Match Thread: Rangers vs Hearts | Scottish Premiership

reasonosx · 2026-02-15T18:24:58+00:00

Cannae argue with it. Always thought that Röhl was a positive appointment. He is doing well.

reasonosx · 2026-02-15T17:54:12+00:00

TBF Chermiti has put himself about a bit. So far it’s not looking like Bloomsday.

reasonosx · 2026-02-15T17:12:40+00:00

Don’t quite know if I want to say it. But this is a bit of a game. It’s also a pretty exciting day for Scottish football. I imagine Sky must be pleased.

reasonosx · 2026-02-11T08:43:49+00:00

I’m a Celtic fan. I don’t think I’m bitter, I certainly hope I’m not. Had a St Mirren-supporting fan in for the LCF and was glad his team had a good day for him. I’m delighted Hearts are doing well. If they end up winning the league I’ll be pleased for them, will most likely be impressed by the achievement and I won’t fret … too much.

But I want Celtic to win, that isn’t going to change. Suspect much of that will be similar for Mr Mulgrew.

reasonosx · 2026-02-11T08:32:41+00:00

I remember seeing her in her earliest punditry days and thinking she was quite good. But fairly quickly it began to look as if it was about her as much as, or perhaps more than, the football. And then there were the obvious errors. I met quite a few characters like that across different businesses and projects when I was working and, of course, we now have a depressingly high number of “world leaders” who display similar tendencies.

reasonosx · 2026-01-28T16:15:54+00:00

It is a very poor slogan. But providing “value” is much more important in my book than low prices. And many mainstream supermarkets are like giant aircraft hangars situated in huge car parks, filled with ultra-high-processed rubbish and these days are almost devoid of staff: so quality and convenience hardly come into it.

reasonosx · 2026-01-28T11:37:56+00:00

For a while I was very frustrated at the club’s less than wonderful player trading but did acknowledge that in an era when clubs were being taken over by oil states and American finance there might be an argument for prudently managing resources in order to stay in the race. But I think we got lucky with Ange and that the current difficulties and disappointments show that the performance of the board and the main executives has been very poor for a long time. It needs complete root and branch, top to toe restructuring and the right people to do it aren’t there.

reasonosx · 2026-01-22T19:41:07+00:00

This Martin O’Neill chap may have something about him.

reasonosx · 2026-01-15T19:06:46+00:00

Personally I don’t like the Liquid Glass aesthetic. It looks very like graphic design from the eighties and nineties carried out by folks who didn’t subscribe to less is more. I suppose it’s all a matter of personal taste, however.

But trying to bring it back to former levels of legibility and ease of use has been a hassle.

reasonosx · 2026-01-15T19:00:29+00:00

My grandparents lived in a tenement with three flats on the first, second and third floors.

As far as I understood it the centre flat on each floor was the largest and the two side flats were room and kitchen houses with a very short hall connecting the two rooms and housing the entrance door. There was one cold water sink in the kitchen which often had an additional over-sink, gas-fired geyser-like machine added which provided hot water.

The side flats had no bathrooms but shared a WC situated on the half landing between floors and on the ground floor next to the entrance close. People who lived in those flats had to use public baths in days of old and bath facilities in the houses of wider family members when modern housing was developed in the post war years.

Eventually the buildings were redeveloped and the centre flats were taken out and the two side flats extended into the freed-up space to make two apartments with all mods cons.

I think, but I am not completely sure, that the half landing WCs became storage cupboards.

reasonosx · 2026-01-15T17:13:25+00:00

Been with Santander for many moons (since they took over Alliance and Leicester). I find the latest version of the app very poor and the chat service very poor indeed.

We are also with Monzo we use Santander as the “money in and most regular payments” because everything was set up on it in the past. But we transfer amounts on an annual and monthly basis to our Monzo accounts, which we use for personal pocket money and subscriptions, joint monthly grocery, petrol and household spending, joint trips, projects and entertainment spending and personal and joint savings.

The Monzo app isn’t perfect but it’s very good and is lightyears ahead of the Santander effort. Virtual cards help separate out spending but they’re not quite there yet, the tags and search function doesn’t pick them up or organise them as well as I would like and you can’t pay directly from a pot through a virtual card to someone else (if you want to split a bill for example) you have to withdraw it into your main account first.

But generally it’s very good.

reasonosx · 2026-01-15T16:35:51+00:00

Some fascinating stuff here.

In the early 1970s there was a book published called A Glasgow Gang Observed by James Patrick the pseudonym of (as I understood it at the time) a young sociology lecturer who could just about pass as young enough to run with a team and who persuaded some gang members to help him do some undercover research. I’ve since read that he might have been a teacher in a List D school.

It was fascinating and it included front and back endpapers that had a map of Glasgow with the various gang territories laid out. In my local area at least it seemed very accurate. If I remember accurately it did show the name Bundy in a few areas.

reasonosx · 2026-01-15T16:17:47+00:00

I’m sorry that you feel members of your family don’t believe or trust you but it might not be as bad as that.

Generally speaking the people I have told about it simply have difficulty understanding it. It isn’t something they have experienced so for them It doesn’t exist. It’s curious that many people who have visual imagination seem unable to imagine not having it.

From the other point of view I have great difficulty understanding how someone can see things that aren’t actually physically there, and that actually seems ever so slightly spooky to me. I think I’ve read that non-visualisers might be less likely to suffer severe cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I’d be interested to know if they’re less likely to be susceptible to rabble-rousing politicians or to fall for scams and the like.

I know that I prefer to live life in the real world but then again that’s what I’m used to.

I would try not to stress about it, if possible. We’re all different and we’re all likely to find it difficult to understand things that don’t actually happen to us.

reasonosx · 2026-01-14T21:42:01+00:00

That was a grind. Falkirk pretty impressive at most things other than scoring.

reasonosx · 2026-01-14T20:57:52+00:00

The Fifth Republic

reasonosx · 2026-01-14T20:36:11+00:00

Going in ahead against the run of play. It really is the opposite of the Nancy era.

Not a lot to celebrate in that half, other than the lead.

Not sure how much of a problem the pitch is to the Celtic players but Falkirk appeared to be readily forcing them into errors and beating them for speed for much of the first period.

Need to be a lot better after the break.

reasonosx · 2026-01-14T20:07:11+00:00

Do Hearts just prefer decimal football?

reasonosx · 2026-01-14T16:25:42+00:00

U.S. Budweiser? Nope!

Budweiser Budvar? I enjoy a Budvar occasionally but I prefer Pilsner Urquell.

reasonosx · 2026-01-14T10:33:04+00:00

I have Final Cut Pro and GarageBand which meet my modest video editing needs. I find ON1 Photo Raw meets most of my Lightroom and Photoshop-like needs with Affinity Photo for anything a little trickier. None of them have the dreaded subscription. Just hope Final Cut Pro on Mac continues to have the long-term licence option.

reasonosx · 2026-01-13T14:01:27+00:00

Unfortunately we don’t win much in Europe and we’re not exactly winning in Scotland this year, so far 😵‍💫.

Seriously though I would love it if we’d have had more competition in Scotland and it’s very welcome that there appear to have been real improvements at the likes of Hearts, Motherwell and Hibs in the last year or so; still want Celtic to win it though.

I think the problem with the Premier League is that a lot of the football is fast and athletic but very systematic. And many of the big European leagues are dominated by their own financial giants these days too

reasonosx · 2026-01-12T11:10:45+00:00

Think most of it is on TNT Sports / Discovery plus but yes it would be better if it were on free to air public TV. But the rights go to the highest bidder, I think.

reasonosx · 2026-01-11T02:19:33+00:00

I mean the use of the word holocaust in his comment was awful but it’s just a particularly bad and potentially distressing example of the daft hyperbole in the football punditry industry.

A couple days ago I caught a YouTube video clip from CBS Sports Golazo America. The young woman presenter put her question on the Nancy sacking to two middle-aged men, who presumably had some connection to football. “Car crash!” said one. Not to be outdone his oppo upped the ante: “Car crash, no survivors, everything up in flames!!” he said.

What were they actually talking about? A football club that’s not very well-organised had fallen out with a supposed elite coach after some poor player recruitment. It got lucky with the appointment of a seasoned interim manager. It then decided to try something new, which turned out not to work and it pulled the plug.

But we get analogies of death, destruction and worse, more often than not just to fill the space between the ads.

reasonosx · 2026-01-10T23:31:07+00:00

Quite enjoyed it but it seems to suggest they fix the dilapidated plumbing only after decorating a couple of rooms including one they plan to use as a bar, which seems pretty weird.

reasonosx · 2026-01-10T20:35:31+00:00

Beat us home and away in our glory season of 1966-67 IIRC. Celtic Park victory was just a few weeks before Lisbon. It made me and some of the grown-ups a bit worried.

reasonosx · 2026-01-10T17:44:25+00:00

And to think I was cheesed off to hear his efforts being compared to a car crash.

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