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King Billy signs and the people have been allowed to deploy mob rule successfully over their enemies.
Quite a couple of days for them.
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King Billy signs and the people have been allowed to deploy mob rule successfully over their enemies.
Quite a couple of days for them.
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We absolutely need a couple in. We did before January and injuries to Jack/Flood.
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You can't fight fate. This man was always destined to play for the Teddy Bears.
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We're clearly gagging for the "Red Pound"
If you don't sell us O'Halloran we'll boycott your ground and you'll be in administration within 12 months. Fact.
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They have announced it
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These folk are notorius for doing it for attention on a daily basis and being immune to the criticism. The guy Sargent seemed to genuinely believe what he was saying before going in the huff.
They get plenty criticism, it is in fact why they are still on the go.
If nobody reacted they wouldn't have a job.
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He has a point.
See Adrian Durham, Katie Hopkins even Donald Trump for examples of people who will talk nonsense simply to anger the mob and get attention.
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It's one of the SFA's concerns.But they also have other, longer standing and more fundamental responsibilities to our game.
We hope
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Doncaster yes, although even his role is largely to reflect the views of member clubs. On this occasion, he wished to challenge the prevailing view.Regan however, works for a body that surely is charged also with protecting the moral integrity of the game here. Mind you, the same body continues to house Campbell Ogilvie, so that particular vessel ppears to have long since set sail.
I agree more so Doncaster but think it would be naive to believe the sfa are not charged with thinking the best route for Scottish football is maximising revenues.
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I've not looked, but I'd be surprised if something along the lines of "maximising commercial value", is all you get on the SFA's mission statement.
Indeed, so why are we arguing, again?
Not really sure anymore, once dispelled the word conspiracy I think we're pretty much in agreement.
Although I do believe the likes of Regan, Doncaster etc would be tasked with maximising the commercial value of the game. Not saying it's their sole purpose but it is a part of their job.
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Nope. His claim was there is a conspiracy of sorts within Scottish football whose purpose is to do everything they can to benefit Rangers and Celtic. Completely ignoring the fact these authorities put Rangers in the 4th tier of Scottish football and closed a transfer window early to prevent Rangers registering players.
This is also entirely inaccurate, the decision (rightly) to have rangers start again in division 3 was taken by member clubs first from the spl and then the sfl.
The sfa/spl representatives at the time did everything in their power to convince the clubs otherwise.
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His claim I'm sure was more to do with a concerted effort of trying to get Rangers back into the top flight which you seemed to have cleared up.
Thanks
Nope he called me weird for suggesting maximising commercial value was in the job remit
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Who wants Rangers in the top flight exactly?
Well unfortunately there are several parties but in my case I am referring to the SFA/SPFL representatives who run our game, negotiate tv deals etc.
MT claimed their remit wasn't to maximise the commercial value of the game, so I'm interested to know why it is he thinks they want Rangers promoted.
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I thought we were dropping the conspiracy line?
Fair enough, reduce it to why do they want Rangers back in the top flight?
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You think that the SFA's remit is simply to maximise revenue generated by our professional clubs?That's weird.
Ok then enlighten me, why do they want rangers back in the top flight, is it a masonic conspiracy?
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No, not strictly speaking. It's a word I qualified at the start, but which you seem to be getting inordinately hung up on. In terms of strangling and suppressing an alternative view about what's actually best for our game though, the power and reach of those wishing to promote an agenda which favours the OF is difficult to counter.
I think you're over complicating this, instead of using a 'qualified' definition of conspiracy lets just discard the word altogether.
It's quite simple, the powers that be in Scottish football are (unfortunately might I add) charged with maximising the commercial value of our game, NOT making it competitive and fair. This is fact, it is not a secret or some sort of establishment cover up.
The powers that be have neither the competence nor the innovation to determine an approach to maximise commercial value other than to have the OF two horse race back. Again, this is not a conspiracy, this is incompetence and laziness.
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As I've said, we don't have a conspiracy in the true sense of the word. When people with shared interests act at the same time, sometimes by overlapping however, we can get effects that are not unlike those achieved by a more organised, single movement.
I really don't know what you're getting at. It's not a conspiracy then.
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You can have the effect of a conspiracy when like minded individuals and institutions work, sometimes in concert, to favour a status quo. We've seen it in the "There is no alternative" rhetoric of Regan and the tabloids about how Scottish football can only be based on having a strong OF. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not for a moment suggesting anything Masonic or even Protestant about this 'conspiracy'. Celtic benefit massively from it.
It's not a conspiracy though is it? While I'm very much against a lot of how Scottish football operates it is simply individuals whos job description is to maximise revenues and to do that they are pushing the short term view of having the OF back.
Lazy? yes. Incompetent? undoubtedly. Conspiracy? obviously not
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Probably the most engaging debates I read on this website are two people arguing over which one is "seething"
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Grant Russell @STVGrant 29 secs29 seconds ago
Rangers provided profit/loss statement for Dec 31, 2015 that showed half-year losses significantly down to just below £500,000.
While the headline is good news, cashflow is what you should be looking at with RFC.
Profit/loss in an accounting sense can sometimes be a misleading measure
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I don't know if he is or not. I'm not in the habit of making statements of fact without at least some knowledge.
Dons fans weeping over the return of the next David de Gea to his parent club citing him as on a par with club legends is highly amusing.
He's had a good half season in a team that is (generally) superior to all bar one in this country. If I had to guess I'd say he looks better than he is to the Dons after years of Clangers and various other impostors and this has caused a huge overestimation of his ability.
I'm not disputing he's a good keeper, I've heard good things, but the hyperbole on here is quite incredible. Some might say a bit of a minter.
ETA if you read back you'll find it was yourself who brought Bain into it and at no point have I said either is the better keeper.
Seems to me you may have an underlying inferiority complex when thinking about Aberdeen keepers in relation to Scott Bain. Minter-tastic.
While some of the stuff said about Ward is possibly OTT given the length of time he was at the club I think you might be doing him down a bit.
It was almost immediately obvious Skiendja (spelling...?) aside, that we had a right good keeper on our books. I can't think of one game where he didn't make a brilliant save at a crucial point (actually maybe Killie away...) to either keep us in the game, or keep us in front etc.
Add to that his command of the area, his communication, his distribution he wasn't just considerably better than Langfield et al, he was light years ahead, you could just tell.
Personal opinion but I do believe 1. he is better than Bain and 2. he will end up playing at a very high level if not Liverpool then premier league football regularly somewhere.
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when was the last time anyone added "something" to this thread?
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Blatantly swept under the rug that any sort of 'reputation' comes from European countries who somehow enjoy the novelty of pissed up idiots and have no conception of what they are actually like.
Within their own domestic country they have no reputation whatsoever and they know it. They just won't admit it.
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The Famous Aberdeen - Season 2022/23
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Rooney, Hayes and Shinnie are quite good I suppose