Joe McManus

[Joe McManus @iblamemcmanus]

@Object_Zero_ The Forth Bridge isn't continuously painted from end to end and never was, apart from when it was built.

It had continous painting, but concentrated on weathered areas. Now, it's not painted at all because a new coating was applied, finishing in 2011, with a 25 year lifetime.

[Joe McManus @iblamemcmanus]

@Amoruso1998 And we paid transfer fees to compensate for that. That's how capitalism works. You do that, everyone does.

Figures from most recent financial reporting. That's what anyone who *actually* cares does. Imperfect yes, but a consistent comparison.

You don't really care though.

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@Amoruso1998 Hearts couldn't possibly be expected to beat Kilmarnock with only 324% of their wage bill.

But celtic will obviously win the league every year with a wage bill 390% of Hearts.

Oh and stealing everyone's world class players, like Greg Taylor, David Turnbull and Ross Doohan.

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@mattleslie74 @Amoruso1998 Yes, missing that transfer by a mere 20 years, which would definitely have been contextually relevant. Mea culpa

[Joe McManus @iblamemcmanus]

@Amoruso1998 Righto. Glad you haven't been affected then; weird you're so raging.

Surprised you don't have more sympathy at buying another Scottish team's best player, benching them, then not being able to beat with teams with a fraction of your turnover though

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@robertthomson55 In the decade after moving from an 18 team league to a 10 team league, Aberdeen won the cup winners cup and were semi-finalists, Dundee Utd got to a uefa cup final and European cup semi-final, and there were 4 non old firm league wins.

The size of the league isn't a problem.

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@StuartBarclay11 @SPFLWatch What are you talking about? Celtic and Rangers don't combine their points. If celtic get 12 pts and Rangers get 12 pts, they're not 24 points ahead, they're both 12 ahead. If hearts win 1 of the 4, it's only 6 points.

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@mrewanmurray Hearts' wage bill is only ~£5M less than Vienna. Less than the difference between Hearts and Aberdeen. Hearts have a higher wage bill than LASK, who won the Austrian Bundesliga in which Rapid finished 5th.

Should be considered a 50/50, essentially.

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@pieandbov Pontificating over "being woefully mismanaged on a grand scale", but when Celtic supporters protest making *precisely* this point, they're "entitled" and should shut up. Which is it?

Can't think why Scottish football struggles to make any progress...

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@bellacaledonia The 10 team league was popular and had majority support, and the in the years after the original restructure, there were 4 non old firm league winners.

The notion that an 18 team league will fix anything is just magical thinking.

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@bellacaledonia People who want a larger league refuse to acknowledge why it was cut originally: the quality drop off is so big that you end up with a meaningless mid table, and dross fighting relegation / gaining promotion.

How are Morton, Arbroath and Queen's Park making the league better?

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@jucojames Ha! Well nor am I, and a few rungs down the ladder from you!

Everything I've seen agrees with the ex-post point though.

We'll just have to continue waiting until the Santa Fe Institute figures it out 🫤

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@jucojames Really interesting thread. In my industry, game theoretic attribution was all the rage pre-AI - cooperative game theory & Shapley values. I'd never thought about attribution models in football, but that approach can be used to show non-linear dependencies.

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@RPMComo @JimSpenceDundee @jonnyrmcfarlane @GrahamSpiers Similar to the current "it'd all be fixed if we increased the top flight", completely ignoring that *decreasing* the top flight was the solution to a perceived lack of competition.

It's as if there aren't any silver bullets and that the real world is complex and messy...

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@verlagmeyer @Pergament_F The stags are stone, but the antlers are bronze. You can see the turquoise oxidisation colour running from the antlers onto the stone in some pictures

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@GerryHassan This isn't what the KMI panel does, Gerry. There's nothing 'official' about it. You're veering into misinformation, frankly.

The panel has journalists and ex pros who often don't really understand the Laws of the Game, as has been demonstrated extensively in the past week.

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@mrewanmurray @ChrisPaterson3 @GrahamSpiers There were 30 seconds left. Hearts' goal in the first half led to 80 seconds before the restart. So your position is that had fans not entered the field, Celtic's title-winning goal would have led to fewer than 30 seconds of celebration?

Simply not rational.

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@GerryHassan @GrahamSpiers The game *was* played to its allotted time. That's very literally what the SFA statement says. Unless you're suggesting this is a lie?

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@mrewanmurray @RodneyFarmer @lawrencedonegan That's your problem Ewan, it's not "new and novel", this and similar happen frequently. It's been explained to you multiple times now. You've been scrabbling about for a nonsensical technicality which very obviously wasn't on the cards, if you understand the laws of the game.