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Couple of decent runs form both sides. Looks like their regular goalscorer is still struggling.

Che would have.... ah... never mind 🙂

That was another one across from Brooks. AA was unmarked, so that looked like a very good chance. Tried to get too slight a touch on it to guide it in?

Decent run from Brooks. I was waiting for one of our cutbacks there to AA.

I'd have had Che in there. Either Fraser or Brooks. Hopefully Rothwe and Brooks' are better in Martin's system and don't leave our defense exposed.

Fleetwood Mac agree... Can you hear me calling Out your name? You know that I'm failing And I don't know what team to play I'll shoehorn you in Mess the line up about I'll put others in the bin My footballing genius will out Oh, I I want to play Stephens everywhere Oh, I I want to play Stephens everywhere

Pony

Motor

Conference

2 -1 to us today. But we get an early fright.

Penny

Deputy

Style

Will

Wafer

Peanut

A sad day as Toadhall Saint is gunned down at high noon, outside the saloon. Only later did they realise he was just offering a view of the upcoming fixture. 🙂

Is this the same as the move to adhere to the UEFA guidelines? That provides %of expenditure against turnover. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/28/premier-league-clubs-set-to-back-uefa-style-framework-of-financial-rules

Conga

Banana

"This needs to change" 🙂 Looking forward to seeing the placard. While I'd not put it past the club for a moment to persevere with a player in the face of all evidence in the hope of a fat sale, and because their arrogance knows no bounds... Baz clearly isn't the best shot stopper. We all know that. The club know that too. However, they and successive managers see a lot of other things in his game. There are any number of other stats that could bring that out. Some examples. When we've been at our peak RussBall this season, Baz has been key to providing quick, precise, well weighted passes all across the back line, and further up when required. It's been very impressive. He's among the best at ensuring the posession based game that Martin's system depends on works. You'll see any number of our moves go through him at some stage. Yes, a lot of them would be standard for lots of keepers. But a number weren't. In practice, that peak RussBall has been mucked about with. Stephens, Brooks, Rothwell, Sule aren't at their best with it. So Baz's strengths aren't quite as needed. And there are any number of keepers who provide better all round shot stopping and support in a non RussBall set up. It's the same now as it was for Baz at the start of the season. He, like a lot of our players, are stand outs is some areas, and limited in others. Baz's limitations are pretty severe, and noticeable, because it's stopping a shot. For all the talk of ceilings and development, that might not happen, or not get to the level needed. I hope he improves, likely gradually, but enough that we get the benefit of an all round game while he's with us. With all respect to the stats sites. Those are not the level of data analysis conducted by the clubs. It's a developing field. It doesn't fully reflect anyone's all round game for context. And most importantly, it doesn't have a stat for Scowling. Baz is top ranked for Scowliness.

Jardine: There's been a murder, at Firhill. Taggart: There's a murder at Firhill every fortnight. Jardine: Not the football! A body! Regan: No you don't. You're both going to sit here and look at social media on the back of these Hate Crime reports. Taggart: All the murderers are under 25 these days, so they'd get let off anyway.

A day further into Hate Crime Land: 4000 reports. In a country of millions, it might be tough to gauge if that's a lot considering the novelty of it and pent up hatred some people have. What suggests it is a lot, is that other areas have had to be drafted in to support Police Scotland's specialist team set up for this (and all moved away from already dropping levels of investigations). Presumably numbers will drop away, despite extremes on both sides pushing (old firm spikes expected) The first minister was widely reported for hate crimes. This seems to be for speeches made about there being too many white people in the Scottish Parliament. Police Scotland had already said they'd not be investigating older incidents. However they have also said that every report would be logged as a non crime hate incident. The first minister even supported this. But this isn't being applied to the first minister or JK Rowling. Some of her reported as hate crime comments were after this was introduced. It certainly applies to others. Opposition politicians already have prior non crime hate incidents logged against them. A day in, and the legislation is not being equally applied to all. So, at least one person, with comments made after the act, is treated differently. And when this has settled down, that's the bit that should be kept in mind. It's already being targeted. We'll see in due course who does have them recorded against them, and the circumstances around them. I hope all opposition parties find out, as the first minister considers their non crimes as indicators of hate. Bear in mind an example in the guidance related to a politician who gets to drive the SNP despite not being in it. In an interview, the same SNP representative as yesterday failed to understand the basics of the Act they feverishly pushed through. Back tracking, in the face of actually having to deal with the real world rather than getting everything they want passed. Yet now completely at odds with Police Scotland's guidance. Another dismal day from the party that painted windows on their delayed ferries to make it seem they were further along (appropriately being investigated for rigging shipping contracts). Finally, to see the PM emphasise the freedom of speech side of this. And at least one person on an extreme who said that they had a list of names waiting to be reported has been kindly asked by Police Scotland if they had considered not using social media. Like all swivel eyed, they are doubling down on the injustice of the response. In fairness, a don't use social media isn't an appropriate response to genuine reports, they said applied to social media. A day in, it shows how frustrated the police are with it.

It boeglis the mind.

They've looked at the editor to see what the PA is going to be, and ignored everything else. 🙂