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  1. 16 minutes ago, Roger the cabin boy said:

    Back to what I said though about BW law. It is a bit strange no?

    I can't say whether it's strange or not. I wouldn't touch them/him with a barge pole, especially not for a company matter (the use of them/him in that matter has NEVER made sense to me). Only Ward knows why he's used them/him. 

  2. 37 minutes ago, BukyOHare said:

    Should they have been told more and if so by whom? Genuinely interested.

    The Trust have an approximate 6% shareholding in the club. I'm not sure what that legally entitles them to.

    Without wanting to denigrate the Trust in any way (I'm a member myself and I know others who work their fingers to the bone on it's behalf), I think a fully functioning, forward thinking Trust may have had a better insight into goings on at the club. It may not of course.

  3. 37 minutes ago, LiviLion said:

    This one always annoyed me an unnecessary amount as it's where the good guys live (even though it looks dark and evil). Snake Mountain for me.

    Aye, I’ve never got the whole Castle Greyskull reference. If it’s cartoon related, it’s Snake Mountain. 

    Given the state of their support and their royalist leanings, it’ll always be Buckiengham Palace for me. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Freedom Farter said:

    I missed that. Which match was it? Was the phrase "the club's enemies" actually used?

    I think he’s referring to when it happened under Massone. Home to Partick Thistle if memory serves. 

    Massone had said the week previous that he was going to stand on the pitch pre match and read out a statement. He of course shat the bed and got Colin Young to do it instead. He also had the text printed onto A4 sheets and placed on the seats in the stands, reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975. 

  5. 36 minutes ago, Jambomo said:

    Everytime he scores for them I can’t help but laugh. The Man U fans still hate him yet time and time again, he scores when they need it and shows why he’s still there and still getting picked. It’s hysterical. 

    It’s normally the day trippers or the “fans” who couldn’t point to Old Trafford on a map who give him a hard time. There are plenty of them, obviously. Most United fans I speak to know though know how integral he is to the team and, like me, would have him as captain over Fernandes every day of the week. 

  6. Brilliant result, but it’s just another exercise in papering over the cracks. It’s a cup quarter final, they’ve won f**k all. Garnacho was immense, McTominay was colossal, Dalot too - but Fernandes is still a verminous wee shit who should never be near the captaincy of United and don’t get me started on Antony. 

    I’ve obviously been listening to Lee Dixon for too long, the morose c**t. 

  7. 49 minutes ago, EdinburghLivi said:

    I thought he was a complete waste of space yesterday but can see your point.

    If Bradley has not built up some muscle mass by the start of next season, we should be getting rid. He's brought very little to the table after his first 4/5 games last season. 

    He's not fast, he has a poor final ball and is way too lightweight. At least one of those three has to give for him to be anywhere near this level.

    I’m glad you mentioned his early performances. There were signs of a very good player in those games - always played with his head up, took the ball on the half turn beautifully. It could be as simple as confidence for him, and indeed a few others. We’re a deathly quiet team and the way the heads went down after 7 minutes yesterday was a real worry. Getting pumped regularly and having a manager with an erratic way of picking a team will obvious not help. 

  8. 19 minutes ago, crispy said:

    Personally, I thought the level of abuse at the game yesterday was a bit over the top, as angry as I was. Did anyone hear the exact shout around when Montaño came over? It sounded like “you [something] b*****d!”. Unsure who the shout was directed to.

    All of the shouts I heard yesterday were against the manager. I don’t recall too many, if any, individual things aimed at players. 

    The stuff aimed at the manager was pretty brutal. It’s subjective as to whether it’s over the top or not. It’s not stuff I would say, but I don’t have fire in me to get that het up about it. 

    If Hastie thinks it is out of order then fair enough. That’s his opinion. Where he is wrong is when he says that fans shouldn’t question losses. That’s wilder than the Serengeti. 

  9. 22 minutes ago, Hoose Rice said:

     

    Indeed and indeed.

    All the best for next season my friend.  Genuinely. 

    Thanks man. The fear I have for next season (and beyond) is genuine. Back to back relegations would not surprise me at all. 

    Yesterday was my first visit to Easter Road in I don’t know how long. The place has a mystique that is indescribable. Sitting there knowing that you’re yards away from where Jock Buchanan made history, Napoli getting destroyed 5-0, all that stuff. 

    There’s a giant there. 

  10. 46 minutes ago, Hoose Rice said:

    Didnt the fans take their shoes off too?  Im at the North end of the East but it looked like it? 

    Indeed they did. Apparently there’s a really deep meaning to it, something to do with Ken Bates’ time at Leeds - think our lads were just doing it for a laugh. They do it regularly though. Again, the stewards were doubled over at it. Must’ve been a different shift from the bile they dealt with last week. 

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  11. 9 hours ago, Hoose Rice said:

    Good luck on coming back up next season Livi.

    Well played your support who chose to support the Lions instead of the glory hunting bigots that travel to Glasgow or watch them on the telly. 

    Gallows humour at its finest in the second half. All the hallmarks of a support who’ve watched turgid pish for however long, culminating in the fantastic “let’s pretend we scored a goal”. Stewards were pishing themselves. 

  12. 5 minutes ago, ATLIS said:

    How long does he need to suffer for the crimes he's committed though? Clear to anyone, surely, that he's moved beyond it and changed his life.

    Let’s be clear here, he isn’t suffering. He’s a wealthy man with many trappings of success and a happy family life. And he’s certainly not suffering because a guy who he’s never met doesn’t like his past and can’t/won’t see beyond it. 

     

  13. 4 minutes ago, LIVIFOREVER said:

    Whatever his reasons, he's still owned it, said he didn't think about how it affected his victims and their families, and made an apology for it. I don't think you should hold his past against him now, for a pile on weighing in on his poor managerial job this season, when he took responsibility for it and made good on being rehabilitated. 

    I disagree entirely and will leave it at that, if that’s ok with you. 

  14. 7 minutes ago, Livi said:

    When all this breaks (which it will) we will see if people like him hang around and continue to have a go at the paying fans.

    He will hang around, and he’d be within his rights to have a go at people, whether he is right or wrong. He loves the club and hates it being denigrated by opposing fans or our own. He backed Massone quite publicly back in the day, and was ridiculed, but is still there now. I think he’s wrong to have a go at fans (paying or not), but I respect his right to have a go. 

  15. 47 minutes ago, LIVIFOREVER said:

    He never made excuses about that though, and has done a few interviews saying he wasn't caught up in a bad crowd, he was the bad crowd. Haven't seen any interview when he made any excuses about it, or blamed someone else for being arrested and going to jail. Also made apologies to victims and their families for his drug dealing, and the consequences it had.

    On his management though, i've tried hanging in there backing him for all he's done for the club, and the successful seasons we've had getting promoted, and staying up 6 seasons, even this season, as relegation was inevitable for us at some point, but i have been annoyed on more than a few occasions by his team selection, and player positioning, and stubbornness to stick with it far too long. It has def cost us this season.

    We've a big job ahead assembling a team for the Championship next season, people will lose their jobs as finances will be smaller, and players wont want to stick around taking a wage cut, he's done wonders before on that score though, so would be happy if he took up the DoF job, but i really don't think he can do the job we need as our manager.

    I never once said that he’d made excuses for his crimes, but seeing as you’ve framed it that way, I’ve read numerous articles where it’s said that he turned to a life of crime to make up for losses he suffered when a boozer that he ran was burnt down and uninsured. So he blamed circumstance there. 

     

  16. I don’t normally read too much into post match interviews, from any manager. They’re usually full of cliches like “go again next week” or some other guff. Over the couple of post match interviews I’ve seen this evening though, Martindale has said that he’s taking responsibility, whilst at the same time blaming “individual errors”. 

    I’ve deliberately kept my thoughts on him to myself since he came into the club. I didn’t go over the top with praise for him when we were in the top 6, whilst at the same time admitting that getting us there was an incredible feat. I’ll admit that for me, it’s a personal thing. I don’t like his character, his (alleged) man management methods I can’t stand, and his criminal past repulses me. He didn’t make mistakes - his crimes were deliberate and calculated. I’m aware that I might sound petty or narrow minded in that view but frankly, after today, I don’t give a shit. 

    That he is still in post is a joke. I know why though - it’s because he’s in control of the lot. Only thing is, he’s in control of something that is wildly out of control. 

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