wee toon red

It’s time football became a summer sport in Scotland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4g0n03ymneo
 

“Forget about us not spending a single penny in January, your real problem is with the weather”.

Chancers.

Heard a rumour it could be this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirik_Horneland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgqewqllw8vo
 

No McInnes, staying with your hammer throwers and not kicking a ball all season would’ve been a “bad decision.”

All joking aside, there's an argument that a game tonight might've been beneficial for our new signings before the much more important cup tie on Saturday. So now I guess we're genuinely hoping that one's off as well.

1 hour ago, Panda said:

The general feeling around Pittodrie is it'll probably be off, and that Saturday's cup game with Motherwell is also in doubt.

Be a great time to appoint a new manager with a full week before Dundee United...

Something's gone pretty badly wrong if a Saturday game is on doubt on the Wednesday afternoon, especially with the pitch not having been played on for 11 days.

2 hours ago, wee toon red said:

Be prepared for a return to three at the back if we get a German coach...

                                                     Mitov/Bratveit

               Morrison/Tobers.        Milne/McIntyre.       Knoester/Molloy

Lobban/Devlin/Milanovic    Aremu/Nilsen        Geiger/Shinnie                             Keskinen/Frame/Gyamfi                

                                                 Cameron/Armstrong

                                        Nisbet/Lazetic.      Olusanya/Bilalovic   

Better. Devlin and Milanovic excluded for space reasons but I wouldn't be surprised if that's our shape once Leven's gig is done, or maybe even tonight.

2 hours ago, blinlemon said:

Deid rat in the post please, to this poory-informed patronising prick and his attempt to comment on terracing mass-participation in today’s Scotsman. What a fucking roaster. Stick to rugby for fuck’s sake. Booooooooooo…

https://archive.ph/XQLJZ

Best fitba chants ever? The huns, I’m afraid, when they took the Piglets’ ‘Johnny Reggae’ - it was really Jonathan King in late 1971 - as a basis for their:

”Johnny Johnny Greigy, he’ll break your fucking leggy” 

and ourselves, when Davie Dodds scored a late winner for us at Fir Park:

”Davie Dodds, Davie Dodds, you’re not ugly anymore”. 

That's an incredibly poor piece of work from the Scotsman character.

In terms of quality chants, "Fuck you Celtic, we're gonna win the league" in the league cup semi last season was excellent for it's defiance and - probable - humour.

35 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Aye, that has formatted so badly it actually resembles our team defending a corner.

Was alright on my laptop but aye, it's away to fuck on a smaller screen 

Be prepared for a return to three at the back if we get a German coach...

                                                     Mitov/Bratveit

               Morrison/Tobers.        Milne/McIntyre.       Knoester/Molloy

Lobban/Devlin/Milanovic    Aremu/Nilsen        Geiger/Shinnie                             Keskinen/Frame/Gyamfi                

                                                 Cameron/Armstrong

                                        Nisbet/Lazetic.      Olusanya/Bilalovic   

On 14/01/2026 at 09:10, wee toon red said:

Online clowns lashing out at everything and anything out of frustration at how poor we've been. Chairman, captain, (ex) manager, goalie and now CEO all getting it in the neck because social media allows morons an outlet to spout the pish that in the past would only have had an audience of three men and a dog in the pub.

It's one thing to criticise players and managers for their performance but when it turns to off the field figures' personal lives then it's a grim state of affairs.

We've even reached the stage where the social media admin person is needing sacked according to some because the club apparently haven't released enough info on what specifically is wrong with Knoester. Social media is superb as long as you don't take it too seriously.

20 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

It's more the fact that the fans will get on their back, and a certain element will decide they're shite when they're not fit yet. Ideally we'd be giving them a couple of weeks to settle. Just the way of it I guess.

While that's definitely true, it seems like we're pretty much in tear it all down and start again mode so one step back to take two forward is going to have to happen eventually. Plus a sizeable proportion of our fans will decide certain players are shite for all sorts of reasons so that's probably going to happen anyway.

Our team has been guff all season so I’d be very surprised if playing our new signings makes us much worse. They might play below what their eventual standard will be until they get up to speed but we’ve not exactly lost Pele, Maradona and Willie Miller so I don’t expect too much of a drop off.

1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:

The club only had two days to find a centre back. Prior to the Livingston game one wasn't even on the cards. Morrison is a poor signing in my opinion, because of his age and lack of experience, which should have been obvious. But we were probably still hoping to see out the next two games and get Milne back alongside Knoester. We'll probably have had backup options that the recruitment team were looking at, but it isn't always possible to make things happen in January, especially with no prior contact before the weekend and on a short term deal. I don't think a freebie is ridiculous at the moment, or an indictment of the club, just bad luck.

And, if it's Tom McIntyre we're going for, at least he's an experienced defender who won't be taken by surprise by the physical nature of the Scottish game.

Twitter linking us with 22yo Everton centre back Reece Welch

It's all moot anyway but we wouldn't have had to pay £1.5m for Aouchiche, we could easily have said to Sunderland "nah, not paying that but we'll give you zero pounds instead" and got him that way.

A decent player but we seem to have been clearing out the old loans to get the new ones in so on that basis it's no surprise he's away. On paper, a midfield of Aremu, Geiger and Cameron should be an upgrade on what we had before but I'm not sure a better midfield helps our inability to defend set pieces... maybe we're planning on 100% possession every week so that the other team can't even get a corner.

That’s an absurd appointment from livi. Bartley was absolutely woeful as Queen of the South manager in League One, showed absolutely nothing to suggest he’s got what it takes at a higher level.

1 hour ago, Jute said:

Being reported by SKY in Germany that this is a done deal for Geiger 

Derek Rae saying it’ll include a “buy option” and that Lutz has been working on the deal for ages.

50 minutes ago, wokinginashearerwonderland said:

Alarm bells are ringing already with that line. 

Are we just writing off this season?  If not, there must be a hell of a lot less risk playing someone like Polvara/Shinnie/Nilsen for the last 15 games than taking some dude over from Germany that has barely kicked a ball all season and never played in this country before.  He got his sole Nigeria cap aged 17, nearly 9 years ago.

He sounds like the latest in a loonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng line of players we have signed because he was once promising and was signed by a big club so that automatically must mean he is good......Palaversa, Lazetic, Karlsson, Aouchiche, Gyamfi...................

Remember this:

Starting to wonder if someone in the recruitment department is on the wacky backy.  We all know deep down this boy is gonna be shite.  Going throw this out there but is there any less risk in the transfer market by just asking Peter Leven if he has seen anyone in the Championship that he thinks can do a job at a higher level?

That’s the spirit let’s persevere with the guys who we know have been shite for much of the last 18 months rather than trying something new

3 hours ago, Jute said:

Bournemouth 2-0 up on Liverpool after 30 minutes. 

I can’t be bothered checking the stats but it seems to me like liverpool do far better when Robertson is on the pitch.

You could tell by the Livi boy’s reaction that he was seriously upset by something. Hopefully thought he heard somethintg rather than actually heard it but that’s maybe blinkered, wishful thinking.

3 hours ago, swaddon said:

Is he coming over by jet ski?

That’s a tremendous blast from the past  

If he's pacy and "unpredictable" maybe he'll at least give us some Shady Mo-esque chaos off the bench?

Olusanya's record doesn't exactly scream "prolific" but if we feel we're lacking in grafters who will run all day and generally be a nuisance then he should at least bring that? Kinda in line with Pfannensteil's comments about having a squad of good footballers who don't fit together to make a team.

That's the optimistic Friday morning viewpoint anyway.

The big question mark over McGlynn is how he'd fit into the sporting director structure we've got now. Strikes me as the kind of old school manager who thrives when wheeling, dealing and bringing in players he finds. That's not how we're supposed to be working.