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“Deserve to”? No, the only position a football club deserves to finish is the one it earns through results on the pitch. How well run they are will inevitably affect that over a period of time, but any other definition of who deserves to win what is getting into delusional ugly sister territory.

Obviously pretty much impossible to predict until our business is done and our preferred starting 11 becomes apparent. But I wouldn't be surprised to see us finish one place either side of the split, and would be pretty happy with that given the major rebuild we've had to do.

14 years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_cups/6234049.stm

There's even a CGI version these days, grandad. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/thunderbirds-review-new-thunderbirds-are-go-series-2015

Possibly, but sound like they're only looking to loan him out, so he's not likely to be going anywhere better, especially if he'd prefer to come back north.

I'm not even that bothered about how we do in the League Cup group, it's just some extra pre-season games these days, though of course we wouldn't want to be papped out at that stage. Serious business starts on day 1 of the league.

Hang on, I thought folk loved last year's, and the year's before that...?

I agree it's not the only fair way, but (as a non-ST holder but probably on the more generous end of the Well Society donation scale) I find it hard to be overly-critical here. They've never had to do this before, the situation is still changing almost daily, and regardless, it seems like a fairly well-established principle now that being a season ticket holder is no longer *just* about which gate you go in on a Saturday, but occasionally offers other advantages too.

I thought you were meant to be a day ahead in Oz, not two days behind :-P

Would guess it'll cost us in wages and potential sell-ons instead, but yes... certainly a refreshing change of approach, let's hope it works out for all concerned.

Everyone keeps saying that, but I've given up waiting for it all to collapse, just like I gave up waiting for Rangers going into administration again. There are plenty of rich mugs willing to keep pumping the money in to keep the whole charade going.

Sad news indeed, remember him back from the original Exiles Club that he (I think?) set up back in the 90's.

There might be, but these days he’d probably be hounded out before he got through his initial “falling over every time he got the ball” phase.

Since they only moved up a week or two back, that would be a surprisingly instant dislike.

I'd pretty much forgotten he ever played for us. If it's any consolation, he was worse at Man Utd, and they paid us £100k for him.

We had 3 each, if you believe Transfermarkt, and Bowman picked up 4 yellows and no reds if you believe Soccerbase. I dare say I wouldn't have enjoyed watching Rangers that year either though

I certainly don't believe we elbowed our way to the final, we absolutely got there on merit. I've just never particularly enjoyed watching niggly feckers being niggly feckers, whether they're ours or anyone else's.

I kind of get what he means. Yes two cup finals, but they were pretty devoid of footballing entertainment from our point of view. And while I know a lot of folk think things like big Ryan bursting Cardoso's nose was hilarious, I'd much rather watch us running rings round teams than battering them off the park.

Would be surprised if Celtic let him go after less than a season given the job they had signing him, but money talks I suppose.

He doesn't have much choice unless somebody else wants him.

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Seems to have synced up now, just in time for us to take the lead! Fair play to the ground staff btw, pitch looks like first day of the season.

Not available to me here, sadly. Magloire doing what he does best, there.

Yep, commentary a few seconds ahead for me currently.

Dearie me.