OxfordDon

Selling Hayes to an English club is one matter, but I seriously doubt our board would have sold our best player to our closest (in league table terms) rivals halfway through the season for any sum.

We're not Dundee Utd.

One of them was West Ham’s talented teenager Reece Oxford, who was available on loan at a knockdown price. The other was Aberdeen’s talisman Jonny Hayes, who would have cost in the region of £1million.

What, Reece Oxford who knocked them back for mighty Reading, that Reece Oxford? 

The last away draw Sevco had in the Scottish cup was the 3rd round of the 2014-15 cup, more than 2 years ago.

Ach, just realised this is a dupe thread - i was clearly too lazy to look for this ane:

http://www.donstalk.co.uk/index.php/topic,18838

Feel free to lock/delete/fitever it is you do on here

Celtic v St Mirren

Aberdeen v Partick Thistle

Hibernian or Hearts v Clyde or Ayr Utd

Rangers v Hamilton or Dunfermline

I think the only shock in there is that the zombies didn't draw Clyde/Ayr Utd.

Cup tied

Oh is he?  I take that back then.

Aye, i think Shankland was a bit of a speculative punt on our part, but doesn't seem to be progressing beyond Championship/L1 level.

Not even on the bench today against the zombies.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/who-could-rangers-next-manager-9777324

 

And as if by magic, here we go

I made it as far as Frank de Boer on that list before i had to stop due to uncontrollable laughter 

right so, hang on.... i'm confused.

According to this BBC story,  Sevco have said the Hat, his assman and the chief scout have all resigned, but they have all denied this?

The Scottish Premiership club say they have accepted the resignations of Warburton, assistant David Weir and head of recruitment, Frank McParland.

 

But Warburton, who took charge in 2015, told BBC Scotland he has not stood down and was unaware of the statement.

Reading further, it sounds like the three of them approached Sevco to negotiate their release for the Nott Forest jobs, and Sevco agreed to waive wanting compensation.  Then they didn't get the jobs, but Sevco saw an opportunity to sack them without paying THEM compensation, and accepted their previous resignations?

That's too funny  :rofl:

I'm pretty sure Deek has more sense than to touch this lot with Willo's hathanger.

Saw these two in the BBC gossip section, looks like Sevco's much-heralded chief scout is dumping them, but Sevco are busy trying to make it look like they are sacking him 

Rangers chief scout Frank McParland is set to quit' date=' throwing into doubt the long-term future of manager Mark Warburton. McParland has been left frustrated by the lack of backing he feels his manager has received in the transfer market.[/quote']

 

Unhappy with the value for money offered by Joey Barton, the crocked duo of Niko Kranjcar and Jordan Rossiter, and more recent captures including Philippe Senderos and Joe Garner, senior club figures at Ibrox believe a revamp of the scouting operation is essential if Rangers are to get closer to Celtic next season.

Shankland played the full 90 for Morton in their 1-0 win over Raith last night (but didn't score).  The phrase below is becoming worryingly common in match reports:

Lawrence Shankland then missed a close-range chance

Happy dayes 

Yes but interesting to note who gave the assist for the goal - the much maligned Taylor.

If that's an assist then he'll need to split it with Joe Lewis - they were the only ones to touch the ball, which didn't even hit the ground between one goalkick and goal.

Great find manc.

 

On the ethics, I have no problem with the work of Cambridge Analytica. Specific target marketing isn't new. It's the methods that have changed and why wouldn't they?

 

The bigger issue is the population, too lazy to inform themselves and too thick to understand and who are vulnerable to buying whatever they're told to buy. Very clever stuff on one hand but sinister on another. Have the population been dumbed down deliberately? The evidence would appear to say yes.

The problem is not targeted marketing per se, but how it is used and by who.  Traditional advertising is regulated to avoid falsehoods, exaggerations and exploitation of vulnerable audiences (eg. children).  Social media combined with big data analysis allows for deliberately seeking out vulnerable target audiences and then feeding them any "alternative facts" you like to influence their views and, most importantly, is completely unregulated.

This is abhorrent enough when the marketer is a corporation trying to sell a commercial product, but is becomes truly worrying when the marketer is not trying to sell toothpaste or an iphone, but is instead aiming to influence political, cultural and social opinion for their own gain - this is manipulation of the lowest form.

And just a minor point as an example from which you can draw your own conclusions - Steve Bannon is a board member of Cambridge Analytica.  If a government interrogating your data to feed you lies that play on your worst fears and steer your reactions would be (rightly) viewed as fascist, authoritarian and reprehensible, what about individual politicians now seated on the US National Security Council?.

Got to be a contender for goal of the season, never mind month

I fear this shortage is just the tip of the iceberg.

Loan Summary for w/e 4/2/17:

Cammy Smith got an assist in St Mirren's 2-2 draw with Dumbarton, in which Smith, Storie and Harvie all played the full 90 minutes.

Danny Rogers had a clean sheet for Falkirk's 2-0 win over Dunfermline, while Lawrence Shankland was a start for Morton's 3-0 loss to QoS.

No sign of Scott McKenna in team or bench for Ayr Utd, but Dylan Thomas got a 7 minute runout for L2 Montrose.

Finally, Aaron Lennox is still out counting his teeth, after taking a boot to the face in a bounce match back in January and gaining a fractured jaw.

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Haha duh. Apologies

 

Storie (and storey) 

Craig Storie got loads of game time today - for St Mirren during his season-long loan. 

Keep going min

Apparently they are nae actually intending coming, they're just going to mock up some photos to make it look like they did.

Flor de Pingus

Flower of the Penguin?

I'd like to follow on by expressing outrage at the ridiculously low buyout clause that has been inserted in his  contract.

This is a brilliant way to start a rumour.  I wonder which paper will pick up on it>

Tongue in cheek you say?

 

That's not the way that I do it.

I was going to say i aim higher than that, but you beat me to it 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38828988

There's got to be a song in that for tonight.

On  another note, love the before and after shots of Stoke's hairline in that article, Lazarus would be proud:

The threshold for cause to award a yellow card would have to be upped massively, or it would be the death of the game.

The average number of cards per match in Scotland is roughly 4, so that would be 4 10-minute spells of uneven teams over 90 minutes every game.

The Sevco-Dons match in December had 11 cards (9 yellows, 2 reds) - that's 9 players off the pitch for 10 minutes at a time, not counting the reds (which admittedly were at the end).