Ya Bezzer!

I think we only scored 3 headers all last season. Something like that anyway. It's a part of the game that's going away.

I know, the previous youngest goalscorer since 2000 was Clarkson.

Tony Watt misses a penalty and a chance to equalise against Spartans then immediately gets subbed.

This century at least. Previous David Clarkson scored aged 17 years.

Nice to see youngster getting a chance. Not signing anyone might have it's up side.

Just interested to see how we line up and perform as we will have to change it up from last season. Good opportunity for Kettlewell to show some tactical versatility. Won't be drawing much significance from the result either way though. This is really a preview.

Good news on Casey. Still think our first choice back line is a bit old (McGinn and Butcher are turning 33 this season) but maybe we can get one more season out of it.

OK, first time seeing this and my take is.....it's idiotic. Clashes with Hearts and Aberdeen so what's the point? Also this sort of creeping philosophy that clubs can only wear 2nd kits that are the same colours as the first kit, you can see it across the league now from Celtic to St Mirren, kind of feeds into a parochial and narrow mindedness that I don't really feel that comfortable with. It's not the worst kit in the world but as an alternative, as a change kit it just doesn't make any sense.

I don't really care either way but do you think it was a coincidence that our 'sash' kits stem from a period when the Union Jack was flown by the support and 'Billy Boys' was sung on the terrace. Just asking! 🤣

Lucky we had a youth system that got us out of a hole so many times. Turnbull coming in and Scott going out are good examples of each type of scenario where it's turned the club around mid season. And if you go through all those league place finishes, they don't tell the whole story. We finished 3rd in atrocious form that was mirrored the next season and saw the manager lose his job. At least two season saw near miraculous new manager bounce happen when Alexander and Kettlewell came in. Plenty here were predicting relegation on both occasions. The point is that it becomes harder and harder every season to replace a certain standard of player. I know some here weren't fans of Goss, but I was and I would be amazed for instance if we manage to bring players in from the market that like for like match Van Veen, Goss and Johnston last season. We are likely to be a weaker team next season, measured against ourselves, unless we pull of some transfer market miracles or one of the youth players do something. How that stacks up against the competition remains to be seen.

The turnover of absolutely shite players brought in from here, there and everywhere is something that goes much further back than Hammell. You are talking, for the most part, at least 5 years of terrible close season signings. Eventually it catches up with you with the squad being denuded of the remaining talent, season after season. We got away with it last season but something similar might be lurking in the near future. The talent disparity, lost and brought in (so far), is miles off and has to give you the fear. I'm not one of those guys that gets a knot in my knickers with a lot of time left in the transfer market.....but there has been a trend of decline probably going back the McGhee's last season, so I won't be banking on a raft of likes-for-likes, even.

Me too and I'm not pretending to know the technicalities, however... "We've no got any money" seems about right from what I'm seeing.

The mood music seems to be 'we spent our money in January'.

3-7-12-5-12 is reasonable for us in terms of bringing someone in. 6 out of the last 7 seasons we've not had someone in double figures for league goals, so he's statistically better than we've been as a club. Like I said time will tell.

I've always thought the reverse colours didn't really work for us. Besides Dundee Utd, and possibly Livingston depending on their strip, we mainly wear an away kit against Aberdeen and Hearts and if anything it's more rather than less of a clash.

Interesting that Wilkinson has some decent assist stats as well as a reasonable scoring record in recent seasons. Of course time well tell.

He was considered one of the best right backs in the league. Hearts were also interested.

I hope not but that's the impression I got read the forums. He'd always be in my team and I hope he does sign on again.

I agree. Goss had vision and could pick a pass that few if any in the side would see never mind actually make. Losing him is another blow. We'll do well to pick up anyone in the Goss mould.

Mario Dorner & Franz Resch.

You missed out Ellis Plummer!

I think Fletcher was excellent any time I saw him last season but I feel he isn't the right sort of fit for us. He's a very good player but he's hardly prolific in front of goal. We need a goalscorer to play off the types of players we already have at the club. Not another Curtis Main/Lee Erwin type. A first choice striker that scores 8 goals a season isn't what we need because we don't really have too many goals coming from elsewhere. Of course it's hard to find goal scorers but I'd rather take a chance on someone stepping up a level than Fletcher.

A great of Scottish football, from his work with the various youth sides to managing or assisting probably Scotland's best ever international side and then an excellent spell with ourselves. Also a likeable and charismatic guy. I can say with some pride that I was one of the few that was still in the stadium to see Jutkiewicz's goal!

Gascoigne is the best player I've ever seen in Scotland but he was absolutely done as a footballer before the end of his Rangers career.

He's fine as a link up player.....provided we replace Van Veen with a decent striker. As for Cornelius. 'One of our Own' turns us down to go to Harrogate Town. Bizarre. He might do better down there since it's a less technical league....