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Welsh is class, well worth pushing the boat out for.

While it would be hilarious if Martin was appointed and improved on JBA, that will have to be a pass from me.

I saw that article, they had scott broon and steven naismith in it too. Also Russell Martin, that was almost ok after seeing broon.....again quoted.

Falkirk toon, is bigger than Motherwell toon...is that what you meant?

The big boy up front for motherwell

I know it's all conjecture but with the reported £4.5 million for LM and if we were to sell Maswanhise, Watt and Just all for £4 million each the clubs sitting on potentially £16/£17 million quid. I'd rather keep Watt and Just but think we may keep Just for one more year and sell Watt surely with that kind of cash we could attract some decent talent. Well decent for the SPFL. Should we bite the bullet and sign Welsh? He's reportedly on £6500 a week and one more year on his contract. Give him a signing on fee to cover that years wages (£340,000) and agree a wage we can live with. Anyone think we should.

"There´s also interest from Rangers, who have been monitoring the situation closely" and hoping we lower our price to 50 quid, presumably.

Oooooooft!

Now that would be a deal https://x.com/i/status/2060337377114026328

Id rather have Will Still than his brother Stan....... 😉😉😉

VAR show at 6pm 🍿 Lets see what they've been saying in the Celtic game

The problem so many people have there is that by not lumping them both together and instead calling out Celtic alone then it is seen that you are somehow showing support or favour for Rangers. You see examples of it all the time even on anonymous forums like this, result being that people don’t want to say it’s a Celtic issue for fear of being labelled pro-Rangers or a bigot. Celtic and their supporters know this and cynically exploit it for their own means.

There are 2 aspects to the discussion. I highlighted examples that support your view that our Officials are useless and above sanction. I don't believe they are corrupt. There are stills of the Ibrox penalty claim that suggest minimal contact at best. Whether they were available at the time is debatable. For what it's worth, viewing 'live' I thought it was a penalty and on balance still do. For me, it was not as bad a decision as the penalty donated to Celtic. Not as clear cut. The other issue is who is currently the dominant power in the running of Scottish football? Celtic beyond doubt for which I also highlighted examples. Rangers have been in that position in the past. But not currently. MJC is spot on. To lump them together at this time only helps deflect attention from Celtic. Both would like to rule the roost but Celtic are winning that race for now.

The Boards' will is still to install Will Still willy nilly.

The penalty shout at Ibrox was just as clear cut. It was 100% a penalty. We would have had a penalty had we been playing any other team ( apart from Celtic ) in the league but it was a clear penalty. You mention Livingston. They suffered the injustice of the season with the hand ball that was not given against Fernandez at Ibrox. Again, that would have been given as a penalty had they been playing any non OF team. Nobody cared about it because it was just Livingston and it was not title deciding but it was a terrible decision and it certainly did in some way contribute to their relegation. You have highlighted examples that actually help prove my point.

That would be a good start.

I’ve mentioned this before but will say it again, Celtic went over 80 domestic matches without a red card from March 2024 until January 2026. That is a stat which is got to be some kind of record and indeed one that had it benefited Rangers then Celtic and their cheerleaders would be screaming from the rooftops about “Masonic cheating refs.” And the key thing to remember about this incredible run was that it began when Brendan Rodgers publicly went after Beaton for calling a red card and a penalty against Celtic in a match against Hearts which Celtic lost. They even got their lawyers in to contest Rodgers touchline ban for it.

Agree with much of that. But I would suggest that, funny as it was at the time, Rangers demise years ago effectively handed the opportunity for complete control to Celtic. And they grabbed it with both hands (assisted to a degree by Aberdeen's greed). To the extent that they are currently much the dominate power. At times in the past it has been Rangers in that power situation and your Traynor comment is so relevant. The Media will always cow to the OF. But at the present time Celtic are well and truly in control of how Scottish Football is governed. Otherwise why have they escaped punishment on so many occasions? Why is a blind eye being turned to three pitch invasions in a row, or at best excuses being made on their behalf? Why is the damage their fans cause to away Grounds ignored? They are not so lightly treated when it is UEFA calling the shots. Speaks volumes. Although even there Lawwell managed to get a UEFA Board position which I think he still holds having been proposed by the SFA. Despite him having stood down from the Celtic Board. Normally that UEFA position would have ended at the same time as he gave up his position at Celtic. You might be correct. Rangers could well have benefited from the sort of decision Celtic got had they been playing us in that League situation. But they weren't so that comparison is purely hypothetical. Admittedly Rangers probably got away with our penalty shout at Ibrox, but that was less clear cut than the Nicholson shambles. As for Officials and VAR generally. All teams suffer from their incompetence. As opposed to corruption. The Newell hand ball goal could have cost Celtic the Title. Rangers lost silverware last season because of an acknowledged refereeing/VAR error. Livi were more or less relegated right at the start of the season because of some horrendous decisions. Gave them a mountain to climb.. As a fact, fans of every team could point to incorrect decisions that cost their Clubs dearly.

No I can’t agree that it is an ‘Old Firm’ issue. Not in today’s game and today’s world where Celtic clearly have more clout and control than Rangers do. They have the media, the authorities and politicians on their side in a way that Rangers simply don’t. Time was Rangers were the ‘establishment club’ in the country and I think if you look at the 1990s in particular they got far more favourable refereeing decisions than anyone else, Celtic included, but just because something was the case once doesn’t mean that it is still the case now. The game has changed, the ‘Overton window’ has shifted and now through excessive PR, crying victim, hounding referees to the point of getting some thrown out the game and striking overall it is Celtic who are refereed to a different standard than everyone else. And their support are becoming more and more entitled and emboldened with each passing year. You see it in the way they behave even towards their own club at times and that’s before you mention numerous pitch invasions, overcrowding away stands and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to stadiums. And yet you never hear a peep from the media or the authorities about it unless they can bring another set of fans, usually Rangers, into the equation to reduce the spotlight on Celtic, but even if they can’t bring Rangers into it they manage to mention incidents at lower league matches to try and balance it out. And that is why it will keep happening with Celtic and their fans. Finally, you say that had it been Rangers we were playing and they were going for the title then the outcome with that penalty decision would have been exactly the same, well I’m not sure it would have been, certainly not with Beaton as the ref. Put it this way, had Beaton given Rangers a penalty under those circumstances which enabled them to win the League any deny Celtic the title then he wouldn’t referee another game. He would have been hounded by Celtic and their media mouthpieces in a way much, much worse than he was over the actual incident. And Celtic would be pushing all the way for the audio to be released, probably getting their legal teams involved until they got what they wanted, which they absolutely would get. I’m not saying that Rangers don’t have a lot more sway in what goes on and more media exposure and support than us and clubs like us, because they clearly do, but Celtic are way, way out ahead of them on all fronts in this day and age.

And Fadinger was a Wimmer PCA, so there's every chance we have players lined up that were either identified or or OK'd by JBA before he left.

McGhee was an SK pre-contract agreement in January 2026.

We signed Fadinger and McGhee without a manager pretty early last summer, and the likes of Just, Watt, and Longelo were brought in very early, in time for the training camp in the Netherlands if I remember right.

What he Said.

Hope they weren't watching him in the last 10 games then.

I’m assuming this category will be pretty slow for the incomings till we get a manager in place and the window actually opens? June 15th?