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vs Inverness; Next game
Topic Started: Nov 30 2010, 09:10 PM (3,869 Views)
findus
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Feb 2 2011, 05:17 PM
Game off, apparently.
In the fcuking name of....

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SUMMER FOOTBALL!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!
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findus
Feb 2 2011, 05:31 PM
SUMMER FOOTBALL!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!
The way things are going with our fixture backlog, this game may actually be played in the summer.
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Feb 2 2011, 05:32 PM
findus
Feb 2 2011, 05:31 PM
SUMMER FOOTBALL!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!
The way things are going with our fixture backlog, this game may actually be played in the summer.
The summer of 2016, at this rate. Boom, and indeed, tsh.
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This one next.

A draw, obviously. Late equaliser for us.
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I don't care any more.
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Feb 28 2011, 08:17 AM
I don't care any more.
This season is like when you buy a box-set of a show you haven't seen and realise fairly early on you aren't enjoying it, but have to watch it all now that you've gone this far.
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Rubbish but acceptable draw seems likely,

Think we need to focus on Europe or something, I'm usually pessimistic , but may aswell have a go now. If players leaving arent doing enough, we have options to try.
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Sadly it's many of the best players who are leaving ... and we're making no effort to keep. That's what depresses me about the club. Not that they're leaving but that they're leaving and we're making no effort to keep them in order to save shitty amounts of money. I think this might tie in with reekie's post on the other thread. What's the point of our club beyond paying back someone else's debts?
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Ivan
Feb 28 2011, 09:57 PM
Sadly it's many of the best players who are leaving ... and we're making no effort to keep. That's what depresses me about the club. Not that they're leaving but that they're leaving and we're making no effort to keep them in order to save shitty amounts of money. I think this might tie in with reekie's post on the other thread. What's the point of our club beyond paying back someone else's debts?
I'd be amazed if we made no effort to keep them. Sure, we might not get a deal, but we will have tried.

Also , we will be replacing them with someone . That's actually exciting in lot of ways . New players at least something different to watch. No team lasts forever.
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Feb 28 2011, 11:54 PM
I'd be amazed if we made no effort to keep them. Sure, we might not get a deal, but we will have tried.

Also , we will be replacing them with someone . That's actually exciting in lot of ways . New players at least something different to watch. No team lasts forever.
Hm.

The "dull" problem really is over and above the dull results, isn't it? I guess, in addition to the reasons Reekie gave, there are these problems:

1- Money, obv. We're being told ad nauseum that the club can't afford mediocrity in a league that's structurally broken and mostly broke. Austerity's basically just a f*cking grind.
2- The promise of team rotation would be more appealing if Houston's signings so far hadn't been, at best, drab.
3- The death of the transfer market. In years past, a player who was obviously destined for better things would command a fee, which would give some kind of closure and a sense of net benefit when they leave. Now, the better players just work out their notice. For a club like us, whose reason to exist is largely to find talent among the young and the rejected, it's demoralising to know that achievers will always walk and no-one will go for a fee.

None if this is a new development, of course, but Levein helped disguise it by having a long-term plan that delivered tenable progress. Now, all that's unwound and its place we have the promise of a progressively cheaper cast of journeymen to fill the squad and part us from our weekly debt interest payments, while the chairman browbeats us about his Sisyphean punishment of owning the club. Yes, I'm not surprised there's a growing sense of futility.

1-1, obviously.
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findus
Feb 2 2011, 05:31 PM
SUMMER FOOTBALL!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!
Funny you should have said that.
Neil Dongmaster, SPL heid bummer, says this would mean that playing '..when there is a real shortage of football on TV...will inevitably drive more interest and more broadcast income in the Scottish game'.
Unfortunately, he's talking about starting the season a few weeks early.
You know, when all the glamorous, televised, pre-season tourneys are on.
More fiddling.

edit - oh! Hahahaha! Just read the rest of the article and it seems, if you're playing in one of said tourneys, you can opt out of playing domestic fixtures.
Meaning that this captivating, early SPL coverage may well be up against, ooh...Celtic? Rangers?
f*cking brilliant, Neil!
Brill-ee-ant!
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What? So you an opt out of playing league games if you've got a nice exhibition friendly lined up?

f*ck this. We may as well be playing Harlem Globetrotters every week.
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Mar 1 2011, 09:28 AM
Neil Dongmaster
:haha:

I get the feeling that the traditionalists would rather the game die a fast death than consider a switch to summer football.

The game's economy needs to implode. Then we can start again and redesign with proper thought, rather than almost heretical tinkering with a century-old format.
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I've changed my avatar in honour of this latest farce :rock:
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