Goggles & Flippers

Scoutin Straegy Meetin 2021 - Pittodrie Stadioum, Airbirdeeen Chairmin: Fit like, can I bring the meetin tae ordir! Now, we goat that baldy tink frae Sellik, wha next? Far div we git some playirs, teams shite? Cheef Scoot: I've goat the perfect plan min, Mitherwell virtoal season tikit, dae it all in one place, an get a earlybird discoont tae. Chairmin: First rate plan min, and saving money tae, yi fair ken how to slather ma butteries! Poach, Sleep, Lose, Repeat ...... Same meeting and outcome every year for the past 15.

In reality the South is the real Phil O'Donnell Stand

Well Society brought it up in a recent newsletter. I think it is so all 4 stands commemorate someone/thing associated with the club.

Don't know about happy as we would have retained his services or if anyone wanted him it would have taken a fee to get his signature. What we had in our corner was GA playing him or not. No game time before the Euro's, harder for Steve Clarke to pick him. I suspect the deal to let him go is all the Euro money comes to us (as it was meant to). The estimate was about £70k? Not great but better than nothing. I doubt his agent or his wares will ever be welcomed through the door at the Chapman and Flow has probably has ordered a voodoo doll in his effigy from eBay with big needles. As for his injury in Jan, OTF who does have his finger on the pulse says it was genuine as I'm inclined to believe that too. Do I think it was milked after the event .... yes. Do I think the agent and the player sought advantageous contract discussions when he was "recuperating" and the extension hadn't been triggered .... yes. Do I think he's not covered himself in glory .... yes. Will I find any "thanks to the fans, you've been great" farewell social media posts grating and insincere .... yes. Just slink out the back door with no fanfare or empty gestures please.

There's the first confirmation of the thing that plenty of us knew. The extension trigger that was agreed upon has been renagued upon and pie'd. Just the fine upstanding behaviour you'd expect from a club captain. Hope you go and emulate Curtis Main.

Mrs Polworth .... her twitter game is off the hook

Shrouded in a black cloth, no men in side it for 12 months ...... Cooper needs to be renamed the "Sicilian Granny" Stand

Irony is Ross Mathie is from North Motherwell

It runs out this summer ......

It's actually quite an entertaining game just now, pretty open.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56869428 BBC have Foley in 4th and their hack waxed on about Cole as if he was the only one on the park.

Tavernier was injured which allowed Patterson to break through, granted an average performance in blue or green gets the press hacks excited, not as if that defence has been troubled much this season. However Tavernier has returned, is club captain and Patterson has to serve a 3 match bad for attending a house party earlier in the year. Personally I'd drop McBurnie, I don't think he warrants a place. Nisbet could easily be replaced by someone like Forrest albeit returning from a long injury. Turnbull has earned a spot from coming into and being among the best of a bad bunch at Parkhead. I'd suggest Griffiths too but I don't know where he is at at all in terms of his game or beyond it now, he is a talisman however. Ryan Jack would be my third if one of the above doesn't get the nod. I wouldn't be surprised if its 3 with call ups already but not in the most recent squad. Only a few games to rattle the managers cage. With the extension of 23 to 26 in the squad it is more likely to be someone he's used over the past year and dropped. Wikipedia list these as: GK Robby McCrorie 18 March 1998 (age 23) 0 0 Livingston 14 October 2020, v. Czech Republic DF Liam Cooper 30 August 1991 (age 29) 5 0 Leeds United 18 November 2020, v. Israel DF Paul Hanlon 20 January 1990 (age 31) 1 0 Hibernian 14 October 2020, v. Czech Republic DF Paul McGinn 22 October 1990 (age 30) 0 0 Hibernian 14 October 2020, v. Czech Republic DF Ryan Porteous 25 March 1999 (age 22) 0 0 Hibernian 14 October 2020, v. Czech Republic MF Ryan Jack 27 February 1992 (age 29) 10 0 Rangers 25 March 2021, v. Austria MF Ross McCrorie 18 March 1998 (age 23) 0 0 Aberdeen 14 October 2020, v. Czech Republic FW Leigh Griffiths 20 August 1990 (age 30) 22 4 Celtic 18 November 2020, v. Israel FW Callum Paterson 13 October 1994 (age 26) 17 0 Sheffield Wednesday 18 November 2020, v. Israel FW Oliver Burke 7 April 1997 (age 24) 13 1 Sheffield United 18 November 2020, v. Israel FW Lawrence Shankland 10 August 1995 (age 25) 4 1 Dundee United 18 November 2020, v. Israel FW James Forrest 7 July 1991 (age 29) 35 5 Celtic 7 September 2020, v. Czech Republic

Stevie G certainly has been pretty good on the transfer market. Considering that they could have got Turnbull for the same 400k compo wonder if that is a regret. Saying that they could have got him last summer if they really wanted him. Since the Scotland squad will be increased to 26 from 23 due to Covid, what fringe players will get in, who's turned on the class in the last few months? Patterson? Turnbull? etc.?

Think only reds can be appealed, I may be wrong

Fair play to O'Donnell for not celebrating against his former club. #classy

Going back to the discussion when the lineups were announced. Starting Watt would have allowed Hastie and his pace to be used in the counter attack as they now have to go for it.

You should know one swallow doesn't make a summer

Forgot .... in the same way I still find it odd when I see one player stepping up for the kickoff. Agree what you say about Hastie, unless the analysis suggests his particular attributes will cause them issues or a caveat in the loan agreement I would rather see others in the starting line up before him.

I'm hoping depending on how the game goes to see Cornelius, Dunne and Maguire however I suspect Watt will make an appearance at the expense of one of them.

Wheesht, when I read Andy's post I saw it as him not drawing equivalence on the player or their contribution, it highlighted how fans may have a rule of one and another based on their future in C&A and current popularity. It was consistency of viewpoint not marred in prejudice nor affection he was highlighting. If you can't see it objectively as that then you should follow your own advice. As for Declan, covered it already. He has enhanced the squad in his time here. I wish him no ill will and that he gets the move he is blatantly desperate for and feels he deserves, I can't ask anything of a player I wouldn't want in my own career. I doubt I'll clap him upon his return but unlikely I will give him it tight him unless he acts the smart arse which is a 60-40 chance knowing how lippy he is. If Reynolds who left under good terms, for OK money, outside Scotland, being academy graduate and local lad gets boo'd returning for Aberdeen then I may be in the minority. His actions in January means he's now in the Tom Boyd camp rather than the Louis Moult one of ex-players. I wish Campbell all the best, I hope his eventual move to being among better players allows him to flourish. He recently featured as 1 of 4 on a SPFL starlets youtube article (3m 40s). The guy has 420k subscribers so I guess some influential people down south may have been alerted if not already. He's watched all his contemporaries leave (Scott, Hastie and Turnbull) for massive wage increases while he shows up at FP with the milkman, put 150 games under his belt and has been by-and-large consistent. He has regressed a bit but tell me someone who hasn't other than Watt this term.

Yeah, I don't know how widespread or expensive it is over LED however. It was developed from French Mirage jets head up displays (HUD's) that lock onto threats and targets despite divergence. So as the camera pans and follows the ball/action, the predefined space for advertising is locked and the image is distorted to reflect perspective and range of the viewer, all very clever stuff.

The LED’s are not viable as we don’t generate enough in ad revenue to justify the cost and secondly the depth of the wall to pitch along the Hunter is too shallow to accommodate any.

A question probably echoed by your mum every festive period ..... "Is he worthy of inclusion for Christmas Dinner?" Is it the fact he was here since he was 12 bit or the season and a bit he played in the first team not being enough you have issue with? A portion of Patrick Finbar O'Flaharty's season ticket paid for the South 30 years ago and if you sit in the Hunter, you'll probably be sitting on another chunk of it come August.

I'm not gonna dispute that, all I'm saying is this is being angled that way. No different to the extended video with all the academy boys playing keepy uppy under the South a couple of years ago, to remind the market of and help sell a particular player or the one made for Turnbull to leave on the best possible terms despite his final destination.

I would wager the agreement has been made and part of securing his signature. All this is the media team positioning him in the fans eyes for the role so it appears a natural progression.