RicoS321

Does anyone have a mobile number that I can use for pie complaints? My recent contact just left.

Holy fuck. I should make all my selections in a 40 second rush just before the start of the first game. I should definitely have checked these predictions before putting on any bets too (which I didn't).

Nope, see my post on the last page, it's entirely (not entirely, but mostly) down to salary. Tavernier will be on £10-15K per week at the hun. If he has a four year deal then that's £2-3M of yer purchase price right there. This is because they are expecting £2-3M worth of playing for Tavernier over the next 4 years if he was to stay. You then add on an additional amount (50% again) if the purchasing team really want the player and the selling team wants to retain them. That's the general run of the mill rule. Exceptional talent - like McKenna - who have multiple interested parties can break this rule (by a large amount) because any future potential will re-coup this addition in either playing performances or future sale, or simply because the buying team are not restricted by cash or are in a different world of money from the selling team (lets say likes of West Ham/Everton bought McKenna or something). We're not being ripped off. If we offered McKenna £18K a week for four years, then we'd expect a significantly higher return on him. A bit like why Hamilton can only really expect a portion of the contract they'd offered Ferguson from us.

Messi was pap. Would be very interesting to see his "metres covered" stats as he was strolling about all night offering nothing. They had nobody in midfield taking control of the ball though, which nullified their own strikers. Terrible tactics. Higuain offered a bit more balance, but largely did fuck all too because they were Calderwooding it by throwing on more and more forwards as the game went on. They should have thrown on an Argentinian Ash Taylor up front, that'd have done the trick.

Not really, the North East can be quite grey, and you'll probably find that the mist descends when you're hear and you'll not be able to see any sunlight despite the summer. Good advice with regard to the Wednesday though. You'll all definitely be fine wearing colours in Aberdeen too, nobody will give a shite. In fact, you'd probably find yourselves more welcomed. You'll get a decent number of tickets, 2,500 perhaps, so hopefully you'll sell out. The home ends will be. Turfmoor sounds good. A real traditional ground, like Pittodrie. When you're here, you should take a trip out to Westhill. That's the soulless shitepiece location that we'll be moving too soon. While you guys are here, what would you do if Burnley ditched Turfmoor and moved 6 miles out of town?

I've unilaterally decided, on behalf of Aberdeen, that Burnley is a shitehole. In Barnsley, which is a far nicer place, they ask if you are "staying" rather than "sitting in" in the coffee shops. Fucked up like. MG, does this same phenomenon occur in Burnley? Finally, have you chosen the name MelGibson as some sort of Braveheart-based alias in order to appear more friendly to the people North of the border? "I come in peace" type thing? If so, the real Mel Gibson's probably a cunt, and his film and associated accent were shite.

Yes there is. Scott McKenna. The arguments surrounding EPL/Championship v SPL are an irrelevance. The obscurity of money makes it pointless.

I see they don't teach the quote function in Burnley.

I've been to Barnsley. Lovely place.

Fucking Burnley should never be seeded higher than us for a tournament they've never played in. Fucking English fucks.

My brother just sent me a screenshot of the Engurlish page, which has the Burnley v Dons as the top story. With a picture of Steven Gerrard of course.

The huns.

Or we'll get tanked by a manufactured team with 150 times our resources.

Burnley!!!

Huns get an easy draw

Nae Vilnius....

Nae Atalanta....

There goes Glenavon or Molde.

We'll take any of those cunts. This UEFA fucker taking an age like.

So this boy is a replacement for the position we should have filled 12 months ago (Jack)? Good stuff. With Forrester the McLean replacement? That leaves a striker (priority for me), a Christie replacement, a fullback that can play across the back (or at least left and right back) and then a wide player? Then the another 2-4 as squad enhancements and punts that might come good.

I can. They came belting out the traps and expended all their energy in the first fifteen minutes, before struggling to create anything of note after that. It wasn't something they could have kept up for any length of time and it showed. It was clearly a tactical decision to come out pressing hard and high up, and it nearly worked for them. In the end they were exceptionally fortunate that the defender decided to try and dribble out of defence (think he actually took it over the line for a throw), giving away a corner, instead of passing down the line. They were the better side, but I don't think they deserved more than a draw. Their tactics were unsustainable, and they didn't come out of the period where they applied those tactics in the lead. In my view, they got lucky. Obviously, I wouldn't make quite the effort to disprove their deserving if it were any other team. Cunts.

I think that we have to remember that fees are also based massively on salary as well as potential. I'd reckon £3.5, because that's still a huge fee in Scottish fitba terms (Scott Brown, at £4.5M, is the only outfield player I can think of that moved for more than that this century/ever?). We're not paying McKenna enough to provide a useful comparison between us and the championship. For example, Hanley's £3.5-6M would be proportionate to his salary for Newcastle/Blackburn and the cost equivalent of effectively buying out that remaining contract. If you think about it in salary vs potential/ability terms, in Hanley's case you'd be paying 90% of the fee based on his contract, and 10% based on his fitba(ing) potential (ignoring the fact we all know he's pish). With McKenna, almost all the price is based on his potential, with the cost of matching his remaining contract probably quite small (let's say max of £500K). Hanley gets his move by being an established championship player (at the higher end of the league) who can comfortably (or not) slot in. If we were to remove the associated salary/contract buyout cost, then £3.5M less McKenna's contract will be significantly higher than Hanley's move to Norwich at circa £3.5-4M less cost of his contract. Relatively speaking, we'll be getting significantly more for McKenna than Blackburn did for Hanley if sold at £3.5M. That seems to be the way things work in fitba, hence why we never see huge fees north of the border except for the Tims and Huns (I suspect Craig Gordon was on a fair wage at Hearts when sold too). The key is in the add-ons, and the extent to which you can embed them in all future transfers.

I'd say they possibly deserved it because of Tunisia's lack of trying to win the game. However, their overall play - after Tunisia scored - didn't really warrant a win. Anyone who didn't watch the opening 15 minutes would have thought they were pish. It is now readily accepted that they have had "the best 20 minute spell of the world cup". That's now a thing, and a fact.

It's a bit Hearts.

I said in January that I thought £3M should be what we're looking at. That would have seemed a reasonable amount. That was prior to his Scotland call ups and captaincy. If we've got a few teams looking at him, then we should be forcing that price up to around £3.5Mish. The add-ons part will be the key here. If he goes to any of those championship clubs and is sold the next day, his value will be doubled. Grantin Hanley is still taking in fees greater than that, and that should be a decent barometer. McKenna is similar in strength and pace to Hanley, but his distribution, positional awareness and temperament/intelligence are significantly better. The money should be used to build a new main stand.