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I must confess that Rangers and Celtic look to be building decent teams with new managers.

Looks like it is going to be 'Shaunshine on Leith'
Excellent choice for club and new manager, I was wondering where Maloney would go to first.
SPFL now becoming quite a decent league.
No really weak sides.
 

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Im a pars fan, and it has been a disastrous start... Peter Grant was proven to be a poor poor choice of manager, and has signed some utter roasters of players. But there are green shoots showing now. he needs to be free to sign a midfield general type in teh january window, and we'll be heading back to where we belong
 

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Game was stopped for 4-5 minutes while Starfelt was treated after getting his nose bust open by a flying elbow. Ref ignored the elbow and booked Starfelt! Then compounded it by sending him off for a second booking. Bizarre is putting it mildly.

Great win in the circumstances, this season is going to go down to the wire imo.

What game were you watching??
Starfelt very clearly put the head on the boy's elbow-clear case of assault!!:whistle:
But you're right in that it's going to be a tight finish-just hope the virus doesn't bugger things up for the fans-AND the teams:rolleyes:
Come on the Hearts:p
 

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I must confess that Rangers and Celtic look to be building decent teams with new managers.

Looks like it is going to be 'Shaunshine on Leith'
Excellent choice for club and new manager, I was wondering where Maloney would go to first.
SPFL now becoming quite a decent league.
No really weak sides.
Only 2 would be likely to be competitive in Premier League (or maybe not even there!). Two or three might be competitive in League 1, The rest are League 2 at best.
 

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UEFA Nations League B Group: Scotland, Ireland, Ukraine, Armenia.

Interesting Ukraine will be out for revenge once we dump them out of the WC in March. And hallelujah…no Israel…?
 
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Only 2 would be likely to be competitive in Premier League (or maybe not even there!). Two or three might be competitive in League 1, The rest are League 2 at best.
What an utterly bizarre thing to say.
 

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Only 2 would be likely to be competitive in Premier League (or maybe not even there!). Two or three might be competitive in League 1, The rest are League 2 at best.
I would say that Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs are bigger clubs than Watford, Brighton, Burnley and Brentford. The money these clubs get from Television skew the view of many ill informed people of how successful Scottish clubs would be in that league. As to Celtic and The Rangers if they got the equivalent income from Sky they would be competing for the title within a few years.
 

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I would say that Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs are bigger clubs than Watford, Brighton, Burnley and Brentford. The money these clubs get from Television skew the view of many ill informed people of how successful Scottish clubs would be in that league. As to Celtic and The Rangers if they got the equivalent income from Sky they would be competing for the title within a few years.
I was 'measuring' them on current quality, not what they could be, given the rewards - which I agree, would be higher than they currently get. And I may have been a bit harsh too. The ones you mention might do ok against lower half Championship sides. My opinion of Aberdeen was/is probably tainted by the years I watched some of their games (Early 21st C, then 2010-12 or thereabouts, so unfortunate timing/I missed some of their 'good' period); they appear to have improved since then too. Again Hearts (the team my Gran, a West Calder native, followed) was going through its 'of Mid-Lithuania' period before subsequent rebirth via Ann Budge.
 

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Only in Scotland could it happen that a manager get's the bullet in the mist as the game was being called off!
Plus Jack Ross receiving his P45 after his Hibs team 'skelp' Rangers in the cup semi to get them to the final manager less.
what are the odds on JR getting the Killie gig??
Don't want anyone taking this the wrong way BUT are managers mental to put themselves through all that stress/love/hate/not knowing/Covid/player's ego trips/director's ego-centricities..../the highs and lows AND the total uncertainty of waiting for the 'summons upstairs/ dreaded vote of confidence':(:rolleyes:?
BTW-couldn't reach the milk at the back of the top shelf in ASDA yesterday so asked this taller dude in a CELLIK top (obviously no fashion sense-or normal stuff was being washed?), thanked him and actually said "hope you play well tomorrow"-HONEST :rolleyes:
And on that note, wonder who's going to win??
 
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Expecting to hear later that Scottish football's winter break is getting moved forward after the 500 fan limit from Boxing Day for three weeks was announced.
You've got to hope common sense comes in. I fear Donkeycaster will unfortunately not have the balls to tell SKY that no, they won't wait until after the Old Firm game
 
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