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No idea. East Stand has been my spot for 44 seasons (although less often now, obviously). Always been a hotspot for the verbals, often before a player kicks a ball. Classic hits include "Ye cannae tackle, McAllister", "Yir too slow for this game, McLair" and "McLean Out!"

Done deal apparently. The contract buy-out that is, not him signing for us. You can just imagine the stick a Boyd/Higdon front pairing would take from the East Stand.

I'd take it with a pinch of salt. That board has been misleading before. A few week's ago, I noticed Higdon's name omitted from the starting 11 and he played from kick off.

Because you can take that footballing talent and easily add body strength. You can't take body strength and easily add footballing talent. How much body strength did McCarthy have when he joined Wigan for 1.2 million?

Then we will have to be content with losing players on freedom of contract every window. We have a policy of bringing in players for free (or through the youth ranks), and paying fairly low wages. You don't generate big transfer fees that way, but you do balance the books. With one or two exceptions, the guys we have sold haven't exactly excelled down south, so you could just as easily argue we are getting the best of those deals.

A million for Randolph and you'll just throw in the rest of them for free? Harsh.

Rumours are he is heading south to some team like Watford.

From the Well Society Twitter feed:

Absolutely. Even if they just told us why/if they were supporting it, it would be a start, but consultation seems a pretty basic function of the Society.

As far as I know, we are still not paying anything for players, so we would never be in the running here.

Glad the board rejected that original offer of £1m. Holding out for the extra £0.05m makes all the difference!

He night not be going to an EPL club (although I wouldn't rule that out completely given that guys like McCarthy went to Wigan), but he only needs to look at Ruddy to see how choosing the right lower league team can get you in to the EPL sooner rather than later.

#popcorn

Assuming the job is to take up space on the treatment table. I said during the last transfer window that with such a small squad we can't afford to tie up a wage on him right now. Unless he is on a pay-per-play we need someone who we can rely on being available every game. The guy has barely kicked a ball in earnest in the past couple of years and, unfortunately, is just too high risk for our current finances.

Maybe we could have 3 threads running: 1) One for the "Faddy is Coming Back" love in 2) One for the Freddie Dindeleux "jokes" 3) One for actual Ins & Outs

BBC text commentary is sparse to say the least, but the free kick for the first goal was due to him being fouled. So he has had some part to play, even if minor.

Fox Soccer doesn't show any Scottish games either. Fox Soccer Plus does show some, but a lot of places don't carry that as they can get the EPL on Fox Soccer and ESPN without paying the extortionate extra fees for the Plus channel.

ESPN don't show any Scottish games over here, unfortunately, so you might struggle with that.

Or both. Just posted on shoutbox, but maybe useful here too. I run adblocker plus noscript and ghostery - and don't have any problems. It does sound like he has picked up some malware somewhere, so a full scan with malwarebytes or similar might solve the problem. However, as always, I'd suggest accessing the site on IE once in a while to click on some ads to generate some revenue. EDIT: sorry to stray offtopic, so feel free to move this elsewhere.

I think McCall's comments came after conversations with the Board and he appears, in public at least, to be happy with their ambition. It already sounds like they have knocked backed interest in Ojamaa, for example.

Not really. McCall has said he expected that Murphy would be the one and only and the cash raised would help us keep the others (unless somebody came in with a huge offer).

Killie programme available for download today.

I don't see how we could possibly afford to take on his contract. Boyle was funding his apparently high (by our standard) wages when he we here, and he left for a bigger wad. Unless he took a big pay cut at Sheffield.

so far so good. ach well, nice while it lasted. For auld yins like me, 2012 ranks among the top 2 or 3 years I can remember. Champions League and the launch of the Well Society made it unique and our final league positions have been excellent. We really have been spoiled as fans the past few seasons, and long may it continue.

We have had plenty of good penalty takers over the years from Brian McLaughlin to Davie Cooper. I would bet, if you look at the stats, our record is fairly average for the SPL, but not as dire as some people make out.