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Thought Just was excellent again. His work rate and interceptions in winning the ball back are exceptional. However, I went for Fadinger. In Watts absence he has really stood up and took on the responsibility of senior man in the midfield. Capped a good performance with a cool finish.

Thought we struggled the first 20 minutes. Killie did well to disrupt our patterns of play and were very physical. However, we eventually figured them out and had wrestled back control by the time we scored the first goal. The boy Lowery is a little unlucky with the red card. Both are probably justifiable yellows on their own, but you expect the referee to give him the last chance waggy finger on the second. No sympathy for McCann though as he had clearly instructed hisnplayers to be leaving a little bit on tackles and several other Killie players got away with worse challenges than Lowery. After that it was one way traffic and 4-0 didnt flatter us at all. Some lovely football and interplay. Bjorgolfsonn looked good when he came on and it was interesting to see Jens go with 2 up top at the end. Could be a useful tactic in certain circumstances going forward. The young boy McColm didnt look out of place either in his short cameo. Overall, a decent performance and a great 3 points. 40 points in January isnt too shabby at all.

Ive consigned myself to the fact we may never give a team a pumping and will win every game 1 or 2 nil. I think we might be just too controlled to hand out a pumping to anyone. On the other hand, its hard to see us losing too many at the other end right now. Of course Killie could have an absolute mare and everything we hit goes in, and likewise, Im not naiive enough to think there still arent mistakes in us, but in general, we are likely to have 65% possession of the ball and win 2-0. Love to be wrong though.

There have been tweeks, no doubt. Jens alluded in his presser to using "the data" to improve our defensive issues. It just all adds to the confidence that we, as fans, can have in the process. This isnt just some ad hoc anomaly we are witnessing. Its the real deal.

He did it with humour and they all laughed. Im totally cool with it.....

I absolutely love Big Jens. That presser is fantastic. We need to do everything we can to encourage him to stay as long as possible.

There is every chance he will be away in the summer. But the board have to at least try and keep the suitors at bay and try to tempt him to stay. It we would brilliant if he could steer us into Europe and still be here with the core of the team to have a good go at it. What more of a calling card could he sign for himself than taking a club like ours into the group stages? Given that the team is set up for playing in Europe it would be great to see. Even if he did decide to go, we would get a wee bit more compo if he is on a better contract.

There is nothing clear online. Best information I could find was that he had signed a 2 year deal with talks to be opened on extensions should he hit certain targets. But its all a bit woolly worded. We did have a policy of 1 year rolling contracts. No idea if that would still be the case, although from the above possibly not. Pretty sure the board will be aware of how well this is going though and an extension for the manager on improved terms would be a priority. Wether Jens would be minded to sign it or not is another matter. Depends how he views what he is building here and what his long term goals are. Ive no doubt he is incredibly ambitious, but he also has the Gothenberg experience and will understand how playing the longer game could be beneficial. If he did in fact turn down the Aberdeen job, it might be a sign that he is happy to wait for the right offer. Improving your terms while you do so would be a no brainer for him as long as he rrusts the club to do the right thing when the time comes.

Jens will no doubt just ignore the report in a shit stain news rag that he doesnt read and get on with his job of preparing the team. Of course he will probably get asked about it in this weeks presser, but he has already shown he likes to swat those kind of questions away like flies. I look forward to more one liners and that rye smile.

Not sure how Halliday has "low balled" us. He was asked what he thought Maswanhise was worth and he said "at least £3m". Thats the minimum. But its the January window, if clubs are desperate and we stick to our guns, the value could be significantly higher. Pesrsonally I dont think Tawanda is going anywhere this window. The club and the manager have proved they know what they are about. They will have a quiet word in his ear and tell him to keep doing what he is doing and an even bigger offer will come in the summer. And it probably wont be from a team in our league.......

Why does anyone think that anything Halliday says in a podcast will have any relevance to what fee Maswanhise goes for? His goals, the length of contract and how big Brian Caldwells balls are, are really the only factors. Everyone just needs to chill oot a bit!

Given the way Kettlewell preferred to play, you do have to question the wisdom of signing a player in that mould. Obviously not going to be an issue in a Jens team, but he will still require to put the hard yards in pressing opponents.

He did. He looks to have some ability and had early pedigree. But from the very little seen (and reading between the lines) he seems to be your stereotypical technically gifted but lazy type (Ciftci). Thats not to say Jens might not be able to get a tune out of him but it would take a change in mindset and application

Happy to pay Celtic the £400k if they use that to pay up his contract and he can move to us as a free agent. Basically means he can play for free for 18 months. We would obviously offer him some sort of deal which is additional money he wouldnt have had should he stay at Celtic, maybe with the proviso that we dont stand in his way if a bigger club comes in for him. We shouldnt be wasting any more of the Miller money than that though. The boy is a good fit for us. But we still need be smart about our player trading. It needs to generate revenue, not the other way about.

Welsh still has nearly 18 months left on his contract. Who is paying that out if we pay them £400k transfer fee, cause he sure as hell isnt giving that up. If its them, fair enough, if its us, that could be another £400k and a no from me. Maybe they just want him off the wage bill and the £400k transfer fee is just enough to allow them to do that. Welsh may then be happy to accept lower wages on a short term deal to get regular football, but we would still have to move him on to get our money back. Quite a complex situation.....

And they were just getting the hang of Maswanhise and Stamatolopoulos as well! 😆😆😆

Here's hoping the data is correct and he is exactly what we need. It seems to have worked so far with Jens signings. Fingers crossed we have another hit. The fact that Osong abd Sule have both gone back to their clubs means we cant be any worse off as neither contributed anything. But it would be nice if we have found another gem.

Ive got to the stage I dont particularly care or worry about who we are playing. If we play well and up to the same high standards we have set all season Im pretty confident we will get a positive result. The fact the game is at home and against a team struggling at the wrong end of the league means we should definitely be targetting 3 points here. Depending on fitness / availability Id probably play without a striker again as it causes opposing teams all so rts of problems due to our movement. A wee cameo for the big Viking off the bench will do fine..... Ward Johnny SOD McGinn Longelo Slattery Priestman Fadinger Maswanhise Just Said

I think that depends on the terms. It cant have anything to do with Maswanhise as that just muddys the waters. Meanwhile if we can identify a suitable replacement, preferably on a permanent deal, then we should do so......

Strange take from a normally sensible poster. Who is getting their knickers in a twist? Of course Celtic are within their rights to recall their player. And absolutely within their rights to play him in the cup tonight. But given that they have done both of those things, surely any expectation that they can suddenly decide to return him to us out of the goodness of their hearts once they have signed someone better, can be resisted? We need to do whats best for us. For me, we should get on with finding someone else that can do what Welsh does and not hang about waiting on Celtics "benevolence". Of course if we get to the window and dont have anyone in the door and the offer is still there, it would be mad to refuse, but is it that crazy to not want to be left at the whim of another club?

Partick Thistle at home in the next round! 😉

Celtic and Rangers both with home ties so we will 100% be one of the tv games. Hopefully Friday night on the BBC. Or maybe the Sat night game. Dont want Sunday afternoon.

Make no mistake. Celtic recalled Welsh and played him tonight for exactly this purpose. Subbing him off for Scales on 74mins proves it.

I went £4m but fill yer boots! Im in!

Every club that was offered the option voted against. Telling......