Richie

Very much this. As usual the media have found an angle. It wasn't the physical injury he found 'fun' it was the subsequent fortnight of greiving and wailing.

He's just issued an apology on Twitter.

There's no point buying another striker unless we modify our style of play. Also, Robinson said in his interview that the front 2 didnt click and he's trying to find best partnership, but persists with pairing Main and Sammon. Illogical. Also there is all this talk of getting balls in the box, but that has to come from wide areas and getting decent crosses in. You can do that by going direct, but need decent hold up play in the first instance and then to find runners in the wings. At the moment its flick-ons to noone. I'm fairly 'happy clappy' and hopefully we find our feet but its concerning that our only plan seems to be route 1 and physicality. At the moment we have an unfortunate combination of horriffic football and miseeable defeats.

That was eye-bleedingly bad Some people call it pub league and on that no wonder. Route 1 is ok as long as its effective, but it was entirely apparent that we were making it easy for Accies today. Campbell and Tait going off was bizarre, albeit I was looking for Johnon on. We'll be lucky to have a point 4 games in.

We'll pump Accies 4-0 and wonder what the fuss was about.

I guess its a bit early to judge so far. Bear in mind the LC games are pretty much pre-season friendlies and fitness excercises and our first game of season was V a strong Hibs team (And with a depleted team). Give it a few games and see how things pan out - Even then one of our imminent games is against a buoyant Rangers. Of course everyone would prefer to see a bit of flair and attcking football, but the shitfesting so far has resulted in 2 cup finals and avoiding relegation fairly comfortably - This for me, is the priority here. We *appear* stonger up front (Excl Moult obv) and I Johnson could turn out to be a decent piece of business - Certainly looks a level above what Bowman was after a few games.

This is true and its similar to how transfer windows are able to be enforced. They're not prohibiting a player being employed by a (new) club, which would contravene law, they prohibiting them being registered for the competition. Edit - The Aldred news is reassuring.

This. I'm completely failing to see how Hartley sticking his arm out towards the ball for no reason is harsh. You can't even argue proximity of the shot for this one

3-0 FFS

ATS and Grimshaw off Bigi and Frear on

Too easy.

That's what Scott Mullen is saying too, but watching the stream there's a shot from about 30 yards out and Hartley just sticks his arm out for no reason at the edge of the box.

Absolutely needless handball by Hartley.

For all we're shiteing it about the defence... Efe Ambrose is playing for them.

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If I'm right, we can still sign players from down south as we can register them up here until 31 Aug. Clubs down south are still able to sell, they just cant register players of their own after 9 Aug.

Theoretically yes and bear in mind he's now a full international. If he keeps getting capped that will help us in this regard. Not sure what the age limit is though. 23? And there are cross-border quirks as well. Edit - There was a formula posted somewhere to calculate development fees due.

I'd imagine in addition to sell on, which is a given, there may be appearance clause, promotion clause or possible Intl clause going by the 'performance based add ons'.

Scott Mullen saying this is expected to be completed imminently. Given that he's close to the club, I'd assume its legit.

Like Kipré, but if a bid of £1m with a sell on and other future income clauses comes in we should accept. It's exactly the business model we're aspiring to and I'd expect it would be yet another example to put in front of would-be signings. In terms of the debt, as far as I know it's interest free, so I guess we need to balance paying it off, with leveraging its usefulness. Eg Rather than just whacking the supposed £1m to Boyle/Hutchison, just pay what we're obliged to, then make a judgement as to whether the remainder is best used to find a replacement replacement, or go on infrastructure etc or pay the debt.

Livi away. kind enough draw.

Job done in the end, but not pretty. All 3 strikers scoring, which is a positive.

I was about to say the opposite. He's dropping deep and actively looking to collect the ball. Most things going through him.

We could technically draw and get extra point on pens, but as things stand the Goal Diff would be the same if that happened. Another goal tonight and we'd win the group with the above on 9 pts +GD.

2-0 Sammon again.