Rainbow

That would be you, Johndo, wouldn't it?

More importantly, now that Draper's back from suspension

IHE, didn't you chastice me a few weeks ago for suggesting to move G Shinnie into left midfield?!?

Exactly my words CaleyD. I would just like to remind some folks here about the expectations and hopes last July. Let's see what happened with them: 1. Safety from relegation: Big check 15 games from the end 2. Positive season record against OTB: Nearly check, all we need is one point out of 2 games, and another if we drop to seventh or they miraculously climb to sixth. 3. One cup run: Big check 4. Signing key players on two-year contracts: Check for Meekings, G Shinnie and Mckay with a good chance to extend that list 5. Football on the deck instead of the hoof: Check. Not always as there are situations the hoof is simply necessary, but most of the time 6. Finding the net more often: Big big check 7. Better discipline: Check after a bad start. We had no one sent off since OTJ against Aberdire in October, or was that still September?!

Didn't they warm up properly?!?

Roberts on for Foran, what's wrong? Protection against a red card?

Ian Black

Back to Castle Greyskull then? 3rd and then 2nd Division football for him and recall to the Scotland team under his former manager?. Seems legit. Except that Sevco can't sign new players until 31st August

Reguero Raven (Devine) - Meekings - Warren - G Shinnie OTJ - Foran (Devine?) Doran - A Shinnie - Gibbons (Foran) McKay Subs: Esson, Cooper, Ross, Pepper, Sutherland (Gibbons) Don't know whether Devine can play a holding midfield role, if Raven's fit and he can, why pull Foran back? If that's not possible I agree with bishbashbosh.

This choice of words reminded me of Kim Yong Il when I first read it. But football has globally descended from a people's sport to a tyranny of suits, beginning at the very top. Were the FIFA a political party in Germany, the Constitutional Court would have to forbid them for being a danger to the democracy.

As a long-time Riggie: The Stamping Ground by Runrig

Good decision. I just can't understand why the club didn't go a similar way will George Brislen-Hall and Jason Oswell.

Rene, you're wrong in this case. The only instance a substitution in a penalty shoot-out is allowed is if a goalkeeper gets injured or sent off and his team hasn't used up its 3 substitutions. As we had still one open, Esson could have gone in. There was a precedence in a German Cup quarter-final (IIRC) when a keeper had been booked during the game and got involved in a hassle with another player whose attempt he had saved and both got booked, resulting in the keeper getting sent off as it was his second yellow. The reserve keeper went in and saved another penalty, seeing his team through to the next round. In the Botswana incident Yngwie mentioned all possible substitutions had already taken place before the end of extra time.

There's a rule that says if one team has a player sent off the other team has to choose one who's out for the penalty shoot-out. The reason is without this rule that in case of a tie after 10 rounds the team with the dismissal could send someone who has scored before while the other team has to send its probably weakest penalty taker which would be an unfair advantage in the eyes of the FIFA rule comittee. I guess it applies as well if a team is reduced to 10 men through injury. The keeper can't be chosen as he automatically takes part when the other team tries.

Makes sense

Has he finally realized that his goalie is the worst in the SPL?

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I think that the main reason for Guardiola to join Bayern was the board. Chelsea is owned by a Putin intimus, Man City by some megalomaniac sheiks. Bayern, OTOH, are an independent club with nearly 200k members, a democratically elected board and ex-footballers like Beckenbauer, Hoeness and Rummenigge on it who share 250 caps between them. And that is not likely to change, as the German football league sticks to a rule that forbids investors to buy more than 49% of the shares. Even if the rule were not in place, Bayern had no necessity to invite someone like Abramovich, as their bank balance is around € 100m. Positive, not debt!

Alex, I don't support drink driving. I just wanted to say that some things like deliberately raping a woman or deliberately beating a youth up and leaving him to die is worse. Far worse. Not the other way round as ICTPaisley suggests.

I think a loan for Cooper wouldn't be the most stupid thing for the lad. Half a season in Div1 or 2 to give him experience as a first team regular would improve him more than one or two sub appearances at ICT, after that he'd be in a shape to become a regular starter here. Of course, now is not the right time with all uncertainties about players recovering from injuries or suspensions looming. But why not in the autumn?

As we say here, keep the church in the village. Drink driving is something you shouldn't do, but innocent people can die because a driver without alcohol, drugs or medication suffers an unexpected heart attack and his car plunges into a group of pilgrims because of that. As happened in Southwestern Bavaria a couple of years ago. The only way to prevent death is abolish living .

It's Jupp, luke, not Jopp . But I agree that Heynckes is a wee bit difficult to spell for non-Germans. Even I can't find any logic in this spelling

Didn't I tell you?

A real pyramid structure has to go down to the very bottom of local football. If, for example, the HL champion gets promoted and no team is relegated into the HL, the place is filled from below, as the bottom team(s) are relegated to the local leagues and the winners of those get promoted to the HL, with play-offs of the second and third bottom HL sides and the runners-up of the local leagues for as many spaces as necessary. BTW, that's the way the whole thing has been run in Germany and Austria since WW2. For example, German Bundesliga side Hoffenheim were in the second bottom local tier in the mid-80's, before they started their climb through the stages and ended up where they are now. Not through application and buying in, but by winning one league after the other and getting promoted to the next one. Sponsor Mr Hopp wasn't involved until around 2000...

Don't forget BBC Alba was to show the game live. That's the reason for the early call-off instead of speculating how the weather would turn out today.