belfastjag

I've passed comment before on the poor quality of this league this season. Confirmed tonight. That was a hard watch on a cold night. Morton were abysmal, and for all our possession we squandered our few good chances. The pitch is a disgrace,but I'm heading home on Friday so for the next month it's plastic for me.(yes I know, you hate it)

What a last ten minutes on ceefax. Although we would all have taken those three results this morning, it still feels like a kick in the goolies.

I don't know what age you are,but I'm rightly on. When it was muted at Seaview our pitch was so bad I'd have settled for lino. That's nearly what we got. It took a good while for the club to get it right, and some fans and players never took to it. Opposing teams with grass hate it. But we haven't called a game off in years. You can teach an old dog new tricks. I'm beginning to sound like that bloke in The Graduate "I've got only one thing to say to you Benjamin. Plastic" (that's how old I am)

We really need to be a little more pragmatic and a little less precious about this. We play in Maryhill and can expect Maryhill weather. I have a season ticket at a Belfast club. We put a plastic pitch down a number of years ago. It transformed the ground. The pitch is used every day. Our Premier League, reserves, under 20's,ladies teams , all play on it. We've had N I ladies internationals, junior cup finals on it. Is the football as good? That's debated every week. (if we're not winning) If we were Barcelona I'd vote against it. We're not.

Very disappointing. Was about to introduce Scottish grandson no 2 to the Jags. As I said after the Ayr game (plastic)

This level looks poorer this season and I'm still not sure we're good enough to get out of it. At least it didn't feel as cold last night. I know it's not popular on here, but at what point do we look at plastic. I grow potatoes on better ground.

That was a very decent performance after the rubbish of the last few games. We ran that match from start to finish. I couldn't work out if a man had been sent of or not, and couldn't see enough to count their players. We seen nothing of the goal but celebrated it anyway. Isn't it a cracking feeling driving home after a win like that. My grandson never stopped talking the whole way home.

That's the first time I've ever made three home games in a row. Unfortunately each performance has steadily got worse. That was a poor poor effort. Arbroath were head and shoulders above us and 2-0 doesn't do them credit. I promise I won't be at the next home game.

Woeful match. Cracking goal. Freezing. Glad I didn't bring the grandkids.

My and my grandson's first live game at Firhill in nearly two years. Not a great match but cracking result. Not as impressed with our back four as some, but their record speaks for itself. Also won second prize in the halftime draw. A ball or a zoom meeting?

Brilliant concert. Brilliant weekend. Four pints of Guinness at the airport for breakfast. A minging kebab at 2 o'clock in the morning. Who else remembers that. Took me back.

I'm glad I cut the garden earlier in the week. It's raining today. I wonder where I left my glasses.

I cut my back garden this afternoon.

9/1 to 13/2 after two games

2/7

4/11 this morning. 4/1 looks enormous now but was never any use to me as I don't bet electronically.

11/10

Was the English Premier League not formed with much the same intentions? To strike their own commercial deals etc. Don't recall too many crocodile tears for Rochdale back then. I know I'm an old fart but we also went from having three cracking European competitions to having two crap ones. Knock it rightup the powers that be. None of this will effect the two teams I'm interested in. (God I needed to get that off my chest)

3/1 this morning Falkirk 8/11 You're right about the 4/1 and at one point we were 8's not that I'd have been tempted

Now into 4/1 (Falkirk 4/6). My current optimism says that's a decent bet, but realism says "put that money back in your pocket".

5/1 today. (bet victor) Can't understand how that works out after last nights results. I still maintain this is a poor league and it wouldn't take much to win it. I didn't see last nights match but from the flak flying about I fear this is our level for some time to come. I have a grandson lives in Ayrshire who I'm trying to initiate, but it's difficult to maintain his interest when we can't beat Forfar. That's a cross I'm happy to bear, but it seems like I'm punishing an eleven year old. This of course will be a problem familiar to lots of you.

8/1 bet365 (Falkirk 2/5)

I know it's not a direct comparison but we are playing top level only, behind closed doors. The season has been cancelled for our next level and below. We had already made the draw for the Irish Cup, including these teams, so I don't know what will happen there. There's a few quid knocking about the Irish League at the moment, and I don't hear any complaining about money even from historically "smaller teams". Of course you boys on the big island have been carrying us financially for a long time (100 years this year) so I'm sure your happy to continue. I'm confident it's given with as much grace as it's recieved.

I got on ok today (and last week)

In a moment of lockdown madness I booked hotel and ticket to see Wishbone Ash in Froome in November. I haven't booked flights yet, but surely to **** we"ll be out by then.