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If Alfred can coach some shooting into him, he'll be our next 5millon sale.

Thankfully he, and we, won't have as many plastic games this season.

Ah, bugger. Did not see that.

I see he's in the last year of his deal at Bristol, and seems to be on loan every season. So if he's any good we might get him for free at the end of the season.

If our new signing registered today, he just beat the deadline to be included in the squad for this one.

The keeper has played 2 competitive games, one on dodgy AstroTurf. None of his passes were as bad as our players passing inch perfect through balls to the HB strikers. But as I said before. For some reason, if you are a Fadinger or Priestman, your poor passes are judged much less harshly than if you are a keeper.

I'm pretty sure most fans think their keeper is the only keeper that makes mistakes. They never think that about outfield players, but for some reason keepers need to be perfect.

Depends somewhat on who is fit and available for the next two games, but 40 -60 seems a decent guess. Worst case, we get revenue from a big crowd and 6 or 700k consolation prize if we lose.

That's good news.

If "don't be an arse to your inoffensive hosts" is too high a bar, then I suppose so.

Said proving once he again he is not a striker. He's gets in the right places, but doesn't have the finish yet. Oscar for me too.

Hibs were always favourites for me in this Euro tie, even after their loss last week.

Professional and drama-free. I don't know who that was, but I approve. Take your pick...

Maybe doesn't fancy passing on that surface.

Good stuff.

Must be country specific. I have it streaming in the US.

Yes, you always need to check for country specific restrictions.

$3.99 on onefootball.com Never tried that site before, so no idea if it's any good.

Premier Sports are covering it.

Strange change of direction to switch from the Premiership's top goal scorer to a player who only scored one more league goal than me last season. EDIT: I just noticed a more interesting stat that Antman and Maswinhese have both scored 23 league goals. Antman took 167 games to achieve that, JT took 59. Maybe they forgot to look at that second part.

The BBC has it faults, but it's hamstrung by lack of funding. The live Championship games and Alba coverage are certainly fall into its public service remit. The website can be a bit hit or miss, but again much of that is down to funding with too few people being asked to do too much. I wouldn't be averse to a refresh of some of the pundits, and any service can be improved. I'd hate to lose it though, and be dependent on commercial channels. That would be wall to wall Old Firm.

Or it was next level misdirection from Alfred.

Is number 40 David Turnbull's half brother?

I see they are trialing a new rule in England this season to try and prevent "tactical timeouts" where keepers go down with fake injures to disrupt momentum and allow tactical reshuffles. Unlike outfield players who were required to leave the field of play for 1 minute, there was no equivalent for the keepers, and so no consequence to the team. This season, if the game is stopped for a goalkeeper injury, the manager has to nominate an outfield player to leave the field immediately and remain off the field for at least 1 minute after the restart. I like the idea, but not sure if it will work in practice.

We brought in 3 loanees last season. 2 of them didn't work out (Sule and Osong) and one did (Welsh). If that model plus the players we signed on permanent deals managed to bring us success, there's not much need to deviate too far this season. As others have said, we have some unexpected injury problems to deal with too, and loans can be a good way to fill the gaps - directly or indirectly - if the expectation is that the injured players will return in the first half of the season.