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I don’t think there is any doubt that using the phrase “a chink in div’s armour” in the context of a Chinese hacker is a play on words using a racial slur.
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There’s clearly something lacking in div’s armour.
Yeh, clearly lacking a policy of banning those whose make racist jokes -
4 minutes ago, ScotstounSaint said:
Is the racist thing not to be mentioned then?
Probably not. It seems that its okay to post racist jokes on this forum then abuse anyone that pulls them up about it.
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Says that King is a winger. Maybe we've replaced Lewis Morgan?
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I have serious reservations with the signings this far, are we going to go from a small fast free flowing team , to one of giants who try to over power team.?
Heaton and Cooke replace Davis and Sutton.
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25 minutes ago, munoz said:
A few decent players on this ex non league list.
Peter Crouch, Michail Antonio, Ashley Williams, Joe Hart, Charlie Austin, Troy Deeney, Chris Smalling, Les Ferdinand, Rickie Lambert, Kevin Phillips.
Ayrshire Saint will be along in a minute to ask us if we seriously think these guys were / are better than Gavin Reilly!
Stu will be along soon to compare them with Kyle Hutton!
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2 minutes ago, Ayrshire Saints said:
just didn't expect this sort of recruitment policy from him.
I can't be certain but I would think that Stubbs' signing policy is to sign good players. What sort of signing policy do you think he should have followed?
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19 minutes ago, Hendo said:
Indeed. Lex Richardson and Billy Stark both came from the Juniors, which is a lower level than non league in England.
Billy Stark came from an amateur side, not the juniors!
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4 minutes ago, nedflanders123 said:
My point is that AS is getting pilloried by LB for his role at Rotherham (we know the Hibs situation). I know Paul L had success but my point was that even some of the best managers fail at certain clubs (Paul latterly). AS has the gig and will be judged on how he does.
I know what your point was. Just pointing out that adding Lambert to the list didn't help your point!
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12 minutes ago, Ayrshire Saints said:
I didn't ask that I asked about players moving from that level to prem here - they will be few and far between as clearly you can't name one !
You asked "is anyone seriously suggesting a guy from tier 6 in England will be better than Reilly?".
I merely pointed out that Jamie Vardy came from the 7th tier in English football and is clearly better than Gavin Reilly!
Not sure the relevance of there not having been many players move from the 6th tier of English football to the Scottish Premiership and how that means the guys we have signed won't be as good as Gavin Reilly?
Motherwell signed guys from the 5th tier of English football and they turned out to be stars.
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4 minutes ago, nedflanders123 said:
Lennon and Strachan were failures down South as were Lambert, MacLeish, Davies, McInnes, Yogi, Nielsen.
Lambert won 2 successive promotions with Norwich, taking them from League One to the Premiership and keeping them there. He had 3 seasons at Aston Villa. He saved both Blackburn and Wolves from relegation, knocking out Liverpool at Anfield in the FA Cup in the process. He's earned £ millions in the course of managing 7 clubs in England.
Hardly a failure!
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3 minutes ago, Stu said:
Likewise, when it comes to non-league signings everyone brings up Vardy. These guys are very much the exceptions. The majority who have come from this background turn out to be pretty useless
Louis Moult, Marvin Johnson and Ben Heneghan weren't useless.
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2 minutes ago, ulysses said:
Ball and Marwood were obvious failures but it doesn’t mean we should abandon the idea completely.
We signed Ball from Derby County. Hardly non league!
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8 minutes ago, kevo_smfc said:
I know it's a different era, though think of the names that Saints signed from the juniors most notably in the 70s. It doesn't matter what level you have been playing at, plenty of players fall into the wilderness or have just not found that opportunity yet. This Jamie Vardy lad is an ambassador for this type of scenario. Even Ian Wright I remember was playing Evostick or similar level until the age of 22 before Crystal Palace signed him. The rest is history.
Ian Wright was playing Sunday league football before joining a team in the Kent League (equivalent of 10th tier in English football). He played 6 matches there before joining Crystal Palace.
Going by Ayrshire Saint's logic, he would only have had a fraction of the ability of Gavin Reilly.
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: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
Yeh, good description of you and the likes of pozbaird
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12 minutes ago, Ayrshire Saints said:
I can't recall any Prem team having had success with players from such a low standard as tier 6 in England - enlighten me ?
The boy from Truro is 24 - he has had 6 years plus for his talent to have been "discovered". I really hope I'm wrong but I just can't see guys from that level being good enough to establish us in the top division. I agreed with the Reilly decision but is anyone seriously suggesting a guy from tier 6 in England will be better than Reilly or for that matter Davis ?
Jamie Vardy was in the 7th tier of English football just 12 months before Leicester "discovered" his talent at the age of 25.
Are you seriously suggesting that Gavin Reilly is better than him?
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3 minutes ago, Magic Monkey said:
I think we need to be signing players who've played at least 209 games in the top two tiers of Scottish football.
That's precisely what Kevin Twaddle had, btw.
Andy Dow, 181 games in the top flight with clubs such as Chelsea, Hibs & Aberdeen. Only 29 when he joined us as well.
Stuart Carswell, 86 games in the top flight with Motherwell.
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Would rather the main criteria for brining in a player was ability rather than "experience"!
As someone else pointed out, Gary Harkins had top flight experience when we signed him!
Samson, both McGinns, Eckersely, Mackenzie, Flynn and Smith all have top flight or top flight equivalent experience so we're not exactly lacking!
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He’s a midfielder btw. [emoji106]
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So roughly 1 in 3 compared to 1 in 4 in favour of Reilly and that includes two seasons were he was supposedly rank!
Not sure how the fact that Reilly’s goalscoring record is a bit better than Mullen’s would justify us keeping him rather than trying to sign someone better?
Also, Mullen had played on the wing or as a no. 10 a lot of the time unlike Reilly.
Mullen gives us cover across any of the 4 forward positions.
Reilly didn’t score enough goals in the Championship last season to justify being our main striker in the top flight. He’s a championship standard striker who did a job.
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It’s ironic that the abusive and threatening racists come into the sin bin specifically to troll as well.
Even more ironic was watching pozbaird and cockles make such arses of themselves! -
You said we are playing one up front next season & Jack Ross is responsible
I said he “was” responsible in reply to your “were playing one up front”. [emoji12]
Regardless, playing one central striker is pretty standard these days. I think we have a class no.10 in Cammy Smith so, IMO, we’ll play one up front.
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Was that a league cup game at Airdrie. Really cold, evening game. Macavennie made his breakthrough and scored at least a couple of goals.
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Would prefer not to have a sin bin but if it continues to exist and be used to discipline "abusive or unreasonable" posters
If that were the purpose then why are folk like pozbaird and cockles not in it?
Pozbaird is probably the most abusive poster on the forum and even posts racist jokes.
Cockles has threatened violence on more than one occasion.
Both should have been banned a long time ago.
So this is what a ban looks like!
in The Sin Bin
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Pozbaird has repeated his racist joke on the main forum now. Will the odious Cnut get the ban he richly deserves?
Unlikely!