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I don't think it's about the teams traveling. More an idea to get more supporters out. Having said that, the group format can result in lots of meaningless games. Or at least it did the last time they tried it.

An injury that means you are a yard of the pace now and don't get into position to tackle? A leg injury that you worry about hurting again and pause for a second before you commit? An injury that means you didn't train for a while and you lost your timing? Like I said, he might not have turned into a SPFL player, but I doubt he came all the way through Celtic's youth set up without being able to tackle, do you? Maybe we were just unlucky and he played a few blinders when he was on trial with us.

No idea about Straker, but Chalmers had a decent CV coming through the youth ranks but was released because some injuries hampered his progress. Seemed like a decent chance to take, but obviously didn't work out.

It was a great day and I have a few good stories to tell about it. My overriding memory, however, is at the end of 90 minutes how exhausted I was. Can't imagine how the players felt, but it was an amazing effort the way they picked themselves up and really took the game to Utd. again - especially in the first half of extra time. Two other memories are surveying the stadium at half time, not quite believing we were ahead in a Cup Final, and Ally's save right at the end. Good times shared with all my 'Well supporting mates - and Accies supporting mates who also came along.

That's a very young looking Fergie. To be fair, he didn't exactly endear himself to the Accies fans either despite his minor celebrity status.

Just like the Well Society Overseas Members' experience...

About the same here - although sometimes it feels much (much) longer.

I don't know. How much has the club paid out in wages to loanees? Do you have the figures? I know that, typically, the parent club pays a portion. Given that some of our loanees ensured 2nd and 3rd place prize money for a number of years, plus some Europa Cup earnings, can you offset that against their pro-rated wages and let me know the results. I'll be happy to discuss your figures.

We've done pretty well in manipulating the Bosman rules to good effect too. Christ Porter and Giles Coke spring to mind. Plus Ojamaa and Anier were clever pieces of business that people tend to overlook. Of course, for years people said we should follow the Dundee Utd model. Maybe not so much now.

I never mentioned Chalmers anywhere. But if you think it was a good idea to play Marvin at left back in a meaningless game where the best we could take away was maybe playing some pressure free football and scoring a few goals, then fair enough. I prefer my creative players in areas they can do some damage.

Stories in the papers about our signings are usually a mile out. I can see us ending up with a couple of loans, but only in positions where it makes sense.

The option was any one of our available defenders. I know we are weak in the full back positions - especially left back, but given that this was a meaningless game, at least let our creative players have a chance of a goal or two. Of course we are weak in the left back position, but give me a defender back there any time. Any time we have been hammered in recent seasons it's been when managers tried to shuffle players into unnatural positions. Given the meaningless nature of the game, I'd just have set us up to attack and see if we could add a few more goals to our strikers' stats. Let them go out and enjoy themselves for 90 minutes. We won there the last time because we took the game to them.

I'm fine with bringing in some fringe players or U20s. But experimenting with our best attacking threat at left back was pointless.

I thought the system they used over here to rank College Football Teams was the most complicated. Looks like I was wrong.

I thought Kennedy's contract expired in 2017. EDIT: seems like I thought correctly.

While overall I am very much in the pro-McGhee camp, there are certainly games where I think he has lost the plot. Certainly, he tries to be too clever sometimes and overthinks himself. His quote today about Marvin being fine at left back because his is a good athlete, is one example given that left back is all about tackling and, more importantly, positioning. For all that, however, I don't care who the manager is, every player is responsible for their own professionalism, effort and performance. Far too many today had chucked it before kick off, and that is basically cheating the paying fans. I'm still satisfied with 5th place, but as others have said, a weak capitulation leaves a bad taste in the mouth for the summer.

I don't expect blood and guts in a meaningless end of season game, but the minimum I do expect is a professional application of effort. I'm sure they were all expecting to be paid today. Maybe they can donate some of it to the mugs they asked to pay to watch. It's borderline dishonest.

Of course he's in the headlines for a few recent games, but he went from occasional sub at Fir Park to regular sub at Falkirk. This thread makes it seem he is knocking them in every week for Arsenal. He has time to improve, but even now he's not as good as the guys that were keeping him out our first team.

A question I've often asked and I honestly can't think of one name.

If you're seriously suggesting we'd have been better off with McHugh instead of Moult, you need some rehab over the summer. McHugh has been on the bench most of the season at a Championship team. He still has time to improve, but right now that appears to be his level.

Glad he's doing OK, but even at Falkirk his regular starting position is on the bench.

The U20 releases are always a tough call, and not always talent based. A combination of wanting to bring other players through, lack of likely opportunity in the 1st team and a necessarily small squad size means tough decisions to be made. As usual, though, it's rare we release somone who goes on to better things.

There's certainly a few too many people who deal in ridiculous tabloid levels of hyperbole and speculation in an attempt to make their tenuous points. I'll leave that as an exercise to the interested reader to work out who they might be.

The average age of defenders Hall, Kennedy, Laing and Law is 22.5. Not exactly old.

Not too bothered which, given our first half of the season, is a nice position to be in. I'd have been happy to avoid the play-offs and expected to be 7th or 8th this season. 5th is a decent return on a season where we didn't start playing until February, but would nice to sign off with another win at Parkhead.