weeyin
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So Clubs don't have a crack at a National Cup or even league restricted Cups? In the UK think of the finalists of the FA Cups in recent years. A lot of lower league teams. If you still can't realistically progress in those there will be Cups you can aim for. JPT (massive deal to Carlisle fans last Season) and even the Challenge Cup up here.
I didn't say they couldn't have a crack, I'm saying that 90% of them aren't going to win. If all that matters is winning, then they should pack up and go home.
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Summed up perfectly, MJC. Football should be about WINNING trophies.
So 90% of the teams in the world should just give up playing the game then?
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I'd rather win the League Cup than be papped out of the CL qualifying stage by a Spanish team. No contest.
I agree with that, but it would be nice to play in the CL once in my lifetime. Then we can focus on cups again
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For all his failures, you've stlll not beaten ( or scored against him) as boss.
I'm sure we'll reflect on that just before our Champions' League campaign kicks off.
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In no particular order (and limiting it to players I have seen play)
Keith McCrae
Joe Wark
Peter Marinello
Vic Davidson
Bobby Graham
Willie Pettigrew
Gary McAllister
Brian McLair
Tommy Coyne
Tom Boyd
Ross McCormack
Brian McLaughlin
Tom Forstyh
Gregor Stevens
Paul Lambert
Brian Martin
Mitchell Van der Gaag
Ally Maxwell
Davie Cooper
Bobby Watson
But ask me in an hour and I'd probably have half a dozen changes
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Pal of mine was talking to some of the players at the last sign up and apparently the whole 1st team have signed up. Don't know why names aren't up though.
The MFC Marketing Machine rolls on
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Agree with all the responses on here. It's sad when you lose a parent, but it's something we all deal with sooner or later. Give the lad the time off he needs, but not an event that should disrupt an SPL fixture.
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I'm still not sure what 'going for 2nd' means. It was obviously a special case post-split last year where McCall believed that keeping players fresh for the cup final was more important.
This season he is sending out teams to win as many points as possible each week. Keep doing that and the league position will take care of itself.
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Who cares.
Ian Holloway.
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Who were the bruisers in that team today?
Dillon I'll give you... I don't see any others.
Every time we play them they try and stop us playing by brute force.
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we will probably be the only team that can't beat them
Dundee Utd's style (i.e. bruisers that like to lump balls and players) matches up well against Rangers. They are always going to be more successful against that mob.
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Did he score twelve last season? I thought he'd scored eleven
Soccerbase has him on 11 for last season.
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What exactly is the script for getting all of the money in if I signed up? Is there a final deadline for the full £300?
If you contact them directly they will give you the details, but I believe you have about 9 months to pay the full amount.
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I joined up last week. Hopefully many others are like me and get their fingers out nearer the deadline.
Just a born procrastinator.
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In effect, he is being punished twice for the one "offence ". Yet another in a long line of SFA clusterfucks.
Not really. He was basically sent off. If a player is sent off and subsequently suspended he isn't being punished twice.
Hope he fights it though.
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Closest I have over here are John Spencer (Portland) and Ally Maxwell (Phoenix), but those towns are are about as far away from me as Motherwell!
In fact, we only have one famous sportsman from my wee town and that is Dan Orlovsky (QB for the Tampa Bay Bucs)
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if we finish 2nd or 3rd because we'l be taking the arm bands off and swimming with the big boys!
Or Shamrock Rovers.
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I used to work beside former well player Ian Kennedy and he would chat about this game, he always told me he played a blinder and had Johan Cryuff in his back pocket all game. Obviously researching the issue I found out Ian wasn't even in the team that day lol, further more dont even think Cryuff was on the books at Ajax. Was a good story tho
Cruyff was at Barcelona by that stage. However, the Ajax team was full of Dutch internationals, a number of whom played in the 1978 World Cup final (including their captain Ruud Krol).
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Some centre forwards can make good centre halfs but I don't believe Higdon will be one of them. The big man gives away a lot of fouls when he goes for headers. This is fine when doing it in the oppositions half but its a different story doing it 20-30 yards from our goal.
Not that I'm saying Higgy should be playing centre half, but defenders get away with much more fouling than strikers. There are things that go on in the box at a corner that would be instant free kicks if they happened in the middle of the park.
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Why do refs everywhere have to be complete cocks and make stupid decisions? It even happens in my amateur ice hockey!
They see things from a specific angle, have to watch 5 or 6 things and once, and deal with 'professionals' constantly trying to con them.
If they make 100+ decisions in a game and get even half a dozen wrong, it's not great, but I have some sympathy. I'd like to see the standard improve, but I can't see why anybody with half a brain would want to be involved at the top level.
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Cheers, he was a truly great player for us. Graham and Pettigrew are certainly up there as one of our finest ever strike partnerships.
That was back in the day when STV games were in colour, but when they should the Aberdeen highlights from Grampian, they were in black & white.
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Unfortunately this is an opinion of blinkered chairmen and fans alike. Far too many people in the game right now cant see the wood for the trees. We MUST take the opportunity here to make our SPL a more competitive league. Competitive doesnt mean richer! But if everyone is in the same boat it is irrelevant. There arw 2 ways to make the league more competitive.
1- Keep Rangers out. Less TV money? Who cares, id rather have a fair and equal slice of a small cake than a shoddy slice of a larger one. EVERY team, including celtic would just have to downsize so it would be a more level playing field.
2- Re-structure, bigger, fairer and more competitive league. The only reason we have a shitty small boring league playing teams over and over again is so sky get 4 old firm games. well sky can fuck off. If the spl had 16 teams there would be more of a challenge at the top as the bigger diddies would have less 'no chance' games in Glasgow, would half the amount of gamea agianst each other essentially just taking points off each other etc... This with euro an relegationplay offs for added excitement would be worth it even if there was less money - everyone would be in the same boat so it wouldnt matter!
Totally agree with this, and I have always been in favour of 14 or 16 league expansion and equal revenue distribution. Like most modern businesses, however, there are too many Boards and Chairmen that are looking to short term profit and just cross their fingers that the long term will take care of itself.
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So that sums up what folk are railing against.
Business and sport can exist together but when fair play is cast to the side by corruption and cheating all for the sake of cash the the ba's on the slates.
Business and sport can exist together, but when you run a business you have a legal obligation to make decisions that maximise the returns for investors/shareholders. At that stage, they are often mutually exclusive.
The day we let TV companies dictate the fixture list is the day the fans lost control of the game.
I'd much rather have newco back in the SPL with a 16 team league, equal split of revenues and 3pm Sat/7:45pm Wed only kick-offs than kick out newco and keep the arrangements we have now.
Champions League Qualifiers Or Winning The League Cup?
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I think that's a fair point. For those of us lucky enough to have been at Hampden when we won the Cup, the chance of a CL game in our lifetime is possibly a more attractive option.
If you haven't seen us win a Cup, then I can see how that would be a better option.