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5 minutes ago, Jimfanciesthedude said:
Walters last 3 title wins the OF games were split evenly, infact his last title win we only beat them twice in the season over 7 games
I feared the worst during those couple of months of 2011, they beat us at Ibrox with a make shift team, I was far too cocky heading to that game, then when we drew with them 2 each in the cup, they had 10 men for a large part of it and had us chasing shadows, then they absolutely spanked us at the Piggery, think that was the first time Davie Weir's lack of pace got badly exposed, that was a really torrid time, the fact that we came out of that period with a League and cup double, beating them in the final, probably doesn't get celebrated enough, we must've been big underdogs after that.
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Everyone knew how injury prone he was when we signed him, this was a live fast die young signing from Gerrard, he didn't care how much he cost in fees or wages, he knew he would never have to deal with the longterm reality of his contract, Roofe was fit in 2020 and he only needed him to stay fit for 2020-21.
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12 minutes ago, bluebell82 said:
Seeing Rodgers saying he never had any doubt fucking winds me up, and hopefully the players, when it wasn't in his hands - our fuck ups (lack of quality) and some lucky results on their part won them the title. His influence on the title has been fuck all
It was never not in their hands, he was confident because he had games against us still to come, whether it's just bravado or he genuinely believed we wouldn't lay a glove on him is up for debate, but it played out that way.
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1 hour ago, Jimfanciesthedude said:
Thought he said that about the leeds team who ran out of steam one season
He said it on the first day of the 95/96 season, after Fergie sold Kanchelskis, Paul Ince and Mark Hughes, and used that as a makeway to bring in Beckham, Scholes, Butt and the Nevilles more regularly.
Cantona was still banned at that point too.
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2 hours ago, kelvd1873 said:
It wouldn’t surprise me if he went to an English championship side plays 40 games and score 25 goals next season.
That league is probably the most demanding league in Europe, I can see him somewhere like the Eredivisie but I'd be amazed if he went to the Championship.
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7 hours ago, SkylineBlue said:
Still canny believe we've single handedly dragged this fucking country into automatic Champions League spots and then given it to those cunts every fucking year. We've given them close to £100m from Champions League money across the past 3 seasons.
I laughed when I read this because it's so fucking true, we're the self harm champions of the world.
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9 minutes ago, soulboy said:
Was reading an old article from Jan about us getting into next season CL. If we finished second it basically said if the winners of this season's CL and EL have already qualified through their league position then the team from the qualifiers with the highest co efficient would get straight in, which according to the article in Jan is us.
Is this still the case or are we now playing qualifiers no matter what ?
It was always going to bank on a lot of factors falling into place, but think it was confirmed at the weekend that Benfica will be the beneficiaries of that, but even then they still need one of a couple of things to happen, either Leverkusan win the Europa League or Dortmund win the UCL while also finishing in the top 5.
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3 minutes ago, SkylineBlue said:
Here's hoping. Even 3 or 4 million for him to go back down south is decent enough given we never paid for him.
Who's gonna pay that for him when no one wanted him 18 months ago and his time with us will be percieved as a failure?
First we need to find a club that wants him, then we need to make sure they can offer him the type of wages we give him, then on top of that you're expecting them to pay £3-4m for him? I think thats extremely wishful thinking, mate.
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14 hours ago, CoplandRoad83 said:
Rightly or wrongly, I think he judged Cantwell early as someone who plays for himself, and makes it all about him, rather than being disciplined and playing for the team. I think Cantwell is a talented player (but hate his social media stuff), but he's not a Clement type player, and will be moved on in the summer.
Hard to see where he'll be moved on to, no one in the Championship wanted him when we took him, and his time with us will be perceived as a failure, so I'm not sure who bites the bullet to take him off our hands, then there's his wages, I'm sure he'll be on a good wedge, so the level of club that could entice him probably wouldn't be able to afford him.
Maybe a Sunderland could afford his wages, or Birmingham if he's willing to drop a level, but even that sounds far fetched.
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8 hours ago, BigDak said:
I'm no sure, mate. After that wee rat fuck O'Halloran I'm really reluctant to take the chance.
I know there have been multiple players on either side of the divide do well for their "opposite team" but once bitten, twice shy and all that.
Completely different levels now though to be fair, we were a laughing stock back then, every two bit player in Scotland who had played in the top tier thought they could do a job for us and get more wages that they'd ever experienced before or after.
We were pretty humstrung then too with who we could attract, I don't think we'd be quite as desperate now as we were back then, and we definitely wouldn't be jumping through hoops just for a random SPL journeyman to sign for us.
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11 hours ago, STEPPS BOY said:
We’re hamstrung with this nations quota though.
It’s either players like Barron or we don’t have players on the bench.
That's why we should be investing in our own youth developlent, put a lot of time, investment and hard work into that, and if a youngster at another club is too good to ignore then sign him, but on the whole develop our own, we need to show the youth that there's a pathway to the first team, they'll develop here and get opportunities.
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9 minutes ago, OrangeRab said:
Annoying that at a time when there’s a good crop of young Scottish talent, we’re probably going to miss out. As others have said, we can’t afford to be spending a good chunk of our budget on players that will be ready in 2-3 years time.
At some point we're going to need to look at that kind of long term plan, because this year to year planning we do now hasn't worked at all and I doubt it will suddenly start in future.
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37 minutes ago, Negri's lovechild said:
Eesh. Mind for a couple of years we used to just send Bomber out on scouting missions?
😂😂 that was brutal, Walter Smiths second spell I'm sure that was.
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2 minutes ago, Fear no foe said:
They'd have to sneak it into a tweet or something after yesterday
"60' Lundstram (here to 2028) sends an effort wide"
😂 it might be almost worth it.
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13 minutes ago, J-Maestro said:
They’re likely finishing with 6 less points. It’s not like they’ve fallen through the floor.
Judging Clement on Beales wild transfer dealings is absolutely wild.
They dropped 8 points after clinching the league last year, they chucked it, even a shite Hibs team took four off them the night we played Hearts at Ibrox, this season they've had to keep going.
They're nowhere near the side they were last year.
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1 hour ago, esquire8 said:
We were in a title race, won the league cup and in the Scottish Cup final with one of our worst squads since coming back up.
If that's not close then what is?
The tims have been shite all season, ultra shite, and they've won the league, this isn't about us rising up to get closer to them, it's been about them dropping closer to us, and they've still took 10 points off us, we can't beat them, and not playing them yet in either cup has been a factor in our success in both comps, until we can beat them, then believing we're close to them will only ever be a comfort blanket.
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1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:
Would you not just be better giving up with that mindset? Surely it’s causing you more grief than anything else when you’ve decided being close to them is an illusion?
No, because I live in hope that one day we'll be that team again, I'm not gonna chuck it until that happens then reappear for the good times, but on the otherhand, I'm no gonna sit here and lie to myself and everyone else about what I see, defeats the point of the forum.
We've watched them win trophy after trophy and not beat them in a meaningful game in 90 minutes for almost three years, since we won the League, we've had more managers than them and everyone of them makes the same mistakes every single time, the last time we've been genuinely close to them in my opinion was two years ago under Gio, but we fucked the summer window despite all the money we brought in, and it's been groundhog day ever since.
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4 hours ago, left winger said:
They’ve had millions more money than us for just about every year for the last 12, and they scraped past us this season, when most of us think we were shite for about half the season. We got to the last 16 of the EL and were maybe a bit unlucky to get through, but a large number of us want every player, bar 2 or 3, binned.
Margins are very fine. 3 or 4 good signings (which we could potentially afford) could make a huge difference.
It obviously won’t help, but won’t set us back years.
Whether they scrape past us or sail past us, the problem is they just keep beating us, it's been eight seasons now since we got back into the top flight, and in that time they've won five trebles, one double and it'll be another double if we don't beat them at Hampden.
That's all the while of managing to save up cash reserves of about £70m, that's without even accounting for the CL money they'll get this year, they do just enough to stay a bawhair ahead of us, but if it goes tits up, like it did in 2021, they can then blow us out the water in the transfer market and it just instantly puts us on the back foot again.
Being close to them is an illussion.
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1 hour ago, Valance1690 said:
If you actually read about Clements time at Monaco, his setup here is very similar, they started well & eventually got figured out, they sacked him after 1 win in 7 when he refused to change his ways.
He relies on fullbacks to be the ones to take the ball from the back, he plays with 2 in midfield and a #10 & his teams go long out to the wings and look for 2nd balls then rely on lots of crosses.
All of that is what we've seen when he's been here so he isn't changing anything, even with his own players.
Right, thats the negative side of it, I get that, but I'd level that out by saying the standard of opposition he faced would've been much higher in France, what about in Belgium, surely with how successful he was in Belgium, those tactics must've worked, I'd say we're closer to the Belgian league, in terms of overall quality than we are to Ligue 1, so would it not be encouraging that his style clearly worked there?
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3 minutes ago, Laudrupsleftfoot said:
I’ve been more critical than most lately and today, but we have no choice but to back him.
Today started like everyone knew it would with that line up.
We’re not bringing in a higher calibre and it will be someone like McInnes if Clement doesn’t work, have to go all in for now.
I think if got McInnes in back in 2017 when we first wanted him, we would probably have more trophies in the cabinet than we do now and the tims wouldn't have had so many trebles, although I also think we'd be bored shitless for most of the season every year.
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10 minutes ago, The Specky Forum Organiser said:Shankland has been the best striker in the league this season(including Kyogo) if we don't go for him it's negligence at this point. I don't even see how anyone can debate against signing him at this point
Shankland wouldn't last 3 months here.before he's public enemy number one, he's about a stone and a half over weight, he can't run and his work rate is non existent, Naismith has built that whole Hearts team round about him, but if he was here he'd be expected to put the kind of shift Dessers puts in and that's just not gonna happen, he's a poor man's Kris Boyd.
He'll be 29 at the start of next season and he's only had two 20+ goal seasons as a top flight player, I don't think he gives us anything we could genuinely use, and if we blow another £4/5m on a 29 year old then it's just more dead money.
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1 minute ago, ForeverAndEver said:
He's a good player, I agree. He's still scored 3 goals in 14 games, and him being better than Shankland is debatable. I don't think he is.
He's playing in a hoaching team that barely make any chances, it's a miracle he's scored so many as it is, something was always gonna give, his scoring rate with the little he had to work with is wild.
Shankland wouldn't last 3 months here.before he's public enemy number one, he's about a stone and a half over weight, he can't run and his work rate is non existent, Naismith has built that while Hearts team round about him, but if he was here he'd be expected to put the kind of shift Dessers puts in and that'a just not gonna happen, he's a poor man's Kris Boyd.
He'll be 29 at the start of next season and he's only had two 20+ goal seasons as a top flight player, I don't think he gives us anything we could genuinely use, and if we blow another £4/5m on a 29 year old then it's just more dead money.
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1 hour ago, ForeverAndEver said:
Same Miovski that’s barely kicked his arse in months?
He's scored 24 goals for a pish poor sheep side, seems to score everytime he plays against the tims this season and has a decent record against us too, really good touch, can play with his back to goal, has a good turn of pace and is very decent in the air, he's a better player than Shankland right now and his ceiling is miles above Dessers, he's a good player, mate.
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Pretty sure he was an ever present four Wolves in the Premier League for four seasons straight before he signed for Everton, he must have something about him.