LA-Don

Word on the street or just your thoughts/suggestions?

Much like Stevie Mallan, missed opportunity.

Pretty clear if this is true that Shinnie is leaving or moving to left back. Makes perfect sense to me.

I think that's it. I'm not a fan of Ball because he's just not good enough to be a first team regular, nothing personal, he tries his best. I've seen Flood, Robson, McLean, and Jack play that holding mid role in recent years and Ball is not an acceptable replacement. Squad filler and bench player perhaps, but he gets far too many minutes for my liking. We can AFFORD better. Likewise, and many disagree due to recent performances, I don't think May is good enough. He tries really hard and runs around a lot but we can afford better.

Hell no! Do not compare Dom Ball to Dougie Bell. He was a quality player, not some journeyman squad player!!

McKenna is saying all the right things and appears quite a sensible guy. I think he stays with us until the summer at least and I really don't see him staying in Scotland. I think he has to look at someone like Andy Robertson or Ryan Fraser and shoot for a lower level Premier team. Even Van Dijk is worth considering. Get to any of the bottom 10 team in the Premiership then ideal a move to one of the top 10. I'd say 8-10 million plus 20% sell on, 30-40 million in two or three years!!

I’d take Stewart back in a heartbeat, although both him and Scott Allen could play the #10 role off Cosgrove. It’s a much easier sell to him given he’s not competing with Christie or McLean for that #10 position.

Anything in the Shinnie to the Huns rumors???

Fuck no, I wouldn’t take that. Given what we knocked back in the summer, 8 million is a fair number to consider. An average at best hendry and an aging Hayes no thank you. If he leaves I’m pretty certain it’s to England.

I'd say it's on a par with our league, if not better. Very different style of football but not that bad.

Not necessarily true. He's rotting in the reserves here and his career has gone to shit. Maybe he jumped at the chance to join St Mirren and ripped up his own contract. Highly doubt we gave him nothing but the chance to play top level Scottish football and play regularly might just get him one more transfer fee in the future. Going nowhere with us.

I’d take him, there’s a good player there. Success at a Scottish team, move to the old firm didn’t work out. Very similar to GMS, and potentially his replacement? Hibs linked with a loan for Morgan, I’d take him. Mulumbu loan would be a good signing. Has he ever played for Celtic??

Based on the recent rumors, Gauld to hibs, hibs want Scott Allan, Jones, Defoe, Kamara to the Huns, McCormack to Motherwell, and Burke to Celtic. And for Aberdeen........let the tumbleweeds blow ffs.

We’re bargain basement hunters who don’t offer a lot so very few signings jump at our offers. They wait for something better and settle for us if it comes to it. Sad but the reality of the situation.

So what do we realistically see happening this window. I’d say we will get a left back and a forward. Would love to see us get a legit central midfielder, clearly lacking that creative #10, but the middle of the park is where it gets interesting. If we go two up too we have Shinnie and Ferguson grafting and there’s no need for the third central mid, but what if Shinnie goes? Then will we see Gleeson or Forrester move on? Would also like to see some pre contracts signed, Jones replacing GMS for example.

I won’t do an American name, not allowing the wife to have a Kobe, Lebron, chip, or the likes. I suggested Rougvie, something different. Plus, I want a hard cunt.

Happy New Year to you all! Just got to hospital with the wife to have our second kid, that will keep me busy for the next 18 days!

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/12/28/por-preston-move-for-exeter-ace-stockley/ No clue if this site is legit...

Well, the silly season is here. I’ll start. Read on Facebook - and most likely a pile of shite - that moult will be up here on loan and Jayden Stockley of all people signing for Preston.

Exactly this. The players are capable.

Only saw the second half due to redtv issues but brutal game. One of the worst. Also, play on astroturf here in the states all the time and it's usually decent but the livi pitch looked awful, very very slow. Didn't see the Livi goal but a short pass back, pitch an issue?? Good December including scraping this win, considering the amount of games, but we are generally shit. Good news is so are the majority of the league. Today it was so obvious our defense was out of sorts, so many long balls bounced and Lewis had to be alert, you'd normally see Devlin and McKenna mop that up no problem. Three points off first but tic have the extra game and a crucial window. We have no left back. Center mid is shit. Ball and Consi are shit but play far too much. Shinnie and GMS may go. McKenna will get bids. McGinn is clearly past it. And we have injuries. Bizarre that we are the worst in a log time yet the league is wide open and we are there or there abouts. I don't subscribe to the belief Celtic will pull away - they will spend but who is to say they'll get it right? Many have taken points off them and I see that continuing. A ballsy window from DM and Milne and things could be interesting. But we won't see that.

Don't get me started!!!!!! It's not rocket science DM.

Anyone seeing the game??

Totally disagree with you in the sense that regardless of players rested, they aren’t a great team. We were shit and scored three ffs. Celtic have squad depth and hibs didn’t face a drastically weakened Celtic. Secondly, your point is that they have a coach willing to attack Celtic. I’d agree with that. Why can’t we have a go at Celtics weaknesses? While we were shit our starting 11 is more capable than the hibs 11 that beat them.

Actually think the chat here since the game has been pretty reasonable and on point. The sitting back tactics are shite, rarely works against Celtic and didn’t work yesterday. The tactical switch moving Considine wide didn’t work either. Ball and Logan were pretty piss yesterday, that’s a far assessment too. The goals were comical but this Celtic team isn’t great and I think it’s fair to expect a better result. A very average hibs team beat them recently, why can’t we?