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Although not sad for our bank balance.

It must be bad if that pair of egos are struggling.

A few good performances today, although I wasn't exactly overjoyed to see our defence ship another soft one today. I went with Davor this time. Tidy performance and rarely put a foot wrong. Hopeful he will establish a good partnership with Miller. Delighted to see Gent get his goal though. Just hope he's not performing at a level that sees another parent club recall.

He's lucky Scottish football is such a poor standard or Thistle would have really gubbed them.

Team performance against The Wasps? Bee minus Now pick your man of the match...

Percentage of wages paid for young players on loan is also something that can help out with their Financial Fair Play regulations. Given the ongoing Man City investigation, and the recent charges against Everton and Forest, I can imagine every EPL club is going over their balance sheet with a fine tooth comb. The good news is nobody had a clue who he was before he joined us, and there are likely more players like him we might be able to bring in.

Zero chance we ditch him, regardless of results on Saturday. I'm glad to hear you have new found confidence in the recruitment plans though after a few seasons of posting they are all incompetent.

I thought it was only part of the plan that also included things like developing players from the academy (and ones we signed) and selling them on. Regardless, the other options at the time were selling the club to a dodgy property developer or the infamous South American investors. I think Weir is spot on when it comes to UEFA development fees. If those were correctly adjusted to reflect current transfer market rates we'd be in a much stronger financial position now with the youngsters that moved on.

I can't imagine, because I listen to literally nothing that Celtic fans say.

At least he'll have parking at Morrisons.

Was Butcher not the player everyone said transformed last season and couldn't wait to see him return to his "proper" position in midfield this season?

We're the 4th highest scorers in the league right now. We've conceded the most goals in the league. I'm no statto genius, but if I had money to spend on the team my first focus would be to address the goals conceded. Now that we have replaced Spencer, we also need to be looking to replace Slattery. Maybe then we can think about a striker, but I imagine Biereth, Obika and Bair are going to be ahead of him. As for KVV, I'm also one of the people who think we cashed in at a great time and don't really want to see him back. Loved him last season, but the timing of his move was perfect. The "next season" stats for all the strikers who have great seasons and move on make for poor reading. I won't repost them, but if you're interested, check out Coyne, Moult, Sutton etc. (and of course Kev himself) to see. I think Higdon is the only one that ever managed double figures the season after he moved on. Of course there's a chance he might recapture some of his form, but Kev being Kev, there's as good a chance he reverts to his more typical form of 7 or 8 goals a season. If we're looking for a loan, I'd rather we bring in another young Biereth type.

Or vastly underrated by some. We live in the social media world these days where every player can only be ranked as brilliant or crap. Nuance died with Twitter. It's amazing how all these useless players are so easily spotted by the fans, but manage to fool coaches and managers who have spent their entire adult lives in the professional game and whose livlihood depends on fielding their best available team every week.

I read Bair saying his second effort against Livi was only his second best ever goal. His best goal was the first one he scored in the MLS. I tracked it down - it was pretty good.

Quality thread. Will read again.

I doubt that video is our entire investment strategy.

I can take or leave the video, but it's obviously not meant to be a financial prospectus or the company accounts; just something to raise awareness. A prospective investor isn't going to make a decision based on 90 seconds of youtube.

A little late, but welcome update. I'd very much like to see more of these in the future.

So they've all been Grim Shaws?

Is now a good time to start the "Dempster Returns" rumour? https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/leeann-dempster-explains-queens-park-exit-as-ex-hibs-chief-calls-time-on-tenure-4468579

Amazing he hasn't worked in management since he was sacked over a year ago. He must have been waiting for our call.

To nick Al Franken's quote (about Senator Ted Cruz): I like Neil Lennon more than most of the other posters on here like Neil Lennon. And I hate Neil Lennon.

I was only joking - but I'm with you on this one.

So now we have freed up some cash for phase one of Operation Sulking Tulip, how soon before we hear about phase 2?

What's even more annoying is that you know if Hart (or any other keeper) had kicked a striker in the face who had lowered his head, he wouldn't even have been booked.