Or, more specifically, let's talk about that big Greek donkey that's allowed to put on a hooped jersey and gallop around the football field. Why did we offer him a new contract? Was it because Lennon thought he would be a valuable asset to the squad? Or was it so we could sell him on in the summer for a higher fee? I hope it's not the 2nd option as I fear it could backfire on us. Who would pay decent money for a forward who can't score in the SPL? A player who gives maybe five decent performances per season? A player who plays his best football in the pre-season friendlies where he looks world class? We should have sold last summer when we had the chance.
Funnily enough I though he played well last night, his hold up play was good and he managed to actually keep the ball on occasion, he never had a hand in the goals but nonetheless I thought he played well.
Must have been watching different games Dev! I lost count of the number of times he lost the ball and ran it out of play. Still, I can't think of too many games this season (apart from the 2-0 win at Ibrox) where he justified a new contract. As Hartson once said, any forward who can't score 20 goals per season playing for the OF in Scotland really isn't good enough. Can you ever imagine Donkey hitting double figures every season?
Aberdeen. He looks like a veritable goal-machine from where I'm slouching. Hand over the Greek, Stereo, and quit with the complaining. You know it makes sense. (I see Neil Lennon got jumped by a loon last night, incidentally. Just catching up with it all now. I'm wondering how this season will be remembered? It would be nice to talk solely about football, of course, but events have a nasty habit of overtaking us. What an abysmal mess it all seems.)
As bad as it was Psycho (the Lennon attack) what is worse in my opinion is people trying to somehow justify the actions of a moron like that. I sometimes despair, honestly.
Big Danny needs to be told to stop heading balls in the opposition box. Really pissing me off how bad he is at it.
I like Sammy goals is a major issue and something that needs looked at but he's maybe 70% fit at best and has been for a long time. Once he gets surgery and back fully fit hopefully goals will follow.
I always despair, Dev, but there we are. But yes, it's a peculiar mindset that seeks to find mitigating circumstances for actions which simply have no defence. By all means hate Neil Lennon and by all means find him irritating as hell, but nothing - nothing - justifies the stuff he's been putting up with. To continually look for justification, a trigger, something with which to say "he had it coming and/or brought it all upon himself" is simply to dance with the damned. Of course there are poorly developed human beings who will find themselves provoked to the point of madness, but this would appear to be their problem and fault, not something with which to blame the target and cause of their ire. The problem, in other words, appears to lie with those who allow themselves to be provoked in such a manner, not with the source of the provocation itself (however careless, irritating or utterly thoughtless they may sometimes appear to be). How hard, after all, is it to stop yourself from attacking someone or sending them bombs in the post? The mindset is not entirely dissimilar to that of those weird judges who persist in saying that a short skirt may provoke a raping. Sure, but only from mentally deficient monsters. This is a subversion of some fairly fundamental principles. How the hell is that not obvious? If the perpetrators lack the self-restraint to behave in a morally acceptable manner, then I would have hoped that it was blindingly obvious where any blame should lie. It’s almost embarrassing to point to Neil Lennon’s former transgressions whilst attempting to understand or justify the actions of his tormentors. The scale of his “crimes” is so microscopic and inconsequential when set against those of his would-be attackers – even if he occasionally gives the impression of being out of control – that to see them in the same light requires a kind of myopic intransigence that simply reeks of an anti-intellectual dishonesty. The actions against him are so wrong, so utterly out of perspective, that they don’t need referenced against anything else. They stand alone as acts of a surpassing and hate-filled stupidity – and the failure to condemn them without harking back to whatever ****ty little example one may think of is simply a horrible, horrible moral failure. Makes me seethe. (Insert raging face here.) (Sorry for going on about this on a thread set aside for football, Stereo. I’ll stop now.)
Psycho, thanks for restoring my faith in humanity, I was beginning to lose all hope for Scottish football
No probs Psycho. Brilliant summary which will, unfortunately, register not a jot on the morons who inhabit this site and others.
