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Aye, good luck to him if he goes there. Certainly they'll have no issues with meeting the compensation fee, unlike der hun. It's a deserved step up if he gets it and would certainly prove his decision to turn down Sunderland was justified. It's easy to point out his flaws, but his points return has been phenomenal. It's also easy to ignore the number of shite managers in the EPL and Championship too who seem to get infinite chances; McInnes is far more deserving of the WBA job than a lot of the other options. Finally, it proves that it's best never to comment on any speculation regardless of who yer being linked with. If he'd said he wasn't interested in the hun job, the press would be expecting that exact same honesty from him this time round, and I think he'd struggle to suggest there was no interest in WBA from his perspective. I imagine he'll be down the road this week for an interview if he's nae already been tapped up.

Aye, getting latchy with the match threads folks. I will be there pre: dealing with a shiting baby post: booze probably Result: 3-1 the dons. McKenna, GMS and McLean Interesting game like, we've been a bit jaded recently, so hopefully the break will have done us good, and the speculation surrounding Deek will have calmed down. With Shinnie out, I expect just a straight Considine for Shinnie swap. I'd like to see Tansey in for O'Connor to see what he can do (although I don't see him as a player that'll set the heather alight for us, he looks very ordinary - hopefully I'll be proved wrong, but at least he's good at dead balls).

Actually, in fairness to Rocket: He doesn't say he is very good at the antithesis of putting people down at any point. I'm just trolling like, because I'm bored, so don't worry about it.

Homophobe.

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McGhee has great interpersonal skills, which is why I'd hire him. According to wikipedia anyway.

That was my second thought. Was because I was sitting right behind it. That should be seabass's next thread: which goals were you perfectly positioned to see? Mine wid be Rico's v Torino, Zero's vs St Mirren and Maddison v the huns. Right in line with the top corner of the goals on all of them. Sort of. Anyway, I have the amazing ability to think of many at the same time. First wid be thon diving cunt McCoist and his diving though. Second wid be the 6-2 game against Hertz. Also the one you mention and fourthly - for some weird reason - Shug Robertson's two identical screamers within a few wiks of one another (hertz and Falkirk maybe? Or Dundee?). Edit: I realise this post makes no sense. It's cool. I'm aware.

The worst part about that story is the "Lord Mayor's Banquet". What a crass and unedifying way we run our country. Pompous, deifying, deferential shite. We can do so much better than this bullshit.

They could easily do that in Aberdeen. Well, not easily, due to space, but they could certainly do away with the vast majority. They should, at the very least, ditch pedestrian crossings and replace with zebras like in other countries. Instead, we have the ridiculous situation of 90% pedestrian crossings with the occasional zebra thrown in for a laugh. I was heading down Cromwell road the other day in toon and suddenly came across a pedestrian passing in front of me. I was so attuned to the (expectation of) lights that I phased out the zebra crossing that I nearly drove through. Lights just seem to attract people who floor it to the next set and slam on their breaks, rather than the more logical driving of coasting between zebra crossings that other european cities seemed to have mastered a bit better. Although, in Spain, they just drive right through both. Which would undoubtedly happen here.

Yep, I heard it. There was no mention of a complaint on the Donstalk forum, which was disappointing. The traffic was still shite this morning, but marginally better then a few weeks back and still not as good as pre-lights. As I said earlier in the thread, lights seem to be the absolute go to for traffic management these days, even thought roundabouts are far better. I'd be interested to know if it was my imagination (i.e lights are not more prevalent these days) and, if not, what caused this change? Fa kens?

But maybe they enjoy their life more? McGinn's a single guy travelling the world. Good on him. He'd have been a barely-used sub at very best for NI if they'd made the world cup had he still been playing for the dons. Hayes needed to challenge himself, and made the right choice to go and do that (as it seemed only the Tims and Cardiff were putting up the cash). He was the best player here by a long shot. That he hasn't performed doesn't mean he shouldn't have tried.

It'd have been less embarrassing if he'd just missed out all the words.

Hanlon's half decent, but no better than Berra. McKenna a long way off Scotland too. Liam Lindsay might turn out to be decent, but could be a flash in the pan. Younger Souttar too looked like he'd be good, I'd get him in sooner rather than later and try and build him for the future. Forrest is an eternally pish Scotland player and should never play again. Fraser ahead of him every single time.

Child neglector.

To be fair, I think even donsdaft would likely be more offended by the appearance of Jack than McLean.

I don't see anything McInnes based on red tv since the Hamilton game.

As an aside, the traffic at Peterculter is now much better, but still nae as good as it was with the roundabout. I believe they got a lot of complaints, and responded, which is good. "Re-instate the roonaboots ye cunts" was my complaint.

The only other point to make though is: Barry fucking Bannan The point being is that "International Class" is meaningless. You just have to be better than the shite that gets in the team. Shinnie is better than Bannan, and as is McLean on his day. Christie definitely so. Chris fucking Martin He's a horses arse. Steven Fletcher etc. I still think Boyd is correct, however he does gloss over the fact that there is a lot of dross being picked simply because they play for championship side X. To promote the game in this country by offering a clear path from the SPFL to the Scotland squad is a valuable exercise if it is only at the expense of second rate English English Championship players. From that perspective, I see no issue with the inclusion of Dandies/Hibs players, however that strategy needs to be explicit and form part of a bigger set of ideas. As it stands, Boyd's tokenism accusation is correct.

I think it could be very strongly argued that we have got to grips with it under McInnes. We needed stability and professionalism and that seems to have happened to a large® extent. Lewis, Rooney, Hayes, Jack, McGinn, Logan, Considine, Wright, Shinnie etc have all signed extended contracts when not expected to. When do we stop talking about Hibs in this regard given it is a decade (and a different era in Scottish fitba in reality) since they sold their - very good assets - for a fortune. If we'd extended McGinn, Jack, McLean or McGuire's contract for any length of time we'd have received no more than £1M for any of them. The demand isn't there for players of that level as they all had their limitations. Sevco wouldn't get £1M for Jack if they listed him now because he simply isn't worth it. If he'd kicked on in the way he should have then he could have gone to an EPL club, but he didn't. Had he, though, he would still have been contracted to us and we'd have got the transfer fee as it would happened in the last couple of years. As it stood, we effectively let him go because he was easily replaced. The only player you've named there was Fraser. It was 5 years ago. Lewis is the only player of recognisable value that could feasibly earn us a decent transfer fee and he is already had his contract extended. There are no other players who hold a value of >£1M in our team apart from Christie. Robertson, Armstrong, Gauld at Utd, Brown, Fletcher, O'Connor at Hibs were all very good players and better than anything we have produced other than Fraser. If Wright happens to be the next Fraser - and I have my doubts - then we'd have already dealt with that by signing him. You have to weigh up the cost of giving a player a new contract versus the cost of losing them. Jack's value went down in the two years additional contract that we gave him, but he arguably provided good value in that period. McLean would be a similar case if he'd signed a new deal. Neither would bring in huge fees.

Regarding my inability to read yer post. As you were.

You're mistaking arrogance for opinion. He backs it up with the fact that Shinnie was completely bossed by Brown in our last meeting, and McLean by either of Armstrong or MacGregor. It's fair game I'd say. He's entirely correct, also. That said, Shinnie has been excellent for a few years now and worthy of inclusion. There is also nothing particularly insidious about playing local players in a friendly match with a new manager. I don't see the issue, and I don't believe it will make Scotland a "laughing stock" as he suggests. Boyd was pish for Scotland, and wasn't nearly the standard we required (especially later in his career), so it's maybe slightly hypocritical if anything. He completely lacks in an intelligent and informed suggestion as to how to move Scottish football forward and improve the national team. In my opinion - and with good reason - that has to start in the country of origin. If that is helped by playing SPFL players, then play them. It's a shame we couldn't have seen him challenged in a two-way conversation where he could develop his argument slightly. These "interviews" where a player/manager/ex-player etc. is prompted to spew-forth utter shite (or not) without reply are pathetic. It's like the journalist is saying "I don't understand fitba, you tell me what I'm supposed to think". I don't think it's specific to fitba, but it's certainly prevalent.

Yer 8 minutes late min.

I thought that was because he was mates with somebody that kent Vlad? I didn't realise he was an actual manager. Although, joining the arabs isn't necessarily confirmation of that.

Football isn't every sport though, and those one-offs don't happen every year anymore. Because money has been taken to such an extreme level that it is the only deciding factor in fitba - i.e. it's no longer a sport (or, at best, money is the sport). Leicester wasn't even the freak one-off that it's made out to be either, they still spent millions on their team, and there has to be a saturation point at which spending another multiple of shite-loads makes less and less difference (Scottish fitba is nowhere near that like). I believe that Leicester - to an extent - was an example of that saturation point rather than the miracle of sport that folks would have us believe (not that it wasn't an amazing achievement). Ranieri certainly wasn't the genius everyone thought at the time, basically just an Italian version of Deek who managed to keep a very good fit squad for an entire season. //that said, I agree with a lot of yer points on Deek, although he got a phenomenal goals and points return last season for which he has to take a lot of credit. The problem I think we'll have - as I mentioned previously - is that we may get the first team manager that can take us to the next level, but we'll lose the backroom competence that has been absolutely apparent under McInnes. It is this - in spite of his caution and poor(ish) transfer dealings - that we have consistently achieved high points totals in recent years. In the current market - because it is a market - we're going to struggle to get the all round manager that we require to win trophies and perform well in the league at the same time.

Fantastic poem. Wasn't aware of his blog/site, cheers.