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  1. It might be some visa/work permit thing, on top of his payoff for St. Johnstone. Also, that site is made up. British teams don't publish their player salaries like the MLS clubs do.
  2. I'd be wary of someone who left Morton and couldn't find another club, so returned to Morton. Maybe he's young and a development fee would have been required, but that doesn't usually stop teams if the player is good. It's the same with Milne at partick, I wonder why no premier club has come in for him. It would be nice though if we signed a couple of permanent full backs.
  3. I'm glad he has pulled us through that bad run and proved many of us wrong. I wasn't calling for his head but I wouldn't have complained if we had sacked him. For a club like ours, we can find our success by bringing people in and making them better, and that should include coaches and managers. Unfortunately that means we have to deal with the mistakes. Results shouldn't be the only metric we measure a managers success on, and as someone said above, results and performances need to be taken in context. At no point have I got the impression that the players weren't playing for SK, or that there was unrest in the dressing room, outside of having cage matches in training. There also wasn't that funk that sometimes kicks in (a la livingston) where they just accept losing. This summer is going to be massive. SK has made his mistakes in recruitment, which he has hopefully learned from, and he has now got the squad to a place where he can really put his stamp on it in the next window.
  4. Holy shit, makes me feel even older.
  5. Oh, and Aberdeen going from 1-0 to losing is a nice wee cherry on top of the day. They on the phone to SK yet?
  6. Many viable options, but I went with Bevis, who just ate up everything that was in his general vicinity. Casey probably deserves it for his crunch in the first half and the goal, but Mugabi kept us right when they were just shelling us.
  7. My bad, I took our commentators word for it. I was probably at the 2002ish game as well.
  8. What a performance, and a great display of having the biggest cojones. Our bottle and togetherness has never been in question this season. Mugabi was a colossus, but everyone played their part, along with the usual sprinkling of luck, but we totally deserved that. The penalty was a joke, and I expected more shenanigans in injury time, but there must not have been anything close enough for them to var us out of the 3 points. Enjoy your weekend.
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    Club AGM

    Yep, I'm pretty sure he did. Maybe this was just the official announcement of that in the AGM? He was gone for a bit then came back, now he's gone again. We know that we have plans to restructure the board, and add to it, so this shouldn't be a surprise or red flag.
  10. I don't mind being ambitious, but Wrexham is a one off, and there's mileage in their story because a relatively modest investment can lead to them moving up some divisions and thus generating more interest for the tv show. The best we can do is finish 3rd and maybe win a cup, but there's a few clubs with budgets and fan bases that eclipse ours that can't even do that. Shit, we often finish above a couple of them. The level of investment that is transformative enough to really make it interesting isn't going to happen, but I'd be open to someone putting enough in to help us become more sustainable and secure, and improve our academy and facilities. The WS losing a controlling stake isn't a red line for me, but the kind of investment required to make me happy with that is probably out of reach.
  11. Dan Phillips will go to Dundee Utd or Hibs and be totally shite.
  12. On a scale of 1 is saying our colors are red and yellow, to 10 being murder, what did Jili do?
  13. How hard would it be to announce these things? We have the capability to post stuff on social media every day, so just do the same steps with a different picture and words. It doesn't even need to be a new pic.
  14. If I thought football as we know it would still be here for my grandkids, I'd say no. However, with the super league and it's fall out inevitable, i say let's throw caution to the wind and chuck millions at it and go out with a bang, finishing 4th and getting to a couple of semi finals.
  15. Yeah, and we'll probably double season ticket prices, replace the pitch with shitty plastic, paint the stairs with paint that never dries, and put marbles in the pies and pish in the drinks. Probably.
  16. Changing the manager doesn't guarantee results, and as mentioned above, it can be more about catharsis and appeasement than any real football reason. It's a big risk and shouldn't be taken lightly. I don't think kettlewell is guaranteed to see out the season, but I don't think he's on the verge of getting punted either. I can see the logic in gambling with him. If we can get to the end of the season safely, we have an almost blank slate for the new CEO and directors to work from, after a few years of bloated squads and manager payoffs. Right now the players are playing for SK and have kept their heads through a bad run. The 1 win in ages run is bad, but we are still sitting 4 points of 6th, performances and results have improved, and we have most of our injured players back. Obviously we're not concerning ourselves with 6th at this point, but maybe that puts this seasons league, and the general form of the teams, into some perspective. This week is going to go a long way to defining our season. 2 wins probably buys SK the rest of the season from most of his detractors, but 2 losses could sway too much of the fan base for him to survive.
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    The Pitch

    Shit happens, the grass will grow back.
  18. Hammell raved about his own involvement in getting Danzaki, and he brought in Aarons and Moult, who were known injury risks (he flat out admitted moult wasn't going to be fit enough to play full games). He also had the utter gobshite Brian "lazy leg" Kerr as assistant, so I'm not going to give him too much credit. Kettlewell has definitely shown he can clear out when needed, but he's also responsible for Obika and Shaw. Dawes raved about going into international markets, but im not sure what that has really brought us. Sol, Ojala, and Efford were flops, and as much as i like Davor, there's plenty of scottish players that can do his job, and wont have to take half a season to figure out the league. I dont know the true extent of Dawes' role, maybe it's mainly administrative, but I'm sure his position will be under review whenever a new CEO rocks up. I can't imagine it being expensive to cut him loose should we decide to do that.
  19. Butcher is improving, which is good because he was critical to our run last year. Casey returning to form would be huge.
  20. This. The KVV thing is on the other clubs, not us. We had a value and stuck to it, and that was the right thing to do.
  21. We have 2 fit strikers (for the time being) so we are pretty much forced to play one up front, with one attacking option on the bench, and pray to God that no one gets injured or suspended, or that we have to make tactical changes during a game. Not addressing that issue is a total failure on the part of those that's job it is to build our squad. They have had plenty of time to do something about beireth, shaw , and Wilkinson going, but we dragged it to the last minute and it bit us on the arse. They are also responsible for signing obika, Shaw and Wilkinson. I'm fine with the other signings we've made, but we now have a bunch of full backs who might as well cross the ball to each other.
  22. If we do go down, at least we have an almost clean slate of a squad without any terrible contracts, and I don't think the management team is under contract past the summer either.
  23. So you're saying you like this signing then? 😃
  24. Mcginn is a RCB in a three, and maybe a right back in a 4, but we're not going to a 4 any time soon. He could definitely function as a wing back, but we are obviously looking for more pace there. SOD looks like he's moving into that RCB role as well, and he fared a lot better out there, so I can see why we want cover at wing back, especially when we expect them to be all action, so having options on the bench is very useful. Also, someone is totally going to get injured.
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