TheGovanIniesta

He's finished, shouldn't play for us again

He's finished, shouldn't play for us again

I love seeing it flying but any time I do it’s akways bittersweet for me as the first thing that comes into my head is that it will be down rapid in a day or two and replaced with the nationalist saltire 
people can get offended at me saying it’s a nationalist symbol all they want but a flag is only as good as the people who fly it - it’s been claimed by them and it’s got to the point I hate seeing it unless it’s on a poll next to a union flag or on a loyalist parade 
I don’t even feel the saltire represents me in the slightest - for years now 

We made a European final a decade ago. Embarrassing thing to say. 

Fell for it too many times now mate, his intentions are there more than Pedro's obviously but I'll no be getting my hopes up over shite like this anymore it's a complete waste of time

Talking needs done on the pitch and until it is done there should be limited praise

Fell for it too many times now mate, his intentions are there more than Pedro's obviously but I'll no be getting my hopes up over shite like this anymore it's a complete waste of time

Talking needs done on the pitch and until it is done there should be limited praise

Fell for it too many times now mate, his intentions are there more than Pedro's obviously but I'll no be getting my hopes up over shite like this anymore it's a complete waste of time

Talking needs done on the pitch and until it is done there should be limited praise

Fell for it too many times now mate, his intentions are there more than Pedro's obviously but I'll no be getting my hopes up over shite like this anymore it's a complete waste of time

Talking needs done on the pitch and until it is done there should be limited praise

I remember everyone creaming themselves when Pedro was screaming to press in training early on

I don't expect it to be much different, team is a million miles away from high intensity pressing

I remember everyone creaming themselves when Pedro was screaming to press in training early on

I don't expect it to be much different, team is a million miles away from high intensity pressing

Still too many of the chancers at us for me these guys are gutless losers.

Fell for it too many times now mate, his intentions are there more than Pedro's obviously but I'll no be getting my hopes up over shite like this anymore it's a complete waste of time

Talking needs done on the pitch and until it is done there should be limited praise

Based on watching every game they played that season. Stats only say so much... he played very well in a team that came very close to winning the title in England. 

Docherty is indeed shite, gets an easy ride because he's young and a bear

Him and Jack are nowhere near good enough

Those players would've signed for us no mater who was in charge.  It's not like they were high profile players with better offers elsewhere.  I'm not blown away in amazement that we managed to get them here.  Warburton got Barton up here, Pedro got Alves, Gerrard gets Flanagan.  
I appreciate that the players are paying the manager some lip service but it's all hot air.  They're just blowing smoke up each other's arse which happens anytime a player signs for a football team.
When Gerrard became manager we were told he could attract a better standard of player.  That's not happening.  In fact, it sounds like Mark Allen is the one identifying most of these players and negotiating their signatures.

We could've got the players we signed this summer without Gerrard.

I don’t really think you are getting what I’m trying to say though - they are reasons, but not good enough reasons For me. 
We should be (and can be) aiming a lot higher. We’ve little ambition in our transfer policy thus far 

I hate it when someone says that because they know fine well your average fan has no idea what players are available and/or interested 
I never thought we’d get Arfield tbh 
some of these are different times but I never thought we’d have had a chance with Mojo, Laudrup, Boli, Gascoigne, Van Vossen, Numan, Gio, De Boer, Flo, Capucho, Arveladze, Arteta, Prso, Boumsong and even Alves last season 
Its about making a decent pitch to a player and shuffling the numbers about (I.e same wages we paid O’Halloran, Dodoo and Hererra we could have covered Dembeles wages for example - you’d rather have them 3? Or him?)
We should never start accepting mediocre shite and sub standard windows because of this 

Lets hope so as far as I'm concerned

The share money is in the bag - transfers aren’t paid up in full time of purchase anyway 
we’ve been patient but we still have substandard policies in place and make the same mistakes - let’s be honest If the window slams shut tomorrow, we’ve no chance - we might have a better defence (and then again we might not) but we need a marquee striker, another one on top of that and 2 top class midfielders 
if we are in negotiations or looking for them guys then I’ll stand corrected when they sign but right now I’m quite underwhelmed and I’ve still not got 1 good reason why we don’t appear to have a proper transfer budget to compete yet 
people don’t understand that unless we spend this money, we won’t win the league and get into the CL again, we have to spend it at some point - why not now and save years of misery?

All you are doing is telling me why it won’t happen but it’s not a good enough reason to me - we have unambitious amateur’s making the decisions at our club - Robertson, King and Mark Allen who never learn from their mistakes and keep on thinking that doing the same thing all the time has to pay off once - as I said our footballing/transfer strategies are barking 
I maintain there’s not one good reason why we can’t have a 20 million budget with record season ticket sales, a 6 million share issue and even topping it up by selling Tav and Morelos and Fod and Windass but there’s no desire to do so therefore rinse and repeat - different transfer window, same shite 

Why though should that type of budget not happen? Not one person has ever gave me a good reason (not one) as to why we can’t have a budget like that 
if there’s a good reason why we don’t have that sort of implied money, what’s the point in going down the same route year after year signing frees, loans and a 5 million spent for a total rebuild job - it won’t get us anywhere so why not wait a couple of years and stockpile the cash instead of buying constant cheapies and sub standard gambles?
buy cheap but twice - our transfer strategy is barking ... there’s about 6 weeks to turn it around and convince me otherwise 

Karl svennson (sp) was over 6ft, so was flo, height means fuck all if you dont have a heart to match it
Jason holt never shirked a thing for us, he wasnt over 6ft

Goldson and Katic are smart buys but it would be naive to assume both will automatically work out

Arfield and McGregor on free's you can't complain, but more solid than very talented IMO

Then it's just downhill rapidly with risks or unproven talent, absolutely nothing to suggest we will push the taigs


 

Much was said about 'the Gerrard effect' and his ability to attract a higher quality of player.  I don't think we've seen any evidence of that so far.