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Apparently, in a similar vein to Motherwell using their friendly against Newcastle to fund the Alicante trip, Cowdenbeath are using the gate receipts for a trip to the chippy in Pittenweem.

If we avoid giving away needless free kicks from 25 yards out, that will give us a head start on last year too. I never expect too much from these ties, but that doesn't mean I don't think we have a chance. Stranger things have happened - that's why old style Euro competitions (before all this league nonsense) were more entertaining.

(Russian oil) barrel loads of cash, I imagine.

Well it's not much further east than Moscow or the eastern border of Finland. Certainly more European than Israel.

Pretty much my thoughts. I don't care how good the new players are (and they seem like a decent bunch) it's going to take a settling in period before they gel. Taking that into account, top 6 is a reasonable initial target before we start getting carried away. Plus, we may be relying on more youngsters this season, and that in itself will lead to a few inconsistent performances. Looking forward to it all though. Can't wait for it to kick off.

KLM from Glasgow: 13hrs 2 stops and about 700 quid. (about the same price it would take me to fly from here, and about the same duration).

$1763 round trip from New York but at least the city has an airport. Won't be going - just curious on prices.

Defender from the U20s (squad number 35)

From his press conference today, sounds like McManus was an unexpected bonus signing for McCall and he is looking for Ramsden to slot into right back. So Reid is likely surplus to requirements now.

And so the "pant wetting" patter stops.

I have, but nothing interesting has arrived. Maybe you're on the insiders list.

Which is how it should be, of course. The internet has turned into a place where people (not just football fans) prefer rumours/speculation/bad information etc. instantly rather than facts later.

You want to know who is holding up the deal, why it's being held up and when it will be complete. The only business detail missing from that is the financial terms.

No way is anyone releasing confidential business details.

From the horse's mouth.

Bump

Nobody said it was "supposed" to be signed on Monday. McCall said last Friday he was "cautiously optimistic" it would be signed by Monday or Tuesday, but Faddy hadn't even been given a written offer at that stage. He also said yesterday that Faddy's agent was still telling him that other offers were coming in. Whatever the reasons, it has never been straightforward dealing with Faddy and his many advisors, and I agree that if we don't get it settled soon we need to move on to the next target.

McCall said during one of his MFCTV interviews that he was experimenting with 3 at the back for our Euro ties, but I don't know if he was looking to set up that way in the league.

Way too soon to start trying to make that assessment.

Old farts like myself waited a long time for a Cup win. That arrived eventually.

Faddy doesn't seem to deal with the club directly. Last time it was all managers and lawyers and agents and phone calls and more agents and more lawyers. Feels like he needs to get 3 approvals every time he wants to take a free kick. Last Friday, however, McCall said they hadn't even given him the written version of the offer yet, so him not having signed anything by Tuesday isn't a particularly long time for anything. In internet time, though, it's an eternity.

Sutton - 2 years ago.

Credit to McCall - early in the New Year he said he had a good idea who was leaving and had a list of targets as replacements. The way he has been bringing them in has been almost Gannon-esque.

Club tweet saying we will have an Estonian striker on trial tomorrow night (pending appropriate clearances)

Nah, he's still waiting to hear back from his German contacts on that one.