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Did some one mention Booth?

I do remember buying a main stand ticket at £24 after getting back from a pre-xmas holiday one year, and saw Mackie make a right arse out of Rab Douglas for 2-0.

Don't think I'm that confident that I'd part with £24 to see the game, even if I was in Aberdeen.

6 million pence.

... as in "it's all in his head" injury.

We get rid of him = he'll be fit and come back to haunt us

We keep hold of him = he'll never be fit.

Only one call for Jimmy to go, This is donstalk isn't it?

If it was a caption competition I'd have posted this:

 

I think the results of that competition would be better if only the Royal Family entered it.

Pressley in a nurse's outfit....

A delighted Hughes added: "Steven will also help nurse the younger guys along.

The 25-year-old said: “You always want to avoid the Old Firm. You would like to see them drawn together at some stage and maybe get one of them in the latter stages.

 

“If you want to win the cup you will probably have to beat one of them at some point.â€

Unless you get AFC after we beat one of them - then we'll just roll over for anyone.

I'm not in Belfast but close, there is one other over Cookstown direction I know of.

Like you I tried to contact the the guy off RedWeb and never heard.

My local did put on an AFC setanta game for me one night though.

Is he offski?

 

Seriously though, would be a big loss considering his experience. Not been his biggest fan for the past two seasons, but as BB said, the though of a lineup without him seems a bit scary. We'd be really lightweight.

We are pretty lightweight anyway - he hasn't performed as player or captain for a long time - money better re-allocated.

Couldnae resist it ...

 

 

Dressing your cock as Edd the duck?

Serious question - who or what are you expecting us to sign?  Are Mulgrew, Kerr and Aluko not good signings?

Aluko = good signing - we will make a profit on him (hopefully the sell on clause to Birmingham is not too high)

Mulgrew and Kerr are just average players - I said we would struggle without a player of Barry Nic's qualities and it seems we are.

Lets also not forget that for a season or 2 seve looked good in midfield - we have never replaced that either.

We've always been a selling club, just that for a few years we had no one that we could actually sell.

Have we? (honest q, not a wind up)

It's just, I don't remember McLeish or Miller being sold, but then again I do remember Strachan, Leighton, McGhee, etc....

Maybe you are right, but as I said, that can't continue forever, especially if Bebo and Mackie are the "cream of the crop" of the youth ranks.

There was a time when we occasionally bought a player - and I'm not including the purchase of Lee Miller (didn't we give them a lawn mower for him) and Tommy Wright - well, there is 75k that could have been spent on Jamie Smith's hospital bills.

In recent years our club became a 2nd chance for hun and tim also-rans and a run-around for loan players from England.

Sadly, we can't even seem to get 2nd chancers or young run-arounds these days.

Hang on, Jimmy says he would ban all plastic pitches, did he not green light the dunfermiline one before he jumped to us?

Whilst Ajja's post sums up most of the argument, here's my addition.

No-one seems to take into account we have become a selling club, replacing half-decent talent with half-incapable talent.

The expectation HAS to drop with the lack of investment we've had in recent years, but it doesn't seem to.

The fact remains, we are a poorer playing squad than last Jan, and the summer before, to say we can play better football and SHOULD be 3rd, with a Cup Final, etc, etc. Just doesn't seem like a realistic target for me.

I also think Jimmy has done well, his replacement players are not all that bad, but we haven't replaced Barry Nic, Anderson or Hart.

Is that his fault? or the fault of an under-investment policy from above?

It's great we are a club operating in profit (because - and only because - of player sales) but it can't continue like that forever, to get gates up we need better players, and better results. We can maybe get the better results with the players we have, but don't expect good football.

And as for the "real" vs "so-called" fans debate - there is no such thing - it isn't up to other's to judge how 'good' a fan you are.

We are all 'supporters' - and I would like to think would always support the 11 men that turn out for us - no matter how good or bad.

If were to play like that again we wouldnt be good enough to win next week!

 

Jute summed it up for me perfectly, if Calderwood doent trust/rate the young players that were on the bench yesterday they should be punted now and get some ones in he will play, as he needed to get some most of the players off the park yesterday.

So, The players we are buying in... your cheque book or mine? It certainly won't be Wiggy's

Agreed.

He's well past his best.

Still 900% better than David 'Dorian Gray' Weir

I'd honestly rather watch Aberdeen in a slightly less quality footballing environment with the chance to see us win titles and genuinely competing at the top of the game.

+1

Extremely idealistic.  Because of the way the game is these days, we need TV money, and simply, without the OF the cash would be a pittance.  It may well make the league more competitive, but the standard would drop even lower than it is now because attracting players to a league where there are no "big" teams to play against would become very, very hard.  The knock on effect of that is that sponsorship money would be down as the audience is reduced.  One team would get CL football, how long would that last though as no doubt whoever was in the CL would get royally pumped, meaning the co-efficient plummets and eventually the league champions would no longer get automatic qualification.

 

They are an odious shower, no doubt.  But there's nothing better in football than beating them. I'd miss that if they left.

Extremely naive - the next round of cash for rights will be a pittance - so looks like we are doomed anyway!

JC in the Daily Retard this morning giving the idea his full support.

 

Infirm are sadly a necessary evil for Scottish football to survive. If they were to leave the league would lose most of its income as tv, radio and other sponsors would no longer have an interest in the also rans. All scottish clubs are struggling to survive as it is. I doubt professional football in Scotland would exist if income was to be cut further.

Just utter nonsense. I think Scottish football CANNOT SURVIVE with the old firm. The dominance, the 5% tax which will go up every year... they are killing the game.

Scottish sponsors would still want to sponsor the scottish product. They might not pay quite the same, but they would still support it.

Combined with a far more competitive league just about every team in the league having a shout for the title - crowds would go up - and with crowds follows media interest.

I think the infirm would be cap in hand to the SPL a few years after their quaint little league went tits up.

Then we would be in a position to veto all this old firm bias in the power structure.

The rumour about JDV doing a u-turn and committing to the club had me more worried.

Speaking yesterday at the Port Brae pub in Kirkcaldy, Fife, which he runs, he said: "I'd no idea the substance was banned - if I had known, then obviously I wouldn't have taken it.

 

"When it happened, it was the worst day of my life. It was terrible for me, my family and everyone I knew."

So the worst day of his life was taking some drugs - not the day he almost killed someone.

I regard this man lower than runny dog shit.

throw out the old firm - they can play each other every week and the rest of scotland will have a competitive league.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/7799072.stm

I have no problem with a European league - i think it will happen eventually.

But, no way to reserve OF teams in the SPL - and there would have to be promotion and relegation to said european league.

As for "Rangers deserve better than the circumstances in Scotland" - where does he even get the basis for that?

They have always been pretty much shit in europe - let's face it - last season we made the knockout of the uefa cup so it's no great shakes to get to the final is it?

I think Scottish football without the ugly sisters is the way to go....

don't let the door hit you on the way out you bigoted barstewards.