RicoS321

Fuckin hell, she may be died, but that's no excuse to post a link fae the Sun.

Cash turnstiles eh? Very retro. Anyway, a fucking disgrace they were ever removed without the appropriate technology in place to replace them. This dog shite about queuing for tickets or ticket booths for physical tickets is just bollocks. Phone app, buy ticket, scan it and in. Signs with QR codes on the streets surrounding the ground so you can just scan it and are taken straight to the matchday ticket page, and with a few clicks you've got your ticket. Really, really simple technology. But we made a cunt of our ticketing system, when it was obvious technology was changing to phone based tech. I shouldn't have to have my season ticket with me, it should be assigned to my account on my phone and I should just scan my phone. If you're going to force people to use technology then it should be the best and most efficient technology possible. Half arsed shite. Anyway, I'll be going.

Too soon manc, too soon.

You could be right Rocket, but I'm not sure how that matters? He's someone else's player, and we need a good player right now. In my opinion, McLean is a much more finished player and far more useful to us if used properly (in that role). Maddison will be a better player, unless he fucks it up for himself, but right now and until the end of the season we'd be better served by a strong tackling midfielder. That said, it shouldn't (and won't be) one or the other and so I'd love to keep him and get a good holding midfielder too. I think one good thing to come out of last night was the notion that we should shoehorn him into the team just to have him there and upset the balance. He should be used behind the striker(s) only and allow the rotation of our midfield so that we can have a strong end to the season.

Yessssssssssssss... good work.

Microsoft logo on the laptop and Android bubbles on my phone. Classic.

Do you ken her like?

Aye, but fa scored?

He was indeed well within his rights, although a bit of a cunt nevertheless it seems. In saying that, there are a lot of twats who can't look after their animals and think it's acceptable for them to be off leads running through fields with their owners not even remotely in control. They can cause some amount of hassle with livestock, and endanger themselves in the process. Difficult like as I suspect they don't realise they are being ignorant as fuck. Onywye, hope yer dog isn't too affected by it.

Aye, it's difficult like, with January once again being vital. I think the signings of Stockley and Burns show the market we're in and how difficult it is to get right. They're close to being good players that show occasional flashes of something better, but they're not quite there. Stockley was exactly the right signing (type of player), but he's just nae quite good enough. Pathetically, in that role, we haven't even managed to better Magennis since he left. We've set a high benchmark with Hayes, McGinn, Rooney, Shinnie and MacLean - the signings that were staring us in the face as proven top class SPL players. Unfortunately, the best of the rest just now (Storey, Tansey etc) isn't quite where we need to be in order to improve. There's not a real stand out in the key positions that we can pick up in January. Then when you look down South it's hit or miss, and we generally miss. January is also a difficult time to pick up good players, as most are in contract. Poor summer signings and lack of youth have set us up for a typical January under McInnes.

Well that was a far better game than the weekend's. Started with a great back 4. 6 minutes of dominance. On the plus side, Considine will get his yellow rescinded I assume.

It's worth it like, good viewing. I don't particularly like Pilger's voice, but he's good at what he does. A good interviewer too, it's refreshing to hear people actually asking questions rather than just allowing someone to speak. It puts a different light on Trump's comments regarding Taiwan.

I strongly suspect many of them are bargains. They're definitely punts though, most probably not scouted, or not scouted much, rather basing ability on recommendation (probably from the loaning team). That's fairly obvious given the range of levels we've seen. It does raise the question as to whether guys like Logan, Ward and Maddison were just pure luck. A worrying thought given the importance of all 3 positions when we signed the respective players.

You were really ugly?

Considine. Probably one of the few who'll be in the team every week and isn't a whingey little fanny. Shinnie does fit that bill as well of course. I don't believe captaincy has a massive impact on team performance anyway. Incidentally, those stats say nothing about Jack's captaincy (they don't compare to games where Jack was playing but wasn't the captain - for obvious reasons). I think they do, however, say a lot about how the team plays with Jack in it, because games where Shinnie was captain were because Jack wasn't playing. We are a lot more cautious and disciplined - and thus less of an attacking threat - when Jack is in the team. How much of that is channeled through Jack by Deek's instruction, I'm not sure. It was interesting that Pawlett had 3 or 4 shots on goal in the first half yesterday, compared with 1 (sort of) from Jack. Despite St Johnstone getting their best chances in the second half, it was noticeable that we were much tighter in midfield when Jack moved there in place of Pawlett. I thought we should have had the confidence to give Pawlett another 20 minutes personally as there was no real threat from the Saints midfield that we should have been looking to counteract - again Deek went for caution over risk in an attempt to win (although he perhaps felt adding Stockley was a balance to that - it wasn't, in hindsight).

In, whenever I return to within the booze driving limit. Be an interesting one. Jack in for Pawlett and Shinnie to left back is my guess. Be a tight one I expect with a stuffy St Johnstone side.

He's not very good at football. In fact, he's awful with the ball.

Well, aye, but this aboot the transfer window. But if we could bottle "cunt" and sell it, yid make a fortune in the wanky EPL. They'd be all over cunt like an EPL coach in a boys club.

I'm not sure it is to be fair to McInnes. He bought the very best players from other teams (or who had been at other teams), who were streets ahead like Rooney, McLean and Shinnie who have improved our team. But otherwise we've just had punts in defence like Quinn and Morris which haven't quite worked out. Lewis, O'Connor, Taylor, Logan, Maddison, Burns and plenty of failures have all been from down south with no prior SPL experience.

Woah, at no point did I say that Taylor is a footballer, nor did I mention Hollywood passes. I've been very consistent in saying the opposite. But he wins a lot of headers in the same vein as Anderson, and isn't that bad when being run at (altohugh that doesn't stop me from shitting it every time someone does). I think the difference between the two is marginal, but I accept that folks could see it either way. Agreed, I was probably over-stating Shinnie, I think you're right. I suppose I was trying to say we shouldn't be going the opposite way and get some brute in (which I think Draper is) just he can put in a dirty tackle. We had years (on donsmad) of suggestions of Hammill and Goodwin just because they were hard-men, with no one noticing they were totally inept footballers. I'm think Draper is better than those two, but nearly as good as folk make him out and we should not be looking past the massive flaws in his game because he's strong.

Don't get me wrang, he has obvious qualities, but he's not a footballer, and definitely not an improvement on Considine, O'Connor and probably not even Taylor. He's just quite good against us. I'd rather have Dave McKay if we were insisting on taking someone from St Johnstone. But I wouldn't have him either. Anyway, we're sorted for centre half. Draper isn't good enough for midfield, he's too slow and shite with the ball at his feet (and a diving cunt, he'd only get booked). He's worse than Jack, McLean, Shinnie and Maddison. We can do better, and should be looking to get better. We don't just need to buy a "hard bastard", we need someone who can actually play fitba too. Heikkinen was good at fitba as well as tackling, without flying into challenges and getting booked all the time. He was sensible. We basically need another Shinnie to play in midfield.

Jesus, I made the mistake of opening the link. Is that how "news" is reported these days? Fuck me. It's not worse than the sexual abuse itself obviously, but it is a form of abuse in itself. What a disgusting rag. Anyway, Tims = paedos. Probably the Catholic links. Or something.

Crawford would replace Maddison. Good player, but nae as good as Maddison will be obviously. Draper is overrated pish, and Anderson can't actually play football (like Reynolds). We should be looking for better than anti-footballers like those two. Don't think there's a holding midfielder in Scotland I'd take now (outside the tims). Like it or not, we're better than every team in the league bar the tims, and we'll need a better holding midfielder than the rest have got to offer.

You've misunderstood fit I was saying. To answer Rocket as well, I said "I disagree sort of" with his original post. I think there will still be a bubble in the North East, just with a hell of a lot less people in it. So as Rocket describes in his second post, I tend to agree, but I think economically the North East will still generate a lot of dough. It'll just be a lot less distributed. I don't believe an independent Scotland would have dealt with the industry any differently/better either. There's not a political party in Scotland who would interfere. Nor should they in my opinion.

Neither Davidson or Tansey are better than Jack, and I'm surprised that anyone thinks they are. We're definitely on the look out for a midfielder though. To replace Maddison I would think. If not, then we need to drop one of McLean or Jack, which I think the manager will struggle with. If Maddison goes, then it's simply McLean to the advanced position. I think we're okay in the other positions unless we let one or two of the squad players ago and replace with better.