bigshinyhead

Exactly. Like it or not our club are at fault here not some daft wee boy who's had shiny baubles dangled in front of him. If it's true that he's still on a YTS contract then that's a fucking disgrace and nobody can be surprised if he's decided to move to a bigger employer offering him a lot more.

Thank fuck somebody else said it. What teenager is going to knock back a move to a team he supports and a likely pay increase of several hundred %? He won’t see warming the bench as his future, he’ll be imagining himself as their star player in a couple of years with a crowd of 60,000 chanting his name and I’m sure this is how it would be sold to him. So no, I won’t be demonising a teenager for making what I think may not be a good decision. Fuck knows I made much worse choices when I was his age. Too many punters on here act like daft wee lassies who’ve just been dumped for a burd with bigger tits every time a player moves on.

Whit aboot ma brick?

Funny how Broon claims he can find us an international player now. Shame he couldn't find one when he was Scotland manager.

It's damage limitation because we've been slipping down the table for weeks. We've gone from being top 4 contenders to being bottom 6. As has been pointed out we're the same points difference from 4th as we are from 12th so if you genuinely thing we're still in touch with 4th then by the same token we would have to be considered relegation contenders. I personally don't think we're relegation contenders but we have to reverse the slide downwards and I'm not convinced we have the squad to do that. It's all very well pointing out our unbeaten run but the reality is that we've only won 4 league matches out of 18 and have the worst GD outside the bottom 3. How many of our draws would have been defeats if it wasn't for our goalkeeper? What if we lose both him and our top scorer? If we finish top 6 this season then I would consider that a major achievement.

I agree with this. I think our season will be an exercise in damage limitation now to a certain extent and I don't think a third management team in one season will help here. Also, as millions of posters have pointed out, they have stacks of experience between them.

Aye but whit aboot Kris Boyd eh?

Heard that. Would perhaps prefer someone with more match fitness when we're chasing the game.

Who's blaming the kiosks for being fat? Who's forcing anything on anyone? You're the one who would happily deny others an alternative. I know plenty of fat fuckers who won't eat anything at the game because they're trying not to be a fat fucker. They don't blame the kiosks, they just want some nosh that won't set them back half a stone. What the fuck's wrong with that?

That's all very well for you to say, presumably you can still see your bell end first thing in the morning. I don't envisage a tomato salad on brown bread with fat-free dressing being compulsory fare but by the same token I'm fed up drilling a wee hole in my pie to drain the grease out before I can eat it.

I agree with this but it's only part of the problem. Football has become an expensive luxury and a poor value one at that. To take just one kid to the footy, you'd be lucky to have change out of £40, after you consider travel costs and being bent over and rode at the pie stall. Even watching it on the telly isn't cheap anymore. Yes kids have other distractions but this combined with being denied affordable access to the game is compounding the problem.

On a properly serious note, why does football catering have to be the most fat-laden, unhealthy grub on the planet? I canny be the only one who declines a pie at the fitba' because I know it would mean half a lettuce leaf (nae dressing) for my dinner. While Greggs would indeed be a step up from the shite we're offered, this fact alone is a testament to how bad things really are. It's also complete pish that you can't take your own stuff in with you. The "potential missile" excuse is, of course all nonsense as the clear suggestion is that their own pies are somehow designed by Bae Systems' top aerodynamics experts so that they canny be flung with any accuracy. We all know that the real reason is, if you do get a hankering for a wee coffee, they can charge you £1.70 to scoop a wee spoonful of Nescafe into a polystyrene cup ("sorry son, wu've nae lids, ye'll jist need tae git yir hauns burnt, NIXT!"). There must be a 20,000% mark-up on this. I've seen loan sharks get 5 years for less. Fitba' catering? Don't get me started.

**cough** I seem to remember you had quite a smashing time in Bucharest

I get a feeling we'll draw against 10 men. Not sure why though...

Has to be the fannies behind me in the DC that booed the fucking team off the pitch at full time.

Don't mean to be picky. It's a good article but it's on the official website so is it really too much to ask for it to be grammatically correct? It's just editorial professionalism and it really doesn't look good.

Eh? It looked pretty full to me at 3.5k. Are you referring to that wee diddy stand opposite the main stand? There's no way that would seat anywhere near 2k. Thought you needed a 7k stadium for the SPL anyway.

Well said Scott.

OK mate, next time you're at the footie and you hear something unpleasant, just you run over to the nearest bobby and tell him a bad man said 'nig-nog' and tell us all what his reaction was.

What fucking planet do you live on mate? How many folk at the fitba' are seriously going to run up to the nearest polis and grass on somebody for saying a bad word? What do you seriously expect the polis to do about it given that he probably hasn't heard it himself? We all hear stuff at FP that we're not entirely comfortable with but it's not our place to stick folk in for it. That's what stewards are there for (if they could be arsed doing their job properly). Agree with a lot of the comments on here. There are far too many people who think that it's totally acceptable to direct disgusting abuse at people just because they're in a football crowd and the abusee is on the pitch. These folk then kick up fuck when a player has a wee laugh at their expense. Have a fucking word with yourselves. We've had a better then expected start to the season and have consequently got high expectations of our young team. We got pumped at home yesterday and it hurts and we want a whipping boy. Maybe the team had got complacent and a right good pumping will do us good in the long term, I don't know but stop greeting and whining about somebody not getting booked for trivial shit. It just makes you look like a big baby. (insert boofuckinghoo.gif)

Really? Despite our excellent start to the season we have now gone 3 games on the trot without scoring from open play. Regardless of the opposition, that's not a great statistic. I don't think Clarkson would have much bother getting a game for us, regardless of his shortcomings.

I use this lie quite a lot too.

Would obviously love the unbeaten run to continue but very slightly concerned at the fact we've only won one game. More wins, no defeats - would wank all over 7 points but crack a semi at 5.

If I have to read one more fucking thread about Mark fucking McGhee I may end up chewing my own cock off in fucking despair. Get over it, it's getting really fucking tedious.

Aye some of the patter is quite good but half way down one of them says "We'll just stick to winning games". I was trying to post results of their last 8 games but I had bother registering/logging in. Maybe they should just stick to pumping sheep