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1 hour ago, SimonLichtie said:
A fairly primary school playground response to this, but what are they gonna do if we don't play him?! Make us?!
I expect the most likely situation is there are two wage percentages in his loan agreement. One that we pay if he plays for us, and one that we pay if he doesn't. Essentially the 'punishment' for not playing Boruc would be that we have to pay a higher percentage of his wage in the weeks we play games and he doesn't. Quite simply they cant make us play him, and if the manager thinks we have a better option in goal then he can, should and I expect will go with it.
There is of course also the bigger picture - if we take a player on loan, tell his parent club he's almost definitely gonna play, and then bench him quickly after his signing for no real reason, don't expect that club or manager to be loaning you players for a few years afterwards....
I'm happy enough with Boruc and have no issues with his performances so far. I don't think his kicking has particuarly cost us/ hampered us in any games despite it being an obvious weak spot for him and I think the other parts of his game seem to be at the required level.
Heard a story years ago, that a premier league club forced a club to burn a subby, to get a loan player into the starting line up, after their player was named on the bench
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42 minutes ago, Tattie36 said:
A draw today not the end of the world but means we have to win the next 2.
Draws are fine if you’re ticking along, but absolutely no use, if you’re where we are
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1 hour ago, RedLichtie86 said:
Only player we could possibly see going out on loan is Turan. Could possibly see Stowe going too but unlikely.
Jacobs, Turan and Stowe
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10 hours ago, relichtie said:
Pars have signed Chris Kane on loan from St Johnstone. The loan market is still open till end of February I think. We should be trying to utilise it imo.
Need to get some out first
9 hours ago, WHM said:Stevie May not even getting into the match day squads just now at St Johnstone.
Get him in
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6 hours ago, Lichteeeeee said:
Ave spoke to Hammy, someone did do a big dirty groger on his reebok jacket
A wasnt a big DC fan, but some of our fans need put on a leash, i bet it was someone from Pie and Bovril who done it, they were calling him a fat bas and all that too, and i swear the guy shouting ya fat bas has had more cholesterol than the whole of the spartans crowd put together.
As someone who has been spat on, it’s a disgusting, cowardly assault, and it’s an assault, the sheriff at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, said so, when he gave the perpetrator 30days, so if this happened it’s time to name and shame
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13 hours ago, third lanark said:
I think Arbroath really need to bin McIntyre to have a chance to stay up as guy has done nothing and looks to have taken them backwards since he has joined
Enough of this nonsense, we have had enormous injuries, often nearly half our squad injured, so please take your uninformed nonsense elsewhere
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1 hour ago, 36-0 Maroon said:
Well said mate
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Let’s just get our Key players back and give it all we have got. I honestly don’t care about anyone else or what they are doing. Let’s just focus on ourselves and get back to what we are best at and see where it takes
3 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:I honestly do not care.
Just looking forward to seeing some normality again and us having a decent team on the park again and enjoyable Saturdays more often than not
Dont care if that’s Championship or League 1. Maybe League 1 will ground us a wee bit cause I feel like we’ve lost a wee bit of what made us so successful
Still by far the biggest and best part time club - get back to that
No time for players to play themselves back in, need to be firing from the off
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4 hours ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:
Looking like yet another failure from McIntyre.
Surprise surprise.
Thank you.
4 hours ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:Thank you, just think you could've done better than him.
Thought Dundee had a terrific win yesterday, in fact having a fine season, Tony Doc, appears to have been an inspired appointment, seems to be a lot of positives around Dens Park just now, they are sleeping giants, maybe possibly a slight awakening happening, after many false dawns, so with all this, why the f**k, are you still obsessing about McIntyre
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They went to Buffalo, won, went to Baltimore, won, love them or loathe them, they know how to win big games, no matter who wins later, it won’t daunt them
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2 hours ago, keptie said:
Clearly they are trying to generate cash to better the club, but It's pretty simple as far as i'm concerned, give if you want to give, don't give if you don't want to give. Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head.
No sure the club is broke
1 hour ago, Anotherlichtie said:Nice to have some support
And another thing. Where has the GoPro/match day albums gone? I still see the club photographer sitting pitch side and the GoPro set up behind the goal.
oddly enough we changed our YouTube channel after the Airdrie game at home, the change can only be down to the of manager, surely
we have gone from being a club, who was open to supporters, to everything, to now everything being shrouded in mystery
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51 minutes ago, RedLichtie86 said:
Lets hope we have players able to return from injury in 3 weeks time. Or more players signed.
We might be down to 1 sub by then.
Nah, no more signings, go with what we have, no more chucking money at this, play it out, if it’s relegation, its relegation, rebuild in league1, and come again
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40 minutes ago, lichtiekev said:
It looked like he tried to pull out the first challenge, but rules are its probably a booking
The 2nd one isn't a foul yet alone a booking,
If that was against your team you would be fuming
To get a second yellow, is bad enough, to get a second yellow’, when we are so stretched is unforgivable
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7 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
I would say more of a winger with McIntosh / Bird and Robinson all uptop
Definitely need a centre half though - really hope Delaney makes it back tomorrow
Absolutely this, a wide player is a must
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1 hour ago, RedLichtie86 said:
I have it on good authourity Dick resigned. Didnt have to pay him or the others a penny.
He just didnt think the board would accept his resignation.
Heard he did the same thing at Forfar, but apparently he never had a contract at Forfar, and only had a contract with us, for the past couple of years
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17 minutes ago, lichtiekev said:
Probably sounds absolutely dramatic, and maybe premature,
But the club have a massive decision to make, do you keep throwing money away buying players and have a squad of 30+ players and still get relegated,
Or just go with what we got,
Seems like everything is against us this season and all luck has ran out and relegation is inevitable
to survive, we need to win at least 7 of our remaining games, a tough ask
agree with this, I know the club has money, but that’s for the long term stability of the club, maybe we just have to go with what we have, if we go down, no disaster, we rebuild and go again
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Think the large lady may well be beginning to warm up
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1 hour ago, Hammerafc said:
Nothing stuck to Bird yesterday. Just one of those games and got nothing from the ref including when he was almost in a choke hold. Without it sticking for Bird it was difficult for Robinson to get much of a look in plus he isn't up to speed yet. Too early to tell yet.
Couldn’t do much considering how much of his shirt the No5 had a hold of, refs are letting centre half’s away with everything, if the refs need stamp this out early in the game
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3 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
I’m definitely not sold on MacKinnon, he put in a few very good crunching tackles but overall looked very gangly and slow and unassured on the ball (which is to be expected considering he was a 20 year old young lad who had played at Brora the first half of the season and had to go in and play a lot longer than expected in a paper patchwork team) jury definitely still out for me
I’ve never seen injuries like this in all my time watching Arbroath - never noticed anything this bad at any other team either
If Dundee United were missing 12 players - majority of them starters and some key players in there too they’d be struggling as well never mind us
Looked a better player than Robinson
1 hour ago, 1320Lichtie said:Hylton was absolutely excellent - I dunno where he will end up - if he goes to League 1 that seems like a bad choice on his part. I’m sure he could get a better deal elsewhere I suppose it just depends on his circumstances in personal life. Seen rumours of him going back down south.
I watched the highlights back - it’s a completely different feeling for me than last year was even though both years we’ve been down the wrong end of the table. This year I actually feel quite satisfied and even a wee bitty impressed with how some players and McIntyre have handled this whole situation.
Scott Stewart for example - the guy has just been incredible - he’s an unsung hero and we should do whatever we can to keep him around
That is not to take away from all the rest of them either cause they’ve all dug in deep but him especially. Just doing a good good job all over the park. What a guy
he will go to whoever pays him the most
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When are clubs going to say enough is enough with some of these refs, stonewall penalty, denied, also, how much shirt is enough to merit a foul, am in absolutely no doubt, defenders get away with loads and get the advantage
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50 minutes ago, lichtie23 said:
It’s a stonewall penalty by the way
Absolutely, Stowe had no reason to go down
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Just now, Lichtie78 said:
Have it from a good source he was impressive first half of the season at Montrose, and less so second half. Rated highly though, and more attack minded. Hopefully can do us a turn.
Probably play, until McKenna comes back
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14 minutes ago, Tattie36 said:
twat.
Just a bit premature
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31 minutes ago, ecto said:
We really coming into a run of games, that very much could, make or break our season, and to be quite frank, it’s bordering on negligent, the lack of signings
I will get my coat
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38 minutes ago, lichtie23 said:
No Friday signings then
We really coming into a run of games, that very much could, make or break our season, and to be quite frank, it’s bordering on negligent, the lack of signings
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The Arbroath Thread
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scout told the manager, to leave the player out, went against the loan agreement, which stipulated the player must start, the team made a substitution after about 5 minutes and on trotted the loanee