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[26th of foot 6,082]

1 minute ago, forlanssister said:

I note Sportstscene caveated the Morelos coin incident with a claim that the St Mirren keeper Craig Samson was hit with a coin.

On the basis of anecdotal evidence ie Steven Thomson speaking to St Mirren Keeper, Craig Samson post match. 

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1 hour ago, forlanssister said:

I note Sportstscene caveated the Morelos coin incident with a claim that the St Mirren keeper Craig Samson was hit with a coin.

I was wondering if they were going to claim that the coins thrown by St.Mirren fans had been collected and used to buy fish suppers for some needy old folks in downtown Paisley.

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13 hours ago, forlanssister said:

I note Sportstscene caveated the Morelos coin incident with a claim that the St Mirren keeper Craig Samson was hit with a coin.

 

Absolute liars.

[26th of foot 6,082]

At PQ, it's always cake and eat it time.

 

The PQ gang hut was alive with excitement, ripe opportunity must be exploited. Success must be reinforced. Neil had gesticulated overtly and concluded by falling to the ground clutching the side of his face. Neil had trumped his Equity Card by then playing the victim card. A supporting cast of PQ high heid-yins had moved to center stage, they wanted to be seen to be backing Neil. Tom, Chris, Jum, ................ et al had charged on to social media. The Producers proposed strict liability was the added stimulus to maintain momentum. Anything running interference, you know Neil's propensity for domestic bullying, his addictions, his repetitive action, reaction, victimhood personality, his depression, his land deal with Slab Murphy, .......... etc will all be steamrollered and ignored. Pantomime enthusiasm won out, the required word to dismiss any caution is, "Whataboutery"!

 

DrStu' confidently stepped forward and boomed, "anything contrary should be deemed whataboutery and whataboutery is banned". It's interesting, coin throwing is universally condemned, but awaiting the grinding gears of the Scottish Justice System to resolve each and every incident, is not to be trusted. Neil Lennon has become a prop to the likes of DrStu' and the PQ lynch mob. Regularly, DrStu' weaponises Lennon's behaviour, he has proposed and supported Lennon to be the next national team boss, the next Rangers manager, and highlights his experiences as a lever to impact his preferred prejudices upon Scottish society.  All reasonable if you accept Neil operates in a vacuum? 

 

Of course, nature hates a vacuum and concurrently in Paisley, events were making an arse of DrStu' and the PQ mindset again. Rangers striker, Alfredo Morelos had been struck by a launched coin. DrStu' and Cowan had no where to go, it was more grist to their mill in supporting strict liability. However, the enthusiasm was waning and the PQ high heid-yins' social media action mirrored the petty and ill-informed. Over a dozen supported Neil in adversity, only Jane Lewis continued succour to Morelos. 

 

Off the Ball in the second half saw DrStu' and Tam effect a we have what we hold action. Oh no, they were not for marching back down the hill. They settled on asking fans to clype and grass on those launching coins. In a matter of a couple of hours, assisting the Police was deemed a better course of action than railroading the Scottish Government into another vague and undefined piece of legislation to assuage Neil Lennon's vanity.  Here's the cake and eat it bit, the culmination of the 2016 Scottish Cup final saw dreadful scenes. The Rangers Skipper, Lee Wallace provided a statement to the Police after being spat on and assaulted. A group of Hibees taunted Wallace, carrying a banner proclaiming, 'Lee Wallace is a Grass'. They took it to Malta to support the national team and the PQ Gang Hut reported it being paraded through airports, bars, and arriving at the ground, all the time being cheered to the echo.

 

DrStu' tells us often of injustice keeping him awake at night. We should be concerned and pray for DrStu's insomnia to be resolved. I suspect his nocturnal dyspepsia  is the result of wanting and eating too much cake?

 

 

[26th of foot 6,082]

Consuming confectionery(part two).

 

Dolly grazed at Rugby Park on Sunday, the PQ flock descended upon the wilds of Ershur. Big Dick, Liam McLeod, and Wullie Miller chorused, 'we hate Rangers more than you' to the established PQ CSC. Gary Holt brought a hint of balance, whilst on-message Scott McDonald stood pitch side. Pre-match, both Big Dick and Liam made excuses for the paucity of Dandies in the away end ie Early kick-off time, another typhoid quarantine in the Granite City, and an aversion to mutton in the Killie Pie. Post match, Saturday's games were discussed, well not all games. In fact every match was discussed apart from Rangers visit to Paisley. PQ had decreed the dismissal of Candeias was for aggressive behaviour and Morelos being struck by a coin was awkward. What's to add?

 

In the last few minutes of the broadcast, Big Dick ran through the Premiership league table. The Dandies move up to seventh, St Johnstone were tucked in, one point behind both Kilmarncock and Rangers, Hearts remain top after being thrashed by second top, Celtic. The bottom three are cast adrift after Motherwell's two victories ........ Wullie Miller asks, "where are Rangers in the table"? Big Dick offers, if Killie had secured a point today, they would have remained ahead of Rangers.

 

See what I mean about cake and eating it?

 

Hands up, if you believe us license fee payers will receive live coverage from Moscow on Thursday evening.

[Scott7 6,009]

Well observed, 26th.

 

Mention of Kilmarnock and Dolly caused a peculiar memory to erupt to the front of my brain. I think that at one time long ago, many decades, Kilmarnock had a sheep for a mascot. Anyone with great grannies in Ayrshire to confirm?

 

When Rugby Park was in grass the surface was lauded as the best in Scottish football. The sheep’s legacy perhaps.

 

The ovine may have been good at manuring and trimming but mascot-wise his ghost wasn’t up to much on Sunday.

 

Gordon’s league position calculation method raises an interesting proposition. Who would have been top if Hearts and celtic had lost more games and Rangers had lost fewer?

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Off the Ball (evening edition)

 

A  small detail for the record........

 

podcast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000zpg

 

23mins 45secs

Despite the call of 'No whataboutery or jusitification allowed', Cosgrove, in a roundabout and indirect way, puts forward a justification for a coin to be thrown at Morelos when sliding in to celebrate.

 

At some point during the programme he also made a point to cast doubt if the coin had actually hit Morelos.

 

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Sportsound on Monday

Surprise, surprise....... the Morelos rescinded red at Aberdeen featured once again 

 

 

 

 

 

[26th of foot 6,082]

Reference the fourteen BBC Scotland Staffers that tweeted support for Neil Lennon's claim he was the victim of both sectarianism and anti-Irish racism. The last name is BBC Scotland's Political Correspondent, Nick Eardley. He is the diminutive, thin faced guy that has been on our screens these last eighteen months. I know nothing about him ie where he's from, football allegiances, utterances on our club/support, ................... etc?

 

I am NOT inviting political discussion when I say I have read on a number of occasions that Nick is the First Minister's favourite Journo, she is fond of hugging him for selfies.

 

Does any Gersnetter know anything about Nick Eardley? 

[Frankie 8,562]

Eardley was on Off the Ball the other week.

 

I didn't hear it and he usually stays away from the football stuff on Twitter.

[compo 7,044]

Never listen to it but the other night I was listening to Andy Walker on talksport with wee Strachan telling us all how grèat a person the Hibs manager was it was sickening to listen to as they seem to be scared to criticise him , but not a mention about Saturdays coin throwing at Paisley.