RicoS321

Aye, good news like. Hopefully give us a kick up the airse and at the same time relieve a bit of the pressure and we can win all 4 games and finish on a high with some youngsters getting a chance in the process.

A tanking for the cove huns.

Good to see McLennan getting a few minutes. How long does McIness persist with guys who are having a poor game? How often do we see Hayes, McGinn, Church etc. remain on the pitch because they happen to have had a good game a few weeks back? None of those players were having a good game tonight, so just get them off. If Smith had played as poorly as either of those players tonight he'd have been off after 50 minutes.

60 seconds gone, Robson still on. Keep it up.

Scott Brown, fuck me. He's not better than Langfield. Be better playing with no keeper. Formation not working, Rose probably not ready for a game against St Johnstone. They've got 2 brutes up front and we're playing a youngster and fucking up our formation by throwing another centre half in there to help. Pish tactics Deek. Sort it oot. Three quick goals in the second half. Edit: I didn't see any shove on Brown for their disallowed goal either, he just seemed to fall. Also, only attacking player on the bench is Smith....

fuck, just clicked on the link without spotting it was Daily Mail (fuck knows how, it's pretty obvious). Is is standard to tell us the value of his house in the story? Anyway, shame, like his music.

I don't rate him. Decent touch, but not much pace and a diving fanny. Don't think he'd improve us.

Seriously? The clues above, plus the availability of the internet haven't furnished (further hint) you with the information?

Unfortunately, they appear to have done it in a professional manner (at least to the outside world anyway). Delia seems magnanimous as opposed to refusing to speak to the media and bitter. Was hoping for a terrible break up that threw them into turmoil until the end of the season. I don't see them slipping up in any of their games if I'm honest, but here's hoping we at least put the pressure on a few more times.

If only someone could furnish us with the detail so that we could make our own minds up.

Their results against other teams (i.e. not us) have been better than last season. The real opportunity was missed when the huns went bust, to create a fair league for everyone, and take back some of the revenue (of Celtic's) for the rest of the league. A league where we won all our games is just as shite as a league where the Tims win all of theirs (although I would have loved it for a season, obviously).

I think you're making something out of nothing there to suit your point. I agree with your point that Jack doesn't suit the captaincy, but there are endless reasons that he might have left early that we will just never know. He could have needed a shite. McInnes possibly told him to beat the post-match rush so that he didn't get knocked over going down the tunnel (I once left a game early whilst on crutches for that very reason). The physio could have told him to get moving to keep the injury from stiffening up in the cold. There are umpteen reasons, but the main thing I take from it is not to to read too much into trivialities.

Shadow? He'd block out the sun.

Good win for Hibs today, they rode their luck, especially with that fuck up of a pen from Cummings. The fat cunt that chooses the wine on Saturday kitchen did a great job in goal for Hibs today, especially shouting folk down at the pens. I'm partial to a fat goalie it has to be said, I'd like to see someone like that at the dons.

Agreed. Also, a hell of a lot of games where we haven't needed to show the hunger and desire because we've had a 20 minute spell of dominating a team and getting enough for the win (Hamilton, Hearts being two). I didn't see the Liverpool game last night, I just saw the goals, but I suspect their hunger and desire was fueled by their first goal back at two down. I have seen them in a couple of other games this season (highlights mainly), and I didn't recognise that hunger and desire when they lost those games. Indeed, hunger and desire for teams and players turns itself on and off in games and even parts of games. I'd argue that our hunger and desire (including McGinn, Rocket!) was very much on show in our winning run at the start of the season, where we won several games by dragging ourselves over the line in some scrappy, close, affairs. I - and many others (I'm not some fitba genius) - said that we rode our luck on many an occasion and that several of those wins could easily have been draws. But it was never sustainable over a season, just as our shitey run in October wasn't as our baseline performances are generally good enough to win us games. Our baseline ability has us in second place, which I think is right as we're generally better than those behind us but are capable of losing to them, and generally worse than Celtic but capable of beating them (which would earn us our hunger and desire label). I think it is easier to motivate that hunger and desire in cup games - hence why we lost to two teams who are generally worse than us.

Fuck the Cove huns. Edinburgh City have more chance of making it to the SPL than Hibs.

I've a feeling he's utter pap. Looked very disinterested in the warm up against Utd, which is the only thing I've seen of him. The other dude that we took in looked more like he wanted to be there. Obviously, that's no barometer of their ability, but I suspect we're stuck with Brown until the end of the season. He's not been terrible, which is the nicest thing I can say about him.

Aye, but what about your goal of the season?

You do the mainer, I'll bring the beers

I know, that's a disaster. Or it could be good. Good to see they haven't skirted around it though. Does anyone remember when we used to play football in this country on a Saturday at 3pm?

It's the way they drag in guys like Souness and Dalglish to suggest that this game is too important for regular Scottish pundits to be commenting on. These guys have no involvement in the Scottish game, so even if I was a supporter of the scum I wouldn't give a fuck what they had to say. Pair of fucks.

I don't know the first thing about the donalds, but my first thought - as always - is one of mistrust. Probably unfounded of course, but there seems to be little question of their motives for some reason. My immediate thought it that they'd been promised to be contractor on the training ground and stadium. I have absolutely no reason for thinking this other than natural/unnatural suspicion. No evidence, or no suggestion that I'm right. I'm interested to know why you think their motives are entirely philanthropic? Obviously, there's copious amounts of evidence for not entirely trusting Milne.

Hayes and McGinn. That drop of the shoulder is sublime.

Aye, I don't disagree. Although much of that debt was run up by the dithering incompetent before Milne, Ian Donald. Some whilst Milne was CEO, of course. I think you're giving him a bit more credit than is due also, I don't believe he went into the AFC gig with a up front plan. I think he saw an opportunity once invited in the door. I also think he's changed his mind a bit over the years to the extent that I'm not sure if he even knows what he wants with AFC. If there was a masterplan, I don't believe we'll ever see it come to fruition. I think he'll can AFC soon, as I don't think he has the nuts to follow through whatever he initially intended.

Regardless of whether Milne is pish or not (I tend to agree with you), we've got a good budget. One that allows us a good first 11 and some good squad players. The budget was clearly there for a £200K signing in January too. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect McInnes to provide within those parameters. The biggest problem with our budget is room for error. The tims can afford to make numerous mistakes in the transfer market. We can afford a couple, with Motherwell/County/ICT etc affording less. Goodwillie re-signing, Quinn (to an extent), Parker and McLauchlan were all errors. You can't make 3/4 errors in the transfer market as dons manager and expect to get away with it. But actually, McInnes did get away with it and was even given cash to spend in January. That we failed again in a transfer window has a lot to do with availability as much as McInnes' failure, especially as the damage was done prior to this. I don't expect McInnes to make the same mistakes again in the summer. Overall, I think our budget and the rest of the league is correct, and us losing to Hertz is exactly what should happen in a competitive league - which is what I'd rather have than us winning every week. I think chasing the Tims is a pipe-dream, and something we shouldn't be breaking the bank for. Milne's biggest failure - and it was criminal - was not taking the opportunity to hammer the Tims when the Huns were out of the picture. When the huns went bust, I suggested that they should be allowed to come back into the top league. In exchange we should move to a 16 team league, equal prize money and sharing of 75% of european revenue across all the clubs in the league. At the time only one team in Scottish football wouldn't have benefited. I thought that increasing equality was more important than hammering the huns for a few seasons without systemic changes (of course, we could have done both). Instead, Milne sided with Lawell and retained the 11-1 vote which will be used against us from next season. He took short-term relative success (if you can call 2nd place success) and profit over long-term equality, fairness and competitiveness. I think it'll prove to be his biggest failure, because unless he's willing to spend the type of money that could actually see us challenge the Tims and Huns (which he won't, and arguably shouldn't), within a short period we'll return to the inevitable duopoly and scraps from the table in front of dwindling crowds. If he's clever he'll get out soon, while we're at a high point, and leave someone else to carry the can.