Theyellowbox
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If I'm Levein, that interview with Sprangler is exactly what I want to read. Saying he wants to fight to get into team, is happy to be here and thinks we can push for top 6.
Putting the Airdrie result to one side, there's not much over the last 2 months to suggest we cannot push for top 6, but these next handful of games will confirm or kill that notion.
In a way, the defeat in the cup, while obviously a sore one, will have to Levein and Kirk a lot about this squad, most of which they probably already knew, but probably crystallised who stays and who goes. Still enough time for movement in transfer window. Most around us in table I suspect will wnd up weaker at the end of the window, but I suspect we will be have a better squad at the end than we started with.
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2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
Stuart McCaffrey technically signed twice didnt he? Once on loan, once permanently, but that feels like cheating as he never left and then came back.
Murray Davidson too, sort of. Left when out of contract, but then resigned.
Team could be managed by John Connelly.
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5 hours ago, Diamond1924 said:
I personally don’t think there’s much difference in quality between the top half of the championship and the bottom half of the premiership.
As virtually everyone has pointed out, we have performed very well against premiership teams in recent years so I have absolutely no concerns about playing a Craig Levein St Johnstone side.
0-4 St Johnstone win.
I think while on any given day a top half championship side can and will often beat a bottom half premiership side, I actually think there is quite a gulf to be honest. Sort of depends on the clubs to be fair. Dundee and County were able to throw a relatively decent amount of money at their squads after promotion that I'm not sure an Airdrie or and Ayr would be able to. Not to say if you got promoted you wouldn't stay up, but bar Utd, I'd imagine pretty much every player from the bottom 6 clubs would be a starter for the top 6 championship clubs (Ali Crawford aside).
On this game in particular, it's almost impossible to call for me. Despite all I say above, we have been rotten for most of this season and while doing OK under Levein, are still a team with problems and turning over a few players in this window. Throw that, plus the break, the pitch, weather and a very decent Airdrie side and I'm not sure anyone could be confident of predicting anything here.
For me, Airdrie should never have been anywhere but where they currently are or higher and are getting the consistency that the size of club deserves. Obviously the last 20 years has impacted the standing to an extent and I would assume crowd sizes, but given the history, stadium and rivalries Airdrie would bring, I'd much rather Airdrie in the top flight than a County or a Livi. Airdrie fans will I'm sure have less care for Saints, but for many Saints fans probably late 30's and older, Airdrie have a big significance in the post Muirton era for the club given the 89/90 season and the name alone stirs something extra than probably most other clubs.
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22 hours ago, Ludo*1 said:
Individually, I don't think you've ever had a great squad on paper. Some great players, sure, but I've always viewed you as a cohesive unit. A club that gets limited players buying in and giving 100% and incredibly difficult to beat. You had experience littered throughout the team at your peak that again, individually wouldn't be that attractive a proposition for another club's fans to sign such as your Frazer Wrights, Steven Anderson's, Brian Easton's, Paddy Cregg's, Tam Scobbie's etc. You also had players that could turn on the talent a wee bit and just win a game out of nowhere such as Wotherspoon, O'Halloran, Swanson, Craig etc and if that failed you had the likes of Murray Davidson ready to try and bulldoze the opposition.
It's that, that you've lost. You're no longer an absolute chore to play against and that's what Davidson lost you guys. I always used to come on here and brazenly predict your bubble was about to burst as your latest batch of older experienced players were winding down, but you managed to keep cycling the team... until Davidson went mental and seemed to rip that right out of your side with about 30 signings and not many fit that mould of steady eddie that you need to be successful and even fewer fit the mould of being game changers.
Absolutely spot on assessment of Saints. Sort of surprising that others have really copied the template really.
Saints really built a foundation on the above approach and reaped the rewards. The additions of the likes of Kerr, McCann and Clark took it to another level, but was far too quickly dismantled. Like every other team, the 'golden squad' was torn apart by selling best assets. Although, while I'd imagine if you asked 100 Saints fans for the best team from the last 15 years, you'd get 100 answers, but would imagine it would be heavily weighted to the c2014 squad than 2021.
Davidson tried to change a very identifiable structure and it failed. Levein I'd say is more like Wright in his thinking.
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35 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Surely we just offer him a PCA? As said he cant play anywhere else this season and Wigan are absolutely fucked financially (again) so wont be offering him anything.
No real need for us to pay a fee unless we havent learned from the Cammy MacPherson saga.
Yes, I think we can offer him a PCA and because it is cross border I don't think we'd be due them a development fee. Even of we were, you could agree with Wigan a % of future sale in return for no fee now, like we did with AIK.
Could there be a situation with both Montgomery and Robinson in the same team? Robinson LCB and Montgomery LWB? Don't think we will get Montgomery again, but you never know.....
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52 minutes ago, The Saintee said:
It speaks volumes that Davidson didn't get a job down south on the back of the double season. Guys up here have achieved far less and strolled into "decent" jobs in England.
That's my view too. Even after getting sacked, you'd have thought someone down south would have looked at the Double win snd his career as an assistant down there and taken a punt.
On a side note, last time we had a former Scotland defender as manager in his first season at the club, we signed an Israeli out of contract player too and that didn't end just too badly. So, rest easy lads, Scottish cup win is innevitable.
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2 hours ago, scottsdad said:
Is this report and speech going to make a single voter switch from a No to a Yes?
To be honest, I don't think there is much the SNP can really say to turn no's to yesses, but there is things they can say to soften some yesses.
I think what might shift people to yes is if Labour in UK under Starmer are just another shade of Tory when in power. That and/or there is some serious sucking up to Trump if reelected by a Labour government.
Yousaf needs to chose his arguments as while I like a lot of what he has to say, sometimes he can come across shouty and smarmy.
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2 hours ago, PauloPerth said:
Wednesday certainly manipulated the sale to Preston to avoid the sell on clause. Steve Brown discussed it way back in the first fan forum (the same day May finally signed back at Saints from Aberdeen funnily enough).
It went along the lines that Preston paid Wednesday a sum (around £1m I think) which triggered a sell-on clause for May. But Wednesday also threw in some wee haddy youth team player and claimed he was costing £50k or whatever so the fee for May didn’t hit the sell on trigger, as they’d only been paid £950k (or whatever the sum was, for May).
Presumably Preston go along with it as they benefit from paying slightly less.
Brown reckoned we were stitched up, but were now wiser to the fact, and future sell on clauses wouldn’t allow players thrown in etc to enable this to happen.
We did something similar when we signed Billy Dodds. Grant McMartin was thrown into the deal and Dundee avoided a sell on fee to Chelsea or certainly it was a reduced fee as a result.
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1 minute ago, Derry Alli said:
At least you yokels won't have to waste another day off work l. You'll already have it being booked off to spend the day with your sisters.
And you'll get to spend it with your mum/auntie, so all good.
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8 minutes ago, KingRocketman II said:
the top is photo-shopped....
So it is!
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Willie Collum is not corrupt, he is just not very good as are many of his colleagues. The irony of Rangers screaming about bias against them is just hilarious to fans of all other clubs aside from their sister club across Glasgow.
If Rangers want re litigation for audio during games, bring it on. Would love to hear the take on the sectarian singing belted out every game. Despite what might be portrayed, the rules state clubs can be punished for it if they are not being seen to do anything about it. Pretty sure if it could be clearly heard via a mic'd up ref, it cannot be ignored.
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23 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:
And just for balance.
They must think the electorate are stupid.
Exactly. The strip over shirt combo is always the worst. Half expect the label hanging out.
That lib dem one is worse still as a) there is 2 pints for 4 people b) he is celebrating and no one else is and c) he is celebrating, but the TVs behind show an ongoing game.
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2 hours ago, Suspect Device said:
Rishi was obviously glued to the darts. Or just got a minion to post this tweet to show how "in touch with the common man" he is.
Fucking laughable.
Expect to see more of this as the year progresses. Back in 1996, the equally flailing Tories piggy backed onto Euro 96 as they saw a slight upturn in the polls whenever England did well in sport. I'm sure someone will either be able to confirm or correct me, but I think it was Alastair Campbell who was actually rooting for Germany to beat England in the semi as they could see a bounce for the tories if England won Euro 96... with the Euros coming up and likely pre election, you can guarantee there will be some Eton educated advisors sitting round thinking how best to make the Tories not seem like total cvnt$.
Like Cameron with his Villa/West Ham nonsense, as soon as they try to seem like the 'man on the street' they spectacularly fail.
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1 hour ago, Fifespud said:
Don’t tell him your name Pike!
BTW, Castle Grayskull was the good guys, snake mountain is where you mean.
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1 hour ago, Fifespud said:
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Did you not have one vs Ross County called off too? Apologies if I have that wrong.
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I take the view that a postponement or two is almost expected each winter. There is wiggle room in the fixture list to allow for this. Slight issue is when you get more than a couple, you start to get a bit of congestion, which helps no one. Dundee as a club need to do some investigations as to whether there is a wider issue or as someone said, the impact of some freak, although likely to increase in liklihood, weather conditions.
I suspect there is a balancing act to be done in terms of the club as to what they want to say. On the one hand, they could just put it down to exceptional weather and that if there is fault, it is down to the pitch solely. On the other, they don't want to necessarily want to be blaming the wider infrastructure in the area, as presumably, they will want to sell the land for housing and so don't really want to be banging on about how bad the sewage and drainage is in the area as that'd drive down the value.
I suspect, the above is in part why Dundee were happy to blame the SFA for Aberdeen game and equally happy to say very little about this one, which would make sense to me.
I think everyone is frustrated at what would have been a good crowd for an important fixture for both teams, will now be much delayed, but if the pitch wasn't playable, probably frustratingly the right decision to postpone.
I think Dundee will and should probably not, get any kind of sanction for having the 3 games called off so far, but I'd imagine any more and more serious questions would need to be asked.
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28 minutes ago, Derry Alli said:
You said its been a normal winter.
We are barely into winter. October isn't winter and yet your pitch was flooded then. 3 of your 10 home games have had to be postponed so far and we aren't into the time of the year where we have the harshest weather. We haven't had long frozen spells or much in the way of heavy snow.
Whatever way you cut it, Dundee are at fault. Throw in the whole antiquated way of selling tickets, Dundee just look amateurish.
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27 minutes ago, Derry Alli said:
Nah, just towns getting evacuated and major road links being fucked for months.
And yet the games postponed at Dens have been nothing to do with these storms!
Snowbound and frozen pitches used to be the major cause of postponed games. Dundee having 2 games called off in such a short space of time for a waterlogged pitch, while playing a game in between is just bad maintenance tbh.
If Saints continued to have games called off, we would be rightly slammed. Motherwell used to have pitch problems and did something about it. Doubt Dundee will and will use the move to the new stadium as cover to not invest in Dens.
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Total joke. Postponements will always happen, we live in Scotland after all, but 3 already this season and it's not been that bad a winter is not good. Surely if they knew the rain was coming, they could have put down covers or something?
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1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:
Hard to know as translations can be funky.
He was contracted there for another 12 months, and they paid a fee for him 2 years ago, though.
Totally unsure of him as its hard finding footage.
I suppose it could be a case of let him go for free, but in order to do so, take a cut of any future sell on.
In a way, it is encouraging as it means that they must see even a potential for him to kick on. That said, we had the same with Bair....
Let's hope that Levein doesn't do the same as previous managers and hold him back in the same way we did with Melamed and Etu. Let him lose on Dundee today.
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Kimpioka confirmed by AIK. Saying there is a sell on clause, which suggests we have paid a fee for him.
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41 minutes ago, Dee Bliss said:
If he’s in direct competition with McCowan he won’t play.
I would be very surprised if he isn't anything more than a squad player for you guys. Maybe with his pace, someone who you could stretch a game if brought off the bench for last 5/10 mins.
A dozen games really isn't enough the judge a players entire career on, but, what is evident is that he is severely lacking at mens football. For being relatively a big guy, he gets pushed of the ball very easily and thinks any challenge on him is a foul. As others have indicated, seems very unclear on positioning etc and if I'm honest, I think the Scottish Premiership is a level or two to high for him at the moment.
For every Beck, there will be 4/5 Lewis and Costelloes, just the nature if these loans.
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9 hours ago, Ludo*1 said:
I don't mean to exaggerate, but I hadn't saw a worse performance from a professional footballer since Raith had some random foreign guy at CH on for his debut in a cup tie about 4-5 year ago as Costelloe was that day. Genuinely horrific.
Bet he would make a great signing for someone.....
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8 minutes ago, Paris Hilltoon said:
Mind that time Danny McNamara went back to Millwall and a hero emerged from the shadows.
We can but hope.
Not inconceivable that same hero returns.....
I think Levein will have known Wigan would potentially recall him and he'll have been actively working on a solution.
I'd put good money on the bulk of the players we bring in being players familiar with the league, certainly the defensive ones.
There is a small part of me that makes me wonder if Levein liking a big powerful forward and Nouble clearly not happy at Livi might make for some kind of deal to be done. Clearly we won't pay a fee, but could do a PCA potentially....
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Tory Lies, Corruption and Hypocrisy- Add Them Here
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Clearly been told to go out and bash the BBC, but has absolutely no idea why and no real evidence.
All they have left in the playbook now is a phony culture war and will stick to it until the bitter end.
Journalist should keep the receipts and when out of office, essentially ignore these no marks when they come crawling looking for exposure.