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Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:26 am
by Lianachan
Heid the Ba wrote:Which is pretty uplifting on weekends like this.

Indeed
Heid the Ba wrote:Sellick fans are convincing themselves that Rangers will be relegated next season on the basis we're shite. Which we are but they can't see that they really aren't much better.

Plus, of course, the small matter of several teams (my own included) who are yet more shiterer than that and will finish beneath anything your lot can manage, so I think you're safe.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:42 am
by Heid the Ba
Exactly, this is a great Sellick team and the worst Rangers team ever but we are closer to them this year than we were last year . . .

I still think we'll finish third, but no way we'll be in the bottom half next year. Yes, we have poor players and no money but most other teams are worse.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:27 pm
by Arneb
Btw, Mainz won againsr Freiburg tonight, with a converted penalty which was given to them by the video ref AFTER both teams had already retired for the half time interval. The teams were called back to the pirch for the penalty execution. Which means two things:

1, refereeing is becomung a strange and dark craft ineed, and

2, our Hertha are still very much in the race for the relegation playoff spot, 9 pts ahead with 12 points still up for grabs.

Do you know that strange feeling in your balls when a lift accelerates downward a little too fast? That!

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:55 am
by Heid the Ba
That was an odd series of events. The Mainz striker did his best to miss the second goal to even it up though.

Hertha will be fine, even they can't . . . er . . . never mind, as you were.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:13 am
by Lianachan
Arneb wrote:Btw, Mainz won againsr Freiburg tonight, with a converted penalty which was given to them by the video ref AFTER both teams had already retired for the half time interval. The teams were called back to the pirch for the penalty execution.


This is very weird. Was it taken like a penalty in a penalty shoot-out? I suppose it must have been, to avoid the chance of it being saved or missed with the ball remaining in play, with the other lot then storming up the pitch and putting it in at the other end. As it should be. Shoot-out penalties are not the same as in game penalties, at all.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:20 am
by Heid the Ba
Looked to be taken like a penalty in play, which it should have been.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:58 am
by Lianachan
Heid the Ba wrote:Looked to be taken like a penalty in play, which it should have been.

Well, at least that's something. Whole things sounds nuts to me.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:03 pm
by Arneb
That's right, in-play penalty, only that play wasn't resumed after the goal, because the foul had occurred seconds before rhe end of the first half. Had Mainz not scored, the ref might have allowed rhe game to continue for a few seconds. Therefore, both teams had to be on the pitch again, and in their usual pre,-penalty positions.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:56 pm
by Lianachan
Speaking of shenanigans - it's all kicking off at Rangers.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:09 pm
by Heid the Ba
Miller is a Dirty Hibbee so fuck him. Odd that I don't trust him since he played for Hibs but I had completely forgotten he also used to play for Celtic.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:28 pm
by Lianachan
Quite a small number of folk who've played for the Sharks and the Jets.

Post WW2:

Alfie Conn (Rangers 1968–1974, Celtic 1977–1979)
Mo Johnston (Celtic 1984–1987, Rangers 1989–1991)
Kenny Miller (Rangers 2000–2001, Celtic 2006–2007, Rangers 2008–2011, Rangers 2014–present)
Steven Pressley (Rangers 1990–1994, Celtic 2006–2008)
Mark Brown (Rangers 1997–2001, Celtic 2007–2010)

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:00 pm
by Lianachan
Arneb wrote:That's right, in-play penalty, only that play wasn't resumed after the goal, because the foul had occurred seconds before rhe end of the first half. Had Mainz not scored, the ref might have allowed rhe game to continue for a few seconds. Therefore, both teams had to be on the pitch again, and in their usual pre,-penalty positions.

Reminded of this all of a sudden....

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Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:44 pm
by Heid the Ba
I had forgotten Pressley did it and have no recollection of knowing who Mark Brown is.

*googles Mark Brown, is no wiser*

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:04 pm
by Lianachan
Heid the Ba wrote:I had forgotten Pressley did it and have no recollection of knowing who Mark Brown is.

*googles Mark Brown, is no wiser*


Mark Brown is a goalie, who used to be pretty good. Probably the only person ever to play for Rangers and Celtic, and Caley Thistle and Ross County.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:09 pm
by Arneb
SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1 - 1 VfL Bochum

Greuther clutch a point at home to a direct competitor (well, everyone's a direct competitor at the moment, the table being what it is), but that only takes us one point clear of relegation playoffs. Still a nailbiter, this season.

Hertha holding on to a 1 - 0 lead at min. 75 in Frankfurt, which would be Really Very Fucking Good for us.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:12 pm
by Arneb
2 nil up just after I finished this post, and Frank'n'furter just saw a red for ramming the scorer in the face with his elbow. Dare we dream?

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:29 pm
by Arneb
Eintracht Frankfurt 0 - 3 Hertha BSC

Non-relegation secure, up in the top half of the table for something like the first time this season, and a very nice and prestigious away win: Frankfurt just reached the Cup Final against (of course) Bayern with a gritty win over Schalke, and their coach is going to be Bayern's coach starting next season. Drinks all round.

With Greuther's draw, it's now
Played 161, won 62, drawn 38, lost 61

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 6:10 pm
by Lianachan
Ross County 0 - 0 Motherwell

Played 162, won 62, drawn 39, lost 61.

Results elsewhere put us back on the bottom of the league.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:26 pm
by Heid the Ba
Of course we can dream for Hertha, Ross Chuffing County does the expected. We are up against Hertz tomorrow, it could go either way but we should win.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 2:51 pm
by Heid the Ba
Rangers 2 - 1 Hearts. We were ok, they were awful and we should have won by a hatful. Two wins and two draws, that is our best weekend for a while.

Played 163, won 63, drawn 39, lost 61

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 10:27 am
by Heid the Ba
We’re away to Sellick, RCC are away, Fuerth are away, the only bright spot is Hertha at home to Augsburg. It is a sad state of affairs when we’re relying on Hertha, again.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 10:48 am
by Arneb
A sorry state of affairs indeed. AND Hertha have the chance to bring themselves within spitting distance of a European placement: We are at home to a relegation candidate, and the two teams in 8th and 7th are away to the top two teams of the League. Venture a guess what will happen?

For Greuther, it's crunch time. Not only are we away, we are away to the team in the relegation playoff spot, one below us, with a point separating us. We may find hope in the fact that St. Pauli are legendary fuck-uppers themselves.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 1:11 pm
by Arneb
One very down, three to go:
FC St. Pauli 3 - 0 SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Played 164, won 63, drawn 39, lost 62

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 1:52 pm
by Heid the Ba
Actually two down, County were an early kickoff. Herth are still doing ok, we play tomorrow.

Played 165, won 63, drawn 39, lost 63.

Re: What sports teams do you support?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:08 pm
by Arneb
Of course we didn't win, but at least we came back from two goals down in min. 97 or so.

Hertha 2 - 2 FC Augsburg


Played 166, won 63, drawn 40, lost 63.