Tattie36

Aye you’re just like my wife - take the pin out, throw the hand grenade into the room then run away.

This season is the first time Wrexham have averaged anything near 8k - normally 3-4.5k is their season average. Might have something to do with challenging to get into the league, the holy grail for teams as it opens up huge financial gain… oh and also daft wee lassies hoping to see Ryan Whats his face and some other actor who have put money into the club. Still no matter what, to claim that a perennial non league team known for Holwood actors and wee Micky Thomas scoring a goal about 40 years ago are bigger than Dundee or Dundee united is mental. Anyway, moving on….

But why would they play in England? The Belgian comparison is valid because you’re saying Scottish teams only had European success because they play in Scotland. So any team with European success from a small country aren’t as valid as teams from the “big boys leagues”? Going back to Wrexham in particular. Wrexham is about the size of Inverness and you can argue that their very minor comparative successes, history and bigger crowds than Dundee is ONLY because they play in England. If they played in the Welsh league, they’d get about 500 a week. I reckon Swansea, Cardiff and Newport would also be Uber diddies if it wasn’t for sucking on the EFL teat.

What a bizarre argument. You play football in your country it’s not a choice*. Did Belgian teams only win in Europe because if they were in France or Germany they wouldn’t even get into the competition? Anderlecht, standard Liege, Brugge etc would be tiny in either of those countries but that doesn’t belittle their achievements. Would Wrexham or Swansea and Cardiff for that matter, have glorious European histories if they had to play in Wales (*which they should imo) and thus the opportunity of playing in Europe every year?

Come on now. Notts County and Wrexham both have fine histories, being two of the oldest clubs in world football. Having said that, Wrexham have been out of the top 4 leagues for decades and I don’t remember either of them being in the European Cup semi-final, as both Dundee teams have been, or in the UEFA cup final like Utd or, indeed beating Barca etc. Dundee united were a defacto big name in European fitba in the 80s. Notts County and Wrexham may have larger crowds at the moment but you’re comparing apples and oranges and I’m quite confident that the Dundee clubs would pump them fairly comfortably. Scottish teams are incredibly well supported, especially considering the monopoly the OF have over the game up here.

Fcking hell, don’t look at the Scottish Football Away Days Facebook page. Seems like the majority think it’s a great signing. Even a post supporting him… from a woman!! The world’s fucked.

Woke!!! You don’t even know what it means you fucking half wit. I pity the females in your life.

I know, mind boggling isn't it "he didn't go out with the intention to rape anyone" but he did it anyway when the opportunity arose so that's ok? How the f**k can anyone's mind work like that? or, indeed, how can anyone defend it? If a person has a mind that can rape another human being, pre-meditated or not, then they shouldnt be trusted, ever. Imagine your daughter, sister etc being around guys like that, guys that will stick their dick in her given half a chance, any chance, sober or drunk, conscious or unconscious - to hell with consent. As an aside, my wife had her drink spiked on a night out when I was there, luckily we found her collapsed in the bar toilet. I shudder to think what could have happened if she'd managed to get out of the toilet and whisked away before we found her. I'm also 99% sure that it also, incredibly happened to me on a seperate occasion although I think it was intended for my female friend, so in a way it lucky it was me that took the drink. This rape culture and acceptance of rape culture has to stop.

I'm guessing all the rape apologists on here, twitter, Facebook etc are single guys who think that strangle porn is a good watch. But every single one of them will have mothers, grandmothers, possibly sisters, female cousins, workmates, maybe even female friends... and christ, by some fluke a few of them might even be in a relationship with a real woman, have daughers etc. How they can be anything other than disgusted by their team signing a convicted, non remorseful rapist is beyond reason. Shudder!!!!

Jesus, just had a quick look on your Facebook and the amount of support this signing is getting is astonishing and tragic. Feel sorry for the many good Rovers fans out there.

Arbroath have signed Sam Ford until the end of the season. "Arbroath Manager Dick Campbell today has added striker Sam Ford to his squad. 23-year-old Sam joins Arbroath FC until the end of the season from Felixstowe & Walton United."

We have a very attacking squad - Hamilton, Wighton, Ford, McKenna, Linn, Donnelly, Hilson. Plenty of goals from the defence and other midfielders too. Dick's definitely going for it. ETA - could this be Hilson on his way out?

Yeah, I suppose you're right. Could we hit gold again? Exciting signing.

Massive jump for him but Dick must see someting to offer him a deal. I think Nouble had a bit more of a pedigree so not really fair to compare them but looks like he knows how to pit the baa in the net so why not, I imagine he'll be cheap.

Agree. I think it’s naïve and wishful thinking in the extreme to think that we can get to the end of the season without injury/Covid/suspension having an impact on our squad. We’ve had all of these this season already and now with a smaller squad and the 5 sub rule it could be even more of an issue. The last time we played Killie at home we lost Low for over 3 months and Nouble for a couple of games. Or we could end up with a bench like v Morton in December. There is no question that our squad is good enough but there’s no doubt in my mind that we need 1 or 2 more just to keep the numbers up to a decent level.

Strengthened as in numbers. I think our signings so far have been brilliant, we just need another couple to add a little bit more strength in depth.

I agree that a small, close knit squad is a strength and that 20 is a good number… but I think we’re sitting on a squad of 18 at the moment. Some teams will have more than that on the bench on match day. This 5 subs thing is going to have a fair impact with teams using tactical substitutions more so I don’t think we can dismiss it. You could be playing a team like Killie who decide to switch out half their entire outfield players with 20 minutes to go, all for quality replacements with fresh legs.

Very surprised that we haven’t strengthened the squad, especially with the new 5 subs rule and putting Paterson back out on loan. Leaves us with a very small squad- a few injuries, illness or Covid and we would be very exposed.

Links park is more inland and sheltered than Gayfield. Still surprised their game went ahead thought as all other north east games are off. Structural damage and loads of trees down in and around Aberdeen, woman killed in the city by a falling tree. Correct decision to call off the games.

I agree - Gavin Swankie against abdy!!

I would be surprised if there are many games going ahead in Scotland today. I believe the Aberdeen game is soon to be called off. The “just get on with it” crowd obviously don’t have far to travel unlike a lot of fans, and all the players and officials. It’s not just all about kicking a ball.

Yeah but every single forecast for the last two days has said the the wind is going to be very bad until later in the day. That ain’t changing.

I’ve decided to give it a miss. Not worth the hours drive to have the game postponed late or abandoned. Don’t really fancy the stretch of road between Brechin and Arbroath either. I imagine they’ll be loads of trees down all over.

They need to call this now. Plenty people, including me, travel from out of town so need to know asap. The weather isn’t improving much throughout the day so just make the decision early.

I was starting to think you were stalking me