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13 minutes ago, madton said:
Gavin Gunning was all set to come back to Morton but has played for 2 clubs already this season ( just 1 game for Billericay) so sounds like it might be dead although Hopkin is still hoping to somehow get it over the line. Least we know about this one before we sign him, unlike Tidser!
We are still expecting to sign a couple more today apparently.
Ben Arfa wasn't allowed to sign for Nice once because of that rule, they counted Newcastle's Under 21s as a competitive fixture and it seems pretty stringent. Not really sure how Morton could get him, there's some leeway if you go to a country with different calendars but wouldn't apply in this case. Only thing I can think of is maybe if the Conference North isn't technically an official competition under FIFA for some reason.
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3 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
Zero appearances for his new club since he joined in 2018.
Crocked?
We'll sign him.
22/40 games from 2019 overall and 29/36 games from 2018 overall. Looks like there is some recent injury, missed the end of last season and start of it.
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His anger just now is directed at the people above him at the club having no idea about football, but making all the footballing decisions.
I'm not sure Dundee is different to that.
Nah, Dundee is the complete opposite. We pretty much give our managers free reign to do whatever they want, no matter how crazy and what overspend it brings.0 -
1 hour ago, Spikethedee said:
He looked ok from what I rememeber, then got a horrible injury and left. Certainly didn't look like a world beater, but decent enough. Crankshaft will look like Messi before his injury...
Broke into the Cardiff first 11 in their promotion season when they were playing well but then broke down with more injuries. At MK Dons now with a 1 in 2 scoring record but again missed half the season. He's deffo got some ability and was a decent player but just struggles with his knee.
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I liked AJ. Looking back when he played, he was very clever off Moussa and we created a lot (which Moussa missed). Genuinely think it was a successful loan signing for a last minute panic. Would have take him over Miller the season after.Simon Murray? AJ Leitch Smith?
Ah I see your point.
I thought Murray was appallingly bad at football when he come in and made us a worse team overall. I wouldn't have minded him as a cheap squad player for his pace and him getting in the box but he could hardly control a football and hold it up for a few seconds.0 -
42 minutes ago, EpicMike said:
I'm all for giving managers time, I was one of the last Dundee fans to call for Hartley to get the boot but McPake has shown nothing to suggest he deserves it. If results go against us this weekend we'll find ourselves ending the month closer to 11th than 2nd with negative goal difference, with by far the second highest budget in the division.
That's it exactly for me.
The thing is, it's all well to invest in a youthful manager but there's got to be a prerequisite knowledge/instinct for someone to actually have the ability to go on and make a good career out of it. Some of McPake's decision making has been scary in how batshit it's been. Hartley for me was the last 'real' manager we had and in fairness to him, he did give us reasons to give him a chance to try and recover when things went wrong but it obviously went too far with the last bad run.
I kind of worry we're just going to swing back to an 'experienced heid' again and then when that doesn't work, just appoint Michael Stewart or someone like that. We seem to be stuck in a bit of a cycle.
In all honesty, when Nelms makes his next appointment, he shouldn't come out with some big sales pitch. He did it with McIntyre, the shout for experience was flavour of the month with fans and he was desperate to get quotes out that showed him as getting that point and then with McPake, he come out trying to imply he was the main man all along and they had a team of superhuman 'old heids' on stand by to transfuse parts of their brains and mobile contact books in McPake's head. This appointment, he should take as long as he needs with it (if we get knocked back, we start again) and not project his insecurities to the support. If improvement on the pitch comes, he'll be appreciated with that alone rather than some shitty quotations in online Courier articles.
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Davie Weir.
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12 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:14 hours ago, harry94 said:I mean, they've pumped in an insane amount of money for Scottish Football owners consistently over 7 or so years - I'd imagine more actual cash has come from them than any Dundee owners in history. Their administration has been pish in some regards but I think Keyes has come in good faith and he's done this in an era where he's not been able to tie the club up in liabilities with FPS etc. They've done this to a club with zero assets and nothing to asset strip as well - they could have turned the taps off years ago and just cut their losses but they've even kept it up after our worst footballing and financial disaster in their time.
I think they've just arrived here, inherited (well sort of, they appointed him technically but it was Colvin on the ground making the decision) a manager in Paul Hartley who come with a mantra of trying to play football and sign part-timers and in that, it went very very well short-term and he delivered brilliant results with some of his finds. I think from then on, they were maybe a bit sold on this sort of 'project' football and then seemed to think that pouring more money into that would somehow lead to even better results. They've blundered around since then in chasing these ideals.
Incompetence isn't malice.Not saying it's malice - just struggling to see how we've moved on since they came in.
The situation they inherited though, we had a massive squad and run a deficit for the year of something like £800k-1 million. That was on top of the couple of seasons before of our promotion post admin running the club very cheaply to get up then our season there also running a deficit overall.
It's very easy to envision 'moving on' but the situation we were in, we couldn't have afforded to sign an emergency 'keeper (and as I recall, that's the first piece of business FPS did as we had no one on the bench and literally didn't have the funds to rectify it and afford Dan Twardzik). Clubs who have exited financial difficulty and were in the sort of state we were in are pretty ripe for rogue investors and the likes of Melville etc when we need cash injections etc as no one would lend to us - it's no coincidence that teams who do go into insolvency often do so more than once, it starts a vicious cycle. I've no doubt that if we continued on without FPS involvement, we might possibly have still been successful on the park and saw through that season and even gotten up but we'd possibly have spent the next decade with the same board room confusion and infighting that we've seen before - I'm convinced that we're likely in a better place and even if it has been tough, we have had a 5 year period in the top flight and been able to concentrate on the football.
In my lifetime, this is really the only period where we've acted like a proper football club off the park and there's not been any huge worries about the finances or assets being traded away overnight (not that we have any left....).
As I recall, the alternative at the time was a Marr led consortium of some sort. I know relations with FPS have sometimes been strained but I do kind of get their apathy to some degree when they arrive here and get called names and obstructed by people offering a few pennies who have fucked up the club massively and, possibly, beyond repair for the next few decades. In all honesty, we needed them to save them from ourselves and put that era to bed.
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2 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
If it did happen I'd be first at the front of the queue to say "I told you so".
Always had serious doubts about their investment - ask yourself this - are we in a better position now than when they took over.
I'm struggling to say Yes.I mean, they've pumped in an insane amount of money for Scottish Football owners consistently over 7 or so years - I'd imagine more actual cash has come from them than any Dundee owners in history. Their administration has been pish in some regards but I think Keyes has come in good faith and he's done this in an era where he's not been able to tie the club up in liabilities with FPS etc. They've done this to a club with zero assets and nothing to asset strip as well - they could have turned the taps off years ago and just cut their losses but they've even kept it up after our worst footballing and financial disaster in their time.
I think they've just arrived here, inherited (well sort of, they appointed him technically but it was Colvin on the ground making the decision) a manager in Paul Hartley who come with a mantra of trying to play football and sign part-timers and in that, it went very very well short-term and he delivered brilliant results with some of his finds. I think from then on, they were maybe a bit sold on this sort of 'project' football and then seemed to think that pouring more money into that would somehow lead to even better results. They've blundered around since then in chasing these ideals.
Incompetence isn't malice.
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14 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:17 hours ago, Baxter Parp said:
Can't argue with that.As he wasn't an MSP in 2014 (elected on the Glasgow list in 2016) is this a real post?
It's a real post and still exists, it pops up when you google the tweet.
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21 minutes ago, ayrunitedfw said:
No one is asking the club to chuck a shitload of money at it but at least show some signs of want to progress as a club. Like I’ve already said this league is piss poor and a few good signings and we have a serious chance of promotion.
It almost seems like the board don’t give a f**k about where our placing is in Scottish football. The silence was deafening when the two directors left and there reason for doing so and that leads to rumours starting.
Out of interest, what sort of figures are Ayr in deficit/profit these days?
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13 hours ago, Juantwothree said:
Madianga, there was a player in there
Rumour was it was an off field issue that ended his time here. He was deffo the best of that bunch.
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1 minute ago, RossDee01 said:
Steven Caulker - Thought he would absolutely stroll it, and for the first couple of games he did. Then he spent the rest of his time wandering around not giving a single f**k.
El Bakhtaoui - Probably the most frustrating player I’ve ever had to watch. Scored a couple of rakers which lead him to just shoot every time he got the ball no matter where he was on the pitch.Caulker was very very good IMO, I don't really know what more was being expected when he gets mentioned in these tbh. He was playing in a calamity of a side (see his defensive partner Meekings in the hammering from St Johnstone and the youth team defender playing in midfield ahead of them). In the run of games post split that kept us up (and further back to that televised draw with Hearts), he was pivotal. He pretty much won everything in the air in his time here.
There were obviously issues and it fucked us having to let go of him last minute in the window but I think the signing itself worked out very well for us and probably saved us the misery of relegation a year earlier. We were dealing with a manager who in a relegation must win V Hamilton at home, decides unprovoked to bring on a youth player for their senior debut in central defence to see the game out - I'm pretty sure we'd have gotten relegated without the contribution of Caulker.
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2 minutes ago, Crawford said:
I don't buy the no delivery thing. He always has his back to the goal and again (broken record), the stupid tippy tappy passes that don't need made are infuriating. He's getting slightly better in the air which is nice but just feel bang/buck he has been subpar.
Mendy though, I remember watching him in his first game and thinking he had broke the post with a thunder of a shot at goal and that was about all he did for the rest of his tenure.
Poor guy had to put up with McCann's English only rule too which seemed a bit unnecessary. Way to make someone feel welcome.
In the first league game, I thought Mendy looked like he could be a bit of a nuisance with his pace in behind. Caulker spent the whole game just punting the ball over the top and whilst we were dreadful that season, it maybe was a bit of a fluke that we lost the first game.
After that though he spent his rest of his time on the pitch with his back to goal on the half way line. I know we've had some poor business over the years but tactically, we've been absolutely appalling at getting the best out of players for years.
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Wighton deal dead in the water. Hearts after too much.
He's the dabslayer and all but I'm quite pleased. Always found him really frustrating to watch.
So paused until deadline day when Hearts get desperate enough to pay him off.0 -
Personally I think that's quite harsh from the few games we saw. He was deffo quite raw but I think he added quite a bit I thought and when he come in, we were getting points on the board. He had a poor game against Hearts at Dens but there weren't any games where I thought he was particularly bad apart from that - those 4 games we got points in he was crucial to and had good performances.Andy Dales is an absolute non-entity of a player. He was one of the 'brighter' loans we made last year, but he contributed absolutely nothing. He's the type that'd take on two men, take a shot and it'd go out for a throw-in - And it was pure luck that he'd dribble past the 2 men in the first place.
He was exiled for that Celtic game and dropped whilst we absolutely fell from lowr mid table form in his half a round of fixtures to zero points until we were relegated. Rumours at the time were he was suspended by the club for whatever reason.0 -
How did Mulligan get on today when he got off the bench?
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I think we'd have a very bad time if we kept playing the same style with that sort of adjustment tbh.We've got players that could play the Dorrans role (Although obviously, nowhere near as good at it) whilst we lack a bit of bite. The only logic I could find in it would be if we switched McGowan/Robertson/Or planned on additional signings in that role and Callachan as the ball winner.
Losing Dorrans would be absolutely grim because there's no-way we're replacing his quality regardless of who we sign. Signing Callachan would be grim because if we don't lose Dorrans - Who's he gonna be getting game time in place of? McGowan is integral to our team and dropping Robertson would be craziness at this point.
Hope it's all nonsense tbh. Although McPake's post-match interview didn't sound too positive and Dorrans has said he wants to be back playing in the top flight.
This has all the signs of the Gavin Rae/Barry Smith agreement back in the 2011/12 season.
I half wonder if Sibbald could maybe be on the managers radar. I don't think the Livi move has suited him but I don't think many wouldn't argue he's a good footballer. Plenty of goals to his name at this level at a time the league had the Edinburgh clubs and Rangers. Also a perfect age. I'd be raging if he went to Ayr or wherever and we got a defensive mid to replace Dorrans if he does go.0 -
Josh Meekings is our captain. Let that sink in.
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Just now, Granny Danger said:
Labour still all over the place on Brexit. The next leader needs to impose some discipline.
Anyone know why 3 SNP MPs missing from the vote?
IMO Corbyn missed two big chances to impose some party discipline after his decisive victories, he should have went on the offensive when he had the stock to do so, just like Boris did and now has the whole parliamentary party on his side.
Re the votes, it looks like the Tories were 7 short so likely just pairing (which I don't think will be an issue in this parliament with the majority).
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1 minute ago, MixuFixit said:
Does any of this matter? He can only be impeached if senate votes for it, and the republican senators have no reason to vote for it, right?
Hillary turned up to the Benghazi Hearings and gave a brilliant performance and the matter resolved with her pretty much being exonerated for the specific accusations made. It still had a negative impact on her polling with the Republicans getting a lot of free air time to further cement her negative qualities. If the Democrats hit the right tone, it could be pivotal to their election hopes.
In the background, there's court proceedings ongoing to get evidence obtained in the Mueller investigation and accountants have been ordered to turn over Trump's (and I think his close circle) affairs with Deutsche Bank to Congress and have been appealed all the way to the supreme court. It looks as if the timing of these cases would resolve around the time that the senate would vote on it. The Deutsche Bank stuff in particular could be damaging to the extent that does give the Republicans in the Senate an urgent reason to do something ahead of the election.
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3 minutes ago, ShaggysBeard said:
I'm sure David Martindale is behind the Livingston successes rather than Hopkin or Holt. His past a likely blocker for a more high profile role. Also, just because guys are mostly associated with English football does not make them good managers, in most cases it's been proven that they don't tend to do well.
I still think John Hughes is a good manager but has that cartoon persona that means he isn't taken seriously.
He usually does fine if he inherits decent sides but he's a car crash at making his own signings.
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35 minutes ago, Den Spark said:
Doubt very much if Fisher can come in. Boy took a bad one in reserve game v Dunfermline. Was in agony and had to be stretchered off.
He's also on loan at East Kilbride anyway.
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Just now, Fide said:
Players had a vote of no confidence in Alessio, seemingly.
There's got to be more to it than that - he can't be cheap to punt that a move like that alone would be persuasive enough to a board IMO.
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There was that season where Raith just thought they could easily postpone a match if they didn't have a 'keeper, that was peak Scottish Football.