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11 minutes ago, nickCFC58 said:
None of them have shown interest in paying his development fee. Although that could change if they get desperate. I reckon Airdrie is a step down really (despite recent history) and Falkirk is a gamble as they’re in a huge mess at the moment. Championship teams also won’t be guaranteed starting XI every week, although he is capable
Given the fact he's only been with us a year and a half - despite not knowing exactly how such fees are calculated - I highly doubt the development fee due would be in any way prohibitive for any of those four clubs. We, ourselves, paid development fees for Ramsay and Cuddihy in the summer of 2017.
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If he was older than (almost) 22 and had more than not even half a season of impressive performances under his belt, then I'd be inclined to agree with you. In the end, it'll probably come down to how desperate he is to train five times a week as opposed to two. There aren't life-changing wages on offer at any of the interested clubs and I doubt - Airdrie and maybe Falkirk aside - he would be viewed as a nailed-on starter at the clubs mentioned, given the circumstances. A full injury-free season, working under a management team and at a club at which he's developed well so far, certainly wouldn't do his future prospects any harm, and if he were to stand out with us next season then I'd wager he would be attracting attention from more illustrious sides than the likes of Ayr and Morton. I do suspect he'll be away, but if he did stay then that isn't necessarily an unambitious decision, or one which will hinder his future prospects.
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3 minutes ago, Only one David Marsh said:
Falkirk, Airdrie, Morton and Ayr are all after Lang. I just hope he's see them all as a sideways step and sticks with us.
With the exception of Airdrie, I would say that the other three are all clear steps up, what with their resources and full-time statuses. In saying that, moving to a new club throws up various uncertainties and he'll know that at Clyde he's one of the first names on the team sheet, able to develop his game under two good coaches and is also appreciated and supported by the fans. He could have his heart set on playing full-time football, but equally he could be enjoying/earning more from the combination of his part-time job, his modelling work and playing for us. Our best offer might not be good enough in the end, but I'd be very disappointed if he ditched us to go to Airdrie. I wouldn't have any massive grumbles about any of the other three sides, but there's a stability and familiarity here which they can't offer.
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I wonder what size of squad we'll end up with. I'd say we need at least five more - Lang, McNiff and McStay (or similar replacements) plus a back-up 'keeper and a starting-quality dedicated left-back. If I was being really greedy, then I'd want another central midfielder with a good engine on top of that.
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I'm not privy to what our budget situation is going into next season and how it compares to last season's, but recent signings could come down to resource allocation, with bigger money being held back to recruit quality in defence and midfield. Lennon will have an idea in his mind of what we'll require going into next season and we've got a good blend of forward options signed, as it stands. Plenty of experience, anyway, which makes sense in terms of hitting the ground running.
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There's yer Tony Wallace confirmed. Two-year deal, a solid if unspectacular signing. Adds some physicality and versatility, so happy enough with that.
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Looked a right sore one, but you'd be unlucky to be out for longer than two months for the vast majority of ankle injuries. Looked more like a sprain or ligament damage than a break to me.How's Goodwillie's ankle injury ? Have I missed any news on it ?-1 -
It's clear to me that Ross Lyon is an extremely talented player whose ability couldn't properly shine through against the lumbering cloggers within League Two; his magnificent, goal-laden spell on-loan at Stranraer the season before joining us is evidence that he thrives in a more competitive environment. Could be a big player for us next season, IMO.
It's a little sad to see Mr. Shithouse go, but I think everyone kind of knew his departure was in the offing. The big man deserves to be clattering into folk for ninety minutes every week at whichever level he can, and it's been clear for some time that he doesn't fit into the way we play. I'm gutted that we will no longer have him available to come off the bench and body folk in defence of the leads we might hold.
Love is an alright squad player, experienced certainly and a decent option to have. Again, might not really fit into how we play but then that could be subject to some change depending on what happens with the other "unknowns" within last season's squad...
Which takes me to my last point(s). McNiff has clearly been offered terms, but he's best mates with Nicoll and I think the delay in any decision will centre around the fact Lennon can't promise him that he'll be a starter next year. It sounds extremely harsh on a guy who scored an exorbitant number of (crucial) goals last year, but he's not an ideal long-term solution at left-back and we should be aiming to have better than him as first choice at centre-back. I'll be upset if he does leave, as he'd be a cracking squad player and would probably still see a fair bit of action next term.
What happens with the other three (Lang, Grant and McStay) could go a long way to defining our ambitions for next season. Hopefully they'll all look back on how far they've each come under Lennon and Moore in the past eighteen months, want to stay part of that dressing room and continue their development in a safe and nurturing environment rather than twisting.
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Currie isn't Ederson, so you'd have been as well not signing anyone IMO.
He's an upper-half League Two goalkeeper, all-in, who remains at this level because he has some deficiencies in his game. He's improved a fair bit under Lennon, but still isn't the best at commanding his area or communicating. Quite a small 'keeper, too, and as has been said a fair bit recently he seems to struggle with well-struck shots which bounce right in front of him. His kicking and ability with the ball at feet is tremendous, though, about as good as you can expect at this level. Some of his long kicks went out of play towards the end of this season because he was under instruction to distribute it to the left touchline, but he's pretty accurate up to a right good range.
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Based on what little there is to go on, I would be installing Annan, Cove and Stenhousemuir as promotion contenders at the moment. It's still far too early to make any sort of informed predictions, though. I think Elgin will struggle next season, though, given their late form and the way their squad is shaping up.
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Props to 'RJM Sports Ltd' on one of the worst video productions I've ever seen. Nice kits they're supplying, right enough.
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Alan Martin next and we can call it there, I reckon. Anything on top of that would just be unfair.
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Jake, I know you're hurting right now but this is a true test of the nature of your love. If you really, truly and purely love him, in time you'll be prepared to let him go and chase his heart's true desire. Maybe you're too young and idealistic still to know this, but for virtually every part time player at the moment, that desire is Clyde FC. Darren will be well looked after and your coming support of us - whether DLS-based or more than that - is very, very welcome. Hopefully some of our released players can help plug the gap x
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Delighted to announce that I'm signing for Queen's Park next season, having scored 53 goals at my weekly fives game since August.
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6 hours ago, YHallSaint said:
Bronze pack method has really worked out, sitting watching television doing it on my iPad every nigh for an hour probably mad about a million coins in the last 7-8 weeks
Do you do the bronze/silver/gold upgrade teams with guys that don't sell/untradeables? I am a long-term proponent of the BPM and made a right good amount on the web app this FIFA doing it. Will look at completely abusing it next time and then punting my coins to someone early in the cycle when you can earn a fair whack from them; within a few weeks this year I sold someone enough coins that the game had paid for itself
It's brilliant fun to do, as well, as you can open millions of packs without burning coins and semi-guaranteed profit to boot. Give me a rare silver from a 400 pack over a walk-out from a 50k pack any day.
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Chelsea will continue to struggle (in terms of challenging), what with their transfer ban and lack of depth - even if Hazard stays. Other than that, the only prediction I can confidently make is that Manchester United will struggle to get into the top four for at least half a decade, barring simultaneous collapses by two of the five sides above them. Any good manager or player would be mad to go there right now; they are a proper basket-case of a club and it's going to be great watching the next few years unfolding. Their squad and footballing management structure are a pair of imbalanced shambles and top-class players will have loads of better options while demand outstrips supply in the market. Barring a miracle, no manager is going to be afforded long enough there to put a feasible and cohesive recovery plan in place.
City will probably win the league again, but their transfer business is also pretty important. Jesus started off like a house on fire but seems to have regressed, even at his tender age. I think they need another striker and, of course, a long-term Fernandinho replacement, while there's also talk of them offloading Otamendi and Danilo and bringing in defensive reinforcements. New bodies in the former two areas would likely see a decent amount of action next season, so how those signings adapt will have quite a big impact on their season IMO. In saying that, City's recruitment record has been very good of late. Liverpool should give them a good battle again, right enough.
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24 minutes ago, Poet of the Macabre said:
Ok, that episode was actually rather dull and also made little sense.
It was many things, but I don't think dull is one of them. It contained one of the most shocking turns of the entire series with a character who could rightly be optimistically perceived as a (for once) fair leader of the people torching thousands for virtually no reason, and fulfilling her family's prophecy of being fucking raving pyromaniacs. And also Jaime's prophecy of being deeply in love with his bat-shit sister.
I get that Danerys being a baddie by the end was obvious but why pull the trigger with one episode left? If you’d done this a season ago then you’d have so much more build up and it would actually mean something when Arya kills her next week. Instead, someone who turned heel a week ago will get killed and folk are supposed to care.
What sort of build-up, though? If there was a full season of it then it would be a massively, needlessly and nonsensically drawn-out affair. I doubt anyone other than the unsullied are with her now and I don't see at all how they could have written it for everyone to have feasibly turned against her before now, with things remaining anywhere close to how they now are.
Everyone debates who will get Cercei in the end and it’s...a few rocks. Yippee.
It depends on what you're after but I quite like complexity in my characters and, although she's a monster, Cersei hasn't always been a complete psychopath. If she has died alongside Jaime (I don't think it's totally impossible for her to have survived, given how some other things have played out) then I think it's a good ending for them both, showing both Jaime's flaws and the progressively-more-unseen human side to Cersei.
They also don’t seem to realise that there’s only so many times you can watch random extras get burnt to a crisp before you stop caring. Dany is bad, we get it, please move on.
There were certainly plenty of incineration scenes but they served a purpose in highlighting that she genuinely did want to torch the entire city rather than just merk some of it and its population.
I love Arya as well but her getting battered senseless over and over and over and over and over again but then being sad because folk she met 10 mins ago got killed. Christ.
A character showing compassion. What madness will they think of next?
As for the Clegane battle, I enjoyed it mostly. They both die fighting each other was quite predictable though and it was sad that the Hound had to die in fire. Should have just pushed Mountain into the flames and died laughing due to his injuries.
I'm no doctor, but I think it's far more likely that Sandor will have died from the multiple-hundred-foot drop before he even felt the heat of the fire on the ground.
They’ve made a mess of this final season and it’s painfully obvious when you go back and watch episodes from the first few seasons. I think the white walkers were the main appeal of the show and the idea that people have to unite with unlikely allies to save their species. Instead they focus on Dany, the least interesting character in the whole show.
There are lots of things they could've done better, but I wouldn't call it a mess. Different folk will have different ideas of what the 'main appeal' is; to single out Dany is odd when there have been many significant plot lines running concurrently throughout the entirety of the show. Only in this season has it properly started to unify.
Disappointing.
Edit - I forgot one; Arya slowly but surely gets turned into a ruthless assassin, who will stop at nothing to get revenge on those who have wronged her family. She kills the Night King, she’s the biggest badass in Westeros...but Hound tells her it’s not safe and she should go home and she says “ok” and leaves. Staggeringly bad writing/storytelling.
I'm not sure what you really want from the show, but it would be pretty damn boring for me if characters only developed to a point and underwent no further development or change. Over the last wee while we've seen her engaging in some of her first human acts since she witness her father's execution, from reunions with her siblings and The Hound to her romantic conquest with Gendry. It was clear that Cersei was going to die, in any case, and Clegane made that clear to Arya while showing care for her survival.
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2 minutes ago, DC92 said:
So why did she destroy it after she'd already won? It made no fucking sense.
Oh, I forgot. She's MAD now.
Well, I doubt she gives a solitary f**k about the physical form of the throne like some in the kingdom seem to. She's wanted to rule Westeros from the outset and, to me, it seems like most of the good deeds she's done were to show everyone that she is a 'good Targaryen', as well as the rightful heir to the throne. She knows Jon, knows how much he's loved and respected throughout the land and yet finding out that he has more of a claim than her only made her wish to assert even more his subordination to her. It'll be very pleasing if she's offed next week (Jaime would be my preference, although a massively outside bet rn) and the social media meltdown from her stans will be supremely savoury.
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2 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:
The Danaerys thing has been foreshadowed, no question. But there was nothing to suggest that level of brutality. It was a cop-out in the sense that her decent was basically from A to B to C.... to Z. The problem, I think, is not where she ended up, but the speed at which things degenerated. I very rarely feel this about television series, but I think as stated above, this is a series too short, and it's been shown up in this final series. That's largely a problem with the source material, but still.
I do believe that there are serious pacing issues at this stage and have said so before in this thread - the first two episodes of the season, which account for about a quarter of the total run-time, saw very little in the way of serious plot or character development, which is pretty unforgivable when they made a conscious choice to wrap it up in six episodes. However, Daenerys' own personal judgement has been shocking for a while now, she's had very itchy feet with regards to seizing the throne and she's also been very begrudging of late when following the conflicting advice of those close to her. What with her two irreplaceable confidantes in Missandei and Jorah both being given their jotters mere days/weeks apart, an accelerated heid's-gone is kind of understandable. Plus, it wouldn't have made what happened last night as shocking if she'd extensive previous for committing gradually more heinous acts - though, I think some people tend to forget what she did to the Tarlys. When the Kings Landing bells rung out, I - though others may disagree - wasn't sure quite what she was going to do. My personal feeling was that she would light the entire place up, but there was a doubt there which made the eventual outcome all the more brutal.
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The way that the show is now - not-so-clever, more action-based - is a direct result of what's come before. Many of the big players in terms of the battle for the throne have been wiped out, along with most of the intelligent schemers such as Tywin, Littlefinger and Olenna. The show, for me and no doubt others, was better when it was more political, but as things progressed it was always going to end up funnelling into what we have now.
It's been very funny seeing all the really odd and creepy 'stans' of specific characters, in last night's case Daenerys, utterly outraged about what's going on. How thick do you seriously have to be to wilfully ignore the clear deterioration of her character and her descent into madness? She has been power-mad for some time now, and has pretty much only ever cared about sitting on the throne at any cost. Her advisors in Jorah, Varys and Tyrion have consistently talked her down from making dreadful, tyrannical decisions in the past - and even then, that hasn't stopped her at times. This has been nailed on from fairly early on in her arc, in my opinion, and folk claiming that her heel turn was lazy writing or a deeply misogynistic cop-out on the writers' part is just hilarious.
Some massive bones can be picked about the plausibility of the dragon coasting through the Iron Fleet spitting flames, but meh. The Clegane show-off was really good and it was very pleasing to see one of the show's best characters achieving his goal. I hope Jaime and Cersei aren't dead, because that would add another layer of intrigue next week. It's impossible to speculate about what will happen in the finale, because curveballs have been the show's currency throughout. I'm looking forward to finding out how it all ends.
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Clyde had a bespoke effort with Hummel a few seasons ago and it took until at least October (I think it was November, actually) for them to be shipped to us.
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I don't know a great deal about the guy but my interpretation of the picture in the context (which is, of course, important) is that it is a ridiculing piece of commentary on how the royals treat their children and portray them to the public. Pictures of the royal children released amid a massive clamour (really?) always have the kids posing in a very trained fashion, wearing all manners of ridiculous upper-class formal garb, pretty much as soon as they can stand on two feet. In my mind, it's a sad indicator of how much cancel culture prevails these days and I don't believe there is a single bit of racist intent behind it.
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Clyde FC; Season 2022-23
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We get to pump Hamilton, Thistle, Airdrie and QP before the league season begins. Wonderful stuff.