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Sorry, should have clarified; as the chat has being about finances, some of the West clubs are almost scarily well financed and if they ever get it together could and should at the very least be challenging for SPFL entry.

It's complicated. He was a key player and I can't remember any injuries until November 2021, which he was inexplicably started against Celtic at Hampden 2 days after being in Japan for a friendly with Australia. Unsurprisingly he got injured and that was him until about September 2022, when it was kind of clear his prep was all about being fit and available for the World Cup in November. After that he never really played much again as Callum Davidson flailed wildly about chucking shite at the wall trying to make something work by changing things every week. MacLean came in and was faced with having to eviscerate the squad Davidson built (30+ senior players, £1.8m loss) to make us sustainable again, and when two of the higher earners are 30+ and playing the same squad role (Carey, Wotherspoon), and one is out of contract and one isn't, then he didn't have much choice but to let him go really.

Mon Higgins FFS!!!

Doubt it. He was out of contract so we were due whatever compensation amounts to these days. We've fumbled a lot of things in the last few years but that's got to be the worst of them.

The Count Zeppelin Pipe Band from Germany wear the Blue Fitzgerald tartan, woven in Forfar.

This VAR level of accuracy thing - nearly demanding quantum physics levels of measurement - is BS. No one ever questioned a human beings ability to judge off side to that degree, including the exact moment when "the ball is played or touched". What VAR does do is show up where human error has occurred and corrects it. Completely? No, but on the whole, yes, it does.

I know it was onside in the end but surely the fact Liverpool had 2,765 chances to clear the free kick would render the original 'offside' before the goal irrelevant?

Touché

Are they allowed by law to do that with this “pronoun” terminology used these days?

Beith will win 4-3. Nothing surer

Klopp losing his last chance at a trophy to an absolutely awful Everton team is funnier.

a lot of it is we now know what he was like so the stuff is a lot more obvious

Or Westlife

I want Everton to go down because it would be funny but VAR is determined to shaft them here

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Neville “this could start riots!”

Liverpool have been absolutely shocking so far. They look like they've chucked it for the season.

Past two times ove taken a train to Bonn, some fat stinking munter has been eating a kebab. Honestly wish murder was legal

Bit of a stramash but that’s deserved.

That was absolutely shambolic from Liverpool

Except it’s an entirely hyperbolic post which doesn’t really reflect reality. The club rid itself of the debt that had been hanging over us for years, attracted plenty new investment and built a training ground in that period. We reached a point where performances on the pitch plateaued as we lost players and the lack of recruitment infrastructure and short term thinking on the pitch came to bite. We’ve tried to address that in the last few years (yes, at times hilariously badly) but broadly that infrastructure is moving in the right direction. I think we’ve tried to do too much too quickly and made a complete arse of a lot of it in the process. I mean, I’m sure there was a club in recent times that changed the structure of their football department, introduced a new model, signed about 40 players every window, hired all sorts of managers including their director of football and got relegated in the process. I’m told that club is now miles ahead of everybody at everything. This isn’t a prediction that everything works out great for us, but the work done to sort out the balance sheet and infrastructure of the club whilst performing well has allowed a platform for progression. Whether we take it or not is up for debate for now, your characterisation of us though is based in reality but laced with hyperbole and your hopes for how this plays out.

It's exponentially worse. Back then phones were little more than bricks. Now they are mini computers with apps explicitly designed by people much cleverer than you or I to be addictive and time-sucking.

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