26th of foot

May I offer my every sympathy. Woodentopery, like Bootneckery is a recognisable condition and I believe treatable? Utrinque Paratus Loyal RSC.

It was the Scotland v Zaire group match during the 1974 World Cup hosted by West Germany, the match took place in the Westfalenstadium in Dortmund. My old man took me as a reward for gaining access to University, we were standing outside when Willie Waddell passed as part of the SFA party. The perceived wisdom is that Waddell on returning to Glasgow persuaded the Directors to model the new Ibrox on the Dortmund stadium.

Rangers 2 Hearts 1 FGS : Sima.

Liam's old man is/was a big Sellik man, we know because Liam has told us so on numerous occasions. Liam's brother hit the front pages of the red tops some twenty years past because his social media was laden with numerous posts reference H-u-ns and the Ibrox Disaster. Liam's brother was a serving senior officer in Grampian Police.

I saw the title of the thread and immediately thought, another discussion reference Angela Haggerty.

It's third time lucky and Dens Park gets the all clear to host tonight's match. Gang Hut productions hosted by 'Jonners' as in the diminutive Sutherland. He is joined by Liam McLeod to read out the teams but, is first asked about the state of the pitch? This is important because Dundee did not allow any TV presence at yesterday's pitch inspection. Anyways, Liam gives it thus : "the picture I'm painting of the Dens Park pitch is perfection". Meanwhile the Dundee PA system is pumping, the first three tracks are, Waterfront by Simple Minds, Raintown by Deacon Blue and, Don't Apologise by Kevin Gates. Jonners and Liam like it a lot.

Dundee 1 Rangers 2 FGS : Roofe.

Dens Park has finally passed a pitch inspection and the game in on, 20.00 hrs kick-off, Wednesday 17th April'24.

The longer a player is out injured, the better he becomes. However, two players with long term injuries are really hampering how the Gaffer wants the team to play. Cortes is a real miss, he provided balance and necessary width. Yesterday, Ryan Jack's positional sense would have nullified one or two of the attacks that ended in County goals. Further, he would have been available for the short balls that ensure possession is retained and we move forward in gradations.. Those lumps up to the opposition's eighteen yard line and players flooding forward in support killed us.

The first five minutes of the second half? It has been a lethargic, disjointed first half where we have been the beneficiaries of good fortune, mainly the own goal that puts us one up. We have created another three opportunities to stretch further ahead but spurn them. The second half begins with our kick off and, several seconds later Borna puts a raking diagonal straight out of play. During the next two minutes, we play a couple of balls on the edge of the County box, lose possession and on both occasions, County pick out a pass to central, forward player. He has time for a controlling touch, turns and, gets his head up to release a pass to breaking wide teammates. Three minutes later, the previous two instances are repeated and on these occasions, County put the ball in the back of our pokey twice. Those first five minutes of the second period epitomised our performance today. Ross County played with a discipline, structure and, an energy. Well done County on your first ever victory over Rangers, fully deserved.

Ross County 1 Rangers 3 FGS : Dessers.

RAB Cosgrove has just announced from within the PQ Gang Hut, "Ah'm eighty-five percent confident that the Dundee Rangers game will be moved to McDiarmid Park". RAB has rationalised the situation, "they huvtae make a decision on Tuesday, they cannae let it go until Wednesday". RAB is happy because, "St Johnstone will make some corn from SKY and, make some corn from hosting". Has RAB had a whisper from his old mucker, Murdoch MacLennan or, is he blowing it out his large arse as usual? The ticketing will prove interesting, how do the rows and numbers for Dens Park compare with McDiarmid? Further, do we want to move from the Dens waterlogged surface to the McDiarmid ploughed field?

In summary. After days of conjugation and deliberation the SPFL has concluded, 'to kick the can further down the road' but, not as far as a neutral playable pitch. Anyways, the decision is delayed until next Tuesday and if it rains again and the drainage does not improve, then we will take the decision as instructed by Peter. This has been a Shifty McGifty production.

Eric Drysdale is an SNP Councillor in Perth as well as being Dundee FC's Secretary. When Rangers issued the bullying dossier four years past, the three attack dogs named were Mike Mulraney of Alloa, John Nelms and, Eric Drysdale. Peter holds all their leads.

Dundee confirming their GREEN credentials.