General Transfer Talk

[KeyserSoze 15,285]

22 minutes ago, stevemac said:

So buy him, immediately sell him. Any profit is still profit. Loads of clubs do that. 

Pretty sure the power lies with the player. Not much we can do if he’s under contract at his parent club

[Broxi 12,205]

Just now, The Specky Non Liar - Sometimes said:

What's your top 5?

In no particular order:

Talking about players "getting it" or players being winners or losers based on whether we just won or lost. You can be a winner with a great attitude and lose or be shit at football and you can be a loser with a bad attitude and still win. It almost always means nothing when people say it. 

Hammer throwers of Scottish football.

Anything about refereeing or governing body conspiracies

Overhyping youth players because they made a 5 yard pass. Don't need a new striker because we should give players like Ure a chance. 

Pacey/technical/good dribbler players are useless signings against 10 men behind the ball teams 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,622]

9 minutes ago, Broxi said:

In no particular order:

Talking about players "getting it" or players being winners or losers based on whether we just won or lost. You can be a winner with a great attitude and lose or be shit at football and you can be a loser with a bad attitude and still win. It almost always means nothing when people say it. 

Hammer throwers of Scottish football.

Anything about refereeing or governing body conspiracies

Overhyping youth players because they made a 5 yard pass. Don't need a new striker because we should give players like Ure a chance. 

Pacey/technical/good dribbler players are useless signings against 10 men behind the ball teams 

Disagree with the first one, agree with the rest.

[BridgeIsBlue 66,818]

Can't be spending £5m on someone who hasn't turned up in a big game since August. 

[BlueSuedeSambas 56,422]

27 minutes ago, Broxi said:

In no particular order:

Talking about players "getting it" or players being winners or losers based on whether we just won or lost. You can be a winner with a great attitude and lose or be shit at football and you can be a loser with a bad attitude and still win. It almost always means nothing when people say it. 

Hammer throwers of Scottish football.

Anything about refereeing or governing body conspiracies

Overhyping youth players because they made a 5 yard pass. Don't need a new striker because we should give players like Ure a chance. 

Pacey/technical/good dribbler players are useless signings against 10 men behind the ball teams 

Could definitely add people constantly wanting first team players dropped for squad players who are nowhere near as good to that list.

[The Dude 20,027]

32 minutes ago, Broxi said:

In no particular order:

Talking about players "getting it" or players being winners or losers based on whether we just won or lost. You can be a winner with a great attitude and lose or be shit at football and you can be a loser with a bad attitude and still win. It almost always means nothing when people say it. 

Hammer throwers of Scottish football.

Anything about refereeing or governing body conspiracies

Overhyping youth players because they made a 5 yard pass. Don't need a new striker because we should give players like Ure a chance. 

Pacey/technical/good dribbler players are useless signings against 10 men behind the ball teams 

Can we add in teams not trying against Celtic while trying harder against us?

Also team A can have a grass pitch, why don't team B?

[Laudrupsleftfoot 12,277]

8 minutes ago, BridgeIsBlue said:

Can't be spending £5m on someone who hasn't turned up in a big game since August. 

Such a stupid short-sighted argument.

[Laudrupsleftfoot 12,277]

3 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Can we add in teams not trying against celtic while trying harder against us?

Also team A can have a grass pitch, why don't team B?

All teams in the top league should have a grass pitch tbf.

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,622]

10 minutes ago, BridgeIsBlue said:

Can't be spending £5m on someone who hasn't turned up in a big game since August. 

Don't get this logic at all.

[Laudrupsleftfoot 12,277]

38 minutes ago, Broxi said:

In no particular order:

Talking about players "getting it" or players being winners or losers based on whether we just won or lost. You can be a winner with a great attitude and lose or be shit at football and you can be a loser with a bad attitude and still win. It almost always means nothing when people say it. 

Hammer throwers of Scottish football.

Anything about refereeing or governing body conspiracies

Overhyping youth players because they made a 5 yard pass. Don't need a new striker because we should give players like Ure a chance. 

Pacey/technical/good dribbler players are useless signings against 10 men behind the ball teams 

Only seen this being applied to pacey players who aren’t that technical or able to dribble.

[The Godfather 75,764]

6 minutes ago, The Specky Non Liar - Sometimes said:

Don't get this logic at all.

Boyd didn't really cause them any grief and was one of our best buys.

Also the CL qualifiers goal must count as a big game imo.

[NorthernLights 2,529]

If he could drag the team to a win against them single-handedly then he wouldn’t be available 

[ger4life_1872 30,543]

1 hour ago, OrangeRab said:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/4237165/Rangers-michael-beale-scottish-football-too-physical-england-spain-young-talent/amp/

give that a read 👍

Beale spoke a week ago on talksport about needing to add more pace and physicality into the team 

[The Dude 20,027]

44 minutes ago, Laudrupsleftfoot said:

All teams in the top league should have a grass pitch tbf.

Totally disagree. Plenty wank grass pitches and can make a massive difference financially for clubs.

[Smile 26,624]

18 hours ago, Somemightsay7 said:

Willock doesn't even get a game for QPR.

He would be a horrendous signing.

He can keep Yilmaz company on the treatment table discussing their hamstring problems.

[King Jela 21,689]

1 hour ago, OrangeRab said:

I’m taking his football opinion over speckys

Can't remember Walter moaning about the league being too physical. 

I'll take his opinion on football over Beale's. 

[OrangeRab 3,401]

7 minutes ago, King Jela said:

Can't remember Walter moaning about the league being too physical. 

I'll take his opinion on football over Beale's. 

So would I 👍. But that wasn’t the discussion. It was just whether the spl is more physical and less technical than other leagues in Europe. I doubt Walter would disagree. Tbh surprised anyone would disagree who has watched a match in La Liga and watched a match in the spl

[The Specky Forum Organiser 69,622]

2 minutes ago, OrangeRab said:

So would I 👍. But that wasn’t the discussion. It was just whether the spl is more physical and less technical than other leagues in Europe. I doubt Walter would disagree. Tbh surprised anyone would disagree who has watched a match in La Liga and watched a match in the spl

That wasn't the discussion.

[esquire8 45,312]

26 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Totally disagree. Plenty wank grass pitches and can make a massive difference financially for clubs.

Any professional club that cannot maintain a good standard of grass/hybrid pitch should not be a professional club in the first place. 

[The Dude 20,027]

Just now, esquire8 said:

Any professional club that cannot maintain a good standard of grass/hybrid pitch should not be a professional club in the first place. 

Have you seen the Ibrox pitch in recent seasons?

 

[graeme_4 37,621]

Plastic pitches are an embarrassment in the top tier, not to mention providing an absolutely shite game 99 times out of 100.

[Malkytfp1 19,687]

1 hour ago, BridgeIsBlue said:

Can't be spending £5m on someone who hasn't turned up in a big game since August. 

20 year old exciting prospect who is probably gonna pick up player of the year awards for us and will only become better. If you can't spend £5m on that then what can you spend it on.

[OrangeRab 3,401]

4 minutes ago, The Specky Non Liar - Sometimes said:

That wasn't the discussion.

It was. You might have chosen to be deliberately obtuse and take it too literally. Nobody thinks that every player in the league is incapable of passing a football and can only make thuggish challenges. 

Anyways back to the original point. I can see why he might want to move to another league which is less physical, better pitches, more technical and where he gets more protection from refs. Absolutely a possibility

[esquire8 45,312]

7 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Have you seen the Ibrox pitch in recent seasons?

 

Rather the worst Ibrox has ever been than what's on offer at Livi, Killie and Hamilton. 

[The Dude 20,027]

2 minutes ago, esquire8 said:

Rather the worst Ibrox has ever been than what's on offer at Livi, Killie and Hamilton. 

You watch many games involving them outside ours?

If it saves those clubs £500k+ a year on training facilities and lets them generate more revenue then fair play to them.