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Topic Started: 5 Apr 2014, 05:29 PM (152,798 Views)
fatboab
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cidermaster
7 May 2014, 01:35 PM
Well next season the Scottish Championship looks set to be far more exciting than the SPL!!!!! The biggest game in Scotland looks set to be Rangers v Hearts! In a strange way it would be good for Scottish football if Hibs went down as well! The crowds and excitement in the Championship will get Scottish football buzzing again,and make all 3 sides much stronger long term.

hope you enjoy it :thumbsup:
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cidermaster
7 May 2014, 01:35 PM
Well next season the Scottish Championship looks set to be far more exciting than the SPL!!!!! The biggest game in Scotland looks set to be Rangers v Hearts! In a strange way it would be good for Scottish football if Hibs went down as well! The crowds and excitement in the Championship will get Scottish football buzzing again,and make all 3 sides much stronger long term.

This years Scottish Championship had a title race with three teams near enough neck and enough with 135 minutes to go. The final day saw the eventual winners play out the final minutes of their game knowing the loss of one goal would see them lose the title and automatic promotion on goals scored.

Next season's second tier isn't going to be as exciting as the current one.
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idyllwild
7 May 2014, 01:35 PM
cidermaster
7 May 2014, 01:35 PM
Well next season the Scottish Championship looks set to be far more exciting than the SPL!!!!! The biggest game in Scotland looks set to be Rangers v Hearts! In a strange way it would be good for Scottish football if Hibs went down as well! The crowds and excitement in the Championship will get Scottish football buzzing again,and make all 3 sides much stronger long term.

:notmissingthis:
I was just wondering if his cider of choice was Blackthorn rather than Magners? ;)
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cidermaster
7 May 2014, 01:35 PM
Well next season the Scottish Championship looks set to be far more exciting than the SPL!!!!! The biggest game in Scotland looks set to be Rangers v Hearts! In a strange way it would be good for Scottish football if Hibs went down as well! The crowds and excitement in the Championship will get Scottish football buzzing again,and make all 3 sides much stronger long term.


Aye, a Hearts v Hibs tie in the Championship is sure to whet the appetite far more that the same fixture this season in the SPL, with worse players and less fans.

As for the bloated corpse of Rangers, they make Vinny Jones-era Wimbledon look like Barcelona.

Bound to be a belter of a league right enough. What have you mixed your cider with?
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Bobby Peru
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Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
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Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
It's going to be the saviour of Scottish football.

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Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
Sure, in the sense that it'll be a desperate scrambling fight for the top spot while the SPL (a/k/a SPFLFLPLG or whatever it is now) isn't going to be. I hope.

I won't be watching any of those games, but I'm sure the results will provide some entertainment, and we will of course larf and larf if sevco slips at the final hurdle in their grand journey.
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Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
Aye, if Hibs come down and Butcher gets a go at building his own squad, then it'll be a proper 3 donkey race. I'm quite looking forward to it. :lol:

I'm just disappointed that Morton have missed out on The Journey. Used to love taking a wee walk down to Cappielow when they played the huns.
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Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
As someone else pointed out, surely the same could be said of this season though? The title race was, well, an actual title race in the Championship. The arrival of a a large bunch of pretty unpleasant supporters and some more crap players isn't going to make it suddenly a great league.

Incidentally, any one know if there be would more TV coverage of the Championship if it included both Edinburgh sides and Rangers or would it still just be the huns' games on TV?
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7 May 2014, 01:50 PM
Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
It's going to be the saviour of Scottish football.

That's taking it too far.

I can guarantee one thing. A game between sevco & hearts or hibs or kilmarnock would certainly generate more posts on here than any non Celtic SPL match.
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arklys
7 May 2014, 01:54 PM
Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
As someone else pointed out, surely the same could be said of this season though?
No.

Because we don't have a generic Dundee or Hamilton thread where people pore over every aspect of their club and support.


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Forza
7 May 2014, 01:11 PM
To face a division also consisting of Sevco and Hearts? Really? I can only see them being third at best and therefore dependent on a play off. Let's be honest, their record against Hearts down the years would suggest that against them at the very least, they would be completely owned.

They went down in 98 and shot back up to prominence for a few years afterwards, but that was in an old First Division which they had their own way. A football club need not have to go down to completely clear the decks, especially one that would likely be odds on to stay down there for more than one season. That never really worked out too well for Dundee if I remember rightly. It took them 8 years to resurface and then only because Oldco died.

Not sure at all that Butcher is the right man for the job. Hibs are obviously not all that, but they are significantly more than ICT or Motherwell, the only clubs where Butcher has had any success. There is greater expectation and a need to play more enterprising football. El Tel's method for acquiring a rag-tag band of League 2 and Conference cast offs appears more suited to the underdog, using shall we say physical and organised means of upsetting more established opponents.

Butcher has proved in every job outwith the SPL he has too many limitations to manage a club like Hibs who, in the absence of the hun and diet huns, should have absolutely no reason not to be challenging Aberdeen, Motherwell and Dundee United.
They may well not come back at the first time of asking (although I would probably put them second behind Hearts next season).

The appointment of an actual CEO (instead of an acting one who also happens to be the minority owner) is the best thing Hibs have done for a while, but giving her a blank canvas post-relegation to rebuild is likely to produce a far more robust and sustainable Hibs side than having her start with one which narrowly avoided relegation and therefore didn't ditch the players and staff responsible for getting them into that mess. Everyone in the organisation will be on her side, for a start.

Personally I think Butcher is a good manager, but I'm aware of his record and admit it's open to question. Perhaps it would be best if he went too, given he bears a degree of blame for the mess they're in.

But the point I was answering was the longer-term point about Hibs being necessary to the success of Scottish football, and I think Hibs have been crying out for a complete and pretty radical overhaul since they got their infrastructure sorted. Dempster will find that far easier and quicker to achieve if she has the stick of relegation to beat the current failures with. A season or two of Hibs in the championship isn't going to suddenly make Scottish football weak and uncompetitive, but could cause them to take the steps they need to reach their potential.
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arklys
7 May 2014, 01:54 PM
Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
As someone else pointed out, surely the same could be said of this season though? The title race was, well, an actual title race in the Championship. The arrival of a a large bunch of pretty unpleasant supporters and some more crap players isn't going to make it suddenly a great league.

I don't think anyone is saying it is going to be great.

It will be interesting.

I will be interested in it anyway, more than i normally would and the majority of folk on here are lying if they are saying they won't be keeping a closer eye on it next season than this.
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:thumbsup: That's fair enough - I shouldn't have used the word 'great'. I can only speak for myself when I won't be paying any more notice than I did this season.

Edit: effed up quoting
Edited by arklys, 7 May 2014, 02:04 PM.
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7 May 2014, 01:35 PM
Well next season the Scottish Championship looks set to be far more exciting than the SPL!!!!! The biggest game in Scotland looks set to be Rangers v Hearts! In a strange way it would be good for Scottish football if Hibs went down as well! The crowds and excitement in the Championship will get Scottish football buzzing again,and make all 3 sides much stronger long term.

All this and Henrik L :arrr: son too.

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Just a pity Thistle aren't there as they would have been a handy vehicle to watch some games up close and dangerous.

There'll be more comedy to be had as sevco will not steamroll the league as they did this season which will generate a lot of interest from here as well as how many 'honest mistakes' will be handed out to them in their times of need.

If Hibs were to go down it's bad news for sevco so don't understand why these muppets want that to happen?
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remy mcswain
7 May 2014, 02:05 PM
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7 May 2014, 01:35 PM
Well next season the Scottish Championship looks set to be far more exciting than the SPL!!!!! The biggest game in Scotland looks set to be Rangers v Hearts! In a strange way it would be good for Scottish football if Hibs went down as well! The crowds and excitement in the Championship will get Scottish football buzzing again,and make all 3 sides much stronger long term.

All this and Henrik L :arrr: son too.

:lol:
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Five mods on one page...what is the collective noun for that?


They'll be going mad on the other threads you know....
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macon rouge
7 May 2014, 02:16 PM
Five mods on one page...what is the collective noun for that?


"Boredom."
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Bobby Peru
7 May 2014, 01:45 PM
Definitely going to be a more interesting league than the top flight.
apart from the destination of the Championship Title, the top League has been a cracker this season, with the fight for European places going to the wire, and the play-off place battle still not settled.
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