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They would no doubt have received a decent wedge of cash for getting to the Scottish cup final, in gate receipts, prize money etc

Fee would certainly help cover a couple of signing on fees for new guys, I'd imagine, which will help balance books a bit...

The Record today sill reporting "Samsunspor are confident of sealing a £1.7 million move for Elliot Watt over the coming days." - so nothing official to report at this point. It's a sad day when you can't believe 12 year olds on Twitter. (Of course he will likely be leaving us, but like most of our deals the details will not be posted on Facebook).

There is a reason there were no Scottish referees at the world cup, ie all of them are feckin brutal and not up to the standard required, can you imagine the sight of Collum or Beaton mic'ed up tyring to explain a VAR call 😂

Ox's move to East End Park has been in the offing for some weeks now. It was certainly held up by Ward's departure to QPR and perhaps by AJ's arrival. Quite rightly we wanted to hang onto him until a replacement, Paulsen, was brought in. Leaks from the Dunfermline end not ours. Given Ox had 2 years left on his contract I would expect a tidy fee, but not earthshattering. Dunfermline seem awash with cash.

Just going into buy my tickets for the Havnor game and only the DC stand has tickets left?????

I'm not seeing it anywhere official (or unofficial for that matter)

Likewise. Unfortunate for him that we changed a style that didn't suit, but he was a good fit at Dunfermline and the fans liked him too. Did better than us in the cup, too.

This is fun no Celtic no Rangers

Apparently West Ham are in the mix too ps this is, at the very least, 4th hand news so Chinese whispers may be in play

Agreed. It has been nice to see the refs in the WC trying to make the game flow as much as possible. It has highlighted just how pedantic the Scottish referees are. It has been quite notably just how much of a difference there is been the top referees in the World and their Scottish peers.

That’s a good move for Ox. He was never going to get a sniff here again, so I’m genuinely pleased for him.

I actually thought in wc , the refereeing was not bad and they didn't use var unnecessarily. Maybe in Morocco game for us, we could've done with it but were any of the " clear and obvious " errors? Diving seemed to be clamped down on ...Bellingham, kane and Gordon still seemed to buy a few. Scottish refs will be back to feckin it up , they dont have the balls to go against the of. Can you imagine the celtic pen being given in wc or any other country? Unfortunately we aren't going to get anywhere i fear, sfa are doubling down on decisions.

Aston also away Aston Oxborough joins Dunfermline Athletic - Motherwell Football Club

I would agree that Slattery deserved it if similar incidents were getting the same punishment. What is striking about the Slattery incident is that is was a punishment in isolation of other similar incidents. You can see the levels of simulation in the World Cup. As far as I am aware not one player has received a ban for it. I understand different governing body, different referees but it is the same sport and in that context Slattery's punishment was excessive.

If it is, that will tell us how threadbare our squad is. You'd think AJ would want to field his strongest 11, or as near to it as possible, in order to prepare us for next Thursday.

I’ve previously accused the SFA of circling the wagons to protect their own whenever they’re faced with legitimate criticism. It’s a closed shop with zero accountability, so I expect nothing less. As for your bit weird comment, I’d say this: it’s not weird, it appears to be corruption.

Sorry , Slattery( top player) deserved it....this latest one on Watt is bullying.

Am I right in thinking that it could be a very youthful lineup anyway as we've already picked up some injuries?

Agreed. Result not that important tonight. Performance related to availability and fitness of players will be far more illuminating. Hopefully we dont get a doing and some of the new signings are available to bolster what might be a threabare squad.

Its hard not to think that there is more at play here when the punishments applied are clearly excessive. Neither the club nor Elliot Watt have questioned the integrity of the match officials, well maybe the club inferred it with the photo of Beaton & McGregor, but its not the most blatant example Ive seen/heard. Of course, we will take it more personally as its our club that is invovled, but it appears most fans of most other clubs agree, if the views expressed on P&B are anything to go by. Again, I will await the punishment of McInnes with interest.

Very good, have you considered stepping up for the role of forum funny guy, GrizzlyG is considering retirement or if not he should..

Elijah Just now being linked with Swansea https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/elijah-just-targeted-swansea-transfer-37442652

I think thats it. This decision is overly harsh and totally inconsistent. We'll see if this level of punishment is applied again in future for similar situations. In short, we are an easy target. Being pedantic, Watt's comment was an opinion, based on some factual basis. Presumably the SFA thought that there were worse VAR decisions than that one. If so, what were they? Come on tell us. As for the club's fine, that is also nonsense. According to Graeme McGarry, the fine isn't for the club's comments, but because it posted a picture of a Celtic player with the referee? Really? is that the level they've stooped to? Its interesting that the club might challenge the fine, and I hope it does, but also that it has asked for the reasons in writing. Now thats interesting in its own right. They've either only been given them by word of mouth or they haven't been given them at all. The whole thing stinks. Just as with society in general, free speech is being clamped down on. You are free to express an opinion as long as it is consistent with that of the establishment.

Arguably, the most interesting aspect of tonight's bounce game, apart from the new players, are the starting and finishing line ups. They should give us an insight into our new manager's thinking and the health of our squad.