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You would think it would be easier to get a game for Scotland ahead of Whittaker than Poland ahead of the Dortmund guy. Ziggy Gordon does seem a bit thick though.

Rankin is 33 in June. The last thing we need is another ageing centre mid.

I thought he was more at fault for our second goal. Standing a yard outside the box is about the worst thing a goalie can do (other than Lee Hollis standing two yards behind his line)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_football_transfers_summer_2015 Going by this only four players moved from Scotland to England last summer. Van Dijk who has been a success, Adam Matthews who has played for Sunderland twice and been punted out on loan, Erwin who has made no impact at Leeds and Botti Biabi who went into the Swansea youth team. Looking at the two transfer windows around it only Lewis MacLeod, Kayal, Billy McKay, Tony Andreu, Fillip Twardzik and Theo Robinson moved south and four of them were complete duds. Scotland to England is not a thriving market at the moment.

I'd say Griffiths is a far more technically accomplished player than Marvin. The debate was about whether the Championship is a step up or not. The comments that there isn't much of a difference between the bottom of the Championship and 2-6 in our league display Old Firm esque levels of delusion. As other posters have said a the quality has moved in opposite directions recently.

I don't understand how you can judge a league on the basis of a player who has barely played in that league and who's club punted him out on loan 6 times. Bolton are the only really poor team in that league. Charlton are a shambles but still have some decent players. Other than that most teams are significantly better than Aberdeen. Fulham are in the relegation battle and they start about £20m worth of strikers every week. As we see every time we play a Championship team in a friendly it's a totally different level of athleticism.

He's 24 and he's made 14 starts in the Championship. As said above he's currently bench warming in League Two.

League One teams tend to all have a handful of EPL loanees these days. Sheffield United and Coventry are around the middle of league of one and have resources that dwarf us. As far as Celtic are concerned Lawell is running them into the ground and they are miles away from the standard of Burnley, Boro and Brighton. The gap with England is only going to get bigger but that isn't necessarily bad news for us. What's important is that we are good to watch not comparisons with other leagues. More foreign players and more money invested in English academies should mean we can pick up players like Moult and Marvin from unexpected places.

Stick Celtic in.

I don't think there is any possible collusion? Our result has no bearing on what the other teams need as far as i can see.

It's just one bet. Put a wee covering bet on myself, hopefully it's burst before 3pm.

Wins for Celtic, Thistle and Dundee and St Johnstone win or draw is 16-1 at the moment.

Us + Collum = Griffiths hat trick of penalties.

Beattie and Kuqi were done when they came up here. Zola was a diddy in both countries. Murphy is a strange one but he's maybe better suited to the style of the Championship than playing for a team on the front foot. Considering how small our budget is, how much of it has been wasted over the past few years and the managers who have done the recruiting I don't see how anyone could argue we are Championship level. Looking at where spl players are coming from and going to gives a good indicator of the strength of the league.

[quote name="weeyin" post="468120" timestamp="1459804 I spent a few years going to Portman Road to watch Ipswich after they had been relegated, and some matches were reminiscent of our 80s spell in the First Division. Ipswich 15 years ago isn't relevant to the English lower leagues now. The high number of foreign players is pushing quality British players down the leagues. The standard in Scotland has collapsed in the last few years and there are a good half dozen Championship teams at least who would win our league no problem. We would think all our Christmases had come at once if we signed any regular starter from Preston or Fulham. Right now I'd say we are about bottom of League One to middle of League Two level.

No chance. Look at guys like Griffiths, Rooney, Church and Moult who didn't do much down south but are banging them in up here.

The Celtic double looks very likely. Aberdeen aren't winning the league, Rangers are shipping three goals a game in the lower league, Dundee United are terrible and Hibs are Hibs. The race for fourth should make an entertaining end to the season.

Lasley and Gomis both played at Tannadice.

The problem with communication seemed to be that the Society board was restricted in what they could say by the club, John Boyle or Hutchinson at various times. That problem won't exist in the future so it's reasonable to expect communication to improve. When the shares are purchased from Les there should be a total relaunch with communication front and centre.

I think Moult was feigning injury to slow down his walk off the park. He was going for an Oscar pretending to not to know his number was on the board.

The Well Society will own the shares.

Also known as a protection racket.

Just his 500th odd poor performance then? His back post headed clearance in the first half was worth a goal, he was superb under the high ball on a day when everyone else struggled with it and Aberdeen got very little joy down his wing. As someone else said McGinn and Hayes are the biggest threat we will come up against all season and we kept them relatively quiet so credit to Hammell and Law.

That was a good game and performance. We got the reward for working hard when we were second best and won the game well in the final 20 minutes. Moult was outstanding, I thought Hammell was our best player in the first half and everyone gave 100%. Jack Leitch and Kennedy might not be here next season but they both made good contributions.

No.