RicoS321

I'm actually surprised there aren't more players playing until they're forty to be honest. With advances in training and such like, it seems fairly doable. I think there is a point to be made about age and Shinnie's best attributes, but those are the type of questions you'd raise when he's around Hayes' age. Certainly no issue now. He'll have a couple of bad games and the old "legs have gone" cliche will be out for the remainder of his career.

I disagree. There's not a youngster out there that will bring anything close to what Shinnie brings to a team. There are better footballers, of course, but there are very few captains ready made to walk into the side (I don't just mean a young player either). Ramadani could be considered one of our better signings of the summer, and he's nowhere near as good as Shinnie. On top of the ten other signings we need, losing out on Shinnie would be hugely destructive for the team. We're already trusting a huge amount to luck in the transfer market, having a player that is a known quantity and very reliable is vital. Robson is on a hiding to nothing as it is, he definitely doesn't need to lose his captain.

Maybe all the students from Stirling uni were still on holiday. It's typical of the SPFL abomination. They probably didn't have the other teams' numbers.

In fairness, I've never seen Owen Coyle and Dougie Arnott in the same room.

2014?

Quite ironic that the Hun support actually bailed out another club.

A fishscales pairing at the back would be excellent.

Booooo. Hun.

Because you weren't there.

See, the dirty Tim dick didn't even have the decency to talk to you in person. Subhuman scum. I'm not convinced that somebody doing well at the Tims has any bearing on the rest of us, whether players or managers. They'd have to be fairly badly informed managers to use that as a benchmark. The Tims operate on an entirely different level to any other team, to the extent that for all intents and purposes the Scottish premiership isn't a single entity (when it comes to player or manager signings). Nobody would sign a Dons player because van dijk made a successful switch to England, and the same would apply to managers. I don't think Jota and the carter-vickers are good enough for down the road at spurs level. The former too lightweight, the latter too slow in possession. Kyogo and Hatate could likely make the step though. Maybe thon big lad up front, but not seen much of him.

I doesn't reflect well on anything but Celtic, but perhaps giving a fuck what England think about our game is an insecurity we'd do well to avoid. I hope he fails cause he's a dirty Tim dick. But mainly because it would show that being successful at Celtic is a barometer of nothing, because John Hughes could do it.

That's actually what I meant, but couldn't work out the grammar to make it obvious.

I think we were already high in sales prior to European qualification. The Robson effect has clearly worked, but actually I think a lot has to do with the red shed and the extra noise and the kids moving to the upper deck, which is quite an attractive part of the ground to take them too in comparison to the merkland. Had we finished fourth, I think our sales would have been fairly similar.

Mental. Must be struggling for right backs. I guess we usually play a back three, so wingback will suit him.

21 year old Craig Whyte?

Good stuff. They're still peddling the myth that it was about player development of course. I hope that we don't get an expanded loan system either like the Dons suggested, where we could send half a dozen players to one team. That'd be shite. The available reserve league, coupled with loans is absolutely fine. We risk diluting the other leagues with anything else. These teams have identities and supports, they don't need to be an afterthought.

Hampden yesterday was probably the first time I've noticed inappropriately bright and flashy advertising boards at a Scottish game. I don't know if it was just the camera angle or the particular adverts, but they were really off putting.

Impressive from County. Malky for spurs.

I wanted Inverness to win. Fuck the Tims. Another fairytale at Hampden as the plucky Irish Glaswegian underdogs bravely bring home their 853rd trophy this season.

I think the future of the team in third becoming the new level of scum is quite a bleak future. Getting five or six times the winnings just for finishing a few points ahead of someone is absolutely bollocks and a huge problem for our game. Robson will likely find out the hard way next season when a few of our fifteen signings don't go to plan and we're struggling for third after Christmas. Would love to see Inverness get the windfall just to highlight the stupidity of it.

Aye, it's a bit weird, think they've just screwed something up on the fixtures bit. It confused me, which is exceptionally difficult to do.

It's amazing the lengths that they'll go to, to ensure that the big teams get bigger. What a contrived bunch of shite. Weirdly, the projected examples they give have us playing CSKA Sofia in the playoff round, but in their next tweet, neither qualify for the final 32. They didn't make it completely clear that it was any team in pot 1 that can play any team in pot 4 (rather than the highest seeds getting pot 4 teams), but given the pot 4 teams seem better than pot 3, I'm guessing they couldn't engineer it any further to ensure the biggest team gets in. I hope Inverness win tonight to save us from all this shite.

McKenzie not good enough to start, but a good squad player to cover left back and left centre back. He's not that young anymore either! A back 4 would be great, but it's slightly harder to accommodate the 2 up front without sacrificing midfield. I don't see it happening while Duk is in the team. He needs to be kept away from defending at all costs and also be allowed to try things and lose the ball now and again, so the extra man in midfield is essential.

County could be in danger, with thistle 1-0 up and County down to ten. Unfortunately due to sky's pish coverage of Scottish fitba I've never bothered to subscribe and can't watch it. Obviously they've chosen to finally take an interest after ignoring the entire playoffs so far and any relegation games. A fucking farce. 2-0 now.

Good bit of business in theory. I had it in my head we'd actually signed him, so the try before you buy is a bit of a relief. With Miovski, Ramadani and Myslovic tried and tested we should have a better barometer for the Eastern Europe laddies. There's likely only so much you can get from the stats and the videos and it must be difficult to guage how a player will translate to playing in a different league. Knowing that we need to aim higher than Zilina (where he played 60 games) is probably useful.