RicoS321

Who knows with JC like. Remember hearing the interview at the time, it was part of a longer interview where he did his usual shite about knowing why naebody likes him. Cosgrove was great in that interview, just coaching Jimmy along to spill the beans. The involvement with the BoS and Rangers is very sinister and very unreported and not investigated (shocker). There's every reason to assume that BOS, were loaning to Rangers at a time when they were calling in loans form their direct competitors (including Aberdeen).

Fair doos min, but at least quote his whole sentence if you're going to be hold people to a certain standard, otherwise you undermine your own comments. Here: Seems to me like he meant No Kingsford, hence why he mentioned them earlier in the sentence. In fact, in that sentence, he's clearly being critical of the form of their objection.

A pretty good point 100%AK. Garlogie, I believe he was referring to the No group's argument rather than the whole of Westhill when you read the sentence back. It does seem like there's a lack of movement by AFC to address the issues raised. There is still plenty of time of course, and perhaps there's some tactic being deployed where any measures being taken will be revealed late on in the process to try and prevent any negative case being outlined before the decision meeting. Alternatively, AFC believe that their existing plan is a goer and they don't need to present any further mitigation of issues? That would seem a little reckless. Not to mention the fact that a lot of the concerns (transport etc) are completely genuine, and need a solution from AFC for the sake of its supporters.

There definitely isn't a player in there. He lacks basic football skills. I'm not sure why everyone can't see this. Just after he scored, he was through in a similar position and he just didn't know what to do so he passed it directly to the opposition. He's basically a shitter version of Mackie, or Magennis, or any other guy we've had over the years. He's Dougie Imrie of Hamilton, shite but fit. Rocky Fister, Martin Waghorn anyone of that ilk. Ten a penny. That said, Maynard (so far) appears to be masquerading as a non-rapey David Goodwillie*. A guy who's past transfer fees are holding him above the drop zone of semi-professional fitba. He's Josh Parker without the Come Dine With Me fame. A striking version of Jeffrey Monakana. 2017's Mo Chalali. Stockley is a fucking horses arse. Can only header the ball in the direction he's facing. Slower than Alan Tait with the touch of Ash Taylor. His jumping coach is Nigel Pepper. All three need to be ditched before the end of the window**, with a proper striker brought in instead if we're serious about finishing second. The hun didn't look like world beaters against Motherwell, but they've got enough about them to beat the other teams. I don't think Hibs have the squad to finish top 3 but they will be taking points off us and the hun this season. If we dick about with these 3 tits, we'll drop points. Of the 3, I'd go Storey tomorrow night. Simply because he scored a goal and will tank about the place. On at least one occasion he'll fail to control a simple ball and kick it out of play. *I don't mean he's rapey, I mean he's of the same footballing quality. **Or choose one to keep just for posterity. The nicest one to have about the place. Get Derek Young to choose - he kens.

I think they should toss a coin after each round of pelantees. Coin tosses are what make the game in my opinion.

Fit's with the single quotes round everything. Fuckin spakker. Petitions for everything these days.

If yer ever hitch hiking fae Portlethen, I'll pick ye up. Drop ye at the train station.

What in the world of fuck? £1M? The boy is fucking atrocious. He's basically Storey, a total headless chicken with nae skill whatsoever but a bit of strength and pace. They (Ipswich) also signed Garner. There must be some sort of hun-based conspiracy going on there, there's no way any club would pay money for those pair of cunts. Reminiscent of McGhee "selling" Lee Miller to Strachan for £650K.

That'd be the worst argument in the history of arguments.

Nae really. The boy probably made a meal of it, but it was definitely a pen

I thought 15K seemed about right. Although, a terrible game for 15K people to sit through. Very much like Thursday accept against a much shiter opponent. We looked tired, but been a long week I suppose. Logan, O'Connor, Considine and Wright the only real performers, the rest were poor. Stewart didn't do much when he come on either. Maynard was gash. He's like Goodwillie. We could persist, but I can't see it being worth it. His movement and general game understanding just doesn't seem to be there. Great finish by Storey, but he's still gash. Not sure how we set-up for the same fixture on Wednesday. I'm thinking give Storey a run about just because he scored. Re-instate Christie to the attacking midfield role where he's far better and maybe go with GMS and Wright on either wing. Nae sure though, we just look a good bit off where we need to be.

Fit?

Wow. The two aren't even remotely comparable. The huns fielded players over several years that they otherwise couldn't afford to buy, which bought them success. We played shite, and whilst playing shite, some flares got chucked onto the pitch. The thing about the hun situation, is that most people are - with right on their side - genuinely asking for a fair punishment in the voiding of titles. Not being re-awarded or anything like that. I mentioned on one thread that I'd call for the dons to lose titles in similar circumstances, because it's about sporting integrity. Calling for Thursday's game to be replayed and citing the huns cheating totally undermines that point of view, because it would simply be a ridiculously harsh punishment that is completely unwarranted. Fine them, aye. Make them play a game or two without their fans, aye. At a real push, give their next round opponents a bye. We didn't deserve to go through, and the flares made absolutely no difference to that. That's not how you win games in sport, or it just not sport. In fact, it would be equivalent of the huns still claiming that they won those 14 trophies when everyone knows they cheated.

I think the "going rate" for CEOs is unacceptable and not based on anything other than perceived self-worth and cronyism. I don't think charities need to, or should, follow the practices of the rest of the private sector. In the same way as the BBC should set its own news, rather than taking its guide from the papers.

I don't agree that Reynolds has lost his pace, I'd say that's nonsense (these things will be tested and worked on in training every day and McInnes would base his thinking on this data Reynolds is only 30, ye dinna lose huge amounts of pace at that age). He's still one of the fastest central defenders in the league. Also, I don't remember Considine being "exploited" once last night because of lack of pace. His positioning and strength make up for it. I think both are more than adequate for our purposes in the SPFL. Agreed about Harvie, but I think it's important that guys like that are the first backup in order to get them opportunities. If we're still in Europe, I'd agree with you, but we're nae, so I don't see the point in clogging up our first team squad with more players at this stage unless we look to offload Reynolds. Striker is far more important, because our first team options are simply inadequate. However, if we were unwilling to up our bid to sign Moult prior being knocked out of Europe, then I struggle to see the validity in upping it now.

I can see the dons taking 40K down to this one.

Nah, yer probably right. Being slightly less pish isn't the answer though. But you and Ten Caat didn't address the fact that there's no way on earth that Maynard would have lasted 90 minutes, or even 45. Basically, I don't think McInnes starting with Stockley over Maynard was really the issue; between a rock and a hard place I'd say. Maynard starting wouldn't have got us through, I'd be surprised if you or Ten Caat believed that. The problem lies with McInnes identifying a target and the board not backing him. We haggled over £100K or some shite, to the point that we're missing out on £100K by not getting through.

Stockley did the same as Maynard for his first 15 minutes on the pitch. Won a few headers, took a few balls down and then did fuck all with it. Maynard was gash, and no way on earth could he have started, because he simply isn't fit enough to play 90 minutes, as was shown by his "effort" in the home game. I suspect that was why Stockley got so long, Maynard is a mile off the pace. Nice ball through to McLean though admittedly. It fairly backs up my suggestion of not playing either of them however, which I thought was pretty fucking obvious.

The bitter nonsense fae the red tv commentators was getting annoying, going on and on about it. Who gives a fuck really. Just some Cypriot retards being retards. Anyway, all too predictable unfortunately. I think if we'd signed Moult we'd have been through. Interesting to see if we sign him now. Interesting, also, to see how close our bid was and if the extra cash would have been worth it. I'd have given Motherwell another 100K for the chance to get to the playoffs. We clearly went into this tie with a dearth up front (Maynard equally as pish as Stockley) and didn't address it.

Hmmm... we're struggling a little. Not really created anything. Neither have they like. Stewart shouldn't have been left one on one with thon guy who skinned him - something he did on several occasions in the home leg. Still, a little unlucky to be one down as they haven't created anything either. Stockley's yellow going to cause us problems. Very harsh like, nothing in it. Christie's was worse though. Stockley doing okayish, but I don't see him scoring. Not sure how I'd change it to be honest. Stewart nae looking great either, nor GMS. Shinnie, McLean and Christie doing okay. Can see this one petering out at 1-0 unless we make some changes. Maybe get Arneson on and change the shape completely. with a 3-5-2 of sorts.

Nobody is. I'm suggesting playing McLean as the front man. He's played there before, has a good first touch and will bring others into the game. Happy to challenge in the air and will make decent runs to accept the ball. Will go down and win us free kicks too. That's my reasoning. Struggling to think of any for the other two. Edit: apologies, noticed nips mentioned 4-6-0, but I think he may have just been joking.

Aye, you put it better than me like. It does seem like it would just be through convention that we'd play either Maynard or Stockley. Maynard looked out of his depth completely last week. Stockley was atrocious against Brijeg and hasn't done anything in his time here to suggest he'd lead the line well. His hold play isn't great, he rarely brings others into the game and his limited harassing of defenders usually results in a card of sorts. I think playing one of those two just because it says "striker" on their CV could be the difference between us going through or not. I'm interested to know what people think either of them bring otherwise that would justify their place?

McLean has played striker for us before (once), and St Mirren (several times). Rooney is injured, and the other 3 are not as good at football as McLean. Stockley was gash against Brijeg away (looked better last week admittedly), Maynard was gash last week and Storey is the wikipedia entry for gash. If Rooney was fit, it'd be him. He may go with Stockley like, but his lack of movement will be a huge issue away from home (as it was a fortnight ago). Mclean has a great first touch to bring the ball down, and will hold on to it until the team break. Exactly what we'll need. Not me crediting McLean as an amazing player, just recognising that our other striking options aren't great.

Agreed. Not 4-6-0 per say, but McLean as the striker. O'Connor in as part of a back 3 but just in front of them where he played well in the latter part of last wik's game. I'd go --------Lewis--------- -----Arnason------Reynolds------ logan-------O'Connor-------Consi -------Christie------Shinnie------- Stewart------McLean---------GMS A bit similar to what we do already bus just shunt everyone up a little, while making things congested in front out our defence. McLean and Christie interchanging throughout. McLean being better at heedering and holding it up than Christie.

I'll go for Kenny McLean against Kairat Almaty.