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Just to put things into perspective from yesterday. Our Premiership rival's results were: Killie lost to League One opposition Hibs had a comfortable win against League Two opposition Accies had to rely on two late goals to beat Lowland League opposition Partick Thistle drew against League One opposition and then lost the penalty shootout. They are all in pre-season too, so I'm not surprised by their struggles, but it makes our 5 - 1 win look pretty good in comparison.

If it was Louis Moult's missus that was seen with an unknown white substance, we wouldn't be debating the content of players' contracts. We'd be outraged at the intrusion from the low life, bottom feeding publication and asking why we should take moral guidance from those scumbags.

I don't remember Skippy ever saying he was heading to Oz. I thought he'd end up somewhere like Hibs. I also heard his wife has no desire to move to Australia.

We kept a hold of (our captain) Paul Quinn after he was convicted of beating a guy unconscious. We signed Bob Malcolm not long after he was found guilty of being so drunk he parked in the middle of the motorway to have a kip. Of course it would be useful if we could get rid of Blyth, but if we do it would obviously be for convenience and not because we take a hard line on bad behaviour.

It sounds like what you are saying is that we started like a team filled with new players and still in pre-season training. Like I said earlier in the thread, anybody who expected anything more than that in mid-July either knows nothing about the game or is just looking for any reason to complain. If you feel the need to boo that, you need a reality check.

Brian Kerr's problem was entirely down to attitude. Unless his injury affected his brain in some way that increased his ego, made him a complete non-tryer on the pitch and saying that his ex-teams were mince every time he moved on. If he'd applied himself he could have been a class act.

Reading slightly between the lines from Robinson's interviews, Dunne and McManus are both a bit behind in fitness because of their enforced extended layoffs.

Presumably that's why we have a shutdown in January.

A couple of his coaches at the U20 level have hinted it too.

I'm not sure if a back 3 is Robinson's preferred approach or of he just felt it would allow us to push up in the expectation we would dominate possession. I guess time will tell. A little slow out of the blocks, but can't complain about the final result. Was great to watch another summer game bathed in sunshine. But enough about the weather here

Selling Moult, getting our Plan A target and in mid-July, would be ideal.

I'm not sure it's just one up front if we have Frear, Tanner and Cadden in the line up. Unless we are trying the old 3 wide players strategy. Maybe an attacking 4-3-2-1? Regardless, like I said in an earlier post, I fully expected today to be competitive, but still include some pre-season experimentation.

Aye, as much as I would have liked Thomas to succeed with us, he seems to have the same attitude as Brian Kerr. Some players overcome their youthful arrogance, but even the massive egos like Ronaldo succeed because they put the work in too.

As Robinson pointed out, we'll get about 600k or more if Cadden leaves at the end of his contract. Added to the fact he still has 2 years left on his contract, it will need to be a sizeable offer.

Having watched us lose multiple times to Queens Park in cup ties over the decades, it wouldn't be that much of an upset to me. I expect us to win, but there are so many variables at this stage of pre-season, it won't necessarily be straightforward.

Not showing up on any of my usual football channels so I think we are out of luck. If you want to check the channels where you are, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Fox Soccer Plus, NBC Sports and ESPN are the usual places to find BT Sport games on the telly. Be hunting for a stream on the internet.

According to the UEFA website, . So it seems that we need somebody in place to perform that role to meet UEFA licensing requirements. Not quite sure what we have been doing since 2012 right enough (presumably someone from the club was perfroming the role).

Loosers!

Agents are bad enough, but a huge chunk of the TV money goes on players' transfer fees and wages. Which again inflates the salaries of even the worst lower league players, making it difficult for the Scottish game to compete. Our own League's underselling of our game is an additional factor.

I think 90% of this situation is due to the ridiculous amounts of money that are spent in English football. Obviously it starts in the EPL. but that has a knock-on effect where 3rd and 4th tier clubs are desperate to get a share of the spoils and throw money at their team to try and buy success. My "wee" team at Forest Green Rovers is an example of that. When I used to watch them in the late 80s/early 90s they were a typical non-league local team. Now they have a new owner pumping in money to try and get them established in the senior leagues.

This, plus a cut from a big money transfer for Marvin, and the signing of a replacement for Moult that we can sell on in 2 years - would be ideal. This owning a football club is a doddle.

You have to admire his ingenuity, however, to con all the coaches and managers he's played under that he can play left back. He better hope nobody at ICT reads this, or he's been rumbled.

I think he'll do just fine as left back at that level.

"probably doubts over the quality of his team mates" is the kind of baseless speculation that makes this place great. Moult's agent (and Moult himself) will be well aware of who is and who isn't interested in his services next season, regardless of who has actually made a formal bid at this stage. It's the agent's job to gauge interest. It may be that Aberdeen is the only club who wants him - in which case they need to pay the asking price. If there are other teams who have expressed an interest to Moult's agent. however, he'd be mad not to sit tight for a few more weeks and see what transpires.

TBF, at least some of his fans were impressed by his U20s performances where JJ used to talk about his 'continental feet'. Was a shame he couldn't produce that level of performance in the first team.