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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: August 9, 2020, 12:58 pm
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Being incarcerated in Yorkshire, it had until now escaped my
notice that the 63 member clubs of the West Region of the
Scottish Juniors have resigned en bloc and transferred to a
newly formed West of Scotland League under SFA jurisdiction, one
step (or more) below the Highland and Lowland Leagues in the
Pyramid system the SFA have been working towards. So decades of
tradition come to an end, though it may perhaps lead to
improvements in certain areas.
I wonder how well many of these clubs will cope with ground
grading issues: the toilet facilities at Blantyre Vics were
particularly horrendous, and others nearly as bad. It will take
a considerable degree of effort and investment to bring many
grounds up to an acceptable standard in terms of facilities.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: September 21, 2020, 3:31 am
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I am pleased to learn that the sixteen vestal virgins who were
leaving for the coast reached it at Ayr and have settled in
Alloway.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: September 21, 2020, 9:10 am
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>
> I am pleased to learn that the sixteen vestal virgins who
were leaving for the coast reached it at Ayr and have settled in
Alloway.
>
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Yes, that was down to me, a bit of whilst the cat's away...!
Vincent was a wonderful but eccentric organist who had "Raiders
of the Lost Ark", the theme from "Last of the Summer Wine" and
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" amongst his signature pieces. On Palm
Sunday my suggestion to use "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was
disallowed. But last week on an old hard drive I came across
"Whiter Shade of Pale" - which I hadn't been able to find when I
put together a tribute CD for Vincent. So that was too good an
opportunity to miss. Fortunately it has received favourable
comments from members of the congregation so I should avoid the
cutty stool on this occasion.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Tweed
Date: October 25, 2020, 8:44 am
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Watched a new name for me yesterday in Craig Napier refereeing
Motherwell v Ross County. Thought he did very well, the penalty
was an easy decision in a straightforward game and the
accompanying dissent clamped down on with the minimum of fuss.
He looks about 12 and refereed with a smile on his face and was
always talking to the players. Encouraging.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: October 25, 2020, 9:27 am
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That's good to hear, Tweed. Dr Napier has long been something of
a favourite of mine, though his firm approach has not found
favour with the Pie and Bovril intelligentsia. I found him most
approachable on the one occasion I spoke to him. He has now had
three premiership matches this season, I believe, and I hope he
will continue to prosper.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Tweed
Date: October 25, 2020, 5:10 pm
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I certainly would have no fears if he was pencilled beside us
again - though I have long noticed a trend that referees come up
to the top flight and impress and then over time become pickier
and pickier - Don Robertson the one who doesn't seem to have
reverted.
Unlike the Celtic manager, I thought Willie Collum also had a
superb game today to follow on from the performance I watched
yesterday. Three penalties were absolutely spot on, tried to
play an advantage at the last one and if he made one mistake it
was not penalising a push in the lead up to Celtic's second
goal. As for the Celtic manager I think he may have been trying
to deflect some of his failings somewhere else.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: QuoCob
Date: October 26, 2020, 4:14 am
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--- Quote from: Tweed link ---
>
> I certainly would have no fears if he was pencilled beside us
again - though I have long noticed a trend that referees come up
to the top flight and impress and then over time become pickier
and pickier - Don Robertson the one who doesn't seem to have
reverted.
>
> Unlike the Celtic manager, I thought Willie Collum also had a
superb game today to follow on from the performance I watched
yesterday. Three penalties were absolutely spot on, tried to
play an advantage at the last one and if he made one mistake it
was not penalising a push in the lead up to Celtic's second
goal. As for the Celtic manager I think he may have been trying
to deflect some of his failings somewhere else.
>
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Unusually, I watched the Aberdeen-Celtic game mainly because a
player, who wasn't good enough for us in the Fourth Division, is
now a first choice for Aberdeen to see how he is getting on.
Like you, I though Mr Collum had a great game.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Tweed
Date: January 25, 2021, 3:18 pm
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--- Quote from: Tweed link ---
>
> Watched a new name for me yesterday in Craig Napier refereeing
Motherwell v Ross County. Thought he did very well, the penalty
was an easy decision in a straightforward game and the
accompanying dissent clamped down on with the minimum of fuss.
He looks about 12 and refereed with a smile on his face and was
always talking to the players. Encouraging.
>
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I'm afraid the Napier files part 2 involving Motherwell was less
good. Ignoring the red card for foul and abusive language which
we are appealing, this was a nightmare performance. At one
point a viewing colleague on Skype said this referee is an
absolute maniac, I don't think he knows what he's going to do
next.
He missed a blatant penalty and red card in the first half when
Ojo brought the goalward shot down with his hand whilst diving
to block it, in 2021 rules it is a penalty and red card every
day. A Motherwell passage of play was broken up for the ball
going over the goal line when the ball was not within a yard of
it, his assistant didn't help here but he should have overruled.
Whilst we did end up sticking the ball in the pokey, the whistle
had long sounded and Aberdeen had long stopped.
The big moment was the red card. Polworth was cleaned out but
to be fair he played an outstanding advantage and when he came
back to check up on Polworth (whose shoulder was dislocated btw)
he within seconds brandished a red card. Clearly no idea what
was said but what I will say is there was no reason on that
passage of play for Polworth to have been annoyed by the
referee. We're apparently considering an appeal but how that
will go on a he said he said debate I have no idea.
However whilst that had the most lasting impact on the game, it
was far from the worst decision, a disallowed Aberdeen goal took
that title from a short corner, a striker raised unchallenged to
head home but this was disallowed for pushing. I've reviewed it
several times and no MOtherwell player was close enough to their
opposing number to have been fouled, in fact I'd say it was a
perfect example how to socially distance at corners.
This was a shambles I'm afraid, a minor scuffle which he dealt
with OK inside the first 20 minutes seemed to rile him and his
performance headed to depths not seen for a long time in the
Premiership and without wanting to be nasty Aberdeen v
Motherwell is not an unpleasant game nor teams that are
difficult to referee, he made it so.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: JCFC
Date: February 26, 2021, 9:41 am
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I note that in the current SFA appointments list, Kylie Cockburn
has reverted to her maiden name of McMullan.
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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: February 27, 2021, 3:09 pm
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--- Quote from: JCFC link ---
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> I note that in the current SFA appointments list, Kylie
Cockburn has reverted to her maiden name of McMullan.
>
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..and all reported without an emoji!
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