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I was sorely tempted to grab a handful out the pile of twenties next to the turnstyle lad. Compensate myself for the lost 10 minutes.

I'm not normally too bothered by chants at the football. I'm not particularly happy about McGhee and perhaps his behaviour regarding Celtic and Aberdeen when leaving us. That said, I thought yesterday's efforts were sickening to be honest. I had a couple of pals up to watch the game and we're hearing the paedophile chants etc. Makes us look like oafs. Unimpressed.

Or you want a nice barnet before you try and pump a nurse.

Perth Glory are a good side, but the Eagles are pish. C'mon the might Lions. At least, they were pretty shit hot when I was living there (2001-2003). Mate is a massive Hawks fan. If you like AFL, Melbourne is the nuts, catch any game you want. Bit odd though with the regional teams like the Lions - your away support is basically only those folk from Sydney/Brisbane/Perth/wherever that now live in the city where the match is. Just too big to travel for games. Sydney to Brisbane on a map, looks like nothing. Used to take us 14 hours to drive down to see my wife's folks at Christmas. Perth I know nothing about, except it exists. This is very true of most Eastern Australians. You'll find in the East there is the Sydney/Melbourne rivalry thing, but most families will be spread kind of between Victoria and NSW and maybe up in Queensland (I love QLD), talk to them about WA and they just kind of glaze over. May as well ask someone in Netherton what Moscow is like...

Pick up and Australian wife and you can come and go as you please.

Living in Angus now, we always go up for the Aberdeen one. Got a nice usual for before/after, usually enjoy the game. Stewards there and Grampian police are OTT though.

Couple of pals are up from Leeds wanting to sample the snash. Good. Because I like giving dogs abuse to the Mehs.

Nice to get one past Killie. Seem a perpetual BugBear.

Is the Forbes goal on YouTube? I've seen it on BBC, but want to show folks at work (no beeb)

Killie might be telling. They favour big lumpen players.

Fitba fans of Scotland, Unite!

There are quite a lot of Well fans don't live in the area and can't keep a season ticket on because the overall price would cost too much. I'm not arguing against season tickets as the backbone of any club, just pointing out arses-on -seats and not always necessarily the same faces are what generate the cash.

I don't agree with an elevated ticket price against the OF. Leaving the dross aside, I think there are plenty of their fans getting rumped even more royally than us and dropping overall prices while charging more for those games would frankly play into the hands of outfits like their supporters groups and a media hungry for stories concerning Rangers or Celtic.

I don't know about that - mean what business consistently takes the piss out customers on the pricing front as much as the football industry? Granted, the trains and telecoms people, but football regardless of die hard support isn't an essential service. It is a leisure expenditure and it costs an arm and a leg. I don't think it is the taxation - Germany sits at around 30-33% Corporate Tax, higher than here, they pay a municpal tax and Solidarity Tax at 5.5% (to aid the reintegration of the East with the West). I don't think it is necesarily that our wage bills are higher either. Even at the smaller Spanish sides they would be paying more than us yet they remain cheaper. We are never going to be turning over the kind of profit Olympique Lyonais or Hertha or so on can manage, but to my mind the price is still not adding up. I was in Copenhagen a few years back and took in a Brondy game against Espanyol. Cost about £15. Denmark is an expensive country, land, taxes etc, yet still cheaper than here. Have a look at their pricing, the best stand the Faxe costs 110 Danish Kroner, about £12/13. We are getting fleeced.

Exactly -it'll need to be revolution, not evolution. There are too many people doing too nicely out of football in the current for any significant change to occur.

I think the pricing here needs the reality check - it is too high, plain and simple. You are looking at competing with any number of cheaper Saturday activities. I tend to go to the game with my wife, so there is £40 before petrol, food, drinks. Families are more. Any number of things you can do are cheaper than a Saturday at the football and, a lot of the time, warmer. That wasn't a direct comparison I made to Hertha Berlin. It was a point regarding pricing. You can make the point about the larger fan base or merchandising, but I think it is still off the mark really. Not all teams in Germany are of that size, yet pricing is consistently cheaper than here. However, were we to follow that logic that it is cheaper to watch big teams, how would that explain the price of an OF ticket/season ticket, or worse still a EPL season book? Doesn't add up. My point still stands - we are paying way over the odds compared to Europe. Clubs trying to screw gthat little bit extra out fans in away ticket pricing only serves to put them off. ( Particularly galling, is when they add that extra £2. ) No else is interested, you are right. They're not going to get interested in a hurry while it is basically overpriced.

Not quite as I was sat up behind you in the Saints end because I was there with a pal. I spotted that arrangement. That said, they aren't the worst fans to deal with.

Football in Scotland (while not as bad as England) is drastically overpriced. I paid 10 euros to watch Hertha Berlin versus Borussia Dortmund 2 years back, at the Olympiastadion. I enjoyed yesterday and actually think McDairmid is quite a pleasant wee ground. No way is it worth twice as much as the Bundesliga though. Anyone who thinks it is justifiable is conned or naieve.

Radford. Jim Gannon, loose Cannon. In a good way, hopefully.

I'm going to buy the pink shorts for leisure activities. They are the shit. Jim is an ideas man. Unfortunately I don't quite get them, but he seems to be doing something.

Saint Johnstone had the right idea. Bit of "Liquidator". Genius. Why we getting no ska at FP? Just shitey eurodance style stuff.

Forbes. Was in the Saints end with a pal. What a job I had not jumping up. Fist was already in the air.

Oh dear. Rank rotten I'm afraid.

Is that a challenge?

They should play more ska too.