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Incorrect. Montrose Roselea have two Aberdeen based players who are both from the town and attend University. Its very hard to attract any players from Aberdeen/Dundee due to travel for an unpaid player even its under 40 miles for both. The bulk of players are Montrose based with 2 from Arbroath and one from Brechin. The move north was mainly due to the clubs travel in the "Old" East Region. Roselea were mainly in the East Premier League which was mainly Lothians based meaning 200 mile round trips leaving at 10am and returning home at 8pm. The North is mainly Aberdeen based which is 36 miles away and was due to become better thanks to the new Bypass. Dyce which was previously 75 minutes away is now 45 mins meaning Cars can be taken and also reduces costs. The "new" East Region Superleague looks slightly more appealing with the mainly Tayside feel to it however there is still much Fife & Lothian trips to be done. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons was competition. In the East Roselea were mainly a bottom half Premier side and did yo yo between the District Leagues. Arguably they would never be a Superleague side although there were two squads who might have just made it. Roselea are on a par with the likes of Culter, Hermes, Bridge of Don Thistle, Dyce ec but Banks o Dee are still that bit further ahead although Roselea did draw with them in the League Cup Semi only to lose on penalties. Up until a December defeat from BOD Roselea topped the North Superleague. There has been no silverware but every game is competitive and at a level that is good for the club and players. Finally the years use of Links Park has also been a great success with crowds and Hospitality up. Roselea are now working on an agreement to make the rent of the pitch more permanent. The Community Trust in Montrose is flourishing and Roselea will eventually become the final part of the jigsaw by joining up as a member and add to the Youth, Amateur, Ladies, Over 35s and walking football sections. The CT will also take over Broomfield Park and maintain it for mainly the Amateur and Ladies/Youths but also for Roselea should there be any fixture clashes (there is one on March 23rd) All in a great move and IMO I think the Tayside clubs should consider the amalgamation as an option (I know a lot still don't fancy it) as the travel to Aberdeen is much improved. I always thought that the pyramid would force the issue and it is heading that way. Roselea made a brave move which was criticised by many but if something is not right and there is a way to fix it why not try it?

For over two years the EU has had to become embroiled with one member state which has narrowly voted to leave but which seems to think it can dictate the terms of its departure to twenty seven other member states. And all the while they have been forced to negotiate with a weak, vacillating, stubborn Prime Minister and a procession of hapless Ministers charged with ensuring an orderly process. Arrogance, bravado and ignorance course thro British political life in equal measure. Now we have talk in the UK of martial law, the evacuation of the House of Windsor, medical and food shortages, and on and on. And you fire a cheap shot at Donald Tusk - they should be nominating him for a knighthood for his honesty.

Totally undeserved for jc1 considering the way he's come on here and openly debated the future for his club and listened to lots of different opinions. That type of comment is not the way to go about convincing clubs to leave the juniors. I think he deserves credit for the way he's posted on here recentlu regardless of what decision his club makes.

He's certainly been to Blantyre, as is a matter of legal record.

You could see he had improved it even when he was with us. He said in an interview after his first goal he was working hard on composure. My mind was routinely blown by our fans who said they werent fussed for getting him back.

Is her screen full of links and icons? Take a screenshot and save it as the background, and remove all the links.

They "chucked it" because it was a rescue mission. The family paid for a recovery mission. One was searching at sea level, the other specifically used sonar, that the coastguard don't have, to search the seabed. Infuriates me how many folk are genuinely claiming the coastguard did "f**k all and just gave up" on Twitter over the past week, as if they had a million pound sonar ship stored away somewhere and refused to use it. The searched for life until it was clear it wasn't there.

Sometimes I watch David Turnbull and just want to tell him to behave. What an outrageously talented footballer he is.

Got a phone call today to say that it had been handed in. I should never have doubted my fellow Derry brothers.

We get rid of a manager because he occasionally has hissy fits and scares the sh*t out of the players......and we replace him with someone who look's like he's one steroid injection away from a mass shooting / trip to Syria to single-handedly defeat the remnants of Daesh / burst bawsack?

This is all getting a bit ugly. I for one hope that the likes of Whitburn, Fauldhouse and Armadale get on board and all these teams playing each other again. What people miss is that a lot of the nostalgia for the juniors is pre Superleague when the Tayside clubs especially didn't feature and limited travel. Ironically it's the EoS that at the moment is going to deliver an old John Walker League as its premier competition next year. I think it'll be a bumper year for those in it given the distance apart of the clubs. It's a shame that some of the above won't also be in the mix. The sooner this all merges the better.

Optimistic.

Gallagher is definitely a signing I can get behind. Mainly because I've missed the HAMMERTHROWING THUGS tweets whenever we win a game. More bad b*****ds kicking teams off the park please.

Maybe that's why Aston Villa have John McGinn and Celtic don't.

But what about Hester??

I'd like to add to this that if Keith Jackson is reading this, YOU'RE A FUCKING w**k M8.

Posting about my smelly former colleague has reminded me of my previous post about some of my colleagues in Inverness, reproduced here: I used to work with several beauts back in Inverness. One was a guy who was a kind of squat fat chap who claimed to have spina bifida so got work to buy him a super-duper chair with buttons and stuff. Obviously when we were nights we snaffled it and took turns to race around the place on it. Eventually he cottoned onto this and from then on got the security guard to lock it away at nights. He also used to carry one of those iron briefcase things to work and if he wasn't working he'd open it on his desk and rummage around in it, slamming it shut if he heard someone come near him. Once a team leader from our shift opened it when he was on his break and it was full of food packaging and sweetie papers He must have noticed that his briefcase was out of position (think the penguin in Misery) so he sent an email to everyone in the team saying that he was very disappointed and that if anyone wanted to look in his briefcase we should just ask him. He also used to come into work insanely early, like six hours before his shift was due to start and just sat around. He was bizarrely keen and seemed to think this would do him good in his career. However, it didn't mainly because the manager of the place had to tell him to stop it as his 18 hour a day stints were threatening the insurance. His career prospects were probably more harmed by the fact that his ex girlfriend worked in the upstairs office and she had a restraining order against him due to the fact that he stalked her after they split up. This meant that he missed out on training courses and couldn't apply for any promotions as most of the interviews were done upstairs. How staying in the office for a ridiculous ammount of time would make his employers forget that they had a loon on the staff is beyond me. He was thick as horseshit anyway. Another favourite was Neil, a guy I worked with after getting a promotion of sorts. Neil was an older guy, most of the people there were in their early 20's. He was about 45 and when I first joined the team he was pretty quiet but he was always keen on a night out. This was because he had a drink problem. He wouldn't drink all the time but if he got started he didn't finish for days/weeks/months. He took a holiday once and didn't come back to work for four or five months. The company couldn't contact him and after a month or so sentthe police round to check he wasn't dead. He admitted he had 'a problem' and was allowed back. That's when the fun really began. When he came back he was quite different, he was obviously on medication to control his urges towards drinking and it turned him into a walking comedy sketch. He would jive across the office, call everyone man and constantly, I mean constantly, hum to himself. I used to sit next to him and it was like sitting next to a radio constantly tuned to Jazz FM. "Dooo bee doo doo doo bap doo wop doo waaaah" for every second of the 8 hour shift. He would also talk/sing to himself about what he was doing, as Swampy remembers. So if it was his week doing the morning reports you'd get "doo bee doo be dobeee, ahh'mmm doooooin the morning report, doop doo dee waaah". Eventually he'd take things that were said or mentioned and work them into his routine. So if someone said "Who's coming fro lunch? I fancy a sandwich" you'd get about 30 seconds later "Lunchy lunchy woo beee doooo". This was noticed and we'd deliberately mentioning things completely out of context to get them into his songs. One notable occasion was when a mate of mine stood up apropos of nothing and said very loudly "GLOVES" and sat down. Thirty seconds later "gloves, wooo hoo dop yeah, gloves yeahh" Neil eventually left, the company gave him an ace reference to get rid of him. On one of his drinking benders (which continued despite his treatment) he saw our line manager shopping with his wife and kids and followed him around Tesco shouting abuse, probably like thisL "dooo bee doo deee doo you are a c**toooo".

celebrity reality tv. just seen an advert for "famous and fighting crime" on tv. is there any shit they wont film celebrities doing to make shit tv? also the celebrities they put on these things are not celebrities. bunch of nobodies ive never heard of. stick jocky scott on love island and id probably watch it

Had an argument in the social club with one of the committee at the end of the year when i was at nite out in there. He quips about travelling to Coldstream etc and playing derbies......,i laughed and said aye cos carnoustie and broughty ferry are close right enough It is the same as when the super league was set up,they declined to join and were left out in the cold for 5 yrs!! Absolute dinosaurs one and all !!

If you buy a programme on Saturday you should be able to fill another 2 positions....

Anyone giving McIntyre shite is showing signs of being a Sofien. I believe a new Dundonian word can be used to describe someone who's not the full shilling. That Alfie from Lochee is a great laugh but slightly Sofien Moussa'd. McCann had us relegated, there should be nowhere back from where he left us. We were falling like a stone to the championship with players as useful as Anne Franks drumkit. He is the worst manager I've ever seen at Dens with his players embarrassing . Moussa wouldn't get a game for Vale o' Tay U16's and if he did, he'd be told in no uncertain terms he's fucking mince by the defender marking him out the game on the back of a White Lightning and cigarette stramash. My Boaby elevation levels with Dundee hit a peak when it mimicked the famous sinking Titanic image, in both girth and deadly fury, during the net rustle of the Nemsadze chip at Tannadice. Never though, has such a floppy hopeless chode been witnessed than when watching Moussa upfront for my club. Don't get me wrong; when McIntyre walked in the door I was frothing at the mouth and I was ready to sever ties with the club for the season. A Liam Neeson rampage almost ensued as I sauntered up and down the fields of Friockheim looking for DABs to fill in. I won't walk away however because I'm not a Rangers fan and we all know Dundee FC are the abusive partner whilst we are the wee bitches who secretly love a Saturday hook to the Jaw - even the odd last minute midweek Roberto Carlos volley flush into the bollocks. The only thing I ask for is that I see 100% effort and some sort of entertainment. That's what I expect when I go to football and McIntyre has given us that. Simple as that. From the start of this year HIS squad has went to Hearts and won, played very well against Motherwell where I walked away from Dens relatively pleased despite defeat and battled well against Hamilton and Kilmarnock where we could have won both -but didn't lose. The effort and greater entertainment value this squad brings means I'll go to Livi whereas under McCann I wouldve thought, f**k that. Very confident of picking up results against Livi & Hibs or at least competing well which can only be a good thing and could never be said under Hartley or McCann in these types of games. McIntyre is doing superb so far (months into his tenure) and we couldn't ask more from him. I think he will keep us up and he should be given a longer contract. Dundee have needed a manager like this for years and if you can't see it then you're a fucking Sofien. Yesterday went astray when the shite we're stuck with from Hartley and McCann's era came on - primarily Paul McGowan. We should all be looking forward, expecting to stay up on recent performances, building in the summer further and having a season of some interest next year. Roll on next Saturday. Granny Danger you're a fanny. RandomGuy you're a boring c**t and have been the cause of the increase in road accidents in Perth due to making drivers fall asleep at your tedium Thank you.

Sorry mate. Too busy doing the league tables.

Had a can on Wednesday, still fucking delicious. In the freezer for half an hour before drinking so it was as cold as possible.

Get the fucking league tables done

Enjoy

This pretty much sums up the potential folly of any move to regionalise the east Juniors into two, eighteen team leagues - if that has indeed been proposed at last nights meeting. Three, twelve team leagues could also be imprudent as such a set-up is unlikely to provide enough league fixtures (or a horrible imbalance if teams have to play each other three times) for those involved. All of this on top of absolutely no variety in terms of fixtures year on year if there is no turnover of teams through relegation and promotion, something that can't happen without access to the Pyramid, access that is uncertain at best and highly unlikely at worst.

That alone shows why it's madness to have 2 different non-league systems in the same area, regardless whether or not they are in the pyramid. Results like Coupar Angus 0-18 Broughty Athletic a few weeks ago are not what we need. The point of a pyramid is not just to give teams the chance to move up. It's about teams being able to play football at what's the right level for them. Having 2 18 team junior leagues in the east would in my opinion have too big difference in standard between teams in the same division. The teams south of the Tay are far better off in the EOS, the poorer junior teams would get more competitive games against the likes of Inverkeithing than getting a drubbing by Fauldhouse or Kennoway imo. In the same way there should be a proper pyramid access for the teams north of the Tay divide as well.

I'm not disagreeing with any of that, but you're talking as if he left a load of better options on the bench, or he got the formation and tactics totally wrong. There have been loads of shouts to play two up front, and a load of cheers when that was announced before the match. It worked in the first half, with the players visibly putting in a huge effort to chase and harass. When you do that with a squad who are less than fully fit and in the middle of a stretch of games, it's inevitable they're going to tire out later in the match. If we had adequate like-for-like replacements available to keep that up for a full 90 mins, I'm sure that's what the manager would have liked to have done, but we don't, so he couldn't. McGowan has been in steady decline over the past couple of seasons, O'Dea is not a central midfielder in this division, Miller is a pensioner and prone to missing sitters but scoring belters, None of that is under debate, but you still haven't explained what else you think the manager should have done, or what he did wrong. Who else is he going to bring on at 70 mins, and what should he have done tactically bar sticking an extra body in the middle of the pitch and trying to grit it out? We simply don't have the players to turn a match, or go and take it by the scruff when we're playing a very handy and well coached Killie team. It's true we don't have the luxury of a load of time to bed this squad in, but we're in this position largely because of our totally inept first 15 matches or so. This squad is going to take a wee while to get up to speed wether we like it or not, and it's not going to be February games against Killie that decide if we stay up or not. If the squad can get a bit fitter and more used to playing with each other, then we will have opportunities to play the whole bottom 6 again as well as the remaining fixtures before the split. If we're still running out of puff after and hour and flogging late goals in April then we're in trouble, but there are at least signs over the past few weeks that this might not be the case. If McCann was still in charge, we'd still be watching McGowan huff and puff, O'Dea look past it, and Kenny Miller running around like a heidless chicken, but I reckon we'd have even fewer points and absolutely no chance of staying up. The failings of this season so far and the poor quality of most of the squad isn't McIntyre's fault. He can only piss with the cock he's got.

Those were the days...

Here he is #meltdowncity

That's quite the character assassination there for someone you briefly stood beside in Asda.

That’s retribution for them taking so many points off is last season.

Could it be that May and Juncker are having an affair and these repetitive meetings are just an excuse for them to hook up? It would certainly give a whole new meaning to the term ‘Withdrawal Agreement’.

Is his faither Auld Reekie? I'll get my coat.

It’s still phenomenal.

February is boring. It's already the 7th and we haven't signed a whole new team yet. Bring back the good old days of a few weeks ago, that was exciting.

Agreed. Form a North East Superleague asap. It would be a much stronger junior league. It would enable junior clubs like Spey Valley United, Burghead Thistle, and Inverness City (if they return from abeyance) to join the NCL, given balance to the NCL as a recognised Pyramid Feeder league in the north and west Highlands. If the West juniors join the pyramid en bloc, as now appears possible, and having removed the East 'duplicating' leagues and the need to alter the HFL/SLL 'boundary', there would be an integrated, comprehensive, and truly national pyramid, for the benefit of Scottish football.

I'm just thinking about how a north pyramid structure could look like. I'm assuming the HL would then reduce to 16 clubs as that's the SFA's preference. That could mean that Fort William get relegated to the North Caledonian League which would become a 10 team league. Lossiemouth would join the North Superleague, which would become a 16 team league. With 33 north juniors (including Inverness City) and 16 Tayside juniors there could be 5 Tayside teams and 10 current NRJFA teams in the North Superleague (obviously you can debate about what's fair, but this example is for indicative purposes only). The North Superleague would then consist of the following teams: Lossiemouth Banks O'Dee Bridge of Don Culter Montrose Roselea Nairn St. Ninian Dyce Juniors Hermes East End Colony Park Hall Russell United Lochee United Broughty Athletic Forfar West End Carnoustie Panmure Kirriemuir Thistle Underneath that division there would be an 11 team Tayside league and the remaining 23 current NRJFA teams can form a 12 team First Division North and an 11 team Second Division. Champions of North Superleague & NCL (if licensed) can then get promoted to the Highland League. Now, whether or not all parties involved would like this and this would be realistic is a second, but I don't think this would be a bad set-up. Edit: like Robert James suggests, there could be some movement from the north junior teams to the NCL to slightly correct the numbers rather than have a 10-team structure and a 50-team structure underneath the same league. Ultimately the amateur leagues can slot in below NCL, Division 2 & Tayside leagues as well to provide a proper pyramid all the way down.

Trying to positive.... We almost need to use the next 3/4 weeks and 3 games as an opportunity to get these guys up to speed and let whole squad gel. If we can start picking up points before the split and find a bit of form we have a chance (assuming teams above us don’t find any real form) I’m having blind faith here that these guys will come good for no other reason than this new scouting strategy we have - in that these guys have been sourced by us - and not thrown at us by agents. Time will tell!

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Probably burnt a few hundred calories doing my nut in at pittodrie last night.

Seen this Reddit post from April 2017 appear on Twitter a few times tonight...

Good result for the Ev.

From the looks of things, when that Mike Appleton has cause to fling a chair at you, the matter is settled, once and for all.

After 4 months of chemotherapy my consultant told me today that my cancer is under control and I can come off chemotherapy! Have the small matter of a stem cell transplant in April/May time which involves more chemo but for the time I am drug free!