Ajja

I have a Helen Mirren sticky on my desktop. I will continue to post similar humour until I get the full acknowledgement I feel I deserve. If I get a plethora of posts telling me how clever, and at the same time funny I am then I might move on to my next moment of genius. Is that not how DT works ?

Hoping to watch a lot of action around Helen Mirren's box tomorrow. With the cold weather it might be a bit bald and mucky in there but there should be plenty mouth watering play to be had. Our strikers have shown more thirst for penetration in that area so if a few of them can get on the end of some hopeful balls then I'm sure they will be bursting her net good and proper. COYR

That's what Miller says but part of that negotiation appears to have been lending him to Kilmarnock. I wouldn't take that as a strong desire to keep me if I was in his position.

Nothing wrong with some shameless promotion PS. Did I mention the Aberdeen branch is on George Street ?

I read it on ABmad yesterday for sure.

There is a perfect solution for all these local transport issues guys; http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/comms/srv.a4d?f_pg=home%2Ehtm&f_Cardinal=1 They even have a sale on just now, great deals to be had, an extra 10% OFF all sale bikes from tomorrow for one week only. Fill yer boots.

Paton and Ifil look like certainties to go given the lack of positive commentary coming from Brown. He has made clear statements about guys like Diamond and Maguire so unless we are not able to hold on to them they will not be punted. Foster is the other question, contract not up but we might take money for him if its offered, however, I can't see the offer coming.

Good stuff, should fill Folly's boots as a minimum. End of season signings all point to some major changes in personnel in the summer. Building for a serious assault on the title for 2011/12. COYR.

Genuis. Stevie Gray even had a better tan than Zero and looked better in slip-on loafers.

Crowd at Ibrox tonight is a disgrace. Entire stand closed and still it looks like the last 10 minutes of a game when they are losing. the fact that the OF base all of their superior stance on the fact that they get full houses every time they play has all but evaporated. Utter joke.

I think people need to get past this idea that it's a mystery that players didn't try under McGhee and now they are working hard for Brown. Surely that's the difference between a good manager and a bad one. Players are not neutral machines who should be able to perform regardless of who is managing them, otherwise why bother having a manager. The fact is they respond to the leadership they are shown and McGhee clearly wasn't providing any. Why make that the players problem ? You can get all upset about some sort of betrayal all you like but the fact is the manager is responsible for getting the best from a player and Brown appears to be succeeding where McGhee failed. It's not Maguires responsibility to deal with that.

Or 'fire bomb' as Gordon Smith described it on the radio. Nothing like a bit of drama.

Its just not workable to ask people to pay extra without the guarantee of a home game in the cup. Its easy to suggest that it would work itself out over seasons, but it might not and there might be people who would buy one year and not another. They simply wouldn't do it.

A number of those 13 were penalties as well were they not ? With Hartley knocking in a good number of goals and Maguire on form we might have 3 players in double figures this season and still finish bottom 6. Now when was the last time we saw that ?

BBC stats say they had 59% possession. Sounds like we didn't get out of 2nd gear. I'll take that any day of the week.

Well of course. If he hasn't been connected with Plymouth then he is no use to us.

Suspect he is just trying to soften his entry into the squad as he is young. At 20 he should be ready for the first team and the fact we have signed him for half a season suggests he will play sooner rather than later.

Fucoon hell Bobo, you fair spooked me with that crack.

I'd send him back just to remove a drain on our management resource and a negative influence. Good enough reason on its own. We are NOT paying him a wage though, utter horseshit to suggest otherwise.

I suspect that the purse was pulled on McGhee but not because of the quality of his signings but for the quality of his management. The Board must have seen the writing on the wall last season and cut his hands off as a result.

Being reported in papers and radio he has agreed to loan.

Same conclusion I have alluded to. The rest is a speculative argument (on both our parts) and seemingly a moot point as the clubs are not going to vote for anything other than 'as we were' because they can't agree. So we can all sit back and watch as the OF drain the life from the game. Let's hope they either go find another host to be parasites to or they realise they have to bring parity to the table.

The loss of revenue from a coupe of home OF games is only one small part of the problem. The expanded league argument requires a move away from playing as many home games. Its the loss of these that is the real killer, for AFC, two less home games is a lot of income gone. The other problem is that if you set up a league where there are less fixtures between the bigger clubs (lets say the top 4 non-OF teams playing the OF as well as them playing each other 4 times a season) then the TV companies look less favourably on it. The increase in the number of dead rubbers is not only poor fare for the fans, it diminishes the interests of the TV companies and so the deal gets worse and the revenue again decreases. There is already severe pressure in this area and I suspect a significant part of this 10-team set up is being driven by the prospect of TV money. The TV companies may even be telling the SPL that they are not interested in an expanded league, why would they want to shell out money for Raith Rovers against Hamilton ? 10 teams is the only viable solution at present. The onus has to be on the SPL and the clubs involved to ensure that there is more equality in that set up in terms of income. That is the only way that we will get more competition, a more attractive product and therefor better TV money and European success. There are two giant fucking hurdles to that unfortunately.

Pat Nevin was on radio Scotland last night commenting on this. It was very interesting listening. Only caught some of it but he was basically saying that most of the decision makers at the SPL clubs know that a 10 team league is not a solution for the quality of football on offer and the enhancement of the product. The problem is that they just can't make the finances work so they are bound to it as a fix. The bottom line here is that as long as they OF continue to take the lions share of money and success then Scottish football will die a slow and painful death. Even they are going to have to realise that if they keep biting off the hand that feeds them there will soon be no hand.

Wouldn't it be so interesting if this forum was only populated by those who are simply running interference endlessly.