Oleg_Mcnoleg

Miller's only got a couple of seasons of football left at best. If he doesn't think he's going to play enough with us then I don't begrudge him moving at all. Can't deny he's been a good servant to our club.

I didn't mean legally enforced with fines and arrests! I meant voluntary as in not being bullied or hectored into it.

IMHO, it loses all meaning if it's not voluntary.

I do tend to wear a poppy. Generations of young, working class kids have been sent around the world to be shot at, sometimes for just causes and sometimes less so. I absolutely despise the way we've got tabloids trying to sniff out people not wearing poppies. It's a choice and this bullying 'poppywatch' is a very recent phenomenon, pushed by the sorts of rags that do nothing but poison public life, IMHO. That said, the Green Brigade's blood-soaked poppy thing was posturing nonsense of the highest order. If they dress up like paramilitaries and sing about the IRA, it's not about anti-militarism, is it?

Might see a few of these pre-emptive moves in the light of the EBT decision. Noticed a couple of Celtic's film producers taking similar steps.

Much of it is framed in a rather simple-minded and self-flagellating form of 'progressive politics' which elements of the left tend to and which the SNP has adopted (rather selectively in practice). It seems very much written through the lens of modern SNP discourse. I self-declare as left(ish) liberal(ish) and was a founder member of the FF handwringer set (remember the fun with the 'knuckledraggers'? Seems a more innocent time) yet it absolutely boils my pish. The idea that the nationalism has the monopoly on 'progressiveness' in Scotland makes me boak (it also makes me boak that unionists in NI have ceded so much of that ground to nationalists and republicans, but that's for another day). It means the piece cherry-picks individual aspects of our behaviour, takes them out of their context and then labels them a sectarian or bigoted or whatever. I'm more than happy for us to reflect on the way we behave and present ourselves. We already do: witness the endless debates about, off the top of my head, the Billy Boys, that red hand salute or, more recently, that excruciating Tiffany bollocks. The NF swiftly found they were not welcome when they tried to use the Troubles to inveigle they way into the support. And we do that without sanctimonious, simple-minded arseholes like Spiers and the other self-proclaimed spokespeople for modern Scotland lecturing us. As for the stuff about the team itself, I think we'd almost all love our first team to comprise eleven players from the West of Scotland who've come through the ranks. Unfortunately, we tried it and they were bloody awful. I take many things from supporting Rangers but enjoyment of losing is not one of them.

If we need twenty or thirty chances to score, this is going to happen. It's only a friendly but would be surely be a confidence boost if we could just stick a chance away. Can't be that fecking hard can it?

He must have repetitive strain injury in his neck after two seasons alongside Waghorn then.

Not sure I'd be relying on him to start every week, tbh. I suppose he'd go in a narrower midfield with a wide player dropping out

Nah, they kept it. The corruption related to domestic games so they had domestic titles stripped.

They were never going to sack him two games into the season, no matter how poor we were in Luxembourg and no matter how justifiably pissed off we are. What is true is that it has cost Pedro a hell of a lot of capital. Anything less than very solid from here and he's in trouble.

Every team concedes chances and goals from time to time. If we can only score with 1 out of 20 or 30 chances, we are going to lose a lot of games.

I'd be checking our players for banned substances. LSD and sleeping pills in particular.

Should or will? Maybeshould be--there are some levels of performance that are simply inexcusable and for which somebody should pay--but not sure it would help. But his coat's on a shoogly peg already. Backed by the board to a remarkable level and then oversees a performance like that? Going to have to be some fucking start to next season to restore any credibility: if we've not got a near perfect record and a +20 goal difference after 10 games his tea's oot.

Hope we kept the receipts for the acquisitions. Every player on that pitch can fuck themselves with a machete. I've never been angrier

Should going out here be a sackable offence?

This second half is as bad as I've seen us. Absolute, unadulterated shite. Can we get McCoist back?

This has degenerated to absolute ordure.

The price is a clear reflection of a) the respective status of their contracts and b) the fact that, on the evidence of this season, yes, Armstrong probably is 8-10 times better than McKay. If you want players to stay or to strengthen your hand in sales, you don't let a contract wind down like that.

Of course. But McKay has been very unreliable as a 'game changer' . Walker might not be as mercurial but he looks a hell of a lot more dependable.

Not this shit again. The best they have been able to come with on WATP is that 'it sounds triumphalist'. Ultimately it's just a case of 'you said it and you're a bigot so it's bigoted (you bigoted orange hun bastard)'.

the full backs were so far forward we pretty much were

Going against the grain, I'd prefer to focus on the positives. Far more direct than we've been: looked to get forward quickly at evry opportunity. Can see how Pedro's trying to get them playing. I thought Dalcio was ok, at least for the first half. His movement was good, his touch ok. Definite promise. Jack was decent. Keeping Krancjar fit looks important though

You can be pretty much certain that he'll score a hat trick against us but do his usual giraffe on acid impression for the rest of th season.

Saw him play for Brighton quite often and he was very good. Poyet took him to Sunderland which turned out to be a lousy move for him (and Poyet). Not paid much attention to him since