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The whole thing feels grimy! It's like the team finishing in 6th getting promotion via the play-offs (in your heart they don't deserve it), are we so desperate to get to the Euro's that we'd be happy to win a raffle?
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4 minutes ago, WATTOO said:
It's definitely a social problem where the kids just aren't out the way they once were. I never see children out playing with a ball and other sports such as Golf are also suffering really badly. The "money" thing also doesn't come into it as our local club offers free membership to under 16's, free lessons from our club pro and even a loan of golf clubs if the kids don't have any, all that and we still can't attract them.
Television, Social media and mobile phones have had a big part to play but also the demise of many youth clubs, YMCA, Boys brigade and Scout groups compared to years gone by.
Who knows, we might not be able to create footballers and golfers of the future but I'm sure we'll have our fair share of gender neutral entrepreneurs.................
I don't see the fact that young people don't want to play football as a social problem and I'm not sure that we ever had a glut of world class golfers that's now disappeared.
Entrepreneurs are wealth creators so we'd probably be better off with them
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57 minutes ago, still_game said:
the sport in scotland is now middle class, no longer a working class sport
I would disagree. The middle classes are still more likely to favour rugby. If you mean that the former working class are now better off and have aspirations to be middle class then you could be right.
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Give SSC up to and including the 2028 Euros, he deserves a proper financial award for what he achieved with Kilmarnock.
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6 hours ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said:
I'd be tempted to go 4-6-0 in future
Just be aware that if you do and it doesn't work you'll still be getting abuse 9 years later
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4 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
Starting to wonder if we should just forget about National football. It seems to be passing us by. Even with good players on the park we always look less than the sum of our parts. Starting to wonder if an wver decreasing number of fans are the only people who actually give a f**k and everyone else is going through the motions
The desire to only watch winning teams is what gives Celtic and The Rangers so many fans along with seeing Barcelona/Man City, etc replica tops all over the place. Never give up and never give in, fight that desire!!
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1 hour ago, newcastle broon said:
6th place and 6 points off the pace. 8 points lost already.Only dropped 12 points all last season. Has there been that big a change at K Park ?
People often find it hard to comprehend but the margins are pretty fine at this level and it only takes a few changes to completely change a team. Our success over the last few seasons has been built on strong defence. Craig Howie was an ever present during that period and alongside David Proctor has a tremendous record at Lowland level.
We have resources and will continue to search for players to make the jigsaw better but it's not FM. You see loads of potential players with, what looks like, great pedigree but for different reasons a lot of them don't work.
The fact that we haven't seen any single team dominate relentlessly is one of the many great qualities of football at this level.
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On 05/09/2019 at 10:18, RampantFM said:
Heard this too.
How is Dean Cairns doing? Noticed like some others, he's covering in midfield and at the back? Decent player? Thoughts?
I like Deano, he's not the quickest and I prefer to see him in midfield as he's quite direct.
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I believe there's the possibility of another [free agent] addition to the EK squad, here's hoping.
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45 minutes ago, coprolite said:
Billy Dodds came back to Pittodrie with a Diddy club of historical interest only shortly after his Sister had died in a crash. A fully grown man in the lower dick stood up and shouted "hey Dodds, I dug up your sister and shagged her". He was roundly shouted down by everyone nearby and physically shoved back in his seat.
That's horrific!! Did you ever see him there again?
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With a Scotland double header approaching here's a flash back to Alan Hansen taking the piss out of the Brazilian legend Socrates during the 1982 World Cup....I can't recall the final score
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17 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
The most worrying recent development in this thread is the presence of Kincardine in Dundee over the weekend.
What are the chances of him rocking up in Hamilton this weekend...?
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4 minutes ago, Merkland Red said:
Fair enough piece to be honest.
The main issue for a lot of fans is Derek seems to be getting more cautious as the years go by. Killie weren't exactly in top form and we played out a terrible 0-0 draw. Derek then complained about some of the players in the press and said he felt too many of them were happy to accept a 0-0 draw. They didn't play any different to the previous three or four games. His tactics are often the issue but he fails to address it.
Managing professional footballers is a very difficult job (particularly when there is high fan expectation) but I think Derek McInnes has done really well at Aberdeen.
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EK - Edinburgh University - 100 imo
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It certainly sounds good but I have to wonder why a guy playing at that level is prepared to drop down four levels?
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21 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said:
So every aspect of Rangers FC's activity is connected to the Orange Order? Is that really what you are trying to say? FFS and people think I'm a fantasist.
Scouting and signing targets are all dealt with by the OO, specifically their Director of Footfall...
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An interesting match report on the Basque derby:
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[Michael Stewart's bedroom] - Craig Levein's position is clearly untenable, Craig Levein's position is clearly untenable, Craig Levein's position is clearly untenable........
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7 minutes ago, Romeo said:
Lafferty isn't finished yet, you could still be right.
There's no way Lafferty will be capped by Mexico at this late stage.
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On 30/08/2019 at 00:25, TheDon99 said:
As much as it fustrates me to think that we've just replaced a hard working decently skilled May with Main (the less the said about his skills etc.), I feel like both will score similar amounts of goals at Aberdeen, but crucially Main will be paid considerably less for it.
Weird to think that May was probably the most exciting and most hyped up signing the clubs had for a while yet all he'll be remembered for was his effort...
Sadly he's the definition of a flop and whats worse is I think he'll score goals at St. Johnstone and make us feel terrible about the whole thing.He's a great example of how players aren't simply good or bad. They react differently to managers, team mates, systems, home life. I was delighted when St Johnstone appeared to have found a young player with real talent and hoped he'd re-discover it at Aberdeen. I now hope he can give Saints fans something to smile about.
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4 hours ago, actonsheep said:
If that step back means you finish 5th instead of 3rd can you really consider it failure for a board that, before Clarke, was running a club constantly tipped for relegation?
If Alessio can get this squad to finish as high as 5th he'll get my vote for manager of the season.
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Reminds me of the time I predicted that Kyle Lafferty could be even better than Eduardo Herrera....boy did I get that one wrong
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6 hours ago, senorsoupe said:
Problem appears to be of the wage variety. With recent signings plus the emergence of young players like Johnston Sinclair has fallen further down the pecking order at Celtic. Shame because he was class for Celtic in his first couple of seasons
He's still one of the best players on the books BUT also the highest earner...
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The Celtic All Seasons thread
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Agree 100%.