"Don’t anybody start talking about morals, because we don’t have any in football" - the rolling Scottish football thread, season 2014/15

Craig Beattie has signed for Ayr Utd. Missed a striker there...

you're getting John Guidetti on loan apparently

A striker! Now, could we not have done that *before* we got papped out of the Champions League?

hard to fathom why an owner who threatened to walk away from Hull less than 12 months ago is throwing this much money at them now

oops sorry

Scepovic deal back on, apparently. I'm sure he'll be popular, having chucked it earlier until Getafe backed out. He should just kid on he was trolling Lawwell to get folk back onside.

Pukki out, Balde out, Guidetti in, Scepovic in, Virgil still here. No idea what I was moaning about, tbh. Except the lack of a left back, but twas ever thus.

*waits for first game back after international break*

Keeping Van Dijk's been a good effort, especially if it wasn't achieved by locking him in a cupboard all day.

Wasn't expecting Saints to do anything today, and even if there were more signings to come they'll be freedom of contract anyway so no hurry. Reasonably happy with the squad, though there's been a lot of disquiet over the summer about how the club have communicated. May was never staying, we appear to have got the best deal we could in the circumstances. Goodwillie would have been a risky punt, but may have paid off. Hopefully Brian Graham will get his confidence back - scored about as many as May in his last season at Raith. We'll always struggle to get a goal-scorer on our budget. We got most of the key players from last season (and Gary McDonald) signed up early, which I think was forgotten at times. Will miss wee Nige, though.

Today's BBC Scottish Gossip reporting via the Herald that Pukki's glad to be away from Celtic as SPFL football is "too weak" for him. That'll be why he was a roaring success and punted out on loan, then.

Top of the Premiership table looks a bit weird.

Bottom of the Championship table looks familiar.

Rotten again today. Not much better midweek. No-one knows what they're doing.

Saw a "Celtic haven't won the last five games where Zaluska was in goal" stat earlier, which seems deeply unfair on him since his inclusion is usually a sign of massive changes afoot throughout the team.

I have no idea what Deila's plan or system is (or whether he even has one).

It is unfair on him. Then again he's kind of pish and there should never be any need to rest a fucking keeper.

Looks like Leigh Griffiths is going to Hibs on an emergency loan. The emergency presumably being that Hibs aren't very good.

that and we're paying for him to watch us from the stands when he'd clearly much rather watch Hibs

p sure hibs brought in at least two strikers before the window shut?

(but tbh I don't really get why they call them "emergency" loans at this stage in the season, because I don't think they really are. They don't need any special dispensation to make loan signings until april.)

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A++ would lol again

probably not wise to steal it for a quiz team name

fucksake hearts

So Hibs not that pish at all. Or Rangers are that pish. Or both.

McCoist looks worryingly close to losing his job :(

Will it no' cost about £2m to sack him? He doesn't do walking away, you know.

Will it no' cost £5-10m to keep him, miss out on promotion and add at least another year till their first ever European match? At some point, if they actually want a long term, they need to plan for it.

That said, in the short term, given the lack of £2m in readies, it's probably worth punting him onto gardening leave and getting someone (anyone) else in on a fraction of his wages.

Not til after our cup game, thanks. Though on recent showings I can see us managing to take a pumping. Never fear, though, Faddy's here!

Yeah, but I don't think they have the dosh for paying McCoist's wages plus the wages of AN Other less-crap manager, do they. given that they had to have a share issue just to pay off a loan? Rock, hard place. I think they're stuck with him. What they really could do with is someone somewhere in there stopping sanctioning shite like signing Kenny Miller and Kris Boyd.

If they can afford the players they have (lol ikr) then they can afford £100k a year for a decent manager. That's an eighth of Sally's wages but probably still more than any manager other than Ronny Deila and Gordon Strachan is paid.

Lovely opener from us tonight. Something to look back on when the wheels fall off.

So you're 1-0 up and struggling to hold the ball. The only place it's sticking is with Kris Commons, your goal scorer and playmaker who keeps winning free kicks.

Do you
a) sub Commons off
b) do something else

Phew!

Entertaining game - lucky win. Craig Gordon and the Neil Lennon fat club making all the difference.

I couldn't remember Evander Sno's name today and I ended up searching ILX for "clown shoes".

He's still only 27!

Some clown in the pub tonight was moaning about how Ronny Deila had no Scottish players he could rely on like Strachan did. I was sitting going *cough* Craig Gordon *cough* *cough* Scott Brown *cough* ahem *cough* like, er, Kenny Miller *cough* until his death stares withered me down. His trump card to his mates was his point about Strachan signing Scottish guys like Aiden McGeady. I thought I was going to hack my lungs out by that stage. He also claimed "van Hesselink" was a Mowbray experiment that didn't work like Jarosik.

I fucking LOVE Craig Gordon, btw.

<3

so happy for gordon

http://f.cl.ly/items/1O3y380d2Z3Y3G382B0w/Unknown.jpg

Ref books Accies player for foul in the box but doesn't give a penalty. What in the actual fuck?

I just found out that Dundee are sponsored by a drum & bass label

https://www.facebook.com/HANGAR.RECORDS1

John Guidetti feat. Virgil van Dijk

http://youtu.be/G_eTe6muArI

Good performance today. That's at least twice this season we've looked like a team.

Deila out.

When Stefan Johansen is turning in an MOTM performance, you know Ross County are shite.

Nice to see Stokesy's hair transplant worked.

Piss poor again tonight. One man team and that man is a fucking goalkeeper.

FFS DEILA OUT

― ailsa, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me on twitter earlier: "Can we just give Craig Gordon his POTY trophy now and just pretend the rest of it isn't happening?"

Deila (plus his entire team of useless fuckers that aren't Craig Gordon) out. I still kind of want to like him, but then he does things like think that Callum McGregor is a footballer.

Oh FFS. Deila out.

― ailsa, Sunday, August 31, 2014 2:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In fact everyone that isn't Craig Gordon out.

― ailsa, Sunday, August 31, 2014 2:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think we should have a thread called Deila Out containing nothing but posts bumping it once or twice a week.

Omg that goal

https://vine.co/v/OhYVII925eE

(Fucking travesty that we got anything out of that though, hibs deserved the win by miles)

That was quite good. Celtic, on the other hand, are not quite good. Not even close to passable.

quite good against ten men tbf