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'A Trialist': Possibly 'Um Julgador'; or 'Um Experimentalista'. The latter would be a bit of a stretch for the back of the shirt. Broad shouldered lad, is he?

What's Portuguese for 'A. Trialist'?

Darwin Nunez might be available, maybe on loan. He butchers chance after chance, so would fit right in.

All the best, to all of you, for a happy, healthy, prosperous, and productive 2024. Oh, and SKAAL !!

The @compogranny frightened the French, at Waterloo, so I don't give much hope for Tokely.

He had a season at Ross County. Your description of his attributes as a player is accurate, mind.

Good luck with that. "It was Lawwell's influence that helped put Ian Maxwell in his role as as chief executive of the Scottish FA" When the CEO is little more than Blofeld's cat...

"A Rangers spokesperson said: “Despite repeated Rangers FC requests, the Scottish FA have so far failed to disclose the VAR audio to allow the club to understand the process around the non-award of a penalty in the first half of yesterday’s Old Firm match. “Rangers officials stand ready to meet in-person or virtually with the Scottish FA at any time to hear and discuss the audio. However, the Scottish FA are refusing to both share the VAR audio and meet until at least Wednesday, five days after the Old Firm match and after the next round of Scottish Premiership fixtures. This is clearly unacceptable and heightens Rangers’ concerns over the lack of transparency, for which the need is urgent. “Rangers have learned no penalty was awarded as the VAR official, Willie Collum, concluded a handball offence had not occurred in the first half. While the club and most observers are astonished by this 'professional' view, we remain perplexed and concerned about the Scottish FA's motivations for sharing an offside image with broadcasters during the second half, when this was not the original reason why the penalty was not awarded. “England’s Premier League and other leading European Leagues operate on a ‘nothing to hide’ basis, where open communication and full transparency are available to clubs and the public on contentious VAR calls in a timely manner. “On a weekend where not only Rangers but also fellow Scottish FA member clubs have major questions over potentially match-changing incidents, our governing body would do well to heed that same mantra." (Posted by David Edgar, elsewhere)

Here's how it was: we were abject for half an hour or so; thereafter, we came into the game, and had several periods of domination; during these interludes we failed to convert our superiority into goals. The end.

That's Old Testament, mate. And I don't think the indoctrinators pay much attention to it.

That village team used to feature tanner ba' players like Ross Tokely, did it not? Shankland, on reflection, is really a 'No' from me.

I fear that Deep-Six will be the option, and that some IT bod will have appeared, hot foot, tout de suite, from his holiday debauch to implement it. I expect no help from the SFA, nor from the SPFL. As we know from Scottish BBC's Irish English, writing in Jan 2021: "Lawwell has not only driven Celtic these past 17 years, he's also been the most powerful man in the Scottish game for much of it, certainly in the last decade. Lawwell was never one to shout from centre stage. He much preferred to pull strings from the wings. He had a hawk-like vision for football politics and a chess player's capacity to be three or four moves ahead. It was Lawwell's influence that helped put Ian Maxwell in his role as as chief executive of the Scottish FA and it's been Lawwell's support that's helped Neil Doncaster in his role as chief executive of the SPFL." (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55864412) Nevertheless, we should pursue this until such truth as there is/will be emerges.

Is Scottish fitba' not just a tad robust for grannies, even if they can tie the occasional full back in knots? That ye cannae shove your granny aff a bus is one thing, but, forbye that, is it really the case that ye cannae kick her aff the park? Of course, 157 would indicate Ayrshire provenance, so maybe grounding in the Ways of the Juniors would enable her to survive, even prosper.

How old is she, your granny?

Allowing for the curvature of the earth, and the curvature of the rules at the Crime Scene

OK. I have been trying to understand the nuances of the cheating today, particularly wrt the 'penalty' against the fellow with the facial challenge. (Did Cher not do a film about this guy?) It is quite clear that -the fizzog handled the ball, and put it out of play -the fizzog prevented Sima from scoring or creating a goal scoring opportunity -the referee did not award a pen -the Var man (Colum) reviewed the decision and confirmed that there was no pen -the game re-started with a goal kick -subsequently (after 20/30 mins) it was revealed that Sima/AN Other was offside, and, thus, no pen could have been awarded Now, and this will sound like Timothology, but roolz is roolz, it is clear that -a goal was not scored -this constrained the involvement of VAR, excluding everything, bar its involvement in the pen/no pen decision -VAR confrimed the referee's verdict of no pen -this decision was based on nothing, given that the hand ball was as clear as you would ever wish to see -the referee awarded a goal kick, so the putative, and at that time, unremarked, off-side was irrelevant, as it was anyway, given that a goal was not scored Cheated? Rules abused? Surprised?

It is a strange local Law of the Game that sellik players may take a yellow card with impunity, because they know that officials will not profer them a second formal admonition.

Indeed, but surely we can't....

Bad to worse

Rotary Club

Nah. Fully in keeping with the rules of Scottish fitba'

Bring on Sam Lammers!

Done for, now, I fear.

Dessers should be shot for that!

We can't say that hasn't been coming. The question is can we hold it to one, until HT? I am not optimistic.