David

I'm not entirely certain, but maybe they don't want to publicise to the entire world the financial details of the Society via the website? I've attended meetings in the past and they've been pretty transparent with figures. Are you a member? I'm sure you can get that information if you are.

As others have said, I don't think our club works like that. If McGhee has a "message" for the board he can easily just go and knock on Flow's door I'd imagine. Blyth was introduced with a few minutes remaining, but the truth is McGhee won't done the likes of Ferguson, Lucas or McLean any favours by saying what he did.

Pretty happy with the progress being made if I'm honest. Glad to see some minutes of the meeting, and the actual information given suggests we're moving in the right direction. Long may it continue.

Having just watched the McGhee press conference, who's the 15 year old that he was talking about?

Just over 1,000? That's not bad at all, considering our senior side gets less than 4,000 for SPFL matches!

Looks like it's a loan deal?

Aye, but we're not Dundee. We're a team who regularly fall to bits when we face the "might" of the bigot twins. Our manager sets us up to face the jersey and the crest on the chest rather than the actual players wearing them most of the time. I can see us losing at least three goals in this one.

Not at all. As I said, Heneghan and McHugh seem like exactly the kind of players we should be signing. Seemingly with potential, and in their early 20's which means they could do the business here for a few years before being sold at profit. Tait at 26 years old seems like a journeyman to be honest, and I've not really seen anything from him since he arrived (and I know it's still early doors) to suggest he's anything other than that. Craig Clay is another one. Mid 20's, and has bounced around the lower English leagues from club to club over the years. Blyth doesn't look like the kind of striker who's going to push McDonald or Moult for a starting position, so why not have young Moore on the bench with limited game time rather than sign someone else and put him out on loan again? Personally, I'd have been looking to shift Luke Watt into that right back position rather than sign a 26-year-old journeyman, and with the addition of McHugh to our midfield we now have Lasley, Cadden, Thomas & McHugh with the likes of Ross McLean waiting on the fringes for their shot. But we go and sign Clay (on a two-year deal!), who looks like a journeyman, and offer a trial to a 24-year-old who's played a handful of first-team games in ten seasons as a pro in Lee Lucas. With the cash we've spent on the wages for Tait, Clay, Blyth and possibly on Lucas we could have brought in one or two players of a slightly higher quality I'd hope, maybe guys who look to have a higher chance of being sold on at profit. I'd have kept Moore, and looked to sign a younger right-back with more potential to challenge with Watt and one quality midfielder rather than put money out on Tait, Clay, Byth and Lucas. Who knows though, maybe these guys will turn the corner with us and become something special? I guess time will tell.

Then let's hope that the signings we've made don't go the same way as those from last season for the most part. We need to be looking for quality and sell-on potential as a priority, with our own youth players filling the gaps, with a few experienced heads (we're not lacking in those for sure!) thrown in as well.

If we're honest we'll never win anything with our current approach anyway, so what difference does it make? I think we should be investing what little money we have in bringing in one or two young players who look like good prospects rather than a scattergun approach of sorts, where we're signing guys who are over 25 and have bounced around numerous clubs over the years. Aye, definitely. I could be very wrong on my assessment, and I did say it was early doors, but I just don't think this current system is going to work.

Obviously it's early doors, but I get the distinct impression that the majority of our new signings will turn out to be nothing more than average at best, with most of them eventually moving on without making much of an impression here. A bit like last season. I've said it before, but I thought we were supposed to be concentrating on bringing through players we've developed or lads that we've signed at a young age? Of the guys we've brought in I can understand the signing of a 22 year old in Ben Heneghan & Carl McHugh who seems like a good young prospect, but the likes of Tait, Clay and Blyth seem like signings who aren't really making much sense. Is Blyth really that much better than Craig Moore? When we send young players away on loan we always hear about how it's to give them game time and allow them to prove themselves, don't we? Didn't Moore play something like 25 games and score 14 goals or something for Ayr? What more can the guy do to prove himself? He goes away and plays regularly whilst scoring goals and gets sent on loan again? I'd rather we employed a system where rather than bringing in guys in their mid 20's and older from the lower leagues of England we instead concentrated on bringing in one or two really good prospects who the manager deems first-team ready, and also concentrate on picking up exciting young prospects in their early & mid-teens that we can put into the youth system for a few years before drafting them into the senior side. This policy of signing the players we have this summer and last season isn't going to work in the long term I don't think.

Well, I suspected we'd get hammered and we did. It didn't help matters that McGhee set us up to defend, which usually ends in one way unfortunately.

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.