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Given the state of our defence, pretty much any opposition striker is more or less certain to score. Still think we can win it, though.

And no 4" studs allowed on his boots.

Aye, it's always annoyed me that clubs can do these "undisclosed fee" deals behind closed doors.

Well, Craigan said he wanted the U20s to mirror the senior team.

He still shouldn't have started at Tynecastle.

No Sheffield Wensleydale?

I'd take your pairings one step further. The great teams play with triangles.

The club typically doesn't go out of it's way to confirm anything. Ojamaa, Anier and even Erwin fees were all kept quiet. However, at fan and Well Society Q & As they will normally give some sort of confirmation. I'm pretty confident we'd have a number of add-ons in there though, as it is standard practice and something we have done as far back as the McFadden deal.

As if I wasn't doing badly enough in the league, I also forgot.

It is, but it's pretty meaningless if you don't take into account the oppositon, who else was present/absent in the team at the time. And he was part of the team that rolled over to Accies, Thistle and St, Mirren at the end of last season. Not saying that was his fault, or that he's not an important player - just that pulling out win % for a team based on a single player is too simplistic.

And in our case, we got the best value from players like Porter, Ojamaa, Anier - all from other clubs.

Aye, sounds terrible. Glad we punted him before anybody offered us 2 million. Would have been an embarrassment accepting that kind of offer.

Don't bite. He just looks to see who everyone else thought had a decent game and takes the opposite point of view. Remember, this is the guy who spent months trying to convince us Higdon was mince.

You can say that again, but sadly par for the course. Most weeks there were a number of posts on here of the "hides in games" and "too lightweight" category. Seems like the best way for one of players to get credit is to leave.

It's amazing how inflated the prices are down south. If we had managed to get that for him, we could have paid Les back in a single shot and still had a few quid left over.

I'd rather have an average right footed player at right back than a good left footed player. It causes too many problems as they instinctively drift out of position and struggle to pass a ball up the line with their wrong foot. It's one of the reasons we struggled when Hammell was out and kept slotting in righties. Of course, ideally, I'd prefer an excellent right footed player at right back.

The owner's approach is to bring in some promising youngsters (for a relatively small fee) with the aim to sell them on for a profit. While the initial outlay is slightly larger, to me that is a more sustainable business model than bringing in players of free transfers and then releasing them free 2 years later.

People that know about these things (like Alex Ferguson) say it takes 2 years to build a team. Arsene Wenger says when it a player changes leagues, it takes 6 months for them to adapt. Forget last January's necessary, but short term buying - this is the start of the rebuilding. It's been 3 games.

Folks are probably bored with me repeating myself, but I did think Taylor was a gamble fitness (and match-fitness) wise for a high tempo debute at Tynecastle. I thought he'd have been better served with a run out in the U20s for a game or two - but maybe, like Long, we promised him game time.

Madness,

I think it's fair to say that even when we were challenging for the top 3 we were pretty inconsistent. Last time we finished 2nd we had had the least number of draws in the league. It was win our bust - fortunately we managed to keep scoring goals.

I'm willing to give our biggest wage the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks given that he missed the pre-season and is having to learn to link with our new signings. As much as Skippy helped Erwin last season (and seemed like a lot), I think Big Lee helped Skippy's game too. Of course, he was also playing higher up the park last season, which helped.

1st season in SPL, 9th out of 10 (saved by reconstruction) 2nd season in SPL, 8th out of 12 3rd season in SPL, 8th out of 12 4th season in SPL, 9th out of 10 (only bottom team relegated that season) 5th season in SPL, 6th out of 10 That was the initial SPL record of Wee Tommy (who many posters on here saw as our saviour after McCall left). Imagine how long he'd last now with the same stats.

Football, eh? Bloody hell.

Presuambly because we didn't have Chalmers and Pearson in the midfield.