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That Steelboy has so little to complain about that he's reaching to such depths to throw shade on Burrows tells us all we need to know about our pre-season so far. Decent signings in early doors, still more to come by the looks of it, European football (in some form) on the horizon, and we've still got our best player under contract and raring to go for the new season. What a time to be alive.

I wouldn't have let it get to this stage...but right now, the only fair way is to increase the size of the leagues

"get tae fuck hearts!!" they have breached memebrship rules by going to a domestic court, their only avenue to pursue this is through the Court of arbitration of sport in switzerland. fifa make all countries enter this into their laws. only way i can see this going is hearts and partick get their membership threatened to be revoked on the proviso that they drop proceedings in the domestic courts or they will simply be expelled and kelty and brora brought in. i dont know why people are not talking about this, rangers were threatened with this when they tried to go to court after after losing their memebership in 2012. and it was the main stipulation in them being assigned anaccellerated new membership in the spfl. doncaster needs to grow some stones and make a simple statement. "Decease or expulsion!!" if fifa get involved then our european football will be cancelled as all scottish teams will be banned from Europe, Scotland would be buggered too

He’s not going to ride you.

Who would have thought that handing titles to teams who didn't win them and relegating clubs that didn't deserve to be relegated would cause problems! Burrows hasn't mentioned anything to do with this in months. He obviously knows the SPFL have fucked it.

To be fair, in recent-ish times, the only young player who didn't get enough of a chance at us but went on to prove himself at our level is lawless. Even then you're going back 10 years. Could have been others but he's the only one that comes to mind, certainly not a common occurrence. I'd rather see us finding a way of keeping the likes of mckinstry, mcalear, etc. We know we're re never going to sign an international player, but we can develop one... but more often than not our top youth are poached before they reach the first team. Kind of makes you wonder "whats the point?" And I can see why falkirk (for example) have done away with their youth academy... however I'd never support us doing that. It is still pretty successful in spite of that.

The problem we faced recently is that we moved on most of our good youngsters, willingly or unwillingly. McKinstry, Hastie, Scott, McAlear and Cadden all left us and Turnbull would have too but for his injury. Given that one youngster a season claiming a first team spot is a pretty decent return, there is a lot of catching up to do there. Although we will be starting the season with Cambpell, Turnbull and Maguire in the frame - all of whom feel older than they actually are.

As has been mentioned on many occasions maybe There is nobody from the current youth squad good enough or able to step up to the 1st team, hence the need to bring players in.