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47 minutes ago, Prestwickwell said:
Seems an exciting signing
but to people actually know who this boy is to back that up 😂
hopefully the boy smashes it
Can only really go on his metrics and his pedigree.
He has basically smashed it at youth level and made his senior debut at 15! You dont do that and then get poached by Leverkusens academy unless you have something about you.
Didnt work out for him there, but 16 goals and numerous assists in 68 senior appearances in Sweden by age 20 seems decent.
Also, Alfred has followed his career and is finally at a club with enough money to sign him, cause we are now massive!
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Thinking about what the lineup could be, taking into account minutes played, fitness levels etc, we could go.......
Paulsen
Sparrow Jake Moorman Williams
Fadinger Hodge
Kanga Lowry Said
Seb
With SOD, Whyte, Cookie, JT, Eythor
all making appearances from the bench after 60 minutes....
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27 minutes ago, wellsince75 said:
I really like SOD , he was superb last season and has added a lot of value .
I just dont see him starting many games - more likely to plug gaps when others are out .
first to admit I could be wrong.
The good thing about SOD is that he can cover pretty much anywhere across the backline.
I dont expect he will start a lot of games if everyone is fit, but he could get a lot of minutes off the bench when others run out of steam, get injured / booked.
His leadership in the dressing room and on the training pitch will also be vital given we have such a young squad.
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Can only echo what others have said.
We held up well against Freiburg when it was 11 v 11. They were still the better team in both games, but they were mostly unable to make their class show until our numbers were effected.
No complaints about last nights red card, as clear as they come. But I did think we shoulda had a penalty for hand ball in the first half. It looked clear as day from where we were standing.
Proud of the team and the efforts they put in. I think we have the makings of a very good side. Hopefully things will start to settle down a bit now and we will get to see the best of them.
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Hard to give it to anyone other than Paulsen last night, although I thought Seb did a power of running, albeit it wasnt enough to effect the game.
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Im not in favour of a blanket ban on any group of supporters.
No one fan should suffer because of the action of others.
However, that works 2 ways. We cant be far off from UEFA starting to intervene with our ticket allocations for away European nights. That would be galling for most.
As soon as I saw the flares last night, my heart sank as the club will be forced to act in a way that can only harm the current feelgood factor within the club.
Time for those responsible to take some responsibility.
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16 hours ago, MJC said:
Europe is not our level. It just isn’t. But the domestic game and competitions are because we stand a(n albeit outside) chance of actually going all the way and winning the entire thing.
For that reason I would much rather we focused our attentions on domestic fixtures like the League cup than some ‘glamour’ Euro tie that we have no chance of winning.
You were the very person that used to complain about our record at Ibrox and Parkhead because we had the wrong mentality and never went into those games believing we could win.
Whats the difference here?
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On 8/25/2026 at 4:52 PM, joewarkfanclub said:
Heading out tomorrow afternoon from Edinburgh via Palma! Overnighter in the Shamrock Bar on the Paseo Maritimo, incoming!
Oh well, I guess our night out in Palma isnt happening!
Been stuck on the ground at Edinburgh Airport for 4 hours. The cludgie truck has broken down behind us and they cant move it!
Catching our 6.30am flight to Basel now the main concern!
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1 hour ago, Welly Machine said:
Quite a contrast watching a game where the referee gestures for Celtic players to get off the deck and waves away their free kick claims instead of giving them just about everything they ask for and some things didn't even ask for.
Pity it won't catch on here.
Pity it didnt catch on last Thursday!
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25 minutes ago, Onthefringes said:
Misleading headline only serves to get the usual suspects excited.
The action was wrong and there is no excusing that - to label one group of fans again, the lack of understanding of the make up of that section is bizarre.
The fine for standing in the aisles wasn’t Block E either.
surprised the statement was released given the club have disputed the value claimed.
If you have more information, you could always explain and put the usual suspects right?
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Heading out tomorrow afternoon from Edinburgh via Palma! Overnighter in the Shamrock Bar on the Paseo Maritimo, incoming!
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Im generally a supporter of the Bois as I do like the colour and noise they bring to the stadium, and I was young once myself! But, there does come a point where they need to wise up and take some responsibility for their actions, or at least reign in their behaviour.
Id prefer if it was self policing, rather than enforced, but its costing the club serious money now, and although they have payed off some of their own fines in the past, there is no way they can afford to pay these!
Its not just the €100k to UEFA here though, the club have agreed to cover the €74k for the digital advertising hoarding that was damaged in Helsinki.
We all love our team, and we can all lose the run of ourselves at times, but you can still make a decision not to go over the wall or to take pyro into the ground.
I hope these conversations are taking place within the various groups involved, as Id hate it to get to the stage where people are being banned from the stadium.
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58 minutes ago, thewelllfan said:
is he not out of contract in the summer?
I think we have another year option after the end of this season.
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16 hours ago, Happyhonest said:
Saw on Facebook (so must be right) that Maswanhise is linked to Trabzonspor who have made a 7 million euro bid. Can’t find the link now. Anyone else seen this?
Id bite your hand off for €7m.
I would imagine if the rumour had any credibility it would be a done deal.
Cant imagine the club haggling over much at that fee.
Happy enough for Maswanhise to still be here after the window closes. Would surely be a motivator for him to get a move in January?
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14 minutes ago, Great Balls of Shire said:
So , that's a long winded way of saying you dont have enough knowledge for an opinion but here's mine anyway...most people would just say nothing.
Not sure how much knowledge you need to have to form an opinion, and I wouldnt want to stop anyone from having theirs, or indeed offering it up.
But I do think you should be willing to consider changing your view in the face of information that may cast doubt on your own.
Debate is good, or so they say!
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1 hour ago, Stuwell2 said:
I think Thor and possibly Stam are finished with us. I know it was said they were training themselves as not ready to train with the squad but I feel that there’s possibility more to it than that.
On what basis?
They were both reported to have muscle injuries.
If they are back training, they are maybe ok for light running, but not contact training with the squad?
I think most of us expect Stama to return to Australia at some point, but its surely too early to be calling time on Eythor.
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This appears to be a great signing.
A bit like Hodge, probably a bit more money than we would ever have looked at in the past, but with many more multiples possible in sell on fee if all goes well.
Like all transfers, its a bit of a risk, but he looks an exciting prospect, so we need to trust the process.
Think that will be us done now unless Fadinger, Longelo or Maswanhise go out the door.
Hopefully not though. Would be nice to get the squad settled down at last.
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45 minutes ago, MJC said:
That’s all fair enough and yes, maybe I am a bit of a dinosaur and completely out of touch with modern training methods. I certainly don’t have a sound knowledge on sports science and nutrition and the like.
Simply put, in my opinion as a ‘tone deaf’ supporter, I think we got our priorities wrong. Those who are far more qualified than me to say otherwise will probably disagree.
There is nothing wrong with having the opinion that the League Cup should be a higher priority than a European tie.
Im torn on that, as Id love to see us win another trophy in my lifetime, and I actually agree with you that we only have 2 realistic shots at that every season.
Its the ignoring the circumstances that the manager and the players have found themselves due to the turnover of staff at the club over the summer that I have an issue with.
I dont think Alfred didnt want to win the league cup.
He was just in a difficult situation with fixtures and injuries.
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Glad we took advantage of the opportunity to postpone the game.
The players have been full on since the start of the season with 2 games a week, plenty travel and precious little time on the training ground.
The break will hopefully allow some of the injuries to ease / be managed and give Alfred a few more days to get some of his ideas across.
Hopefully Dundee United will agree to the midweek game being moved. Makes sense for both clubs.
Despite having had a very decent start to the season, I dont think we will see the best of Alfred / this squad until the window is closed and the fixtures start to settle down come October.
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4 hours ago, MJC said:
I’m not taking the piss.
They’re professional footballers, they are capable of playing a game three days after the last one. The problem we had with Stenhousemuir is that we dropped key players and didn’t take the tie as seriously as we should have done.If there was any game where we should have rotated the squad and played fringe players then it was the Freiburg game because we were never winning that and in the grand scheme of things the league and league cup are far more important to us.
Ive tried really hard not to bite on your posts recently, but you are either tone deaf or purposely trolling and I fear its the former rather than the latter.
Football is no longer played in the 80s when the boys pissed off to the pub or the bookies after training.
They are highly tuned professional athletes pushing their bodies to the limit on a weekly basis.
Physical load is an actual thing, otherwise clubs wouldnt be employing sports scientists to monitor and take care of players to try and prevent injury.
Unfortunately this only goes so far and cant take into account contact injuries which we appear to have had a number of this season.
The manager was on a hiding to nothing with the Stenny game. He could play a full team, risk further injury, risk losing more players for weeks of the league season and get a hiding off Freiburg home and away.
Or he could play some of the young boys, hope we squeek thru and manage the load.
It didnt come off for him, and I maybe wouldnt have played as many of the young boys, but that was his judgement.
If he had followed your judgement instead of the sports scientists, there is a high liklihood we would still be in the league cup, but every chance we would now be without a fair number of our best players for weeks.
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10 hours ago, weeyin said:
I don't get this need for defenders to tug shirts, wrap arms or grab shoulders. Every single one of them a foul by the strict letter of the law and dependent on the competence of the ref to decide which ones are penalised.
Very soft award that would never have happened if he had taken the advice he was no doubt given as a 7 or 8 year old to keep his hands down.
All well and good.
But their players were constantly grabbing shirts, coming thru the back of their opponents and committing technical fouls and went largely unpunished.
If the ref gave all of those and booked their players as well, Id have no complaints.
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Im going with Moorman.
He was absolutely solid right up until the penalty and the red card, and Im not having it that it was anything other than simulation.
Otherwise the next time someone taps me on the shoulder I might just throw myself to the ground......
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Really proud of the team tonight. We scored a great goal, defended for our lives and worked our socks off. We limited their chances from open play so its disappointing to concede to 2 set pieces and a penalty. Freiburg are a very good side and deserved to win the game.
But........
The officials were absolutely honking.
Maybe its just how it is at this level, but the amount of shirt pulling, technical fouls and other dark arts going on was ridiculous. Even more gauling then when we concede a penalty and get a red card for clear simulation.
Folk can blame Moorman if they like, and I agree he shouldnt have touched the guys shoulder with his hand, but that doesnt cause the guys legs to collapse. Its blatant cheating and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Thought our response to going down to ten men was good, albeit reduced to long balls in Sebs direction (he looks handy).
Overall, we lost a game to a good team. But, I would really love it if we could bloody their nose over there.
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6 hours ago, Wee Alpha said:
Is there a Paul Lambert in our midst who could impress tonight and make the move to the Bundesliga.
Lucas Fadinger....
Hopefully not until next season though!
St Mirren v Motherwell 30/08/2026
in Club Chat
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One of the most iconic nights in Scottish Football! Wouldnt have believed it if I hadnt seen it myself!