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2,000 missing sounds like a lot but if every season ticket holder misses 3-4 games per season that would be the 2,000. That would probably be unusually high for me, but it wouldn't be unusual for me to miss 2 games per season (don't think I missed any last season) as a season ticket holder. It means that most season ticket holders are going to a high percentage of games. Certainly a higher percentage than most

Phenomenal bit of business, and a four year deal makes it even sweeter. Robson not only a good manager, but a world class salesman too. I can't think of a comparable signing. Severin along the same lines, in that we got him after a great season at hearts, but not nearly as talented as Clarkson. Nicholas probably the last player we knew was top level before signing him. I don't remember much fanfare around Gillhaus, until he played his first game.

And the answer to that question is.... Who gives a fuck?

Mental that both your lineups there include four players who don't actually play for us and two triple question marks, yet you don't even give Ramadani a game. Poor lad. You BBC Tory voters just can't stand Albanians in this country.

A decent start on the trimming. Hopefully Morris, Roberts and Stewart follow them and at least a loan for Richardson if he doesn't leave too. That'll pare it back nicely so we don't overload with duds next season. I don't think that any of the above have proved good enough to even bring on as subs against bottom six sides, all they offer is a number, and with ten or more signings incoming we'll have enough numbers in there that can't cut it. Kennedy and Watkins are better than the four remaining, so hopefully we can be ruthless when it comes to cutting them. Slightly disappointed that Campbell couldn't do enough to get another deal. Hopefully he'll go on to be a success, and works out whatever is holding him back. There's a definite gap between his performances and his talent and attributes, which isn't apparent in guys like McLennan. He should be at the level Jack was at his age in my opinion.

That's 10,000 glory hunters signed up for season tickets now. It's those free under 12s I despise most.

Good move for him. He's been unfortunate with injuries down there, but shouldn't set him back too much, still think he made the right move and at least gave it a shot. Like Clarkson, I think he has the potential to go all the way and I'm not sure a return to the Dons would be in his best interests. A move abroad might have been a more interesting challenge, but I guess Preston will be aiming for the playoffs, so he'd likely be clear of the hoofer sides at the lower end of that league.

I could never work out whether sites like that actually valued them as players, against one another as it were, or if it took into account contract lengths and so on. Clarkson was only valued at £800K on there, so maybe a sneaky £150K offer would be welcomed.

As a combination, they were great, although Goodwin's tactics had a lot to answer for with regard to Ramadani's early form. He continually played him as the number six, deep lying midfielder despite him being unsuited to that role. He has to play as part of a pair, either behind an attacking midfielder or ahead of a good number six. Robson corrected it fairly sharpish and it turned things on their head for us. It's not just that Shinnie makes him a better player, it's that he absolutely needs to be part of a pair in order to be effective. I'd say it was probably 50% Shinnie and 50% positional that resulted in the improvements in the latter half. A balance that brought the best out of Clarkson too.

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.