steelboy

Take that number 9 shirt away from that donkey.

Aye Lennon Miller. Great strike.

I obviously don't know who's available but if we take a striker for 6 months and he shows zero goal threat then I signing him again seems a bit daft.

There's no cameraman. It's that auto camera pish.

Obika missing his first sitter of the season.

Signing Casey is brilliant news. After KVV he was our best player in the run in.

Obviously whatever money he was due from the club wasn't enough to make living in Hamilton worth it.

Another expensive error to fatten Burrows CV.

Aye but looking at it like that the likes of Maguire and Shields could be thinking sit tight and block new bodies coming in and they'll be in the match day squad come September.

It's two different things. One is Business Interruption Insurance that the club had which is why they offered refunds on 20/21 Season Tickets which everyone used to pay for the 'free' season. The other is the interest free 20 year Scottish Government loan which had the (fairly pointless) stipulations.

If the figures about reduced maintenance costs on the pitch are true the loan will pay for itself. And in real terms the repayments get smaller every year. I don't understand how cash flow can still be hit by the season ticket decision from two years ago when we got the insurance payout?

It'll be easier for the kitman to make sure everyone has a kit that fits them rather than one week having Paul McGinn wearing number 4 then the next week it's Lamie.

We gave the season tickets away because it was part of getting the business interuption insurance payout. The Covid loans are interest free and repayable over 20 years. Inflation over the period since we took the loan is sitting at roughly 15%. It's going to inflate away to basically nothing.

That's not true is it. KVV and Devante Cole both hit double figures in the league. And Tony Watt had 9 by December in 2021. Moult had 9 by December 2018. So we had players scoring at a far better rate than that before we chose to sell them. In 19-20 Long had 7 and would probably have got to 10 if the league hadn't been called early.

We have signed strikers with better pedigree in recent memory. KVV, Cole, Watt, Lang even Long. It's not a position we should be gambling on.

3 league goals last season. 1 versus Salford. 1 versus Gillingham. 1 versus Doncaster. Hardly reasonable.

Given that he couldn't get a game for Walsall for most of last season he's likely another Mandron. Not encouraging.

Tait was proven right about Burrows....

Famous for being manky.

Not for anyone who suffered watching him play in Sligo.

Brown gave us the most bizarre signing we ever made with the Casagolda saga. Someone could easily make a True Crime podcast about that one.

I remember walking out of Fir Park that night thinking we were flying. Sitting 3rd after the first round of fixtures, Randolph in goals, back four keeping clean sheets, Las and Jenno dominating the middle of the park, Humphrey, Murphy, Blackman and Sutton in attack. What could go wrong.....?

It'll always be funny that was telling Gannon at the Q&A in the Cooper Stand how he was a great young manager then two weeks later took his job. He had some cracking moments with us. Pumping Aberdeen at Pittodrie, beating Hearts twice at Tynecastle were enjoyable days.

Money is tight already. Money in for KVV and his wage freed up, money to sign two duds last week. I didn't think they would play this card until at least August.

Goss was superb in the second half of the season and his range of passing worked well with the two wingbacks pushing up. He will be hard to replace. In midfield we badly need Slattery to screw the nut and put in the kind of consistent performances that he never really has before. He's got the talent but we need application.