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To quote Bob Paisley (I think) - He's not fast. But he's nippy.

Unless it's one of the youngsters, of course.

It never even crossed my mind until a couple of years ago when someone on here mentioned it seemed like an offensive nickname.

When we were dossing around in the old First Division, the Berwick Rangers games at Fir Park were typically the worst of the season. Dave (baldy) Smith was the player-manager and brought am entire new level of park-the-bus and time wasting to the game. Brutal. Hopefully, this one will be a bit more entertaining.

I always assumed "Big Mick" nickname was as a nod to this guy rather than his religious affiliation.

Agree with most of the Skippy comments. Never seemed to give less than 100% when he was playing, and made a significant contribution. Like Pearson (and McFadden), his time came to a natural end. I think he has his ideal gig now for this stage in his career - decent Championship team + media work.

In his interview earlier in the week he mentioned he was still looking to bring in more pace up front.

The rage that badge kissing seems to inflame will always remain a mystery to me.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's a bit early to write-off Big Mick. He was out injured for months, and not close to being match fit. He also hates playing on plastic.

Ah, right. I missed them as they have only played twice so far. Maybe Cowdenbeath will do them tomorrow.

McDonald will be struggling to get fit for the first Scottish Cup game.

We're the only Premiership team to have won all our games so far, are we not? That must count for something.

We have been pretty good at bringing in strikers in recent times. Sutton, Higdon and Moult have all done well. I'm sure part of that has been down to our style of play, but hopefully our Plan A and Plan B targets are in a similar mould. I think it's actually been fortunate that Moult has been injured so far, because it's forced us to get used to the idea of playing without him.

I'm sure he will, although that's the standard spiel managers use just before they play a bunch of second stringers. But even against a supposedly "wee" team, fielding significant changes is always a risk. Probably moreso at this stage of the season. Like I said before, however, I'll take any win in a cup tie. Hopefully learn a few lessons. Move on to the next one.

Any win in a Cup game is fine by me. I'd rather be complaining about a poor performance in a victory than a applauding brave defeat.

Wikipedia says he signed a 3 year contract in April 2016. I would have thought that - plus the fact he made a first team debut in 2011, would mean a decent transfer/development fee would be required.

So I think that puts the "use it as pre-season to give some fringe players a run out" vs "put out the first team to win the game early" debate firmly to bed.

Still waiting for him to finish that run from midfield he started in March.

Interesting to see Newall on the bench. Wonder if it's just so he can meet his new team mates.

Just wait until the next Killie game when all the "back to haunt us" delusions start being spouted.

I'd be delighted with a cup draw against a championship side that couldn't beat Accies.

Or the bottom six teams wanted a player that would be fit for the season starting rather than in October.

It was 99% certain he'd end up at a Scottish club. I doubt he wants to give up his media work.

Like Moore and McHugh, he may have found his level scoring against lower league opposition. Like Thomas, Moore and McHugh were top performers for the U20s, but failed to impress in the first team. The real test for Thomas will be when he is playing against better teams. Regardless, he didn't want to play for us, so no point in keeping him. And if he thrives at Killie we have a tasty sell-on fee coming our way.

Maybe we just signed him because he looked useless, couldn't get a game and we had some spare Well Society cash lying around we wanted to waste.