[SCO] Scottish Premier league 2010/2011 (3 Viewers)

[Red]

Severin signed for Watford today.

Best player of the Calderwood era (since Anderson only played three of the five years).

Ridiculous how few Scotland caps he got when playing for us.

 

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[Bozi]

great player for you, also for us, greaty pro, hope he does well

 

[Red]

So do I, but I suspect he my struggle with the pace of the Championship.

As good as he is at reading the game, he is painfully slow.

 

[Red]

First day back in training.

 

[Bozi]

some interesting reading

SPL ALL-TIME TABLE 1998/99 - 2008/09


P W D L F A Pts
Celtic 414 304 61 49 968 336 973
Rangers 414 282 76 56 876 333 922
Hearts 414 172 103 139 560 487 619
Aberdeen 414 147 98 169 499 587 539
Kilmarnock 414 146 100 168 507 591 538
Hibernian 378 137 97 144 526 526 508
Motherwell 414 133 94 187 500 630 493
Dundee United414 112 115 187 451 636 451
Dunfermline 302 78 79 145 295 483 313
Dundee 262 80 61 121 308 412 301
Inverness CT 190 60 48 82 222 253 228
Livingston 190 48 45 97 205 306 189
Falkirk 152 45 35 72 166 212 170
St Johnstone 148 39 43 66 139 200 160
St Mirren 152 35 39 78 122 229 144
Partick Thistle 76 14 19 43 76 125 61
Hamilton 38 12 5 21 30 53 41
Gretna 38 5 8 25 32 83 23

Hearts are the only club outside the old firm with a winning record and a positive goal difference

 

[Red]

Hearts are the only non-Old Firm team that haven't spent at least three years being absolutely garbage.

I would be more interested to see what the average points totals in the SPL are (done reasonably properly by not counting the best and worst year for each side).

I'm sure Hearts would still come out top, though.

 

[Bozi]

well we have only finished outside the top 6 once since the SPL started so is not really such a shock, a bad season has generally constituted just missing out on a European place. but still is a sad indicator that only 1 club outside the old firm has a winning ratio and goal difference

 

[Red]

You think you will sell Driver?

 

[Bozi]

3m and he will eb away, though we are making all the right noises about keeping him for another year that sort of money for a home grown player is too tempting. plus with Goncalves back we could always push "shotgun" Lee Wallace further forward and allow him to maraud further forward or use the new guy Suso on the left (though i think he is there to replace Kingston)

 

[Red]

John Hartson has cancer.

I'm not even going to pretend to be sympathetic.

 

[Boksic]

John Hartson has cancer.

I'm not even going to pretend to be sympathetic.

Hated him on the football pitch but he was a good player and more recently I quite like him as a pundit on Setanta. I thought that he would be heavily biased towards Celtic with nothing sensible to say but was pleasantly surprised with his comments.

Like or hate him though, cancer is a terrible illness for both the sufferer and their friends and family.

I wish him all the best!

 

[Red]

He sounded ever bit the bitter and twisted tim after we beat them 4-2 this season.

Refused to give Aberdeen any credit and claimed that at least three of our goals should have been disallowed.

 

[Red]

I see very little Setanta.

I only saw Hartson's comments on that game because they were brought to my attention.

 

[Red]

Aberdeen's summer transfer campaign has sprung into life with, wait for it, a backup backup 'keeper that no-one has heard of.

 

[Bozi]

its right up there with Hearts getting MORE midfielders

 

[Lucky Luke]

for those who are watching the scottish premier league,i;d like to know your opinion about Samaras.do you think he can turn into a very good player that can find space in a better team or a better championship?he has already failed in man city..

 

[Bozi]

no

 

[Red]

Agreed.

 

[Red]

"Bear in mind that Setanta's failure to pay the final tranche of last season's payments meant we had to wipe more than a quarter of a million pounds off the bottom line for season 2008/09. Now we are in a situation where we have to operate with an annual budget of £600,000 less than originally budgeted for next year that has the potential to rise to over £1 million over the coming couple of years. To put that into context, to plug the gap we require either four thousand extra fans at every home SPL fixture or we need to the reach the group stages of the Europa Cup every year and hope to get a couple of lucrative ties in the group. That would simply allow us to reach the original figures we were looking at with no upside. Make no mistake, every SPL club is suffering right now and I do mean every club."

-Duncan Fraser

Willie Miller added, "We tried to bring a couple of lads in on loan from a mid table Championship side but, given these guys were on £3,500 and £5,000 per week respectively, we simply cannot compete and equally, while we will do everything we can to support Mark, we have to ensure Aberdeen Football Club is still around in the future and, let's be frank, there are top clubs whose long term future is by no means a certainty.

http://www.afc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/clubNewsDetail/0,,10284~1735423,00.html

Interesting/depressing explanation of the current economic situation in the SPL.

Won't affect Hearts, since they will keep spending money they don't have.

 

[blondu]

red can you give me some info about motherwell ?....they can knock steaua bucharest out of the europa league?...they have some important names?..what's the usual formation...what style do they play (long balls..more possesion..passing a lot)..did they have european experience?