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Main, Taylor and Wilson were all signed early in their windows, as were Gleeson, Forrester, Tansey and Ojo. McInnes regularly signed players early in the window giving himself plenty of time to recruit further when he realised his signings were absolute horseshite.

Agree with this. We haven't had anything from the bench that caused confusion and made life difficult for defenders since magennis. That said, I don't think jet really bothered anyone with hold up play, it was more when he got turned and facing the goal when he caused problems. He barely won a header against Considine but he was half decent when shifted onto McKenzie. I'd like to see us do better.

Thought there was a fee due? According to Martindale.

Because "optics". It's made to be a thing because football is analysed to an absolutely insane degree and for some bizarre reason held to some ridiculously high level of social responsibility (I'm more than guilty of that too of course, see the Scott Brown thread for my hypocrisy in action). You normally would never hear who the offender in Russell's situation was, other than a brief mention perhaps, it's only his association with England that gets it in the news. If he'd been the driver, there'd be more of a case here. To be honest, I didn't even know that "letting someone drive your car" was an offence.

Meh, sounds like an absolute non-story to me (not to belittle the injured party) as far as Russell's involvement. The insurance thing is an irrelevance, it has zero bearing on whether an accident occurs or not. If my brother told me after two pints (double the limit) that he was fine to drive, I'd just believe him. I'm always a bit wary over stories like these, where the effects of alcohol are possibly overstated (I think the drink drive limits are correct). A 39 year old man after two pints? Probably about the reaction speed of a 70 year old, or perhaps someone older than 50 on medication. Or someone testing their eyesight after a bought of coronavirus. We've created a society based around driving 1 tonne metal objects to carry single occupants, we're going to get accidents. You can very well imagine that Russell is the type to drive a two tonne 4x4 for his 3 mile commute.

Been released by Shrewsbury....

They had no idea when the season would start, but had to assume early August or earlier depending on Europe (1st August in the end), with players returning start of July. April to June would have been the additional cost, so 3 months would have been the assumption. They did have the foresight too, as they addressed it at the time and said that they'd rather players did "work" for the community trust. It was a political decision really to be seen both to be working in the community and also be seen not to be taking hand outs in what is a well paid entertainment industry. I agree with their decision too, I think it was the right call. I backed that up, as I suspect just about every season ticket holder did, by not taking a reimbursement for the missed games. Had the players been furloughed I might have taken the club up on their offer. The players were fully employed this entire season, I just don't think the furlough would have made the difference financially that would allow them to do anything radical with the season ticket sales. That's not to criticise Motherwell's approach of course, which is really good. I haven't checked it out but I'm wondering if fans have the option to buy a ticket regardless? Some might still want to give something this season knowing the club will struggle with signings etc.

Will more than likely tune in for the last home game of the season, so we can give Logan a virtual applause for his service (assuming McGinn will get another year). Hopefully we'll tank them. Be interesting to see if Hedges starts, he looked a bit off the pace against Livi despite his goal. Hopefully another week will get him fit enough for the first hour.

Was it three months they were out of training for, four maybe? It would have had zero effect on the season ticket decision. Those salaries were, in effect, baked in to last season's costs already. We only missed out on four games' worth of gate receipts compared to a normal season, probably the equivalent hit to finishing in the bottom six. I knew there was no guarantee of seeing a match, just as there will be no guarantee this season. I'd rather the club was kept on a stable footing if possible and not in huge debt to Cormack or whoever.

They were a good team who hadn't played a single game with 8 players missing and were visibly way off the pace. We played a classic McInnes match of overly cautious pish for 90 minutes.

Could be a blessing for Clarke as he likes to show loyalty (for good reason). A few guys like McBurnie and McLean missing should give him a bit of room for trying some of the players that might change a game. McLean has been good enough, but he's not come on and turned things around in a game. Hopefully McBurnie will chin fleck in the run up to the tournament and he can get dropped too. The margins are so fine at these big tournaments you need to take risks on game winners.

Aye, I think that's where both Salmond's twat party and the instruction to vote tactically by the unionist party gamed the system. The SNP must have been aware that their ability to gain seats via the list was minimal, but after alba entered they had to instruct an SNP 1 and 2 just to avoid being tainted by salmond. Without alba, they'd likely have said nothing about SNP 1 and 2 and the greens would have hoovered up the list as the other independence party. The only other option, tactically, would have been for the SNP to tell their supporters to vote green on the list, which is never a good look, but something that the unionist parties had no issue with suggesting (there was probably the ridiculous situation where many voters voted Tory/Labour 1/2 or vice versa). Still, it's a far fairer system and I think the makeup of the parliament is fairly indicative of the overall makeup of the electorate and it really shows perfectly what democracy could look like away from Westminster. Imagine that system without the tactical single issue voting post independence, with 3 or 4 parties having a large say on the running of the country? That's what every person in the UK should be striving for, regardless of their position on independence.

Apologies, I thought you were speaking about when he was with us that he was made of glass. I think it'd be a poor signing, yes. I don't think he's better than Considine and I can't help but think we're only being linked with him because he fancies coming home.

He was young though, he was quite tall and wasn't afraid a challenge but just too light to actually win any. It was clear he would bulk up a little and didn't have the stamina for left back.

He was both a left back and a rabid Hun when he played for us. Was clear he'd be a centre half though, had all the attributes.

I don't see the value of a city centre to be honest. I'd prefer the city to be broken into many walkable areas each with its own centre. Every area has a mix of things to satisfy the surrounding community. Take the ego out of architecture and accept that nature does a far more beautiful job than a meaningless building. As we ditch gas heating, dig up roads and plant food growing species instead. Stop segregating humans and nature and design for both and design for human needs rather than economic/consumer needs. All the hand wringing over "the high street" just shows such a lack of imagination and aspiration for humanity. Once I've finished rebuilding the city, I'll start on the 50,000 all seater with retractable roof on rosemount place.

That'd be the definition of crazy. The proposed location is less than a mile from the castlegate. They could regenerate that entire walk from Union Street to the beach if they chose to. As always, cars are the biggest barrier to anything in the city centre, whether it be Union Street or the beach. The whole city needs a better design (with retail on the decline as you mention).

I think we'd be better focusing on Devlin's inadequacies as a player as much as his injury record. His positioning was good and his strength. His passing and general ability on the ball was severely lacking from day one. Significantly worse than both Gallagher and Considine. He was about the level of mark Reynolds when he left us. There's nothing that Devlin could offer that Taylor couldn't, with Taylor significantly better in the air. This is nothing to do with his relationship with McInnes, his inability on the ball was apparent from day one and something many of us mentioned on several occasions during his first run of games where he was at his best for us. He just doesn't fit into a team that his going to be passing to him under pressure. It would be really worrying if Glass offered him a deal as it would suggest that there is nobody at the club who can see that Devlin doesn't fit the requirement of a Glass team. Glass himself can obviously be excused for not knowing but if they're contemplating Devlin then it does suggest that he's not articulating his requirements to our scouting and recruitment staff or that they have zero ability when it comes to recognising player attributes.

Aye, list only.

The results coming in is the most exciting part of the entire election. Fair play to anyone turning out to vote with such a dearth of policy and inspiration.

It's the correct opinion, whether popular or not. Although Considine has been fairly consistent too.

Is that a baseball bat in your trousers Declan?

Falkirk fuck up, allowing Montrose to pip them into the playoffs. Dunfermline and Raith draw.

I'd hope they would care about it, but you're right I don't think they do. It was certainly mentioned at the time though, was it not the reason for that other FC United or Manchester (or something) being setup? That's the thing, they've got a team ready for their support if they really hated it enough. It's obvious that this super league gash is the thing that has tipped them over the edge so that they can pretend to give a fuck, whilst uefa changes the existing competition to do virtually the same thing in the background. The whole thing is akin to Facebook complaining about Google taking your data.

They loaded the club with debt almost immediately and used it like some sort of money laundering vehicle. That happened years ago though, and all that a long time after uefa had screwed every league in the continent with its shitey champions league pish that utd have been complicit in since inception. They said fuck all when their club started paying footballers £100k+ per week (Rooney?) and they were paying £100M to sign individuals. Their game was gone ages ago, I'm really not sure what they have to complain about. AFC's owners would do exactly the same if they could of course, we're all part of the same ugly system.