Oleg_Mcnoleg

Feck's sake!!!!:swear:

Don't think he's a luxury so much as a useful option to see out the last twenty minutes of a game once Waghorn (or whoever) is knackered.

Should've known better. This isn't FF, after all.

He's hardly going to be our main striker. With his work rate, experience and commitment, this is maybe not the daftest move. Maybe get him doing his coaching badges on the side?

Is entering going to see my email address flogged on so I'm bombarded with offers of assistance with PPI or personal injury claims, breakdown cover, etc? It's a nice enough scarf that I might well still enter anyway, mind. But good to know in advance

Well he's just trying to be a pain in the arse then

King's already said it makes little odds either way whether he's passed the F&P test and that he'll just work through allies on the board. That, of course, is what Ashley was doing whilst getting preposterously favourable deals for Sports Direct signed off. It is, of course, a pointless waste of time and a sign of the fat fuck's increasing frustration at not being able to get his way. Presumably he's just trying to cost King money in lawyers' fees. Odious prick.

I like him. Good touch, movement and work rate and he's versatile. He isn't a clinical enough finisher, it's true. But if he was we probably wouldn't have him in the second tier of what's becoming a footballing backwater.

He's an important player and his versatility is one of his main attributes.

Quite. And the film company wheeze was actually designed to attract a public subsidy: can we have some words from Phil 3Braincells about the morality of Lennon and company using an investment vehicle actually explicitly designed to steal public money? All this sanctimoniousness about a tax management strategy that we, like dozens of other clubs and businesses, believed to be legal and we were perfectly open about is enough to make you boak. We were expensively advised that we were operating within the law. It was devious and crass but if we're going to start moralising about morally dubious business practice, we've got plenty of better candidates.

Indeed. Perhaps they should look at awarding us the titles we missed out on in this period.

We used EBTs on Bob Malcolm, Mo Ross and Egil Ostenstad. Not sure how that's supposed to constitute an unfair advantage

Absolutely. But those agitating noisily on social media seem not to have noticed they frequently gubbed us in the EBT era--not always, but plenty.

They seem to be under the misapprehension that that will somehow get our nine in a row titles stripped or some such. The reality is, a couple of good seasons apart, they were often on top over the EBT period. Where would we have been without signing Ian Murray, Gregory Vignal and Terro Penttilla?

If he had the money for that, it might have been better used to settle with HMRC. It's one thing to use a clearly dubious tax loophole, it's another entirely to use it on a scale that would jeopardise the club's future and not put any money aside in case they come after you for it. Every bit as much of a s**v as the shower of wankers who followed him.

Why would their reputation be irreparably damaged unless they have things in their contract that they need to be ashamed of? Be nice if that wee kid from Belfast who hacked Talk Talk was able to find out what the fat fuq's so scared will become public/

Each to their own but that fat f**k will not be getting a single bean out of me. I may be over-optimistic but have feint hopes that the whole thing will become too much hassle for him. I fear not--I suspect this is personal and it's what he does to compensate for his mummy issues--but what's the alternative? Wait until he gorges on one cream cake too many and karks it?

If he were to continue playing his usual role, I'm not sure where Nolan would go in a 433 the way we're playing it. Would it mean two midfielders sitting deeper and only one--Nolan--pushing forward?

With respect, is it fuck! I'd have thought we'd be much further ahead given our record. In terms of playing Murdoch or whoever, MW has said that they will only play if they're good enough which is as it should be. I'd like to see Murdoch, Thomson, etc too but they'll have to be good enough. That said, I'd imagine we will see more of them as the season progresses for the reasons you state.

Deila is presumably going on what he was told at the time and Murray on what Deila was told. But, as others have said, what the f**k is going on at the club?

He's trying to defend a young player who's clearly gone beyond anything that's defensible. If the ref had dealt with the offence properly, we'd have been saved this carry-on. If he'd just said something along the lines of 'it was a rotten tackle which could have done real harm. He's only young and perhaps the occasion got to him but he's been lucky to escape a straight red and I'll be giving him a stern warning about his future conduct' then it would have defused the situation well.

Bell might have a future at the club but that'll mean fitness and probably injury or major loss of form for Foderingham. He's an ok keeper but lacks 'presence'. Templeton is surely out of chances. He's had flashes and should fit into the current system well enough. But he's been so utterly awful for such long periods of time that he'll only ever be retainable as a squad player as he can't be relied on. Greeting to the media (or getting his old man to) whilst continuing to play like Douglas Bader hardly contributes to his case either.

You want less experience than we currently have?

He's clearly not going to be played selectively but, in addition to playing a position we could do with, he provides experience and leadership in a young squad. And he's free and the manager has worked with him before. I'm struggling to see the downside of this one.

Smith's suggestion that the squad's in no better shape than it was under Levein or Burley is just idiotic. The Georgia performance was Levein-level of shite but, that aside, we've not looked too bad. I'd back a Scotland team to beat Northern Ireland quite comfortably. They've done brilliantly to qualify but would have finished fifth in Scotland's group. None of that is to suggest Strachan's a genius. He's made some daft decisions but he's a proven, competent manager and a step up from anyone else who's going to take the job.