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2 hours ago, Drew said:
There is also Bilate, if he is sticking around.
King as well. Forgot about him!
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Contrary to all the boo boys, I'm delighted with the way things are going so far.
Stubbs is filling me with a lot of confidence.
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26 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said:
Are we going to be able to field 11 players in our first competitive game which is A WEEK TOMORROW!!!
Samson - McGinn, Baird, Heaton, Kpekawa - Flynn, Magennis, McGinn, Kellerman - Smith, Mullen
Subs - Cooke, Hippolyte, Stewart (striker), Kirkpatrick, Erhahon
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1 minute ago, proudtobeabuddy said:
Just about but we need new players in all positions, a few strikers next would be nice, we're a bit short on them after losing 2 so far.
But we've also signed 1, signed 2 in the Jan transfer window and 1 has come back from loan.
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Mackenzie only started 14 league games last season.
Eckersley started 24, ie he missed a third of the season.
Between them they started 38 league games.
They both have bad injury records and both are getting on a bit.
We are paying 2 big wages but effectively getting the services of 1 player.
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14 hours ago, nedflanders123 said:
That would imply Sunderland are a better team than Celtic based on budget? If budgets determine success of a club how does that explain Leicester winning the league with a fraction of the budgets of most of top half of the EPL? How does that explain the rank rotten outcomes of Newcastle Utd (with 50k at home games) continually flirting with relegation? Its as much to do with talent spotting and effective management as much as spending to succeed. You won't convince me that a poorly performing 3rd Division team who have struggled for decades are a better team simply because they have a bigger budget (and likely debt).
Naw, its 99% to do with how big yer budget is.
Hence why, other than Leicester (who themselves had a massive budget and are owned by a £ billionaire), the Premiership winners always have the biggest or near biggest budget!
btw, Leigh Griffiths struggled in the English 3rd Division with eventual champions Wolves. They punted him half way through the season cos he was rubbish and he came up here and scored a barrowload of goals!
Interesting also, that the top 3 highest average attendances in the English 3rd Division that season were higher than every Scot Premiership club bar Celtic.
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4 minutes ago, nedflanders123 said:
Rovers in a higher league? Are you claiming the English 3rd tier is higher than our Premiership?
Its an interesting question.
Jason Naismith just signed for Peterborough rather than Aberdeen so he clearly thinks so
Bristol Rovers average attendance last season was bigger than 7 Scots Prem clubs
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3 hours ago, Lord Pityme said:
ffs we've now paid our highest transfer fee in decades, and given a THREE year deal to a guy none of us have seen from non league football, but we've let our highest scorer walk...!
Back in 2012 Leicester City paid £1 MILLION and gave a THREE year deal to a guy that none of their supporters had heard of from non league football.....
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Not sure the comparisons between Armstrong and McGinn are too valid. Armstrong is a more attacking player than McGinn and attacking players generally cost more money.
Some stats:
Scottish Premiership games / goals
Stuart Armstrong 224 / 41
John McGinn 100 / 5
Mark Hughes' reason for signing Armstrong is quoted as:
"It is important we add a greater goal threat to the team as a whole, and Stuart's record of scoring and creating makes him an extremely exciting addition in that area".
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42 minutes ago, pod said:
Did she go to Germany with him.
Don't know, but he was back home within 18 months.
And she didn't go down south with him, hence the split.
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1 minute ago, class of 76-77 said:
Jim Gardner is possibly the worst excuse for a footballer I’ve ever had the misfortune to watch in the stripes. The fact that Motherwell got Paul Lambert and we got Gardner in part exchange, remains one of life’s great mysteries. Jimmy Bone must have been taking the same substance Maradonna was on last night, when he sanctioned that deal.
The bank told us that we had to take Motherwell's offer.
The pity is that we had accepted an offer of £500k from Dundee United the previous year but Lambert turned it down cos his missus didn't want to move away.....
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2 hours ago, Bud the Baker said:
Well Halkett was available up till last week! I stand by my opinion he would've been a better signing than Heaton!
So, your example of the sort of Premiership bottom 6 type of player you would like us to have signed is a guy who has never played in the Premiership?
I have no idea whether Heaton will turn out to be better than Halkett or vice versa.
What we do know though is that no-one else wanted Halkett and we know for sure that he will never ever be a player we can sell on for big money!
That said, I wouldn't have grumbled had we signed him as well!
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1 minute ago, Bud the Baker said:
Who knows what players are still available now Stubbsy's spent three weeks chasing Showbiz stars?
The time to get the finger out was three weeks ago, four if you include the one spent dithering after JR left.
In other words, no-one!
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Just now, Bud the Baker said:
We still signed Tonet, folks still said "trust the boss"!
Not me! I'm no happy clapper!
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5 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
By proven top flight player I should have stated that I meant current - ie a decent last season as opposed to players clearly on the way down.
I believe we could easily have got 2 proven current Bottom 6 players on 2 year contracts for the money we're gambling on Heaton.
Go on, name them.....
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20 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
PS - What's Tonet doing these days? That was another "trust the boss" signing from 2008/09!
Tonet was a trialist. We haven't signed any trialists!
I trusted the boss with Andy Dorman mind you....
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16 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
Who'd played substantially more than 9 league games in the previous season.
Like Dennis Wyness?
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4 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
No it's not.
A player with his sort of background is exactly what you want us to sign!
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Just now, Bud the Baker said:
Andy Dow played 9 games for Motherwell the season before we signed him - I would've questioned whether he was still a proven top flight player.
If he'd played every game then they he wouldn't have been joining us!
176 league games with Dundee, Chelsea, Hibs, Aberdeen & Motherwell and 29 years old.
THAT is exactly the type of player that you are advocating we sign on 2 year contracts!
No thanks!
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2 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
As always - Mark Reid.
What's a smiley if not a personal insult?
I'm sure you used to criticize farawaysaint for using them - or was that somebody else?
You want us to sign a couple of Andy Dow's!
Don't think any smiley I've posted is a personal insult! Faraway used to fill his posts with smiley's cos he wasn't able to make his point. You just fill your posts with irrelevant and wrong numbers!
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Indeed, Andy Dow had played for the likes of Chelsea, Dundee, Hibernian, Aberdeen & Motherwell and was still only 29 when he joined St. Mirren.
Based on BTB's logic, we could have made the assumption that Andy Dow would have been a raging success!
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15 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
No, the Celtic figure came from the opening paragraph - the figures for the Bottom 6 came from a table at the bottom of the article.
Feel free to carry on with your ostrich impression.
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Bottom line is we could easily have got 2 proven Bottom 6 players on 2 year contracts for the money we're gambling on Heaton.
The Celtic figure is irrelevant, they are neither bottom 6 (which is what your point is about) nor is the figure just for their player's!
The line about it being the player's wages is a made up line that could have been made anywhere down the line of the quote of the quote of the quote!
"a proven bottom 6 player" = Andy Dow
I'd rather we didn't gamble on signing 2 Andy Dows on 2 year contracts thank you!
The personal insults that you feel you need to add to every post you make just highlight that I'm right and you are wrong.
As always.
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7 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
As for the Celtic point - easily sorted!
So you've now withdrawn your quote of a quote of a quote "evidence" that the figures aren't for all members of staff....
And then reposted the figures just for the bottom six.... even though they are irrelevant and wrong!
The treble is complete!
Anyways, I'd still rather we spent an extra £500 per week on someone the manager thinks will be quality rather than signing up the likes of Kirkpatrick, Stewart, Hilson, Todd & Darryl Duffy as you seem to favour!
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8 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:
WRONG!
deary me, are you seriously quoting a newspaper, quoting a survey, quoting a report & accounts and using that as your evidence? !!
Posting wrong in big red letters regarding something you are wrong about is quality!
Celtic aren't a bottom 6 club either, so its irrelevant to your point!
Doubly irrelevant and doubly wrong!
Can you make it a treble?
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No he didn't You just made that up.