bucky_loon

On a Positive note...

I managed to escape getting shat on by a seagull mid-way through the first half, unlike those sitting around me in the SS.

By the way Dave, there's Something About The Way You Look Tonight. 

Can You Feel the Love Tonight? 

Chairmen and chief executives of the 12 Scottish Premier League clubs have reluctantly given the green light to a new £65m television deal with Sky Sports and ESPN. (Daily Mail)

According the BBC gossip column/Daily Hate Mail.  Bit of a step down from the initial £100m being quoted on Friday.

They should have settled it with a punch up.

Saturday night's alright for fighting.

It would be a sad, sad situation if they had to resort to violence.

Are you somehow suggesting the people of 'Greater Glasgow' are of a different colour to those in the beautiful North East?

No.  I was slagging Airdrie.  K?

I had the displeasure of being in Airdrie yesterday, and it is Glasgow but it smelt slightly better.

What does small-minded racism smell like?

PJM=Pikey Jute Minks? Yes?

Did wonder if P stood for Pie...Pikey Jute Mink is more amusing, though.

Silliest place I watched football was on a microwave.

 

took me ages to realise it wasn't a tv or football.

Trying to avoid paying the TV licence again?

If you really want emo trainers slippers, I give you my vans:

Better. 

Where did you hear that?

Pressely as assistant manager and McNamararara in the team

"I will love it if we beat them...love it."

We had an "easy" home game last season

I'll go for a tricky home game, maybe vs Hibs.

Was just thinking that.  Mind you, different scenario to last year as there should be a bit of "optimism" (ish) about the place going into a new season - fresh start and all that with McGhee.

Seem to remember Jimmy's first game was at home to the Huns...

According to the BEEB, some Russian is offering Setanta £20 million to buy them some time...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8097421.stm

Aye stoney, it worked. You all DID look like fannies.

Having analysed all the variables, you are correct.

This article is a breath of fresh air in comparison to the drivel spouted by the red tops on EE.

Or Wikipedia:

During his time at Motherwell, he became known for putting his name forward for any job available. Teams include Scotland, Hearts, Celtic, Hibs, Aberdeen and also Real Madrid where he discussed with club president Florentino Perez about scrapping a £56 million move for AC Milan star Kaka and instead using the money to sign Hibernian wonderkid Steven Fletcher.

You'd have to be pretty mad to have taken out a subscription to Setanta in the first place as it was always destined to go wrong.

Thanks Nostradamus.  Any predictions for today's 3.40 at Haydock?

it woulda been nice to fund some signings with the legal money though!!!  

Perhaps we could sue SSN for claiming that we were going to sue to papers?  

Mcall has signed a new 3 year contract with Thistle.

A Thistle fan at my work reckons they've upped his salary from £40k a year to c£50k a year - not sure how accurate that is, but it's no bad for a Division 1 manager/binman.

When JC was appointed, I screamed "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh" in pain.

Why?

 

Think he needs a dream team up with Betty Ford.

Throw in Tony Adams and we're onto a winner.

That's right Jim, get up right fucking up ye.

It proves that only one person thought he was the standout player in one of those games.

Perhaps KGB's use of "influential" wasn't the right word, as few of our CB's rarely influence the game, but you can still have a good game without being man of the match. 

Langfield won player of the year but only got one MOTM through the DT poll..as a Yank might say, "go figure".

5live announcing that Steve Bruce, along with Eric Black, will be announced as the new Sunderland management team later.

What about beardy cunt Pressley...

Pressley eyes top level boss role

 

Steven Pressley believes he is ready to manage at Scottish Premier League level now that he has retired from playing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/f/falkirk/8081574.stm

McAllister is a better option than some of the other names being bandied about (e.g. Hughes), but I'd be hoping for somebody with a better track record than McGhee or McAllister.  I'm not sure we'll get one though...

Is he a better option than Yogi, though?  Without doubt a great (and seemingly very intelligent) player, but like you say he hasn't exactly got a great track record as a manager.

Thats a very good point actually. I'm quite surprised that Smeltic haven't actually sorted this out already. But it certainly makes sense since we've not heard a peep.

RE ra Cellic, an approach been made for Martinez...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/swansea_city/8076867.stm

Hopefully they get this out of the way so we can get moving!

He started feignting and suffering anxiety attacks if I remember rightly.

Seem to remember Luggy being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a while back?

EDIT: Spiers did an article on it last year: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article4419779.ece

Fair play to him for carrying on.

Magilton "believed to be in the frame" according the The Herald...

http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/headlines/display.var.2511152.0.Magilton_on_Millers_short_list.php

Willie Miller, Aberdeen's director of football, last night revealed he had now discarded many of the applicants who believe they should succeed Jimmy Calderwood in the manager's chair at Pittodrie, with Jim Magilton, recently replaced at Ipswich Town by Roy Keane, believed to be in the frame.

 

Miller, who, along with chairman Stewart Milne, delivered the news to Calderwood that his five-year reign in charge at Pittodrie was at an end, promised fans he would find the right man for the job as the team prepare themselves for another European campaign next season.

 

He stressed that with a Europa League tie on either July 16 or July 30, depending on the outcome of Saturday's Homecoming Scottish Cup final, the timescale for bringing in a new man was tight.

 

"Applications have come in from a diverse area," he said, "including overseas. So, it has been an arduous task, especially given the standard. The quality of the applicants has been exceptional."

 

Mark McGhee, the Motherwell manager, waiting in the wings hoping for an invitation to take over from his friend, Gordon Strachan, at Celtic Park, tops the Aberdeen board's most-wanted list, although no approach has yet been made to him.

 

McGhee was overlooked for the job when Ebbe Skovdahl was appointed a decade ago but, should his hopes for the Parkhead job disintegrate, a return to the club where he was a star player under Sir Alex Ferguson probably would appeal to him.

 

Another former Ferguson star, Neale Cooper, might now feel the time is right for him to seek a bigger opportunity after failing to lead his Peterhead side into the second tier of Scottish football.

 

Cooper has served a reasonable managerial apprenticeship, first with Ross County, then at Hartlepool United and Gilligham before replacing Steve Paterson at Balmoor last year.

 

The appearance of Magilton's name as a candidate would be intriguing, especially given his experience over the past three years when he managed Ipswich Town, a club for which he played with distinction.

 

It was his failure to reach the play-offs of the Coca-Cola Championship this year, however, that brought about his demise at Portman Road, where he was shown the door just a month ago, insisting as he left that he would seek an early return to football.

 

The Irishman, who also played in midfield for Southampton, Sheffield Wednesday and Oxford United, may be seen as the kind of young coach who could take Aberdeen forward, while his lack of knowledge of the Scottish scene could be offset with the appointment of someone such as Cooper as his assistant.

 

Eric Black, a team-mate of Cooper and McGhee in the halcyon years at Pittodrie, is a fans favourite in the north-east but there would be huge questions marks over whether he would deem the job bigger than assisting Steve Bruce in the English Premier League at Wigan Athletic.

 

Black has gone on record before as stating he would not like to uproot his family from their home in the Midlands, another reason for him to consider a move back to Aberdeen as not attractive.

 

One applicant unlikely to be considered is Peter Nicholas, a former Aberdeen player and Wales internationalist, recently sacked by Llanelli. He admitted he has applied for the job and pointed to leading his former club to the Welsh Premier League title last season, as a guide to his abilities.

 

"With three successive seasons in Europe," he said, "including the Champions League last year, I have a strong track record."

I don't understand why a club as big as ours doesn't have it's own kit makers instead of using this rip of merchants, we would make much more money if it was done inhouse.

Get Wiggy to knock-up something on a sewing machine in the broomcupboard?