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greenjedi
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27 May 2014, 09:42 AM
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Exactly, we get told from the MSM that McCall is doing an excellent job with Motherwell and has them playing well, the manager of the year :rolleyes: is still at Aberdeen, the much loved youthful vibrant DUFC are still in the league, The Scottish cup winners are still in the league. Constantly told that these are good teams so just because hearts and hibs are relegated does not = pish league. Dundee with additional signings will definitely challenge for the top 6, still have the glasgow derby in the top flight, plus the dundee derby and the new firm derby Ram all this talk about the championship will be the better league, it will blood and snotters football...
Out of curiosity - is Motherwell and Hamilton considered a derby game between their handful of fans? Can't see how it can't be, the towns are seperated by a goal kick distance
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27 May 2014, 09:51 AM
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Out of curiosity - is Motherwell and Hamilton considered a derby game between their handful of fans?
Can't see how it can't be, the towns are seperated by a goal kick distance Unless Packie or Jim Leighton take it... then Carlisle becomes a rival.
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Madrileno
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27 May 2014, 09:52 AM
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Out of curiosity - is Motherwell and Hamilton considered a derby game between their handful of fans?
Can't see how it can't be, the towns are seperated by a goal kick distance It's a derby in that the towns are neighbours but there's no real rivalry between them. The real bad blood in North Lanarkshire is between Motherwell and Airdrie. That's the fixture that brings the Danny Dyer wannabe's out.
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27 May 2014, 09:53 AM
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Hibs are no loss to the SPFL, they were utter dross all year and would've finished bottom if it hadn't of been for Hearts starting the season on -15 points.
All this talk about the Championship being a better/more exciting league is also nonsense… the best two teams from last years Championship are now in the SPFL and two of the worst two SPFL teams are in the Championship, its hardly going to be brimming with quality… feckin media hacks.
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27 May 2014, 10:19 AM
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Hibs are no loss to the SPFL, they were utter dross all year and would've finished bottom if it hadn't of been for Hearts starting the season on -15 points.
All this talk about the Championship being a better/more exciting league is also nonsense… the best two teams from last years Championship are now in the SPFL and two of the worst two SPFL teams are in the Championship, its hardly going to be brimming with quality… feckin media hacks. It is a more exciting league though. One of Sevco, Hearts and Hibs won't be coming back up and all 3 will have title aspirations. Where's the excitement in the top league?
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27 May 2014, 10:40 AM
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Hibs are no loss to the SPFL, they were utter dross all year and would've finished bottom if it hadn't of been for Hearts starting the season on -15 points.
All this talk about the Championship being a better/more exciting league is also nonsense… the best two teams from last years Championship are now in the SPFL and two of the worst two SPFL teams are in the Championship, its hardly going to be brimming with quality… feckin media hacks.
It is a more exciting league though. One of Sevco, Hearts and Hibs won't be coming back up and all 3 will have title aspirations. Where's the excitement in the top league? Hibs are probably the least ambitious club in Scotland, they won't have serious title aspirations. They'll aim for second at the very best and will be lucky to finish third.
Personally I'm not even remotely excited by "the championship". The top league has more big clubs, more well run clubs, a higher standard of football and (Celtic aside) quite an evenly-matched set of teams. The championship has a couple of basket case big clubs, a load of wee clubs and Scotland's Shame. With the possible exception of the Edinburgh derbies which are often quite fun to watch as a neutral, you couldn't pay me to watch any of the games. They'll get all the media interest of course because of the Sevco obsession, but that doesn't make the league any more exciting, and certainly not any better than the top league.
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Mackin
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27 May 2014, 10:46 AM
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Hibs are no loss to the SPFL, they were utter dross all year and would've finished bottom if it hadn't of been for Hearts starting the season on -15 points.
All this talk about the Championship being a better/more exciting league is also nonsense… the best two teams from last years Championship are now in the SPFL and two of the worst two SPFL teams are in the Championship, its hardly going to be brimming with quality… feckin media hacks.
It is a more exciting league though. One of Sevco, Hearts and Hibs won't be coming back up and all 3 will have title aspirations. Where's the excitement in the top league? It was 'a more exciting' league this season as well. There was a 3 way battle for promotion on the last day.
Doesnt mean anyone cared about it.
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27 May 2014, 10:49 AM
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- 26 May 2014, 08:03 PM
There seems to some fans on here desperate to talk up an "exciting" clash between Celtic and Hamilton Academicals. Quite honestly if there is no CL football at Celtic next season then I would expect the club to shut more than one part of the stadium re lack of fans to fill seats. Desperate times. RRRRRRRRAAAAAAANNNNNNGGGGGGGERRRRRRRSSSSSS
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27 May 2014, 10:56 AM
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No matter how these clubs found themselves not in the top flight.
The first died because it spent more money than it had on an industrial scale for over a decade. Their phoenix branch is now being indulged by the media as predicted on their "journey".
The second were relegated because they had their own spectacular financial mismanagement stretching back to the 90s, and finally paid for it through administration, the loss of loads of players and a points penalty.
The third, despite a competitive advantage and the demise of the aforementioned two, still managed to invent a position on the footballing side of their business where they were the worst team in the top flight. This is arguably a more spectacular level of balls up than the other two.
We might win the league by 30 points again next season, we might not have our biggest average attendance over a season, we may even fail to qualify for the Champions League. We might even show discontent over who our next manager is.
Just don't be in any doubt that everyone knows we are superior, and don't be in any doubt yourselves. We are likely to remain so for quite some time and surely that is all that matters.
Whereas these clubs horizons are limited to getting out of a league where they'll face Dumbarton, Alloa and Cowdenbeath, ours is trained on how we get into the same competition as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund and a host of others. Surely there are enough agenda-laden hacks playing these things down elsewhere than for us to be indulging in it ourselves?
Sorry for introducing some reality.
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27 May 2014, 11:00 AM
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There seems to some fans on here desperate to talk up an "exciting" clash between Celtic and Hamilton Academicals. Quite honestly if there is no CL football at Celtic next season then I would expect the club to shut more than one part of the stadium re lack of fans to fill seats. Desperate times.
RRRRRRRRAAAAAAANNNNNNGGGGGGGERRRRRRRSSSSSS See what I missed this first time round as I've no been on here for a while. Whits this ah aboot?
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27 May 2014, 12:26 PM
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The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get).
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27 May 2014, 12:39 PM
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The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get). Not sure anyone on here is saying that it will be a better quality league, just that it's likely to be very interesting.
It's a nonsense to compare it with this year's Championship. Most people couldn't give a feck about Dundee or whoever was runner-up behind them (Hamilton?). Like it or not, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th biggest teams in the country are now in the Championship. One of those teams is the reboot of our greatest rivals. And there is only one automatic promotion place. They'll all be fighting to get into our league.
95% of us will pay far more interest to Hearts v Rangers next season than we will Motherwell v Aberdeen. Because there's a fair chance Rangers will get humped, and it'll be funny as eff. The feigned lack of interest is ridiculous... there were people on here last week reporting on a live stream of a Rangers youth match, FFS.
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27 May 2014, 12:41 PM
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Why are so many people angry that the media will heavily focus on the Championship next season? Three of the biggest teams in the country are all in it. It'd be the same anywhere else.
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27 May 2014, 12:41 PM
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The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get).
Not sure anyone on here is saying that it will be a better quality league, just that it's likely to be very interesting. It's a nonsense to compare it with this year's Championship. Most people couldn't give a feck about Dundee or whoever was runner-up behind them (Hamilton?). Like it or not, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th biggest teams in the country are now in the Championship. One of those teams is the reboot of our greatest rivals. And there is only one automatic promotion place. They'll all be fighting to get into our league. 95% of us will pay far more interest to Hearts v Rangers next season than we will Motherwell v Aberdeen. Because there's a fair chance Rangers will get humped, and it'll be funny as eff. The feigned lack of interest is ridiculous... there were people on here last week reporting on a live stream of a Rangers youth match, FFS. Good post
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27 May 2014, 12:42 PM
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The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get).
Not sure anyone on here is saying that it will be a better quality league, just that it's likely to be very interesting. It's a nonsense to compare it with this year's Championship. Most people couldn't give a feck about Dundee or whoever was runner-up behind them (Hamilton?). Like it or not, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th biggest teams in the country are now in the Championship. One of those teams is the reboot of our greatest rivals. And there is only one automatic promotion place. They'll all be fighting to get into our league. 95% of us will pay far more interest to Hearts v Rangers next season than we will Motherwell v Aberdeen. Because there's a fair chance Rangers will get humped, and it'll be funny as eff. The feigned lack of interest is ridiculous... there were people on here last week reporting on a live stream of a Rangers youth match, FFS. I can't believe i'm reading this.
If you are so interested in Rangers I suppose you think they should have been allowed to stay in the SPL then? Eh? Eh?
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27 May 2014, 12:44 PM
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The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get).
Not sure anyone on here is saying that it will be a better quality league, just that it's likely to be very interesting. It's a nonsense to compare it with this year's Championship. Most people couldn't give a feck about Dundee or whoever was runner-up behind them (Hamilton?). Like it or not, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th biggest teams in the country are now in the Championship. One of those teams is the reboot of our greatest rivals. And there is only one automatic promotion place. They'll all be fighting to get into our league. 95% of us will pay far more interest to Hearts v Rangers next season than we will Motherwell v Aberdeen. Because there's a fair chance Rangers will get humped, and it'll be funny as eff. The feigned lack of interest is ridiculous... there were people on here last week reporting on a live stream of a Rangers youth match, FFS.
I can't believe i'm reading this. If you are so interested in Rangers I suppose you think they should have been allowed to stay in the SPL then? Eh? Eh? Aye. And for the TV contracts too.
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27 May 2014, 12:45 PM
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The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get).
Not sure anyone on here is saying that it will be a better quality league, just that it's likely to be very interesting. It's a nonsense to compare it with this year's Championship. Most people couldn't give a feck about Dundee or whoever was runner-up behind them (Hamilton?). Like it or not, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th biggest teams in the country are now in the Championship. One of those teams is the reboot of our greatest rivals. And there is only one automatic promotion place. They'll all be fighting to get into our league. 95% of us will pay far more interest to Hearts v Rangers next season than we will Motherwell v Aberdeen. Because there's a fair chance Rangers will get humped, and it'll be funny as eff. The feigned lack of interest is ridiculous... there were people on here last week reporting on a live stream of a Rangers youth match, FFS.
I can't believe i'm reading this. If you are so interested in Rangers I suppose you think they should have been allowed to stay in the SPL then? Eh? Eh? Stay? Stay?
There was no club to stay. Go back and read up on "Correct ways to refer to Rangers (past and present)for tims" forthwith.
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27 May 2014, 12:46 PM
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I can't believe i'm reading this. If you are so interested in Rangers I suppose you think they should have been allowed to stay in the SPL then? Eh? Eh?
Stay? Stay?There was no club to stay. Go back and read up on "Correct ways to refer to Rangers (past and present)for tims" forthwith. *Present = "Sevco"
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27 May 2014, 02:18 PM
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The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get).
Not sure anyone on here is saying that it will be a better quality league, just that it's likely to be very interesting. It's a nonsense to compare it with this year's Championship. Most people couldn't give a feck about Dundee or whoever was runner-up behind them (Hamilton?). Like it or not, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th biggest teams in the country are now in the Championship. One of those teams is the reboot of our greatest rivals. And there is only one automatic promotion place. They'll all be fighting to get into our league. 95% of us will pay far more interest to Hearts v Rangers next season than we will Motherwell v Aberdeen. Because there's a fair chance Rangers will get humped, and it'll be funny as eff. The feigned lack of interest is ridiculous... there were people on here last week reporting on a live stream of a Rangers youth match, FFS.
I can't believe i'm reading this. If you are so interested in Rangers I suppose you think they should have been allowed to stay in the SPL then? Eh? Eh? And he was against us having a Sevco thread as well.
Life is complex.
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27 May 2014, 02:38 PM
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- 27 May 2014, 12:42 PM
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- 27 May 2014, 12:26 PM
The league in Scotland that has Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and St Johnstone in it will be the better league, as they are all the best teams in Scotland. That is the league with all the quality in it. Many people outside of Celtic & Sevco fans have said this was one of the most enjoyable seasons they can remember. Richard Gordon even admitted this on the CU Podcast. I don’t think it was because of the great displays of Hibs somehow.
The Championship may have teams that have fallen from grace (or resurrected as a zombie in one team’s case) but that don’t make it better. Could it produce a more exciting league than the premiership? Yes, it could; but how can it be more exciting than the race for promotion we had this year which went right to the wire?
There’s a strange desire here to pretend that a league filled with poor quality but fought tightly somehow makes it better; but if that were really true why then was nobody going daft for the Championship this season or why don’t people watch blue square premier league rather than the Premiership, etc.
The answer of course is obvious. People here would rather focus on the names than on the actual quality of the football on display. It’s a bit backwards.
I suspect the media have made their mind up and we’ll be bombarded with Championship coverage. It might be a weird season next year (which is some going based on what we usually get).
Not sure anyone on here is saying that it will be a better quality league, just that it's likely to be very interesting. It's a nonsense to compare it with this year's Championship. Most people couldn't give a feck about Dundee or whoever was runner-up behind them (Hamilton?). Like it or not, the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th biggest teams in the country are now in the Championship. One of those teams is the reboot of our greatest rivals. And there is only one automatic promotion place. They'll all be fighting to get into our league. 95% of us will pay far more interest to Hearts v Rangers next season than we will Motherwell v Aberdeen. Because there's a fair chance Rangers will get humped, and it'll be funny as eff. The feigned lack of interest is ridiculous... there were people on here last week reporting on a live stream of a Rangers youth match, FFS.
I can't believe i'm reading this. If you are so interested in Rangers I suppose you think they should have been allowed to stay in the SPL then? Eh? Eh? I read this whole article about how the Championship is going to be more exciting, but the part that made me laugh was
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Rangers, who were voted into the bottom rung - League Two - in 2012 after financial difficulties,
So I am like totally obsessed.
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