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Get fucked. If he goes to the Tims then he's a Tim. Nae booing is the most appropriate response. Clapping a Tim is unacceptable.

Indeed. Partick are looking at £4M for their facilities. We should be looking at around that figure. It should have been on the cards way before the stadium, with two separate planning applications. A fair chance it could have been started by now.

It was further up the thread. Someone said we were going to take £1.2M for Hayes, or 750K plus Christie on loan for a year. Paying for a loan deal would seem a touch absurd - and a first probably. Also, Tom, Etienne Verveer did come to us. He just didn't play any games.

Good article from the other day (before last night). http://johnpilger.com/articles/terror-in-britain-what-did-the-prime-minister-know

Watched about ten minutes of it. It was weird. I only briefly check the tabloids these days, but the people in the audience were genuinely frightened of us being blown up by Iran and North Korea. Where the fuck does that shite come from? They all clearly thought that Trident was a huge issue. Far bigger than it actually is. And most seemed like they were more than happy to nuclear bomb another country - even preemptively. Fucking bizarre like. They kept going on about a "red button" too, fucking retards. Will you press the red button Jeremy? Will you? I wish he'd properly put them in their place. A bit weak I thought, he should have properly confronted them.

I dinna get this. You're saying that he does large toldies? Is that nae a compliment?

I've renewed mine. That's all that matters.

On the plus side, I have renewed my season ticket. That should give the players the boost they need.

What a hun cunt. Be interesting to hear his actual reasoning for this move, beyond the "he knows what it means to play for Rangers" bullshit. Weird one like. Just can't see the benefit to his career and life. I hope he doesn't get injured. I hope he experiences a drop in form and sits on their bench for the next 3 years, whilst we tear him to shreds in any game he plays against us.

Played nearly every game last season. Doubt they'll get him.

^^^This. The biggest problem I have with McInnes leaving is the lack of strategic football planning, certainly pre-McInnes. McInnes appointments make up the vast majority of our key positions. There is a strong chance that many of those will move on if McInnes does. We've consistently had huge overhauls each time a manager leave, from youth team development to goalkeeping coach and so on. Whilst, I think Rocket was referring to our next manager, I think that the continuity of backroom staff is similarly key. It's generally accepted that when a manager moves often the coaches will too, but in AFC's experience it has been significantly more than that. We need to develop a situation where the backroom staff are pretty much nailed down (obviously a new manager can overrule if he can't work with an individual or feels there are better options, or indeed a whole new position is required) and I don't believe we have that. I would expect a good bit of turmoil in the club if McInnes left. Whatever anyone thinks of McInnes' managerial skills, he has certainly picked a professional backroom staff who appear to be performing well (Kirk, the stats guy etc). It seems like the club has relied on McInnes to provide those things rather than the club understanding the need for these positions and making appointments prior to the manager coming in. The new manager, if McInnes does leave (I don't believe the resignation story), should be a seamless appointment with most of the staffing infrastructure in place with the option to change a couple where necessary. If he turns out to be a shite manager then we simply move onto the next with little fuss. I don't believe we have the strategic fitba planning sorted, and I think McInnes leaving will cause a huge mess as he cherry picks our best staff too.

Yep, a good point. I thought he was pish for hibs though wasn't he? I think I'm maybe getting him mixed up with thon Telfer arab that joined der hun. As you were.

Really? Played 11 games this season for Rotherham, and didn't even make the bench recently. Not sure his 6 months of being the media favourite warrants the hype. His career has largely been a disaster.

Absolutely. Good player like.

I'm ace at fitba.

Nit. Look at the last video put up by Jess. That pass should have been dead on the 6 yard line, that's where Rooney would have run and so would every other good striker. You want to just stick your foot out and prod it goalward with as little to do as possible. Not have to control it and be faced with an on-rushing 'keeper. McLean should have been in a position where he had nothing to think about other than connecting with the ball. There's a gap of about 1 metre past Brown's foot when he's at full stretch, there was heaps of room to pass that into. He's almost played it square. If it had been 7-8 yards out (that'd be the tolerance here), McLean would still have been able to adjust his feet and get a shot away, but it was near on 10 yards out. That would have meant him stopping completely and probably having to take a touch. I'm nae having it, a square ball with that much room to play it wasn't right.

And McCann not staying on at Dundee.

Standard practice for internationals I think. Happened to Rooney and Hayes before. They start with 30 and reduce it to 25 or so. Bit weird, but in fairness to Strachan not entirely unusual. Obviously, he'll have text McLean at 14:30 on Saturday.

I'd say your picture and video there says it all. About 1 metre between the ball and Brown's foot with the pass from his left foot obviously bending towards - or into - the six yard box. Hayes hits it almost directly square. Still McLean nearly gets there. Any striker would tell you that the six yard line was where to hit it in that case, it gives them the minimum opportunity to fuck it up, they just have to direct it goal-ward. Just to clarify, I'm not having a go at Hayes here, he'd made a hell of an interception and run and was just unlucky. Just think yer assertion about McLean is entirely wrong and by the way you stated your case sounded more like a hatred of player rather than an objective view of the incident.

Bollocks. Your images above miss the key moment. The first shows McLean when he receives the ball, your second shows a jumpy image when he was square and then when the ball reached (behind) him. Show the video in real time and you can see there was a gap for the pass. Hayes does hesitate as TheDeeDon says. It's just a slight misunderstanding between two players who've run the length of the park to get on the end of something. Your nonsense about McLean doesn't stand up to even simple scrutiny. He had two or three attempts on goal, coming to meet at least two corners with his head. Neither of which he hid from, clearly, or else he wouldn't have got the attempts away. You can accuse McLean of lots of things (being a fanny in the tackle perhaps), but he never hides. He's constantly shouting for the ball and making himself available. If anything, he has too many attempts on goal too.

Aye, it'll be classed as part of the deal for Hayes I expect, so almost a swap. I wouldn't take less than £1.5M for Hayes to those cunts though. I'd also be pushing back as much as possible on any Christie add-ons. They're getting shot of a player that they don't give game time too, they can get fucked if they think they can short change us. Fair enough we can't stop players leaving, but lets be strong in the negotiations with the fuckers - they can afford it, we can't.

Have you tried a jobby in the post?

Horseshite. Look at it again on the BBC highlights, particularly the second replay. There's a massive gap for Hayes to play into, and he blatantly plays it behind McLean. At the game, I thought McLean had run too far, but there's at least 1 metre or more of a gap to play it round the defender, and a good couple of metres in front of McLean to aim for. It's a poor pass. Your comment shows that you clearly just don't like the player. McLean had several headers on goal and was always looking for the ball as he has done for the entire second half of the season. The evidence doesn't back your nonsense about him hiding. That said, he should have been off around 70 minutes as he was clearly knackered.

Agree with most of this. In fairness to McLean, I think he thought Hayes was going to shoot and made the decision to run in on the keeper for the rebound at the moment Hayes played the pass (which was over-hit too). If that was Rogic or Griffiths (and not Hayes), they'd have been passing that in the bottom corner. I'm really surprised Hayes didn't take it on. Also, like 100%K, I understand why he took O'Connor on for McGinn. Shinnie and McLean were really tiring and they were beginning to run through us. What I don't understand is why he chose to address this issue, but ignore the others. At 80 minutes we were throwing ourselves into last-ditch challenges and riding our luck completely. The goal was inevitable, and it would have only been through luck if we avoided it. McInnes should have seen this and taken matters into our hands by making another sub. Even just to slow the game down and change the shape a little so the Tims had something to think about. McLean and Hayes were breathing out their airses. I'd have taken McLean off for Pawlett or Wright for some fresh running for the last 8-10 minutes. By not doing this, he's effectively saying that a 70% fit McLean (at that point) is better than 100% fit Pawlett/Wright. I don't think that's acceptable. It's a question of weighing up risk, and the risk of them scoring was huge at that point. Whereas the risk of taking on a squad player with fresh legs is negligible at best. It's very unlikely that that individual will lose us a goal, but would go considerably further to helping us avoid one than a struggling starter. I've said it before about McInnes that he is very reactive with his subs. He waits and waits and rarely makes the changes required at the right times. Bringing on Wright after the goal was an embarrassment. You have to be proactive and positive in these situations or you end up losing. However, his decision to play Jack was the correct one, he was very good yesterday. Gave his all and was clearly gutted when that goal went in. Here's hoping he joins some English team next season so he can go with our best wishes. Anyway, a cracking effort from the team.

Yes. 2am isn't really that late for a Saturday night is it? You'll regret it if you don't. You can turn it off when we go 3 up.