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So would you advise your manager to put in an offer for our left sided central defender McKenna? £10million is the asking price. If he offered a straight swap for yours (Mee I think he's called) I'd tell him to f@ck right off. And supposedly yours is worth £15million

No. I'm basing it on the fact that Celtic operate on a different level to anyone else in Scotland, have Champions league experience (and if they had access to the cash that English clubs have would do fairly well in it) and they have a decent manager with a squad that allows him to almost have 2 separate full teams, one to play the Champions League fixtures and top end SPFL games and another to face the SPFL diddy teams and cup matches. I stick to my assertation. They'd beat Burnley every time at the Dhimmery... As said before Lancy......the Rangers of the era you beat them are dead and buried. They also got beaten by even worse teams than you lot in the Anglo-Scottish cup (i think Mansfield did them one year but the Scottish clubs only really used it as a training exercise for their fringe players).

The boy that Hibs signed a couple of weeks back Kamberi was up for sale at a quoted £2million by his parent club in Switzerland. Within the month Hivs got him on board for around £250k...... Doidge will be sold for around £300k in the end. Whether or not that's to us remains to be seen.

FWIW I believe Celtic would beat Burnley at home every time and absolutely smash them on occasion. Away from they'd only lose perhaps once every 3 games so I guess I'm agreeing with Gordon.

Don't think May can be criticised for his performance when the team continued the same tactics as when Cosgrove was on.....high balls aimed in his general direction just isn't his game. He needs the ball into feet or played into space behind the defenders. He played one fantastic pass into Wright which would have had him through on goal had he not somehow managed to fall over his own feet. More worrying is that Cosgrove suffered cramp after only 65 minutes or so. Sure he was plying a lone furrow up top but that suggests a lack of conditioning.

Devlin m.o.m. for me, Ball, McGinn and GMS not far behind. Bad goal to lose, McKenna got a bit bullied by Vokes, seemed to lose sight of the ball. Overall draw probably a fair result, can't see us progressing now but would be delighted if the boys can prove me wrong

Bizarre comments from Monty. Good God how can he ever compare what looks like being the European team with the ones of the mid eighties and early nineties containing the likes of Faldo, Ballesteros, Langer, Lyle, Olazabal and Woosnam is beyond belief. And as said earlier, even the team he captained at Celtic Manor would wipe the slate with that of this year's likelies . I predict a winning margin for USA of 5 points or greater

As McInnes said yesterday, it's a long season ahead and better to wait to get the right guy on board than blow the budget on dross just to bulk out the squad. We got 2 guys in yesterday who have improved the squad substantially in positions that needed strengthening. Our situation it's more important to have a quality striker in place for the sevco game. The Burnley ties should be viewed as a nice little earner with the chance to show the media, both English and Scottish, that despite the gulf in finances, the gulf in quality isn't as large as they think. As the season progresses we should also be looking to get Anderson, Ross and Campbell as much game time as possible.

It wasnt a training session just planned to visit the ground. And was mentioned on the official Burnley FC website.... The story is also in the Lancashire Telegraph

Guy who mentioned it is pretty sound with his info. All is not well down Everton way. Dressing room united in wanting Niasse out apparently. Now I'm only reporting 3rd hand what's been mentioned. Would be a stunning piece of business if there's legs in it....

It isnt going away.....

Coulibaly not happening according to the Hat. Someone tweeted him on his personal account got reply that he didn't know anything about it. Another name doing the rounds is Oumar Niasse......

I watched a bit of their game last week in Macedonia. Sevco were honking. Their one player who looked decent was McGregor who had 2 fantastic saves to keep Siroki out. As I said....no evidence of them being any good as yet.....

Not going to plan so far for Burnley. Plane they were due to fly up on "gone tech" ie f@cked. Not expected to arrive in ABZ before 9pm. Have cancelled press conference and also cancelled visit to Pittodrie that they were going to do on arrival.

No. By all accounts he has a huge squad. No evidence as yet of it being good or indeed any better than last season's failures. Nor any evidence that he will be a competent coach/manager.

As long as he isnt offering Eoin Doyle a better deal then I'm comfortable going with what we have right now. As long as we have a decent quality striker in before the sevco game, as far as I'm concerned the Burnley ties are a free shot for us. No one really expects us to get through but a decent showing tomorrow might show the English media that Scottish football isn't as bad as they all think (or probably more accurately English football isn't as good as they all think)

I did predict sometime between Feb and april (been hunting for the quote canna find it but if someone with a bit more time or savvy than i have wants to look its there somewhere) that he would sign for upwards of a million this summer for a top end League 1 club. I suppose derby and Ipswich are bottom end Championship but not a lot of difference. If it happens I think he will do ok...

And as if by magic we get a right back in..... Tommie Hoban......24 y/o loan from Watford Edit.....apparently prefers playing centre back though...

He's no worse than the ex sevconian Waghorn who looks like getting sold for 6 million. If Ipswich can get him in for 1-1.5 million it's a good bit of business.

You are probably correct he will end up at one of the bottom 4 or 5 clubs. However I think he will also be found out as not up to the required standard there too and be bombed out within 12 months back to a mid level Championship side.

Third option for me.... Build a completely new national stadium somewhere easily accessible to all areas of Scotland rather than just the central belt.....so somewhere in between Stirling and Perth probably. Initially buy the whole Hampden site including Lesser Hampden from Queen's Park allowing them to relocate to a new build ground with capacity for around 5k fans ....plenty locations for this on south side of Glasgow. Sell the whole site for development. It's enormous. If we can get 15million for Pittodrie site they should comfortably quadruple that.

Gone by mid Feb/mid March Beaten 3 times by the Dhims by then, 12-15 points behind in the league and with either us or Hivs (probably Hivs sadly) within 5 points either way of them. Will spend more money than they have yet again in January but will make no obvious improvement to the team. Orc hordes will turn against him and he will walk before he is pushed.

I reckon John Lennon could skin Considine...

I'd rather sign Eoin McLove....