Oleg_Mcnoleg

Can somebody clarify for somebody who's not been paying enough attention, is the proposed merger of RST and RF at the club's behest or is this just something the execs of the two bodies decided would improve fan clout? If it's the latter, is it worth the hassle? As long as fans are buying shares it doesn't really matter how and at least two bodies allows supporters to take a look at this emerging clusterfuck at RF and go somewhere else. And if it's the former, it's not their business is it?

This should tell you most of it: http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?40487-UPDATE-Conversation-with-Mr-John-Bennett-(Blue-Knights)&highlight=Bennett Absolute lunacy.

OK, I've just read the John Bennett thread and that is absolutely mental.

Is O'Halloran not earmarked for striker? Celtic drew with them at home this season. They're a division above us and we're still rebuilding. We were by far the better team. The st pat of your post is self-evident.

Pretty much everyone agrees we need to be more clinical in front of goal. Too many final balls miss their target and too few chances get taken. You'd think we'd never ever drawn against an SPL side, never mind when we're a division down and rebuilding from being decimated. We're a work in progress and moving in the right direction.

Thought he was a good referee too. Superb player but a whingeing git

I'd forgotten how insanely fast the SPL is. Killie looked bigger and stronger than we've been used to playing too. But, a hairy first ten minutes aside, we dealt with it well and dominated. The defence has come on a lot and looked pretty solid too. Didn't quite click in the final third but the Killie keeper made some good saves andit's hard to score against a flat back nine packing the area. Disappointed not to get the comfortable win we probably deserved but we're a work in progress and things heading the right direction. To those bleating about it, we used to lose and draw games in the top flight too, remember? Waghorn looks like he needs a rest: shame MOH is cup tied as he'd have been useful today. Need to get McKay's contract sorted and signed: he's turning into a wee gem.

And one might extend that to the fat wank who might be prevailed upon to reconsider to avoid having a court pour over exactly how he persuaded the chuckles and friends to sign a deal that evidently loses the club money on every shirt sold. Whilst a speedy resolution is probably preferable, I'd dearly love to see the whole shenanigans comprehensively exposed in court for all to see. I doubt that'll happen but it would be nice to have confirmed exactly why Green and his cabal were so determined to hand the club to Ashley in tranches for spare change

I'm sure somebody will be along to assure me this isn't as bent as it looks

Sort of agree with you, though I'm maybe a wee bit more positively inclined towards GZ than you. The litmus test for me is whether a player is actually making a difference. It may well only be the sort of difference you see when the player's missing rather than through clear game-changing contributions, along the lines of 'have you noticed how much possession we concede when XX is missing' or 'have you noticed how few chances YY has when XX isn't playing'. GZ's young and learning and has made the sort of under-the-radar contributions that Rousseau argues. But maybe not consistently enough: there's a difference between 'under the radar' and 'forgettable'! Of course, if he'd just stuck his foot through the ball when presented with the opportunity the other day, we might not even be having this discussion!

And not one Sellick director has ever belted out the odd rebel song after an excess of hospitality. The sanctimoniousness of Spiers is matched only by his complete lack of ability.

You seem to imply that Murray was beyond reproach.

He also realised very soon after what bunch of carpet-bagging shysters had acquired the club and helped mobilise supporters to remove them. My only interactions have been over the various incarnations of the FF forums. I've never met the bloke, I've never cared for his politics (I was always in the FF handwringing faction) and even if I did I'd find it hard to be too close to a man who wears the ties he does. But the bogeyman status he, and Chris Graham, acquired on RM and elsewhere became pretty preposterous. He's a chubby bald bloke who supports the Rangers and hosts a forum. He really isn't that important.

'Billy King's on the ball, Billy King's on the ball...' He's worth signing just for the name. I confess to knowing little about the lad but he's a known quantity (just not for me!) and gives the squad a bit of depth for the run in. For those moaning about Jambos cast-offs, we've not brought him in to spearhead our European campaign; he's just here for the remainder of the season. And Hearts are actually better than us at the moment.

Why are you even talking about MD? He may not universally loved but who actually gives a fuck? The thread was about what that poisonous wee gobshyte Irvine and that should surely be the focus of the thread.

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'Rich' is a relative concept.

Absolutely. But who plays if Halliday gets knacked? Shiels? Ball? I was under the impression Thompson played as a deep-lying midfielder but, from his (quite impressive) cameos thus far, he looks like he's playing further forward.

Quite. I'm pretty ambivalent about Diagouraga and O'Halloran but there's no question we're light. An long term injury to a player like Halliday or Waghorn would leave us in trouble (and isn't Halliday effectively the reserve left back as well?).

Not nearly bad enough for my liking.

Always somebody else to blame for the fact that, a handful of cameos aside, he's been consistently pish.

Not happening anytime in the foreseeable future. The Welsh clubs in England predate the existence of a Welsh league so don't offer any precedent. And whilst the premier league chieftains might fancy adding two huge sides to their potential roster of Super Sundays, few of the teams are going to welcome such potentially well-resourced competition.

Too young to remember Forrest properly. Who knows what might have achieved had he not been treated so poorly. But Ally did it over a sustained period so, given what was achieved rather than 'what might have beens', it has to be Ally. I knew Forrest's story, obviously, but reading the article really made me feel for the poor bloke. Be nice to see him getting a bit of a fuss at home games once in a while.

Perhaps though how happy would fatso be if Green decides to start talking?

One would assume that they did and that nowhere in the contract did it say that the system won't even work in the event that well over half your fans stay away. It was, like every single thing connected with the old regime, bent and/or effing useless.