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Nouble has been utter gash for a while, and anonymous the last few times they've played us. I like Anderson better, and he's shite as well. Sounds like we weren't really in for Fraser and the agent was just using us to get a move for him.

Something about the popes religion or a Bears toilet habits.

No, he said Wilkinson went to southend, instead of the other obscure team he actually went to.

Gent played well, but seemed to forget we don't have biereth anymore. Hopefully we get someone that can get on the end of his crosses. Was great to see him get his first professional goal after what must have been a really difficult time for him. Picked spittal, two excellent goals, and goals win games.

Looks like all of the premier league teams struggled today, so good to get the comfortable win and move on. Also good to get Miller and butcher back on the pitch, and debuts for the two new guys. Easiest possible draw for the next round please.

I'd love to know the actual number of new sign-ups. For all we know, we get an average of 4 new sign-ups every two months, and we got 5 from the first 48 hours of this.

January signings are generally loans, cast offs, and people that aren't getting games elsewhere. We are not paying fees, so we are limited. They are also by their nature panic signings, which means clubs are going to pay over the odds because they have no choice.

Our system relies heavily on wing backs getting up and down the pitch. Going into the second half of the season with just one lwb would be madness, as we need to account for injuries, suspensions, and substitutions. In Montgomery we now have competition/backup. We do have Wilson, but maybe we want him getting regular games somewhere? Despite it coming up so often, I don't think we have ever used a combination of two fullbacks (one strong attacker and one strong defender) on one side, outside of an in-game issue.

I have definitely chilled out to a degree after watching McMahon's interview. Some of my initial criticisms were based on assumptions, i.e. "is that it?", but this looks to be one part of a wider strategy, and we're just going to have to wait and see how that part pans out.

https://youtu.be/Y4NRr9hujMg?feature=shared

Where's this Watt chat coming from? Is it just common sense because he's in danger of spending a full season somewhere, which would be weird for him? I like Penney, but does he not hate Scotland?

Or Sam Campbell's? It's a tricky one.

Where did you see that?

<disgusted side eye emoji>

If we're serious about attracting investment, then we need to be serious about how we go about it. A tongue in cheek hail-mary video isn't going to cut it. Some actual information on the benefits and what the club means, and would do with additional investment, and actually targeting people, is the only way to do this.

I watched it in bits, with the sound off and subtitles because I'm at work. My colleague actually noticed my despair and asked me what's up. I shared the video, so we got some American exposure. He thought it was cringe too. I also sent it to my wife just there (also american), she feels so bad for me, you'd think my gran just died. This is St Mirren opening a Celtic shop in their stand levels.

Fire them all. Into the sun.

Was interesting that in the interview DW talked about our player recruitment success stats, and how comparable they are to other clubs. We are always going to be more critical of our own recruitment, because we remember all our shite players, but only ever remember the good players from other teams. It's the same as when old firm fans go on about so and so being a good wee player, because they played well in a backs to the wall draw five years ago. Jump on any other fans forum and you'll find all clubs have a bunch of shite signings every year. When the clubs throwing around tens of millions don't have a great strike rate, it's hard to expect the ones fishing down the back of the couch for pennies to do much better.

He was really coming onto a game before he got injured at tynecastle. This has been the story of his career so far, small runs of games broken up by injuries. He has all the physical attributes, but makes too many mistakes on the ball. He will be just fine as a bench player for the rest of our season, in place of one of the 4 weans we currently put on there. And with his much heralded two-footedness, it's like we've just signed two players!

That's definitely a picking which bollock to get booted in scenario.

Disappointing to not hold on for the win, but to only concede 2 goals with that defensive performance was an achievement in itself. I know some of that is down to injuries/suspensions, etc, but we were very shaky. Great that Bair continues to score, sometimes it just takes a purple patch from a striker to get you out of trouble. Then we can sell him to Aberdeen, and he won't score again.

Maguire has minutes for us this season, not so sure about McGinley. Maguire on the bench instead of one of the weans that's never getting on isn't terrible at least.

Say anything you want about the SK regime, but his aptitude for moving players on when they aren't working out is very impressive. He's the reverse Gannon.

Theo f'n Bair.

Enjoy your new years celebrations everyone, and stay safe. May 2024 be the year of Theo Bair.