Uilleam

FFS, Lads!!! It's St Mirren at Ibrox. (I'm doing the team talks, until Pacino arrives )

I was going to post merely a laughing emoji thing, but realised that you might not have been joking.

Hibs 2 Fhilth 1.

Alex Rae, lads. Tim Cahill, I think.

"California Dreamin'"....

Oh dear. I am in The Horseshoe Bar, and will try not to let this news spoil my day.

Jummy Ping seems mostly to have disappeared from public view (and long may that continue). Perhaps he acquired a cloak of invisibility. I am told a spey wife in Tayport may stock such an item.

Cave: proceed with caution, here: I suspect that this fellow Franco Adamo may not be fully in the know.

We might then take comfort from these words of putative guru and saviour Paraag Marathe, who "...explained how teams in his stable no longer operate as 'lemonade stands' ". Speaking on the Sports Geek Replay podcast earlier this month, Marathe explained how teams in his stable no longer operate as 'lemonade stands' and are run to maximise return on investment. He said: "The fundamental thing that's changed with professional sports teams on and off the pitch is professional sports teams are no longer run as lemonade stands. They are no longer just about the football team, or the baseball team, or the soccer team, or whatever it is, it's now run as a business, right, as a big Fortune 50, Fortune 500 type of business. "That means you need to get as much value as you can and minimising risk as much as you can, both on the field of the players and also in the business." "At that time, we hired most of our C-level executives who are here today, as well as most of our EVPs or VPs. And what we did is we just, it was just, we just flipped, flipped a fundamental hiring practice kind of upside down for the beginning, since the beginning of time in the sports industry, people hired other sports people, maybe had a little bit of business experience. But the primary trait was, hey, you worked in that sport or this sport and like success or failure didn't matter, but you just had sports experience. "We took the other approach as we were hiring. We said, hold on, let's go get really good sound business people. And by the way, if they happen to have sports experience, then great, but not a prerequisite. In the end, we ended up hiring, as we grew from, I think, 70 people to 300 people, we ended up hiring a lot of talented, talented individuals of all colours and genders as well, because we were, we tried to do it as much of a meritocracy as we could. And that's what enabled us to transition and actually be able to do all these other things that we still do today." 

Believe nothing until it is officially denied, or until Humza Yousaff pours scorn upon the very suggestion.

At last, somebody who appreciates statistics. In common with the recruitment/draft system in the NFL, I am told that, as far as the cheerleaders are concerned, the ugliest supporters get first dibs......

She was always Huguenot.

Can't wait for Leeds to be our feeder club.