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27 minutes ago, Thumper said:
Can anyone remember as far back as the distant memory of this time last season, before Akinyemi located his shooting boots?
Im sure after the league cup games nearly everyone was convinced he was a dud
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I think having someone like Pogacar has changed the dynamic of the tour completely. Gone are the days of the sky train on the defensive cancelling everything out so their team leader has an armchair ride, Pogacar is on the offensive all the time which makes for fantastic viewing and brings the best out of others also.
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English league season doesnt start until 5th August so they are probably in less of a rush to sort out any transfers, although given most clubs have now started preseason hopefully things start moving
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24 minutes ago, callum-ayr said:
Looks like you have Reading, McGinty, Stanger, McAllister, Murdoch, Dempsey, Amartey, Murphy and Dipo all starting, possibly Pendlebury, but can't make him out.
Thats pretty much our strongest team at the moment
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if you assume we are going 4-3-3, I would think our remaining transfer business would be, as follows
Replacement for Dipo
RB
Sub striker (assuming Amartey and Murphy are the wide players in the 4-3-3) - probably loan
I'd give Ecrepont the League Cup games then decide if we need a LB
Sub winger / AM - probably loan
I'd probably want more but given we have the likes of Stanger, Smith, Hewitt, McAlister, Ashford, JML, McKenzie, Bryden, Bangala, Reading as well as numerous youngsters its a big squad already
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Im a bit disappointed we've had no pics of pre-season training and the usual game of guess the trialist, always good to keep everyone entertained
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On 22/06/2023 at 23:02, TommyDickFingers said:
He is indeed, this fellas work might interest you.
Although some of the conclusions that Hancock jumps to take things to far (and he is very much look a "look at me" type), the general premise that there was probably an advanced civilisation during the ice age is not that far fetched. Given today the vast majority of people either live in a town or city thats on the coast, or on a river the same was probably true 10,000 years ago. if your coast then is now 100 ft underwater we wont have excavated it
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Im hoping we are just stringy Dundee Utd along with the Dipo discussions in the hope they miss out on other targets as hes never going there
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On collision, given it looks like its the likes of Punk, Andrade, Thunder Rosa, it looks like they have made a show just to put the people no one else on the roster wants to work with on.
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Just watching it now, commentators not great, does sound like a ROH show rather than their new big deal
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1 hour ago, itzdrk said:
Bravery 5, will fit right in.
He is only 9, but chunky lad for his age
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1 hour ago, fuzzydunlop said:
exactly the same...I think they were going from the late 80s but featured more heavier indie stuff. I got my first one around 1990 because it had The Charlatans on it and I think that was maybe Volume 10, so plenty had been released before that.
I bought most of them after that and from them i got into stuff like Spiritualized, Verve, Stereolab and I think the first time I heard Pulp was on one of these.... but also those relatively obscure but had great tunes indie bands like Adorable, The Wendys(from Edinburgh I think?), The Dylans etc
Yeah I was pretty much the same, the indie top 20 and Radio Scotlands Beat Patrol were my go to for new music.
I always thought the Wendy's were from Manchester being on factory records, Goobeldygook was one of my favourite albums of that period, never realised they were from Edinburgh (i've just googled it as I didnt think you were right!)
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1 hour ago, fuzzydunlop said:
aye I mean its no my idea of a party either but I guess the point was it was the Chart music of the time which is by nature generally bland to appeal to the masses.
In fairness though, especially in the 80s/90s the Now and Hits albums did cover a lot of bases. I remember my folks having a New Years party in the late 80s(maybe 1987) and I had a Hits album that had the Mary Chain and Sisters of Mercy on one side. My neighbours big sister kept playing it and I hadn't heard music like that before.
Similarly I have very find memories of my 15th Birthday in June 1990...Italia 90 and one of the Now albums had a side with Primal Scream, Mondays, Inspirals, Depeche Mode, House of Love and er Jesus Jones....plus other sides had loads of Rave stuff... I played that one to death.
Talking of Indie comps a few years later I moved onto the Independent Compilations which were basically Now filled with Indie stuff...those were bloody ace.
I remember getting the "best of the Indie top 20" some time in the early nineties and it was amazing. Wasn't just the indie guitar bands, but included more dancy/ club stuff like the Shaman, at the time it was great as it opened my eyes to soo many different bands I hadnt even hear of at the time
Edit to add, it was 1991 seemingly, track list https://www.discogs.com/release/974961-Various-The-Best-Of-Indie-Top-20
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Thoroughly enjoyed the new spiderverse movie, just the right mixture of comedy and story
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In Readings first season, although he was defensively not great, I thought his passing and crossing were pretty good and if he had been able to work on the defensive side of his game that we would have a good player. However, and probably due to us playing hoofball since Kerr left, his attacking side has deteroriated significantly and his defensive side hasnt improved (got worse?).
A change of scenary may be what he needs to jumpstart his career, and you never know a break over the summer and some coaching we may still see a player, but probably not
Edit to add if we had ever gone with 3 CB's I think that would have seen us getting the best out of both Houston and Raading, as both were never great defenisvely but had a decent range of passing. However last season especially wouldnt have suited us in an attacking sense as we had decent wingers at the start of the season in Mullin and CHalmers
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Im imagining the seethe now when we start the league cup and our fullback options are McAlister and Hewitt on the right and Reading and Ecrepont on the left!!
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13 minutes ago, muZZa__44 said:
Think 6 quality players should be enough then if need be can add more as depth if needed
6 quality players for LB, RB, AM, LW, RW, CF plus back up / squad players for GK, CG and CF some of those we have under contract will either need to be moved on or out on loan or we will be running with a massive squad
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3 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:
Unfortunately Maguire has to go down as one of the most disappointing signings I can remember. I expected him to be a good signing but he looks finished now.
As he was out for so long there's always the wonder what he would be like with a full pre-season. Bullen etc should have a good idea though and obviously dont feel he will get back to anything like where he was, or he's asking for way over the odds so wasnt deemed worth it.
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8 minutes ago, AUFC 1910 said:
I know what you mean.
Just take a look at the play off games, and that shows you how our squad looks.
At the end of, effectively, year one, we have increased our income by a fair bit, and will no doubt, add to that selling Dipo.
Year two will be about how we spend that money, while mounting a top 4 challenge, and I’m sure, will be focusing on players in who we can get on 2/3 year contracts and those that we can sell on next summer.
Might be a step back to take 2 steps forward.
Going by the interviews I think the majority of signings will be decent lengths, and will be a mixture of experienced players along with some hidden gems / rough diamond types that we will be able to improve and sell on.
It will be getting the balance right of signings we can build a team around over the next few years and those we can keep for a year and hopefully sell on
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I thought Houston looked like a decent signing originally, not a world beater but a decent championship level fullback, but seems to have regressed each season
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Edinburgh seem to have made some decent signings for next season with Steele, Ashman, Sebastian, Healy, Hislop and Dodd all seeming to be good additions, although less in qty than has left the quality seems better.
However Glasgow at the moment have 1 player coming in, granted they havent lost as many but I thought there would have been more incomings announced
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Seemingly Finland got 71% of the public vote overall, a higher percentage than Ukraine got last year. Ukraine did get a higher number of votes last year, butFinland this year is the 2nd highest number of votes ever
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1 minute ago, Ludo*1 said:
Are they?
robbed!! public knew the score
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Was looking at that earlier, my group were all going to get the new top for our trip but have been put off by that