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The endless stories based on guesses and empty speculation are certainly boring, but that's standard for transfer windows where the media needs to report on "breaking news" 24 x 7. In reality, there isn't really anything unusual happening - it just so happens it's one of our players involved.

I honestly just wish it over now for him and the club. Its actually quite boring now

£34 for a ticket for this game is mental

A lot of pubs ‘weather-proofed’ their outdoor spaces during Covid when they were only permitted to open outdoors so I’m sure it could be done.

I'm sure I read that they plan to weather proof it at some point to make it more usable year-round.

As far as i am aware its a beer garden with little or no shelter/ cover. In Scotland it will be lucky to be open on matchdays given the weather we have.

So if it's a "beer garden" and not a pub...will it close in the Winter?

Worrying for him that there’s been no suitable concrete offer so far.

It's also definitely sign posted.

Got to think Mwell not getting required offer from Bologna or Udinese. Both sold players recently and are cash rich. Think we should be looking at other clubs as reported there is interest in France and Germany.

You could be right on the same country moves. Each country can apply their own thinking as not bound by International criteria as set out. Our lot are all very secretive about how they arrive at a figure and I believe Accies said they were warned not to reveal any details. All they could do was register how unhappy they were. Just shows the nonsense of not adopting the rules that apply cross border. That would be much more open and consistent. No wonder Clubs often work out a deal to avoid a Tribunal up here.

I think my memory is of internal transfers, eg, Ferguson from Accies to Aberdeen. As I said, I may be wrong.

At the end of the day its the fans who wield the power. Stop watching EPL and Euro games on TV and buying their clubs kit and the mega money will dry up.

I found a report on training Compensation and the Solidarity Scheme. States that Uefa and individual Associations decided upon the amount it took to train a player on an annual basis and came up with a payment table. Then they took into account the level of each team and adjusted the fee based on that. I did not find anything about wages offered by either club as being a factor in the calculation. Not saying that was not added later but I cannot confirm. I tried to copy the calculation section and post it here but every time I tried it was blacked out. Not sure why. And I could not figure out a way to post it. I searched ' How is training compensation calculated by Uefa' in Google and then clicked on the top result ' E A Sports Law' . If interested, stick with it for a few paragraphs and you'll find the bit I am quoting from. For info, the Yanks were late in joining the scheme and initially placed their Clubs in the lowest possible grading (4).... as a way to minimise payments. Cadden was the first real test of their stance. In time they were forced to elevate the grading of the US teams to ensure fairness..

Excellent, my mates folks used to have a flat there so Mrs grizzly and I had a few weekends there way back, ahhhh happy days

Yup, thats where I'll be

Well I see Rangers drew 1-1 tonight and progressed to the next stage of the Champions League. A good result for them and our Andy (Halliday) looks pretty chuffed in the studio. It’s always better for us facing them on the back of them having a good result rather than them losing and having more to prove.

Golfers bar still there?

No quite but we've made it as far as the early 70's.

Still on Andy Stewart and Harry Lauder over there .

I think you pronounce his name cheating bast@rd, just in case anyone was in any doubt.

I may be wrong about this (I usually am) but I think when the compensation scheme was introduced, the fee was based on what the selling club offered as a salary to the departing player and not what the buying club were offering, This gives a huge advantage to the "big" club, but, hey-ho, who wants to upset the apple cart.

JRP Gordon I'll say no more.