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County fans clearly not wanting to go anywhere near Glasgow with the threat of a sheep sacrifice before the Celtic game tomorrow.

The great Andy Barrowman scored for Livingston against Airdrieonians.

If you needed to see it several more times before making your mind up then it was hardly a clear penalty . The referee probably wasn't at the best angle to see but the linesman should have stuck to his original impression but maybe saw he was getting no support from the ref. He probably didn't want to antagonise 50,000 celtic fans either. Doran should have passed or shot before he was fouled but, a foul is a foul and a penalty it should have been.

Didn't seem to harm the Arabs and County. Fans of Stenhousemuir must think a 4-2 lead in the 88th minute is a bit risky. That was the position they were in yesterday at home to the Pars - and then contrived to lose 5-4

If I am going hopefully it will be via Paris Hilton Hmm. Could be a bit of a rough ride.

To be fair to the guy, once he heard the name "pineapple" he did know that was the stuff that came in chunks - but how on earth does he work out how to get them out of the tin?

It's a good time to play Celtic as they have to focus on winning by 3 goals on Wednesday. If they lose to us they will still be confident of winning the league, but failure on Wednesday would be a disaster for them. I am sure there will be a good few changes in their side although those that get a chance to shine will be looking to impress. We've beaten them when we've had worse sides and they've had better, so I think we can go down to Parkhead with realistic optimism.

It's not just us. St Johnstone are one of the main contenders and got less than 3,000 at the weekend whilst less than 1,000 turned up to watch Hamilton go top of the "Championship". There is no easy answer. Society has changed. Nothing will turn a 3,000 crowd into a 4,000 crowd overnight but keep playing attractive stuff and winning and the crowds will edge back up.

How good are Partick and how bad are County? Appreciate these are only brief highlights but County look as though they can count themselves very lucky to lose by only 2 goals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/23659265

Did someone tell you it was a pigeon? You're a bit gullible if you believe that! I think it got substituted for a Utd player who was also useless on the wing.

We should be looking to win this with an unchanged line up.

Great win for Northern Ireland in the match that mattered tonight. It's a shame that Billy didn't get on but I'm sure he will get his chance later in the year.

But we are the intelligent people. This debate is far too important to be left to the politicians.

Those clubs that attract a good crowd in proportion to their catchment area tend to be those where there is a tradition of folk going to the football and this has been passed down from father to son. Football becomes an important part of the local culture and sucks in incomers as well. It is so much harder to attract big crowds where there is not that tradition behind you, particularly when many of the older generation in particular have developed a strong allegiance to one of the traditional "big clubs". Attracting new regular supporters is also much harder these days when there are so many competing attractions and even when the youngsters like football, they can follow big teams regularly on the box. It is really hard to attract new fans but as ICTChris says, things are changing. I think we are seeing more younger supporters coming in and being more vocal. This needs to be sustained in order to develop real loyalty amongst the new fans and it seems to me that the club is going the right way about this. The type of football being played is exciting and I think will increasingly make people realise that you don't need to go elsewhere to see a top club. But what we have to remember is that things go in cycles and whilst there is good reason to be confident that this will be a good season - possibly yet again our best ever, we are sure to take a tumble again before too long. The test will be how much the gates drop then rather than how much they may rise to with 2 or 3 really good seasons.

2 games gone and 6 points above county. It feels very good!

I'm led to believe that IHE's slate is particularly expensive.

I know the plural of stadium is not "stadiums" but I couldn't be bothered to change it. Before the "correct" brigade sort me out. It would have been quicker to sort it out than post again explaining why you couldn't be bothered!

It's a friendly - Sorry, but I can't really get excited about it.

What about all the people (particularly women) who haven't been battered due to having no Old Firm matches, which are renowned for huge spikes in violence? Is this question Rhetorical ? Do you really expect me to answer it, Or are you just showing your own views ? How am I supposed to know about violence to women, children or anybody else. I suggest you contact Glasgow home for battered wives or the Police. Lawrence, if you wonder why the "lynch mob" sometimes have a pop at you, this illustrates the reasons perfectly. You put a post on here and whilst you acknowledge it is not a popular view you provide no evidence to justify it. Then when someone responds with a valid reason why they think you are wrong and suggests you consider that point, you come sniping back with a "do you really expect me to answer it?" Well actually, I do. Renegade has provided evidence for his statement relating to a situation which is actually pretty well known. It is evidence which suggests that the longer the new club with the same old moronic support is kept away from the top flight of scottish football, the better it will be for the women of Glasgow. Of course you are entitled to air your views but please have the good grace to give some reasoned argument to support what you recognise to be an unpopular view. As I said before, whether some of us like it or not, the Rangers will be in the top division all too soon. It may not be as quick as you would like but it is arguably a lot quicker than it should have been. And it is not the wider footballing community which is keeping them out - they are being kept out because of the way they went about their business. They are lucky their assets were not split up and sold off to different parties. The new club has acquired a fully functioning infrastructure for way below market price whilst creditors of the old disgraced club are left with next to nothing. The Rangers are lucky to be in Division 2. To suggest the footballing community should somehow connive to bend the rules to allow them into the top flight at the expense of clubs who play by the rules is not only nonsense, it is offensive nonsense. I would respectfully suggest you either come up with some sound arguments to support your bizarre suggestion or withdraw it.

Bale will be worth £85m if some club is prepared to pay that for him. Any club doing that will be looking at the huge sums that are available from television rights, sponsorship and commercial spin off of success at the very highest level. If they think Bale can make the difference to the team to give them the level of success which will give them the kind of additional income which makes £85m spent on Bale seem like a good investment, then they'll pay it. The sad thing is that no player should be worth that sort of money. The fact that such sums are even considered illustrates the inequalities in the modern game. Such sums can only be talked about because the top clubs get a huge worldwide audience with the result that fewer people then have the appetite to watch their local teams.

I doubt the people of Paisley would thank you for saying they are part of Glasgow. My point is that not having the Rangers in the top tier is positive in many ways. There may or not be financial arguments for them being in the SPL but IMHO there are far more footballing arguments for them not to be. They will be in the top flight all too soon because at the end of the day, their financial backers and huge support will buy success. But in the meantime, lets enjoy the breath of fresh air that pervades the top flight at the moment and enjoy the improved opportunities that smaller clubs such as ITC and St Johnstone have of earning a bit of success. And let's enjoy the fact that the big Glasgow derbies this year will involve Partick and not the Rangers.

Glasgow have 2 teams in the premier division - no need for a 3rd.

Presumably they're saving us for the cup finals and other bigger games at the end of the season.

It'll need to be fire retardant in case one of the flares gets caught up in it. And as we are no longer allowed to take bottles of water in with us there'll be nothing to douse the flames.

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