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Strange one being after Morrison. If anyone is likely to suffer from that I'd say it would be Bryson I'd be amazed if he was interested at the kind of wages we or the Edinburgh clubs could pay. I'm certain we could stretch to £10k/week for the right player if we had to. But even that would be only half of what he is used to.

Not long off having a gander at Hivs.net........supposedly Heckingarse has said Hibs no longer interested in Ojo...words to the effect of "only want players who really want to play for Hibs". Their supporters now think Ojo is mince....they weren't saying that on Thursday. They also seem to believe that McGeouch will also join us eventually.

Hamilton pajajajaja. Beaten on pens by Queen's Park And Hivs only beat Stirling Albion on penalties ana, they've definitely resumed normal service now having had a bit of a "new manager bounce" when they first appointed Heckingarse

Aye that thought had occurred to me too. I don't think we will ever reach the position of oldco where they regularly started with a team of 11 non-Scots but the days of fielding 11 Scottish players I think are gone forever. Bosman has seen to that.

I really wish I shared your optimism. RoPS showed on a few occasions that they are lightning fast on the break. If our new left back is still out next week, they could pose us a big threat utilising that pace. A good number of our fans are writing RoPS off as total shyte. They aint. I take no pleasure in saying that my score prediction and how that scoreline would be achieved was eerily accurate. I have also predicted we will need to score in Finland to progress....possibly more than once. I think we will do and progress but we cannot afford to be as profligate again in any match going forward. I'd be dropping Cosgrove and starting Main in Rovaniemi as he will contribute more to a team effort.

Sadly I concur. Inability to score may well come back to haunt us over in Finland. We had enough chances last night to have scored 6 or 7 but some dreadful finishing.....Cosgrove being the main offender...…..allied to an utter brainfart by Logan has given RoPS a more than decent chance of pamping us out. I don't think it will happen but we will need to score over there. On the plus side, Gallagher looks a real find. Problem being if he keeps that kind of form up, with us only having him till January, other clubs will start to also show an interest. If we can do a deal with Atlanta now to get him in permanent he shouldn't cost too much.

unbefuckinglieveable Logan to blame...ridiculous pass straight to their player with 30 fucking seconds left

What a save from their keeper

yaaaaassssssssssss 2-0 Sammy

Sammy close...good save

yasssssssssssssssssssssssss Mcginn

Georgian team 2-1 up against Fola Esch in Luxembourg 2 mins to go

Considine played a fantastic ball in from the left for Cosgrove 10 minutes...cosgrove put it wide from about 5 yards out Couple of minutes later from a cleared corner Hedges had great shot from outside box superbly saved. RoPS look quick on the break

Some BBC Radio Humberside gype reporting that Ojo has chosen Hibs over us

I'd imagine if we got Ojo onboard then yes McGeouch would be a no go. But if he chooses Hibs then I think we will be back in for him. Not sure who I'd prefer tbh. On balance, probably Ojo….. purely in that I don't rate McGeouch at all. I know nothing of Ojo so he gets the benefit of any doubt.

Yes he has showed loyalty, but we aren't paying him peanuts. Having turned down sevco there's no other club in Scotland would get near to giving him the kind of salary we do. And I suspect his options in England are now limited at best having turned down Sunderland, albeit they were a total basket case at that point and aren't a whole lot better now. He won't really attract interest down there now by getting us third in the league and reaching but not winning cup finals. A bit meh about this but not surprised.

Don't have a good vibe about this. Can see us going 2-0 up but losing a late goal and I then believe we will have to score at least once in Finland to progress. Team? Haven't a clue...can't see Bryson being risked starting but he could be thrown in just to bamboozle the Finns as they won't have seen him play except on Derby videoes. Left back, it's been kept very quiet if the new boy has recovered or whether Consi will have to slot in. Up front....your guess is as good as mine. Hoping we stick 4 past them to put the tie to bed there and then but my gut instinct says my opening paragraph will be the accurate scenario

Yes we do We should have learned from the magoo fiasco. I don't want us being anyones back up option

I was against signing him last summer and when I heard we were after him again was totally underwhelmed. It's a strange situation all round, even his contract at Sunderland was only for 12 months but with either Sunderland or the player himself able to invoke a further 12 months if they wished to do so and I believe it was the club who chose to invoke it. I think it's quite obvious they were hoping to net themselves a fee by doing so, but McGeouch himself is now demanding that Sunderland cough up a percentage of this and Sunderland aren't playing ball. He is supposedly on £8k/week down there....I don't think we would stretch to that for him (I've no doubt we could just don't think we would in his case) which is why he will be wanting Sunderland to give him a pay-off. Why would he move to take a pay cut? It's my belief he (or his agent) is using our interest to try to drum up further interest. I'm fairly certain he views us a last resort option. Just dont think he fancies moving up north. I think if Hibs matched our offer, as I don't doubt they could, he would jump at it assuming he could get Sunderland to give him a pay-off (or have the buying club give him a signing on fee to cover what he would lose out on wages wise). However the new Hibs boss supposedly isn't interested, so with the Old Infirm not likely to be interested either and Hearts equally unlikely to be interested, the only option for him is likely to be another English club or head abroad to maintain the level of wages he is expecting. To my mind he has fucked us around once too often and we should be looking elsewhere, but DM sees something in him that I don't so wouldn't surprise me to see him signing on reluctantlyin a few weeks time once he realises he has no interest elsewhere. But I'm hoping we pull a rabbit out the fire in the interim and leave the baldy wee c@nt stewing for a year in the Sunderland reserves.

I think there is no question he's cheaper than May. But we will have to cover minimum 50% of May's wages wherever he ends up so in actual fact we won't be any better off financially. But if Main chips in with 8-10 goals over the season then I guess it's a decent swap

If he went to St J (or one of the Dundee clubs) he wouldn't really have to move either. Wherever he ends up I hope it works out well for the loon. It hasn't worked out for him with us but no one can ever question his attitude

Wark in the earlier part of his career was a midfielder, scored loads making late runs into the box. Later on in his career having had a few injuries, he converted himself to a central defender

Been a piss poor pre-season to date. Even though the aim is to get players minutes on the park and try a few things out.....we should still be walloping Peterhead by 5 minimum and beating ICT by a couple. It's just as well Rovaniemi are having a bit of a nightmare run of form just now but I'm sure their scouts will have seen nothing to make them particularly worried. I'm not sure DM knows what his best 11 is yet either.

Not one of the teams purportedly interested in May could get anywhere near paying him what we are. He certainly won't be moving anywhere to make less than what he would here over the 2 years left on his contract. So I'd imagine we are going to give him either a minimum of 1 years wages as a lump sum (£4k/wk = £200k approx.) or agree to subsidise his wages for the 2 years to the tune of around 50%-65%. Either way it's a bit of a bitter pill just to get him out the door

McGeouch coming to us we would need to at very least match his Sunderland wages of £8k/wk. Whilst I'm certain we could and would do that for the correct player......I'm not certain McGeouch is that right player. Indeed I'd love to know how much we are spunking on Wilson. I really hope it works out....if he shines we might make a nice profit on him come January or next summer. But if he matches last season's performance then it's money down the toilet.