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Note that Morton are away again tomorrow, and not playing next weekend. That means their home league game against Airdrie on 15th February will be their first home match this YEAR. That has got to be hurting the old bank balance.

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January 2025 Premiership New Arrivals (inc Loans) As at 31/01 St.Johnstone 6 Motherwell 5 Aberdeen 4 Dundee 4 Hearts 4 Ross County 4 Dundee Utd 3 St.Mirren 2 Celtic 1 Hibs 1 Kilmarnock 1 Rangers 1 Window closes 23:00 on Monday, 3rd Feb Source; nareystoepoker.blogspot.com/p/all-spfl-tra

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If you are a member of our fabulous forum note that you can now embed posts from BlueSky directly into your P&B rant. Just grab the link to the post by clicking the three dots bottom right and choose "Copy link to post" and paste it into the forum and it will auto-magically embed.

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Sunday Motherwell host league leaders Celtic at Fir Park. Celtic have hit 7 without reply against the Steelmen in two encounters this season and have not lost at Fir Park since Celtic have won their last 10 games away to Motherwell, scoring 33 times. SKY, 15:00 kick off. Have a good one folks!

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Saturday 2nd bottom Killie host 3rd placed Dundee Utd. Both previous meetings this season have ended in draws with last minute penalty equalisers and the previous match at Rugby Park saw them share six goals. It's live on Premier Sports, 17:45 KO

Tonight Leaders Falkirk host 3rd placed Livingston. The Lions have taken 4pts off the Bairns so far this season and kept two clean sheets against them. If they were to prevail tonight they'd jump up to 2nd, giving Ayr Utd the chance to grab the summit tomorrow. BBC Scotland, 19:45

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Morning shaggers! Three SPFL games on the telly this weekend, spread over the three days.

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I'll throw in a shot on target for the on form Igamane and Franjo Ivanovic both of whom are averaging 2 on target per outing. That's 14/1 and it's definitely going to win. Very best of luck to Rangers this evening!

Divs Bonkers Bet As always with Rangers I'm gonna start with a card for Nicolas Raskin. I'll also add in Kevin MacAllister for a card cos when he's not fighting off burglars he's getting booked or sent off for Union. He's been carded in 4 out of 5 Europa League games he's played in.

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Referee The man in the middle tonight is Pole Damian Sylwestrzak. He's averaging just over 4 yellows per game having dished out 86 in 21 appearances this season to date. Betting Rangers are favourites tonight but still odds against at 11/10. Union are 12/5 and the draw is a 5/2 option.

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Team News Rangers are without Cerny, Kasanwirjo, Souttar, Sterling, Yilmaz and the ineligible Hagi, Nsiala, Cortes, Danilo and Fernandes. Union are missing Boufal, Castro-Montes, David, Burgess and Machida but Kevin MacAllister hasn't been left at home alone, he's back from suspension.

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USG Europa Form Union started the campaign with a narrow loss away to Fenerbahce before a 0-0 draw with Bodo/Glimt in Belgium. They then lost away to Midtylland before drawing at home to Roma. They got going with 3 wins on the bounce, all by a single goal, over Twente, Nice & Sporting Braga.

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They ran out 4-0 winners away to Beerschot at the weekend and currently sit 3rd in the Belgian Pro League table, 11 points behind leaders Genk. Union have the best defensive record in the division, conceding 19 goals in their 23 games to date.

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Both sides could in theory still grab a spot in the top 8 but more realistically both will be aiming for the 3 points that would grant them a seeded spot in the play off round. USG Domestic Form Union come into this one in fine form with just 1 defeat in their last 18 games in all competitions.

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Telly & KO As per last night all 18 Europa League ties are being played simultaneously at 20:00. This one is live on TNT Sports 3. What's at stake Both sides sit on 11pts in the Europa table, with Rangers a few goals better off than Union in 13th spot whilst the Belgians are sat 15th at the moment.

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Rangers vs Union Saint-Gilloise UEFA Europa League League Stage MD8 Rangers wrap up their league stage campaign with a home tie this evening against Belgians Union Saint-Gilloise. Here's the micro preview....

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Best of luck to Celtic tonight!

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Morgan Rogers has had a shot on target in 3 of his last 4 at Villa Park and has also committed 2 or more fouls in 6 of his last 7 at home so I'm gonna put him down for 2 fouls tonight and a shot on target. That all pays 12/1 and it's money back as free bets if it loses, which it probably will!

Divs Bonkers Bet Villa have a potent threat on their left side and Bayern, Bologna and Juve have all had cards on the right trying to cope with it. I'll start with Alistair Johnston for a card and Nicolas Kuhn to make a tackle helping out on that side as he has in all 7 of Celtic's UCL games.

Betting Villa are obviously heavy favourites tonight at 1/2 with Celtic a big 5/1 shot to leave Birmingham with the spoils. The draw is 15/4.

Referee It's our old friend Clément Turpin with the whistle tonight. The Frenchman is averaging just over 3 yellows per game in all comps this season He's issued 15 cautions in 4 UCL outings and 7 yellows in 2 Europa League appointments this season.

From Shite to Sugar Celtic's campaign hit an early bump as they got humped 7-1 in Dortmund on MD2 but they have not lost any of their UCL games since, drawing 3 and winning the other 2, keeping clean sheets in both of their previous away games.

Home Comforts Villa's are currently on a 9 game unbeaten run at home in all competitions. They are also unbeaten in their 3 home games in the UCL and indeed have not conceded a single goal across those ties with Bayern Munich, Bologna and Juve.

Villa sit 9th and a win over Celtic would allow them to overtake any of the five teams directly above them if any of those fail to win this evening. Celtic can also still in theory make that top 8 but they need a proverbial shitload of things to go their way in addition to winning at Villa Park.

Scenarios Whilst both clubs are already assured of their place in the play off round there is still a significant carrot on offer with a top 8 finish bypassing the need to navigate that play off round completely.

Telly & KO Every single tie kicks off at 20:00 tonight to prevent any "Disgrace of Gijón" scenarios. This one is live on TNT Sports 1 with coverage from 19:00.

Aston Villa vs Celtic UEFA Champions League League Stage MD8 Celtic wrap up their league stage campaign in Birmingham this evening in yet another battle of Britain as they go head to head with Aston Villa. Here's the micro preview.....

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A good win for Raith Rovers on the road last night as they swept aside Hamilton at NDP. Accies with 3 defeats on the bounce now though and leaking an alarming amount of goals, that's now 10 conceded in their last four outings.

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We don't have anything like the English Under 23 Premier League. Understand that is a financial thing, but it's not helping the cause to keep these boys developing up here.

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Most academies are pretty much becoming player farms that develop to sell rather than developing for the first team. Brexit partly to blame for it, young players chasing money a big part of it, but these boys are hitting a development wall up here & the structure of our game is also playing a part.

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Dundee Utd confirming Alan Domeracki has joined Norwich City for an undisclosed fee. Another in a long line of academy prospects across the Premiership being hoovered up by clubs down South before they've kicked a first team ball in Scotland.

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Kieran Tierney coming back is an outstanding bit of business for Celtic. Will be a huge asset to both Celtic and Scotland if he can get fully fit and playing regularly every week. An absolute baller.

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I get that some decisions will still be subjective but in this particular case, like the Dan Casey one, you're just left scratching your head and wondering how Nick Walsh looked at that again and decided "aye, I was spot on with that, shut the fuck up Don".

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The point of having VAR is to recommend that the referee reviews clear and obvious errors made on the field using replays from all available angles. VAR in this case (Don Robertson) has done exactly what it was brought in to do.

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Unsurprising to see Rangers win the appeal against Diomande's ridiculous red card at Tannadice on Sunday. The timing of this incident and the score at the time meant it had zero impact on the final result but it's still an absolute riddy (pun intended) for Nick Walsh, for Willie Collum and the SFA.

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Having a good search engine ranking for Bovril is sometimes a curse.

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Far from convinced McGlynn would be tempted to move from Falkirk and I suspect Motherwell will favour a younger appointment anyway. Can't be much there to get the juices flowing amongst the Fir Park faithful?

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Our friends @McBookie don't yet have the next Motherwell manager market odds up but this list has appeared elsewhere; John McGlynn 6/5 Neil Lennon 7/5 David Martindale 5/2 Scott Brown 11/4 Steven Naismith 3/1 Fredrik Holmberg 7/2 Kris Doolan 4/1 Scott Gemmil 5/1 11/2 bar

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That said, I appreciate a lot of the "followers" that we have on X have abandoned ship and are over here. So I'll try and be better at posting content across both. Plus points is I get to mention that St.Mirren beat Aberdeen THREE NIL again. Glorious eh?

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Twitter is highly toxic, and Musk is an absolute bellend of the highest order, but if you follow the right people it's still, apart from our own forums obviously, the best place to find breaking Scottish football news and gossip.

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Pie & Bovril @pieandbovril.com · 03/01/2025

Sorry I've been neglecting the account over here, find it very difficult to go back to short form posts, means it's a pain in the arse copying content from X to Bluesky and having to chop it all up. Coming exclusively over here is an option but not one I'm ready to take just yet.

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There is no point but it's a pain in the arse duplicating posts across both platforms when there is no long form format over here. So one tweet then becomes 4 or 5 posts over here, it takes time to separate it all out and it's time I don't really have when the audience numbers over here are tiny.

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Of course there's also a full Premiership card on this weekend with 4 games on Saturday and 2 televised matches on Sunday. Your live TV matches are; St.Johnstone vs Rangers 12:00, Sunday, SKY Sports Image Hearts vs Aberdeen 15:00, Sunday, Premier Sports Have a good weekend shaggers!

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4th Round Draw The 20 x 3rd Round winners go into the hat along with the 12 Premiership clubs in the 4th Round draw which takes place immediately after that game on Monday evening, live on BBC Scotland and across the Scottish Cup socials. Very best of luck to everyone playing this weekend!

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It all starts this evening with Dumbarton hosting Alloa Athletic at the Rock and finishes on Monday night at K-Park as East Kilbride host Championship leaders Falkirk. Telly That tie on Mon night is the live televised pick of the round and it goes out on BBC Scotland from 19:30 Monday, 19:45 KO.

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