RicoS321

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.

Do we need a replacement for Clarkson? Thelin doesn't want to play in a way that suits him, so it would be very frustrating (and unsurprising) if we started doing so after he goes. We need a box to box midfielder. Physical and physically fit. The guy Just isn't as good as Clarkson either.

Christ, he's been reading this forum. It's a stupid idea. It's because of people in his position (not him) were unable to think of the consequences of a decision that we have fucking VAR in the first place. Why would putting an arbitrary time limit increase accuracy? That's the reason we've got this shite in the first place apparently. How would it help me in the ground being able to properly celebrate a goal? How would we display this one minute timer in the ground? What happens when the decision timer prevents VAR wankers making an accurate call because they couldn't sort their technology in time? What happens for handball calls like Knoester's one the other day, where it very clearly struck his hand? What happens with offside, where the technology - the only thing more accurate than the linesman in 90% of cases - takes longer than one minute to setup? Why is clear and obvious subject to time at all? This solves absolutely none of the problems associated with VAR. It's also completely unworkable for very obvious reasons. As soon as an incorrect call (involving one of two teams) stands because VAR couldn't get its shite together, the answer will be to either expand the time for the call, or allow the VAR team to request a "time delay" or something shite. Because one minute is completely fucking arbitrary, and still shite. Why does VAR have to succeed? Why can there be no way back? Why do we have to make the shite thing less shite rather than just say it is shite? Why is Cormack pretending to be powerless, rather than saying that he wants VAR removed from our game, and he'll be talking to chairman and managers to push for it's removal?

He was at the Noah game wasn't he? We scored from corners against St Mirren

Fantastic finish from Nisbet, after a bit of a dodgy half. Difficult for Thelin to manage the squad with the schedule, but Aouchiche could have done with 20 minutes on the bench. First sub should have been a double too, it might have meant the second change could have been made later. Anyway, never in doubt and a great away result.

You think Devlin might get injured?

Who's on co comms?

You can say that again

Aye, it does seem to be the case that they go tanking upfield. Nilsen especially takes a decade to get back in. It's why most of us have been crying out for a midfielder to replace Ramadani. We also have the issue that either Knoester or Devlin push high up, and our midfielders seem incapable of spotting the hole and dropping in to cover. We haven't had a player that would do that since the dirty rat under McInnes, who was very good at covering fullbacks or centre half when they pushed on. It's a disciplined role, so wouldn't suit Shinnie or Clarkson, but it's not difficult. The other option is that we can tell the defenders not to push on as much, and simply push Milne into holding midfield ahead of the two, allowing our midfielders to push right up. A mix of the above that we can seamlessly move from and to would be good. Just needs time on the training pitch.

Fit's Careca up to these days?