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  1. Don't agree with this, not many goalies would have saved that shot, if it was Ronaldo that hit it we would be seeing it on TV for weeks. What difference does the height of the goalie make? what makes you think another any other goalie would have dived the same way with the same speed JMcD did? He is as reliable if not more so than the other goalies in this league. Leave him where he belongs - on the field and in the team.
    9 points
  2. I think the reason JJ probably gets a harder time from the support is because he's blatantly running his contract down leaving us with no financial boost for resurrecting his career whilst playing like dug s**t in all but 45 minutes against St. Johnstone. I'm sure if he signed a three year deal and had liked pictures on Twitter no one would have batted an eyelid.
    6 points
  3. I'd have to agree with your there mate. He's been poor recently. Players can have bad games but he doesn't appear to be making the effort. Defensively he's worse than a man down. Pretty poor when Chris Burke who is 10 years older has been our best wide man.
    3 points
  4. 2 points
  5. I know that's what they run out to but, as a local, wouldn't you say the club song was The Blaydon Races?
    2 points
  6. You don’t think it can be both? If the woman feels she’s been sexually assaulted, I applaud her courage in reporting it. However, both the accuser and the accused should have been afforded anonymity during the investigation. That is Scottish Government policy. For whatever reason, Alex Salmond’s name and the nature of the investigation was leaked to the Daily Record and a well known Labour supporting political journalist. It has done nothing to help the accuser and has quite possibly been prejudicial to the accused. Now I’m not going to go down the Beaker route of thinking it’s some kind of master plan by Westminster to damage the SNP. However at a time we should be focused on the damage Brexit is about to inflict, we’re discussing possible sexual misconduct, primary one testing, and scallop disputes. I also know that when a magician is waving one hand around, they’re usually up to something with the other.
    2 points
  7. It’s obvious that SOD’s improved form coincided with the arrival of Chelsea’s best ever right back as voted for by the fans If I was SOD I’d have one eye on where SSC’s future lies before I make any long term decision on my career at Kilmarnock
    1 point
  8. I like Sheff Utd's version of Annie's Song by John Denver; The Greasy Chip Butty Song.
    1 point
  9. I am old enough to remember when people thought the council providing housing to those who would never be able to afford a mortgage was part of God's plan. Then Hilda happened and the solution to stopping councils from providing housing was to let people have mortgages even if they could never afford it. People waited for the system to rebalance itself but then Tonee happened and just made things 10 times worse, making students take out loans and privatising the railways. Then people in Scotland said f**k this and started voting for the SNP. Now the people at Westminster just keep waiting for the Scots to "come to their senses" while negotiating a Brexit that can only force the country much further to the right. I anticipate a long wait. P.S. quite how an educated chap like Corbyn cant grasp that a UK alone in the world and begging for trade deals would be forced to water down employment law and reduce social provision is beyond me.
    1 point
  10. It’s Adam Frizzells brother, if you look at his Instagram there are pictures of them together. He’s just simply liking a post from his pal.
    1 point
  11. Aye BigD sad reading i'm afraid, the lad came to us on a 6 month loan contract from Burnley with lots of promise which didn't materialise.... Wish him well but think his story the tip of the iceberg as young lads with lets be honest only promise, given huge wages which their immaturity can't handle and there is always plenty hangers on to help them down the rocky road then drop them just as quick when the money dry's up...
    1 point
  12. As I read in a BBC article it's not about resolving some article of detail through painstaking negotiation. It is about a fundamental difference of principal. The EU say you are in or out. They can't afford a position where the UK has selected the bits of the EU it wants to keep and the bits it wants rid of. The UK government want to be out in principle to satisfy the referendum result but in in practice. Being "out" in practice is like going outside a house in the middle of winter with no clothes on and saying a clothes vendor is sure to be along any time. The "nutters" won't hear of the UK governments position either as they want to be out in principal and practice. They are still fighting the last was and dying of frostbite is a price worth paying to teach those uppity Frogs and Krauts who's boss. Who do the EU think they are anyway? 27 uppity wee backwatters shouting the odds. This is the British empire they are messing with.
    1 point
  13. Back to SOD, I do hope he signs quickly, no doubt the sisters of doom will start circling around, at which point Mr McLeish (Scotland manager) will receive his orders to drop him from the international scene to reduce his value. What has made me so cynical I wonder?
    1 point
  14. originally Michael Jackson.
    1 point
  15. west brom - the lord is my shepherd, thou shall not want
    1 point
  16. wasnt Thomson the ref in recent game at Aberdeen ----with that dodgy red card ?
    1 point
  17. Is that Bachman turning over Jamie ?
    1 point
  18. The difference between a bicycle and a monocycle? Its satire, is it not?
    1 point
  19. st mirren home port 92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3E_srL6bOY st johnstone home port 15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf_TNXBhHeo hibs thar be dragons 99 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63dvHmb9GJM well thar be dragons 98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6bAPEVgxKU enchanted scribblings by cap'n @Philo Livingston home port 06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56MowzcxlDo This be from me own plunder. Arrr!
    1 point
  20. Yes i suppose it was. Only a 20 seater due to call offs during week etc. Wasnt worth the gamble and being out of pocket running a larger bus. However i did have a few friday night callers looking for 5/6 seats so maybe could have. Good day all in though. Will put the feelers out again for future matches and hopefully get a regular one on the go.
    1 point
  21. https://ggcathletics.com/watch/?Live=11&type=Live This is a link for a lassies university game in Georgia, USA this Saturday. $5. My oldest lad is the "Away" team boss... ...our subscription for all of his live-stream home games for a season is $70 e.g.https://portal.stretchinternet.com/martinmethodist/ Point is: yank wummins college fitba is better served than oor SPL. So what? We've been watching his uni/college fitba teams for years for virtually hee-haw. The technology/quality is excellent/very effective. We hook up an HDMI cable fae the lap top tae the big flat-screen telly and it booms through. The punters who are cameramen are amateurs but we're happy just to watch the live stream plus the gemmes are held on file so can be watched if we miss a match... ....there's no real reason why Killie first-team and reserve games cant be shown at very little cost to the club and THE FANS......just saying, like....
    1 point
  22. I would still use JJ for his pace, more importantly I think SSC will too
    1 point
  23. Not sure you know what satire is either.
    1 point
  24. MacDonald Sod, Broadfoot, Findlay, Taylor Tish, Power, Byrne Stewart, Burke Brophy
    1 point
  25. Ha ha! Don’t tell anyone but I didn’t investigate whether EU restraint of trade legislation applies to external bodies! Sometimes you just have to bluff!
    1 point
  26. I don't see why he would have to be. That's the problem with the whole system at the moment, apportioning blame and demoting refs for the next game obviously means they'll be on the defensive and never own up to a mistake. The focus should be on coming to the right decision.
    1 point
  27. Dicker in for either Burke or JJ. Go back to the three man midfield. Give Brophy and Stewart a bit more freedom to attack a fragile Celtic back line.
    1 point
  28. My point is that unless the ref is certain that a foul has been committed in the box he must not give a penalty. Any shadow of doubt it should not be given. The Hibs one came into this category especially seeing it in real time only once. Yet the Killie claim looked much more obvious. Referees are ruining this league, I can think of plenty of bad ones but can’t think of any consistently good ones to be honest. I do back the VAR claims but players must not be allowed to crowd the ref to go and watch the telly.
    1 point
  29. Steve Clarke Roy Aitken Gordon McQueen Stevie Nicol as defence?
    1 point
  30. Yeah, understand that but it would be good if 'outside Scotland' rather than 'outside the UK' could be supported. Then I can give money directly to the club rather than having to work around it. I think that's probably down to the SPFL and the rights agreements they have and not the club.
    1 point
  31. Aye but they should be flying over for the games.
    1 point
  32. Interesting article about former Kilmarnock player George Green can anyone remember if we signed him or was he on loan from Burnley? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45476430 FA Cup: Ex-Everton midfielder George Green on self-destruction and depression It is October 2011 and 15-year-old George Green is travelling to London for a trial with Tottenham Hotspur when a phone call changes everything. Everton have agreed a £2m deal with Bradford City for the schoolboy midfielder. Green signs a two-and-a-half-year contract, receives a £45,000 signing-on fee in three instalments of £15,000, and a promising future with the Toffees beckons for the Dewsbury teenager. Four years later he is stood on railway tracks near his hometown waiting for the next train so that he can end his life, Green's hopes of making it as a Premier League player ruined by cocaine and alcohol. "I was in that much debt, I thought I'd lost my partner due to my drug use, and I didn't see a way back for me with football," the 22-year-old tells BBC Sport. Now at sixth-tier Chester, who face City of Liverpool in the FA Cup second qualifying round at 15:00 BST on Saturday, Green opens up about having too much too soon, self-destruction, depression and how he is attempting to rebuild his life. "Mental health and addiction is an everyday battle. I'm giving it my best shot," he says. "If others can learn from it, I'd rather help." He had arrived at Goodison Park a fresh-faced schoolboy and was quickly compared to Wayne Rooney, who made his senior debut for the club aged 16. Green left without playing a first-team game having spent five weeks of his four years at Goodison Park in London's Priory hospital, which provides a range of mental health and addictions treatments. "Everton paid for it all, I think it was about £5,000-a-week," said Green, who was playing in the Toffees' U21 side by the age of 16 alongside future England internationals John Stones and Ross Barkley. "Before I turned 18 you wouldn't catch me out at night. As soon as I was 18 it was like a new world opened up. I was drinking, doing drugs and playing football. "The first time I took drugs I'd gone to watch football in a pub with mates. I was offered cocaine and it changed my life." At first Green was able to hide his habit from the likes of Kevin Sheedy, his youth-team coach, but before long he was taking 30 grams a month and life was spiralling out of control. "I was spending way over £2,000 a month. I remember one particular Monday morning I was supposed to be training. I didn't wake up until the afternoon. "The night before I'd gone to a friend's house for drink and drugs. I think that's when alarm bells started ringing at Everton. "I remember phoning a welfare officer at Everton one night. I was crying and said 'I need help'. Soon after I was admitted to the Priory." Having joined Everton as a £150-a-week schoolboy, Green's earnings reached £110,000-a-year at the Premier League club. Since leaving three years ago, he has also had spells with Burnley and Oldham Athletic - as well as Viking in Norway's top flight under Englishman Ian Burchnall, now boss at Swedish side Ostersunds. Green, who has also featured in the Scottish Premiership for Kilmarnock,believes he has earned at least £500,000 playing football. "I have an iPad to show for it. That's how much of a downfall my life has become because of drugs," he added. "I squandered it all. I'm embarrassed." At Everton, the former England youth international did most of his socialising back home in Yorkshire. "A good night out? I'd easily spend about £1,500. A meal would cost between £200 and £300," he said. "I'd be like 'let's get a bottle of champagne' and then a girl would come and sit next to me and I'd be like 'would you like a bottle of champagne?' "Earning the money I was, I thought it was never going to end. "Everybody wanted to know who I was and I was enjoying life. But I never got introduced to people who would keep me on the straight and narrow. They drank or did drugs and I fell into that circle. "I got a brand new Mercedes-Benz A-Class and did about £4,000 damage to it. That stemmed from drink-driving. I was ridiculous, I used to drink-drive everywhere." Green had four clubs within 14 months of leaving Everton. Soon after his release from the Toffees, he joined League One Oldham on a two-year deal. He lasted five months before his contract was cancelled by mutual consentin November 2015. "It was due to drink and drugs, I'd fallen out of love with the game and decided I didn't want to play any more." By now, Green was on a downward spiral. He had a drink-driving conviction and, after blowing much of his earnings on alcohol and cocaine, he was struggling financially. In addition, he was suffering from depression. He did not stay away from football for long. A week after leaving Oldham, Green had signed for non-league Yorkshire side Ossett Albion for £80-a-game. He had gone from Everton to the eighth tier of English football in less than six months. It was around this time he first contemplated suicide. "Leaving Everton hit me hard," he said. "I was stood on a railway track close to Mirfield station near Dewsbury ready for a train to come. I remember it being around eight or nine o'clock at night. "I hadn't written a note. It was all the pressures of everything in my life. The drugs, the alcohol, my mental health, football wasn't going well, lack of money. "Then there was an announcement over the speakers that the next train was delayed. "I thought 'it must be a sign that it can't be my time to go'. I broke down in tears and walked away." Green's mental health problems continued. He took an overdose after joining Salford City on loan from Burnley in early 2017. "I went in the pill cupboard at home and took everything there was. I wanted to die at that time," he added. Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville, Salford's co-owner, offered his support. Green said: "I was invited round to his house. I had been in hospital for taking too many tablets. We spoke for an hour about football and things Salford could do to help me." He lives near Dewsbury with his two-year-old daughter Daisy and fiancee, Charli, while the couple are due to welcome a baby boy to the family in October. Gone are the flash cars and the hangers-on who formed part of his life when he was at Everton. Instead of a Mercedes-Benz A-Class, Green now drives a Kia Rio to and from Chester, the club he joined in July from National League North rivals Nuneaton. Money is tight but the player blames no-one but himself. He relapsed in April but says he has not touched drink or drugs since, and attends weekly Alcoholics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous meetings. Green's support network includes former Aston Villa and England defender Gary Charles, a recovering alcoholic who now has a business which provides care to people who are experiencing a wide range of problems, including depression and alcohol/drug dependency. "There's not a day I don't speak to him. He's a lifesaver," adds Green. At the time of this interview, Green has an additional battle in his life. Two months after signing, he has yet to make his Chester debut because of a back injury which is likely to require surgery. He's frustrated and impatient. He has kept himself busy by getting to know Chester fans at home games, signing autographs and posing for pictures. Chester, a fan-owned club with a community trust, run a weekly mental health and wellbeing session which offers vulnerable members of society a chance to get out and play football. Green hopes opening up about his problems will raise awareness of mental health and addiction issues. "Football is the only thing I am good at. Without it I'd be dead," he added. "I thought my career would be over if I came out and started talking about my issues with drugs. "Then I said to myself 'how about being honest for once in your life and admit your problems'. "If my story helps one person, I'm happy to tell it. I'm happier, healthier and way more positive than I was."
    0 points
  33. Wind your neck in. You've hun pals. I've hun pals. My mate posted a pic from Benidorm earlier for Rangers game. i liked it. Doesn't make me a hun.
    0 points
  34. Real shame but well done to the guy for coming out with his story. He looked in flashes like he had some talent. Sadly we'll/he'll probably never know how good he could have been..
    0 points
  35. Plenty ways around it if you're in Scotland. Anyone who's not abroad and chooses to stream a home game will need shooting.
    -1 points
  36. Be nigh on impossible to show in England/Rest of UK and not Scotland, legally and practically
    -1 points
  37. BBC Alba? Is it narrated in chookter, if so that’s pish
    -1 points
  38. I'd go 3-5-2.. Macdonald Broadfoot Findlay Taylor SOD Byrne. Tishbola Power Burke Brophy..Stewart With Tishbola playing Def Mid..
    -1 points
  39. Just checking. No response to recent posts, other than from the Head Zoomer. Another set of arguments won with facts
    -1 points
  40. Dicker must play. One of our most effective players.
    -1 points
  41. Where Dicker? Dicker back after two match ban finish
    -1 points
  42. Think you need to limit the amount of porn you're watching mate.
    -1 points
  43. That is the points away before a ball is kicked. I knew it would be one of their FIFA gang but to get two for the price of one with Clancy as Fourth official puts the tin lid on it.
    -1 points
  44. At least he's big enough to admit it. Nearly everyone else was looking for looser regulation and no one was advocating tighter regulation. The Tories were also pledging to match Labour spending and the Lib Dems wanted to spend more. That made them pinning the blame on Labour all the more sickening, along with the gullible public swallowing the big lie,
    -1 points
  45. Do you see the author's name? Looks like one of the Frizzell family... Calm down.
    -1 points
  46. More "liking" sevco stuff. He's going to end up nowhere if he doesn't get his act together.
    -2 points
  47. Now THAT's satire.....well done, like it! @Lroy @Asasaid take note, pay attention and stop being time wasters.
    -5 points
  48. I doubt this is his friend. I think he's admiring his support for ra Gers.
    -5 points
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