steelboy

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.

Aye but it won't be much because Harrogate will be a category 3 or (probably) 4 club for training. So 30-40 grand max.

It's all about the transfer market and he's not got off to a great start.

Disagree. Cornelius brought energy and drive. Paton is a Robbie Crawford sideways crab type clone.

Why would I trust a manager who has never signed a good player in his career? The jury is out.

I didn't say he signed them. Just that we constantly have one hand tied behind our back due to financial commitments to players not up to the required standard. No one wanted to sign Paton or Obika. SOD is pish, Kettlewell knows he is pish because when we needed goals against Livi and Dundee United the first thing he did was sub him off. We have been saying the quality over quantity thing for three years now with no sign it's ever going to happen. What happen is that they will keep jacking the tickets prices up with no apology to fund signing these duds. We are a point now where the club should be a bit more careful with our money.

I don't know who's available but I know that we picked up Obika at the deadline in January and pulled Paton out a job centre in March. The priority should be signing starters first when we have the most budget to work with then if we need duds to round out the squad get them last minute where there are always plenty of Obika/Paton types available. Butcher is out injured for the few months of the season. That just leaves Kelly in terms of players we can rely on. The squad is as bad as it's ever been.

The guy was unemployed and was poor or average in his appearances for us. If he's not happy to take a year deal to prove himself then he leave. As it stands he piss poor and injury prone and likely to be another contract like Morris, Maguire, Shields, Danzaki, McGinley where we are stuck paying guys who contribute nothing.

Just waiting on Mandron now.

So far Kettlewell's signing are: Stephen O'Donnell, Jon Obika and Harry Paton. Steven Thompson better keep a Sportscene chair open for him.

Two year deal? We are getting the cunt ripped out of us on a grand scale. I take it Kettlewell and Paton share an agent?

For Groningen? Some good news finally.

As long as the fee gives us the funds to replace his goals otherwise we have slit our own throat. We better not hear that we need to watch Shields and Obika run into each other because we're skint.

Is KVV at training?

4m debt to the owner.

We had a 29 goal striker last season and weren't safe until 3 games to go. Take him out the team and we would have been relegated. If Paton and Obika are the level of player we are looking at we will get relegated. Who are the guys shaking hands with Tierney and SOD?

Obika was utter shite when he wasn't injured. He only managed a goal when the ball hit off him. If we actually sign him again it's a sign we are going down.

Carson barely put a foot wrong in his first season with us before the DVT issue. He's spoken about his gambling issues which probably explain why he was playing for Hartlepool when he clearly had the ability to play much higher. Gillespie was great for as well, big saves and not too many errors. Kelly is a good keeper for us but not on Gillespie's level.