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Beaten by Stenhousemuir
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51 minutes ago, velo army said:
The fermer's top is a belter.
Reminds me of the lovely Famous Grouse effort you lads had a while back.
That was my first shirt - was a full kit w****r 5 year old.
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EA7 is such a naff kit manufacturer. I’d rather have Joma.
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The back sponsors are a bit naff but overall a very nice shirt.
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Jota’s wee farewell video. Not cringed so much in a long time. Such a Celtic thing to do though, their fans are so desperate to have their wee egos stroked about how ‘special’ a club it is.
Farewell videos in general.
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New Chelsea shirt, modelled by the lads in a jammie wearer’s living room. Don’t hate it. Mudryk looking hench.
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I think the irritating thing about leaving everything so late is that the League Cup is a massive opportunity to progress to the latter stages of a cup. Fucking up the group stage shouldn’t be acceptable, & I can see Ayr sneaking it with a Jamie Murphy winner.
Similar to others, I don’t really care about the kit that much, however it’s symptomatic of the lack of preparation. I get we’ll take a big, probably 7 figure, financial loss this year and need to cut the wage bill but we still have considerable funds in the bank and relegation would be far more disastrous from a financial perspective.
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2 hours ago, Valentino Bolognese said:
In terms of knicker-wetting, I'm moderately damp at the moment but the closer we get to real games the more the huggies pull-ups come into play.
I guess what's bothering me most is that I'm not really understanding the reasons for the lack of market activity. As a club that's up for sale there will be big pressure on cutting operational costs to make the books as attractive as possible. But, we've shed an awful lot of playing wage bill - so you have to think that would have freed a good amount of headroom. It may well be that we were carrying so much wage cost it was putting us into operating loss, but that would be veyr unusual for us.
If it's more the case that McLean is being extremely picky then that's fine and much needed after CD's scattergun approach but surely we're at the stage now where something has to happen. The big worry is that we're just not an attractive place for talent any more, which could easily be the start of a proper tailspin.
If we get to the end of the league cup groups without at lest 4 signings I'll be at the 'need to wring them out' stage. But then again, that's normal for this time of year with this club. Actually there's barely been a dry day for the last couple of years.
I reckon the 2023 financial year is going to be pretty bad based on the squad size we had last season. 100% we’ll have a big operating loss.
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I don’t think Mount’s a good signing at all tbh. There’s a load of deadwood at Man United that they need to get rid of. Maguire should be one of those out the door - could see him doing well in a league of lesser quality like Serie A alongside other average English defenders such as Smalling & Tomori.
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I’m not going to explain this to you again.
1. He had a long career at the top level (16 years in the EPL). Similar number of appearances to the likes of Gerrard who apparently played for ‘far longer’.
2. His decline was fairly gradual, over a number of seasons towards the end of his Man United career. It did not ‘fall of a cliff’.
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Bair must be record holder for most goals in bounce games surely? It’s a shame, he had all the physical attributes required to be a star in this league, just absolutely f**k all of the footballing ones. If you combined him with Ali Crawford then you’d have a half decent player, sadly this isn’t possible yet with the technology available and instead we have two hopeless players.
A big loss likely to come in the FY23 financial statements and we’ll be cutting our cloth accordingly. It’s just a pity that the unprecedented levels of expenditure last season yielded so little in the way of results. Feel for MacLean but hopefully there can be a couple of decent additions combined with youth team players stepping up.
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47 minutes ago, Satoshi said:
He was done at the top level by his early 30s. Most players of his generation lasted a lot longer than that.
And others who did fall off early, like Kaka or Owen, can blame it on injuries. Rooney didn't really have major injuries, it was mostly down to his lack of professionalism.
Bales form also fell off a bit of a cliff.
Also, given this thread contains multiple world record holders (with asterisks) the fact Rooney used to be good can't disqualify him from a massive, unexpected decline in form.
Rooney played 16 years in the Premier League, amassing nearly 500 league appearances and almost another 100 in the Champions League, winning multiple trophies and becoming top scorer ever for the league’s biggest club. Could you highlight which other names in this thread have anywhere close to his longevity?
Who are his contemporaries as top Premier League strikers? Probably Henry, Aguero, Fowler, Owen, Drogba, Shearer. Apart from Shearer the others hardly had much longer at the top level before fucking off to China/America or being crippled by injuries. Maybe a year or two maximum. Early 30s is the start of every player’s decline. Sure, Rooney probably a couple of years quicker than most but he burst onto the scene much earlier. He’s not mentioned in these sorts of conversations due to his incredible career & length of time at the top.
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Wayne Rooney is Man United’s top ever goalscorer, top three in the Premier League era, 50+ goals for England, multiple league titles, FA Cup, a Champions League. He had an incredible career, perhaps he retired earlier than some of his contemporaries but he was also playing at the top level at 16, which very few are. Don’t think it’s fair to list him alongside any of the names on this thread tbh.
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Will be interesting to see how he does in a non-farmer league.
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2 minutes ago, stimpy said:
See in the future when the last generation to fear and respect the unspoken authority of a voice on the phone has died off do you think these phone scam places will die away. Not completely dissappear but thin out with reduced demand.
I actually get pestered more these days by recruiters thinking they’re Jordan Belfort ‘pitching’ me some shitey job at a reduced salary.
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Crawford is a pea-hearted weakling in the mould of Scott Tanser. Him scoring the odd half decent strike shouldn’t mask this fact, similar as to how Tanser could whip a decent cross in.
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1 hour ago, craigkillie said:
If they're trying to scam people, then stringing them along for a few minutes could mean one less person getting ripped off.I hadn’t considered this altruistic angle. Really doing some tremendous work for the community there, Craig.
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Massive congratulations to top shagger Keysey on his recent marriage.
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1 hour ago, 19QOS19 said:
You've maybe had good fortune with the ones that call you. I either have to hang up or make up some nonsense to get them off the phone: I find the former ruder than the latter tbh.
The ones I get most the now are life insurance and when I tell them I have death in service which would pay the mortgage and still leave my family pretty comfortable they still continue to try and sell me a product I don't need. Arseholes.
I don’t tend to answer the phone to numbers I don’t recognise - if it’s important, they’ll leave a message.
I don’t think it’s rude to just say ‘sorry, I’m not interested’. Far better that than string them along on some hilarious wind up.
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I think in the future we’ll see more and more of this reversal of ‘traditional’ gender roles. I was reading an article recently which stated that women in their 20s are now earning more on average than their male counterparts.
I like the idea of being a househusband in theory and I reckon it would be class in the short term. 30/40 years of it and I’m not sure it’d be for me.
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1 minute ago, TxRover said:
Must be a different group of people you’re dealing with. Here it is usually the electronic “boink” as the call is routed to an available “agent”, and then someone with a horrendously thick Indian accent starts pitching something, starting by saying “This is Scott/Ralph/Vanessa/Judy…”
If that happened I’d hang up. I wouldn’t stick around chatting for some hilarious ruse to wind up some poor guy in India on £1 a day or whatever.
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I worked in a call centre just after uni, although it was an inbound centre so the people on the other end were actually needing to speak to you about something. I think cold calling must be horrendous, I certainly couldn’t do it. I don’t really get what people who piss these people about are getting out of it tbh, it’s seldom even remotely amusing.
I just tell them I’m sorry but I’m not interested and we can both go about our day. People aren’t doing these jobs out of a passion for cold calling. I actually rarely even answer the phone to a number I don’t know.
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1 hour ago, Cosmic Joe said:
"my own wedding" is a superfluous, and completely unnecessary, waste of keyboard usage.
I could imagine you cutting about in a Ghillie tbh.
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Anyone who wears a ‘Ghillie’ shirt should be locked up & hard drive checked.
If anyone wears one to my own wedding they’ll be barred from entry (& reported to the police).
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Double Winning St Johnstone FC Thread
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Aye I heard from all the old c***s in Lithuania. Can’t wait to tell folk about this in 40 years time.