DoofersDad

As a youngster I remember a player scoring 7 of 8 goals for my hometown team with the 8th being scored by his brother. There was also the famous occasion of Chris Nichol playing for Villa against Leicester City and getting all four goals in a 2 all draw. But I can't find anything to beat Gary Weir's achievement. The Highland League should look into it and perhaps make a special presentaton to him at the end of the season - unless, of course, someone betters the record in the meantime!

The playing surface looked pretty good the other night. I guess county will want to delay the rematch as long as possible so some proper rain can turn their ground into its usual sorry state thereby evening it up as a contest.

I suppose the rationale is that if a player committed the sort of horrendous offence which would see him getting a season long ban or worse e.g kicking an opponent in the head whilst they were on the floor, the SFA could not ignore that sort of behaviour and let it go unpunished. The SFA presumably take the view that in such cases a red card would have to stand. They then follow that through to say that as a player getting two yellow cards gets a red card, that yellow cards also have to stand. That is failed logic in my view. Let us suppose that a player handles the ball in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the ball going in the net and gets sent off and then the game is abandoned. That would mean the player would have a record of having a red card for an incident related to a goal which officially didn't exist. Serious behaviour which warrants punishment can surely be dealt with as a result of the contents of the referee's report irrespective of whether a player technically has a red card or not. Presumably it is too much to expect a bit of commonsense to be applied here.

Well that beats my journey of an 800 mile round trip from Wakefield. I don't get to make it to many matches so was very excited to make it to this one so I booked 2 days of annual leave, spent £85 train fare and for what, half a match. I'm not expecting county to reimburse me but I am going to write to the club and ask none the less as I think they should do considering it was not extenuating circumstances or the weathers fault. You got to beat me at golf. That is an occurance so unusual I would have thought that alone would be well worth the train fare and taking two days annual leave!

I see that Gary Weir scored all EIGHT goals for Wick against Fort William! The Wick academy website has posted the following:- "Gary Weir broke the Club record today as he scored all 8 Academy goals in our 8-1 win over visitors Fort William. The previous highest scoring record in a single game was by Richard Macadie who scored 5 in our 7-0 win away to Buckie Thistle in December 2012. It took 30 minutes before Weir opened the scoring and Academy only held the lead for 4 minutes with Keith Millar firing a dipping shot under James More's cross-bar. From then on though everything that Weir seemed to touch flew in and he was awarded the man of the match award for his brilliant scoring performance." What a fantastic performance!

Would BT sports still have a contract for showing this on TV? would they want to take the risk? I wonder if this would have a bearing on the date.

A profit and we've paid our electricity bills.

MacGregor was very quick to blame the rain for the floodlight failures. Presumably this is to pre-empt legitimate claims by fans of both sides who will have travelled hundreds of miles to get to the game, taken annual leave, paid for accommodation etc. Fair enough if the fog rolls in or the snow is heavy but when it is a failure of the infrastructure of the club then there must be more liablilty on behalf of the club. It will be interesting to hear what the "investigation" turns up but one fact is certain, the amount of rain that fell on Dingwall in the last 24 hours was nothing exceptional and cannot be used as an excuse. Salt rather rubbed in to the wounds on the way home when you looked back to Dingwall to see the floodlights blazing. Full marks to the caley fans with an instant chant of "forever in our Shadow" the moment the stadium was plunged into darkness!

Why do we persist in using the term "professional" foul. These fouls are unprofessional fouls. Many of us who work in the health service, teaching, police etc know what being professional is. Part of being professional is behaving with integrity and not circumventing rules or laws for your own self interest. Having cheating behaviour branded as "professional" is really quite offensive. But aside from that, I fail to understand why football's ruling bodies tolerate this. It seems that any remotely 50:50 incident is always given in favour of the defender. Week in week out we see defenders with their arms round forwards, blatant pushes in the back and pulling shirts and the referees simply ignore it. When the forwards do this or it is a bit of a 50:50 incident the foul is always given to the benefit of the defending side. People come to football to see goals. If the officials only applied the laws of the game there would be less cheating, more goals and more people would watch.

The captain is hardly going to tell the press that a particular player was rubbish. His role is to talk the team up. I wasn't at the game, but if I wanted an objective view on who played well I would listen to Renegade before listening to Foran.

As a modest Englishman I wasn't going to say anything. After all, we've only qualified for the world cup finals - again. It's not as if we've won it yet - or should that also be "again"? I appreciate that England's group was easier for England than the groups were for the other home nations, but that is becasue England did not have to compete against a top seed side being a top seed side themselves. Look on the bright side though. Scotland seem to be improving under Strachan and I imagine they will be in demand for a lot of friendlies with teams heading to Brazil. This will help in getting ranking points and building a good momentum ahead of the Euro qualifiers. Meanwhile England will be rebuilding after failing to meet expectations in Brazil.

Not quite sure how Uruguay are ranked 6th in the world seeing as they have failed to qualify as one of the top 4 in the South American qualifying. What is more suprising is that Brazil have dropped out of the top 10 and therefore are only in pot one because of their status as hosts.

Fantastic servant to the club over the years. Always gave 100%. With the work ethic and loyalty he has displayed over the years I am sure he will succeed in his seconfd career, whatever it may be. Good luck to you, Grant.

I don't think it will be a carve up. The circumstances of the game simply don't make it worth their while to have any accusations of the game not being competetive thrown at them. Both teams will go through in any case if Uruguay fail to beat clear leaders Argentina - and given the rivally between those two, I can't see Argentina giving Uruguay an easy ride. Even if Uruguay were to win, their goal difference is 6 worse than Equador and 4 worse than Chile who have scored a few more. This means that just suppose Equador beat Chile by 2 goals and Uruguay beat Argentina by 2, then Chile would still edge out Uruguay. I really can't see Uruguay bettering that scenario. There is then the question of 2nd place. Both Equador and Chile could move into 2nd place in the qualifying competition should Colombia lose their match. It is worth going for. Finally, it is hardly a disaster if Uruguay do, by some miracle overtake one of them. The team that finishes 5th can still reach the world cup through a play off against Jordan. You would expect any South American team to beat them comfortably over 2 legs. Having said all that, I would expect a pretty cagey first half because neither side can afford to lose badly. I would expect both sides to look for the win and to shut up shop if they scored. It will be tight but certailnly no carve up.

I think Shearer had about a 90% success rate. That's one of the best but someway short of Le Tissier and Stewart.

That's not a rush for tickets, it's a County training session.

You don't have to be in the singing section to sing - just make sure you are at the right end of the ground.

Good old BBC. They don't have this story on the ICT page. It is on their Ross County page instead.

I suppose it is one thing practising penalties in training and quite another taking one in a pressurised match situaton, but it always surprises me just how many are missed. Let's face it, the goal gives you a fair bit to aim at and if you hit it pretty hard and close to the post then it doesn't matter how good the keeper is, they are not going to save it. Professional footballers ought to be able to hit the target area that the keeper can't realistically get to with a high degree of regularity. Too many players try to pass the ball into the bottom corner and if the keeper guesses correctly, there is a good chance it will be saved. Just welly it and 9 times out of 10 you should score. Some of you will remember the Scot Ray Stewart who played for West Ham in the 80s. He scored 81 of 86 penalties in his career and simply ran up and hit the ball as hard as he could. Both feet were off the ground when the ball ripped into the back of the net. All the keepers knew what he was going to do but there was nothing they could do but hope that they managed to get a bit a bit of their body in the way and not be maimed by doing so.

That's true enough but I sense another reason here. We all know that there are going to be precious few Tory voters who are going yo vote "Yes" but a good number of Lib Dem voters will be in the undecided camp. If one of their own is the Scottish Secretary getting a large amount of media coverage in promoting the Government's position of maintaining the union, then those undecided voters will be more inclinded to vote "No". I suspect undecided Labour voters will also be more receptive to the "in your face" Carmichael than with the frightfully nice and loyal Mr Moore. It also means Cameron can blame the Lib Dems if Scotland votes "yes".

I think you might have opted for the wrong brother there! Don't worry about it, easily done, the Labour party membership made the same mistake.....

My interest in this thread is flagging.

David Milliband is trying - maybe you should vote "No" and join him

Fixed it for you!

We also need people shooting from distance more often. A bit like this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_ebedded&v=zh-2eGezFeI#t=71