"I spoke to Bruno Alves and said to him, 'So this is Scottish football'." SPFL 2017/2018

*waves*

Some goal from Moult today to secure the tie.

https://youtu.be/29AHOcObwNQ

Some awful refereeing in both semi finals.

Yeah Moult’s second was a beauty.

Smashing goal, mostly terrible game (only watched the second half). Yon non-penalty that Hibs got was a joke. Sutton getting right lamped into the standard of refereeing to a bemused Rob McLean was great though.

Why is Rob McLean polluting the BT airwaves anyway? I miss Derek Rae.

I thought last night would have been the end of the unbeaten run. Teirney was sensational and Dembele more than justified replacing Griffiths.

Only worry for me is this insistence on trying to make the keeper pass the ball when he plainly can't do it. Between Gordon and Boyata we gave the ball away in our own half too many times to count. I think that's the main reason we struggle in Europe.

More trouble at Scotland's youngest professional football club: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41762385

gutted

they should go for big sam if they want to frighten celtic fans a bit. Im not sure anyone else mentioned would get any worried

expecting Ailsa to say she wouldn't be in 3, 2, 1..

Neil Lennon obv.

Big Sam's big face frightens me. His managerial record of winning next to fuck all in 20 years, not so much.

That said, his profile is such that he might command a slightly higher salary than the 4th best manager in Qatar so probably not gonna happen.

bet your (big) house on McInnes imo.

they don't have the money for your allardyces

i could see mcinnes turning it down

higher salary, bigger budget, he's a boyhood rangers supporter (i think).

otoh it's a hiding to nothing

yeah all true. just a feeling, and i'm prob underestimating the lure of greyskull to someone brought up in it

I think he more or less threw his hands up and said "We (i.e. I) can't do anything more" after the Aberdeen-Celtic game the other night.

Prepare to resurrect this quote and mock me in a week or so, but I don't think McInnes would touch it. He knocked back Sunderland to stay at Aberdeen, I can't see him leaving them for another Scottish team. Especially the state of affairs at Ibrox atm.

Alex McLeish joint second-favourite with Billy Davies after McInnes with most bookies, with Graeme Murty just behind them. Rot probably not stopping any time soon.

Nae bother.

Rumour spreading on twitter that Liam Miller is in a hospice with days to live. Can't find a reliable source and I don't remember any reports of an illness.

Tam McManus saying it's not quite that bad...

"Awful news about Liam Miller keep the fingers crossed that he somehow pulls through. Was in the USA for treatment this month and flys back tomorrow to start chemo here. He’s still fighting it. Will say a prayer for him tonight. 🙏🏻 #fuckcancer "

Big Eck currentlly odds on fav for Ibrox. Hard to tell how that will go down with the bears.
I'm fairly confident he could make them a solid second within a year - not sure if that's acceptable to People who have somewhat loftier ambitions.

McLeish would be a car-crash imo.

I said it when they sacked him but the Magic Hat, though full of hot air, was probably about as good as they could expect to do in terms of managers.

not to be horribly mean-spirited but whenever I've seen eck mcleish on tv in the last year or so he looks like he enjoys a drink

I enjoy a drink.

i enjoy a drink but you can only see it on my face periodically

Close run thing there.

If that was Derek McInnes' way of showing what he can do with a team at Ibrox, he's welcome to the manager's gig.

Saw approximately ten tedious minutes of the first half of our game due to Celtic TV's complete ineptitude, delighted to get away from there with a point.

Looks like McInnes set up a completely new formation and strategy against the team that lost to Dundee and Hamilton. Anyone paranoid would think he was throwing points to Glasgow before moving there...

Someone remind us to put "concomitant" into the thread title next season:

https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/club-statement-83/

(also lolz at the "we didnae want him anyway" insinuations all the way through. That'll be why you've been blatantly tapping him up for weeks, aye?)

a quite preposterous institution

They're the gift that keeps on giving.

Was it just me that found it amusing hearing Angry Kris Boyd on Sportsound tonight acting as if there's no way anyone at Rangers had ever had the chance to even informally outline anything to McInnes at any point?

Boyd making a clown of himself all week (century tbh).

This wee jambo thread made me lol

When you try your best but you don’t succeed... pic.twitter.com/GMdXLeYoBP

— Liam (@HMFCLiam) December 6, 2017

I've somehow ended up in a parallel universe where Adam Rooney is arguing with William Shatner about who has the biggest balls.

🤔Would it be ‘naff to tell @17AdamRooney that my bawbells are bigger than his? #sizematters 😝 https://t.co/LSA954nJYo

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 12, 2017

THREAD TITLE FOR NEXT YEAR KLAXON!

I think i must still be drunk?

wish I was

Genuinely don’t understand what’s happened to either team

Hearts made it a physical battle early on and Celtic shat it.

Our defence has had this in them all season, never imagined Lafferty would be the one to expose it.

There's also some weird thing going on where the pitch is ridiculously slippery but only for Celtic players.

brb passing out briefly

Well, if you're going to go out, go out with a bang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Scottish_League_Cup_Final

Never seen Kieran Tierney have such a pish half. Still considering sending a search party out for Boyata.

Still a hell of an achievement over the last year and a half, but.

New central defence plz.

Hell of a fall off in two years

2004–2009 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 132 (8)
2009–2012 Heart of Midlothian 87 (4)
2012–2015 Rangers 83 (5)
2015–2017 Shrewsbury Town 49 (4)
2017 Blackpool 10 (0)
2017 Skelmersdale United 1 (0)
2017 Chorley 2 (0)
2018– Tranent Juniors

fucking knew this was going to be an ian black related post ;_;

“The game has been good to me and I want to help Tranent achieve their vision, “I won’t be coming here to take my foot of the gas. I am hungry to be a success at 
Tranent. There’s no hiding place at your home club.”

“Ian is a local lad who has played at the highest level. He will go straight into the squad for our first game of 2018 at home to Dunbar on Saturday.” Tranent play in the McBookie East Premier League.

Currently sitting one place above my local Junior side in the league.

McBookie

They write themselves.