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Yep. Total sliding doors moment that one, and ill never get over the "but he's American" of it all. Right now we could all be talking about the finale of an epic Netflix series titled "Steelmen: Stuart Kettlewell's initial remarks, pt 22"

Wild Sheep Enterprises anyone?

I just wish he hadn't used the words 'earn the right' !!!

It's scary how this situation could materialize at just about any club, where a dodgy owner loses the run of themselves, or internal politics strangle a club. Even owners/execs with best of intentions can royally screw things up. What has happened at Accies over the last few years is just a whole other level though. How it took until now to deem their owner and chief execs as not fit and proper to run a football club beats me.

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Out of likes. But I concur!

What an absolute shambles at Accies, it’s been mismanaged for years and I really feel for them. For them to be punted out of Hamilton and playing in Cumbernauld and Clyde to be playing in Hamilton is an absolute sh1t show. I’ve never had any issue with Accies even though I know they don’t particularly like us. I hope they pull through this but it does not look good.

I play golf with a die hard Accies fan and he predicted in September they only had about a month till they would go bust. His timeline was a bit out but not by much. He only attends away games now, the move to Cumbernauld was a final straw for him and quite a few others. Hopefully it is administration and they can recover in some form.

The fairy tale

I fear they are, at best, heading into administration, and at worst, liquidating. It's been obvious for years now there has been some dodgy financial dealings going on there and, as always, it's the fans that get screwed over.

Agree. Welsh is a great aquisition, even on loan & adds a great deal to our previously pourous defence. If he gets noticed then brilliant, but theres a fair few c&a tinted glasses here. Pretty sure i read a number of 'awe naws' on here when we signed him. 🤣

I think teams will struggle against us even though they will know how we play because I think we have already learned that if they press us high then we will use longer ball more. Once they combat that then we will revert to playing from the back. Most teams end up only pressing high for a short time amd so, yes, there may be difficult periods in a game but overall I think teams are not set up to be successful against our style of play.

I'm guessing they dont care that much about getting paid.

I think we're getting carried away here. If the above was true Welsh would be getting a game for Celtic. We're rating the current scotland center backs (that qualified for a world cup) based on their performances against other international teams, but bigging up Stephen Welsh based on performances against Hibs and Hearts. Also, Clarke isnt going to change the teams style to acommodate one player, nevermind a motherwell player. Hanley and our style aside, all of those other CBs would walk into our team.

Scott Leitch and Shaun ‘fingers’ Fagan joining new boss Darian Mackinnons 1st team coaching staff at Accies after John Rankins departure

You should have kept schtum, I hadn't noticed, but now you mention it.........🤣🤣

Back in July I took a few pelters when I said that, given we were never going to win the league, what I hoped for was to be entertained by the team. Turns out there were a few more that wanted the same as me.

McGlynn seems to be more tactically astute than the other managers we've faced for a second time, so it will be interesting to see how he sets Falkirk up, as he clearly made the right changes to turn thimgs around when they played us at FP.

My ticket hasn’t arrived through the post so I am expecting to pick something up at Falkirk.

I meant to write "punditry" 😱. Apologies.

Fair play to our Chairman and Board for recognising that and actually procuring managers with the right ethos. Easier said than done, but by Christ have they delivered so far.

Im unable to click on any of the links in news articles, or even select the text to paste it in a browser. The Livingston game is back on the fixture list though, so progress.

Agree with a lot of the above. I began in 1962, after Ian St John and Pat Quinn had left the club, but there was still the belief in the Bobby Ancell philosophy of quick passing and movement and what might call "pure football". In those days there was a certain pride in supporting such a team, which had famously gubbed Rangers 2-5 in a Scottish Cup replay at Ibrox (the awful 0-1 defeat to Airdrieonians at FP in the next round was claimed by some to be one reason Sinjy agreed to a move to Liverpool). Our manager seems to have a similar philosophy based on more progressive continental ideas and he seems to have annoyed a section of Scottish pundrity by having the temerity to buck the trend for smaller clubs to grind out results, relying on physicality and set-piece routines to avoid the spectre of relegation. I am Sure J-B will stay true to his principles and that he will strengthen the club gradually by shrewd recruitment (no other way for a club of our size). Our midfield is the best I can remember, our defence has been strengthened significantly by Welsh (who was faultless against Hearts and has excellent distribution from the back) and if we can develop a striker in-house or find one in January (unlikely) to score regularly we could cement our top four place. The increase in our attendances shows that fans have an appetite for such creative football as opposed to the usual "hod-carrier" stuff practised by many Scottish clubs. It will be interesting to see how such teams adapt when they play us in the second half of the season. Strap yourselves in for an exciting ride (I hope).

While my post was slightly tongue in cheek, we've played everyone and I can see nothing to fear in anyone we've played. No-one has come close to dominating us (except Celtic) and remember this 'transformation' is only really a few months in and JBA hasn't yet had a full window to work in. We are as good as anyone in the league, possibly lacking the depth of Celtic, but that's it. There's no reason we can't stay at the top end of the league. Only thing we have against us is history.

The media team is getting better no?