Devil's advocaat

And a few posts later, we see gisabeers latest contribution. 🙂

Obviously! 🙂

I watched the last 20 mins of the Hibs game on Saturday, they looked utter shite, St Johnstone let them have the ball and they didn't have a clue what to do with it.

2 days, he's had 2 days. Honestly, in the last few weeks we've had Greegs is shite, Kamara is shite, sell the fuckin lot of them, and the best one of all, the golden nugget that I'll never forget - Neil Lennon contributed more to 55 than Gerrard did. And here was me thinking Follow Follow had all the drama queens. Support your bloody team.

If you had said to me when we were getting pumped out of Europe by the minnows of Luxembourg, or horsed by the beggars again, that our next 2 managers would be Gerard and then Gio, I'd have expected you to be sectioned quite frankly. Never know whats round the corner! ?❤

I'd love to know who the shortlist included.

That's pretty much bang on how I feel too WBD.

@BillTold you that was my dream team! ?

I'm no fan of Clarke, but hats off to him, 6 wins in a row is bloody impressive in international football, and some tremendous football too. Thank F the beggars never fronted up the cash for John McGinn btw.

Agreed, I've asked a few of my mates who slate his quick exit - What exactly is a good way for a manager to leave? Save walking away after a treble and giving a full preseason to get someone in place, there's no right answer. And I recall GVB having the longest groin strain in history before disappearing to Arsenal, unless I was very drunk.

I've came round the idea of Lampard, be quite happy to have him or Gio tbh.

Aye, that's hard to disagree with PoohBear.

GVB and KT dreamteam.

Agreed, bunch of fannies. Football managers move on, twas ever thus.

I don't think Gerard will go tbh, but I'd be happy with Kevin Thomson, young, driven, knows the game inside out, very well respected as a coach, speaks very well and knows what the club means.

Not quite, Dundee fans were booing due to the Latrine brigade singing through the silence. Although Dick Gordon did confirm it was only one or two of them. ?

Absolutely Bill, it's great to hear someone who doesn't say what he thinks people want to hear, there's enough management cliches in fitba.

I have to say, I quite like Levein, Big Avril is quite happy putting the boot in when others coory away.

Fantastic. A fit Scotty Arfield is like a new signing IMO.

It would obviously need to be a FIFA edict, similar to the passback rule change, although this would be the biggest change ever in the rules, and as it would need to be FIFA led, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Agreed. Now is the chance to get some real hard work in on the areas we've struggled a little.

Rugby seems to my untrained eye all about the big hit. Big, incredibly strong, quick guys rolled on and off, sort of akin to special teams in American Football, not expected to last 80 minutes due to the stamina required not really being matched to their physiques. God knows how they address that.

I don't know if it is singled out, is it? This has came about because of a number of high profile ex players who are now suffering, Rugby has had and still has it's own issues, but to be honest I'm ignorant of these in general, as it's not a sport I'm particularly interested in. Their primary issue is big hits, but I'd imagine repeated smaller hits and concussions will be an issue in the long term. There's not a huge number of other sports that come to mind that have repeated head impact, outwith the fighting sports.

In Boxing, hurting someone is the name of the game, I'm not a fan so have no beef with it, let them manage their own sport. Running doesn't wreck your legs, that particular myth has been debunked years ago, and as for other extreme sports, the benefits far outweigh the risks. There's thousands of people climbing in Scotland on a weekend, yet very few accidents as the ethos of the sport is built around safety. If we went on all evidence, it's the sofa and the microwave that would be banned, and folk going to the pub would be wearing head protection. ? Truth is, if there is a direct link, and the evidence would suggest there is, then it will end up being taken out of the game. It wouldn't bother me, I don't fear change, there would be obvious advantages, no more would we be binning talented boys at 12 years old because their parents are 5'6", we'd never have to suffer Ross Tokely and his ilk, the game would be played where it should be, on the ground. Bring it on. Edit - Weight of the ball matters not a jot, it's force that does the damage, Force = mass x acceleration, modern balls are whipped in at speed, if you watch old footage, crosses were looped affairs (because of the weight of the ball). Also, players are fitter and generally stronger than they were in Astles day, so it's potentially worse now.

Vaccination reduced transmission of the previous Kent Variant by 40-50%, I've looked for similar data around Delta, but there's not much in evidence (I work for a rather large Pharma company, though not one of the vaccine providers, and so have access to research data) There was a large study in France that concluded - -Vaccinated people with symptomatic covid shed similar levels of virus during the symptomatic phase. -The symptomatic phase in the vaccinated is however far shorter. -Vaccination reduces that chances of catching Covid even with Delta so you have fewer Covid carriers around So even on this simplistic level, it makes sense. I am however aware of the irony that only 7 EPL* clubs have higher than 50% of their squads vaccinated, these entitled young men have been allowed to operate all through this, yet we've to show vaccination status to watch them. * Haven't seen such data for our game, I don't imagine it's any better.