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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.

Aye, that unprofessional cunt. Supposed BBC journalist, he's a fucking tabloid reporter at best. What was the reasoning behind Thursday? No reason I expect.

I blame whoever designed the bypass for making a cunt of it. If, and when, they make a cunt of it of course. It'll probably be fine.

It's getting bad when you have to reply to yer ain thread though.... I'll help ye out. The nonsense at Peterculter at the moment is a fucking disgrace. Waited 35 coming over the bridge to go from Blairs side through Peterculter to Westhill. Turning off to Westhill and there were cars queuing beyond that point heading into toon. All because they deemed that traffic lights were the best option for managing traffic over a roundabout. Which seems to be the thing nowadays, and I'm wondering when that change occurred? I certainly think lights can be good in certain situations, but not as the default for everything. What is worse is that they've said they'll get people to monitor the lights and change them to suit the flow of traffic. Fit the fuck? In 21st century, we need a human to go down and check traffic. There's no way of automatically detecting traffic congestion and adjusting the lights dynamically so that traffic flows at 22:00 aren't dictated to by those at 07:30 or 17:00 (i.e. yer nae sitting at a red light when no other cars are on the road), or those on the school holidays are dictated by nae school holidays? If we're going to insist on the "lights are always best approach", then surely to fuck we use the myriad of camera/sensor technologies available to us to make sure that the lights are the absolute best we can be. Anyway, it doesn't bode well for the latest addition to the bypass at the Charleston flyover, which is a set of lights (yet to be turned on as there's nae traffic on the bypass yet) that will inevitably send traffic queuing well back on to the A90. If we've fucked up traffic at Peterculter, fucked it up at Bucksburn and about to fuck it up at Altens, is there any point in a fucking bypass? I suppose it's something to put a stadium alongside...

Are they fuck.

Beat me to it. I assumed it was a joke.

My grunny was fae Durham. She's deid.

DM hasn't said anything because that's not the way he does his business. Just as he said nothing last time the hun were looking for a manager, and nothing when approached for the Sunderland job. I said at the time when folk were screaming "why's he nae said anything?" that it would be stupid for him to do so, and the same is true now. If he says "I'm not interested" each and every time a manager's job comes up, then what happens when it's the one he wants? Everyone will be screaming "well he denied the last one, why's he nae denying this one?". It's far better to say nothing as there will always be a next time if this isn't the one for him.

Okay.

Did he mention he was gay? That should distract you enough to ignore the fact he tried to biff a 14 year old lad. I'd say that act in itself puts him firmly in the nonce category. Probably doesn't mean he's done anything else, and the fact that he's released a statement probably suggests he's confident that is the case. A lot of probably like. I probably won't watch House of Cairds in protest. He played a paedo of the birds in American Beauty didn't he?

Yep, Ritchie is a surprise, and Morrison has never let Scotland down either. That said, I suspect it's more to save the English folk from travelling so far North on a week night.

I think your name is too long. It's uncomfortable on my screen. Apart fae that, I agree with your assessment. We scored a record number of goals last season, with a record points total and played some excellent stuff fairly regularly at home and away. I've not seen anything of Steve Clark to suggest he'd be a better manager. It'd certainly be a hell of a risk.