RicoS321

Yes it is No it isn't

Looks like she's trying to force one oot.

Aye, see, it's folk like you who were the issue. All of the points (and mair) you make were very apparent (because it's fucking obvious. Clear and obvious, you could say.) before VAR was introduced in England, and then we had all that time when it existed in England and elsewhere to realise all those problems. Yet you still thought VAR being introduced was a good thing? Mental. It's this lack of seeing the unintended consequences that makes people think they can "make VAR better" with time limits or challenges or AI refs. It's all pish, always will be and was always going to be.

Bring back Sepp. Would never have happened on his watch.

Let's transition energy to a football stadium then.

Yep, I think the key to the offer being generously made by Cormack is that the loan will be entirely in the council's name, and they won't be loaning anything to the Dons, they will just be owning our stadium.

Get it built. In terms of the loan, Cormack means that the council would fund the entire development (give or take) as they can access low interest loans, and the club would essentially pay them back via long term lease. It's very unlikely to happen.

Obviously we have to give him a chance and call it at the end of the season, but it would make for a poor forum not to give opinion prior to that. I don't think he is technically a better player than Clarkson, he's a little bit more athletic. This should have been the season we challenged Clarkson to up his yardage in games and become more of an all rounder, which he's shown plenty of signs that he's capable and willing. That needed game time, which Thelin is no longer willing to give. If we can't turn a player like Clarkson into at least a £1.5M player, then I have my doubts we're going to get more out of Aouchiche. Realistically, we'd need to be getting £3M return to make the wages outlay worth it. I just don't think that there is a £3M player (Lewis Ferguson, basically) there. He's not got the physical attributes to make it an obvious buy for, say, an Italian club. He'd be the type of punt Lecce took on Ramadani, which would land us <£2M, covering the cost of purchase and additional wages probably. The only reasons I could see is taking up the offer is if we've suddenly decided to up our spending more generally, or we've already had agreement to buy for £2M from another club, and we're basically using our leverage in the agreed fee. None of this is criticism of the player himself, just the high cost of his signing. Our player trading model shouldn't really be being used for this type of signing. It defies logic a bit.

Nae trousers? I'm really warming to the lad.

Just don't read it. I don't know who she is. I have a vague idea, I think, but could be way wrong and feel that looking her up would put me in a worse position than not knowing who she is. I do like her name though, it feels like it should be a rhyming slang, or a euphemism for a sex act.

That's true. If both Lazetic and Nisbet get injured, we'll rue the day we let Yengi and Ambrose go.

Just a midfielder will do. Hopefully there will be plenty of movement out the door.

He's not as good as Clarkson. He's not as good as Ramadani was. We could probably pick up similar or better for half that. His work rate can't be faulted, which is helping him a lot. He was gash in the last home game, but still put in a decent shift. He has a ceiling, because he's not particularly physical and he isn't a brilliant reader of the game. I could see him taking the Ramadani route, but we're very unlikely to be getting an uplift on the £1.5M. I'd say it would be a very high risk signing.

Was it that he died ten years ago?

I've seen him three times. Once, him and his brother played the piano (the same one) for a song, and his brother was nearly as good as him. The only downside to seeing him these days is usually the venues are of the large corporate pish variety. He's fantastic though, despite being a little bit of a weirdo. Wouldn't be surprised if something came out in a decade or two.