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Go back to splitting gate receipts, let them get their revenue from their TV streams and hospitality, revoke 90% member voting and rebuild Scottish football.

Im not gonna sit here and say Connor Wilkinson is great. He clearly isnt. But I think he does have a decent touch and looks like he can finish. Unfortunately he has no pace or physical attributes to back that up. My biggest problem with his signing is that our tactics and playing style dont suit the kind of player he is. If all he had to do was time his run into the box and wait for it to arrive he would probably do alright and score an acceptable number of goals. But the way we are set up and the inflexibility in our squad to change it means he looks seriously out of place and out of his depth. Thats very much on the manager and the recruitment team.

I only know 25 letters of the alphabet......I don't know y

In the words of the late Danny Blanchflower, we’ll have to equalize before they score.

Don't think we'll get pumped tbh. Watched their last 2 games and they created next to nothing in the way of clear cut chances despite having the bulk of play. They'll get their usual penalty though.

And one for the old folks……..”Snow White thought 7 up was lemonade till she discovered Smirnoff.”

7 dwarfs in the bath all feeling happy so happy got out disgusted BOOM

Boom Boom

oft ffs getting very petty on here lads lets get back to some normal drivel

Dawes should be out the door. I rather move him on than SK. Was looking at some of the players we had on our books not long before Dawes took over. Carson, Gillespie, Aldred, Gallagher, Watt , Turnbull, Campbell . Crikey even likes of Cole, Long, Grimshaw and Donnelly begin to look decent compared to some of our most recent signings. I'm stunned he's not been released. He's cost us a fortune.

Far too much long winded pish to⁷ say this has feck all to do with the thread topic.

It's probably impossible to have a reasoned discussion on this topic without individuals nailing their colours/biases/misunderstandings to the mast, so maybe let’s move on and return this thread to a discussion about former players.

Nah. We'll raise our game like we did against Celtic and come away with a narrow defeat.

I am not piling on, I am adding my tuppence worth to broaden out your point. I think the wider fiscal context is important to consider when discussing the new tax rates for Scotland. What do people living and working in Scotland get for 'free' at the point of service/provision that they would have to pay for in England? And does that 'saving' outweigh or balance with the extra taxation? Succinctly, and for example, some will now pay more tax in Scotland to help pay for certain public services and education, whereas those equivalent pay less tax in England but have to pay for certain public services and education. Progressive taxation allows people living and working in Scotland to access public services, which footballers also need and use. Therefore, I think the new tax brackets are ultimately a moot point to footballers, and everyone else earning a good wage in Scotland, when the wider fiscal context is understood, which I am sure most sensibly-minded people in Scotland are aware of. It's pretty depressing to see those earning £100K+ per year complaining in the media recently about having to pay a few extra pence of tax on the pound when the average salary of those around them is about a third of what they're earning. Tl;dr - we get things for 'free' in Scotland as we pay tax to get them; they pay for things in England as they don't pay the same levels of tax required to get them for 'free'. I realise this is a simple summary, but it's also based on fact.

If we get beat on Sunday he has to go.

Before folk start to pile in, this NOT a political post, purely factual. Most of our top league players are paid £50,000 per year or more and many over £100,000. Recent tax changes being brought forward in Holyrood mean that they will be paying more tax playing in Scotland than in England (roughly £1.5K annually at £50K to £7.5K annually at £200K). At best that'll make very little difference to Scots' clubs attrativeness to English based players, or ability to retain our own youngsters, but at worst it could make it considerably worse. Just another ingredient in the mix in our ongoing battle with English or foreign clubs.

Exactly this!I said 2 months a ago i am puzzled what sort of football Kettlewell set out to play with these signings i really cant work out what he was thinking signing Bair and Wilkinson,Obika as our frontline as Forwards but we have no wingers to whip the ball into them. cause you are not going to get darting runs out them thats for sure. After last tranfer window i am dreading this transfer window if i could give someone a free transfer it be Nick Daws but he is only 50 percernt of the blame cause i am pretty sure Kettlewell would have gave him attributes what he needs in players so only found what he was probably tasked to do.

Absolutely agree, but the stakes are too high to give youngsters the chance to learn (and make inevitable mistakes and form dips). A sixteen or eighteen team division might though. In my lifetime (which is a long fuckin' time by the way) every change that has been made to Scottish football has made things worse. The move away from Div 1 and 2 in 1975 was supposed to 'make football more competitive and improve the international team' and all the reincarnations of the 10/12 team top division since have literally made things worse, although, for me, the biggest and potentially fatal blow is TV, which ploughs BILLIONS into the EPL, which trickles to the championship and below but not to Scotland. I said in an earlier post that English Sky money is the very reason we're compteting financially with Tier 4/5/6 sides for players. I'd much rather see a league set up with proper financial sustainability rules, that stops the likes of Rangers only existing because of constant shareholder and investor 'soft loans' and teams, while free to buy and atract players, have to breed their own and crucially, can't build up debt year after year after year. I could go on all night about this, but basically, finance has fucked Scottish football, whether it be Celtic and Rangers spunking money to try to compete in Europe, or the rest of the SPL teams spending money they don't have to try and compete with Celtic and Rangers or stay in top league to keep the income the SPL gets from TV. Lets get rid of Celtic and Rangers out the league, make teams live within their means and that will ensure a more competitive league.

I'm pro Kettlewell, in the sense that I think constantly firing managers is one of the factors that's taking the club backwards. However, let's be honest about this, we have to beat Livingston. We can't go 17 without a win and then fail to beat Livingston at home.

McMahon has been chairman for over a decade, clubs our size don't have professional directors or chairman. Weir has been involved for a similar period, has been on the SPL board and is overqualified for the job he has been doing on a part time basis. Neither of the two could be described as amateurs by anyone who isn't a moron. You see wee buzzwords emerge in our support then idiots keep on parroting them because they see other idiots getting social media likes. Ask them to explain in detail and it will just be vague nonsense like that reply.

Johnson and Ainsworth too. Always felt that team could have done a bit more, although maybe unfair as they did finish 5th.

Bet that ruined your Christmas