Bluedell
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3 minutes ago, CammyF said:
Fraser Fletcher? Hardly a reliable source 😂
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32 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:
An anthem which mentions 'rebellious Scots to crush'? We're not all Jacobites. And anyway, some Jacobites were English. FoS, while a stirring tune, seems to celebrate a defeat (Flodden) which is odd.
Firstly, that verse isn't part of the official national anthem.
Secondly, I've never heard it sung.
Thirdly, I have no problem with the verse. It's only referring to rebellious Scots and not all Scots, and I'm totally in favour of rebellious Scots being crushed.
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St Johnstone 0 - 2 Rangers
FGS Danilo
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It's really not the time to be issuing this. Read the room.
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Our national anthem is GSTK. It doesn't matter whether you're Scottish or English. That's your national anthem.
The SFA have decided not to use it for whatever reason and chosen FoS as the anthem to use for the Scottish football team. It isn't our national anthem though and the SFA don't decide what our national anthem is.
The English FA have decided to use the national anthem as the national anthem. They've kept it simple and are using it correctly, unlike the SFA.
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He's the only left back in the European squad so I can't see us selling him.
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14 hours ago, ian1964 said:
That's apparently a fake/photoshopped picture and quote.
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1 hour ago, Bill said:
I find it interesting how Raskin and to an extent Cantwell have gone well off the boil since last season. Perhaps suggesting this manager isn't creating the constructive dressing room the players would like to see. I suspect there are some unhappy players in our squad.
Yeah, there's been a few rumours suggesting that players' family members have been saying that.
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1 hour ago, weebluedevil said:
Okay, what happens when we don't have success on the park? players' value decreases, which will happen especially when they can't lock down a place in the team, get injured, or the team keep failing to win trophies. The transfer kitty will quickly erode year-on-year. Player trading doesn't work when the team fails and academy players, like Paterson, breaking through is very rare. Balancing the books now and again is required I get that, but if we want to challenge for the money on offer from CL participation, they need to find a way. Again, if not, we have to rely our rivals having a really poor season (Lennon) or we accept that we will be the #2 team in Scotland, happy with the odd cup success. Maybe we form a new firm with St Johnstone.
You say balancing the books is required now and again, but where does the cash come from in the year where we want to overspend? Borrowing cash got us into trouble before and I'm not sure who would lend us, say £10 million.
Our best way out is with a manager who can spot stars and bring them in cheaply, and build a successful team that way. With Cantwell and Raskin, I was hopeful we had that, and maybe the other players brought in recently are good but need another manager? Other than that, it's not an easy answer. I'm sure our directors have been trying to come up with a solution.
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22 minutes ago, weebluedevil said:
I agree with you regarding 'those upstairs', this is their mess to be honest.
They haven't really backed any manager financially: Gerrard left due to the lack of funds to kick-on from 55. Gio wasn't backed, although he maintained he had the right squad (blinkered by the EL run and momentum built from Gerrard reign), that ultimately lost him his job. Beale has not been backed, books have just been balanced and arguably we are weaker as a result (I'm comparing quality of players that came in versus those that left rather than form in the last season or so).
Whilst I don't think Beale has been given the tools i.e. the quality he was able to bring in, I don't think he has the managerial competence to manage us anyway. But again, it was a fairly easy and economical option by the board to hire Beale in the first place.
The board always said that the rebuild would be front loaded and they gave Gerrard funds to rebuild the team, that led to us winning the league and reaching a Euro final.
The problem is now that there's no excess funds to spend on giving managers more cash. The well of the cash from directors has largely run dry and we therefore have to rely on player sales and fund generated from Europe to firstly pay for our day-to-day expenses, including wages, and then go towards player purchases.
Gerrard didn't want any of his squad sold so it's his own fault that his budget was limited. It's a fact of life that we have to balance the books nowadays. We've spent £14m+ on 3 players and that's not bad going.
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Not sure if this has been posted already but:
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2 hours ago, lenny3k said:He didn't look to be moving freely after the challenge with Maeda that he got treatment for
Maeda was a dirty bastard and the ref continually spoke to him (warned him at least 4 times) but refused to book him.
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Dessers. Did well in the first half. Won his share of high balls and set up our "goal". Faded in the second half, but was the best of a bad lot.
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4 minutes ago, Bill said:We didn't lose yesterday because of a dodgy refereeing decision. We lost because we couldn't convert any of the many chances we had and because we couldn't string six passes together before surrendering possession of the football. That's what we should be focussed on.
We did convert one of our chances, and nobody can say if we would have lost or not if the goal had been allowed. so it's incorrect to say that's not why we lost. It's one of the reasons.
It's a bit arrogant to tell people what people should and should not be focussing on. It's not an either/or. We can debate more than one aspect of the game.
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37 minutes ago, Bill said:
Let me get this right. You genuinely think that by complaining on Gersnet you're going to prevent this sort of thing happening again? Good luck with that.
By that logic, we shouldn't complain about the manager or the tactics either as it's not going to prevent it happening again.
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49 minutes ago, Rousseau said:
I think you're seeing what you want to see.
As are you.
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34 minutes ago, Rousseau said:
From Brother Madden:
“The defender is in control.
“The defender’s action is to play the ball with his left foot.
"This is the important part.
The defender is turning and not really in control. It's pure supposition that the defender is about to play the ball with his left foot.
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17 hours ago, Graeme Ro55 said:You cannot stick your foot in when a player is swinging his foot at the ball, it's a foul.
I've looked at it again and there's not enough evidence to suggest he was swinging his foot at the ball. He had taken a few steps without swinging his foot at the ball and it looks to me as if this was just another step. It's in no way a clear and obvious error and I really don't think it's a foul.
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8 minutes ago, Rousseau said:
OK. At the very least it's not conclusive or cheating, if we're disagreeing.
I don't really care, to be honest. It's just distracting us from the poor performance.
You don't care? Wow.
The result was more important to me than the performance, and always will be against that mob.
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1 minute ago, Graeme Ro55 said:
You cannot stick your foot in when a player is swinging his foot at the ball, it's a foul.
You can't stick your foot between a player and the ball and take the ball away? Since when?
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Just now, Rousseau said:
The Celtic player, in control of the ball, is in the process of kicking (connecting with) the ball and Dessers trips him.
It's a foul, for me.
That's not what I saw. Dessers inserts his foot between the player and the ball. Dessers doesn't trip him.
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2 minutes ago, PoohBear said:
If you make contact with a player like that whilst you aren’t in control of the ball, arm on shoulder and tangling the feet then there is every opportunity for the ref to call a foul. I think it was soft but calling it cheating is nonsensical to me.
He didn't call it a foul. He allowed it and there was nothing clear and obvious to suggest he should change his decision (other than his obvious allegiances)
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6 minutes ago, Rousseau said:
I thought it was a foul to Celtic.
I'm sorry.
Where do you think the foul was? I just don't see anything.
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Also is not referring to the Battle of Bannockburn?