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I’ve mixed feeling on this, I can see where Dennyc is coming from and can broadly agree with it - although I’m confused with the egotistical Hutchison part as a guy who gives the club £1m, doesn’t put any conditions on what’s done with it and doesn’t ask for it back ain’t very egotistical in my book. On the main point of the - potential - future of the club, yes there seems to be benefits in some sort of tie in with others and at this moment in time there appears to be decent protection against investors screwing clubs but that can change and is possibly why people are investing so I’m nervous about that. Having said that the potential downside that we could be left dropping further behind our competitors and those below us leaving us a championship team or worse means that I think we must seriously look at the options before ruling them out.

Although I don’t like the idea of losing him to StMirren, I like less the idea the someone isn’t allowed to sort out their future before their contract is up - any of us can leave a job with a normal 3 month notice meaning the person doesn’t spend a few weeks without a wage.

Should we? I’d definitely like us to be in that position or higher but we are where we are because of a mixture of poor performances and bad luck.

FFS, the guys been gone a few years now and playing in the same league as us so we’re all aware of how he’s getting on - do we really need to keep discussing him? I can understand talk of him moving on and potential money we would get but this chat is just pish.

Spittal, with two goals would normally be MotM for me but unfortunately his set pieces today - apart for the free kick goal - were honking. It looked to me that he was trying to score from every corner and Morrison lapped that up. Gent, Montgomery and Davor all played well and it was tight between them although I went for Gent in the end.

Suspect Lennon Miller is on the bench so that he gets paid more for being in the squad rather than expecting him to play.

Aye but can he not “play anywhere across the front three”

Is Ross not a striker - or have folk written him off already?

Gent was a shout before his mistake but I thought Kelly had a good game today, came for crosses and had a great save

We played half the team out of position today

A good discussion but I’ve a feeling that this board had a similar one a few years ago where I think it was discussed how the club was using this type of analytics to unearth gems from the lower / foreign leagues along with personal in game tracking to monitor/ improve our players. I seem to recall folk saying how using this data alongside watching / scouting would improve the quality of our signings. The thing is that if every club is doing the same using the same data/ technology in the same way then we are now in a position of trying to sell ourselves as a club to these players who are getting similar or better offers from other clubs. I’m sure we’ve had a few managers who have lamented our lack of facilities, wage constraints etc as reasons for not being able to entice players to join us which in my view is a major reason to why we are in the shite position we are in. Unfortunately I don’t see any way out of this situation.

On today’s performance I was

You did read my 2nd comment that you quoted?

I’d class them all as strikers but not on today’s performance

3 so called strikers on and 1 shot on target

Shit game on a shit surface but we’re living dangerously - and that was never a foul by Spencer

Definitely need to get back to winning ways

Naive from Miller, should have pleaded his innocence and at least stayed on the park until the VAR check was completed. Walking off just gave VAR an excuse not to look at it properly

O’Donnell just pipped it, looked solid, defended well, had some good crosses and passed well - thought he wasn’t at fault for the goal as he had come in to cover or the guy would have had a free header.

Doesn’t look like our day.

We’ve been restricted to shots from outside the box, need to change things up for the last 15

No matter what his wage was I’d like to see the freed up cash used to offer improved, extended contracts to a couple of the squad rather than spent on another mediocre striker who may or may not improve our frontline.

He definitely had an injury last season while on loan but I’m not sure if he’s injury prone

Beireth’s injury was due to a horrendous tackle which would have sidelined many a player so I think anyone can put him in the made of glass basket yet.

I’m hopeful that Bair can play the same type of role as Fletcher at half the cost. Fletcher isn’t a great contributor of goals but can noise up a defence and so far Bair seems to be warming to that role. I’d still love to see him get a few goals but it’s early days so let’s see how he develops.