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So three draws, and County provide the single victory? That' a non-standard weekend to be sure.

You would have got long odds on the two Scottish results.

Arneb wrote:So three draws, and County provide the single victory? That' a non-standard weekend to be sure.

Would have been worse if Heid hadn't equalised by putting on his lucky shirt.

I wonder: Is he allowed to wash it between deployments?

I wouldn't dare . . .

Of course when this one gets too bad I have my new lucky RCC shirt.

The Memsahib mus be a very tolerant woman. But all for the better, hooray for RCC!

Oh. btw, we did not win, as you'd think we wouldn't. 17 points of 17 matches, 14th place, two points ahead of the relegation spot. Seems to be on the way for the next disaster season.

Hertha BSC 0 - 3 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

Played 105, won 53, drawn 22, lost 30.

IrU Derby this weekend.

Go IrU! All wins or bust. Oh, wait...

Fortuna Düsseldorf 3 - 3 SpVgg Greuther Fürth

Played 106, won 53, drawn 23, lost 30

Better than a loss. Do I wear my lucky Rangers shirt, my as yet to be determined RCC shirt or neither?

You wear BOTH, of course. This is IrU!

Of course, I should have thought of that.

Rangers 5 - 0 County

Played 108, won 54, drawn 23, lost 31

Just hanging on to 50% wins.

Oh Hertha, what nonsense is this? I’ll put the lucky shirts on.

And there we go, penalty to us. There was no reason for the defender to do that.

He’s fucking missed it. That was the shitest penalty I’ve seen in a long time.

Oh, fuck that’s two. Does that long haired fannybaws of yours perform any useful function? I don’t know what happened for the first goal I’m just assuming it was the ex-Celtic man who fucked up.

New low point.

Hertha 1 - 4 SV Werder Bremen
Played 109, won 54, drawn 23, lost 32

If Cologne win tomorrow, we'll have the relegation playoff spot.

And we've fired the coach (the guy on the pitch) and the manager (the guy in the suit making the decisions for hiring players and coatches - AFAIK, these position are usually united in the "manager" over on your side of the Channel).

It was about time, for the manager more than the coach. Michael Preetz (still Hertha's all-time top scorer as a player) was responsible for most of the club policy during the last twelve years, and he has very, very little to show for it - especially in the last two seasons. He formed a team that was the laughingstock of the League and was always struggling for survival before Mr. Rich And Generous came along, and he has formed a team that is the laughing stock of the League and is struggling for survival now, after something like a 150 million in cash.

I have sympathy for a coach who wasn't able to drag his team up from the quagmire of a dysfunctional club, but in the end, he was unable to to form a bunch of players, many of whom are highly talented and some of whom - Piatek, Cunha, Guendouzi - were hired for big money into a football team. As I said a few pages up, the anti-Freiburg, anti-Munich, and anti-Liverpool. It was a tall order doing it in this nutty surroundings, but he could have done way better.

Arne Friedrich, former Hertha defender and Germany international and current CFO will take over the management stuff. As a coach, they'll likely hire Pál Dardai again - you remember, the plucky Hungarian former Hertha defensive midfielder who kept us afloat after the last promotion, with his work ethic, good humour, and in spite of always fucking up the second half of the season. The one they shoved aside 'cuz Big City Big Club Big Big and who contracted in advance to return to the youth academy after a sabbatical. That one. Another has-been.

It's not looking good for our count, folks.

That is not a good set of circumstances, and re-tread coaches rarely work.

I should add (and it's symptomatic for Hertha's negativity that I forgot) that Dardai not only "kept us afloat", he managed twice to reach to Europa League qualifications for us. But they, too, were so Hertha: The first time, we didn't reach the group phase because a Danish no-namer wiped us out, the second time we managed to get the worst result of a German team ever in any international group phase. And both times, we had been placed in CL territory at least transiently and then fucked it up towards the end of the season.

Young Frank Lampard is available, he'd fit right in.

No, no. He actually won something, we don't hire that kind of people.

Pál Dárdai it is. They gave him a contract until summer 22, so they have someone to blame when we fuck up promotion next season.

There’s a full card of games in Scotland tonight, RCC are at home to Motherwell in a relegation six pointer, we’re away to the Lieth Soap Dodgers. Two wins would do nicely. RCC have just kicked off, we’re about 8.

Greuther already gave the week a good start:

VfL Osnabrück 0 - 1 SpVgg Greuther Fürth


Played 110, won 55, drawn 23, lost 32

Pál's gang away to Frankfurt tomorrow. I fear the wurst.