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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.

Aye, that's it in a nutshell. His pretendy "in my day" shtick is tiresome. He' just really shite at his job. The jingoism is alive and well at this world cup still though. I naively assumed they'd tone it down a bit, but not the case. The pathetic anti-German stance on display is galling. The build up to England's game 4 days in advance, pathetic. Just once, it would be great to see a neutral, well-presented world cup that gives us real insight into the teams and celebrates the tournament. Everything through the Enlish lens is fucking tedious.

If you've seen a recent photo then you'd be picking Darren Mackie in goal. Fairly let himself go like, absolutely massive.

In Rooney's entire time at the club, there hasn't been a set of tactics we could deploy against stronger opposition that Rooney would fit into. He simply lacks the pace against stronger, faster and fitter defenders that nullifies his goal threat entirely. He has a level, and it's definitely higher than United, but he isn't going to get a return (for us) against any team higher than Killie. When he first came to the club, it was the Tims, then us. Now there are Sevco, Hibs and - to an extent (away from home anyway) - Hertz all playing at a level above where we were when he first arrived and his top scoring seasons. That - and the loss of Hayes - means McInnes has had to try and find a new way to play that can match those better teams and it has involved shoe-horning May and Rooney in where it hasn't worked. Rooney was further affected as McInnes wanted to try out May in more games than not, and so Rooney was left languishing. When he was introduced, he didn't have the same impact. I have no doubt that a run of games against the poorer opposition last season would have resulted in a significant goal return for Rooney once again. Unfortunately that wouldn't have translated into a goal threat against >=Hibs, as they have players easily capable of coping with him. We need to be looking at a striker that can get a goal return against the better opposition, because as everyone else improves we can't rely on our excellent form against the bottom 8 (that 8 soon become 7 as Jambos get better and so on) to take us further. I completely understand McInnes' position on this one. Also, May being shite doesn't make Rooney better, we need to look at the two separately. We need a new striker, basically. Finally, if we could hold onto Rooney as a squad player I'd be delighted. We're bound to get injury and he can easily walk into our team against the bottom 7-8 teams and get vital goals. Unlike last season, he needs only to be a direct replacement for the main striker though and not a makeshift winger or some shite.

I think, assume, that was to do with "gender fluidity" rather than sexaulity. That's an interesting case you mention though, I had always assumed a DNA difference rather than something naturally occurring after conception.

Perfect min. Exactly this.

Took me an age to get that.

I've never felt that if I'm honest. I think it's easy to say how you feel. I think the PC thing only really exists in the media and social media. Basically, it's only a bunch of cunts with little to say that get intoleranced by other cunts with fuck all to say. Everyone else seems to be able to have conversation without the intolerance and subsequent intolerance of the intolerance.

That's the thing, I also look away when two men kiss (not a massive lesbian kissing fan, but it doesn't have the same affect; I assume, because I'm male) as it makes me gag. Is that what homophobia is? If so, I'd say that I'm probably homophobic. I'm not intolerant of the person, just the act. What seems natural to some, clearly isn't to others. I'm repulsed by something that isn't natural to me. I believe that my reaction is as close to a natural reaction (i.e. free from any outside influence) as is possible, although I have made no effort to see if I can overcome it by watching gay soap scenes on a loop. What I don't understand, or struggle to understand, is if it's the same in reverse? Does a gay man watch a straight couple kissing on Emmerdale Farm and get repulsed by it? Or is it far more complex? I'm assuming what is as natural to me (trappin birds) is equivalently natural to gay people (trappin ither gays). In order to understand it, inotherwords, you have to be gay. It is probably, then, that neither are "unnatural" at all, just different things to different people.

I just put £20 on Kairat Almaty to win, returning £40. It had just started so couldn't get the double with the Ruskies. I'll update you all on my progress. I have also thon big defender (al' cunt) to score and thon non-injured striker for Russia. Argentina to win the world cup, Jesus to be top scorer (because he's fuckin Jesus) and other assorted pish just to liven up an otherwise boring tournament. It won't be boring, it's just I have fatigue from last season still.

Last minute addition. Not quiet sure what I've signed up for, but I await the barrage of spam! Good work though KITNS.

I'd suggest that "wired up wrong" can have any meaning the issuer of the phrase intends. I was moving a light switch the other day and I couldn't get it to work no matter what I did. I took the front plate off another - working - switch and realised that I had mine wired up wrong. What sort of man does that make me? One who's wired up wrong I'd say.

I wonder if they'll consider a swap deal for Forrester?

I suspect it was a DST survey. There would be 3 other stands that are all seated though, so you needn't worry.

You were correct.

Lennon was Tims manager, with champions league experience. Levein Scotland manager. I suppose it's sort of justified. It just says "profile of the league has been taken to another level" not the ability. Gerrard can only be assessed on his profile rather than any actual ability. All of those managers arguably have a higher profile than McInnes despite not having proven to be better managers.

Sounds about right. Why the fuck we should let that shite interfere with our game, I've nae idea. Time to cut those corrupt cunts adrift (they can keep the Tims if they like). That said, I've no real issues with the later kick off. Given the final is on BBC though, I've no idea why we'd be changing the kick off time as we're really only aiming at the UK market for TV. Nobody in any other country will give a fuck about the Scottish Cup final. It's such a "more of the same" move though from the new cunt in charge for his first suggestion (or whatever we want to call it). We need to begin to re-define the game in this country first before we start pretending that we're something beyond these borders. It's such a fucking Regan/Doncaster move, it's boring as fuck.

Him and Tavernier have been there best two players when playing us in recent years. He's been a very solid professional with exceptional work rate. That game at the end of the previous season when they tanked us at Pittodrie, he was immense. He holds himself to very high standards, and I'd expect that'd brush off on those around him. If we can get a season out of him then he'd be an excellent signing. The boot up the arse that both Rooney and May need.

^^This. Excellent viewing.

Harvey Weinstein, and other assorted rapists.

Richard Foster gave you an out of body experience?

There's nothing I'll miss about Pittodrie. I can't wait to move to Westhill. It's a cultural haven.

Yessss, welcome aboard loon. He began his career at Bohemians, which is a team we have never ever played in our history.

It's Hamilton. They've clearly been approached by a well-to-do Nigerian gentleman offering his one-time-only online player development services at a cut price £850K. They clicked on the link and now they feel entitled to pass that cost onto us. Seems reasonable.