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spl season extended.

Disgraceful, but you've still to beat Fiorentina for it to happen.

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im tempted to start another seethers thread, but unlike the spl, this place will ban me.

timmy forums are going into meltdown.

Eh who do we play on Sunday, three days after a UEFA cup semi final match?  Who was given a week off prior to the UEFA cup final?

Nice link all the same I guess.

Disgraceful you say?  Why?  We are still having to play 4 games in a week, when do you propose we played them?  I know you need all the help you can get but come on having us play 5 a week or playing two days before a UEFA cup semi would have been ridiculous no?

Personally its a half assed decision fron the SPL.  The league season should have been extended regardless.

3 days after a home semi-final.

The week off was thanks to Dundee - no help from the SPL or any other club.

If the pitch at Ibrox had been playable against East Stirling, you'd beaten Partick Thistle in the Cup at home & you'd not postponed the game against Gretna you'd not have this trouble.

To quote Alex McLeish - "We wish we had their problems".

I think not helping our clubs in Europe is a terrible enditement on the SPL, I thought it in 2003. But if Rangers struggle then they've been hoisted on their own petard.

everyones missing the BUT

The orcs have to beat fiorentina ... not gonna happen!

lol so the weather and being not winning cup games at the first attempt is to blame, yeah all our own fault.  Nothing to do with the SFA asking for the St Mirren game to be postponed prior to the Scotland v Italy game, or Cetlc using the death of a young man to make a late request for a postponement due to an injury and suspension crisis?

LOL so its Celtic fault!??

So in 2003 when we where forced to play at Ibrox 48 hours after an away semi final in UEFA cup (micky mouse cup back then) what was your opinion then, hell slap it into Timmy for been such a success.

A few seasons before we endured a horrendous visit to one of the Eastern bloc countries and had to play an old firm game 48 hrs after that also.

Had Rangers managed to make sure the pitch was playable for the east Stirling game and had they not asked the SPL to postpone the Gretna game before THAT clash with Lyon yous wouldn't find yourselves in this mess.

Personally I have no sympathy, but the SPL can't rewrite the rules  nine tengths of the way through the season.  Yous knew at the beginning of the season when the league emptied.  And to blame the SFA and Celtic is childish, yous where happy to take advantage of the SPL postponing the St Mirren game when it happened.

Ohh and as for the Phil O'Donnell incident, don't dare sully the memmory of Phil or indeed try and drag the name of Celtic Football Club through the mud now.  Move along back to your cesspit.

Not winning your games is, yes. Having a waterlogged pitch is, yes. If those had not happened then you'd have not had a problem.

The SFA decision was stupid agreed.

The last point is not worth dignifying with an answer.

hey cheer up guys, at least you won something this year

nice 1 aiden

also this mini revival may have secured another season of strachan

its like a propaganda story from rangers news, it cant be true, surely?

no one is looking for sympathy, who needs sympathy when we have the spl in our back pocket.......a bit like novo and aiden the great if  thats easier for you to understand

Don't give us sympathy - just help us out LOL.

take it bandits post got deleted?

LOL at fergus... funny how he only appears when the huns have a shot at winning.. goes into hiding rest of the time.

The mask slips, you are a disgrace.

well i do try to get on between bans

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Hi fergus, what happened to your last seething thread ?

it got moved to best of blonde

haha, rangers the establishment team.

tut tut.

Discuss it normally without trolling and you'll be fine.

not at all surprised, made for some enthralling reading.

i need to stop posting in invisible ink

real radio football phone in at 6pm, i expect priceless banter to unfold

I'm in no way attempting to sully the memory of O'Donnell.  Merely suggesting that Celtc had questionable motives for having the game postponed.


oh and as for the cesspit jibe, oh the irony :)

Of course you are, you are using it in an attempt at cheap point scoring.

Celtic shouldn't have been put in the position of having to ask for a postponement in the first place, the SPL hummed & hawed with that decision as well.

Am I? 

I believe had the boot been on the other foot and we had been the side struggling with injuries the request would not have been forthcoming.  If that doesn't sit well with you I couldn't really care less.

The reaction to the league being extended by four days is laughable. Hopefully it will be a mute point after Sunday.

As far as i was aware the Motherwell v Celtic game was postponed at the request of the O'Donnell family Right or wrong?

Yes you are & you know fine well that you are.

Phil O'Donnell was my second cousin, I went to school with him so I'm a good bit closer to the situation than you & playing the OF game at the time was never even a consideration, its a game of football for goodness sake, I'm sorry that it inconvenienced you at the time. Both Barry Ferguson & Lee McCulloch were against the game being played as well so this isn't just one sided.

I can't make up my mind whether you are immature, ignorant or just thick with your comments on this thread.

With regards to the extension it doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Why the St Mirren game wasn't played the same midweek that we played Falkirk I'll never know. The Gretna postponement was just embarrassing for you & its hardly surprising that the games are starting to catch up with you.

BTW I'm not in the slightest bit interested in all the juvenile name calling, you all need to grow up.

Right ... posts deleted, if any of you want a ban, keep on going, next time I OR any other mod has cause to remove a post from this thead, the guilty party gets a 7 day ban, no excuses, no warnings, instaban ... believe it or not, we have better things to do than fanny about on here babysitting the usual suspects.

right guys

I have removed half this thread as there is sectarian stuff being said

you guys need to learn to stop this stuff on the forum

various of you have been asked privately to pack in it way before now.

bans (not just 24 hour cool offs, proper lasting bans) will now follow in any further instance of this stuff.

there you go, modding in stereo!

The sectarian stuff came from one individual!

This same individual who has spouted sectarian bile on umpteen occasions.  how many more times is he going to get away with it?  If he said it in the street he would be arrested.  Yet here he gets his posts deleted and a slap on the wrist.  Incidentally if it was racist abuse would the mods deal with it in the same manner?

Pathetic

the faults are on both sides of the divide

Believe it or not, we try to avoid banning

However things have now gone, even more so than before, way too far

We can't make it any clearer, people are going to get banned.

If anyone has any further comments to make, you can PM a mod with your concerns.

well said.

Who got banned??

dont really want to get into a big argument- plain and simple both sides unhappy with it but, bein a rangers fan I'm obviously a bit happier we MAY have an extension(hopefully  :P ) BUT...

what other solution was there?? if no extension there was no possible dates to fit in- its not exactly like school when you used to play at 9 in the mornin then again at 2pm for your boys club.- the way its happenin we're still goin to be playin at the weekend, then a tuesday, then thursday & then at the weekend again- thats still too much.

p.s for those not happy with reading about rival fans bickering or bantering then put simply-you dont have to read it.

The mighty Hoops once played Motherwell and Raith Rovers in the same day..................




































it was earlier than the 1940s right anuff  ;carlocitrone;

Nobody has been banned yet, well I don't think so.  Bazzaboy would like me banned, I'd like him to go play tig with the buses, but we don't all get what we want.

I wouldn't mind yous getting an extention to the league if these things where discussed at the beginning of the season in the event of there being heavy fixture congestion.  We find ourselves in a situation that Rangers have contributed to this by not keeping the Ibrox pitch playable during a bout of bad weather, they also asked for a game to be postponed to allow time to play a CL game,  the SFA must take some blame also for postponing Celtic and Rangers games to help the National team and the SPL should have acted quicker after the death of Phil O'Donnell. 

A few seasons back though the same courtesy of extending the season wasn't afforded to Celtic when we got to the UEFA cup final.  And neither should it have been IMO, becuase it wasn't in the rules before hand and you can't go changing the rules mid season.

Also the people that loose out here are the fans, many supporters will have already booked travel to Dundee now that could be buses, boat or even flights.  I know of a Supporters club who come over every weekend to Scotland from Derry who have booked 30 flights for their members to to come over and they have also paid a deposit on a hotel, now its not the end of the world but this could be the 5th time this season their plans have been ruined.

Rangers entered 4 competitions at the beginning of the season they had ample time to build a squad in the summer and again bring in proper reinforcements in January and they never done it, so the blame lies at their own front door.

Ohh and just to point out Celtic have players who are scheduled to head off on International duty after the last league game of the season should we be without these players for our last league game?

i enjoy the bantering. unfortunately it usually goes beyond banter.

FFS you lot, This makes the Scots look like Jeremy Kyle rejects.

fecking sort it out its a game of foot ball, who gives a toss if a team gets an extension.

Shame on all the plonkers tbh.

It's the blatant trolling that annoys me. The banter is great..some people only posting to piss others off...not so great :)

Just saw Billy's post...Well said mate.

whats wrong with trolling?
its like defending, its an art form

in fact i think i should get posters poster of the year, and posters young poster of the year, but trollers dont get those awards.

Its a bit like Tommy Smith, Ron Harris, Norman Hunter and the rest of the 1960s/70s hard-men defenders

You knew they could defend but sometimes it just went OTT

These days, with video technology you just can't get away with those types of challenges. They'd always be banned

surprisingly I totally disagree with a lot of what you say :p

The pitch was waterlogged due to Scotland having the most severe and consistant rain in 20 years ffs- it wasnt only rangers that has had games postponed this year due to the pitch- however these teams were able to reschedule these games as they were not in Europe. As for you sayin the SFA should have discussed these things at the start ofr the season-I do agree this should have been the case.. in the end it wasn't BUT.. for you to say things cant be changed for exceptional cases is a pretty stubborn view of things...its not only in scotland things get changed in football for the good of common sense-an example- Liverpool were afforded entry into the champions league when they finished 5th a few seasons back- to allow them to defend their title! I think using common sense in these situations will help football rather than hinder it dont you.

Also the question was...what would have been a more reasonable solution?? how could they have possibly fit these games in before the 18th May?? play each tuesday before we play in the thursdays of the UEFA cup???

1 What other SPL club apart from Motherwell had games postponed because of the rain?
2 Why couldn't the Ibrox pitch cope with this downpour?
3 Why should things be changed mid term?   Afterall this is not an exceptional case is it Celtic got to the final in 2003 and suffered serious fixture congestion.
4 Should Rangers have asked the SPL to postpone the fixture with Gretna in the run up to the Lyon game?
5 Why should Celtic and our fans be disadvantaged due to something that has nothing to do with us?

If the SPL want to postpone Rangers game to the 22nd of May thats fine, but there is no need to change the Celtic game.

no place for reason and logic on this thread, anyone displaying either from now on will get 24 hour cooling off ban

Both Celtic and Rangers have had more chances to win the league this year than old has been's have gone to scotland to end their careers. Wherever the title ends up there will be four of five more influencial reasons than a change in the fixtures now.

excellent, made no sense at all, just what i asked for. no ban for you.

Seething  rotflmfao rotflmfao ;surrender;

Wont Rangers have already won the league by then anyway??

Never fails to disappoint.  rotflmfao

Your lack of knowledge on all matters concerning Scottish football is frankly embarrassing, you really should stay off of these threads.

have to agree. surely there've been more than 4 or 5 has beens that've gone to scotland to end their careers

and on a more serious note, why can't teams play games 2 days apart?
they're pro athletes ffs.
I'm sure many of us on here have played twice in one day quite happily and then turned out the next day as well with no ill effects.
fixture congestion is a load of crap. just get on with it.

From Ronald De Boer in 2003

"If you look at Manchester United, they played Liverpool then Real Madrid, then Newcastle and Arsenal. "They have another game before they play Madrid for the second time, but I don't see them complaining.

This came after Celtic had asked asked for our Game with Rangers after we played an away match in Europe on the Thursday to be moved.

Examples being?!! I rarely comment on Scottish threads, largely because its people having a slangingg match rather than anything else.

A tongue in cheek dig with the past it footballers, but both Celtic and Rangers have dropped shocking points this season, especially in the past few weeks - these being there chances to put it out of reach (all be it not mathmatically) from the other. (Motherwell home for celtic and Dundee away for Rangers spring to mind)

The way the extention has been talked about its as if Celtic fans think this means that Rangers will win all there games now whereas previously they wouldn't have. If celtic lose the league this year it'll be because Rangers were better than them. Simple as.

Heres a good one, please put the spade down  ;djinn;

I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.
I must never use a shortend name for a football team, even when assumed obvious that it can be only one team.

Which one?

Dundee or Dundee Utd?

No one calls Dundee Utd Dundee, absolutely no one, you actually know even less than I thought!!!

I know 10 times more about scottish football than I would ever want to.

The point being they could only of played Dundee United, so it would be them - why would I possibly know what people call them in general?! I have absolutely no need to know that, I don't think I have ever talked to a Dundee fan in my life! NOt knowing the name they go by doesn't stop me from seeing that they took points from Rangers where they shouldn't.

I would also like to apologise for upseting you. You are right. Hero.

Thank you, I feel better already  :)

why shouldnt the have taken points off rangers?

Indeed, Dundee Utd have been on good form recently and have been Rangers bogey team for the last couple of seasons