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17 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Good question. It becomes Hunnish when you buy your way to success, getting yourself in debt (whether that be bank or donor) and operate way beyond your means for an extended period of time. Whether successful or not of course. The Huns were still total Huns in the championship losing league and playoff. There is a good argument that teams like Kelty, Bora, Cove Huns are just finding their level.

Alternatively, you have the Newcastle situation, where you turn a blind eye to the nefarious cunt buying your club and bask in his money. Like Charles Green, the easdales and so on. The player equivalent would be goodwillie of course - that was fucking Hunnish.

It doesn't currently happen at pittodrie, but we've seen glimpses in the past. Milne's cheap attempt to become the Huns, whilst retaining the voting structure was unforgivable for example. The Hernandez signing looked like it might be the start of something, but that was just a weird anomaly it seems. The training ground is capital expenditure, as would a new stadium, designed to increase turnover and doesn't fall into the operating category.

Hope that clarifies it for you. I think we have to bear in mind that my classification of Hunnishness isn't subject to law.

Newcastle should be a big club.
No hunnish-ness involved, neither projected nor real. They’re a proper working class football club. With a history of glorious failure. Stadium in the city centre, passionate local fan base, no southern affiliations (they fucking hated Ashley et al for being cockney wide-o’s). Absolutely no way they would let their club get liquidated EVER, even if this Saudi experiment goes tits up. 
On fan base alone they’d be top? 1?  They could double the size of St James’ and still fill it (with a hint of success). The only way to win anything anywhere now, is with billionaire sponsors, they’ve got the billionaires of billionaires. 
It’s a risk but let them enjoy it. 

 

34 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

So more of them makes it better, or more favourable? I don't get it to be honest. Team buys big team status. Repeat. It's fake. 

I don't get why fans of Scottish fitba, who witness first hand the ridiculous state of inequality in the game, get any enjoyment out of another twat buying stuff. It's fucking Hunnish (buying success, I mean), regardless of how many do it. I'd feel the same if the Dons (or anyone) decided to splash millions on catching the scum too. It'd make us Huns in my mind. English fitba is Huns.

 

Edit: feel free to insert Tims in place of Huns if preferred

I don’t mind it because on the whole I couldn’t give a shit about English fitba. EPL is a different sport really. In fact not a sport it’s just entertainment.
I live down here and the club I started going to 24 years ago are run like a proper club. I’ve watched them in conference, 3rd division, league 2 and league 1. The best season by far was the season they were back in the conference.

Cheltenham were approached by the Russians that then bought Bournemouth. Chairman at the time gave them short shrift, would not sell to anyone who might threaten their existence. Board turned down Dale Vince (of FGR) too.
There was a point, in the late 90’s where the 2 richest people involved in British football were on the boards of Aberdeen and Cheltenham. 

8 minutes ago, manc_don said:

Continuing the geordie anguish (sorry Al). I’d find it amusing. And yeah, completely acknowledging your latter point. No denying it. I’m sure I say the same whenever a big money consortium comes in. 

Fair enough, I can get that.
I’ve never minded the geordies. 

Just now, manc_don said:

I’d find it funnier if they failed completely tbh

Why. I’m not in favour of the Saudis or their regime but let’s not pretend the the EPL don’t have Russian, Italian and American gangsters as owners already. 

Gerrard would be an idiotic appointment unless they bring Beale and MacAllister as well, at that point they’d be as well appointing Shearer with those two. Can’t see the geordies being as enthused with Gerrard as a figure head as the huns are.  
Someone like Mancini or Rodgers would make more sense.

Looking forward to another team upsetting the self appointed “big” clubs. 

I get that, the point I was really making was why wasn't he called up prior to the last two times when his form probably warranted it?

Why now after this summers pushing for a move to England and his fathers derogatory comments in the media?

You're probably correct that Patterson will continue to get called up, but if we're truly selecting on form and playing time Ramsay should be there ahead of him. 

We all know that Patterson will be out of the Scotland squad as soon as the rat is back playing for the huns. What's confusing me is Ferguson's inclusion, now his form for his club has been about the poorest it's been. It's almost as if there's an old boys club, in Scottish Football's higher echelons, who look after their own. It's not as if he's picked as a token Aberdeen player so will be interesting to see what happens when there is no need to pick Patterson as the token hun. Will Lewis get dropped for the rat and Patterson dropped for Ramsay?

20 hours ago, wee toon red said:

Odd goings on with Livi today. Over and above Anderson's illness, two more were spewing at half time and one wasn't allowed to play before the game due to concern over a blood test.

Anderson taken to hospital but hopefully bounces back quickly.

Odd goings on there.
 

Some hun loan,Williamson, told not to play and rest for 24hrs following a “post covid blood test” 

Top Don Bruce having a diabetic fit.

Styjek and Fitzwater chucking up at half time. 

Both subbed and Sibbald also off and involved in some way. 

Reckon the huns have sent a Trojan horse into Livi to try to infect the whole league. 
 

16 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

Riddled with covaids. Conspiracy. Everyone's against us etc.

Jumped species again? Worrying!

5 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

An interesting hypothetical conundrum that raises:

If we sold the Huns Ferguson for £7M and they subsequently sold him for £130M, with us getting 40% (£59M total) and them getting £78M, would be happy or disgusted?

3 hours ago, BigAl said:

Disgusted  that we only took £7 million off them in the first instance 

Disgusted we sold him to the huns at all. 
Also concerned about the economy due to the clear hyper-inflation. 

10 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Well done Ferguson, he's going to be a great player. Good of Clarke to throw him and up his value for us after - he was clearly embarrassed by the Ramsay decision for the u21s. I'd take £7M plus a 40% sell on for Ferguson. 

I think the huns calculate player values at around £1 million per first team game played (once they've had a NT call up). Guess that means Ferguson is now worth around £130 million?

When is the rat going to be fixed, so we can stop pandering to the huns and get a right-back that actually plays club football (and the best young right back in Scotland) involved?

Also when is Fergusons transfer going to be announced?

Fair play to Payet for chucking the bottle back although the throat punch from the coach is a thing of beauty. French have always had the right attitude, "My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan." Eric Cantona.

The second goal was a really basic error. He had no idea Zanata was closing him down on his blindside. He didn’t get his head up and look and he was clearly concentrating so intently he did not hear the 3 or 4 players who must have been screaming at him that there was a man on. A half decent player at that level would have adjusted their body shape at the last second and gone to ground for FK or as has been said adjusted earlier and banged it high and clear. 

McGregor should have been sent off. Fuck knows why not. Got to assume they’ve somehow managed to kidnap the real ref and replace his with a Scottish one. 

23 minutes ago, sancho_panza said:

We replaced Jack with Greg Tansey, had fewer points in the league, a worse goal difference and went out at an earlier stage in both cups to Motherwell when in the previous season we'd made the final of both and lost to Celtic. It absolutely made us worse, things just didn't fall apart completely.

Wasn't Tansey loaned to Ross County by the January of 2018? I suppose he could be blamed for the 3 points less we achieved that season but does he get any credit for however many points it was closer to Celtic we finished?

2 hours ago, sancho_panza said:

It would be pretty optimistic to think him leaving won't make us a worse team. It's similar to when we lost Jack, most people thought he was an arsehole but it still made us a worse team because we had no chance of replacing him in the short-term. Best we can hope for is to unearth another young player who turns out to be as good as Ferguson in 2-3 years, at which point said player will probably run off to join Bournemouth or someone and the cycle will begin again.

At least in this case we have a good situation with the contract so can get a decent fee in theory.

Guess that’s why Jenks was brought in, for the short term and probably why we allegedly enquired about the possibility of a transfer for the long term with potential to develop. 
Hopefully Campbell begins to leave his mark on games more often. 
I think it’s also a bit revisionist to say we became worse after the rat left. We finished second in the league and lost to the beaten finalists in both cups. 
The real drop came when MacLean (in particular) and Shinnie went. These were replaced by Campbell not experienced enough, Ojo not good enough, McGeouch permanently injured and Ferguson undroppable… 

Club should tell Ferguson every time someone from his family/team whines to the media or mentions gentleman’s agreement, the asking price doubles.  
Although his lack of involvement yesterday may suggest an acceptable offer has been received? 

Looks like Malmö will be winning the Champions League, at the minute. 

Dixon also suggested at Harry Kane’s earlier dive attempt at a penalty that the Danish player had kicked Kane in the front of his leg using the back of the leg… 

And as for whatsamatterface and the ITVhub…

Lee Dixon. “I’m not sure he’s not given it for the second one”. 
What the touch that comes when he’s halfway down diving. 

Cheats. 

Fucking yasss min! How long before t-Rex arms gets mentioned

19 hours ago, manc_don said:

Absolutely jinxed it. Just rejoined the second half after my commute to work.  How's it been so far? Was absolutely cringe hearing the England fans in the stadium sing "it's coming home" 

Just sing the version I've been singing in my head each time I here it (I actually thought it might have been the Italians singing last night).

"It's going to Rome, It's going to Rome..."

10 hours ago, BigAl said:

After the free flowing football of earlier in the tournament, Italy seem to have reverted to type and become fairly defensive which is a shame as they were really entertaining and a joy to watch at the outset of the competition.

 

Was that not because of Busquet's controlling the game, the Spanish 2 touch slow build, and Dani Olmo causing them all kinds of problems at the back? England don't have a player of the quality of Busquets, they try to attack at speed, and they'd need one of their front 3 to be on absolute top form to replicate the impact of Olmo. 

If the guffies can get past the Danes, I can't see the Italians having much difficulty in beating them. 

Have to laugh at how much Schmeichel has wound them up too. "Has it ever come home?"

1 hour ago, BigAl said:

Sure i heard that somewhere last week mate 

Fuck knows what I was doing last week. Clearly not reading donstalk, anyway.