HawkeyeTheGnu

I would be willing to walk up and down the aisles, dressed as a clown, handing out cold beers.

I thought you already did...

Dougal - if you want things to still be as they were 100 years ago, I politely suggest you stop using the internet.

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Doubt it - they were standing in the Howden End with me.

Remember kids, just say no!

Unfortunatlely kit manufacturers such as Nike and Adidas pour so much money into clubs and national associations that they have started to dictate terms. A story doing the rounds at the moment is that Nike are telling Arsenal to by Mario Balotelli before the new kit launch to increase shirt sales.

That would indeed be sensational, especially when you consider Arsenal's kit is now made by Puma.

I hope we aren't papering over the cracks

Don't get too emulsional about it

So. Two clubs became one.

In the meantime, fans developed split personalities.

How many World cup games have we seen played on artificial pitch?

How many Champion League finals have we seen played on an artificial pitch?

How many top club sides play on artificial pitch?

That's right absolutely none, only diddy clubs play on it in diddy competitions!!!!

Hope Kilmarnock and Hamilton get relegated this coming season

And I hope your next sh!te is a hedgehog.

Still enjoying that Jethro Tull album?

It will be a very sad day for Inverness football should a plastic pitch be laid and in my opinion makes a mockery of top flight football in Scotland

The likes of Hamilton and Kilmarnock are an absolute disgrace and what they are doing is cheating by gaining an advantage on all the other teams

Football started on grass over 100years ago and that's the way it should remain, what will happen next vendors going up and down the aisles selling hot dogs and pop corn, disney characters making guest appearances at half time?

It might have escaped some but Scottish football is in the worst state it's ever been I don't see how creating a mini MLS is the way forward

Dougal

This is a wind-up, right?

Or do you commute to work by horse-and-cart.

 

Calvin Zola just got released for da sheep. Good too have on the bench

No thanks, he's absolutely rotten!

 

At least he's not as bad as gordon zola. He's a real stinker!

 

And The Rangers fans will, I'm sure, take great glee in letting us all know they had more supporters at Ibrox that day than the entire Premiership put together.

 

Assuming they still exist at that point.

As champions, Celtic will have a home game first up.

St Mirren Home (groundhog day!) would do me.

A little off topic, but I get the feeling this Leeann Dempster is starting to believe her own hype. As far as I'm aware she has no football experience or coaching credentials, but she's popping up on the news and in the papers talking about her 'football plans' for Hibs. Another egomaniac bureaucrat interfering in the background, exactly what Hibs need. Terry Butcher may be a former Uefa Cup winner, England Captain, Scotland assistant manager, and one of the most successful SPL managers in recent years - "but ah know better, ciz ah used tae run Motherwell like." Motherwell's recent purple patch obviously had nothing to do with Stuart McCall or their strong nucleus of experienced players. It was all down to Leeann.

 

Wouldn't be surprised to see Hibs relegated again next season.

I have no football experience or coaching credentials, but Butcher had to go. Hibs spent the last couple of months needing 1 win to avoid relegation and they couldn't do it. They then only had to defend a 2-0 lead at home in the play-off and again they didn't do it. He took a team on the brink of the top 6 to be relegated, with the lowest total of points earned in the division. He had presided over a train-wreck and apparently lost the dressing room. In football, past accomplishments are overshadowed by recent performance, and Butcher under-performed big time. The fact that Butcher is now considered a Hearts legend says it all. Simple decision really.

Down to the broo, he's gone to the broo...

 

I always like to see one unusual/crazy number in a team.  The Athletic striker Toquero wearing number 2 for example or Zamorano wearing 1+8!  There's a keeper in Peru that wears number 3 as well!

 

Joe Bendik, TFC current keeper wears #12 and previous first choice goalie Stefan Frei wore #24, even Julio Cesar wore #30. Chris Konopka, the 3rd choice keeper wears #1 !!!

 

Strangest number at TFC was 96 worn by Jeff Cunningham who had scored 96 MLS goals when he signed for TFC. He only scored 3 goals for us in 2007/08 to take him up to 99 but was traded after missing a goal-line sitter that have taken TFC to the Concacaf Champions League group stage. I have never seen any fans with #96 at TFC !!!! Think he went to a 'normal' number after that .... In 2011 he wore 33 for Columbus but now apparently on trial for a team in Vietnam after a stint with the San Antonio Scorpions. Only other weird number fact seems to be that TFC has had 4 players wear the #13 shirt including current captain Steven Caldwell. 

 

 

Hicham Zerouali wore #0 (Zero) at Aberdeen.

Derek Riordan wore #1 when he first signed for Hibs as #9 and #10 were both taken (Fletcher/Nish)

Ossie Ardiles wore #1 at the 1982 World Cup (numbers were allocated alphabetically - except for Maradona's)

Mexico's Jorge Campos liked to wear #9 as he started as a striker

Lizarazu wore #69 at Bayern (claimed it was because of his year of birth - 1969, and height - 1.69m)

Victor Baia wore #99 in the Champions league for Porto

 

Riordan actually wore 01 (10 backwards). I am sure you can all make up your own jokes..

James Dean has signed another years contract with Chorley

That's a Giant setback

 

 

So apart from tactics, winning and entertainment all Yogi really needs is TV blackouts, better weather, no injuries, no suspensions, road blocks at the Slochd, the return of Saturday afternoon football, standing areas, alcohol allowed in the stands, bars on any Old Firm followers, free buses from every town within 80 miles and free ferries and planes from the a The Islands.SIMPLES

Can radius of the free buses from every town be doubled please?

Let's settle at a 375 mile radius but limit it to all town or cities where their name stats in CHOR - Caley Home Outing Recruitment

 

Chor having a laugh!

 

So apart from tactics, winning and entertainment all Yogi really needs is TV blackouts, better weather, no injuries, no suspensions, road blocks at the Slochd, the return of Saturday afternoon football, standing areas, alcohol allowed in the stands, bars on any Old Firm followers, free buses from every town within 80 miles and free ferries and planes from the a The Islands.SIMPLES

Can radius of the free buses from every town be doubled please?

 

 Bigger buses?

So we haven't scored from a free kick. Is that because we dont take them well or is it because opposing teams defend them well? Turn the question around. I'd be interested to know how many other teams have scored free kicks against us.

Hearts. Jamie Hammil, twice in one game for starters

According to Gary Flitcroft in the Chorley Guardian he is hopeful of keeping "the large majority" of his squad for next season. The exception is centre forward James Dean as there have been enquiries fro League 1&2 clubs and "a Scottish Premier outfit"

Maybe he wants a move East of Eden Court...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23102572

 

Owain Tudur Jones is looking forward to a taste of European football with Hibernian next month.

The 28-year-old Wales midfielder signed a two-year deal at Easter Road after rejecting an offer to extend his stay with Inverness CT.

And the Edinburgh side will take on Ireland's Drogheda or Malmo of Sweden in the Europa League qualifiers.

"I can't wait," Jones told BBC Scotland. "It's something different to the SPL."

How'd that work out for you, eh Owain?

Glad you wanted something different from the SPL - Hibs have delivered that in spades for you next season,

I think folk are more concerned that we seem less professional or maybe below par if we don't release a cracking top with our new sponser, a week before the season ends.

I've seen fans saying we've been outdone by the likes of St Mirren and Motherwell already.

Different clubs announce their new kits at different times. To be fair, doing at a different time will maximise exposure, which will be to the benefit of club, shirt sponsor and kit manufacturer.

 

Perhaps when Scottish football brings its prices into line with the rest of Europe . . .

 

 

Prices from the top league of our closest European neighbour:

 

There are many next door who do not consider themselves to be part of Europe...

Worth giving him a trial?

As the old joke goes, the verdict was Not Proven. Well, certainly not Davie Provan.

Fans were asked to submit ideas months ago and the new shirt design has long since been chosen.

Yes, but dougal loves.living in the past.