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I seen someone had posted an extended version of the player eligibility rules on P & B which confirms he can play in the game. That's most welcome.

This was a rule from a few years ago so I doubt it has changed. I was convinced you were able to register new players after the group stage even if they had played for another Scottish side. "No Club or club shall Play, or list as a named substitute, any Player or player who, in the same Season, has already played in a Match by entering the field of play whether in the starting eleven or by being used as a substitute by another Club or club in the Competition."

That's it official.

I think there was talk for the past week of him returning, sounds like a loan deal initially with United picking up a hefty amount of the tab.

GOALLLL

I know Hastie had a purple patch for us but I thought he would have at least been able to maintain playing at a decent enough level. I don't know if it was a confidence thing or what but his direct running in that inverted winger role was a joy to watch but when he came back on loan I don't think we seen any of that. 25 year old and I think he has served 10 clubs. It was nice to see Murphy play well, flashback to when we had a wealth of creativity in our squad.

Potentially having up to 8 players out and it's only the second league game of the season is actually depressing. Usually with a full compliment of players, it would probably be fair to say we enter this type of fixture in more hope than expectation. Kettlewell will no doubt revert to the one up top, but in midfield we only have Halliday, Davor, and Sparrow to select from if Miller is indeed out, so it's probably going to be an interesting team selection. I'm certain we played McGinn in a defensive midfield role at one point which didn't work. I would love us to have a go at them. I'm not doubting that they don't have the 2nd best squad in the league, but with the likelihood of Scott Wright, John Souttar, and Ross McCausland playing, you would like to think we will be able to cause them a few problems. We played really well in our two games in Glasgow last season; hopefully it's more of the same tomorrow at Hampden, bringing back another three points of course. Kevin Clancy is the ref for the game.

Blaney is out for four to six weeks and Callachan will also be missing for a while due to a hamstring injury.

It's not love for Blaney from my part, I'm not going to over sell the guys credentials but it's funny how people view things differently as I don't really see him doing much of what you suggested. The only real mistake I remember from Blaney was against Rangers at Fir Park last year but outwith that he's been no worse with the ball than others in different positions.

I don't get the hate for Blaney, far superior to Lamie or Mugabi who were good for a brain fart or three a game.

Blaney added to the injured list for this game. Callachan is also out again and Lennon Miller is a doubt.

James Furlong joins Wimbledon in loan.

Surely we blew our wage structure well and truly out the water unless Boyle was picking up the tab for many players. Andy Goram mentioned in his book he was on a fair wedge as was Kevin Twaddle when he rebuffed Hearts at one point to sign a new deal with us, he also mentioned in his book he squandered it at the bookies. Brannan, Goodman, Thomas & Curcic would also have been on great deals I'm sure.

Someone had mentioned on here or Pie and Bovril a few weeks ago that the away kit was going to be grey with the tartan trim. When I seen Dumbarton's new home kit getting released I thought we would have got landed with a similar template as it had a thin band in the middle. I actually like both kits this year, some decent designs created by Macron for teams in Scotland and England.

An update from the Well Society. http://thewellsociety.uk Not that it matters now of course but, 1,201 Well Society members had voted to reject the proposal (78.45%) while 330 Well Society members had voted to accept the proposal (21.55%)

It's great to get back to the real stuff. I think we have done relatively well in the group stages since they were introduced only real slip ups I remember are against Rangers and Airdrie and Stranraer winning that bonus point in pens obviously a few tight affairs in there. I don't know much about this Edinburgh City side but they had a really poor season last year and had many issues off it as well. Confident we should have the quality to get off to a positive start. A clean sheet would be most welcome.

Mika Biereth is heading back to Sturm Graz as Arsenal agree to sell him for 4 million plus add ons.

The new left back confirmed. Steve Seddon

Tom Aldred joins a new club in India, Mohun Bagan Super Giant.

I would love to know what made Dundee and Lamie part ways so soon, you would have thought the club would have known if he was in there plans when he signed the agreement months ago. On another note I wonder if we were paying part of his wage when he was on loan to Dundee otherwise you would think he would have made the permanent move last year. I'm not surprised to see Oli Shaw rock up at a Championship club as he seemed to do well with Killie in that league. His assist to Wilkinson in the 3-3 game against Dundee was lovely but he's going to be remembered for his misses against St Mirren, St Johnstone and Hibernian.

I can't believe this is nearing 24 years ago. Dundee had just signed Claudio Caniggia and there was a lot of fan fare about his arrival and as such the BBC picked our game as the feature for that evening. We were flying out the traps that day scoring after 24 seconds and 5 minutes.

John Ruddy signs for Newcastle.

Kaiyne Woolery signs for Anorthosis Famagusta, he left us to join a club in Turkey but then moved to Greece where he served a few different clubs and now he's off to Cyprus.

2-2 FT. Moses scored from around the half way line but sadly missed it as the stream went doon, sadly we conceded right after that.

Not long left but its on this Twitch stream. https://www.twitch.tv/fctstreamnl