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14 hours ago, Sheep62 said:
Bizarre how it's only The Hibees who seem to be able to find fault with the best result any Scottish team has ever managed in Georgia
Celtic are no longer a Scottish team, apparently.
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37 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
Hands down mays best performance as an Aberdeen player, this.
Tough competition.
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Jake Mulraney signs a new contract with Hearts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49090296
"The Irish winger, 23, scored 30 goals for the Tynecastle side after joining from ICT last summer."
You sure about that lads?
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Streamlining
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8 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
Means f**k all. One of the best international teams in the world only beat them 2-0, we weren't great there but the over reaction from Scotland fans really winds me up.
I totally get it and I was as seething as everyone else over McLeish, not because of the here and now but because I didn't see any point in it or future under him.
Clarkes in now, best man for the job, I do see a future now and will happily give the team the benefit of the doubt. Cyprus aren't a team we have the right to be swotting aside with ease.Even if you go back to the era when the Scotland men qualified for stuff, we scraped two wins against Cyprus in 1990 qualifying. Richard Gough header in the umpteenth minute of injury time over there, having been 2-1 down.
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5 hours ago, ekok said:
OMG we are truly gubbed when scraping a last minute win at home against the team ranked 102 in the world, is seen as any sort of success.
I will never boo our players or staff, but we need to engage our collective brains. Criticism is not necessarily being negative, it can be the catalyst for improvement.
This is our National Game, we have better attendance and participation stats than most countries, per capita. Yes the Cubs have far too big an influence with their corrosive self interest the absolute blot on our landscape. But we must aspire to do the best we can, not settle for indifferent mediocrity. Playing two up front at home against Cyprus would have been a better start for the new regime
Chicago White Sox should have more influence IMO.
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12 hours ago, Zing. said:
Been plenty figures about today. From 300k to £2m. Journo Alan Nixon is the source for the 300k but he seems to use absolute guesswork for most of his stuff.
Seems there’s quite a few Celtc fans in absolute denial about how good John McGinn is (along with Ewan Murray). Quite funny watching them all still refuse to admit he’s actually a very talented player.
If you can easily work out which team a journalist supports, they can be safely ignored. That goes for both English and Murray.
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On 16/05/2019 at 00:43, HibeeJibee said:
Per my original post - does anyone know how this will affect these clubs using their stadiums during the League Cup groupstage?
Dates don't really clash. Group games are being played on Tuesday 16th, Friday 19th and Monday 22nd. Semi finals on Thursday 25th and the final on Sunday 28th. i.e. no games on a Saturday. Only dates that might clash are the games on Tuesday 16th?
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3 hours ago, highlandcowden said:
id be much more interested in Scotland attempting to host tournaments up to u21 level(and spreading the games throughout the country) than the likes of this greedfest
Scotland is hosting the women's under-19s this year; games at Perth, Paisley, Glasgow (Firhill) and Stirling.
Northern Ireland is hosting the men's under-19s next year, although it's tough to qualify for that (only 7 places available).
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3 hours ago, Gordon EF said:
Don't the home nations just agree to use the same rules as everyone else?
Nope. Vast majority of national football teams represent independent nation states, so they just say that if you're a citizen then you're eligible. FIFA have a rule on top of this that require people to live for five years in their "new" country before playing internationally.
Different nation states have different citizenship rules. Some allow people with grandparents born there to become citizens (e.g. Ireland), others don't. Most states allow people to become citizens by naturalisation, so that's how you sometimes get Brazilians turning out for Qatar, UAE, etc.
This all means that the "rules" for other national teams can be quite different, e.g. it would be impossible for an adult to naturalise as a British citizen and then play for one of the home nations. It is possible for a child to naturalise and then play, under the education rule that was brought in about 10 years ago (e.g. Jordan Rhodes).
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9 hours ago, Gordon EF said:
Yeah, we define it by accident of your parents or grandparents birth!
To be clear I have no opinion about or problem with Jed Steer playing for Scotland. But why are we pretending the birth rule is any more or less arbitrary than the grandparent rule?
The home nations need to have "arbitrary" rules because otherwise each national team could pick whichever player with a British passport they liked, irrespective of their personal circumstances and ties (or lack of them) to that country.
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32 minutes ago, gannonball said:
They are trying to find players who make the squad better. Commitment also comes in to it but there have also been plenty of players who have been born in Scotland who clearly weren't that bothered (Boyd, Ferguson etc) where as players like Don Hutchison/Quashie who turned up to just about every game.
Graham Alexander was probably the most committed Scotland player of the last 20 years at least. Born down south, never played in Scotland, and didn't even play at a high level in England until later in his career. His dad was Scottish and he saw it as the biggest honour he could realistically achieve. Worked his way up to Preston and started getting picked when he was 30, when most players are about to chuck it. Made himself a regular and ended up with 40 caps, was a big part of the improvement under Smith / McLeish (first spell).
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2 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
Major historical revisionism from Tam Cowan on Sportsound.
Apparently all previous appointments since Craig Brown drew strong criticism - maybe except Walter Smith whom he omitted - but everyone agrees Steve Clarke is the best man.
I don't remember it like that... e.g. Levein and Burley were, like Clarke, welcomed and were the best/most competent/rising reputation available Scots at the time. Limiting yourself to Scots.
None except Vogts had any international experience, either.Pretty sure McLeish was welcomed the first time, as well. He'd had a bad season to finish at Rangers, but he had a pretty good track record up to then and even that bad season didn't look so bad when Le Guen came in and made a right hash of it. Also there was a feeling that McLeish was a "safe pair of hands" to keep going with the momentum started by Smith in the Euro 2008 qualifiers.
Strachan was universally welcomed - the TA had put up a "Strachan SOS" banner at Levein's last game.
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3 hours ago, Redstarstranraer said:
McGeouch was one of the most underrated players in Scotland for most of his time with us, albeit the constant injuries probably went a long way towards stopping him getting to where his talent could have taken him. I'm sure almost everyone would have him back at ER in a heartbeat.
Won't happen though unless it's a loan I don't imagine.
Aberdeen fans thinking a move to them would be a step up from Hibs is quaint though.
It sounds like he's had that kind of season at Sunderland. Showed some promise, but missed too many games due to injury. They irritated Ross to the point where he signed another midfielder (Leadbitter), who has mostly kept McGeouch out of the team since then.
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2 hours ago, Mr Heliums said:
Funny how the leaks have changed direction. Back in the 1970s, Jock Stein had to call up a journalist at the Daily Record to make them run a story about him being interested in the job.
According to Archie Macpherson's book about Stein, he told Macpherson to say on TV that he "understood" Stein was interested in the Scotland job. Stein then sort of denied this on the radio the next morning ("Archie was flying a kite"). Different time and circumstances, of course. Scotland job was more prestigious, we usually qualified for World Cups, had top players, and Stein wasn't 100% happy at Leeds.
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1 hour ago, C4mmy31 said:
That actually contradicts SC's comments in his pre Celtic presser where he stated he turned down 3 job offers since joining Killie.......
He also said one of them was Rangers. That leaves two other offers, which may or may not have been English, and didn't come to anything anyway.
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On 5/14/2019 at 12:56, Lyle Lanley said:
When was the last time that happened?
If you mean just to Hearts, 2012. They played Celtic on their trophy day that year, then won the cup final v Hibs a week later.
In general, it happens any time one of the OF win the league and are also playing in the SC final (e.g. this year, 2018, 2017, 2013, 2009, 2007, etc.).
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21 minutes ago, Highland Capital said:
Indeed but at the same time, what could he realistically do with Scotland? It's a hiding to nothing. I think if I was him I'd hold out for a job down south. Continue as he is at Killie and one will undoubtedly come along.
Will it? Clarke's brother was saying the other day that nothing has come along yet. The profile / reputation of Scottish football in England is basically nil. If Clarke doesn't want to take anything below the Championship, he could be waiting a long time.
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4 hours ago, tarapoa said:
Four wins in Glasgow vs the bigot brothers in past two seasons since Hibs were back in top flight - how does that compare to Hibs?
Aye, but your record against them at Pittodrie is awful. No wonder Milne wants to move to Kingsford.
Aberdeen's overall record v the gruesome twosome over the last two years:
P21 W4 D4 L13
Hibs record in the same period:
P18 W4 D7 L7
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4 minutes ago, Boostin' Kev said:
Probably best if the Aiberdeen fans get confined to the Juniors forum with the other thickos imo.
Looking forward to Cove Rangers skelping them in derbies on the way down.
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3 hours ago, EdinburghLivi said:
I think he's finished at right-back?
More like finished full-stop. Lennon tried to reinvent him as a holding midfielder, when McGeouch was injured (about a year ago), and then as a centre-back. He filled in once or twice in the Euro games, and looked really shaky even against the Faroese fishermen. Oddly enough, he did have a couple of semi-decent games back at right-back in December (while Gray was injured). I struggle to believe that any FT team would sign him, except as a player-coach type thing.
He's not played at all under Heckingbottom. I think his only recent appearance in public was in a Norwich end-of-season charity/celebration game. Although it's interesting to note who was playing in midfield in that team.
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54 minutes ago, Chicken George said:
Clarke can't be bothered with the Scottish League game anymore and all the pish that goes with it. Will combine living down south with Scotland job, plan to get us to one of the next two major tournaments, then go to English club.
Deal
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41 minutes ago, Rodhull said:
It's not even true really. Leith is gentrified as f**k now. It's all Sainsbury's and board games in pubs now.
Who knows, Leithers might even start voting Tory.
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"Kilmarnock manager appointed to national team coaching position"
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Aberdeen v Hearts
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Pretty sure that was included in the (longer?) highlights shown on the TV / iPlayer.