rocket_scientist

Maddison's poor pass 5 minutes ago should have been our best chance had he stuck it left instead. Took the wrong option.

Cunt behaviour by Brown. For that alone we deserve to score.

Disagree. Not dead yet.

Sinclair is an excellent footballer.

Damn you. You caught my carelessly unforgivable misspelling of Kenny's name.

Burns and McLean coming off surely? Edit: Fair enough Jack but McGinn? Bizarre.

It was indeed. Best save I've seen for years. The advantage of being 6 foot sixty.

Would be surprised if Rooney and Maddison aren't on for the last half hour.

Considine our best player in the first half in my opinion.

The amount of times we passed direct to them was absurd. They weren't even close to getting to a red shirt. They were straight to the opposition. Can't legislate for such incompetence stroke carelessness. It was a good block I suppose but McGinn should have buried it. He tried to pass it in when he was so close and it was set up so perfectly he should have stuck the laces right through it and ripped the net. Not many positives but we certainly look like we could score. Great finish from the boy. Side netting, no chance of stopping it. Not a huge amount in this. Not dead yet.

So what's the answer? How much did they need and how did they get it there? You're giving reasons for wanting to believe. You haven't given an answer.

If man got to the moon in 1969, how much fuel did they need to get back and how did they get it there? Simple question. It's simple mathematics. You can only believe it happened once you know the answer. I don't know the answer and until I hear it, I'm with R.E.M. and the Red Hot Chillis.

Given that the expected away win may well be a comfortable one but hopefully not a rout, it will be interesting to see how much fight and desire AFC come out with. Today is the most important game of the 2016/17 season thus far. There is an argument that you shouldn't need to motivate players for this one. That argument belongs to people who have never managed people. It would be criminal incompetence by McInnes if the game is lost by reason of attitude, his players not giving enough fucks to compete for every ball. This is our only hope of getting anything out of this. We don't have enough quality in the middle of the park to create numerous chances. Without fight, forget it.

Every cunt heard my cousin Kevin and thought that was it. They were too stupid, lacking in curiosity and too lazy to explore beyond what was given to them on a plate. This is what you missed retards. How many other experiences in your sad lives did you miss? And this is just one song from one band from one era. How much else did you miss?

70 odd miles is a good shift. Shows desire and dedication. Wouldn't walk 100 miles for it though. Too old fashioned.

Harrogate to Hull.

I don't understand this concept of attention-seeking. If a talented alpha male makes a decision at a certain age to do something for personal reasons, only a non-alpha male would misinterpret and twist it to such an extent that he reckons he did it for non-alpha reasons. Only weak cunts seek attention. Strong cunts do. Brown has been producing at the highest level in the country. Unfortunately international football isn't very good for this country. I don't agree with having enough in the tank to still produce and not giving it to your country but I don't blame him for it. It's his decision.

This is one of my favourite songs, and videos. There is a strong suggestion of pathos in picking songs that represent the "happiest" times of our lives. It's like the best days are behind us, not here and now and not coming to us in the future. What this song did for me was to change my mind on a long held view and opinion and the process of change is by itself life-affirming, particularly 180 degree shifts like this. It's evidence of growth mindsets (Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford) and humility, being able to say that we were wrong. 20 odd years ago there was "the battle of Britpop", the debate about Blur or Oasis. I was strongly in favour of Oasis. I didn't like Blur. I loved Liam Gallagher. I didn't like Damon Albarn. This post Blur song and video from Albarn opened my eyes to the fact that I had missed everything that Albarn had been doing and all that Blur were about so I revisited their full catalogue. I don't agree with the concept of "battles" in the comparison of art. It's invalid. But where Oasis appealed to the younger me, with raw rebellion and plenty of balls, Albarn's music proved to be deeper with a broader range, highly innovative and richly beautiful. It lasted longer. Feel Good Inc. will never grow tired. It's just so good. It appeals to the soul.

Actually you guys have convinced me to reassess. Turnbull was indeed a better manager than Smiffy ever was. I was guilty of ranking the football, not the man. You're both right. Christ I never liked the man. Even after the stunning 4-0 or 4-1 win away at the old Dunfermline ground (November 90) when Smiffy accompanied Jess (who was amazing) for his interview, whilst we thought at the time it was good management, looking out for the teenage prodigy, there was something creepy about him. As a manager, no question, Smiffy was a fud. I've got it wrong by rating the football more than the man. Jocky Scott was a good man and the double act did produce awesome football but in a rating of managers, Smiffy is nowhere near good enough to sit that high up my table, whatever the contribution of Scott and despite how good the teams were.

Yes opinions are different from facts. I don't think we're too far away from consensus. I was one of the unfortunate 3,200 at Ibrox in May 91. When the teams were announced before kick off, the gasps were audible and the incredulity tangible. That was the day Smiffy died, not just in my eyes. I emigrated to Australia that summer so missed the freefall that was the start of the 91/92 season and was delighted to hear of his sacking and like all of us at the time, just expected Miller to walk us to glory, which he nearly did a couple of times despite him proving to be an inept man-manager in due course. Even though weirdo Smith was credited as being our manager during his tenure, we all knew what a cracking job Jocky Scott was doing and so I'm happy to see the original poster express them as a double act. History since proved that Smiffy wasn't the good driver he thought he was, as you correctly stated and like an even worse balloon (of orange complexion and persuasion), never went on to anything remotely close to success post AFC and for many of us, totally expectedly. The quality of the football was so good with Jim Bett pulling the strings and Davie Robertson in particular being at his very peak, the best LB we ever had, it was a wonderful period, particularly the last dozen games leading to that disaster at Ibrox, totally self-inflicted by the arsehole manager. Turnbill did a great job. Henning Boel and Jim Hermiston were full backs who could play football. Bumper Graham and Joe Harper were crowd favourites. Davie Robb provided fire and passion. Martin Buchan was a class act. It was a great era but we never felt we were close to being the best in Scotland, even though we had become highly competitive. The team that Smiffy presided over and Jocky Scott kept the eye on WERE the best football team in the country and in my view, played some of the best stuff we have ever seen in terms of the beautiful game. Agree with all you said. Just ranked it differently for reasons stated above.

I was not there at the 5-0 but was there the same season for the 1-0 Booth late one on 13th Feb. I know the date because the wife's waters had broken on the Wednesday so I dropped her off at the hospital and drove to the game. It was a good judgement call as the bairn - our first didn't arrive until 1.24 a.m. on the Friday. He was naturally called Scott after the goalscorer. It was MacDiarmid Park, the 90-91 season, not Muirton hole. It was the ONLY away game I missed that season, weirdly, although living in Glasgow and then Ayrshire at the time, away games were a lot easier to get to. Unless I'm confusing it. The away game I missed was 5-0 or perhaps 5-1 at Perth and that was definitely 90/91.