SanguinePar

Or, knowing our luck, to get more players injured in the meantime! Good results for us today though, a win vs Arbroath would put us right back in the mix. Although that's true for them too.

Weird, when I read that article earlier it said that almost exactly this would be the case - but that info seems to have gone now. It said 2 reserved spots for the top 2 host nations who don't qualify normally (top 2 in qualifying record I think). Agree that it seems fair enough, you can't keep 5 spots back. This seems a decent compromise.

Euro 2028 set to be in UK and Ireland: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/04/uk-and-ireland-set-to-host-euro-2028-after-turkey-withdraw-bid

FFS, don't tell me Summers is injured now too?

FFS. There's always someone who takes it way too far. Hope the CM is ok?

BBC reporting that it's Ferguson: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66919037

No worries man, sorry for the sarcasm, it wasn't really warranted. Was having a bad day, but not your fault.

Just a guess, but wasn't there a post about childhood obesity on here a wee while back? Could be to do with that?

Nobody in this thread has said anything about not supporting the Armed Forces.

No point bringing WW1 and WW2 into a discussion about ticket price policy either, but these are the times we live in.

It's horrendous - I do think there's a way that the songs could be mashed together better, but it's mean speeding GA up a fair bit and tbh it's not worth it. If we left him at his original speed I think you could drop a good solid 4/4 house beat behind it, with the first beat on "fer", like: 1 2 3 4 Dunfeeeerrrrmmlinneee 1 2 3 4 Dunfeeeerrrrmmlinneee (Not sure how that will look when I post this!) But 7NA doesn't really fit IMO, especially with the changes in pace it has.

Would mean kids in other areas can't see or do it though. Where it was was the perfect spot IMO. This is the kind of thing I was worried about back when I was unhappy about the renaming of the ground (not that I've stopped being unhappy about that).

Looked like a handball to me, watching the highlights just now:

Yes, of course, Hitler's reign of terror most surely would have been prevented if he'd only been offered 5 pfennig entry to Braunau am Inn FC as a lad...

If I remember rightly, that's twice you've got that right - away at Montrose being the other one? :-)

Boooooooooooommmm!!!

Playing really well although the last 5 minutes were a bit scary. Did anyone else feel like the first half lasted forever though? Not that I wasn't enjoying it, but it took ages!

Maybe if someone offers enough money.

Lol, I know what you mean. Hot sure if they've moved. I would doubt it though tbh.

I guess Crawford, Kozma, French, Leishman and Paton aren't legends anymore. 5 Legends for 7 Kings. Fair trade?

Ah, but to who @Boston Red Sox? :-)

Kind of takes the shine off our result on Saturday! ;-)

Not quite - my initial post was a question about why it was happening. Not an implication that there was some murky reason, nor an argument that it shouldn't. If it had been, I would hardly have started off by saying that it may be useful to people, would I? I'd certainly like the Pars not to get drawn into the kind of fetishisation you describe though - hence my asking the question in the first place. I don't really see what the problem is with that. We'll see if that happens. No more dramatic than the term "hand-wringing" tbh. And I did say "a bit of a pile on". People may be disagreeing with the inference they're drawing from the OP, but all I did was ask the question, I didn't imply anything, so there's nothing to disagree with, other than my decision to ask about it. So we agree then that it's fine to ask questions on this sort of subject?

Like what? No handwringing from me - I simply asked a question about why the club is giving a discount to people with one job, and not to people with other jobs. Thus far, nobody has addressed that question other than to speculate that it's related to a block booking (which, again - would that apply to other jobs? I think we all know it wouldn't) It's not an unreasonable question to ask. Which I said in my OP. It's quite telling to see how even the idea of questioning something relating to the armed forces has seen a bit of a pile-on of people disparaging even asking the question. IMO armed forces members should be treated with respect, fairness and empathy - with decent pay and conditions, and proper support (both financial and emotional) when they leave. What they should not be IMO is revered or considered unquestionable, simply because they are in the forces. I suspect they wouldn't want that either tbh.

Indeed - a point I made in the OP :-)