Mad Dog

This one? Looks a bit soft to me.

Seems to be manager of the Army team in Bangkok at the moment, be interesting to see if he'd be willing to move to Scotland....

With the peculiar signing of two centre-backs on loan I'd say we should go three at the back - Laing - O'Brien - McManus - and with Straker seemingly comfortable at both left full-back and left wing he should be well suited to a wing-back role. The weak link will be at right back though as who can bomb forward effectively from there? Not Kerr, so maybe young Watt?

That sounds remarkably familiar....

Let's hope that he's just as good as the last 22 year old Hungarian midfielder that came to us....

Morgyn Neill is away on loan so hopefully the experience will see him ready to have a crack at the first team next season.

Mad Hatter Magath just got madder!! Bought a stake in Sevco now.

Not as depressed as those of us that were born in '76.... where have those twenty years gone??

Riiight, so we're seemingly being linked with anyone who's Irish now. Not sure if that's better or worse than being linked to anyone who's ever played for Bradford.

Thought he might get the job purely because his wage demands might be lower than the other five. That's not to say that he won't turn out well, hopefully his previous scouting position will be of great benefit to us.

As far as I can make out only Butcher and Black have officially been interviewed. The club had only previously said that two had already been interviewed with another two due next week - no names mentioned - but the media assumed them to be Baraclough, Shiels and the two Dutchmen.

The new man won't be able to bring his own people until next season though. Don't think the club can afford to pay off Black and Marshall. Agree that we need a fresh new outlook though. Diet and fitness need looking at for sure.

The BBC have just rehashed their Butcher piece to include Baraclough's name although without any quotes, sources or any real details other than ex-Sligo and Scunthorpe. Very lazy journalism.

^Glad that's all been sorted out then.

They won more points than Hibs and the same amount as Partick, not a bad showing all things considered.

Perhaps Thistle will loan us back Lawleff as we are in need a wee bit of pace down the left.

^Good post, was nodding in agreement with each point.

Hoping it's not Airdrie away, we could end up being the fourth force of Lanarkshire....

My Grand-dad was faced with this dilemma when Third Lanark folded and he opted for Motherwell so I'd be tempted to support the resurrected Thirds but in all honesty I'd have to say Scotland and Scotland only.

I think we tried that some years ago with Villa, we got one player up an loan (Tarrant??) and he was gash. Don't know what happened to our little agreement after that.

Owen Coyle is still between jobs, he might fancy a step down to get his managerial career back on track. With the number of players out of contract in the summer he might also fancy the prospect of building his own team (with no money!!). He'd be mad to take it but you never know, our managerial appointments since Wee Tommy left have all been a bit surprising (with the exception of Malpas). Talking of ex-players, what's Gary McAllister doing these days?

I think that you would get very, very good odds on that outcome! Hopefully you're right.

What happened to the boy Ferguson that turned out for the first XI earlier this season, is he still injured?

Is Kerr still suspended? Might favour his pace at the back on this plastic pitch instead of Mick (who hasn't done much wrong by the way).

If anything it was a free kick from the first challenge, he was already going down when Law made minimal contact with him in the box. No question of a dive, he was just knocked off balance.