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Another thing I learned!

Reading the announcement I also learned that Owen Coyle is working at Nottingham Forest.

I trust Jens to make the right call, but I wasn't joking about his show reel. Two and a half minutes of him scoring, and 15 minutes of him not scoring. A little strange for a striker. Also, if you watch the section on "Shooting" it's not overly impressive. If he can stick the ball in the back of the net for us, then that's all that matters.

Good guy, bad defender. Hope it works out for him back at Sligo.

Our history against teams in that sort of form is that we usually beat them. No doubt the times we don't will stick in your mind, but if you want a recent example of playing a team in that sort of form you only need to look as far back as the last time we played (and beat them). See also Livingston and St Mirren.

Biggest problem has been the weather I would imagine. I don't know if we still have UV lights, but my recollection is that we only used them on the penalty boxes. Have we had to use the undersoil heating at any point? That is normally a contributor.

Let's destroy McCann and Doddsy with a new striker and then have them on Sportscene in the evening to analyse our performance.

The cup tie thing is obviously nonsense, because they can just make not playing in the cup a condition of any loan. For all we know Welsh might have agreed to play tonight so Motherwell would be the only option for his next loan and the Board can't entertain any other offers now. It doesn't really matter, though. Celtic need to take care of their business and we need to take care of ours. If there is a beneficial overlap - great; If not, then we move in another direction.

Every time I've seen us win the cup we beat Aberdeen away.

I actually meant "many" but point still stands. TBH, I'd have been looking for a replacement anyway, as you can't depend on loans. But I'd be happy enough to see him back, and maybe give him the notion to sign a deal next season.

Have we lost any games when he didn't play?

What if we lose our next cup match?

It's a pretty rough business to be in. I read somewhere there were over 1000 pubs closed in the UK last year.

I think he'd have to be sold to them, though - not on loan. The FIFA rule says you have to complete your contractual obligations at your previous club before you can play for another one with "overlapping seasons" - so his current contract would need to be terminated by a transfer. Or, at least, that's how I was reading it.

It's a FIFA rule - Article 5 apparently, if you want to track it down for read. You can only play for 2 clubs in a season. (You can be registered for a maximum of 3 in a season, but you can only play for 2).