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Aye in the Social club before. Dons fan? I spoke to two wee guys there. One was a Dons fan and said "good to see other Dandies here" when he saw wee man tourie. There was another guy. Nae sure who he supportedQuote:
Originally Posted by GASC1980
Loads of Scots there. I spoke the guy Donald a sevconian fae Auchinleck, An Arab and his loon(who are Dundon Ian version of me and Wee Man who rack up grounds together) An Annan fan,
A stand-alone phrase with a mere three discrete letters in it. Splendid alphabetular economy there. Hats off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacman1903
If only when language was being developed Fanatics were known instead as Anatics, then it would have been even better!Quote:
Originally Posted by 57vintage
And if the settlement had been named after the onomatopoeic sound of a primitive settler having a stiff ****e in the area it would have been down to two. Some of our ancestors just never thought about potential future etymological gags. Prehistoric *******s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Br0chred
Yas mins. Rothes mins.
‘Unlucky’, Buckie. �� Up ye.
Congratulations to Rothes and manager Ross Jack for winning the Highland League Cup Final.Quote:
Originally Posted by 57vintage
Well done Rothes. Chuffed with that result today
Wee Man has taken them on as his team too. So he's chuffed aswell
"Moray" "Aberdeenshire" and the general ****-ups that have been local governmental reforms since 1974 are now proven to be absolute administrative stupidity based on nominal numbers to suit the suits with adding machines, and market-forces driven national governments with centralist agendas. No account taken of cultural differences between localities, and now it's ****ing up my right to watch proper Proper Mannies' fitba. I don't know whether to march on Elgin Town Hall, Holyrood or Westminster with a 25l drum of paraffin and a box of spunks, or write a stiff missive to The Northern Scot and The Banffie.
"Highland League secretary Rod Houston says the Highlands and Moray being placed in Tier 1 of Scotland’s coronavirus restriction system is encouraging as they assess when the new season could start.
Being in Tier 1 means 11 clubs in the Highland League would be allowed to admit a restricted number of supporters to grounds.
However, with Aberdeenshire being placed in Tier 2, Inverurie Locos, Formartine United, Fraser burgh, Huntly, T ur riff United and Deveronvale would not be allowed to let fans in.
The division’s league management committee will meet tonight and a decision about whether to plan to start the 2020-21 season on November 28, or push the beginning of the campaign further back, may be made.
The league could potentially request special dispensation to allow the Aberdeenshire clubs to let fans in like their counterparts in Moray and the Highlands.
Houston said: “Getting 11 clubs into Tier 1 to allow spectators in has been very encouraging, but we know we have to do a little bit of work to see if we can get the six Aberdeenshire clubs to have spectators as well so everyone can start with fans in stadiums.
“That’s a challenge we’re working our way through, and at the league management committee meeting we’ ll be able to take stock of things and have a better idea of what is possible.
“We’re exploring options just now and we do have to be careful how we go about things and not lose sight of the fact there is a global pandemic going on.
“If we were to ask for any form of dispensation we would need to have clear and credible reasons for that.
“Getting a lot of young people out and being physically active, as the teams would be, and people getting a chance to go back to watching football, I would argue makes a big contribution to the wellbeing agenda.”
The Highland League took the decision to delay the start of the new season until November 28 at the earliest on September 27, having previously been aiming for an October 17 start.
Houston added: “When the original decision was taken there were quite a lot of unknowns, now there are still a number of imponderables but we now know a lot more about the likely scenario for the next while.
“The chances are this thing is going to be hanging around for quite some time, so we’ve got to see if we can be in a position to make all the arrangements that minimise the risk while getting the benefit of football being played and spectators getting in to stadiums.
“We’ll have to deal with changing circumstances as they occur, but ultimately it will be the clubs that decide, depending on how they feel.”
The Highland League was able to complete the 2019-20 Utilita Highland League Cup behind closed door son Saturday as Rothes defeated Buckie Thistle 2-1 at Christie Park, Huntly.
Along with the two semifinals, the fixture was supposed to be streamed live online, however, a technical problem prevented that from happening with fans who paid for the service now being refunded.
Houston says the league will assess the merits of the live streaming in due course.
He said: “Huntly did a fantastic job staging the Utilita Highland League Cup final and the company representatives were delighted with it.
“We were naturally disappointed that happened ( the streaming problem), but these things are sent to try us.
“The set- up with the streaming of the three games was in good faith as an experiment and it’s given us a lot of food for thought.
“We will now look at that and see what we take from it. Right now, refunds for the cup final game are being organised and after that we’ ll get the stats delivered about the viewers.
“We’re interested to see which areas they were from and things like that, and we’ ll get to that in due course.”"
Highlights of Rothes's cup final success here:
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Probably.
It's still odd to see former Maroons Andy McAskill and Sam Pugh in that ****ing awful abomination of a shirt worn by Buckie.
Well done to Bruce Milne, the Rothes captain, and to Craig Cormack, both Keith natives and Maroon players. A bit of an innocuous red card for Craig for calling the ref a ****, not nearly as memorable as the last one I witnessed when he spectacularly and venomously halved some Locos fanny at Harlot Park when clad in The Sacred Maroon.
Bad news too that the precocious Hamish Ritchie (my vote for player of the year when he was but a 17 year-old Keith midfield enforcer) is on loan to Covid R*ng*rs from the Garioch Entitled, following his return from a US fitba scholarship.