So he fails to get Hibs promoted twice and yet manages to get a English Championship job, I just don't see the logic.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
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So he fails to get Hibs promoted twice and yet manages to get a English Championship job, I just don't see the logic.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
The bar was set pretty high by Hearts and Rangers each season for that one automatic spot to be fair, they had no real entitlement to expect to outperform either of those. I suppose they had the playoffs after that but they're always a bit of a lottery.
But it is the Scottish 2nd level, you expect teams like Hearts & Rangers to do what they did, Hibernian should have been closer regardless. The fact they won the Scottish Cup would be strong evidence that they under performed in the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Lennon back in Scotland as Hibs' boss http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36477421
Perhaps this should all be moved to the Scottish Championship thread? :P
Quite liking Aberdeen's jersey, voted #4 most attractive in world football behind Pumas, Tottenham and Galatasaray.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...orld-football/
Tottenham's (a) quite similar to Dundalk (h) jersey.
Perhaps we will see both in Champions League?
That UNAM shirt bis gash. Home tends to be deadly. Spurs is nice. Terrible from Galatasaray.
Aberdeen's is meh.
I see Lennon has managed to get himself a 5 match ban from UEFA for arguing with a linesman over a disallowed goal. He really needs to go to anger management classes. These sort of things happen all the time and if he can't bite his lip (within reason) and get on with it, he shouldn't be in management. The linesman isn't going to change his mind for an offside.
I read in the papers that the English League is considering a 5th division to which the Old Firm may be invited to participate in if the clubs agree.
Apparently the Atlantic League is also back on the agenda for UEFA.
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Originally Posted by TheBoss
I think I may have been right!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
Alan Stubbs sacked as Rotherham manager after 14 games
He should have stayed at Hibs. They could drop as many points as they like this season and probably still win the league, such is the lack of competition.
The Championship is regarded as a stepping stone to the holy grail of the EPL unlike the Scottish 1st Division so he took a chance and alas for him it didn't work out. Pity, as I like him and having successfully fought off cancer I suspect he'll bounce back from this as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
So Celtic won their 100th major trophy yesterday. It got me thinking about how Rangers compare and it turns out they achieved that feat all the way back in 2000 and are now on 115 major trophies (not including their lower tier wins over the past few years). Still, I suppose Celtic have won the European Cup so that easily makes up for the shortfall.
Celtic Rangers League Championships 47 54 Scottish Cup 36 33 League Cup 16 27 European Cup 1 - European Cup Winners Cup - 1 Total 100 115
Very close all the same. Celtic have closed the gap in the League Championships over the past few seasons. An interesting stat would be how often the league has been won by a non-old firm side (bearing in mind there are over 100 wins between them). The only ones I remember are Aberdeen and Dundee United and that's not today or yesterday.
The answer to that appears to be 19, with the most recent being Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen side 31 years ago (1984-85). That was the third season in a row where a team outside of the Old Firm won the Championship, the longest ever sequence!Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Aberdeen 4 1954-55, 1979-80, 1983-84, 1984-85 Hearts 4 1894-95, 1896-97, 1957-58, 1959-60 Hibs 4 1902-03, 1947-48, 1950-51, 1951-52 Dumbarton 2 1890-91, 1891-92 Motherwell 1 1931-32 Kilmarnock 1 1964-65 Dundee 1 1961-62 Dundee Utd 1 1982-83 Third Lanark 1 1903-04 Total 19
Non-Old Firm Titles
OMG! Third Lanark. Do you know I remember when they were in existence. How frightening (for me) is that? Only 19 yet they all live (other than Third Lanark) and still hope.
Don't forget Hearts should have won the title the following season, but choked on the final day, missing out on goal difference. They were two points clear (two points for a win) and had a goal difference advantage of 4, but lost 2-0 at home while Celtic won 5-0 away.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Celtic were rubbish for much of the next decade in fairness. Rarely finished in the top two up until the mid 90s.
Third Lanark is a fascinating story. I remember looking them up before out of curiosity. The old Hampden Park in which they played still stands as a public park with the terraces all overgrown with trees. As far as I know, they were reformed as a junior team in Scotland and play in non-league there.
Under the late Tommy Burns especially ? It's one of those chants that sticks in my head as the Rangers' fans taunted him mercilessly with "Cheer up Tommy Burns. Oh what can it mean... etc". Don't know why it has stuck but it has. Felt for the man.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Here's some pics:Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...thkinpark1.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...thkinpark2.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...thkinpark3.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathkin_Park
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Love that sort of thing.