David

Let's make sure it is, eh? This taxi chat is getting tedious, and it's clogging up the thread. If anyone else wants to discuss it then maybe best to do so via PM.

They not improved now they brought in Toure? I've not seen them on the telly yet, but reports are that Ambrose is a memory and Toure is shoring things up? I hope i'm wrong, of course.

I can see us losing this one quite handily to be honest. A shame that it looks as though our league cup run is coming to an end so soon.

The contrast is startling to be honest. No warnings or repercussions for either club.

This is his fourth move since leaving us mate, I very much doubt it.

Game over. I'm not sure why, but that performance doesn't really get me excited for the new season.

This Rangers mob are pish. We should be 2 or 3 up by now.

Chalmers? Fucking hell. It's a new season, a fresh start and all that I guess. Hopefully he surprises us all.

I never knew that. What did he say was the reason behind him not going?

Did he actually say that?

Despite him being able to come away relatively unscathed, I hold that honour for "sir" David Murray. That cunt cheated his way to a number of titles and fucked over the rest of us in the process, so I'm gonna say he's worse than some tobacco-chewing twat with anger issues.

The options up top look pretty decent now, and it'll be interesting to see if Moore has it in him to push for a starting slot. If not, hopefully he's a useful option from the bench.

mate, I'd happily staple my head to the living room carpet if stopped you moaning like fuck.

So, two games this weekend then. Anyone heard anything about what kind of lineups we can expect over the two days?

Not quite the tooth fairy, but we're going to see a bit more money from the end of next season I think from a new TV deal. The shortfall was always going to be from now until that point, and any money we bring in from the Pearson move, possibly the Leitch move and the Ben Hall move will help to bridge that gap and will allow us to extend the contracts we've extended, as well as bring back McDonald (surprised he would want to come back right enough, considering we "reneged" on his contract) and sign the players we've signed. Everything seems to be ticking along reasonably well though from what I've seen, so I'm not sure why you're losing your shit on a regular basis.

He'll make more money in India most likely, and we're getting a fee for him. Given how the coming years finances have been described we're probably just happy to get something in the bank.

This the same Ben Heneghan who was supposedly drawing interest from the likes of Blackburn, Hull, Burnley & Brighton earlier this year? Not too shabby a piece of business.

So, after all the retweets and suchlike did any of our out of contract players actually attend that out of contract players thing in Airdrie or wherever it was?

We can only really go on our own experiences, and as someone who's experienced how fans are treated in US sports stadiums and also in Scottish football stadiums, I know where I feel I was treated better.

I'm not talking about the pricing, i'm talking about the general experience. I've also been on holiday in the US and been to sporting events. The way you're treated is miles apart from how you're treated at a Scottish football game. In fact, the way you're treated at a football game in Spain, for example, is miles apart from how you're treated here. Sometimes I actually wonder if the people running our game are deliberately trying to turn fans off to it.

Yeah, but the US sports teams treat their fans as paying customers, not over-loyal mugs.

Until then we'll continue pouring money into getting all of the season books printed and assembled every year. Makes sense.

Lasley.

It'll also help that we're supposed to have one of the best summers in 30 odd years this year, so even if the weather was an argument, it shouldn't be this year.

If you've been following the various Society threads you'll know that we're in a position now where we really need to keep an eye on our outgoings. The days of budgeting for top six & a decent cup run are well & truly over. We're budgeting for 10th and no cup run, which is how it should be.