Aye - also states in the article that "he would jump at the chance to return to Pittodrie and fire the Dons off the foot of the SPL" but yet have no quotes even slightly resembling that, just that he reckons he is good enough to play in the SPL and hardly likely to say he isn't when looking for new deal!!
Think you cannot appeal a straight red for handball. McNaughton was sent off at Ibrox and clearly never handled but was told can't appeal against wrong handball decision. Rules might have changed since then but doubt it with SFA!!
Pittodrie is owned by Talltray now and is rented back to AFC which is now a seperate company which does not own Pittodrie. The full debt is guarenteed against Pittodrie through Milne and if the bank call in the debt Pittodrie is then taken by Milne from Talltray.
If Celtic get a goal quite early then we could be on end of thumping but longer it stays 0-0 the more frustrated the team and crowd will get and you never know on the break or from free kicks.
Points to manager wasting his considerable budget elsewhere and overspending on high profile players on huge wages i.e. Lee Miller who was already on huge wage and got pay rise to persuade him to stay. One of highest wage bills and one of (if not the) smallest first team sqauds in the league = bad management of that budget.
Aye - Suprised any of our youngsters get call ups as most of the younger sides are run by old firm sympathisers who get job due to handful of games for one of gruesome twosome.
Nae sure i understand what you are saying. If deemed good enough to represent their country then must be something there but that something far too often turns out to be nothing and these players disappear.
But if "shouldn't have been brought into the AFC youth setup full stop" then huge problem with our scouting (which most seem to acknowledge anyway).
We always seem to have players in international squads then they get released later on. In last year i can think of Bagshaw, Kelly, McVitie, Donald, Kiely and Strachan that we have binned. Something wrong somewhere.
Half the fans at Killie in 3rd round than we had at Ayr in 2nd round tells it's own story of our season. Fans disappearing at alarming rate. Crowd for Hibs at Pittodrie a week on Saturday could be scarily low.