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On the other place they are saying a 19 year old called Guy Bainbridge...... Edit: ex Airdrie youth academy apparently. Wiki says he is a "prolific goalscorer"

Wilson wasnt any good in any of those positions. That was on Kettlewell. He is a limited left back who looks like he could fill in at left centre half if we went to a 3 at the back. I would keep him around right now for the UEFA quota. But the minute we are out of Europe he should go out on loan again to give him another chance to develop. He isnt playing LB in front of Longelo, Williams, Koutroumbis, SOD or even Sparrow.

If Sparrow is fit he should play. He has the armband and his performances have been great. He seems to have turned from a boy into a man over the summer! Johnny K is great cover to have come off the bench in a number of positions.

I do think the home grown quota thing makes a difference to these discussions. Id have no issues including Booth or Whyte in Euro squads. Neither disgraced themselves last Thursday. But we need 8 homegrown in a 25 man squad, with 4 having to come from our own Academy. I guess Wilson and Ross are going nowhere right now, regardless of what anyone thinks about their abilities.

Aye, looks like the Hunter is more or less sold out with the Cooper & POD well on the way. I see we have a big chunk for sale in the upper McLean as well.

I just like JT in the wide position where he can see right across the back line and wait for the ball over the top. Gives him so much more space to run into without having to wrestle with giants. Said is more suited to that.

I guess Williams is still a doubt, so Id go..... Paulsen Sparrow JKL Moorman Longelo Oscar Fadinger Lowry JT Cookie Said

Really hoping this isnt one of those times when football jumps up and bites you on the arse and gives you a reality check. (Hoping that was Sunday). They looked decent over there but nothing more. Once we had the measure of them second half and grew into the game we looked the better team. Their away record in Europe is much less impressive than their home record and we will have home advantage on a nice grass pitch. Hopefully no new injuries and we can go in with whatever our best 11 is right now. Feels like we should have too much for them, but that just brings me back to the point I made right at the start!

They are certainly useful right now when we still havent finished our transfer business and you look at our injury list as it stands. Whether thats still the case in a month or so is another matter.

Its sad to hear all of this, and whilst not wanting to absolve the club from their part in this it just goes to show you how ridiculous the UEFA rule is. Im not aware of any safety issues that were raised re the bucket seats that were in place, yet they were the first to be outlawed by UEFA. We now have seats that fit the UEFA criteria, but are causing absolute mayhem and apparent safety issues. I perhaps wouldnt expect the club to be making a public statement about the situation, but an email acknowledging they are aware of the problems and are reviewing options to rectify it would help. Not sure if it would work numbers wise, but would it help if they only used every second row of seats to allow more space? There must be a way to fix the problem whilst adhering to the UEFA rule without closing down the entire stand.

Vogt looks to have some technical ability and he looks much fitter than he did when he arrived and has a yard of pace. Getting the ball to him at the right time and in the right areas would help, instead of him having to pick the ball out of the sky. Moorman will be massive for us this season. But I also though Knight - Lebel absolutely strolled it yesterday. We look to have brought in 3 very serviceable CHs and thats without McGinn, SOD or Johnny K having to fill in there. I do wonder where McGhee fits into all of this now, even if he could stay fit.

Is the problem the same in the areas with the bucket seats? I would have thought they were just the same as the new ones without the plastic back on them re leg room? I dont recall there being any furore when we put them in. Just curious.

I think a lot of our fans are comparing what we look like right now to how Jens team was playing October to March. This time last year we had drawn with Clyde, put questionable performances in against Peterhead and Stenny, beat Morton and drew away to St Mirren with barely a shot on target. I actually think we are a bit further along the journey with this squad than we were this time last year. Our horizons have just lifted a little, so we no longer view things the same way as we did post Kettleball. Nothing wrong with that, we should always be striving for better, but we should maintain some realism at the same time.

As soon as I saw who was in charge today my heart sank. He is without doubt one of the fussiest referees in the league and possibly the poorest, which is saying something! I was literally pulling my hair out (whats left of it) all afternoon. Some of his decisions were absolutely mindblowing. You do have to wonder at times what it is he is seeing? Remember this is the guy that sent Dan Casey off for handbags v Kilmarnock and when VAR intervened, convinced himself he was right! Falkirk played to it all afternoon and he bought it every time. Very depressing so early in the season!

Said was good first half. Nothing much came off for him second half. Oscar and Fadinger both worked there socks off, but the connections in front of them werent there today. Moorman had a great first half but thought he tired a little second half and got himself in some difficult situations before he was substituted. Voted for Knight-Lebel. Thought he absolutely strolled it today. Looks a very promising addition.