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Given the signings we made, and some of McGhee's comments, I always assumed he just didn't rate Laing and was on the "to punt" list. I always liked the guy, but I guess with Kennedy on the way back, we have alternatives. Shame if he feels poorly treated, though.

Not going out on loan has really hurt his progress.

At the risk of attracting CMWellfan's wrath, that is bollocks. His brief is to not get relegated and to bring on young players. So far, he is doing both. Not to say there isn't huge room for improvement, but ditching him at this stage would be mental.

3 - 1 to the Asian Troll Cabal.

When the letters fall off the side, we'll be left with the "Sai r h*n " stand. EDIT: and that joke fails with the filter.

Hello, Sailor.

He did, but his deflected effort was slighltly eclipsed by Steve Sidwell's goal. https://youtu.be/5V4ZRSfh_5E

I get the feeling that the Pacific Coast is the closest he can be to any of his clients or colleagues without getting lamped.

More decent than Riordan, definitely. But his comments about our club after he moved on weren't exactly taking the high road.

Definitely. And closer to home, Brian Kerr was another frustrating example. Terrific talent who thought he'd cracked it when he started off with Newcastle and seemed to believe he just had to walk on the pitch to be lauded. He could have been, too, if it he applied himself, but far too often looked like he didn't give a toss. If you track his progress after Newcastle, it was pretty much a straight line downwards.

Just another example of how, at the top level, talent plays a small part in success. Hard work, dedication, professionalism and all those other clichés are what separates the stars from the drop-outs.

If you click on your user name at the top of the page (beside the Sign Out link), you will see a Manage Ignore Prefs option. On the Ignore page, if you start typing the name of the person you want to ignore it will bring up a list of matches, and you can select who you like.

Reminds me of my favourite Freedom of Speech explanation:

If he applied the same marketing talent to this site that he applies to marketing himself and his skills, this place would be 404'd in a week.

Correct.

Maybe CMWellFan is doing some A/B testing and on another site he is posting reasoned argument with an engaging persona.

Does anyone know if the Marvin and Pearson fees will contribute to that repayment? If so, that will give us a good start.

The Scotsman today has the following story: So Semple must be worth at least that, I'm guessing.

There's basically 3 options when it comes to moderation. 1) Low touch, depending on the posters to keep each other in check 2) High touch, which relies on a full time team of moderators reading every post as soon as it appears and moderating as they see fit 3) Pre-moderated, where every post is put into a queue until they are approved and published Number 1) is really the only workable option for a site like this. As for the moon howlers (btw, what happened to not liking abuse?) they have been killing groups, sites and services since the September that Never Ended. If there was a simple way to eliminate them, billion dollar companies would have found it by now.

I'm sure the forum admins would be delighted if you want to donate your time and expertise to implement and run this. And for what it's worth, I'm the opposite when it comes to emails. If an email takes me to a website it's usually after I have hit the Unsubscribe link.

MFC TV and the Mixlr commentaries also add to the media available for consumption. Not to mention the increase in the number of our games shown on Alba these days (Ross County on Sunday and the Dundee game next weekend). I still enjoy this site, though, as it's easily accessible at work and from my phone, and there is the odd nugget of information to be found amongst the posts from the odd nuggets. The abuse handed out can be harsh sometimes, but not compared to other corners of the internet - and I think we do a pretty good job of self policing.

Exactly. Plus the guy had a lot of success as a player in an excellent Aberdeen team, European success and a stint in Germany. So he has a lot of interesting stories to tell.

Damp squib. Just kidding. Tight win with a late goal giving us a 2 goal victory.

I was a big critic of McGhee's approach off the park the first time he was here. Especially his loud mouth comments about wanting the Celtic job and the Scotland job every other week. I actually think he is doing much better this time around and I find his press conferences much more entertaining than a Baraclough or a McCall. Not perfect, and I don't believe a word he says about transfers or injuries or what he really thinks of players etc. but that's part of the job. He has his tactical flaws and every now and then overthinks and over complicates things on the field, but he recognizes the need to try and play attacking and entertaining football and overall I think he's doing a good job given the wide and varied constraints of budgets, inheriting an oversize squad, the need to bring in youngsters without disrupting the team, the community work the club does and the old and new ownership structures.

Not voting, but glad Skippy is hitting form. Seems to take him a couple of months of games to get up to speed, but worth the wait.