Thread About Ex Player

[TRVMP 3973]

 

2 hours ago, SpoonTon said:

 

I agree, but they also need to be realistic about their ability. Having a good understanding of where you and how far you need to go is very important. I think McKee himself acknowledges this:

I was of the belief I should have been playing in the first-team. You just don’t appreciate the level you are it when you’re that young.

This is the crux of it. Age group football is to first team football as freeroll tournaments are to cash tournaments in poker. Yeah, decent practice, a great way to learn, and something at stake - but it's not even in the same postcode as the real thing.

[dunning1874 1478]

Scott McLaughlin has announced his retirement from football.

Some say he did that when he signed for Ayr United, etc.

[Cappiecat 1.2 27]

2 hours ago, dunning1874 said:

Scott McLaughlin has announced his retirement from football.

Some say he did that when he signed for Ayr United, etc.

 

[vikingTON 3327]

 

[Toby 4185]

35 minutes ago, vikingTON said:

 

It’s also complete bollocks about how he was never one to play up to the fans. His strong showing in the “Biggest Arsehole To Have Played For Morton” competition would suggest that his desperation for our attention was one of the first things you would associate with him, and iirc he was also quick to put his tuppence worth in when that wanker Dean Matthew piped up about Reghan Tumilty.

Dickhead.

[vikingTON 3327]

I think that he views 'playing up to the fans' as 'faking a positive relationship with them', as opposed to the salt of the earth honesty that he alone gifts to the Scottish game, so in his feeble mind it's not a contradiction at all. The fans are just rubes to have a pop at when you're playing shite and for trying to goad on social media and getting bodied instead. The idea of winning their respect is totally foreign to him, mostly because of his horrible character but also because he was too shite to even win grudging merit for what he did on the park.

Celebrating a career of unmitigated failure outside of playing for The Famous - the only 'great club' on his otherwise rent-a-jobber-outfit CV - whom he despised and was despised by in equal measure. It's just a shame that Davie Irons maintained his timeless professional dignity when McLaughlin landed a punch on him in the dressing room like the petulant, wee man-child that he is. He should have given him a total bleaching instead. 

Edited August 22, 2020 by vikingTON

[vikingTON 3327]

Fun career facts: the entire last decade of Scott McLaughlin's 'career' was spent yo-yoing between the third and fourth tiers of the seaside leagues, with the singular exception of 2011/12 in which he got relegated from the second tier with a hopeless Queen of the South outfit, who punted him in the summer and promptly went on to romp the Second Division. Since being rightly emptied from The Famous in 2008, McLaughlin got relegated in every season that he subsequently played in the second tier (Airdrie x2, Queen of the South), also got relegated from the third tier with Albion Rovers in 2018 and even contrived to bottle two further play-offs in the fourth tier with Peterhead and Clyde. 

We are truly losing a giant of the Scottish game: goodnight sweet prince. x

Edited August 22, 2020 by vikingTON

[capitanus 3423]

On 8/21/2020 at 2:01 PM, vikingTON said:

I haven't seen as desperate a clutching at straws exercise since Dougie announced Kieran McAnespie's signing as that of 'an English Premiership winger'. 

He once carried the kit basket at France 98.

[Jamie_M 1071]

Nicky Cadden doing Nicky Cadden things.

 

[Alan_Partridge_Ton 423]

19 hours ago, capitanus said:

He once carried the kit basket at France 98.

Do you ever think about Salty and what he’s up to these days?

[capitanus 3423]

5 hours ago, Alan_Partridge_Ton said:

Do you ever think about Salty and what he’s up to these days?

[so72 19]

Sam Ramsbottom pictured at...wait for it...Falkirk pre-season!

😂😂😂

[Alibi 320]

13 minutes ago, so72 said:

Sam Ramsbottom pictured at...wait for it...Falkirk pre-season!

😂😂😂

PMSL. 

[Scott 440]

Bachirou linked with a £600k move to Nottingham Forrest. 

[bigB 12]

31 minutes ago, Scott said:

Bachirou linked with a £600k move to Nottingham Forrest. 

I believe he stated a few years ago that he wanted to eventually finish his career at Morton maybe he is heading back to Britain to eventually do it.

[Toby 4185]

52 minutes ago, bigB said:

I believe he stated a few years ago that he wanted to eventually finish his career at Morton maybe he is heading back to Britain to eventually do it.

Hope he never darkens our door again.

[Woody66 45]

1 hour ago, bigB said:

I believe he stated a few years ago that he wanted to eventually finish his career at Morton maybe he is heading back to Britain to eventually do it.

As much as I'd like to see it, his career has moved on even further than probably he even thought it would. Would be very surprised if it happened.

[so72 19]

Gregor Buchanan joins Joe McKee at QotS

[Scott 440]

I’m not too clued up on the goings on when Fred left and whether the rumours are true but it’s at least nice to see a former player of ours who the majority thought was fantastic to go on to have a pretty decent career. Not sure if anyone can beat it in recent memory? 
 

[port-ton 148]

About time Nottingham Forest returned to the summit of the European game so good signing for them.