Jim Traynor

[Mason89]

Unfortunately, plenty people still seem willing to do his bidding.

Or have to

[kb_don]

Prime example from Chris McLaughlin http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42219763:

Has he always been keen on the job? Yes.

No evidence to back it up, just a downright assertion as if it was fact. He knows fine well that will just stir the sh!t up even more.

Now that statement may or may not be true, but I'd be very surprised if McInnes had told him it, and he could use it on the record. It can only cause McInnes trouble

If someone went around telling the world I wanted to leave my current employer for a rival, I'd have my lawyer onto the case.

[sancho_panza]

Prime example from Chris McLaughlin http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42219763:


No evidence to back it up, just a downright assertion as if it was fact. He knows fine well that will just stir the sh!t up even more.

Now that statement may or may not be true, but I'd be very surprised if McInnes had told him it, and he could use it on the record. It can only cause McInnes trouble

If someone went around telling the world I wanted to leave my current employer for a rival, I'd have my lawyer onto the case.

I don't really see a problem with what McLaughlin is saying here. This is just standard journalism - somebody (it won't be McInnes himself) tells you something off the record that you know to be true and you relay it to people without saying where you got it from. Bad journalism would be him not having any information and saying this anyway just to stir the pot, but I don't genuinely think that's the case here.

I'd be surprised if people close to McInnes haven't already informally made it clear via some third party that he'd be happy to go to Ibrox. That will have gone through enough people for journalists to know about it.

The one thing he does get wrong in this article is his reading of our support base. He thinks everybody is either in denial or furious about him leaving. He's ignoring the significant percentage of supporters who think him leaving now would actually be in our interest given how far this has progressed, our recent form, and the potential mess of being tied to an almost unsackable manager whose authority has been completely undermined.

[fatshaft]

I don't really see a problem with what McLaughlin is saying here. This is just standard journalism - somebody (it won't be McInnes himself) tells you something off the record that you know to be true and you relay it to people without saying where you got it from. Bad journalism would be him not having any information and saying this anyway just to stir the pot, but I don't genuinely think that's the case here.

I'd be surprised if people close to McInnes haven't already informally made it clear via some third party that he'd be happy to go to Ibrox. That will have gone through enough people for journalists to know about it.

The one thing he does get wrong in this article is his reading of our support base. He thinks everybody is either in denial or furious about him leaving. He's ignoring the significant percentage of supporters who think him leaving now would actually be in our interest given how far this has progressed, our recent form, and the potential mess of being tied to an almost unsackable manager whose authority has been completely undermined.

Aye this.

[jamiesd]

Traynor is a rabid clown. Hope his next trip to the toilet involves a hedgehog

[So_cal_Dandie]

I don't really see a problem with what McLaughlin is saying here. This is just standard journalism - somebody (it won't be McInnes himself) tells you something off the record that you know to be true and you relay it to people without saying where you got it from. Bad journalism would be him not having any information and saying this anyway just to stir the pot, but I don't genuinely think that's the case here.

I'd be surprised if people close to McInnes haven't already informally made it clear via some third party that he'd be happy to go to Ibrox. That will have gone through enough people for journalists to know about it.

The one thing he does get wrong in this article is his reading of our support base. He thinks everybody is either in denial or furious about him leaving. He's ignoring the significant percentage of supporters who think him leaving now would actually be in our interest given how far this has progressed, our recent form, and the potential mess of being tied to an almost unsackable manager whose authority has been completely undermined.

Personally I thought thought journalists were supposed to get a quote on the record, otherwise it is just speculation. The way various members of the BBC have been reporting this, is that it is factual. It is not a fact unless they will go on the record, and that for me is where the problem lies. If a journalist does not have a source willing to go on the record, they are ultimately spreading rumors.

How would McLaughlin feel if someone wrote and article, without valid sources, which stated that 4 people have told him his wife is cheating on him with his best friend ?

I do expect the tabloids to deal in speculation and rumor, I do not expect that of the BBC!

[InversneckieDob]

I do expect the tabloids to deal in speculation and rumor, I do not expect that of the BBC!

BBC Sport Scotland are absolutely rimming Sevco to try to gt the "ban/boycott" lifted.
Why else would semi-literate morons like Boyd, Ferguson et al be given house room?

Their "insight" is cliched bilge expressed with the eloquence of a farmyard goat.

They're, collectively, doing Traynor and Glib ad S's bidding at every turn to try to curry favour.

[kb_don]

BBC Sport Scotland are absolutely rimming Sevco to try to gt the "ban/boycott" lifted.
Why else would semi-literate morons like Boyd, Ferguson et al be given house room?

Their "insight" is cliched bilge expressed with the eloquence of a farmyard goat.

They're, collectively, doing Traynor and Glib ad S's bidding at every turn to try to curry favour.

Suppose for a minute that McInnes hasn't and doesn't want to go for sevco. This may or may not be the case, but it's certainly plausible.

By repeatedly stating as fact he wants to go, the BBC and weegia have ruined his relationship with dons fans, and probably the players and chairman too.
To stay at Pittodrie in that scenario is near impossible. He may not want to go to sevco, but it's now his only way out. He's always seemed above average intelligence for a footballer - he can't be keen to go to sevco in its current basket-case incarnation?

Bet he wishes he took the Sunderland job now, and got out of the fu(ked up world of scottish football!

[Landvetter83]

BBC Sport Scotland are absolutely rimming Sevco to try to gt the "ban/boycott" lifted.
Why else would semi-literate morons like Boyd, Ferguson et al be given house room?

Their "insight" is cliched bilge expressed with the eloquence of a farmyard goat.

They're, collectively, doing Traynor and Glib ad S's bidding at every turn to try to curry favour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42245819

You are of course 100% correct in your observation, sneck. BBC Sport Scotland's behaviour in this whole episode has been a disgrace. McLaughlin's assertion that "Rangers are prepared to pay in the region of £1M ...." is fake news, kids. He does not know this to be a fact or the details of what Sevco's discussion with Milne was yesterday.

Oh, and another thing .... Jim Traynor is a fat ugly w@nker .... fact!

[So_cal_Dandie]

Maybe the time is right for AFC to pull a Sevco and ban the BBC!