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Does watching Irish, Mexican, Gold Cup and Guatemalan games count as detoxing?

The long season was largely due to the enforced break for the world cup. Should be more of a break next summer. Like joewarkfanclub, however, as I get older I am less affected by poor results. I'm sure that's also due to distance and early kickoffs for me. I'm totally immersed for the duration of the game and desperately want a win every time, but by lunchtime I'm over bad one.

The article says "they don't let their young talent out on loan until they have signed new deals and they protect their football club, their investment and time spent with them." but it doesn't say how you make young players sign new deals. That's where it gets difficult in Scotland, because we can't offer anything close to what's available in England or elsewhere, and the players (and their agents) know that.

I'm also available for a Zoom chat

Was he ever officially appointed? I'd have thought there would have been a formal announcement rather than just the stories I read in the newspapers. I'm certainly not worried about it. Our business model and financials aren't exactly a secret. EDIT: actually, looking at this story, it seems that McGhee was given a better counter-offer by Blackpool and after depature of their CEO has assumed "a broader role as head of finance and operations."

They had the ICC World Cup qualifiers on here (spoiler alert, Scotland were glorious failures after beating the West Indies and Zimbabwe), but they started at 2:30am every day.

They know where I am, they just need to pick up the phone.

What does a CEO do that the current board isn't capable of doing? If we want to run using a CEO model then obviously it's good to have that role filled, but I've worked for various companies over the years that spent months looking for the right CEO and operated just fine with board members stepping in. The biggest challenge is that running a football club like ours is very different from running a traditional business (e.g. no shareholder dividend targets to meet, can't expand market share, we're stuck with "football team" being our main product etc. etc). That's why many business people fail when they enter the football arena and why many clubs don't operate using a CEO model. Having someone like Andrew Wilson on the board should keep things ticking over nicely as listening to SK's comment it sounds like he is doing a lot of acting CEO work behind the scenes (and is very well qualified for that kind of work).

Never like losing our good youngsters, but I'd rather see them move to the continent to develop than moving to League One in England.

I must be going senile. I knew it had been originally retired, but for some reason I thought we had reinstated it later. Must have been wishful thinking, as I'm not a fan of jersey retirements. (Shows how much attention I pay to the shirt numbers)

I've been passing the time watching One Pocket Pool on the Billiards Channel. (Not a euphemism)

I'd be surprised if we don't have one more striker in by the end of August. And be interested to see if they take the number 10 shirt or if we are planning to sign a 'proper' number 10.

There was the Paddy Power one and then there was another one that early buyers received with no sponsor when there was a delay in their announcement.

Not if we're playing with a back three.

It might not have been SK's preferred midfield line-up, but the Slattery Goss thing is a bit of a myth. They started in 5 games for Kettlewell. We won 3 of them, drew at Celtic Park and only lost to Rangers. I hope all our midfield combos are that bad in the upcoming season.

already discussed in the other thread

I get the feeling he'll be scoring for fun in that division.

Head groundsman Paul Matthew departs after eight years. I'm surprised we were able to hold on to him for so long, but after talking our sand pit and developing our playing surface year after year into the bowling green hybrid we have now, I'm sure he has been receiving some good offers.

Any away kit that uses a lot of colour from the first kit seems a bit pointless if the intent is to avoid a clash. Was never a fan of the claret tops. The claret and amber trimmed white kit variants have always been my preference.

tl;dr No ill feeling towards the club. The direct quote I see from Tait on the BBC website is: and the club said: I'm sure everyone that lost their income during Covid was gutted for him.

If you know of any strikers in our price range that are a guaranteed 20 goals a season then you should speak up. If you know of any strikers outside of our price range that are guaranteed 20 goals a season you should become an agent - although I wouldn't tell any prospective clients about your posting history where you were telling people Higdon was fat and useless.

I hear that big centre half will be here any day.

Nicky Devlin's career turned around after leaving us for a spell in the lower leagues.

Maybe he's coming back

He was with us 4 years including captain at Hampden and when we finished 3rd. Sometimes people get upset when contract negotiations don't go their way and say things in the press. It's certainly not unusual, however, for them to make amends later and put it behind them. It's can also be the case that the player falls out with an individual in the club (or Board) rather than everyone there. You want to see how bridges can be mended, look no further than Brian Kerr. Bad mouthed us in the press when he moved to Hibs, and ended up back at the club as a coach and assistant manager.