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You keep being a miserable sod and let us keep getting carried away. Its the Ying & Yang of Steelmenonline! 🧡❤️🧡

He is a lot younger than me! But Im still playing 7s at 56, so I can still empathise! There's no substitute for regular game time (and staying off the drink!) 😆😆😆

Good wee vid! Always nice to get an outsiders perspective!

Here Here! Have said it for long enough, might be past his best put pulls the jersey on and gives 110% every week, not many players are as loyal to clubs these days as SOD has been to us. You will probably find he will be better suited to cameo appearances this season, he's a great option to bring off the bench for experience to see games out etc...

I think it really could be a season that we finish anywhere from 3rd to 10th. I don't think Aberdeen or Hearts are going to be that much better than they were last season. McIness has been around for a long time and it a decent Scottish Manager but he is a safe pair of hands rather than a revolutionary. I think Hibs will be the strongest of the city teams. My concern is that for all the Scottish Managers are not the best at providing silky modern football, they are generally street wise and are fairly adept at sucking the life out of any team that is trying to play an expansive game. Kettlewell, McIness, Robinson, Goodwin ( don't know much about Falkirk's style) all fall into that category and if they can work out a way to nullify out threat and JBA struggles for a plan B we could suffer. Celtic struggled to a victory against a well organised St Mirren on Sunday so it will be no easy task to break these teams down. I am hoping that there will be no answer for our new style but experience of watching Scottish football tells me that the standard tends to get dragged down to the lowest common denominator. With the new additions to the squad I am confident that we will not be fighting relegation. I think the game against St Mirren will tell us a lot. I am going to go for the right side of the middle ground and go for 6th in the top half along with Celtic, Rangers, Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen. That would represent a huge step forward particularly if it was entertaining along the way.

From a German fan who came over for the game

Was trying to work out who the Scottish guy was pitchside with Andy H , then realised it was lovenkrands 🤣

Completely agree. Jens will only leave if he does well and a bigger team go in for him and he wants to go. Nothing to indicate he won't stay with us long term.

Jeez how to kill the mood!! I would like to think we didn't allow Rangers to play and they were fortunate to get a point. Yes things needing improved but it's the first game of the season under a new manager and new style. Only way JB will leave us will be if he gets pinched by a bigger team. I know it's hard but can you try and be positive just for once....go on......you can do it 🤪🤪

I still play weekly 8 a sides, 2 weeks ago tried to outpace a 17yr old, my quote being " feck sake...i am 3 times his age plus VAT" 🤣🤣

I think we will finish in the top 12. 🤔

And it's not sitting in that helps the style we want to play. It's more difficult to play high tempo, high press against a parked bus.

I'm unsure why all the pundits seem to be having Falkirk quite high. Think they'll eventually struggle tbh. Not even as if they ran away with the Championship. Was won on last day. Premiership is a different Kettle of fish.

I only saw the 2nd half and Shankland hardly touched the ball, he was anonymous, for me hes vastly overrated. I agree though both teams looked average at best, nothing to fear from either of them.

2nd. Remember, you heard it here first.

Perhaps I am wrong but I thought he just left with no deal agreed between the Clubs. Same as Cadden years ago. Contract expired. That’s how the media reported it at the time anyway. Correct me if you find out differently. So we would only have gotten Training Compensation up front which was quoted as between £250k or £300k depending upon which report you believe. And then we would be due an additional Solidarity Fee from any subsequent cross border transfer up to (I think) age 23. Based on years developed from ages 12 to 21. So we get rewarded for developing him for only 7 years as he left us age 19. The calculation of our ‘windfall’ using my limited arithmetic. Based on £1.4m . 7/9 of 5% of £1.4m. So a miserly £55k. 5% is the amount automatically deducted from the transfer fee for sharing amongst the Clubs that develop a player. Derby might be more money and a route to bigger things in England. But sadly even if he then moved for gazillions to Chelsea, we would be due nothing as that transfer would not be cross border. Better for us if SG tell Derby to bugger off and then sell him to an Italian Club for the £3m they want. (£120k for the good guys). After a year he can then get that huge transfer to Chelsea or Liverpool. We then get rewarded twice. Wishful thinking I know! I hope that all makes sense.

Just a shame he feels the need to head to the dressing room as quickly as possible once the final whistle goes. Understandable given the abuse he gets from some arseholes in our support. Guy might be past his best and no longer a first choice, injuries having taken their toll. . Always gives his best...whether good or bad...and happy to settle for whatever role our Manager asks him to play. Yesterday showed he can contribute when given the chance.

SOD was superb when he came on. Pinged a few cross field passes about to perfection and managed to noise up one of their lot into getting themselves booked.