Thread About Ex Player

[port-ton 159]

Ross McLean as well. Signing just ad many ex morton players even without Duffy in charge. 

[Madton 261]

6 minutes ago, port-ton said:

Ross McLean as well. Signing just ad many ex morton players even without Duffy in charge. 

Just goes around sitting on benches for a living.

[Jamie_M 1157]

8 minutes ago, port-ton said:

Ross McLean as well. Signing just ad many ex morton players even without Duffy in charge. 

Was going to say, new era at Dumbarton but their same eternal signing policy.

[Jamie_M 1157]

 

[Tubes 218]

Ross MacLean is absolutely pish, still got another 2 levels to go until level found though. He’s got Lowland league written all over him. 

Edited Thursday at 02:59 PM by Tubes

[Hej 254]

Eric Paartalu must be back living in Inverclyde, just seen him interviewed on BBC news about the new Celtic manager standing at the bottom of Castle Levan hill

[so72 34]

6 hours ago, Jamie_M said:

 

I enjoyed the reveal video. 

[ChampTon 21]

7 hours ago, Hej said:

Eric Paartalu must be back living in Inverclyde, just seen him interviewed on BBC news about the new Celtic manager standing at the bottom of Castle Levan hill

He's coming home. Fuck Stephen McGinn. 

[TRVMP 4267]

2 hours ago, ChampTon said:

He's coming home. Fuck Stephen McGinn. 

He's under contract at Bengaluru for another season. The ISL kicks off around October. Maybe they'd let him go for nothing but 1) we're probably paying half of what they are and 2) he's an AFC player, and those are basically a free slot in the ISL squad lists.

To expand on that point: they can have six foreigners, one extra AFC player, and the rest have to be Indian. Given that football is a minority sport in India, primarily in Kolkata, Goa, and a few other scattered areas, there's not a huge talent pool to draw from. Hence AFC players to fill that seventh slot are like gold dust, and they tend to be Australians as they square the circle: they are Anglophone, willing to move, their domestic league isn't nearly as protectionist, and it also doesn't pay that well. Compare and contrast to South Korea, for example, where players are decently paid but moreover the country moves heaven and earth to keep the talent at home unless it's headed for a big-time European league. The top leagues in the Middle East do the same: any halfway decent Saudi or Emirati is given an embarrassment of riches to stay at home. Then there are tons of countries with players who'd slit a throat to move away, but they tend to be crap. So... Aussies are at something of a premium.

edit: I just looked it up. Of the 11 ISL clubs last season, all but two had Australian players in the AFC slot. The remaining two are the Japanese international half-Englishman Cy Goddard, and a Tajik named Fatkhullo Fatkhuloev. The latter, formerly at Chennai, has since moved back to CSKA Pamir in his nation's capital. It remains to be seen which Australian will replace him.

Edited Friday at 03:30 AM by TRVMP

[ChampTon 21]

8 hours ago, TRVMP said:

He's under contract at Bengaluru for another season. The ISL kicks off around October. Maybe they'd let him go for nothing but 1) we're probably paying half of what they are and 2) he's an AFC player, and those are basically a free slot in the ISL squad lists.

To expand on that point: they can have six foreigners, one extra AFC player, and the rest have to be Indian. Given that football is a minority sport in India, primarily in Kolkata, Goa, and a few other scattered areas, there's not a huge talent pool to draw from. Hence AFC players to fill that seventh slot are like gold dust, and they tend to be Australians as they square the circle: they are Anglophone, willing to move, their domestic league isn't nearly as protectionist, and it also doesn't pay that well. Compare and contrast to South Korea, for example, where players are decently paid but moreover the country moves heaven and earth to keep the talent at home unless it's headed for a big-time European league. The top leagues in the Middle East do the same: any halfway decent Saudi or Emirati is given an embarrassment of riches to stay at home. Then there are tons of countries with players who'd slit a throat to move away, but they tend to be crap. So... Aussies are at something of a premium.

edit: I just looked it up. Of the 11 ISL clubs last season, all but two had Australian players in the AFC slot. The remaining two are the Japanese international half-Englishman Cy Goddard, and a Tajik named Fatkhullo Fatkhuloev. The latter, formerly at Chennai, has since moved back to CSKA Pamir in his nation's capital. It remains to be seen which Australian will replace him.

Never change, TRVMP. 

[Stevie Aitken's Love Child 210]

Dunfermline have apparently accepted a bid of £50k for Declan McManus from TNS. 

Paying actual cash money for Declan McManus. Wild.

[ChampTon 21]

29 minutes ago, Stevie Aitken's Love Child said:

Dunfermline have apparently accepted a bid of £50k for Declan McManus from TNS. 

Paying actual cash money for Declan McManus. Wild.

You'd imagine he'd score a good few goals down there. 

[Boogs49 12]

Gregor Buchanan signs for Dumbarton

[Stevie Aitken's Love Child 210]

As does Sam Ramsbottom after his 3 month spell there last season.

[Doddie 17]

Kalvin Orsi also signs for Dumbarton 

[BishopBrennan 815]

2 hours ago, Doddie said:

Kalvin Orsi also signs for Dumbarton 

Thank fuck for that.

[TaunTon 1168]

Do they intend to adopt our hoops as well?

[gmfc_craig 3]

Craig McGuffie signs for Falkirk

[capitanus 3495]

On 6/10/2021 at 3:00 PM, Jamie_M said:

 

 

All that razzmatazz for Joe fucking McKee. 

 

Incredible. 

[Cet Homme Charmant 653]

1 hour ago, capitanus said:

 

All that razzmatazz for Joe fucking McKee. 

 

Incredible. 

Easy to mock, but it beats our bog standard signing announcements with generic static pen-in-hand pictures.