Scottish football is a joke

Red Don · Post by **Red Don** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:46 pm

Sorry lads, whatever happens I thought I'd bring this up.

26 million quid against 175K and nobody can tell the difference, And yet apparently we're a League One club.

To be honest, you look like a claret Hamilton. 7th in the Premiership ?

Wow. Best league in the world.

ClaretDiver · Post by **ClaretDiver** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:48 pm

It helps when you have the ref on your side!

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:49 pm

Lol.
It reminds me when we were lower league and going to places like Spurs in the Cup. We played way ahead of ourselves and looked great, then we would get thumped at Colchester three days later.

It's your Cup Final. Dear me.

Rightfoot · Post by **Rightfoot** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:50 pm

Lincoln beat us in the same season that celtic were 1/50 to win the league at the beginning of the season. D18k h8ad

Red Don · Post by **Red Don** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:50 pm

Bepeja43 wrote:I'd be waiting till the game is over..

Regardless of the result, I think that we've proved Scottish football isn't a 'joke', and that the Premiership just may be a tad overrated.

Red Don · Post by **Red Don** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:51 pm

ClaretDiver wrote:It helps when you have the ref on your side!

Whit ??

Sutton-Claret · Post by **Sutton-Claret** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:51 pm

Where did you get 26 million quid from? - its loads more.....

ps - yes you're right, Scottish football IS a joke.

Red Don · Post by **Red Don** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:54 pm

Come on lads. This is the team that finished 7th in the super dooper bestest most expensivest greatest wonderfulest league in the world.

I mean, 400 billion Asians can't be wrong, can they ?

Against a team from a pub league. I'm sure you'll win, no doubt about it.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:54 pm

This is your World Cup final, Christmas and Burns night all rolled into one, ya donut.

That's why you're up for it. But admittedly, we're poor.

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:55 pm

Lol. 2-1

Poor form, wind your neck in. Class will tell in the end. Aberdeen just bull and bluster. Like the fans.

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:56 pm

What were you saying, Don? Hahaha.

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:57 pm

Red Don wrote: I'm sure you'll win, no doubt about it.

You could be right!!!

Its a long way home, sweaty.

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:57 pm

Thread closed now eh Red Don?
Gobsh1te.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:57 pm

The more ignorant of English football fans have always disrespected Scottish football. Ignore them.

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:58 pm

As I said, plucky team succumbs to better team.
Goodnight.

bfc-sparta · Post by **bfc-sparta** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:05 pm

Calm down lads . Its been a good game . Aberdeen given us a good game .we've not been all that special

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:06 pm

Its not over yet.....

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:10 pm

bfc-sparta wrote:Calm down lads . Its been a good game . Aberdeen given us a good game .we've not been all that special

True. Just have no time for gobsh1tes.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:11 pm

Red Don wrote:Sorry lads, whatever happens I thought I'd bring this up.

26 million quid against 175K and nobody can tell the difference, And yet apparently we're a League One club.

To be honest, you look like a claret Hamilton. 7th in the Premiership ?

Wow. Best league in the world.

Stop talking shite!

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:14 pm

Ha Ha ha!

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:15 pm

bfc-sparta wrote:Calm down lads . Its been a good game . Aberdeen given us a good game .we've not been all that special

Exactly. If opposing Man Utd fans were as disrespectful to us as we're being to Aberdeen we'd be fuming.

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:15 pm

If Aberdeen play like this when the likes of Dundee come calling, I'll plait dog doo.
It's cup tie football. Seen it all before when we've been on the receiving end.

Rightfoot · Post by **Rightfoot** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:15 pm

The Cream rises pal

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:16 pm

Aberdeen have done very well in patches over the two legs, let's be right though, we've been shocking for the most part ! Hope there's no bother outside, seems to have been a great atmosphere in both games

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:24 pm

i knew they would make out is was the financial gulf that finished em off, burnley have had about ten bob to splash out on players for most of their history, so just because we have earned a few quid recently doesnt disguise the torrid state of scottish football.

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:27 pm

Wile E Coyote wrote:i knew they would make out is was the financial gulf that finished em off, burnley have had about ten bob to splash out on players for most of their history, so just because we have earned a few quid recently doesnt disguise the torrid state of scottish football.

Their league football is in a bad way. But I'd bet that if the whole lot were offered to assimilate into the EFL they'd turn it down.

morayred · Post by **morayred** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:27 pm

Cringe @Red don .Give it a rest eh?

All the best Clarets.fun while it lasted COYR

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:28 pm

The last Scottish team to come down here, Celtic, won everything in Scotland that season. Came here with their hordes and it mattered. We were in the second tier and we did them both legs.
Fair play to your lads tonight but as said we aren't into our season yet. Plus Heaton, Brady, Defour missing.
Good luck with your season, topple the glasgow duo.

LongsideFacingUp · Post by **LongsideFacingUp** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:31 pm

Scottish twitters gone a bit quiet.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:35 pm

piston broke wrote:The last Scottish team to come down here, Celtic, won everything in Scotland that season. Came here with their hordes and it mattered. We were in the second tier and we did them both legs.
Fair play to your lads tonight but as said we aren't into our season yet. Plus Heaton, Brady, Defour missing.
Good luck with your season, topple the glasgow duo.

It mattered to whom?

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:37 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:It mattered to whom?

With the thousands they fetched down it mattered to them.
Scottish sides don't play English sides to lose. It always matters.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:39 pm

piston broke wrote:With the thousands they fetched down it mattered to them.
Scottish sides don't play English sides to lose. It always matters.

It doesn't matter to Google cos i can't even find two legs of football against them. All i'm finding is the 1-0 win in 78.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:44 pm

Red Don wrote:Sorry lads, whatever happens I thought I'd bring this up.

26 million quid against 175K and nobody can tell the difference, And yet apparently we're a League One club.

To be honest, you look like a claret Hamilton. 7th in the Premiership ?

Wow. Best league in the world.

We beat Chelsea away 3-2 £5000000000000 vs £26000000

To be honest, we looked like Barcelona

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:47 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:It doesn't matter to Google cos i can't even find two legs of football against them. All i'm finding is the 1-0 win in 78.

It was a two legged Q-F and we won up there, 2-1. Steve Kindon and Ian Brennan scored. 27-9-78.
first leg was 12-9-78. 1-0. Steve Kindon.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:07 pm

we have had stats like utd's bench players cost more than burnley had ever spent since we were founded, we are always the poor underdogs

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:57 pm

Red Don wrote:Sorry lads, whatever happens I thought I'd bring this up.

26 million quid against 175K and nobody can tell the difference, And yet apparently we're a League One club.

To be honest, you look like a claret Hamilton. 7th in the Premiership ?

Wow. Best league in the world.

I’m not sure of the need for this as there seems to have been a decent amount of mutual respect between the teams. Did you expect us to beat you 26,000,000 - 175,000?

There was a large gulf between the teams tonight, as there was in the first leg. It was a well contested tie but it was clear which team cost £26m (supposedly) to assemble and which cost £175k. Footballer’s transfer fees increase exponentially the higher up the football pyramid you go. We drew against Man City last season who have spent way over half a billion at a guess. I don’t expect them to be 20 times better than us.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:14 am

The thing most fans north of the border don't understand is how monumental Burnley's season was last year.
We massively over performed.
I never thought we would see European football at the turf in my lifetime and I turned down a decent pay day so I could be there with my oldest son tonight.
The bookies may have made us favourites but this was a 50/50 game against a side that have been on this stage far more often than we have.
They have a lot in common with us when it comes to competeing with teams with far more clout, but they don't face anything like the financial monsters of the premier league or even the championship in the league they finished 2nd in.
It's a good job it was us who they played because had it been city, Liverpool, United, spurs or Chelsea they had to compete with, they probably wouldn't be feeling so proud following a 2 leg scoreline

Bfcboyo · Post by **Bfcboyo** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:47 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:It doesn't matter to Google cos i can't even find two legs of football against them. All i'm finding is the 1-0 win in 78.

Google is often wrong with gaps in information as are you Mr Google.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 7:36 am

Bfcboyo wrote:Google is often wrong with gaps in information as are you Mr Google.

Do you have a crush on me?

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 7:45 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:It doesn't matter to Google cos i can't even find two legs of football against them. All i'm finding is the 1-0 win in 78.

Football related threads certainly expose your limits

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:09 am

Red Don wrote:Sorry lads, whatever happens I thought I'd bring this up.

26 million quid against 175K and nobody can tell the difference, And yet apparently we're a League One club.

To be honest, you look like a claret Hamilton. 7th in the Premiership ?

Wow. Best league in the world.

Football has a long history of the little team raising its game against bigger and better teams. Well done in your final you were plucky

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:37 am

Chobulous wrote:Football related threads certainly expose your limits

My inability to recall the first leg result of a tie for a mickey mouse tournament that took place years before I was born? Yeah, I'm so embarrassed.

bfcmik · Post by **bfcmik** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:54 am

Aberdeen did to us what we have done so well at in games against the 'big clubs' and so badly at against lower division teams - they made themselves horrible to play against. Hustle, bustle, niggle, fall over, push, deny space where it matters and by-pass midfield by putting the ball into channels or going direct.

Someone said last night that they kept us playing pitch-wide in both games and made sure our defenders had no easy passes out. That is why we have heard Conte, Mouninho, Klopp, Pep and others whingeing on about how they should have won games against us easily and then seen this messageboard go into meltdown about performances against Lincoln, Accy and others in the cups.

Bfcboyo · Post by **Bfcboyo** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:51 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:Do you have a crush on me?

Like a fly I need to swat.

Illgresi · Post by **Illgresi** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:37 pm

Zom Zom wrote:If Aberdeen play like this when the likes of Dundee come calling, I'll plait dog doo.
It's cup tie football. Seen it all before when we've been on the receiving end.

I hope you've got gloves

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Edit: I'll drop this one in here as well for giggles. And to let you see the standard of our pitch during winter!

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Targetman · Post by **Targetman** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:54 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:My inability to recall the first leg result of a tie for a mickey mouse tournament that took place years before I was born? Yeah, I'm so embarrassed.

2nd leg mate!
I don't think that football really is your subject?

Keep trying though, you give us plenty of laughs!

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:04 pm

Targetman wrote:2nd leg mate!
I don't think that football really is your subject?

Keep trying though, you give us plenty of laughs!

See how little it mattered? Not a bit.