DoofersDad

... and there was me thinking we'd got rid of the clowns for good!

I get the screen Wazzow has posted on a regular basis. I had always assumed it was something to do with the site. It is not something which comes up with any other site I use. I get it on both my phone and PC, both of which are Apple devices. I have the cookie settings set to essential only for the site. I find the number of adverts on the site incredibly annoying and it impacts on the usability of the site. I've always been happy to accept advertising if it brings revenue to the site, but if I am getting adverts which bring no revenue to the site, I would love to know how to stop them for good.

We've fallen a long way since those heady days, but not as far as Astra. They were dissolved in 2022 after their owner was jailed for money laundering the year before. If ever there was a lesson on the importance on basing the club's future on a secure financial footing ...

I hope not. Not if they are 5 mutual friends of Scotty!

Many of the most memorable games in our club's history have been in the later stages of the various cup competitions. To be in the later stages of a cup, you need to win in the earlier stages. I therefore like to support the team in the early rounds. The challenge cup is also a great opportunity to get an early look at new players and how the team is shaping up.

Absolutely! And if he thought the ball was within his area, he would have clutched it with both hands. It is hard to imagine a much clearer goal scoring opportunity than Haaland would have had. Perhaps VAR were confusing Haaland with Hojlund, in which case they might have been justified in thinking there was little chance of him scoring. Glad that Palace won though. Love to watch Eze play.

Big Dunc's comments about our club and the fans show him as a little man in terms of taking responsibility for his own failings. He criticises the club's facilities as a disgrace, and whilst we all know they are pretty poor, he should have ensured he knew what facilities the club had before he took the post. Or was he just so desperate for a job that he didn't even bother to find out the first thing about the club before taking the money? He criticises the fans for not liking his style of football. He suggests we would rather see a caber being tossed but that he likes his teams to play football. Well, the problem was that the fans want to see a footballing team and we weren't getting that with his over-emphasis on possession. Not only has the football been far more entertaining since he left, it has also been far more successful, despite his successor having to lose players due to the administration and having restrictions on what players could be brought in. He also criticises the fans for abuse of his son, Cameron. Now, I don't condone the abuse young Cameron got in any way, but he wouldn't have got any abuse if he hadn't have been here. Big Dunc seems to take no responsibility for his nepotism of putting his son into a team well above the ability of the poor lad. He wasn't good enough and he shouldn't have been here. He criticises the Board (fair enough!) but makes absolutely no mention of our former CEO who took the credit for signing Big Dunc and who therefore would have had a responsibility for appraising him of the facilities and circumstances of the club. It seems Big Dunc isn't big enough to say anything about the person most people feel is most responsible for the club's problems and consequently for his redundancy.

There's a lot of money in football, but much of it ends up going out of football far too soon. If you are on the National Living wage for your entire working life, you can expect to earn just over £1m in that time. Top footballers earn more than that in less than a month. It is absurd. And over and above their salaries, they will be getting money from marketing deals. What on earth can anyone sensibly do with that kind of money? I know they have to pay tax and there is always the risk of an early career ending injury, but on a year's salary they can buy and furnish a luxury house and invest the rest to be able live comfortably without having to kick a ball or do a day's work ever again. Meanwhile, good players in the lower leagues are giving 100% week in, week out for minimum wages at clubs struggling to survive. It really is quite obscene. I appreciate the value of market forces in an economy, but surely there needs to be some kind of wage cap and mechanism to distribute more money to support football at lower levels. I know millions of people want to watch wonderful games like Tuesday's game between Inter Milan and Barcelona, but we need to remember that games like that would never happen if the foundations of the game at lower levels were not solid and able to attract young players into the game. Of course, none of that helps the difficulties at Inverness just now, but it does serve to highlight what has been said above about the need for some financial stability in the club if we are ever to be competitive at the higher levels of Scottish football again.

We both overtook Scotty and pushed him out of the top 10 by a single point. Hope we don't get banned from this site! You are also too modest to say that you also edged out Gringo at the death to take the Prediction League title by the narrowest of margins. Congratulations to you and many thanks to Gringo for running both these competitions.

Given where we were when Scott took over and all the constraints he has faced due to the administration process, to finish 7th is just an absolutely brilliant achievement. Many congratulations to Scott and all the team and backroom staff for rediscovering the togetherness.

That would be 50,000 more copies than he wanted of "Milestones and Memories".

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Montrose getting a late equaliser doesn't help either. Just to think, 10 years ago we were at Hampden beating Celtic 3-2 in the cup semi-final. What a great day that was! Maybe in 10 years time we'll be back there and the experience will be all the sweeter for having come through the bad times.

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