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I agree with you on this. Butcher was rotten on Saturday and we badly miss Miller. So, if Davor still isn't good enough to occupy the very position we desperately need to fill, then why the fuck was he signed? I suppose I could ask the same question of several of Kettlewell’s signings.

Correct.

Scoring 5 means we’ll likely concede 5 or 6.

VAR is re-refereeing games now, which isn't what it was implemented to do, so it's becoming more and more of a hindrance than a help. I'd keep it for offsides but bin it for the rest. I genuinely think fans will stop going to games, particularly those of an older vintage, as the joy of the game has been ruined and it's becoming toxic. And it's going to get worse the more the VARs are allowed to intervene with impunity.

Too much cough mixture. Four goals in seventeen appearances does not make him a good striker at this level. We need another striker capable of producing at least double that return instead of persisting with the likes of Shaw, Bair and Wilkinson. I leave Obika out of that, as he is head and shoulders above those three in terms of his ability and support play. Does Biereth have a twin?!

The weather forecast looks dry and misty, except maybe a little freezing. So, unless Mr Roy Fossil Fuel MacGregor forgets to put some money in the meter, I assume their undersoil heating will be turned on.

Tick tock.

That today was utter dogshite. All the draw does is paper over the cracks and delay the inevitable.

I think there is a balance to be struck that requires a significant reliance on and investment in development, which also costs and has both risk and reward. Or we continue as is.

We maybe wouldn't have to start anew every season if we had a bit more going on behind the scenes in terms of long-term planning, such as what David has been writing essays on here.

Whilst I agree with most of what you've been saying, I think a start would be for a young manager to not sign known duds and say what he's said. As you've outlined, it's a difficult enough task already for him to get it right, but he's fucked it here.

Yep, it's a pretty depressing yet accurate assessment.

I completely accept that it's commonplace to sign players who turn out to be duds. What isn't, however, is for a manager to state that a player is a project and that they're hanging their hat on them when all evidence points to the fact that the player was already a known dud, unfortuantely. My point is that I think he’s effectively backed himself into a corner by doing so. And I also don't think it's good for the player for the manager to put that level of pressure/expectation on them given the scenario.

And the Daily Record pretends that it employs journalists.

As I wrote previously, I, unfortunately, believe that Kettlewell signed his death warrant when he signed a striker known for their inability to score goals and sought to justify that bit of business by saying that he's hanging his hat on this project. We needed a goalscorer, not a 2-year project. I actually feel a bit of empathy for the player because he tries bloody hard for us and I want him to succeed, but it's not happening and all evidence before he was signed indicated that reality. It's ridiculous and naive of him to have signed that player and even more so to have said what he said in that interview. It also begs the question of his rationale for other signings, suggesting to me that analytics and common sense are probably double Dutch to Kettlewell, Daws and the Board. Fans are fickle and won’t forget this type of bold stupidity of playing fast and loose with our tight budget.

The only way Turnbull will get back into the Scotland squad is if he moves elsewhere, and I hope he does. Great player.

https://x.com/fcgroningen/status/1729806310823059495?s=20 Translation: Van Veen to Scotland for upcoming fatherhood. The striker is leaving today for an indefinite period back to Scotland and will assist his heavily pregnant girlfriend during the birth.

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And I heard Kettlewell signed more shite.

Except for the fact that all the teams around us have won at least one of their last 10 games.

Which of the last 10 games suggests that a win, let alone three on the trot, is likely?!

If Davor doesn't get some decent game time now that Miller and Slattery are both out, you’d imagine he'd be looking at his options come January as there is no way a guy used to starting games is gonna sit on the bench for another 1.5 years.

…to Kettlewell

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I like how your statement about Levein was also a question. In fact, it's much like Transfermarkt's assessment of the tactic he deployed in Prague.