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The point is to reduce the number of games so we can have a winter break without any fixture backlog. 36 or 38 games is too much for a wee country like ours.

At the start of the season I said that finishing 8th or 9th and building a more stable platform for next season would be a success for us. After all the turmoil pre-season (and now mid-season), that still holds true. Anybody who thought we would be challenging for anything more than mid-table after the overhaul of the team during the summer was always going to be disappointed. If we make it into the top 6, that will be a pretty decent achievement.

Aye, the SFA should just award us the tie every time we get drawn against a lower league team. All this "playing each other" is getting in the way of our cup run.

Increase the number of teams in the league to 16. Play each other twice. Winter break for a few weeks.

He arguably possessed more talent than any other Scottish footballer I have seen. Unfortunately, he only used it for about 2 minutes a game. The only player I have witnessed who could beat opposition defenders without moving.

You must have missed 'murder of crows'.

And talent.

I'd prefer the first step to be the season ticket letting you in to every home game - league, cup and friendlies. I can live with not including Euro games, but the others should always be included.

I'd still be wary of Calderwood, only because he was moaning during his last few months up north that he was tired of the SPL and found it was boring him.

The dole.

Actually, I was making the point that if you compare pound for pound entrance fees, we get a much higher standard in the SPL than the punters forking out 15 quid for non-league dross. I'll let you know in advance next time I plan to be facetious. Save you you further embarrassment.

She's got a better delivery than her old man, then.

Ebbsfleet charges 15 quid for a home game. I don't think you see many top players there.

Just need Billy Dodds to predict a draw and we have a banker.

Aye, I'm sure they are just a bunch of philosophical autodidacts singing a post-modern interpretation that uses irony to communicate their intellectual disagreement with the antisemitism still rife in parts of Europe. I get it noo.

McGhee had the same option, but didn't play them. Gannon showed he had sufficient contacts to bring in an entire squad of new players if required, but chose to go with a number of the youngsters. I think you're wrong on this one.

As much as I respect Jimmy Calderwood, we shouldn't be looking to him in the long term. When his term at Aberdeen was winding down, he kept going on about how he needed to look for a fresh challenge outside of Scotland and that he was getting bored with the SPL. Not the sort of outlook required.

Being so unfit you get out of breath walking to the pie stand is no grounds for adoration.

Just the opposite from when McGhee left then? Guy takes us to Europe 2 seasons in a row, gets us to 4th in the league, and when he leaves he is an 'evil scum sucking paedo' (allegedly). Gannon took over a team that was down to less than the bare bones. Just go back and look at this board in July/August to see all the regular doom merchants postings about the end of the world, relegation etc. Whether you like him or not, to assemble the team he did, in the time he did was pretty impressive. I'm not saying that, if there was such a deterioration in the relationship, that the board shouldn't have sacked him. They should. That doesn't mean we don't have a squad better than most of us could have hoped for 6 months ago. I know fans love everything to be black and white, but the real world isn't like that. Most people are good at some things, bad at others. I was happy with a lot of the players Gannion brought in or promoted from the youth team. I was unhappy with some of his behind-the-scenes antics. It's okay to be both.

One of my favourite Shankly story supposedly took place during a practice game. The captain went for the toss up and lost. Shankly walks over, puts his arm around him and asks: "What did ye call" "Heads", says the player. "Ach, ye should have called tails, son".

You prefer the "Aye Chick, over the moon, boys gave 110%, one game at a time" type of manager?

The flag says he was in Uddingston. Ive been there too. It was longer than 6 months ago, but a wee bit sunnier.

Only because we have plenty of previous. Everybody on here was giving us pelters too last season (and rightly so).

They should be congratulated. When I was a student I had to work all summer so I could afford to buy my (full price) season ticket for Fir Park. It made me what I am today. A bitter, twisted auld man with nae mates.

Aye, that's what made him so annoying. Bags of talent, less than zero application. Could have had a decent career if he kept his ego out the way.