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It's hardly been ignored by the board. We had Leighton, Kjaer and paid a good fee for Preece (£300K was it?). That Calderwood brought in Langfield and, I assume, paid him well was a management decision - the board can't be expected to question the manager on the merits of signing a player that the manager had previously worked with and obviously rated. Langfield wouldn't have been on shite wages, so its down to poor management that he was never replaced with someone better on the same budget. That said, the state of our outfield playing staff meant I entirely agreed with McInnes's decision to give Langfield another contract when he did, as I simply didn't think we had the time and resource to source a good 'keeper whilst replacing several of the playing squad at the same time. The decision was made early on Langfield leaving, it had been known about for at least 6 months. It's telling/disappointing that at the end of the search, we could only come up with a loanee from the EPL (albeit a f'n good one) to take us forward. I'm not convinced Rogers is as good as this agent-leaked story suggests but nevertheless we're in the position that we know we need a new goalie in June and we've had a year to look for one. I'm hoping there's a huge amount of effort going into sourcing the next guy, with a keen eye on Rogers' progress at the same time. We need to get it right next season, and I'm certain the manager will know that. But it is the manager's job, not the board.

Fourth? Didn't Hearts have a significantly higher budget than us in the JC era? Kingston and such like. I think, on the basis of this thread, we should re-appoint Jimmy Calderwood in 2016.

3-0 after 16 seconds of the second half. Still no dons sub. Fantastic result obviously, but has to be McInnes' biggest failing. We could've easily give a youngster 40 minutes.

Or a step toward summer fitba? Either way, another undisclosed, without-consultation, exclusive bag of shite. Might work like, but can they not have these discussions out in the open, engage with folk? At least pretend you give a fuck about what your paying customers think.

I thought the worst thing about Benn's speech was the complete lack of substance. It was well orated, well timed (for maximum cuntishness) and emotional, but nothing new was brought to the table. I noticed a couple of Labour spineless fucks tweeted that they had backed the bombing after hearing Benn's speech. Really? What new piece of information did he bring to the debate that hadn't been discussed in the previous 10 hours. That sort of thing belongs in a debate down the pub, not in the decision making process for going to war. It should have been an analytical discussion that discussed - only - facts. Like was done by the very committee set up to examine the case for war (who were, obviously, ignored). Our f'n archaic system of democracy doesn't fuckin work, and that's why Jeremy Corbyn has no place in it. Labour need a personality, not a man with conviction or sense, because that's who our parliamentary system works. It's all left to chance. A "who can shout loudest" match. These cunts don't serve a purpose.

Did I imagine Foster being player of the season before being loaned to der hun? I thought he was. Remember he had a decent year that year. Anyway, I don't dislike the guy, and don't boo him, but he can still go and fuck himself. For being a hun, like.

I love how the argument has become binary - to bomb or not to bomb. I'm going to teach that Cameron a right lesson when I get the opportunity to tick a box in 4.5 years time.

It's our best players, picked in the style of Alex Miller. Most folk had forgotten that Left back was actually a position before Shinnie arrived anyway.

Why? Fuck Ireland. What have they ever done for us?

More guns. That's the answer for everything. The only answer is to roll back our foreign policy. Stop interfering in the middle east (leave everything to the UN, so there can still be some involvement), and make it clear that that is what we're doing - don't give people an excuse. Stop spying on our own citizens, and treat everyone like humans. Make society more equal and respect everyone's human rights. Once all that is done, accept that sometimes people do bad things and that spying and guns won't stop that, but make it worse. Perhaps we can use some sophisticated drone technology to get to these incidents quickly and stun the attackers to prevent further casualty. We're down from 150 at its Sky News peak last night to 120 today. Interesting seeing these things unfold with permanent news coverage. Sky were particularly interesting, as they were just randomly speculating. At one point, the attacks were because it was Friday 13th and that they attacked the concert hall because there was an American band playing. The BBC are, this morning, reporting a spontaneous outbreak of singing of the French national anthem at a French national football game - who'd have thought? Although, so far, no news channel has reported the final score.

150 dead now. Crazy. Fuck it, I'm going to bed.

Unless they're good at fitba. It is very much an internal problem. Borders closed, in a European country, fuck sake. Sounding bad for the hostages like.

Edit: nae need.

All kicking off there again. 40 deed so far, in a couple of incidents, with 100 still held hostage. Mental stuff.

I wasn't mixing the two, I thought Farage was clearly holding the British system up as a democratic example. Which I thought was disingenuous given their own poor representation due to FPTP. I could have been mistaken though. I thought Blair did more to put people off democracy completely, become disengaged, and changed the whole political/election process to a charade that focused on personality over policy. I'd say that the vast majority of my colleagues at work have no interest in democracy or politics at all. Whilst, there's still a majority turnout at elections (65% last time round), I think there's a lot of those still do it because they feel it's their duty, and a lot who support Labour or whoever because "that's who I've always voted for" - i.e. folk who have no interest in democracy; it's like they're supporting a fitba team. Obviously, that is all contradicted when the electorate have something worthwhile to vote for, like in the independence referendum. But even with that, try and start a conversation with someone about PR, and the vast majority will glaze over immediately. I think the majority of people prefer the illusion of democracy without even thinking about what it means. See the lack of outrage about the latest changes to internet privacy for example.

Apart from the shite about Britain caring about democracy. It's an interesting state of affairs in Portugal right now, and he's right about the blanket ignoring of it in the media. Al Jazeera was the only place that gave a decent overview. There's only one way Europe is heading if they continue to ignore the rights of countries' citizens. It's a pretty fucked experiment. The legal requirement for surplus for individual Euro members is fuckin bizarre like.

The dons train at Countesswells, and had to put up some changing facilities separate to those used by kids I think.

Totally disagree. His ability to play in several different positions would suggest he has a good understanding of the game. His excellent runs off the ball, and the way he drops in to cover for other players shows a pretty good team player. His crossing has vastly improved since he first arrived, to the point his crosses more often than not hit the man (or the area where the player should be). Decision making and the occasional poor technique happen when you play the game at the pace that Hayes does. There's not a better left sided player in the SPL in my opinion.

Una cerveza por favor.

Just saw it again, I was spikkin shite, entirely Jack's fault. He did well to get back in and - sort of - put the Jute off.

Possibly one for the Jack thread, but fuck it. Thought Jack was a lot better today and got better as the game went on. Took responsibility for his misplaced pass, apologising to everyone on the pitch, twice, and McInnes which was quite amusing. I'd like to see a replay of the second one though, as I actually thought McLean was at fault as much as Jack. Jack was breaking from defence and running directly toward McLean. Instead of McLean turning and moving into space, taking the defender with him he just stood still waiting til Jack was a couple of yards from him with only a risky pass to Logan on - which he made a cunt of. I thought McLean was often the weak link out right, he seems far more comfortable in field. That said, I thought Pawlett's movement was excellent again today, keeping high up the park and stretching them at every opportunity. His passes were always in front of the player too (see Hayes' goal) ready for them just to run on to, and he got himself into the box at every opportunity. Hayes man of the match with Shinnie and Pawlett close behind. Flood was very good too, and him and Jack seemed not to get under each other's feet for a change too. Overall, a comfortable performance. I may even watch it again on Alba.

He also has a history of being a serious journalist and can think for himself unlike yer average news reader.

Go on. Yer only smoking it.

Apart from when asking: "how did an asset now valued at £62M on your books get acquired for £4M post oldco liquidation?"

Jebus. Huns release their annual results with a loss of £7.5M and a note showing that they'll need £2.5M further investment to see them through to the end of the season..... in order to hide the fact that today the EBT appeal by HMRC was successful thereby fucking over the oldco too. Awesome. Die you sevco fucks.