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    While I agree with you up to a point, there can be no denying that the finances of our rivals are very important to our fortunes as a club, and even more so from next season onwards when we are expected to be competing with them for the title. If their finances are being affected as the earlier poster estimates, that is very good news for us, as it means the gap between us going into next season will be considerably less than it otherwise would be. I would love to go back to the 86-98 period where our finances were in much better order than theirs which gave us an advantage on the pitch as well, and our team did the rest. As it stands we are miles behind our rivals in every department, which really hurts, so while you are right to say it is being used as a comfort blanket, it is pretty much all that is comfortable with our current situation and we can no longer afford ourselves the right of ignoring our rivals financial fortunes.
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    I dont see anybody on here saying that at all. Nobody needs that as a reason for voting NO, there are already many many reasons to vote no without bringing football tribal rivalry into it.
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    Something has to give. We cant afford 3 experienced goalkeepers in the second tier of Scottish football, especially with our running costs and reduced income. We also have another good young keeper in Kelly who now has absolutely no chance of even being involved in the first team squad and will most likely be punted out on loan.
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    Yes, I remember this. It was rescheduled for Love St mk2 midweek in January, and we were on the bus just leaving for the game when news came that the game was off. It was eventually rescheduled for very close to the end of the season, IIRC the last week where we had to cram all the games into a week or so. I think we won 1-0 when we needed to score a few to get back ahead on goal diff. Had we played them in January when we were playing well, we would have been heavy favourites to win with a much bigger margin.
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    It appears that rule G7 should be explained to Ally in that it cannot be held against us should we decide to play the East Fife game, but not play another game later in the year in a similar situation. What irks me most about Ally's comments on this match is that he claims it would be disrespectful to East Fife if we choose to go ahead with this game but have cancelled others. I dont give a rats arse what East Fife think. If we have the chance to play a game on a Saturday afternoon rather than a midweek evening, we should be thinking of our fans first, not our opponents. It is ok for our pampered players and staff who have all day to go to Fife, can stay overnight and return the next day or have a lie-in and go to their work later, or in most cases have the day off next day, but our fans have to take time off work to travel to watch the team, often getting home deep into the night and still requiring to be up for work a few hours later. But let's not think of them, lets make sure East Fife, with all of their 200 or so fans, don't think we are treating them lightly by playing a game without three players from our massive squad. And he says THAT would be disrespectful. Different universe from our fans i'm afraid.
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    What I would want to know is what we are paying him, and what we were offering Gallacher who we let go and Alexander got him snapped up at Hearts. We are talking about a third choice keeper, unless Simmo is released before the end of the week, which isn't going to happen with Bell out. The signing makes absolutely no sense at all, either on a squad, financial, or priority basis, and sadly gives more easy ammunition to those who point towards our board and management and cry "useless".
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    MY guess is that this is what dB is getting at. Of course, this is exactly the opposite of what the East Fife situation is, where we will want to cancel the game, as we have done in the last two seasons, if we have 3 call-ups. I can see the point dB is making regarding if you dont cancel it now, another match may be forced upon us later using this match as a reference point, but I dont believe the 2008 shambles was the same situation as we didnt WANT the cancellations in 2008, they were forced on us.
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    If you recall, we were not allowed to play a match on an international weekend because the Scotland squad were having a get-together at Cameron House. Scotland didnt have a game, and we were two or three games behind because of the bad winter, and both us and our opponents wanted to play a previously postponed match, but we were not allowed to do so. The end of season fixture congestion later that year, that arguably cost us a never to be repeated quadruple, could have been eased easily back in February by allowing us to play a game everyone but the SFA wanted us to play.
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    I agree with BD here, as the vast majority of tims I know are voting yes, or at the very least being pressurised into voting yes by their peers. One even gave a reason for voting yes that it would mean we would have to stop flying the Union flag as there would be no Union. It also seems that the more "staunch" the tim is, the more adamant the Yes vote is.
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    A great interview that, thanks for sharing.
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    Cheers Zappa. Still not entirely sure how it stands now as some of these contracts will have been ripped up in 2012 by d&p. Also the press releases (understandably) don't go into too many specifics about the mechanics of the deal. If I buy a pie and a programme does the club get any of my money, or does the profit go to outsourced contractors?
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    I wonder if anyone knows what the current setup is regarding the contracts for catering and programmes. I know Azure have got a contract for catering, do they pay a licence fee and then they take all the match day takings, or do they pay a lower fee and the club gets a slice of the till receipts? Same with the programmes, does the club get a fixed fee so it doesn't matter how many they sell or is the clubs income from programme sales dependant on the number sold? Anyone?
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    When Platini took over UEFA he declared he wanted to put the football first and the admin second. Obviously he lied.
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    I'm with Bluedell on this. The good days were oh so good. I find it surprising that the credit gets taken away because it was mainly Advocaats team. Does nobody remember that Advocaats got sacked for a reason, namely that that great team of his couldn't win anything and he had lost the dressing room, and Oneill had his number, leading to the scums only treble in my lifetime. Eck came in and turned that around almost immediately and put MON in his place while we were downsizing and the tims were not. Walters teams played great football for maybe 3 years out of his entire time in charge, Advocaats team were a joy to watch for 2 years, Ecks team was very good for 18 months, but all three had long spells when the quality was rubbish. If bears prefer to dwell on the negative when looking back so be it, but I prefer to give good Rangers men like Eck a break they earned and deserve.
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    Good luck to Big Eck, gave us some of our best days as a Bear in the last 30 years, like the OF cup Final of 2002. (Lovenkrands last minute winner), the treble in 2003, Helicopter Sunday and getting through group stage of CL. Yes there were bad times too, our longest non-winning run, a bad run of defeats in OF games, Zizkov etc but given he was having his best players sold and no money for replacements I think history shows his tenure at Ibrox as a success.
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    Charlie Sheen's clip was exactly the point, good on him. Throwing ice water over yourself and not even mentioning the charity, as has been the case in most of the efforts I have come across, is just self-promotion and look-at-me-im-doing-this-bucket-challenge-thingy-aren't-i-great nonsense. I am happy with Frankie's quote from the NYT that ALS has actually been getting donations, as I'm guessing an awful lot are just posting their clips onto facebook/twitter to look good in front of their friends. ALS/MND is a devastating disease that needs all the research into it that we can get to help sufferers and hopefully to find a cure. We dont need to see buckets of ice over people for PR purposes.
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    And rightly so. Here's hoping their investigation is a full and thorough one, not just a box-ticking exercise.
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    He looks about 70 in that photo, so sad to see anyone dying of alcoholism.
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    It wasn't but I was just focusing on the future, as the past has been done to death. That our board thought that cup final performance was not worthy of a sacking says more about them than us.
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    Failure to win this tournament this year will not be acceptable.
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    So sad to read of another good 'un gone too soon. A very moving and fitting tribute Frankie, much appreciated.
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    Signed up, paid and PM sent. Hopefully the game doesn't get moved now. I can't see a home game v Cowdenbeath being too mouth-watering for tv companies. Hopefully we can get the 20 and move into the new room.
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    It is the easiest case McGlennon will get in the job. I expect to hear today that a case is being opened and that the referee is being demoted. While I didnt watch the game, at 1-0 with 15-20 mins to go, it was a game-changing decision. Shall we start the list of game-changers they get this season on day 1, or wait till next season when the final total will be more impressive?
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    I would guess that the cheating chunts will be absolved as well. But when you start adding up all the illegal assistance they have got over the years, and hopefully all this is provided to the European Commission to investigate (our best chance at an impartial investigation) it could just, in our dreams, get an honest verdict. Of course any national newspaper/broadcaster worth their salt should be all over this story as it all comes together, but they would rather not for some reason.
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    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
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