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Scot Burns mentioned it in the rancid.

That college is about 15 mins from my street, about 4hrs away.

When did they say JT would be out for several weeks? He was back in training this week.

"Another step in our pre-season journey 💪 A predominantly young Motherwell side faced Carlisle United in a behind-closed-doors friendly match this afternoon at Fir Park. The visitors came away with a 3-2 win in a tightly contested match, with goals coming from Ewan Wilson and Ibrahim Said for the home side."

I doubt TikTok or Twitter woild be his medium of choice. Could definitely see him having a substack with links to his movie length YouTube videos though.

No nonsense, run up and hit it, more of that please.

Announced at Gillingham, I'd consider that further east at least.

Jens was at Copenhagen from Jan-Jun 2025. Johansson left Copenhagen in 2023.

In an awesome world from a banter perspective.

Feio in one of the shitty papers stating hes open to a move abroad, that rules him out for me, as it looks a lot more like getting his name out there than anything.

Think the best he got was some bench appearances. Think we still had Max Johnstone at that point.

An actually appropriate post for this thread - Callan Elliot just came on.

Half a billion is a big ask, but Im fine with us holding out.

Might as well be, based on tomorrows likely headlines of "Celtic target Elijah Just scores in the world cup!" Followed by 100 words of AI bollocks then, ...currently plays for Motherwell.

Maybe this can be a pattern, where the departing manager sets up a friendly with a team from their home country, and leaves us a nice parting gift in a Fadinger like signing.

We had similar vids for JT and Watt recently, and I'm sure we'll get Ibi's highlights along to the Benny Hill theme soon enough.

We're pretty much on the same timeline as the last 2 appointments, and there's still plenty of time before pre-season. In theory, we could have started early because we knew JBA was leaving, but i believe it was similar with Wimmer.

They're just excited to be linked to a player who's name they can spell, and don't have to try and spell mazzanoozoo anymore.

I dont think it's an English thing, I think he's gone with recency bias and decided in Fletcher because he was looking right at him when a decision had to be made, and allowed that to cloud his judgement. It absolutely should have been Miller that replaced Gilmour. On the original 26 he probably looked at Mcginn, Christie, mctominay, Gilmour, Ferguson and mclean as the main group, with the first 3 lilely being the starters. I'm fine with more strikers, you need potential impact players in tournaments. The squad has a fair mix of Scottish (at least 7), English, and abroad based players (Italy and Saudi at least, forgot where mckenna is playing), and also some relatively new call-ups in Curtis, Hyam and Fletcher, and while he has his favorites, i dont think that there's many legitimate shouts for guys that have been hard done by. I'm not as down on Clarke as most, but my gripe with him is the way we play, less than who he selects.

Other than winning a cup, there isn't much that JBA could have done next season that would have shown progression, and there is a fair likelihood that we will regress due to losing more of our better players (Slattery will already be a huge loss), along with a combo of other teams being more wise to us and not all of the bigger teams being basket cases. Then you throw in the inevitable drop in league form due to Europe, and you can see why it was good for JBA to move on on a high. That doesn't mean we have suddenly become relegation fodder, but repeating this season is going to be very difficult - unless we genuinely did crack the whole recruitment thing with our data partner. Personally, I think we will see a drop in results, but still be in the conversation for top 6, and we will have some good off the field stuff going on, as well as maybe some of our own young players coming through.

Gaute Helstrup - current assistant at bodo/glimt - so unlikely Thomas Nørgaard - 39% win percentage over 290 games, with it being close to 47% over that last two teams, was the assistant coach at Sparta Prague in between. Seems to be under contract . Andreas Brännström - looks like hes been out of work for a year. About 1.5 points per game average over a lot of teams, all short stints. The only one of the list that looks lile they're available. Daniel Scherning - also looks to be under contract, about 45% win rate at 2 Bundesliga, although thar started high and dropped at each club - could be from moving to a higher level. Rogier Meijer - he recently became Sparta Rotterdam manager, so can be ruled out.

This is cool, some interesting names in there. I used a similar prompt and claude sonnet gave me: Jimmy Thelin, Scott Brown, Russell Martin, John McGlynn and...... Stevie Hammell! Thought about using my opus credits from work to see if it gives me something better, but they're getting touchy about that theesedays. Instead, im going to give mine your list of answers and ask it why it didn't give me those.

And Fadinger was a Wimmer PCA, so there's every chance we have players lined up that were either identified or or OK'd by JBA before he left.

We signed Fadinger and McGhee without a manager pretty early last summer, and the likes of Just, Watt, and Longelo were brought in very early, in time for the training camp in the Netherlands if I remember right.

What he Said.