Golden Gordon

Yep, Michael Devlin, Lewis Ferguson and Greg Docherty off the top of my head.

0-2 Aberdeen. Cosgrove & Rooney to score.

Yep, just the sight of Willie Rennie's face is enough to fill me with rage. Reminds me of the wee guy who would always suck up to the school bully so they didn't get battered.

If you make this your PhD, it would make you a Doctor of Football!

Ha ha! Yes I remember that too well. Technically didn't start the thread, so it might be OK.

Make that five, can't imagine it'll be long until Scott Wright gets a call up since his recent elevation...

Where's the deeds?

We don't say 'trash' anymore after events at George Square, if anything we'd be leaving them in better nick than we found them in, if reports are to be believed.

Probably about the right time to resurrect this thread...

Fair play to Lennon taking a stand against homophobia in the Scottish game. Long overdue if you ask me.

Maybe you should go into insurance, you seem to like your multi-quote packages... (boom, tish)

Ha ha! Can't argue with that, it'll ultimately be better, worse or the same.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be able to fully share in your excitement, but there's part of me that will always hold me back, which is probably more to do with my personality. I think you could have a point though around expecting more. I think I've become conditioned to accept that we will beat the majority of Premiership sides under McInnes, get the odd result against Rangers*, but ultimately get beaten against Celtic when it counts. If we can get to the point where we're no longer passive in games against Celtic, harry them and get in their faces, then I would view that as a good first statement of intent.

I admire your optimism, but always feel that every cynic is a disappointed idealist. If you take the Chelsea buns as an example, ever since they were promoted in 2016/17 they were 'going for 55*'. They had to go through Warburton, Murty, Pedro, Murty, Gerrard before they achieved any success. I think that it's good that Cormack is saying what fans aspire to but it may take a fair amount of trial and error before this is achieved.

Haha! Postmodern 'false' playmaker!

I agree that European qualification should be our main priority, as this would provide the financial foundations for everything else. It would give us a financial advantage over our competitors and would be a lure for players ambitious to play in Europe. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Europa League groups can earn from 5-10 million & the group stages in the Europa Petrofac roughly half that? So either way, we'll be taking in more revenue than previously. If this is invested in a stronger squad, then it would increase our chances of winning the odd cup or two. However, this will remain a fantasy unless the club hires a management team equal to their ambition and backs them financially.

This is an interesting trade off. I'm not sure if I would place a cup win above European qualification at this point in time. I want to know if McInnes' performances in Europe were down to his hitting a glass ceiling in terms of our budget/player quality or if would be possible to progress with a different guy in charge.

A wee bit of cynicism there Merkland? Must admit, my heart lept when Cormack said he had taken advice from Alex Ferguson, then I remembered David Moyes. Says all the right things, so hopefully he can back this up with action.

So we've discussed causality and correlation, but I think what we need to work out is whether the congregations of Rangers* fans were concomitant with the spread of coronavirus or not.

This is where I find Cormack quite hard to fathom. He seems quite switched on in terms of improving the fan experience & has high expectations for the club. If the rumours are true about bringing in a largely untested Glass, then it seems strange that he would bypass a rigorous application process for the managers post.

Nigerian Naira surely, if it's Dundee Utd.?

That's a lot of coffee to be made if certain blogs are to be believed.

Sheerin himself has said similar, highlighting the impact on the whole club of McInnes going & giving the players additional time to deal with the change. Only impatience on my part, as I'd rather be watching my team instead of Ross County this weekend!

Not hugely pro-Glass, more emphasis on getting the right appointment in & the impact that McInnes had on the club, alongside the impact of him going.

Is it this one you're thinking of? https://podfollow.com/1319920545/episode/bc633fa4b1ef63c287f757e311aba0a21f896e3f/view - Northsound 1 Red Friday?