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Was it not Ian McCall on Sportsound who was mouthing off about Askou being disrespectful? Then the media jumped on board but didn't really push it. Now it's being used to motivate Hibs players for Saturday. A bit like when the media fired us up by pointing out Celtic needed a five goal win at Fir Park to go top. McCall probably did not understand the comments being made as they were about modern planning and tactics.

I thought his response was perfect. Said very little and gave nothing away to a press pack seeking a quote or a snippet. Like it or not he is not going to come out and flat out say that he has absolutely no interest in moving to another club. Very few if any managers do that and even on the rare occasion that they do then it means nothing if they really want to move on. Craig Brown looking into Stephen Craigan’s eyes and not wanting to leave 48 hours before he did indeed leave for Aberdeen springs to mind. JBA absolutely knows how to handle the media.

Was the mainstream media or social media that was "upset" about JBA's post Hibs comments. I don't pay too much attention to social media, and don't recall seeing much said in the more mainstream media.

He has the Scottish media dangling on a string.

I thought he made it clear that the club policy was to only discuss any leavers or joiners once a deal was confirmed. No other comments would be made to the media regarding any speculation.

No your spot on. I think he handles the press really well though. My take on his comments was 'if there's any interest in a player or staff it's internal' and the last people he said anything to was the press. He did follow it up by saying he's just here and enjoying it. Overall he plays with a straight bat but neither confirmed or denied.

I wasn't quite sure what to make of his presser. Some positive comments and he's happy with us but no clear denial of interest. Maybe just me.

St Mirren are media favourites. Had SR still been in charge of us, the media wouldn't have been so amenable.

We should be doing all we can to offer jba better terms and show ambition given the squad value looks to have increased. He said today he wants to stay and see season out at least and maybe bigger club will come in then.It would also be good on jba CV that he's stayed longer with a club.

I‘m not sure if this has already been mentioned but if you listen to Stephen Robinson about how they beat Celtic in the league cup final, he talked about leaving Trusty with the ball. Unlike Jens, he was patted on the back for a tactical masterclass. Scottish media really does have it’s favourites 🤦‍♂️

If JBA ends up at Aberdeen this window, I hope he fails miserably, Flow gets punted into the North Sea and Cormack gets to enjoy the Championship next season.

Bookies odds mean nothing other than punters taking a flier. They are rarely indicative of anything based on fact. Although I'd be amazed if that diehard Motherwell fan Burrows hasn't been on the phone to screw us over.

Did they get the Killie favourite right? There is part of me that thinks it would be quite funny for JBA to go to Aberdeen and struggle in that environment while his successor continues to thrive.

STV news reporting tonight that JBA is allegedly the bookies favourite for the Aberdeen job 😱, so flow might have been on the phone.

It sounds like watt is touch and go for saturday so hopefully whatever the issue is it isn't too serious.

Hopefully he's just got a burst nose from JBA giving him a proper headbutt after the St Mirren game, to teach him how to go down more convincingly next time.

Did he eventually get paid for the face painting? 😁

I've heard he has picked up an injury which could keep him out a good few weeks but nothing that it was associated with a medical at that mob!

Is this the same Watt who, according to the other rumour, will NOT be signed by Rangers due to is injury that will take 12 weeks to fix?

Ok guys here’s a rumour fresh off the press from a Rangers fan at work who was told this by another guy at work who used to work at Ibrox in a maintenance job. Rangers are looking at offering us “a seven figure sum and Lyle Cameron for Watt with Rangers getting first refusal on re signing Cameron in 18 months” Personally I think it’s a load of shite but with the lack of rumours it’s too good a rumour not to share.

Feel like AP might be away in the window for a fee. Or he is carrying a bit of a knock and that’s why he has not came on as a sub. Also think Halliday will go, maybe to a championship side. Balmer might want a move for game time. Could see him leaving. Other than that I can’t see much movement in the squad.

I know the club likes to keep their cards close to their chest about potential signings and I agree with that but I did think we’d have seen at least one prearranged player signed this week with a couple of players leaving given that they’ve probably been told weeks ago to find another club as they’re not part of the managers plans.

They could have had him for free if they truly rated him. As usual, they wanted other teams to take the punt, while they were spewing money on overseas "talent"

I still don't really listen to his interviews, but I always enjoyed him as a pundit. Was never shy about shutting down any of the banal opinions from "experts" being presented as insightful.