slasher
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33 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:
I start 3 days a week in January. I wanted to stop completely but Mr T said I spend too much money on shite so have compromised on 3 days. He is going to go part time too and we are going to try and , for a year, live on the pension we would be living on if we weren’t working. If we can survive will be chucking it completely at end of next year.
I am a few years older than you though I think.,I dont think I would have dropped my hours until i was 60 , but it just depends on your lifestyle, what you can afford, and what you are happy to potentially sacrifice.
At the moment I’m just daydreaming Tidy, as you know I have two very expensive daughters to put through uni. At the moment I’m thinking I could maybe drop a day in 4 years when I’m 60. Of course all bets are off if redundancies come up!
To be honest your experience could be a good barometer for me so let me know how you go!
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Has anyone tried dropping a day or two and gone down the partial retirement route working a 3 or 4 day week?
This is an option for me, I just don’t know that it’s a particularly good one financially. -
24 minutes ago, RDFH64 said:
Ok point taken 👍
I do get pissed off & angry about all the cases of abuse which has been ignored & worst of all covered up by people in power who could have stopped it but chose to protect the perpetrators for some reason. The list is long, Saville, Rolf Harris, Bradford grooming ring & now potentially the BBC again with Russel Brand. The ones who cover this shit up are as guilty if not more than the actual pervs they protect & should face the full might of the law.
Yip, I totally agree.
Ive said before on here that Celtic should fully compensate the victims and in the case of those who have passed away their families. They should issue an unreserved apology for how they’ve handled the whole thing and the person who signed off on the separate entity defence should pay with their job. Frankly I don’t know a Celtic fan or any decent person who would disagree. It’s time to bring this disgraceful episode to a close.
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11 hours ago, RDFH64 said:
You freely comment on other teams yet you get upset when I posted about Celtic finally admitting they were involved in the boys club abuse after years of ignoring & denying it happened at one of their affiliated entities. Pity you haven’t been upset enough about how Celtic have handled the scandal and raised it with them.
Nice try, but I’m not the one who decided to utilise child abuse to score some cheap laughs on a message board now am I?
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12 minutes ago, vanderark14 said:
Aye they did. Basically the complete opposite performance to anything served up in The SPFL so far.
Maybe it will kickstart their season
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10 minutes ago, vanderark14 said:
I posted an article and stated something factual. There was nothing snidey about it
I didn’t say there was I was reacting to another poster 🤷🏼♂️
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1 hour ago, vanderark14 said:
You are right so far. Aberdeen with much less possession but holding their own against a vastly superior team
Didn’t see it but it sounds like they gave it a right good go 👍
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1 hour ago, vanderark14 said:
Should we not post about it at all?
It’s a message board you can comment on whatever you like. If you behave like a snidey prick (see post above 🙄) chances are you’ll get a reaction.
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12 hours ago, ger intae them said:
How can you be surprised at this? They could be considered prudent in what they are doing. This is a period when winning the league for a few seasons on the bounce has to be odds on. If so, take this opportunity to play a bit of a longer game and invest in facilities with a view to producing players to profit from in future. This strategy has to be better than spunking loads on what will only be ‘decent journeymen’ in a European context……. like ajeti.
Where did I say I was surprised?
To answer the points you raised (a) there’s a world of difference between prudence and stockpiling cash, (b) investing in facilities is good but it doesn’t guarantee producing better players. Anyway I’m not convinced that this investment isn’t more about cashing in on the growth of the women’s game (c) we’re losing Academy players left, right and centre to elite teams with deep pockets long before they get near the first team and finally (d) failure to invest properly in your first team is a failure of leadership, it’s what it’s all about for most of us. If we had strengthened in the areas we were crying out for I’d be fairly confident we would have won in Rotterdam the other night. I’d also be be fairly confident we’d get through that group. That would be actual progress on the pitch which is all the fans want to see 👍
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10 hours ago, RDFH64 said:
Ok I’ll give Celtic credit for finally admitting there was a connection between them and Celtic boys club and are willing to pay compensation and hopefully give them all sincere apologies, shame it’s taken them so long to do the right thing. By the way I don’t think Celtic are the only club with coaches who committed vile assaults on young players.
No one asked you to do anything, this is all your own work. Like I said, just snide.
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10 hours ago, Och Aye said:
I can't believe you're not going to watch The Steelmen!
No feckin chance! I know way too many of them, I wouldn’t last 5 minutes 😂
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6 hours ago, Big Ramy 1314 said:
Agree mate. Funny how they are always the same ones to bring it up when it makes the papers...
They were easily the worst away support to rock up at Celtic Park last season m8. Dunno what’s happened to them.
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13 minutes ago, vanderark14 said:
Enjoy the beers gents because I can't see Aberdeen giving you any entertainment
I don’t think it will be as bad as you think. Eintracht have had a pretty unspectacular start to the season, just one win in four and they haven’t played any of the top 6 yet. I can’t see anything other than a home win though tbf
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7 hours ago, Diamond Scot said:
Thats interesting and tbh not surprising to hear. Unfortunetly being slightly ahead of the other OF team is all that really matters to a large percentage of fans.
When you say infrastucture do you mean invest in the stadium / training ground or will it include youth academy?
If real money was put into youth system then at least that might be worhtwhile. Ie adopting a Ajax system.
You’re right about it being enough for a lot of the fans but not for me. Nowhere near. To answer your question they are investing £20m+ in improvements at Barrowfield training complex and Lennoxtown. Nothing wrong with that but it it should go hand in hand with investment in the first team. I notice they have in their press release, invented an imaginary financial reserve buffer they need to create to negate the difference between CL football and Europa League. Shareholders will get their dividends yet again and certain directors super bonuses. Shameless cunts the lot of them!
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3 hours ago, RDFH64 said:
That’s that come under infrastructure spending 🫣
Well done 👏
Exactly the kind of snidey pish we’ve all come to expect of the Aberdeen support of late 👍
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How bad is TNTs coverage btw? Lost count of the number of times that shambler of a presenter has called us fuckin Chelsea 🙈
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All the same issues that we knew about in the summer there. Goalkeeper and left back not good enough, lack of a quality CDM, complete failure to replace Jota with any quality and I would add lack of another striker option. I mean what serious football club goes with only 2 strikers for the season?
You reap what you sow. That said it could have been worse. Feyenoord looked a bit nervous to me and I think will get better. The same could be said of Lazio & Athletico, us maybe not so much 🤔
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9 hours ago, Diamond Scot said:
Very impressive financial results but will only serve to fuel the portion of support who think more should be spent on the squad.
I must say, im surprised Celtic didnt spend more in this window. Mainly because I didnt think Rodgers would return and potentially be given worse squad than Ange had last year.
Rodgers will largely be judged in Europe, many said that was his motivation for returning and yet on the face of it this squad would seem ill equiped to give him a fighting chance.
Would be interesting to know if they expected and went big on targets and just didnt get them.
I spoke to someone I would consider to be genuinely ‘in the know’ ahead of the St Johnstone game. I pressed him on some of the high profile targets we’d been linked with and asked why we didn’t seem to be pressing the button on them. He replied that there was ‘no appetite’ in the boardroom to spend that kind of money on transfers/wages, they’d rather spend money on the infrastructure.
So there you have it. No fuckin appetite. No appetite to improve what it’s all about, the team on the pitch. No appetite to make a mark in Europe or any of the other bullshit the fans and possibly Rodgers were fed during the summer. I’ll tell you what I’ve no appetite for, I’ve no appetite to renew a ST when the club has just shown you there’s no will to try and make us become the best version we could be on the pitch where it really matters to fans.
Its become clear to me over the last few years there’s not one scintilla of ambition in that boardroom other than to maintain the duopoly, staying one step ahead of the huns where possible. It’s not good enough, it’s selling the club and the fans short. I’ll always support Celtic but next year I will most likely be doing it from my armchair. There are plenty of others who’ll line up to take my place. If I need a match day fix I’ll get it at Scotland games or I’ll go and watch the bully wee or the Accies. Unless there’s a complete sea change in attitude at Celtic they have had the last of my money!
End of rant 😂
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29 minutes ago, dan cake said:
Was seeing a Polish lassie for a while her and her pals were obsessed by them, there’s websites dedicated to following them she’d seen them dozens of times in Scotland including from Arthur’s seat slap bang in the middle of Edinburgh
That’s mad! That’s the first time I’ve ever seen them and if I live to be 100 and never see them again I’ll be just grand 👍
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The northern lights were briefly visible in the shire tonight. As impressive as they were I’d be fuckin raging if I’d paid stupid money to go to Norway or Iceland to see them!
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£72m cash at the bank according to the latest accounts.
Complete and utter cunts who run Celtic lack even a shred of ambition!
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20 minutes ago, vanderark14 said:
Has Ally mccoist told the world he is disgusted with the rangers fans singings ye can stick yer tartan army up yer arse?
I doubt it bothered him VA, he’s British don’t ya know!
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2 hours ago, dan cake said:
Nice try 👍, I regularly meet up with Rangers supporting Scotland fans and have done for years. I doubt they would have been joining in with the chants at the weekend in the same way I’m guessing all Celtic fans don’t sing about terrorists from another country
I don’t know what you mean by ‘nice try?’ I was replying to a post about Scotland fans singing the sash back in the day. I wish some people would read the thread properly before jumping all over folk.
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57 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:
Also belted out the sash in the Rangers end at scotland games. Ah the good old days eh.
The huns away support were singing ‘you can stick yer tartan army up yer arse’ yesterday (not for the first time) so I think we can safely say those days have gone.
Season 23/24
in Football related - Discussion of non TA football
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That’s a great 3 points in the circumstances. I never worried when we down to 10 men under Rodgers the first time and it’s good to have that back. That said, not signing a new goalkeeper in the summer is starting to look like one of our stupidest decisions of recent times and it’s quite the back catalogue!