RicoS321

Yep, totally agree, that's why it needs forcing and support from above. It's against a manager's interests, and that was very clear under McInnes. It's just tweaking that we need to the squad setup that sort of forces the manager's hand. I expected that to happen under Glass, but so far the balance hasn't changed. All it takes is the refusal to sanction certain signings. McInnes shouldn't have been allowed to sign McGeouch for example, his hand should have been forced. Longstaff shouldn't have been allowed, and perhaps not Jenks either and Montgomery. Obviously, you wouldn't go too far, but those were guys who were brought in when we had players in the positions they fill. They take up the minutes when injuries hit and the 10-15 minutes in games where the manager has to give them a run to maintain squad harmony. It just takes the slight edge off the manager's desire for self preservation. I don't think it would have a huge effect on our league position.

That's fair enough, you're probably right about the two crimes. I probably instinctively, and incorrectly, feel that two blokes fighting and one getting hurt is somehow more acceptable, but it isn't (and often the fight is just a one sided battering by a bigger guy). The main difference between the cases would be the subsequent sentence and charge. Gallagher has faced justice as laid out by the system and - in theory - is rehabilitated to the extent required to free him. Goodwillie has never faced justice. He's too frightened to. He'll know what he's done, but if he shows contrition admitting to what he did, then he'll be charged and go to prison. Unless he's willing to do that, then he can stay in purgatory - he can't possibly be rehabilitated. That's his difficult choice, he can't have his cake and eat it. I'd feel differently if he'd done his prison time. Probably.

That's not clear from what you've written at all. It's a very strange thing to pick up on too. It's a weird angle to take on rape. It's a crime that's second only to child molestation, but you seem to be concerned about the level of outrage. I could understand if you were saying that you're encouraged that more people in society are now outraged by two guys escorting a paralytic girl from a night club, telling concerned bouncers that they were taking her to the hospital, before taking her to a friend's flat before - both - raping her and leaving her naked and alone in the empty building, but you're not. For some bizarre reason, you're charting the trajectory of outrage over time.

I'd say it's because of this we should be vocal. We were wrong. I still attended dons matches, when I should have told them to go and fuck themselves. I had read what he'd done, and read the interviews his victim had given - refusing her own anonymity. Yet in the years that followed, we all sat in a ground with other fans singing "we know she said yes" and "he shags who he wants". It was a fucking stain, and we should be embarrassed. The fact that as a club and individually (I don't speak for everyone, just me), we're hypocrites, is neither here nor there. We can still be both vocal and severely critical of Raith because we've seen first hand the reality of it and can look back on it self critically.

Surely that's a good thing? I mean, aside from the blatantly obvious fucking reasons that signing for full-time Raith might provoke more of a reaction than signing for a part-time side bottom of the spfl at the time, that a world famous writer removing their sponsorship might turn a few heads that might otherwise not have heard of Goodwillie before, if society is recognising rape in a more serious and unforgiving light is that regression or progression in your eyes? There's no fucking bandwagon here, just greater publicity for something that people are fairly disgusted by. But let's not overlook the fact that plenty were outraged when he joined Clyde, as a basic Google search would show. Plenty of Clyde fans chose not to follow the club anymore. Rape crisis Scotland (think that's what they're called) were just as outraged as they are now.

It doesn't sound like you do agree with Raith's latest statement at all.

Rape is worse than assault. Try and imagine for a second, a man putting his dick up your arse when you're too pished to defend yourself. Most blokes trying to defend goodwillie would likely, and justifiably, be close to suicide if that happened to them. It's no different for this girl. Read the transcript from the court case before commenting. It's fucking disgusting. He got off with it because of a failed justice system. It's pretty fucking easy for most right thinking people to think their way critically through these issues, you're not saying anything particularly profound here, you're not making people think. It's straight forward. You rape someone in such explicit and clearcut circumstances and you lose any right to a career with a public profile, whether your Goodwillie or Spacey. He can quietly fuck off and be a car mechanic if a garage will have him. Somewhere the girl doesn't have to see his name mentioned in the press every time he does something.

Good post. You're right, they might just be poor at it. Also, Glass inherited a squad of well paid senior players, so perhaps I'm being unfair. It's extremely difficult to see where Adam Montgomery fits into our strategy however.

The problem is that they're only reversing the decision because people withdrew their support. Their statement directly contradicts everything they said 24 hours before, with zero explanation. We're sorry that you're upset is basically what they're saying. They'll get away with it too. Resigning should be the only course of action for the directors and manager, who were told in advance what the consequences would be. The Raith fans who withdrew their support can't back down now. As an aside, this is why I don't want us having a sugar daddy rich cunt ploughing his money into AFC. The fans of Raith put together £100k+ (from memory, I think they did anyway!) at the beginning of the pandemic to help fund the club (plus they have a player development fund). They got nothing in return. If those funds had been treated, correctly, as an investment - just like it would be if it was a wealthy business person putting in a lump sum - then they would have had a big say in this transfer. It's precisely the reason I'll never give money to the Aber DNA pish. If you're still giving money to this type of scheme/scam, then don't be surprised when AFC fuck you over in much the same way (like when Milne sided with the Tims in the voting structure). Those funds should return a shareholding and a say.

Good luck to him. It does bring in to question our development of youth. Whether it's an actual policy or just another sound bite that clubs deploy increasingly these days. In my opinion, what's missing from Dean's game is simply game time (probably at spfl level). He has all the attributes of a really good player, but inconsistency in game time leads to inconsistency on the pitch. To truly be a youth focused team, I think we'd have to be ditching McGeouch (and probably Ojo) and offering those minutes (I'm certain Campbell could have done exactly the same as McGeouch against County) to Campbell. In that regard, I see zero difference between the Glass and McInnes approach. The only difference currently is Ramsay, but given that he's very good at football, I find the suggestion that he wouldn't have featured under McInnes this season hard to believe. I don't believe he'd be completing 90 minutes every week under McInnes, but I don't believe he's actually ready to do that yet either. There's something that we're not quite getting right in our youth development. This situation reminds me of the Wright one. We appear to have missed an entire season of Dean's development, much like we did with Wright. Due to the fact that we crammed our squad with senior players (all in one fucking position too!), we've completely limited Campbell's game time. We've afforded Ramsay the time to make numerous errors in a way we haven't Campbell. If we weren't willing to do that with Campbell he should have been out on loan much sooner. It remains to be seen if that will have a lasting effect on his overall development or not. Hopefully not. I think Campbell was good enough that we should have been looking at a youth product that was as good as Jack in a few years and I think we might have failed him. Glass inherited that squad, but he also added guys like Longstaff to it. We're not getting the mix right if we're going to be focusing on youth as suggested, to the extent that I think it's just another marketing strategy.

It was really bad like. Probably worse than anything the Huns have ever written. No moral high ground for us dandies unfortunately, we all knew what we'd signed when he came here.

No. If we're not scoring with Ramirez up front, then it's unlikely to be any different with Anderson, they're similar players. I think Ramirez is better, although I think Anderson would have been fine as our main striker too. I completely understand the thought process behind the Jet move. He is a totally different type of player to Ramirez and should have allowed us to completely change tactics during a game. That he's pish and unfit is obviously the main problem there. On our budget, I don't think we can waste two wages on a Ramirez/Anderson type, with one simply replacing the other without anything else changing. We haven't had anyone that can offer something different from the bench since Magennis left. If the question had been, would you have been happy with Anderson as number 9 this season with the Ramirez money spent on a good number 10, I'd have said yes. That's not a criticism of Ramirez, just I don't think we've significantly benefited from having him up front, or certainly not got the best out of him. It's much like me playing golf this morning with my relatively expensive irons. Ramirez is like the brain that we only ever use ten percent of. Just as I could get by just as well with half price irons, the dons would have been just as fine with Anderson. If I get those golf lessons, or the dons get a good number 10, then we'll really start to see the benefit of buying a more expensive tool (no offence, Christian).

I have no idea what our plan is. We play ridiculously tight and narrow in every single game when we have a very good poacher in the middle. When he finally brings off Ojo, he makes sure Hayes and Vicente are inverted, so they always cut in. We're so easy to defend against. The fact that McKenzie came on as opposed to an attacking player says a lot about the quality in that area on the bench and a lot more about our failure in the transfer window.

Brown lucky not to get a second yellow.

Predictable sub. Not sure it adds much. Again Ojo getting a lot of game time in that high position.

Hayes has been excellent since changing hair colour. Great finish.

Maybe the technical admins should look into the fact that the words "could" and "almost" keep getting inserted randomly into posts.

Nice one Val. Thankfully the Dons would never stoop so low.

I think McGrath will turn into an excellent player. If st mirren are accepting Gogic as any part of a deal, then I think we've made a huge mistake not offering them Gurr before he left, or maybe some dog shite off the Cormack park pitches.

Decent results all round for us with utd and Hibs both losing. Hearts out of sight like.

County score in the 800th minute of stoppage time to draw 3-3 with the Hun. Conspiracy.

St Johnstone are going to be pissed off when we tank them in the rearranged fixture, with all six goals coming from the four players we sign between now and the end of the window.

Looks fine in that picture.

But Huns 1 did pay their creditors. Until they didn't. It's the exact same business model, save for the side letters. I don't think global football has benefited from the rise of Man city, Chelsea etc. I'd be interested to see how much money Milne lost on AFC, similarly the Donalds. As far as I'm aware, Milne still has a substantial shareholding including preferential shares attached to the sale of pittodrie, but it's been a few years since I've looked at the accounts. It's the dons that ran at a loss for years, not Milne. Cormack slightly different in that respect if he is to believed, with loans from his family or some shite for Hernandez.

The problem for me with that is that's exactly what the Huns say about the balance sheet when they spend miles outwith their means. I don't see a difference. Cormack providing short term funding, or capital infrastructure investment is one thing, but he should be refunded when we make that back. To be fair, he's shown with McKenna that he wouldn't just accept the first big offer if it doesn't suit the team. I think that if Ramsay doesn't go now, it'll be in the summer. I'm not sure it'll make significant difference to our fortunes holding onto him for another six months over having someone like Ojo at fullback. He's still very much in development.