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| 61. Author: wee eck Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 21:05 Did you see Man City`s `blip` coming? How about Aberdeen going so long without a win after such a great start? Football`s unpredictability is why it has remained so popular for over 100 years. Reply |
| 62. Author: onandupthepars Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 21:14 Come on Eck, it`s no use pulling out that old conker. We are not any team, we are the Pars, so you know what comes next. Tidser, the bright new dawn? Or the same old same old? Which do you really feel right now - do you really feel as optimistic as you did before the Airdrie game? Reply |
| 63. Author: wee eck Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 21:27 How I feel isn`t actually going to affect things. It`s the manager and players who do that. I try not to get too up or down from week to week. That`s served me quite well over the years. Reply |
| 64. Author: DA-go Par Adonis Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 21:27 Accies are 2 points ahead and now have a poorer goal difference. We`ve got 14 games to play, and 2 are against them. Their game in hand is away at Morton - and they've 1 win and 2 draws from their 10 away matches so far. So, yes, they are well within reach. We`ve just signed a young, sought-after striker and are reportedly looking to bring in more players now that the takeover has completed. I`m not sure it`s going to work either, but you`ve got to be a pretty spineless Pars fan to throw in the towel already. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal rights and justice in this time Post Edited (Tue 28 Jan 21:32) Reply |
| 65. Author: Rusty Shackleford Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 21:32 Wasn`t so long ago we humped Partick. Played alright against Falkirk and Ayr. Yes we absolutely soiled the mattress on Saturday but if one of those early goals goes in then maybe it`s a completely different game. No, I don`t have much confidence but what`s the alternative? Just give up and rock back and forward while doom scrolling on all the forums? No thanks. Reply |
| 66. Author: da_no_1 Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 22:18 Saturday was awful but what a game to fix it all. We`ve lifted ourselves up before. It might well happen again. Just have to see. "Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark" Reply |
| 67. Author: onandupthepars Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 22:46 Wasn`t long ago somebody posted that fourth place was well within reach. Was that you DA-go? Anyone can make a case out of "ifs." Remember only a few weeks back when we were sixth on goal difference? What happened? All the teams below us (except Airdrie) picked up points and we lost ground on all of them, including Accies. Unfortunately, we`ve taken points from teams that are not in the relegation zone: Livi, Partick, Falkirk, etc. Wishful thinking isn`t reality. It`s what some posters like to do. I`m good at it myself - but when events take a bad turn, some of us find our hopes and expectations drain away. We no longer believe the spin we or anyone else puts on things. We`re left with the facts and right now they`re brutal. Even with our improvement under J Mc we`ve only taken 4 points from the last four games: a point a game. I doubt if a point a game to the end of the season would save us. Right now Accies are in the driving seat for eighth. And they`re no pushovers as we know from one win and one defeat against them this season. Reply |
| 68. Author: da_no_1 Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 22:47 I`ve not read a single post saying anyone is a pushover or that it`s going to be easy. Not one. "Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark" Reply |
| 69. Author: DA-go Par Adonis Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 23:38 onandupthepars, Tue 28 Jan 22:46 Show me that post - and I`ll show you a post that`s flown well over your head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal rights and justice in this time Reply |
| 70. Author: onandupthepars Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 23:40 Ref: da_no_1 Tue 28 Jan 22:47 "I`ve not read a single post saying anyone is a pushover or that it`s going to be easy. Not one." ---------------------------------------- Exactly da no 1. as I said, the Accies are no pushovers. Did you think someone would say they are, and that it`s going to be easy? You seem surprised and pleased to have found that no-one has. Thanks for pointing that out. Reply |
| 71. Author: wee eck Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 23:52 The Rovers must have caught them on a bad night then. In fact, that`s two 3-0 defeats in a row. As has been said before, there are no certainties in this League. Reply |
| 72. Author: da_no_1 Date: Tue 28th Jan 2025. 23:55 onandupthepars, Tue 28 Jan 23:40 Why do you think its worth saying then? Seems like a complete waste of time. "Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark" Reply |
| 73. Author: buffy Date: Wed 29th Jan 2025. 00:07 The search function is for all to use…. desparado, Sun 3 Nov 01:34 Starts with a D and ends in O. Not DA-Go. In Desperado’s defence he didn’t say we could be fourth, just that it was doable. So you’ve still got your wires crossed, onandupthepars. ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Post Edited (Wed 29 Jan 00:39) Reply |
| 74. Author: onandupthepars Date: Wed 29th Jan 2025. 00:13 Ref: DA-go Par Adonis, Tue 28 Jan 23:38 Quote: onandupthepars, Tue 28 Jan 22:46 Wasn`t long ago somebody posted that fourth place was well within reach. Was that you DA-go? Show me that post - and I`ll show you a post that`s flown well over your head. ------------------------------------------ No thanks. I`m not in the business of, `I`ll show you mine if you show me yours." Post Edited (Wed 29 Jan 00:19) Reply |
| 75. Author: onandupthepars Date: Wed 29th Jan 2025. 00:17 Good work Buffy. Search function? Got it - at the top of the board. Click and enter search terms. A handy device. Thank you. Post Edited (Wed 29 Jan 00:28) Reply |
| 76. Author: onandupthepars Date: Wed 29th Jan 2025. 02:52 Ref: buffy Wed 29 Jan 00:07 Quote: desparado, Sun 3 Nov 01:34 Three points a win in a ten team league….. finishing 4th is very doable... Buffy: In Desperado’s defence he didn’t say we could be fourth, just that it was doable. So you’ve still got your wires crossed, onandupthepars. ------------------------- I dunno what you`re trying to say there Buffy. He was talking about the Pars, he wasn`t just saying any team could finish fourth. No wires crossed here. Reply |
| 77. Author: DA-go Par Adonis Date: Wed 29th Jan 2025. 07:19 onandupthepars, Wed 29 Jan 00:13 Doesn`t really work, mate - given that I`d be showing you the same post. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal rights and justice in this time Reply |
| 78. Author: onandupthepars Date: Wed 29th Jan 2025. 11:37 Works fine for me though, being as said post wasn`t specified. If said post had flown over my head it could only be because the ideas in it were up in the clouds. On cloud cukoo most likely. Just to clarify, `finishing fourth is very doable` means finishing fourth can readily be done. By whom? By the Pars of course. All the rest is commentary. Post Edited (Wed 29 Jan 11:40) Reply |
| 79. Author: DA-go Par Adonis Date: Wed 29th Jan 2025. 12:48 Don`t think we`re engaging on the same level. Probably, pointless in continuing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal rights and justice in this time Reply |
| 80. Author: onandupthepars Date: Thu 30th Jan 2025. 19:35 DA-go, Depends whether you think there`s only one interpretation. I think there`s more than one. And I think that what you thought flew over my head is your one interpretation, i.e. the poster meant there were plenty games left, plenty of points to be won, (and with three points for a win they soon mount up.) He said he`d reserve judgement on whether he thought we could get enough points for a top four finish, and suggested it was probably unlikely with McPake. "Very doable" doesn`t just mean mathematically possible, it means very achievable, and that is a judgement. Now if anyone wants to say he didn`t mean very doable, he only meant mathematically possible, it still makes me wonder why "very"- why would anyone say "very mathematically possible," - still seems like a judgement, but we can call it a slip o` the pen. To me, top four wasn`t then and still isn`t possible for us. Reasons, e.g. the season we`re having, we`re ninth for a reason, all teams above us have done better than us so far, etc. Post Edited (Thu 30 Jan 19:43) Reply |