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  1. Exactly. He obviously didn't want to come. Yet.
  2. Pretty sound points in the main. I'd just like to make it clear though - I wasn't having a go at Ally. He isn't the one responsible for the 7 failed bids.
  3. OMG. I must have missed the quote about stabbing, but how do you turn that into disrespect towards Rangers? What Rangers fan would have stabbed Goodwillie if he had signed? Seems like thew laddie had a hard enough time in the town when he was only a Dundee United player, so I can see why there might have been potential for worse as a player for Rangers (or the other lot). Still, I'd agree it was a daft thing to say (if it was said).
  4. Ummm - bit of a straw-man argument there, buddy. Whatever the normal rules might be, a dimwitted offer like that is never going to work when there's a better deal already on the table, now is it. As for your post script - come on, stop hiding behind metaphors and tell us what you really think. Second thoughts - better not. We are supposed to be better than that!!
  5. That was the problem though. I was there too and really, it didn't feel like we were lording it at all. Also, it was one our former players (I. Ferguson) who scored for them. Don't you remember that 'tail between legs' feeling when they kept asking Goiugh what the score was?
  6. So you'd be happier to accept 1.8m in 3 yearly instalments of 600k, rather than 2m up front? Your choice, I suppose - but I'd suggest you wouldn't get very far in business. PS. I think they stopped being Dundee Hibernian around 90 years ago, so actually no, it isn't their name. doh
  7. I'm a football fan. I don't tend to post about the football side of things because I think it's pretty pointless to do that about a game where things can happen that are out of anyone's control (I could write pages about last night's fiasco, which we should still have won - I'm hurting and angry - but I know there will be other games when we'll undeservedly come out on top. What really gets to me though is when I feel the club is not being properly administered. We are supposed to have professionals running a multi million pound business here. It isn't like a game of football where external factors like a bad bounce, a bad refereeing decision or an unexpected slip or injury (or moment of pure fluke) can influence the outcome against the run of play. These guys are supposed to know what they are doing and to get on with doing it in a professional manner. Kindly don't question my loyalties here.....they are to the club, not to those who run it. I make no apology for the fact that I will not blindly follow, follow. That, however, does not make me any less of a true supporter. In fact if anything I think it makes me more of a supporter than those who just back what the current guys do or say without troubling to think about the effect on the club as an institution. And spare me the lecture about cack journos - although, for what it's worth, I happen to think they bend over backwards to pander to us and the other lot(or, rather, the more gullible amongst the respective sets of fans) at every opportunity, particularly when it comes to anything involving any of the smaller Scottish clubs. Anyway, this just isn't a case of believing one man's word against another's. I haven't seen anything from Rangers that contradicts what Thomson has said....and I - and you - know full well that if Rangers had put in a better bid than Blackburn's earlier in the week, we'd all have heard all about it by now. It is surely beyond dispute that, with the possible exception of the last bid that went in, our guys were offering a lesser deal than Blackburn already had on the table. If that wasn't true, the media would have had Thomson crucified by now. Perhaps if you believe they wouldn't, you might believe .....nah - on second thoughts, I'm not going to bring it down to that level.
  8. Well, you can see it that way if you choose. However I don't think there's anything too unfair in the article. If you want to call simply pointing out the (ridiculous) way Rangers handled the bidding scoring points off us, fine. However, my take on it is that he is being made out to be the bad guy in this just to take the focus off our own blundering about. I don't think any right minded Rangers fan is likely to be fooled by this bluster. But then there's the majority....... :D
  9. Aye, it was good at first to see him back playing against them at Tannadice. Kind of took the shine off it when they beat us though.
  10. I didn't suggest Goodwillie was very bright. However, I think it would probably have been a no-brainer for him to stick with what Blackburn were offering. I don't understand how United are insulting our club. Wasn't it the other way round with all these low-ball bids and an expectation that a bit of player-power would do the rest? We may have got egg on our face, but as I see it, United didn't really put it there.
  11. How do you know they didn't tell him though? From what we know of the personal terms Blackburn were offering him, it seems unlikely we'd have got near matching them. It is just possible that United are shielding Goodwillie a bit here.
  12. Sort of true about Gough - but it's not right to suggest it was only because it was Rangers who wanted him. Jim McLean didn't want to sell any of his top players to any rival clubs. Remember, they were as good as us and Aberdeen (and the other lot) in the 80s and Gough wouldn't have been sold to any of the three who might have got an edge over United.
  13. Actually, there isn't a 'prod' team in Dundee. I think Dundee FC just happened to be formed rather earlier and United just happened to be formed by some people who may or may not have been 'prods'. Not that it should matter. It's just football, right?
  14. As for a boycott. FFS, are you guys serious? I sometimes wonder how many people who spout off like that actually go to games. By all means, though, if you have the opportunity to get tickets and think you'll be making some meaningful point by rejecting them, go ahead. However, don't imagine there won't be someone else who'll be happy enough to take them. Yes, yes, there's a wee bit of history and the Nithsdale Loyal boys took them to court over the abandoned match tickets - but they never had a hope of winning. The court said United were within their rights, if I remember correctly. Anyway, we don't need a boycott when the folk who sort the fixtures out for the top 6 matches do the job for us. I'm sure we only played them once in the SPL at Tannadice last season.
  15. Excellent points, well made (and of course pretty well exactly what I have been thinking). The only part I'd perhaps take issue with is the last sentence because I get the impression that, had he really wanted to, Goodwillie could still have become a Rangers player. The simple fact is that he, himself, chose to go to Blackburn. All things considered, I think it was probably the better move for him. So while Rangers might have been given permission to talk to him had the offer Thomson was looking for been made at the start, I'm now not so sure there's any certainty he'd have moved to Ibrox.
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