When the seagulls drop the squirrels SPFL 2018/2019

following on from last season's thread "I spoke to Bruno Alves and said to him, 'So this is Scottish football'." SPFL 2017/2018

Cheers Jim.

Looks like we'll make it to August before we all get knocked out of Europe this year!

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2989190/hamilton-accies-stadium-deal-cannabis-oil-firm-hope-cbd/

Disappointingly only one comment on that story so far:

Hamilton Crack-ies

Hamilton CBD-edibles?

Hempilton Canna-edibles

Wacky Baccy Accies

- if someone hasn't used that as a headline by now I'll severely disappointed.

If ever a game needed a dead squirrel it was that pish last night. Still, onwards to Athens!

Good luck to almost all of our teams playing tonight!

Hibs have scored.
And conceded.
Of course.

I didn't realise the keeper that's been letting in all the goals is on Liverpool's books and went out on loan to try and work his way up their pecking order.

Made a couple of key saves tonight to be fair.

Rangers hanging on. Even if they get through, the bad news is that Progres Niederkorn have already qualified for the next round.

Burnley v Dons, extra time. Hibs through, Rangers through... to meet Maribor, who have a pretty good record against Scottish sides!

Pigeons, punches & tattoos - the addictive world of Scottish football

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45037847

I made a list of all the official SPFL Twitter accounts.

SPFL Official by @gerry__watt: https://twitter.com/gerry__watt/lists/spfl-official

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/07/30/the-mighty-glasgow-celtic-get-special-pes-2019-edition

Kotaku going in with studs showing

Seriously, if you ever visit Glasgow try to count up how many club shops for Celtic you see. There are even a few Rangers ones left (a club that used to be Celtic's main rival before it defrauded the taxman and was wound-up).

Yasssss

You could say Hearts played a bit dirty (I'd contend most of them were "good yellows") or blame it on the grass length, but with the ball we were playing great football. Uche has been a find and a half.

Hearts competed better for every ball. Worthy winners.

Naismith is a rat bastard sad excuse for a hard man. He's also stupid - Hayes being injured improves Celtic.

Better late than never...😎 pic.twitter.com/pJ5KDrOD6B

— Heart of Midlothian (@JamTarts) August 11, 2018

watching tony watt on twitter trying to get an obvious own goal credited to him is compelling stuff

I'm quite enjoying the hearts/levein trolling. always found levein a bit of a dour bore but there's something a bit jolly about the way he's reveling in being a bam-up merchant.

just found out that tony watt has a twitch stream lol

he's streaming himself playing the current st johnstone season on fm

hero

Seems Scottish football has decided blatantly kicking an opponent in retaliation is just fine. I am looking forward to this being applied consistently across the season.

Season over, Rodgers out. Or vice versa.

xp

Stamp. Please explain what a stamp is? Do you think they will look at this? More to the fact will you report this for Brown? @ScottishFA pic.twitter.com/KEEekc0odH

— MitchMcEwan (@ecc2004) August 12, 2018

Looks like elbowing was fine in the same game so pretty consistent so far ;)

I'd like to be able to support Celtic in Europe - not just for the sake of the coefficient but because I actually like to see Scottish clubs doing well - but the money gap it creates is so bloody ridiculous.

Don't worry we'll have a lot less money this season - I'd rather be in the Europa League anyway.

Rangers' route to group stages of UEFA looking good, Hibees humped in Norway.

Regretting using SPFL in this thread title as I'm seeing lots of weird and wonderful juniors stuff on twitter, e.g.

Lowland League East Kilbride present Spartans with engraved BANANA https://t.co/YbyeqVCcfC pic.twitter.com/kDX5viwOcT

— The Scottish Sun (@ScottishSun) August 16, 2018

The good news for the Gers is that Progres Niederkorn were put out by a goal in the 4th minute of extra time.

Tie of the round though was Zenit vs. Dinamo Minsk, positively Hibslike, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45216364

So it seems that the brief tenure of Lafferty being "our c**t" is over and he is now back to "a c**t".

Ideally we reinvest the funds in a defender pronto since Berra is crocked for most of the season. Someone the right side of 30 would be ideal.

Gareth McAuley would work short term but hmm, longer term? Don't want another Hughes.

Alternatively, if the Ross Callaghan plus cash rumour is to be believed, on the attacking front I am really interested in how Shankland would fare in the Premiership.

oh hello new thread!

I reckon Berra's a much bigger loss than Lafferty. I fear Shankland would be yet another Gavin Reilly / Dennis Wyness figure.

I'm enjoying this Motherwell v Rangers game

Aye, good end to end stuff. Looking forward to Old Firm next week.

Beautiful ending, well deserved point for Well.

Could have scripted that ending!

If Dembele is offski, any ideas who Celtic are or should be targetting to get in?

Euro qualification, an Édouard injury and Griffiths maintaining his less than stellar form could make the league a bit interesting!

Rangers through despite having two men sent off. I say two men, but one was Morelos, so more like one man and a big baby.

Celtic just announced the signing of Armstrong Okoflex.

We signed him in July, he's 16 and won't get a look at the first team.

Embarrassing effort at making deadline day look better. "We reluctantly sold our best striker so here's a youth prospect who's been here for months!"

Today is a good day

Today etc

Bright new dawn at Ibrox - park the bus, pin your hopes on Allan McGregor and occasionally hoof the ball upfield... to Kyle Lafferty. Are you Walter Smith in disguise?

Talking of Kyle Lafferty, I somehow missed this little nugget from his time with Palermo:

He scored 11 goals in 34 matches to help the club ascend to Serie A as champions in his only season, and won the Fans Player of the Season award. However, club president Maurizio Zamparini called him an "out-of-control womaniser" and claimed that this lifestyle resulted in him being sold.[26]

He told Italian radio in 2014: "He is an out-of-control womaniser, an Irishman without rules. He is someone who disappears for a week and goes on the hunt for women in Milan.

"He has two families with six children, he never trains, and he's completely off the rails. On the field he's a great player, because he gave us everything he had and more.

"In terms of his behaviour, however, he is uncontrollable. My coach told me he cannot sort this player out, so he has to go."

Kept Paolo Dybala out of the side too haha.

professional gamer wins spl player of the month

If the “professional gaming” keeps him out of bother and the goals flowing (in a Saints shirt) then I’ll happily chip in to sponsor his X-Box Live account.

Seems as good a thread as any to hail the excellent work of the Scottish Women's Team in their World Cup 2019 qualification; 7 wins, 1 defeat, did the job they needed to do this afternoon and results went their way. A World Cup final, at last!

really great news, only chance of seeing a scotland national team in a world cup.

in gloating tim news: with the loss in the derby at the weekend steven gerrard's start in the league is the worst ever for a rangers manager ;_;

This is @JMcGinn7 in #FIFA19.

Has to be a joke right, @EASPORTSFIFA?!#AVFC pic.twitter.com/WNMva1ux2R

— Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial) September 21, 2018

RIP Jim. Had a pint or two in his pub a fair few times.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16899673.celtic-legend-jim-brogan-dies-aged-73-after-dementia-battle/

This semi final scheduling fiasco is everything that is wrong with Scottish football.

I try not to be too deems about wanting managers out but I would have sacked him at half time.

tbh I would have sacked him at any point in his tenure as he's been fucking brutal at all times and any results we got were not of his doing.

When I find myself feeling low I externally moan about brexit and we're all going to die, but really it's Lennon's Celtic and McLeish's Scotland that are getting me down.

For all he's a sneaky self-serving snake, at least Brendan's teams were mostly fun to watch while the world burned.

Gave up on Scotland some time ago tbh.

I always say I have but I don't really mean it. This is as disengaged as I've ever been with the national team.

From WGS saying we were genetically unable to compete (years after taking the job and even more years after being a wee tiny guy who scored against West Germany in a World Cup) to the shit show that was Eck's appointment to the all time low of Kazakhstan I think I'm maybe finally done with them.

i think i cared a bit about the scotland national team up until 2007, when we lost to italy in the playoff for euro 2008.

living in glasgow the teuchter army invasion for the games at hampden can be a bit annoying

Mcleish out according to reports

Well the record

Championship rather than Premiership, but currently half-watching the Dunfermline-Ayr United game on BBC Scotland - Ayr's pink away strip is HIDEOUS

you may have missed that particular kit launch

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ayr-uniteds-new-kit-suddenly-12383308

"Good socialist paper, The Mirror"

Stevie unpacking metaphors

📺 WATCH: Steven Gerrard bats away claims #CelticFC Park will be a 'lions den' on Sunday 👀 🦁#RangersFC #OldFirm pic.twitter.com/XoJ4vJqNyf

— PLZ Soccer (@PLZSoccer) March 29, 2019

It's like Lenny never left, pure madness.

3 Celtic fans stabbed in and around the strathduie apparently.

If the referee hadn't shat it, Brown would have got three Rangers players sent off, that would have to be some sort of record.

Brown hit in three separate off the ball incidents (one of them off the game) and he's named by Andy Walker at the end as someone who could face action afterwards. For smiling and celebrating presumably.

Rangers are garbage. We were almost as bad for 20 minutes.

Edouard's best game in a while and when you add his two last minute winners in the past few weeks he's carried us over the line.

Yes, I'll admit I have altered my initial opinion of Edouard as fat, lazy and profligate. Shocking performance in the second half, thought they had the game won.

had a dream my da and i were hanging out with el búfalo. he was very nice tae

Slow and ponderous tonight yet again. I'm hoping performances and not just results are being watched in considering the caretaker's future.

Here's my new favourite twitter account to follow follow

https://twitter.com/gerstv_clips

Eck's oot

SFA in doing the right thing shockah.

I'd hold that thought until you find out who's replacing him

Nightmare visions of Malky Mckay as caretaker in the upcoming double header and beating Belgium and getting the job.

it'll be strachan back or something equally barmy.

He's too wee.

Can't imagine why anyone would want the job, though I suppose there are plenty of shite unemployed managers out there.

With the treble in the bag (aye, right) I will be focussing on St Mirren's attempts to avoid relegation having been odds on for the drop for most the season.

There's only one King Billy. Rest in peace.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41685748

RIP Caesar ;_;

;_;

Stevie Chalmers :(

http://www.celticfc.net/news/16090

ffs they're all dying off now. RIP Stevie ;_;

;_;

Worst pitch in the league survives another season. Congratulations to Hamilton and all their supporter.

Well, St Mirren gave it their best shot but their early season form was abysmal.

good form going into play off though, tough one to call

So Scotland have actually got themselves a good manager. Not sure how it happened but good news.

This was class from Clarke, "Bye bye Rangers", lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PTcEZM0iZA

Treble treble!

That was a nervy final, Hearts played really well - bossed midfield for most of the game quite comfortably.

French Eddy seems completely lacking in nerves. His goals since Lennie arrived have been huge - no Eddie no treble.

I'm not convinced by our football since Lennie came back and I'm worried he's been employed as a cheap option - not just in wages but in summer transfers. Any of the other names linked with us would have wanted commitment in terms of investment but imo Lennie would take the job no matter what.

OTM to all of that. Love the guy but I really did not want Lennon to get the job. Anyway, come on the Saints this afternoon!

Dundee United twitter account has been hacked and has posted "Mon the Rangers" and "fuck the Pope" amongst other stuff durinvf today's game. Weird thing is the club seems oivious and is tweeting minute by minute updates of the game at the same time.

*oblivious

Oh dear. pic.twitter.com/LBtasjcVxj

— Ben Palmer (@BenjyPalmer) May 26, 2019

I was up for a wedding and a mate surprised me with a ticket for my birthday, so I went through on my own. We gave it a good go, at least- better than I feared. My voice is now completely fucked, to the point that I can't speak at all (don't celebrate a goal if you have a cold i guess)

kudos to youse on the treble treble!

Kilmarnock 0 Connah's Quay Nomads 2

... Jeez-o

banter years are back for killie efter stevie left

pic.twitter.com/m0W3pyX4xt

— Vanguard Bears (@VanguardBears) July 19, 2019

And they are the people, after all.

spfl fantasy football anyone?

https://fantasy.spfl.co.uk/#/welcome

https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/17815310.four-arrested-rangers-fans-pitch-invasion-collapsed-disabled-shelter/

... and this doesn't even mention the sectarian singing. Things could get nasty this season.