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Although, TBF, it's mostly posters on here that are creating the speculation. I imagine the club has plenty to take care of right now than reading through this thread and responding.

Sometimes players leave. Sometimes business decisions are made to release players. Sometimes, players are offered contracts and the don't want to sign them (difficult to believe that one, I know). A lot of people on here love to get furious over half baked stories and fictional contract details.

I'm guessing either transmissions from aliens or his dug is talking to him.

Renege. “You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means”

Because it literally makes no sense. Every eligible player has the option to sign for us if we ask them. Or are you saying he has a contract where he can force us to sign him even if we don't want him?

The club didn't "renege" on any part of his deal. They had an option, not a commitment. If they decided not to exercise that option, no promises were broken.

Maybe the 2 years is linked to his coaching duties with the youngsters. So he can still earn his keep even if he's not playing.

Marinello, Davidson, Graham and Pettigrew. Not a bad quartet of talent.

Yes. We did pretty well before we signed him (best of the rest, and all that). He didn't keep us out of the playoffs when we did. Despite his contribution last season, if we need a cheaper option then we can afford to lose him.

We should offer to pay him in dollars.

I used to enjoy the time when you came back from you summer holidays and read about the changes to your team in a small paragraph on the inside pages of the sports section.

The window doesn't close until Sept 1st this year and, while it's not ideal bringing someone in late into preseason, there is still plenty of time to make a signing or two. Unless Law is being punted, let's not forget he is a midfielder too.

I was thinking the same about the Laing-midfield experiment. Maybe he'll get a pre-season there to see how it goes. As for Pearson, I imagine if he expressed an interest in the move McGhee (like most managers) decided not to stand in his way; which is reasonable. I assume we have a list of targets for each position and look forward to see who we bring in.

He'll get called worse the first time he get caught out of position and loses a goal.

Footballers typically only come up with 3 variants of nicknames. Add a 'y' (Faddy) Shorten the existing name (Marv, Las) Add an 'o' (Pearo) So looks like he will end up being a Taito.

Bring Grimshaw back. He hasn't had a game since he left us.

And it was in the classic "grab a black and white shirt off the shelf and slap a club badge on it" style.

Just make sure we don't give him access to this site.

I wish they would play somewhere else. Until that time, given the amount of money they have sucked out the game, I'm happy to extract every last penny from them before they leave.

Aye, I can't remember the last friendly I enjoyed. Probably the Liverpool game that we had for our anniversary celebrations - although that was obviously not pre-season. Prior to that, probably Ajax.

The authorities conferred special status on them by creating a League that allowed them to play 4 OF games a season. They then conferred a 2nd special status to them by granting them automatic entry into the bottom tier. The other clubs granted them special status by allowing the voting structure to remain in favour of the OF. There's not a whole lot we can do about that as fans except complain and/or not go to matches. So given the above, all this particular discussion boils down to: if we are forced to have this mob in our league, should we care if we can't make a similar amount from them as our peers? The stupidity of the split, and the voting system and the TV payments, and the prize pool and the media domination are much larger issues and unlikely to ever be addressed unless we see the day when the bigot twins leave the SPFL.

Exactly. With a club like ours, you need a rich fan who is happy to run the club at or around breakeven, with no expectation of ever making a profit. Otherwise you might end up with an asset stripper who will sell the ground and piss off to Colombia before a new ground is built.

And some superb players too. That kit looked great under the floodlights.

Guys like Ross McCormack and Dom Thomas were released. As was Skippy. There can be all sorts of reasons behind it. Not all bad.

Boyle tried forever to sell. The issue he had was finding a buyer with the club's best interest at heart.