Devil's advocaat

If Ridvan had dropped 2 acid and wore a dress for the match, I'd still have him playing before Barisic.

It's basically a cup final, no away goals rule, first tie is now irrelevant. Just play the game to win it.

Without a doubt, dreadful.

Aye, there's merit in that. We do tend to focus on our own injuries, understandably, but the pot lickers have it just as bad at the moment.

I get you, but I think still being in Europe helps the players feel ten feet tall, as Bill rightly says. Confidence is fuel.

Sing about Rangers, fuck everything else.

Lol, whatever 😂

That we don't know, but you intimate that we always give 30+ players a 4 year contract, I'm merely saying that we don't in my experience.

Aye, pictures tell whatever story you want. The guy went in with both feet off the ground, and when your feet are higher than your arse, at the speed he was coming in at, you make the refs decision easy.

To be honest, with the exception of Goldson (was he over 30 at the time?), I'm struggling to think of any over 30s that we've chucked 4 years at?.

Agreed, they are utter shite, I wish we had them next week.

Raskin is definitely a player, but since his injury he's looked ponderous at best. I think he'll benefit from a full pre season, and hopefully the competition he now has will drive him on.

This. And there's no big if around Roofe, times up sadly.

Absolutely, it's nothing like being near to celebrating failure.

Christ, you'll be wanting to exhume auld Montford anaw! 😆

It was indeed a thing. Back in the day, we had the European cup, for league winners only, UEFA cup was for 2nd, 3rd and maybe 4th IIRC, and Cup Winners Cup was for National cup winners. If UC was brought back, it would be the prime trophy now IMHO.

It has been for 33 years now, if the UEFA cup was brought back, it would be the top competition.

None of his our last two leaders have given us an identity, a style of play or a focus like PC has. Neither of them improved players, had us looking hungry, no matter who was in the line up. Neither of them overturned that lot, and made us look genuine favourites. Midweek we weren't lucky, coming back from a goal down isn't lucky, it's what champions do.

Great article sir. £200k for the captain has to go down as one of the best buys in our history.

It's fairly simple to my mind. To question, or expect better from referees as a whole is fine, we're paying customers after all. To chase a referee, after the event, to harass him outside of the football realm, to blame failure of our team over a season on someone, well that's your personal choice, and you leave yourself open to criticism in my opinion. Really there's no answer, no defining line, it's up to you how you carry yourself. Anyway, I've work to do, enjoy the rest of yer day.

It'd be the first time you've put a line under something!

Moaning at a ref during the game is perfectly normal. It's carrying that on for weeks after the event, looking into said ref to see who his father was, that kind of behaviour that is very, very yahooesque.

I for one hope the Jambos get a couple of yahoo-esque penalties at the weekend. 😉

Mibbe 20 years ago, nowadays the big teams produce talent to use as makeweights in FFP, to fund buying other players, or to fulfil homegrown requirements. It's a complete racket, just look at how many homegrown players Man U or Chelsea had on the park last night. Liverpool have a decent youth academy, but they also have a team full of injured players, needs must. Chelsea could even buy players that they've sold on back, and still call them homegrown. Sad state of affairs.

EPL teams youth academies are bound to churn out players, the sheer size of them is incredible, they hoover up everything that is around. IIRC it was Palace that chucked theirs, as Chelsea and Arsenal were taking everything locally. We shouldn't compare ourselves to the EPL, aspire by all means, but don't compare.