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Yes, a club in their eighth consecutive season in the second tier, sitting second bottom, are clearly a better option for an ambitious manager than a club who are in their sixth consecutive top-flight season and have recently finished in the top six and won a trophy.

I don't want to be the one who breaks this to you.

Here we fucking go...

Wasn’t exactly the boards fault Houston spunked his budget on garbage like Kidd, Gasparotto and Shepherd or the likes of Miller and Kerr who are done. Then they did give him more money to strengthen and he signed another 2 centre backs. They have done their part this season imo but Houstons awful signing policy has left us with a horrendously imbalanced squad. We’ve 6 first team centre backs ffs.

Enough about McIntyre, though.

I've lost 5 stone this year and I have so much energy I'm up at 5.30 most mornings now. Still like a few cans on a Friday/Saturday night but that's it, I'd rather have a coffee. Been on the vape this week, so ciggies are getting fucked right off next. I'm feeling mighty fine right now

McGregor and Adams have been merged into one permanently seething millionaire.

This entire affair was conducted with style and panache, and that's all that matters.

Hullo everyone. My name's Shotgun and after reading, and benefiting from this thread for some time, I think it's time to pull up a chair and introduce myself. I was diagnosed with depression about a year ago, although I'm sure I was dealing with it without realising for much longer. I'm not going to go into all the details but Mrs. Shotgun has suffered from clinical depression (much worse than mine) for many years now and unfortunately, despite my efforts to help her, it appears I've simply been pulled down. It's a loving relationship, just not a particularly functional one. As for me - at 55 years old, in a middle-management job which has long lost its spark, I'm apparently a classic candidate for male depression. All the usual symptoms; lethargy, poor sleeping habits, lack of interest in things I used to enjoy, inability to stick with things and so on. Probably my biggest challenge is that I work from home and living in a fairly remote location, often go for several days without directly interacting with anyone outside the house. And for some time, my work output has been the bare minimum to get by. Given the rounds of layoffs my company has had over the last couple of years, this is ridiculously self-destructive but too many days, I just can't get my arse into gear. I've tried medication and sleeping pills but the side effects were worse than the depression so instead I've been tackling it old school, with alcohol and the odd toot on the legal marrywanny. You'll be shocked to learn they haven't fixed the issue either but I 'do' look forward to them and get pleasure when I indulge, so there's that. Exercise helps big time, especially hiking and cycling. This has been a tough year for those though as I had a bad dose of bronchitis in the spring, an injured back in the summer and we've had torrential, destructive thunderstorms on an almost daily basis since June. I have a gym membership and could go there but...you know. And so here we are. This post took me almost an hour to type but at least I've finally done it. I'm going to put the kettle on now. Anybody want anything?

Battlefield Band - Yew Tree

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe

Looks like we have a new overlord too. #AllHailUncleDerek

I've done the same for the Northern Cascadian Football League 2013 - Fintleboggan United 2014 - Fintleboggan United (a great team that one) 2015 - Dinglevenkyback Wanderers 2016 - Humberton AFC 2017 - Gherkinverse Town Lots of controversy after Gherkinverse Town were bought over by billionaire Eduard Sherbebenzde from the former Soviet state of Gibrovia, especially given he made all his money in dangerous Plandivarium mining.

It's funny, because that's how I see millennials.

Leadbelly - I Ain't Gonna Drink No More

Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Things wot I have learned from P&B: Gunther is married Raidernation lives in America Shandon is aff it.

Its the same tedious shite on the Dundee threads. That's why the cunters on ignore.

Get out

Fairport Convention : Peggy's Pub

Price is a barrier. If it's the biggest barrier then it's a no-brainer: Reduce the price and watch people flock to support the Sons. Were our attendances significantly higher when we were charging £15 a game? Our home crowd has probably been no bigger than 650 or there abouts for the past decade. We'll have taken that many people to Aberdeen away in the Scottish Cup a few years ago. And did we complain about playing Cowden,Forfar, Albion Rovers or Annan when we won the 3rd and were promoted from the 2nd? Clearly not because we left them behind when we were promoted. I'd ask another question - how happy were we when we spent years in the bottom tier of Scottish football before we won the 3rd division? Were they really halcyon times?

Police : Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Florence & the Machine - Drumming Song

Aye, you should always seek the permission of others before exercising your right to self-determination.

Mid November..

Exodus in January and we'll buy a big Crystal Maze dome to throw around all the cash as part of Sammy's pre-match entertainment. Good investment IMHO.

[Football Cliche] On paper [/Football Cliche] he's an improvement on McIntyre. Which is all I wanted really. "The Ladbrokes Premiership"

Had one decent season for us 30 years ago . Second season as has been mentioned was very poor and he jumped ship with the excuse of the saltcoats incident so it wouldnt harm his managerial record. Since then he's won one league one title with morton and nowt else. At Dundee he had a bit of success as they were spunking money on players like Cannigia but won hee haw and he then relegated Hibs. Was at Hearts and lasted about 5 mins and then had a couple of playoff defeats for brechin and clyde who he also managed to get knocked out the scottish cup by Nairn feckin county. If thats the kind of cv you think should be managing our club then we're in big trouble.

We go down that road and we're on a one way ticket to League Two. Just to throw some hypothetical numbers out there... If we're running with a squad of 20 players and paying an average of £300 a week then our wage bill is £6000 per week. You can add in the wages of the manager, assistant, physio, kit man, secretary etc. It's not unreasonable to assume that the Sons's wage bill is closer to the £7,500 a week mark. Thats before we meet the costs of keeping the doors open and the lights on. Whats our average profit margin from tickets, if we include cut price kids tickets and season ticket discounts? If it's £10 per person per game then we're looking at 750 people through the door just to cover our wages. And we don't only pay players when we've got a home game so the away games we're still paying our £7,500 wages but without any revenue from ticket sales to contribute. Have we really managed fine up until now? We pretty much live hand to mouth as a football club. Sure we're not buried under a mountain of debt, but I do wonder whether the club could deal with an unexpected bill if it suddenly fell payable tomorrow? There's no rainy day fund. We operate on the margin between financial viability and financial difficulty. Did we manage fine in previous years? Was the division more geared towards bigger away crowds whose ticket sales could offer us some much needed income? Was sponsorship worth more? Prize money? What decisions did the board need to make that fans aren't privy to in order to give the illusion of managing fine? If the argument is that we should reduce our playing budget to reduce prices and accept the inevitable relegation to League One or Two then it's not one I can agree with. Do we really want to go back to playing the likes of Clyde, Cowdenbeath, Annan or Stranraer, Albion Rovers and Stenny? It'll happen eventually - we can't hold out as relegation battlers forever in this division and one day we will be relegated, but it's not something I'd actively want for the club. I don't like that we charge so much for tier 2 football at Dumbarton. Is the alternative we really want to see to simply give in, accept relegation to the bottom end of Scottish football and to pay a more affordable price for turgid bottom tier games?

As the hooker said to the leper.

The Equals - Police On My Back (like your Florence link Klanky)

Kylie Minogue - The Magic Roundabout

Democracies rely on the acceptance of a fiction of representational governance by a willing population. Democracy is not a hard and fast term, neither are constitutions or laws. Laws become outdated and are challenged by protest, the enlightening of a populace (or an individual) and constitutions are added to and subtracted from continuously. The want, or need, to self-govern or independence is a consistent challenge, one that has become more and more "normal" through the breakup of political unions and empires throughout the the last few centuries, to the constitutions and subjugating laws of old.

So, as Spain are unwilling to countenance any negotiation, seizing power by force is the only option? Yes, that's definitely a better option than just acting like a democracy and allowing a referendum to take place...

Can't remember any recent occurrances of developed nations occupying an entire people that has no standing army and literally forcing them to live in a tiny strip of land with no imports/exports, destroyed infrastucture, hospitals and schools. Its a fucking disgrace and the Israeli government are scumbags.

Aye just imagine setting a precedent of allowing a democratic vote. Heaven forbid!

I really don’t think he’d care how many fans you’ve got compared to us no one does apart from yourselves.

How can no voters be voters if they don't vote? In elections, referenda etc... these are abstentions. Im not sure how those that abstain can claim a de facto victory in a vote that they don't vote in. If a people are not allowed to make a representation of their will, by a binary vote, as to whether they would like to self-govern or be represented by a minority in a collective government then that seems to me to be repression. The tactics of the Spanish government are consistent with inhibiting a free and democratic vote. I'm not sure, unless one is at odds with democracy, how that can be defended righteously.

Steeleye Span - Female Drummer

Nothing spectacular but just turning £13 in £46 today.

The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums

Rolling Stones : Walking The Dog

Say goodbye to Rory Loy.

Lord Nimmo Smith has found no case to answer, tbf.

Did you just make up a list of teams, some of whom are imaginary, and decide who would've won the imaginary league you have just imagined? OK.

Surprised he's gone this early but relieved that it's happened sooner rather than later. Of course it's a "gamble", every time a team replaces a manager it's a "gamble". McIntyre was in the job, what, three years? The League Cup win was incredible. Genuinely a tremendous achievement. But that's not a reason to keep him in charge. He didn't know what his best system or team was (like stretches of last season, and indeed, for half of his first season). The midfield was never properly fixed - Jackson Irvine's incredible work rate pretty much kept the whole thing together in the middle of the park, but then he left and was never replaced (and the system took forever to change). County leaked goals last season but that's not been fixed over the summer. He brought in some real quality players: Davies, Irvine (although he was at the club on-loan before JM arrived), Schalk, Fraser, Naismith. But he signed a lot of absolute shit. Derek Adams levels of absolute shit. That first January transfer window was ludicrous. Abdoulaye Meite FFS. Terry Fucking Dunfield. Tim Fucking Chow. The money he must have pissed up the wall! Last January was staggering. He spent months trying out a 4-4-2 without any natural wide players. Gets to January, signs a couple of wingers. Then goes 3-5-2 and plays Ryan Dow as a wing-back Boyce bailed him out last season. And even then, McIntyre tried shoehorning him in as an attacking midfielder, to the detriment of Boyce and the team. A lot of good memories but also a lot of dreadful memories. The football over the past few months has been piss poor. He could have gone months ago but managed to get a winning run going to finish 7th. JM was capable of putting this little winning runs together but he was equally adept at throwing together a run of defeats. The inconsistency in performances and results was so frustrating. The Scottish football press will have a good whinge over the sacking but they don't know what they're talking about. A brief glance at the results and remembering back to that one time you watched County last season might leave you pondering how Uncle Roy could be so callous to sack the manager who brought the League Cup up the A9. But it has been on the cards for some time. Was always a matter of "when" not "if".