RicoS321

Is that you Jraham?

He's just an 'al cunt.

Nobody forced ye.

Worth a look?

I wear red socks and shave my pubics.

I use VPN and watched the last game on Red TV just fine. Unless you're fae Red TV and trying to catch folk oot, in which case it's fucked and I've never tried it anyway even if it isn't fucked, which it isn't but is.

I have an Amazon Fire TV box, and I installed Kodi. Given my atrocious internet connection it was essentially pointless. An endless fuck about too. Although the Amazon box is good with a Prime subscription, just nae the Kodi part for me. There is another option oot there too, which involves a satellite dish of sorts, which might do a better job. Forgotten what it's called though - basically fake sky, illegalish.

Can you nae just tow it somewhere else?

I was joking. But, selfishness would be a good reason. Old Deer, then they can fuck off back to Dundee with no need to stop anywhere near me on the way.

I think Old Deer is the perfect place for gypos.

The only real problem with this site is the volume of threads devoted to people coming over from Aberdeen Mad. Hemmin, Buc, there was both an Introductions thread, and an Aberdeen Mad thread that you could have looked at you al' feel. Or were you looking for a full list?

There are hunners of ex-dandies in manangement Roy Aitken - the dandies Toni Kombouare - PSG? Arild Stavrum - Molde etc Tommy Wright - Corby Town Robbie Winters - East Kilbride Billy Dodds - QoTS? Judas - Elgin and some yank pish The dazzler - locaes Derek Whyte - Partick? None particularly successful. Indeed, our most successful former player now in management is: Jackie McNamara

My mate's a hibee, says he's been poor so far this season, so it's good to see Scotlandsquaditis doesn't just turn our players to pish after being picked. In this instance though, I'm with Strachan. I think there needs to be a batch of youngsters that step up from the u21s with a view to integrating them in future years. They're nae likely to get much game time, but are promising enough that we can give them a wee round aroon when we're getting our airses handed to us and hte game's over. I expect there'll be plenty of opportunities for McGinn in this campaign.

Fuck Doncaster, this is our fucking problem. Our weak statement wasn't enough, it was pathetic. We should be kicking off about this.

Yep, that's it. He hasn't learned that from the Georgia game where he picked 5-6 players who weren't playing for their teams because "they hadn't let him down in the past". Fucking criminal. What's worse is that a cursory glance back at previous Scotland failures would show that had been the case before (McLeish made that mistake against Georgia previously and learnt from it). Scotland simply don't have the quality of player that even though they're not playing for their team are still good enough to be automatic pick for their country (I think Burke may get to that stage, and McFadden whilst at Everton was probably the last player who would have been at that level). The thing is, international management is simple. Your role as manager is to get the best available players to turn up and get on with each other enough for 5-6 days that they can perform on the pitch and then go home. No favourites, no fall-outs, no not picking certain players because you don't like them etc. If a player is not playing for their team, then they don't make the first team unless there is no obvious replacement or they are an exceptional talent that brings something different to the team. Match fitness is key, and players shouldn't be getting themselves sharp playing for Scotland. Hanley is a poor footballer at the best of times but, whilst I disagree, I sort of understand the reasons for playing him - in the same way was I understand why Ash Taylor gets a game for the dons. However, a Grant Hanley who isn't playing regularly takes being a liability to new extremes. The goals against Lithuania, Slovakia and numerous chances in both those games were directly caused by his concentration going out the window - i.e. match sharpness. I've been to many Scotland games where he's played and its obvious for anyone to see the dip from shite to really shite. The fact that he has a right back playing alongside him was made obvious by Martin's attempt at marking for the second goal - he made the exact move you'd expect from a right back who'd assume there was a centre half covering behind him. Strachan has to go. It'll only get worse with him there and he simply can't learn lessons. The group is going in his favour so far, but we can't make decisions based on the luck that was outwith his control. The warning signs were there in the last campaign and he's taken forward his inability to learn lessons, thrown in a couple of huns for unnecessary good measure and we're left with a total cunt at the helm.

The problem is the two party system (like here), and personality politics (like here). That anyone in any society anywhere thinks they need a single person to represent them is absurd. Trump should never be un-electable, because he shouldn't have the authority that would make his (or Clinton's) decisions have meaning. He should just be the sales guy selling a branch of the Republicans policy, nothing more. That he's a pervert or a tax dodger or an idiot is neither here nor there. The yanks should stop being such a bunch of deferential fucks and understand that they don't need a fuckin president to be a successful, caring (or uncaring) and productive country. Same goes for the UK.

Second season is better I reckon, well worth continuing with.

Yep. He still provides the communications for der hun, just not as a member of staff. Level 5 PR I think they're called.

To be fair, I don't actually have epilepsy, I was just pretending to have a debilitating illness to get my own way.

Awesome, saved me having a fit probably. Cheers min.

Fuck that was a bad game last night. Reminded me of a McGhoo era dons performance coincidentally. A shite line up from the start, McArthur should have been in instead of Bannan and Chris Martin should have been on a different continent just to be sure he couldn't have featured at any point. Whilst we didn't need to go two up front, we could certainly have allowed Snodgrass or Burke to remain much further forward. In the first half we played far too deeply for the home team against a pish outift. Then he took on Forrest. What a cunt. The guy hasn't had one good game for Scotland in his whole international career. Whilst I thought Burke looked a little jaded and wasn't offering a huge amount he should have been kept on, and Griffiths for Martin should have always been the choice. It was a poor performance overall, but when you play third rate players like Martin - he's like an even shiter Kevin Kyle - you can't expect to walk these games. International fitba should be easy, pick the guys who are performing for their teams and make sure you get the best players available to you in the squad (McCormack, Rhodes). Strachan picks "guys who haven't let him down before" and various other shite. Then comes the interview, where Strachan really lets himself down. He pre-empts the criticism stating that we had a great second half and that Chris Martin had an excellent game, leaving the interviewer to stunned/stupid to question those points. He didn't do it to "protect the players" as was the suggestion, he did it to protect himself, and his own poor choices in team and selection and inability to change things when needed. Protecting Chris Martin would be to not play him in the first place. Barely-disguised trickery to praise him when others are questioning does him no favours - the player will know he was poor (the fact that anyone with any footballing knowledge could see he isn't international class - it was obvious within a minute of his first Scotland appearance - isn't really the player's fault). McInnes has his faults, but if the dons had played like that, he'd have been straight out saying it was unacceptable and not the performance he wants as manager. Strachan borrowed the McGhee manual of deflection. The worst part about it is that we got a late goal, which is enough to ensure that Strachan keeps his job, and the rot continues until the inevitable sacking when it's too late. We should have learned our Levein-lesson and let him go at the end of the last campaign.

I think you should ban animated profile pics, they're annoying us fuck when you're scrolling doon the topics. A static version of yours wid be fine Gervaise!

I've nae read it, but I have read "The Plot Against America" about an alternative American history (which fits nicely into the Fatherland discussion above) where Lindbergh became President instead of Roosevelt. Very Jew-based, but great book.

I've always wanted to read Catch-22. I'm worried that if I read it, I might not enjoy it, but because I haven't read it I feel like I'm missing out.

Galapagos was pretty decent, if a little hard going. Good writer clearly.