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indiana


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JonH comes home wrote:

Seems to be a thing this past week!

Indeed in Englsnd and Scotland.

Aberdeen sacked their boss. He was already in trouble before he flung his players under a bus in his post mstch interviews on Saturday. Seems to be the in-thing to talk yourself out of a job.

Worryingly Stephen Robinson, the St Mirren boss, is being widely talked about for the Aberdeen job. And in quite a bit of waffle from Robinson about the speculation he omits to say that he is committed to St Mirren. cry

Some chap Alex Ferguson once went from.St Mirren manager to Aberdeen. I'm sure he is still kept up at night thinking what he might hsve achieved if he had stayed in Paisley!



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What chances they cut their losses and get ONeill back for rest of the season??

That's exactly what's happened.  



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Stircrazy wrote:
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What chances they cut their losses and get ONeill back for rest of the season??

That's exactly what's happened.  

 Indeed. As Indy says, in Scotland and England there have been some amazingly inept managerial hires in recent times, this one maybe takes the biscuit. 

I really like Gareth Southgate and part of me would love to see him go again at United. But it wont be him. A club like Celtic would suit him well though, but not sure hed move up to Glasgow. 



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I think we are doomed. We havent won since September and havent scored at home in a long time. We have 18 points from 27 matches. It seems around 45 is normal to stay up. We would need 27 points from 19 matches; 1.5 points a game, which is play off form.

Wont happen. Weaver needs to realise he cant save us - thanks for all the good times Simon, its time to go.


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The National League is very competitive and you will find lots of local teams trying to bring in the best regional players.
Oldham, Carlise and York have big budgets and Rochdale are flying.

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The National League is very competitive and you will find lots of local teams trying to bring in the best regional players.
Oldham, Carlise and York have big budgets and Rochdale are flying.

 I fear when we go down, we wont come back anytime soon. Sad. 



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To be fair Harrogate have probably over achieved getting into the football league.
Just a few years ago you were struggling in non league before the money arrived.
Money cannot always buy success in FL as Salford have found out.

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To be fair Harrogate have probably over achieved getting into the football league.
Just a few years ago you were struggling in non league before the money arrived.
Money cannot always buy success in FL as Salford have found out.

 You are right, of course, and with an average crowd of somewhere between 2500-3000 it is hard to make it self sustaining - the worry is, if we go down, will Daddy Weaver take his money out of the club, will the club then survive (he wont want his money back, but he may take his funding away - I cant imagine anyone wanting to buy the club). If he money goes, getting up again will be tough, if not impossible  



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Only just seen Scottish cup draw, Celtic v Rangers. Lovely!

St Mirren in quarters versus Patrick - great cup season for St Mirren. Shame Jaggy isnt on the board these days!

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Harrogate had two good weeks and off the bottom. Long way to go though. But at least there is hope.

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In Scotland Rangers beat Hesrts 4-2, following on from Celtic winning at second bottom Kilmarnock.3-2 ( from 0-2 down.) with a winner after 90+7 minutes, just 4 days on from Celtic besting bottom club Livingston 2-1 at home with a 90+1 minute winner.

And there have been other late wins for Celtic under Martin O'Neill ( they equalised in the cup against Dundee last week after 90+7 minutes ). You could say admirable but O'Neill does seem a lucky charm after waltzing back in to take over from Wilfried Nancy who made plenty mistakes but also anything that could go wrong did seem to go wrong for the guy. Whatever, it is proving a tad annoying for Hearts and Rangers and their fans.

1. Hearts - 27 played, 57 points, 26 GD
2. Rangers - 27 played, 55 points, 26 GD
3. Celtic - 26 played, 54 points, 22 GD



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In Scotland Rangers beat Hesrts 4-2, following on from Celtic winning at second bottom Kilmarnock.3-2 ( from 0-2 down.) with a winner after 90+7 minutes, just 4 days on from Celtic besting bottom club Livingston 2-1 at home with a 90+1 minute winner.

And there have been other late wins for Celtic under Martin O'Neill ( they equalised in the cup against Dundee last week after 90+7 minutes ). You could say admirable but O'Neill does seem a lucky charm after waltzing back in to take over from Wilfried Nancy who made plenty mistakes but also anything that could go wrong did seem to go wrong for the guy. Whatever, it is proving a tad annoying for Hearts and Rangers and their fans.

1. Hearts - 27 played, 57 points, 26 GD
2. Rangers - 27 played, 55 points, 26 GD
3. Celtic - 26 played, 54 points, 22 GD

 Celtic win that game in hand and all 3 are pretty much equal. Hearts losing to rangers wasnt good for them 



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Seems like we have some hope as Harrogate managed to get a really needed away win at Barrow, a real six pointer. We now have 7 points out of 9, and are just two behind Barrow, Crawley and Bristol rovers and ahead of Newport. Weve played more games though but have some momentum and you just never know.

Got tickets for my Dad and my son and myself to go to see us play league leaders Bromley on Saturday. Will do my Dad good and son coming up for Mums funeral. Should be a good afternoon out , albeit Bromley will be firm favourites. But we have some hope now!



-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 18th of February 2026 12:23:19 AM

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JonH comes home wrote:

Only just seen Scottish cup draw, Celtic v Rangers. Lovely!

St Mirren in quarters versus Patrick

Partick, even...



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JonH comes home wrote:

Only just seen Scottish cup draw, Celtic v Rangers. Lovely!

St Mirren in quarters versus Patrick

Partick, even...

 Yep, i think anyone reading knew that. 



-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 18th of February 2026 01:12:01 AM

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