it only came from a few feet away so great placement and reaction.

2 minutes ago, RiG said:

So far the camera has been much, MUCH better than the first two outings...

Just said on commentary that it is manual control today.

17 minutes ago, buckett said:

I would have thought that an operator with access to the video output would be able to manually over-ride the AI in situations where it couldn't properly track the ball.

In other words, a mouse controlled cursor taking precedence over a baldy heid!

Possible? Yes. Enabled in the current system? Looks like it isn't and we don't know if it will be.

10 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

This is what the camera looks like.  Four fixed cameras and what looks like a mike, on top of a pole.  The system stitches the images from all four together, so that at all times it has a panoramic view of the entire ground - just like having a big screen in front of you.  The AI then controls a virtual camera pointed at the panoramic view, and decides how to "move" it and when to zoom in and out - it decides which part of the big screen we see.

Nothing actually moves - except when the wind shakes the whole assembly!  This would indeed cause the cameras' images to change slightly - in absolute terms, and also relative to each other - so the line of the join between adjacent images would move.  Easy enough for a human to cope with - more difficult for a machine.

They claim to have used and tested it on a number of different sports.  Though I suspect that most of the testing was done in more benign conditions than 50 feet in the air in autumn in one of the most exposed locations that you could think of!  Hope it can cope with extreme cold.

I knew it was multiple cameras, and appreciate how it creates the output stream, I didn't realise it was a single unit. There were times on the stream today where you could identify clearly where the images from individual cameras overlapped, you could see a line or at times the advertising hoarding had a step in in where it shouldn't as if one image was focused few inches higher than another. The problems with losing the ball happened a lot when it crossed those lines, and not always when the ball was at speed, sometimes it was when a player was dribbling the ball and obscured it slightly, cross the line to the other camera zone, and the focus moved to the halfway line.

The quality of the actual image itself was pretty good I thought, I forced the stream to 1080, just that that image displayed was not always the one I actually wanted to see. Definitely appears that if not in optimum position/circumstances, the limitation of the AI is seriously exposed. I am reading elsewhere that Alloa are getting a manual control system in for their installation, something we need to look at if possible.