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Scottish Prem 18/19

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Doon frae Troon said:
Love the carefully chosen 'such a long period' as England moves on to the Man City period. After Man U dominated for a decade.
Big gap between 2nd and third in the EPL, perhaps that league will be a two horse race this year for a change.;)
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What exactly are you debating here Doon?

England/Scotland/Germany/Spain etc are generally all contested by 2 or 3 teams.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Love the carefully chosen 'such a long period' as England moves on to the Man City period. After Man U dominated for a decade.
Big gap between 2nd and third in the EPL, perhaps that league will be a two horse race this year for a change.;)
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Is 8 years in a row not a long period then ? I think in the same period in the Prem there have been 4 different winners Doon. And that “decade” you talk about Man Utd won it 3 times. You appear to continually attempt to suggest the title race in Scotland is anything but a one horse race ? It’s competitive below the yearly champions
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Are you aware of the difference between losing and the club making a choice to sell and replace. TWO players:eek: one of which was a bench warmer [now staring in the EPL]

Hearts lost their two main central defenders and two main strikers on long term injury. Plus another two or three first team players out for a few weeks/months. SEVEN players
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What do injuries have to do with anything

And Armstrong isn’t “staring” in the EPL - he also wasn’t used as much do to wanting to leave to further career

Was there a player more talented than Dembele in the league last year ?
 

Scott Sinclair May score more but he isn’t a better player

Tierney is a very good player

and Scott Brown !?!? Seriously 😂
 

Dembele went for £19m. If Celtic decided to punt Sinclair, they would be lucky to get 3 or 4m. He had a great first season, but was poor last season, and has been for most of this one, albeit he does seem to be finally hitting a bit of form now.

Tierney is a good shout. Dembele missed a lot of games last season with injury, and when he did play he was very hit and miss, had some great games but also was poor quite often. He only seemed to turn it on in big games. Tierney was consistently excellent.
 
Evert successful team needs a Scott Brown type of player
rudebhoy said:
Dembele went for £19m. If Celtic decided to punt Sinclair, they would be lucky to get 3 or 4m. He had a great first season, but was poor last season, and has been for most of this one, albeit he does seem to be finally hitting a bit of form now.

Tierney is a good shout. Dembele missed a lot of games last season with injury, and when he did play he was very hit and miss, had some great games but also was poor quite often. He only seemed to turn it on in big games. Tierney was consistently excellent.
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Sold Dembele and bought Eduoard for £9m [?] that was a great bit of business.
 
Good away win for StJ at Aberdeen - sees StJ sitting nicely in 5th place and unbeaten in 8 - mind you it's taken StJ that long to clear the -ve GD after the hammerings from the weegie bros. No matter - 10 pts separating the top 8 but hopefully (and surely almost) safe from relegation. What is rather nice to contemplate is that outside of Celtic, StJ can beat anyone in the league (though we made a right pigs ear of things last time we had a go at Rangers).
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Good away win for StJ at Aberdeen - sees StJ sitting nicely in 5th place and unbeaten in 8 - mind you it's taken StJ that long to clear the -ve GD after the hammerings from the weegie bros. No matter - 10 pts separating the top 8 but hopefully (and surely almost) safe from relegation. What is rather nice to contemplate is that outside of Celtic, StJ can beat anyone in the league (though we made a right pigs ear of things last time we had a go at Rangers).
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Mr Wright quite wrightly awarded a new 4 year contract.
Pound for pound he must be the most valuable manager in the UK.
This must be the third Saintees team he has built in 5 years.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Mr Wright quite wrightly awarded a new 4 year contract.
Pound for pound he must be the most valuable manager in the UK.
This must be the third Saintees team he has built in 5 years.
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So basically he is no different to McInnes who has also had to rebuild his team very successfully year on year after losing key personnel?
 
Some of the managers here are doing well on limited to no budgets, I wonder how well they could be doing with even half of what the English leagues get,
 
casuk said:
Some of the managers here are doing well on limited to no budgets, I wonder how well they could be doing with even half of what the English leagues get,
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No point in wondering, they just keep wheeling out Sam and Pardew and Pulls and Bruce and Hughes etc and then wonder why they never improve or often get worse. Dreary stuff.
 
casuk said:
Some of the managers here are doing well on limited to no budgets, I wonder how well they could be doing with even half of what the English leagues get,
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I think that Celtic spent more on Edouard than the rest of the combined Scottish teams total spend on transfers.
The loan players help raise the standard a bit.
I see Davis may be back at Rangers from Southampton on a free....he was a quality player, good signing if they can afford his wages.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
I think that Celtic spent more on Edouard than the rest of the combined Scottish teams total spend on transfers.
The loan players help raise the standard a bit.
I see Davis may be back at Rangers from Southampton on a free....he was a quality player, good signing if they can afford his wages.
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When has it ever mattered to them if they can afford it or not????
 
Jacko_G said:
When has it ever mattered to them if they can afford it or not????
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And you then compare the finances of the weegie bros with those of the likes of St Johnstone.

Made a £285,000 loss last financial year - partly due to missing out on Top 6 finish for first time in a good many years - and having to take an estimated £400,000 hit in income due to major roadworks enveloping the ground - spread over a few years.

And the weekly running costs of St Johnstone last year? A record £65,000 a week. A whole £65,000 for the whole club - everything and everybody. May just be the average annual wage for a EPL player...
 
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