Reekie_Red

Oh I dunno. You know how much those Hibees love their heroin

I say fuck them. If a club wants to spend more that it makes on wages, and they then go to the wall with the administrators, they deserve everything they get. Clubs like Aberdeen fail to sign players all the time because of ridiculous wage demands from the players. Why should idiots like Hearts get away with this sort of crap? Nothing would make me laugh more than seeing Hearts go to the wall because their financial backers have pulled out and they can't afford to pay wages. I think the onus should be on the clubs to watch their own spending, not the governing bodies.

are the games too big now? They look fine on my screen, but then mine is a 22" widescreen. I can reduce the size of all games if you like. Send me a screenshot of how big they are on your screen and I'll adjust accordingly ... reekie_red at hotmail.com

Hate to say it, but those two are probably our most profitable assets at the moment. Depending on how they go in the first half of this season, I wouldn't put it past us selling the pair of them for a very tidy profit in January. Anyone know what sort of contracts they're both on?

I've re-enabled the Youtube Embedding facility, but am still working on the automatic embedding. As such, if you want to embed a YouTube video, you'll need to surround the link with [ youtube] and [ /youtube ] (without spaces). This is just whilst I figure out how to re-enable the automatic embedding.

Try the games again. I've managed to increase the play-screen size of all the games (might actually be too big for some screens now!!). K9, quirie, can you both let me know if you can see the games? Anyone else got any problems, let me know

New chat system in place. http://www.donstalk.co.uk/messageboard/chat/ Can I get any budding testers to try this link and see if you can successfully use the realtime chat system?

Yup. I've not added the youtube embedding yet. And I'm still utilising the standard quick-reply, rather than the advanced one that includes smileys etc. These will be gradually added back on over the next day or two. Something that is a priority is the realtime chat. The software I've been using so far (X7 Chat) hasn't been updated by the developers in over a year and is now no longer compatible with the new forum software I've just installed. Currently looking at alternatives, and I hope to have a new chatroom in place for the Motherwell match kickoff

Works fine for me on Firefox. What browser you chaps using?

The site has undergone a major upgrade today. As such, you'll notice some things in different places, and some things don't exist whatsoever (such as the arcade scores, sorry!). I'll gradually be bringing the different features of the site back online over the next 2 days, bit by bit. But if you notice any niggling problems, report them on this thread, or email me on reekie_red at hotmail.com

Good een. "Having a bucket of water tipped over my head as I walk through the door was as funny the 57th time as it was the 1st"

Stick a 1 infront of that figure and I might consider it. Aluko's got two years to run on his contract, is proven at all England youth levels and is now on the verge of becoming a regular with the Nigerian international team. £450k is laughable!

I know many Dons fans who genuinely think that Mackie is a quality striker!

Beatles - We Can Work It Out

Aye, there's a couple of issues with the hosts of the server at the moment. They're triallling a new traffic-shaping device but have their old traffic-shaping device switched on at the same time as their tests. Think of running a cup of flour through TWO sieves at the same time instead of just one. That's the reason why things are a little bit slow at the moment. Should be resolved within the next week or so when they switch off the old shaping device.

I'd have him in goals for us ANY DAY!

McGhee: I need goals-a-plenty from you, lads Mackie, Miller, Wright, Maguire (in unison): How come? McGhee: Cos that's what we're fuckin paying you for you fuckwits!

Let's face it. It takes a hell of a lot of skill to be able to balloon it from two yards out. Not many can do this with the efficiency and consistency of Darren Mackie

but there's sprint tracks, resistance gym equipment, gymnastics equipment, etc. There's a hell of a lot more in that place that we could use than just a synthetic football pitch.

Au contraire, mon frère. I had a party when Dumbfermline took both boat-boys off our hands. What a highlight that party was!!

And Preece should read up on the reasons for Jim's departure before making comment. He didn't get the boot because of his goalkeeping coaching skills. He got the boot because he doesn't offer anything else to the rest of the team. Bit pointless paying a wage to someone who is coaching Bossu, Langfield and Nelson and nobody else. Ultimately, I think McGhee is right in ditching a goalkeeping coach in favour of someone who can coach goalkeepers and ALSO get involved with the other squad members' training. It's just unfortunate that the person being ditched is the mighty Jim Leighton.

Agreed. Looks like someone's out to grind an axe in the face of McGhee. If Leighton was only good for coaching the goalies and nobody else, that's a lot of money for the club to spend on the development of only two or three players in the squad. As superb a player and a coach as he is (responsible for making decent goalies out of Langfield and Preece) he is a luxury

Because all of our training and coaching is done on grass.

:lolabove: Brilliant!