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I'm not saying he was great, but to put things in perspective we have 8 forwards on our books right now. JT is the top scorer. AP scored more league goals than the other 7 have combined. If you want to throw Luca Ross's first team appearances in the mix, AP scored more league goals than the other 8 have combined. He also took a better penalty than JT.

Lennon Miller starts tonight against Inter Milan. That's good timing if he wants to remind the new Scotland boss he exists.

I don't that quite captures the welcoming and "safe place to fail" ethos that has helped create our current level of success.

We were a bit off it, but a self-inflicted 1 - 0 defeat at Ibrox at the end of an 11 games in 37 days run, wasn't that poor.

I agree with that, and there's a question or two worth asking. To your point, has the 1.5 million been adjusted for the rise in costs since 2011? Also, if we haven't met that target yet, why not wait until we do? Of course, given the time some of these projects take, and the process to approve, I don't have a problem planning ahead.

I imagine that's in part due to the better financial package in the newer Premiership structure. First of all there is a parachute payment if you are relegated, and secondly there is more money when you finish last. Livi's share of league prize money was just over 1.5 million when they were relegated. I'd also imagine our finances are more stable than they were in 2011. Not that I'd want to be relegated, but at least you are going down with more money in your pocket. If you stay there for 3 or 4 years, then that is a different story.

Not even that distant. Great grandson, apparently.

At the risk of tempting fate, I haven't seen anything to worry about in normal time when they had 11 on the park.

We have a winner! Not the most difficult question, but made me laugh when I read the quote.

See if you can guess which one of our ex-managers is quoted here. : -- "Ex Manager" knows he will be a real asset when he gets up to speed. He confirmed: “He can play anywhere across a front three and a 3-4-3, a 4-3-3, a 4-4-2 "He's quite versatile. He can play wing-back as well. He's played left wing-back at times. A real attacking option from one of the wing-backs. "He gives me numerous options" ---

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Not any more or less concerned about this game than the others. The hard truth in this league is if you're not at it, any team can take a point or three from you. If we are at it, I think we can win by a goal or three. Robbo, of course will be trying to kick us off the park.

He could have been at Fir Park if he wanted to, but chose the bright lights and glamour of Norfolk instead.

I'll be honest. I haven't had much time to read all the details, but that approach does make more sense, at least for the smaller clubs. I hope that is only to start discussion, however, or as others have said, it could end up a bit of a damp squib. We need to find a path for the youngsters to get meaningful competitive game time appropriate for their level.

A punt is just slang for a speculative investment that we hoped would make us money, but you knew that. The guy had just scored 17 goals in 25 games before he joined us, so it was a calculated risk if you want to split hairs on terminology. Eli Just was deemed no use to his parent club and pushed out to 2nd tier Austrian League loan obscurity. That was also a punt, but that one worked out.

I'd rather see incentives instead of punishment when it comes to developing youngsters, but I'm not sure what form they should take.

To be fair, I'd trust every national team selector above Scotland's.

Miles better. I don't mind that we took a punt on AP. We need to keep looking in different markets for players. Sometimes you get a Priestman sometimes you get an AP. Just and Watt were punts that worked, and we have taken a few more this season that look like they might work out. In fact our hit rate has been pretty high recently, so statistically we're due for a couple of absolute Casagoldas. Although I see he did hit 51 goals in 87 appearances for his last club, Crossing Schaerbeek, on Belgium. So he did find his level in the lower leagues there.

Other than the KDM Evolution Trophy as it's called this season, the youngsters have no competitive games. No U20 league, no reserves. So the choices boil down to going out on loan or staying at the club and hoping for the odd first team 5 minutes. I'd like to hear more about Alfred's perspective as in his last presser he started to discuss how they had made it successful in Sweden.

Didn't work out in the end, but better than our Alex Fisher/Jordan White/Jacob Blyth tier of non-scoring strikers.

He got an early start. Coming on as a sub after 15 mins

I just hope Alfred doesn't continue our long standing tradition of injuring 3 or 4 key players during our week off.

That's quite possibly because nobody has looked for it, asm the OF in particular, don't want to ask the question "what is the best way to make Scottish football more competitive and distribute income in a more equitable manner?"

You can't persuade me. I'm still going with 90%

I'm not saying I know better, I'm saying there has been a huge improvement in the quality of the teams that didn't manage a win at Ibrox for 20 years, and now we have team with a track record of winning at Ibrox in recent games. That has set some expectations amongst fans that think we should be winning there more often now. That may even be true later in the season. The cold hard facts this weekend are that we still have a load of new players that have had little time to train together, have never played at Ibrox, are mentally tired from a glut of games over the past few weeks with little respite, and were up against a team that spent approximately 24 times our outlay this summer. The fact that we underperformed by our early season standards yet only lost by one goal is an improvement from the years where we played at our best and lost by 3 or 4 goals. There is a fundamental truth, however, that the OF will continue to outspend us by orders of magnitude to keep their standing in the top 2 slots in the league. There will he blips, and teams like us have split them in the past. That doesn't mean we will always hit top form in these games or win when we do. I do think there has been an overreaction to the defeat yesterday from some fans.