Lewis Ferguson

[The Gee Man]

£17.4 million fee being touted for Ferguson! Seems low 

[RUL]

8 hours ago, The Gee Man said:

£17.4 million fee being touted for Ferguson! Seems low 

Think it’s 25m euros I read today but that is around £21m. 
 

Hope it happens as will help us financially 

[CCB III]

On 12/25/2023 at 12:25 PM, NEM said:

Pape Gueye - €5 million and he’s yours 👍🏻

After a wee word with Consi he'll be right as rain. 
 

Needs a chance.
 

In Pape I trust. 

[Rabiusmaximus]

4 hours ago, RUL said:

Think it’s 25m euros I read today but that is around £21m. 
 

Hope it happens as will help us financially 

Nae flies on you

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

4 minutes ago, 4n4LprObE666 said:

It's great to see a Scottish player move to a top league and do so well. Lewis was a very decent player for us but unfortunately the family connections meant that he was often targeted by a section of our support when things weren't going so well.

Disgusting behaviour by our 'fans', and an embarrassment.

Don’t remember ever hearing him get abuse at a game. Just on here really. Nobody was going to be chuffed at him going to Seville though 

[Dons79]

2 minutes ago, 4n4LprObE666 said:

I do, and one time he had enough and flicked the V's. Good on him.

Wasn’t really him that got pelters as Ross mcrorie was here and he got 90% of the flack

[NEM]

5 minutes ago, Dons79 said:

Wasn’t really him that got pelters as Ross mcrorie was here and he got 90% of the flack

Deservedly so 

[Dons79]

2 minutes ago, NEM said:

Deservedly so 

Yep, cannot do that, he should have known, silly silly boy, cut his dons career short.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

1 minute ago, Dons79 said:

Yep, cannot do that, he should have known, silly silly boy, cut his dons career short.

There is absolutely no chance he regrets that whatsoever. If I played for a rival team and the dons got to a European final - I am straight there. 
 

Fuck probably even for a Scottish cup final. Huns and hunco have been to more European finals than we have Scottish cup finals the last 20 years 🤮

[thurso]

15 hours ago, The Gee Man said:

£17.4 million fee being touted for Ferguson! Seems low 

I thought selling him to bolognafor £3.5 million was too low. Hopefully we get a lot more in add ons as he is well worth every penny

[Broken_Glass]

Apparently he won't be missed....

 

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

Ohhh the mutants in our support.

[Helmet]

2 hours ago, thurso said:

I thought selling him to bolognafor £3.5 million was too low. Hopefully we get a lot more in add ons as he is well worth every penny

I look forward to you saying we sold Ramadani too low in a few years time.

[The Gee Man]

16 minutes ago, Helmet said:

I look forward to you saying we sold Ramadani too low in a few years time.

Tbh we probably did! For a million and European football still to come it could have been much better if we held out till January 

[Helmet]

23 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

Tbh we probably did! For a million and European football still to come it could have been much better if we held out till January 

Thurso insisted Ramadani was dog shit.

[caledonia]

https://www.juvefc.com/bologna-name-their-price-for-juventus-transfer-target/amp/

[thurso]

19 hours ago, Helmet said:

I look forward to you saying we sold Ramadani too low in a few years time.

That will never happen I think Steven Gunn did a very good job getting what we did for him. 

 

18 hours ago, Helmet said:

Thurso insisted Ramadani was dog shit.

I don’t want to get into another endless argument about this mythical saviour but he was and I’ll stand by that as no one has ever given me any evidence to prove he wasn’t but I give you exhibit A 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tyt3/sportscene-sportscene-revisited-darvel-v-aberdeen

 

watch the postie skin him for the goal. That happened all to often last season. 

[Rico1903]

But you don’t want to get into another endless argument. 

[AndrewC]

On 9/20/2022 at 10:58 AM, Betty Swallicks said:

Doubt it! I think about 20% of the population are Scottish or Northern Irish born plus loads of 2nd and 3rd generation weegies.

Fuck that!

Nuke the cunts!

Edit: The link with Scotland is a strong feature of the area: according to the 2001 Census, there were 10,063 Scottish-born in the Corby Urban Area – 18.9% of the population. A further 1.3 per cent were born in Northern Ireland. It has been estimated that a further third of the population are Scottish or of Scottish descent.

The Scottish heritage is cherished by many inhabitants. There are Scottish social and sporting clubs and there are many fervent supporters of the Rangers and Celtic football clubs (indeed, Corby was home to the largest Rangers Supporters' Club outside Glasgow and Northern Ireland.

 

As I said.... nuke it!

I know pal, I was one of that 18.9%, I moved away later that year.  Naturally it’s a much smaller number now, the auld yins are dying off, but the “Scottish as Morris Dancing” comment was more to do with how different they are in character and attitude these days. I’d characterise the town as West of Scotland in the 1980s, not the Scotland of today. 

I lived in Corby from birth until I was 31.  My dad moved there as a teenager, and my brother and sister were born there.  The only reason I have the privilege of being Scottish born, I strongly suspect despite his denials, is that Dad insisted, because back then you could only play football for the country of your birth. The rules changed in 1970, when I was a baby. 

As a measure of how Scottish the place used to be, at school we didn’t have to waste time picking sides at playtime, it was just Scotland v England, but it only took a couple of English kids to be off school, and they didn’t have enough for a side.  At Corby Town FC (one below the Conference, level 6, in those days), during the half-time break the tannoy announcer would start the half-time scores with the SPL, very few people were bothered about the old English First Division. 

You mention the biggest “Rangers” Supporters Club outside Scotland and Northern Ireland.  They had a huge venue and quite a nice function suite until, wait for it...…..it went bust!  Not long after the actual football club, as it happens.   

It’s far from only Weegies though.  There were a substantial number of North-East families who migrated, and the Grampian Club, formerly Aberdeen and North-East Counties Association, is still the biggest social club in town.  Word to the wise, though, don’t bother going in if you happen to visit the town, I would only ever go in there if I was guest at a party or function.  Unless you like Billy Brits that is, and standing for a rendition of Good Save the King at last orders, then you’ll fit right in. 

Once I was old enough to go to football by myself and got a car, I rarely had a problem filling it with other Dons fans for an away game in the Central Belt, doing what we called an “up and downer”.  Plenty of folk with North-East ancestry in the town, then and still now.   

I have issues with the place and no longer call it my hometown, but I would respectfully disagree with idea of nuking it!

p.s.  I am embarrassed by the tardiness of this reply!

[Helmet]

Fair reply mate but is it in the wrong thread?

Maybe the mods can fix.

[AndrewC]

Believe it or not it is in the right thread!  I'm over a year late responding mind, and it was the arrival of the new poster from Corby which prompted me to fire off a long overdue reply to Betty Swallicks.  The post from him I've quoted here was a response by him to an earlier comment by myself, in which I had said that Corby is perhaps somewhat less Scottish than in the days when it was known as "Little Scotland".  Although I didn't quite put it as diplomatically as that at the time (around about page 44 or 45, if you can be bothered).

[Poodler]

@Betty Swallicks is probably in Tenerife with the Tenerife dons, getting some sun for his arthritic old bones 

[Don Fonte]

2 minutes ago, Poodler said:

@Betty Swallicks is probably in Tenerife with the Tenerife dons, getting some sun for his arthritic old bones 

And wanking off stray dogs.

[a don in oz]

On 12/30/2023 at 4:56 PM, caledonia said:

https://www.juvefc.com/bologna-name-their-price-for-juventus-transfer-target/amp/

25-30mill euro? Oocha... nice few mill for us if that comes off. 

[muttonhumper]

10 hours ago, AndrewC said:

I know pal, I was one of that 18.9%, I moved away later that year.  Naturally it’s a much smaller number now, the auld yins are dying off, but the “Scottish as Morris Dancing” comment was more to do with how different they are in character and attitude these days. I’d characterise the town as West of Scotland in the 1980s, not the Scotland of today. 

I lived in Corby from birth until I was 31.  My dad moved there as a teenager, and my brother and sister were born there.  The only reason I have the privilege of being Scottish born, I strongly suspect despite his denials, is that Dad insisted, because back then you could only play football for the country of your birth. The rules changed in 1970, when I was a baby. 

As a measure of how Scottish the place used to be, at school we didn’t have to waste time picking sides at playtime, it was just Scotland v England, but it only took a couple of English kids to be off school, and they didn’t have enough for a side.  At Corby Town FC (one below the Conference, level 6, in those days), during the half-time break the tannoy announcer would start the half-time scores with the SPL, very few people were bothered about the old English First Division. 

You mention the biggest “Rangers” Supporters Club outside Scotland and Northern Ireland.  They had a huge venue and quite a nice function suite until, wait for it...…..it went bust!  Not long after the actual football club, as it happens.   

It’s far from only Weegies though.  There were a substantial number of North-East families who migrated, and the Grampian Club, formerly Aberdeen and North-East Counties Association, is still the biggest social club in town.  Word to the wise, though, don’t bother going in if you happen to visit the town, I would only ever go in there if I was guest at a party or function.  Unless you like Billy Brits that is, and standing for a rendition of Good Save the King at last orders, then you’ll fit right in. 

Once I was old enough to go to football by myself and got a car, I rarely had a problem filling it with other Dons fans for an away game in the Central Belt, doing what we called an “up and downer”.  Plenty of folk with North-East ancestry in the town, then and still now.   

I have issues with the place and no longer call it my hometown, but I would respectfully disagree with idea of nuking it!

p.s.  I am embarrassed by the tardiness of this reply!

I went to Corby once.

Bird i went out with for 7 years was from there.

Was nae a good idea, as was in my slightly feel stage and ended up scrapping wi every cunt in the pub, including her dad who she did not like.

While watching a Dons game on Sky Sports. At Hearts, I think.

[pocrawred]

13 hours ago, a don in oz said:

25-30mill euro? Oocha... nice few mill for us if that comes off. 

30 mil geez us 4.5 mil!! Astonishing....

[Tyzo_1903]

On 1/2/2024 at 9:25 AM, muttonhumper said:

I went to Corby once.

Bird i went out with for 7 years was from there.

Was nae a good idea, as was in my slightly feel stage and ended up scrapping wi every cunt in the pub, including her dad who she did not like.

While watching a Dons game on Sky Sports. At Hearts, I think.

Had the shame of living in Corby as a kid briefly and have some family there. Can comfortably say it has to be the biggest shitehole in the UK by a distance, with anyone over the age of 16 mostly into drugs or already breeding further to scrimp on the social.

Even worse, the "little Scotland" element from the 70s and 80s (weegies moving down there for the steelworks) means it has a manky old firm presence. It even has a "Rangers club" pub and a whole lot of guffies walking about in Celtic and Rangers tops, from having Weegie parents.

All in all, avoid like the plague.

[Frank Grimes]

Some Fergie cash and potentially some McKenna money as well will do very nicely for starters 

[Bridgeofdondon]

11 minutes ago, Frank Grimes said:

Some Fergie cash and potentially some McKenna money as well will do very nicely for starters 

Cant see forrest making a profit on mckenna, even if it is just on the initial fee, so we've likely got all we're getting for him.

[slippers]

6 minutes ago, Bridgeofdondon said:

Cant see forrest making a profit on mckenna, even if it is just on the initial fee, so we've likely got all we're getting for him.

Is it always on profit? Haven’t heard of this till very recently. 

[dave_min]

Met a fair few folk from Corby back when I followed Scotland, and they were all pretty decent.

So maybe best to nuke it during the Euros (group stages) to keep them safe.