RicoS321

I'm in the ground four minutes early. Full of flag holding cunts. Dinna ken fit tae dee wi masel.

Armstrong in midfield is pish, he needs to be further forward. Not just from the perspective of him being better further forward, but also the fact that we need him to be fit on Sunday and he'll have to cover a lot more ground playing deeper. It's an unnecessary risk on both counts. Wouldn't be surprised if he lost the ball trying to do something too intricate tonight, and then have to be taken off at halftime on Sunday because he's knackered!

I never rated him. He was a decent defender, but was poor on the ball. Considine was a much better all round player who was still getting underrated by our own support even at that point. Even without injury, I reckon Devlin would have struggled with us. About Ash Taylor level of fitba'r, but withoot the long legs and relative pace (bit harsh, perhaps, Devlin did read the game well, I'd probably put him just below Mark Reynolds who also struggled on the ball).

Why? Why do we need those UEFA cunts anyway? Just dee our own tournament. You get in touch with the lads at Real Madrid, and I'll speak to the Copenhagen boys and we'll get something up and running by the start of next year. Get the Russians back in for the away trip jeopardy.

Aye. That game will live long in the memory. Mikey Devlin completing ninety minutes.

Away from the Strasbourg thread, just wondered whether anyone has actually bothered to check the league table in this pish? I haven't checked it once. It just doesn't feel like an actual competition. It could be to do with the ridiculous format, or perhaps that the whole thing is so pathetically contrived. Even if we were winning every game, I still wouldn't have been looking at the league. I regularly check the premier league (nae religiously, but every couple of fixtures). I suspect it's just the sheer volume of fixtures. I remember when we were last in it with Robson, and it ruined the entire season. The saturation of games took a long time to get over. Again, it's not really for the fan that goes to games. Those that appreciate a wee break but feel obliged to go. A return to the old format would be amazing. Three brilliant competitions of knockout format. Fuck the telly.

It's basically a friendly. The league just drains all jeopardy and excitement out of it by the time you get to this stage. It's solely about the money. It's an absolutely awful tournament. Obviously, I'm gan. £2M and we'll talk

Yes it is No it isn't

Looks like she's trying to force one oot.

Aye, see, it's folk like you who were the issue. All of the points (and mair) you make were very apparent (because it's fucking obvious. Clear and obvious, you could say.) before VAR was introduced in England, and then we had all that time when it existed in England and elsewhere to realise all those problems. Yet you still thought VAR being introduced was a good thing? Mental. It's this lack of seeing the unintended consequences that makes people think they can "make VAR better" with time limits or challenges or AI refs. It's all pish, always will be and was always going to be.

Bring back Sepp. Would never have happened on his watch.

Let's transition energy to a football stadium then.

Yep, I think the key to the offer being generously made by Cormack is that the loan will be entirely in the council's name, and they won't be loaning anything to the Dons, they will just be owning our stadium.

Get it built. In terms of the loan, Cormack means that the council would fund the entire development (give or take) as they can access low interest loans, and the club would essentially pay them back via long term lease. It's very unlikely to happen.

Obviously we have to give him a chance and call it at the end of the season, but it would make for a poor forum not to give opinion prior to that. I don't think he is technically a better player than Clarkson, he's a little bit more athletic. This should have been the season we challenged Clarkson to up his yardage in games and become more of an all rounder, which he's shown plenty of signs that he's capable and willing. That needed game time, which Thelin is no longer willing to give. If we can't turn a player like Clarkson into at least a £1.5M player, then I have my doubts we're going to get more out of Aouchiche. Realistically, we'd need to be getting £3M return to make the wages outlay worth it. I just don't think that there is a £3M player (Lewis Ferguson, basically) there. He's not got the physical attributes to make it an obvious buy for, say, an Italian club. He'd be the type of punt Lecce took on Ramadani, which would land us <£2M, covering the cost of purchase and additional wages probably. The only reasons I could see is taking up the offer is if we've suddenly decided to up our spending more generally, or we've already had agreement to buy for £2M from another club, and we're basically using our leverage in the agreed fee. None of this is criticism of the player himself, just the high cost of his signing. Our player trading model shouldn't really be being used for this type of signing. It defies logic a bit.

Nae trousers? I'm really warming to the lad.

Just don't read it. I don't know who she is. I have a vague idea, I think, but could be way wrong and feel that looking her up would put me in a worse position than not knowing who she is. I do like her name though, it feels like it should be a rhyming slang, or a euphemism for a sex act.

That's true. If both Lazetic and Nisbet get injured, we'll rue the day we let Yengi and Ambrose go.

Just a midfielder will do. Hopefully there will be plenty of movement out the door.

He's not as good as Clarkson. He's not as good as Ramadani was. We could probably pick up similar or better for half that. His work rate can't be faulted, which is helping him a lot. He was gash in the last home game, but still put in a decent shift. He has a ceiling, because he's not particularly physical and he isn't a brilliant reader of the game. I could see him taking the Ramadani route, but we're very unlikely to be getting an uplift on the £1.5M. I'd say it would be a very high risk signing.

Was it that he died ten years ago?

I've seen him three times. Once, him and his brother played the piano (the same one) for a song, and his brother was nearly as good as him. The only downside to seeing him these days is usually the venues are of the large corporate pish variety. He's fantastic though, despite being a little bit of a weirdo. Wouldn't be surprised if something came out in a decade or two.

That's the thing with the 3 ticket purchase. I didn't go to the Frankfurt game last time out, despite having paid for it. I'll go to this one, but feel exactly the same about it as I did the Frankfurt one. I don't really care about it. I can't wait until we're back to proper European knockout fitba next time we make it.

I happened upon a Jam tribute on Friday in toon, who were fairly decent. The age and gender profile was stark! I did notice a couple of young girls with their dad in the corner - good work. Most of the gigs I go to are similar, regardless of whether the bands are twenty years younger than me or not. It's mainly Aberdeen gigs I go to, and you recognise the faces. The Jam tribute were a five piece band, which is unusual these days. I remember watching Arab Strap a few years back and they mentioned that it wasn't economical to bring the rhythm section along with them, so it was just the front two and the machines. It must be very hard for a new band to stay afloat on those terms. I suspect it would put a slant towards the middle class end of the spectrum, where the band were largely backed (or accommodated) by parents. That may or may not have an effect on the quality of songs and lyrics. I think the industry more generally has changed. I often chuck on the TOTP reruns on BBC4 on a Friday night, and for some weird reason they always start with 1998. You could see the deterioration at that point, from even the earlier part of the decade. There have always been manufactured bands, but it was the sheer volume of them by that point. The cheap, formulaic, pish churned out over and over. The shitey girl and boy bands, in the exact same format doing the exact same dance moves, singing the exact same songs (or someone else's). The capital that runs the industry had found a way to break the back of it and make money with far less going out the door, complete control over the "artist" and a way to generate controversy by ogling over who they were or weren't dating (rather than if they'd thrown a telly out of their hotel room). Just a mirror, or perhaps a precursor, to the way that the rest of society has functioned for fifty years. Enshittification I believe the kids are calling it these days. I suspect some good music will come out the other end once it all blows over.

That's the sort of thing that could appear in a "stuff" thread.