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  1. 22 hours ago, Beaker71 said:

    Yep, worst I had was 7 months in the Hilton in gateshead, only ran out of points last year from that.

    But compared to AM that's not even pennies.

    My wife tells folk we're only still married cos I'm away all the time 🤣🤣.... feckin 29yrs come the summer 😵

  2. 1 hour ago, Travis said:

    It's worth noting that a lot 'debate' between clubs on issues like this is kept very quiet and out of the media, often at the insistence of Old Firm clubs. Things like paying for broken chairs and other stadium damage is sometimes agreed as long as the home team doesn't make a fuss.

    After Celtic said they'd only pay for damages at RP if the club didn't make any comment about it, it soon became part of the SPL (at the time) rules that the away team had to cover the cost of any damage caused by their fans.

  3. 2 hours ago, Bbk said:

    Unfortunately wecall really know we won't be seeing any killie players playing for Scotland in Germany  SC will remain loyal to the bulk of his present squad for this campaign. 

    Yeah but this week was the ideal chance for SC to have a close look at the likes of Danny Armstrong and I was helluva disappointed that he wasn't picked in the squad.

    He's not a proper wing-back because his defending ain't great BUT he does have the engine to get up and down the pitch for a good 60-70 minutes and what he lacks in defensive skills he makes up for by being an annoying little bstard who will always be niggling at the heels of his opponent and chirping away at them all the time.  Add his willingness to take on a defender and is comfortable going inside & outside him, loves to cut inside for a shot .... then he would be something quite different from the rest of the squad.

     

    On the downside though, I do wonder if confidence is what has stopped SC picking him .... we all know that Danny has a tendency to hang onto the ball a bit too long --- maybe SC sees that as more a negative than his collective positive influences.

     

  4. On 3/24/2024 at 8:37 PM, skygod said:

    Loving following the tour week to week. Makes you realise how much time players spend away from home, living out of a suitcase.

    Before Covid I was around 240 nights a year in a hotel .... it ain't easy at times but at least he's more than adequately compensated for it.

  5. Would have to be a Killie top league win every time for me .... as SH says Killie have been a bigger part of my life a lot more often than Scotland and some of the happiest days of those 52yrs have come following KFC compared to a couple of dozen really outstanding Scotland results.

  6. 2 hours ago, red_dug said:

    Much as though I'd love a nice grass pitch the seethe that the astro causes among opposition fans makes me want to keep it.

    I can only recall 2 bad injuries on our astro......Jamie Murphy and Kiltie.

    2 injuries in 8 years or whatever it is is great going......I'd wager there are few if any grass pitches with a better record.

    Jamie Murphy's injury had nothing to do with the pitch .... he was running at speed, tried to cut inside and in the process he overstretched himself and his knee buckled.

  7. 6 minutes ago, Bbk said:

    Maybe someday us older generation or our families will be able to investigate the possibility of many of us having to play on muddy sometimes dog poo covered local authority pitches which were every bit as dangerous to health.

    Add in the days we played on in the snow and rain at risk of hypothermia and pneumonia on said pitches trying to play with heavier type footballs treated with dubbin( one for the oldies) yes football still seems to be a very dangerous game does it not?🫢

    Don't forget the red blaize pitches ..... or the mid80s - early 90s when the council was using fine black gravel to fill in the hollows in their grass pitches.  Combine that with old Mouldmaster or "Trophy" football and life was agony for young kid playing the game.

  8. 5 minutes ago, Ayrshire Killie said:

    Best ever Killie away strip. And what a collection of Killie legends in that picture. Must be over 2000 appearances between them!

    Just in the back line .... 

    McCulloch - 450

    McLean -- 475

    McDicken -- 345

    Clarke -- 362

    Robertson -- 607

     

    2239 games just from them .... figures from Wiki so not 100%

  9. 23 minutes ago, Comeonkillie said:

    What an occasion with a very sad ending.

    Correct .... can't have this pleasure with remembering what came after.

    Well done Killie

    Happy birthday DVT

    RIP Jack Kelly

  10. 11 hours ago, piffer said:

    There is clearly an issue with the park and drainage at Dens but Dundee had people working on the park from 0500 this has been acknowledged by both clubs and the SFA. What more are they supposed to do?

    Issue for me lies with the officials. The local ref could have made a decision as it was never going to be playable. There is an issue highlighted and Dundee have asked for an inspection but Don Robertson shows up at his normal time. 

    Local ref looked at the pitch at 9:15 and gave them extra time to clear it.  

    Was Robertson notified on Saturday that there would a need to get there earlier than usual?

    When did he find out an inspection was required?

    How far away from Dundee was he?

     

    Hard to blame the ref if he wasn't made aware that a pitch inspection was likely to be needed.  Even if he was sent a message at 5am when club officials were in the ground he probably wouldn't see it until his alarm went off which could be 7 - 8am.

  11. Liverpool just didn't take their chances AGAIN... game should've been dead and buried second half.

    McAllister got lucky as that could easily have been a red card .... Fernandes got lucky as well as he should've got a second yellow for his late tackle.

     

    Great game for a neutral though.

  12. 10 hours ago, Jedi2 said:

    For me, the best manager currently operating in Scotland, when his record at St.Johnstone, Aberdeen, and now us, is taken into account.

    Steve Clarke who is clearly an outstanding manager, largely inherited a decent set of players and then added the likes of Bachmann and Mulumbu, as well as Stewart for half a season. No question that he made each and every one of the players he inherited from Lee McCulloch better.

    Del has had to build his own squad, which has taken time, being saddled wages wise, as well as personal with many of the players brought in by Wright.

    Since last summer when he was really able to get his own choices in the door and rely less on loans on the whole, we have seen the vast improvements made.

    To take any side from.5th and toiling in the Championship as we were when he came in to the cusp of a European place and a trip to Hampden in the space of 2 years, is a massive achievement.

    You are right that we won't win every week, but we are now both beating the Old Firm, and when narrowly losing to them, making them look ordinary.

    Domestically, I can't see any other Scottish manager who has been as consistently successful as Derek McInnes over the past 15 years or so.

    He is a manager who could easily be in a job at any of Rangers, Hearts or Hibs, but, thankfully, he seems to be enjoying life at the moment, and if we can hold onto him, there is no reason why the future won't continue to be bright.

    Yet it's it's not that long ago folk were still wanting him sacked.

  13. Left that Hibs debacle when the 4th went in cos we had two small kids in tears that day ... one has never been back to football except for special occasions in hospo.  

    Also the day Rangers won the league at RP we left I think when the 5th went in...

    I've left other games a few minutes early if I was night shift, or had to get somewhere and needed to avoid traffic .... but I can't think of it happening too many times... certainly not when 2-0 down at halftime.

  14. 1 hour ago, bgb02burns said:

    Just maybe Innes is one of those players people talked themselves into believing he was worse than he was. 
     

    I mentioned KVV looking lean and fit during the warmup. Actually thought Stewart always looked sharp, just never had a decent run. Thought big Kev looked great in the dropping off and linking play role. Streets ahead of Vassell at that imo. 
     

    You know Hearts away. If we can sneak a win there maybe they go on a bad run and give us a shout at 3rd place. Be such a game changer for us to make third. The money it would bring in could allow us to increase our budget plans significantly for 3-4 years if we avoid going crazy. 

    KVV spent the entire half-time warm up holding his left hip and stretching out his left thigh ... so not sure how he looked fit.  My sister was sitting beside the subs and she messaged at half-time to say he was sitting on an ice pack all game so he's clearly not fully fit.

     

    That said he did look good when he came on, as did Stewart and Cameron.

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